It’s not the developers, it’s the assholes in charge that have an MBA (masters of business administration). Modern MBAs literally teach that it’s not their money it’s your money and they’re just an obstacle to it, and they apply that mentality to literally everything.

Honestly, at first I thought the expression was perhaps a bit too harsh. Then the Epstein files came out and I now completely agree with the comparison

I remember when DarkViperAU got into huge shit over this sort of phrasing

Hard disagree, its not the developers who make these ideas, they just have to build them to keep their job.

Wow, these Linux users just make up problems instead of simply asking AI for the latest solution every time.

Then maintainers would not add that to their distro or you could easily recompile your kernel without it.

They never claimed they do it to punish website owners though. I see it as them having found the experience annoying enough to opt out from using the service altogether

Making people not own anything anymore while stealing all their data and forcing shit into them while making them pay monthly fees which increase constantly to bleed people dry, is not sadistic and oppressing? While at the same time taking control of governments by paying off corrupt politicians to change rules to make more money at the cost of safely, environment and freedom of people? Maybe the only difference is that the reason to torment and oppress is to gain money and power. But is that different to 1984? It's how regimes maintain power. Make the people weak enough so they can't do anything against you but make them not weak enough to work for you.

You bet your ass it'll be getting relatively sadistic if our governments become full dictatorships. They just end up being control systems for the sake of control, losing its foundational origins. There are plenty of countries that disappear dissenters and subject its people to 1984 style torture/re-eduction camps.

-- They posted from their smartphone/laptop that has a camera pointed directly at their face

Do you mean AI companies are not using AI mostly to oppress other forms of thinking?

(Disclaimer: I do not share this opinion)

It's happening slowly. Many EU governments are switching or thinking about it

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you can run any windows software on linux. just need wee sip of a lil wine and ya good. company never has to know.

I mean, there is an argument to be made for wrecking the financial models these companies run on by running their subsidized or "free" tiers into the ground. Right now, all of them are kept afloat on nothing but investor speculation, so if the financial results start to sour (further) there's a good chance the whole house of cards folds on this "industry" when those investors back out.

Doing it by creating pictures of Mario smoking weed is perhaps not how I would approach that, though.

I was shit posting, but the faster the bubble pops by undeniable contact with financial reality, the better off we all are. That's less data centers being built, less power plants and gas turbines the sooner it all pops. The longer it goes on the more gets built, and the more that'll rot when these companies go bankrupt from the crash.