▲ 917 ▼ Quit ChatGPT: right now! Your subscription is bankrolling authoritarianism | Rutger Bregman (www.theguardian.com) submitted 8 months ago by Womble@piefed.world to c/technology@lemmy.world 96 comments fedilink hide all child comments 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
[+] aproposnix@scribe.disroot.org 97 points 8 months ago (9 children) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 9 child comments replies: [–] IAmYouButYouDontKnowYet@reddthat.com 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. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 5 child comments replies: [–] Wammityblam@lemmy.world 26 points 8 months ago (2 children) I should have been angrier about tech when I was 5. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] morto@piefed.social 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 permalink fedilink source parent [–] otacon239@lemmy.world 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. permalink fedilink source parent [–] OMGWTFBBQLOL@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago I dropped out and plan on dropping out further, not rich but I did at least make some money out of this shit system but I am done done, I'll work but not for these pedophiles permalink fedilink source parent [–] courval@lemmy.world 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.. permalink fedilink source parent [–] Yliaster@lemmy.world -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. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] courval@lemmy.world 1 point 8 months ago (1 child) Hello! You've been visited by the bullshit gnome, I've just come to say: Bullshit! permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] Yliaster@lemmy.world 1 point 8 months ago Goodbye! permalink fedilink source parent
[–] IAmYouButYouDontKnowYet@reddthat.com 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. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 5 child comments replies: [–] Wammityblam@lemmy.world 26 points 8 months ago (2 children) I should have been angrier about tech when I was 5. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] morto@piefed.social 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 permalink fedilink source parent [–] otacon239@lemmy.world 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. permalink fedilink source parent [–] OMGWTFBBQLOL@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago I dropped out and plan on dropping out further, not rich but I did at least make some money out of this shit system but I am done done, I'll work but not for these pedophiles permalink fedilink source parent [–] courval@lemmy.world 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.. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Wammityblam@lemmy.world 26 points 8 months ago (2 children) I should have been angrier about tech when I was 5. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] morto@piefed.social 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 permalink fedilink source parent [–] otacon239@lemmy.world 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. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] morto@piefed.social 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 permalink fedilink source parent
[–] otacon239@lemmy.world 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. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] OMGWTFBBQLOL@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago I dropped out and plan on dropping out further, not rich but I did at least make some money out of this shit system but I am done done, I'll work but not for these pedophiles permalink fedilink source parent
[–] courval@lemmy.world 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.. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Yliaster@lemmy.world -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. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] courval@lemmy.world 1 point 8 months ago (1 child) Hello! You've been visited by the bullshit gnome, I've just come to say: Bullshit! permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] Yliaster@lemmy.world 1 point 8 months ago Goodbye! permalink fedilink source parent
[–] courval@lemmy.world 1 point 8 months ago (1 child) Hello! You've been visited by the bullshit gnome, I've just come to say: Bullshit! permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] Yliaster@lemmy.world 1 point 8 months ago Goodbye! permalink fedilink source parent