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Quit ChatGPT: right now! Your subscription is bankrolling authoritarianism | Rutger Bregman (www.theguardian.com)
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As a historian, I’ve studied the major consumer boycotts of history. We can take down ChatGPT and send a powerful signal to Silicon Valley, says author and historian Rutger Bregman

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[–] 130 points 8 months ago (19 children)

This is such a bleak time for tech enthusiasts.

It really feels like every single major tech company is making either absolutely moronic or completely evil choices

You are just stuck choosing between different flavors of shit

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  • [+] 97 points 8 months ago (9 children)
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  • [–] 23 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (5 children)

    Hardware is going to move to streaming. They want your hardware in a server farm and they eventually won't let people buy hardware. That's the future.

    It's coming...

    The time for people to be going all out with anger was probably 2001. They basically already won and are in complete control of America in an evil way. Including the FBI and military.

    I don't understand why people (myself included) are still participating in their games and culture. We are cogs in their evil machine.

    It's blatantly obvious it's over already.

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  • [–] 26 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    I should have been angrier about tech when I was 5.

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  • [–] 16 points 8 months ago

    Never too late. the idea that it's past time only benefits the big tech

    We can stop using their services, move to open source, stay with older hardware (so that they don't get money from us) and promote the few open hardware projects

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  • [–] 8 points 8 months ago

    Exactly what I was thinking. If I were to be angry enough about this when it actually mattered and I could have steered the boat, I was way too young too even see that it was happening.

    Not to say I don’t actively pursue and promote OSS all the time, but I feel like the impact is so much more minimal than it could have been.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago

    I was just an angry "kid" in 2001, not much you can do when you're surrounded by irresponsible selfish zombies.. Maybe people deserve this. I think we still have at least 20/30 years of "freedom", maybe a bit more. But our server racks are going to look like Cuban streets.. Sad..

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  • [–] -1 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    Even foss is under attack. Linux (amongst other OS) are being forced to comply with integrating OS-level age verification checks, which means invading privacy and contributing to mass surveillance.

    People have been arrested for developing end-to-end encryption too.

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  • [–] 10 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    You are just stuck choosing between different flavors of shit

    Or self-hosting your shit. Or at least find a friend who does...

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  • [–] 9 points 8 months ago

    It sucks even more to be a tech worker, your job is constantly threatened by automation, but you also hate working for an evil company that does not care about you, but good luck finding a non evil company that pays 6 figures

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago

    Their only interest is profit, it was only a matter of time for that interest to consolidate into corruption and greed. In a world where making choices that benefit all do not generate as much short term gains as making choices that benefit a select few, it is easy to see exactly why these companies operate the way they do. Their interests are not ours.

    Absolute power corrupts absolutely. We should have regulated tech (and hard) decades ago. Were Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg not example enough for tech enthusiasts, or now that it’s too late is it the right time to shed our naive fairy tales about the Billionaire Supermen who want nothing more than to save us all?

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