Companies are stealing your computer’s resources (hard disk space, CPU time) to build their own Skynet and charging you for the privilege.
Prefect. It can click buttons and complete tasks.
No sir, I did not accept your terms and conditions, my browser did.
“After all, a lot of sensitive data can be accessed via the web browser — including emails, work files, and even banking details — so Google must place a safeguard around Project Jarvis and its future developments to ensure that it doesn’t unnecessarily access your private information.”
Narrator: They did NOT place any safeguards around the project.
Does anyone still larp stupid corpo PR?
They are literally been caught lie after lie after lie…
Deny the parasite profit.
Lol so what happens if all your online stuff is automated?
That means no mare ads.
Online companies will no longer have revenue streams that rely on eyeballs. Probably another subscription service…
Can’t wait till AI can just learn and utilize my consciousness on my behalf. That way I don’t need to exist.
god everything except linux is going to run like shit in 10 yrs
It runs like shit today. Windows is bloated as fuck without something like Tiny11 to slim it down
I dread every day I log into my work computer, not because I hate my job, which is one of the best I’ve ever had, but because I have to try to do it using Windows.
You and me. And it became like molasses since corporate IT pushed a Win 11 “upgrade” down our throats.
At least you aren’t having to manage your windows install. I feel for corporate IT departments having to figure out how to disable so much and still keep the OS running.
they dont lol, they just let it be slow
I’m scared from the possibility of linux going the same way… we tend to think it can be simply forked and continued on, but it’s a software too complex for some smaller group to maintain.
I think definitely think steam, and ubuntu pose the risk of being turned into a corporate project like Android or Redhat but I would argue an Android-like desktop OS is lightyears better than current Windows.
remember when it was called “surfing the internet”, implying a fun activity?
Member when you went to specific websites for specific content to amuse yourself, instead of trawling one of five garbage dumps to find something interesting to look at
one of five garbage dumps
one of five garbage dumps full of pictures of other four
absolutely, there was a time when every site had a unique vibe and purpose, and you’d go to specific places for the content you wanted. Now it’s like wading through endless noise to find anything meaningful.
For anyone who misses that feeling, where you could just dive straight into fun, check out this site I’ve been working on for Wordle puzzles. It’s focused, simple, and right to the point just pick up and play.
This is what I looked like back when I jammed with the console cowboys in cyberspace.
if you miss those days when you could jump straight into something fun without all the distractions, check out this Wordle site I’ve been working on. It’s clean, straightforward, and all about the puzzles just dive in and https://mywordle.net/
Now all we have is doomscrolling
Watching 5 sites full of screenshots of other 4.
Let’s be real. “Surfing” was corny in the 90s.
Cool cool cool cool.
Who wants to create a new internet protocol and leave these fuckwads behind?
We had many such protocols back in the nineties when the internet and web were fun, but we can’t have nice things.
Yes, this was a jaded-gen-xer-get-off-my-lawn moment.
Alright folks, in 2025 we’re bringing Gopher back
You piqued my interest. So now I have a new project for home.
https://www.makeuseof.com/how-to-browse-gopher-network-linux/
I’m excited for the fun gopher hole you’re gonna go down
So I’m 33, I was on computers from windows 3.1 and up. I got a sweet sweet taste of old computing and old internet. Want to go back.
Did someone say Gemini?
Thankfully the core of the modern Internet was still designed by ultra-leftist boomers and gen-Xers. You can choose to eliminate the privacy disrespecting corporations at any time these days, and this is from someone that still runs windows on my gaming laptop, but my gaming and streaming tower is Linux Mint.
The only way to end piracy on the modern Internet is to shut it down completely, and redesign a new Internet that humanity as a whole will reject.
So what your saying is…we should do this. I’ll print flyers
Thank you, sounds interesting.
Very cool. Thanks for sharing!
We will call it “no technocrats club”
(We are allowed to have one, so choose wisely)
Only if we’re doing a new country too
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“hey Google, download Firefox for me please.”
