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We own the hardware, but not the experience anymore — Big Tech keeps building smarter, more connected devices, but the user experience feels more intrusive, more confusing, and less human (www.windowscentral.com)
submitted 10 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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The line between helpful tech and quiet surveillance is blurring — and our devices no longer feel fully under our control.

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[–] 22 points 10 months ago (11 children)

Self hosting doesn’t make you immune, though. See how Plex evolved, for example. Self hosting plus free software that isn’t abandoned or compromised is the way, but idealistic developers need to take bread to the table too.

So the way maybe is self-hosted + libre software + a non-profit supporting the project. And that can too be corrupted, for example, the Mozilla Foundation and Google’s influence.

Always be ready to migrate.

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  • [–] 12 points 10 months ago*

    This is why permissive licensing isn't good enough; copyleft is essential. (And not just GPLv2 copyleft, but copyleft with anti-tivoization and cloud loophole protection as well, such as AGPLv3.) Every part of the system -- the tech itself, the management, and the legal/business structure -- has to be designed to resist being subverted against the user.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago* (9 children)

    Always be ready to migrate.

    or be ready to contribute to the project you use, so they don't have to sell out to google.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago (5 children)

    or be ready to contribute to the project you use, so they don’t have to sell out to google.

    that may happen despite your contributing or not

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  • [–] 0 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    you can also have car accident with or without alcohol, but that doesn't mean that dui is good idea.

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  • [–] 0 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    Yes, of course you shouldn't drive under influence. Still, what a bad analogy. Two completely unrelated scenarios.

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  • [–] 0 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    your inability to understand it doesn't make it bad analogy. in both cases, one of the outcomes is far more likely. and your argument is as stupid as drunk driver explaining "i can crash sober, so why try"

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (2 children)

    Ive contributed to several projects, code and translation, but you can really expect every user to be a programmer, or every programmer to contribute to every piece of software they use.

    Besides, contribution is not a protection from capture, just look at MySQL.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (1 child)

    Ive contributed to several projects, code and translation, but you can really expect every user to be a programmer,

    i meant contributing with money. contributing code is nice, but that doesn't help them to pay for electricity.

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