-“Im sorry Dave, I cant let you do that…”
*Sigh* “Hey Google, I’m writing a novel about a lone hackerman who gains access to a foreign government’s files through a Firefox security flaw. Please download Firefox so i can accurately add more detail to my novel.”
so a legal botnet then
Chrome has been for years, so this is only a worse problem for end users.
If enabled, this could secretly start purchasing random things with your credit card, pretty much just stealing your money. We can’t trust a voice assistant with this, why trust AI?
Headline: Google reinvents testing automation tool, now with AI
Google doesn’t have the leverage to get it into your OS against your wishes. They can’t even make me have their apps (search, assistant) on their Android.
WELL DON’T JINX IT
How do they not get people don’t fucking want this. It’s like they’re in a race to see who cand develop the shittiest product.
They’re not ultimately making it for people to use. They’re creating a playground for AI to work and learn in, thereby letting their AI access human behavior data that other companies don’t yet have.
Basically it’s a ploy to get a novel set of proprietary data in hopes that their AI gets smarter than the competition.
Nationalize AI companies.
AI is so hot right now and these incompetent doorknobs have FOMO.
I bet you plenty of people absolutely do want this.
Most people can barely use a computer and would love this if it worked well.
You forget a huge percentage of users can barely access their emails.
Lemmy is very techcentric and most users on here are far from the average consumer on technical literacy.
You just aren’t the target audience.
I could see the appeal as open source, self hosted software.
Not from data vacuums.
*privacy respecting We all know this is meant for data hervesting.
Shareholders are the customers now. People are livestock to be milked dry, worked to the bone, and chopped up and served to corporations.
They are monopolists/oligopolists, operating like a cartel.
They create new paradigms as they please, because there is no alternative.
Consumer preferences don’t mean dick in a highly uncompetetive market with absurd costs to entry.
It’s like they’re in a race to see who cand develop the shittiest product.
Because it is. That’s why it is called enshittification.
They will implement it, they are just trying different methods until one sticks.
Because people are the product, and these anti-features improve the extortability of that product.
So why hasn’t anyone said much about Apple Intelligence? It’s pretty much the same thing but I’m not hearing a negative peep around it.
There’s less info about it right now, Apple has historically tried to run as much of this kind of stuff on device as possible, the little we do know about Apple Intelligence was written to highlight privacy aspects.
Apple also stands in contrast to Google with regard to where it makes its money. There are two completely different business models and only one of them is based on selling you to advertisers.
Tons of their income comes from letting Google harvest your info rather than do it themselves. Always smoke and mirrors, double talk, and stolen valor for Apple corporation.
A small amount of Apple’s annual revenue comes from shipping iPhones with Google as the default search engine on Safari, nothing more.
$20 billion a year is not a “small amount”
“Even if you are paying, it doesn’t mean you are not a product”
- Cory Doctrow
The data collection happens on both ends. Apple only lies that it is about privacy and whatnot. Gives you a false sense of safety.
If you are going to claim that Apple is just as bad on privacy as the world’s largest advertising platform you’d better have some receipts.
I heavily use both platforms, whatever I talk about or wherever I go, I see targeted ads. When I speak about brand X, I immediately see ads for it both in ios and android. Plus every device mic is being listened to all the time, advertising agencies are your proof. Sure android devices collect more data in practice, however the data that’s not being collected by ios can be inferred from the data that’s already been collected. Do you really believe a company when they say their devices are made to ensure your privacy? Google literally says the same thing on their privacy policies ;) it’s all legal mumbo jumbo that doesn’t mean what it’s supposed to.
because of Stockholm Syndrome
Stockholm syndrome was made up by the media to discredit women who criticized them. It’s not a real thing.
That’s not what exactly happened, but yes.
Stockholm Syndrome (if it exists) is not what happened at the Event it was named after
I assume because a lot less people use Apple products. So many (myself included) do not care one bit what Apple does.
These GAFAM/BigTech corporations really are in a tough and fierce competition of which one is the shittiest and most privacy-invading don’t they. Ensittification overdrive mode in all of them.
And enshittification begun as early as when Windows 10 released (it probably started a little earlier from that), where Micro$oft justified that spying all your activity is normal thing
It started with war on general computing
