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Wonderful. An entrepreneurial boostrapper is already putting the smartglasses technology to magnificent use.
- Notice how BBC wants the sensational headline and the eyeballs, but refuses to name the manufacturers.
- More such innovation please. More toys for rich techbros !!
- This is the inevitable march of technology towards a bright prosperous future for humanity.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwy87wqz0q9o
#SiValleyGrift #UsersAreFodder #SmartTech #greed #booststraps #technology #Innovation
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Wonderful. An entrepreneurial boostrapper is already putting the smartglasses technology to magnificent use.
- Notice how BBC wants the sensational headline and the eyeballs, but refuses to name the manufacturers.
- More such innovation please. More toys for rich techbros !!
- This is the inevitable march of technology towards a bright prosperous future for humanity.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwy87wqz0q9o
#SiValleyGrift #UsersAreFodder #SmartTech #greed #booststraps #technology #Innovation
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Wonderful. An entrepreneurial boostrapper is already putting the smartglasses technology to magnificent use.
- Notice how BBC wants the sensational headline and the eyeballs, but refuses to name the manufacturers.
- More such innovation please. More toys for rich techbros !!
- This is the inevitable march of technology towards a bright prosperous future for humanity.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwy87wqz0q9o
#SiValleyGrift #UsersAreFodder #SmartTech #greed #booststraps #technology #Innovation
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Wonderful. An entrepreneurial boostrapper is already putting the smartglasses technology to magnificent use.
- Notice how BBC wants the sensational headline and the eyeballs, but refuses to name the manufacturers.
- More such innovation please. More toys for rich techbros !!
- This is the inevitable march of technology towards a bright prosperous future for humanity.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwy87wqz0q9o
#SiValleyGrift #UsersAreFodder #SmartTech #greed #booststraps #technology #Innovation
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Wonderful. An entrepreneurial boostrapper is already putting the smartglasses technology to magnificent use.
- Notice how BBC wants the sensational headline and the eyeballs, but refuses to name the manufacturers.
- More such innovation please. More toys for rich techbros !!
- This is the inevitable march of technology towards a bright prosperous future for humanity.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwy87wqz0q9o
#SiValleyGrift #UsersAreFodder #SmartTech #greed #booststraps #technology #Innovation
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Singularity getting closer.
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Wow! This is nuts. So, LLMs that are destroying our planet as we know it, are for 'entertainment' purposes only.
Articles like this expose Si Valley's savage disregard for the user. And of course, codebro users who love their illusion of 10x productivity with LLMs couldn't give two shits about ethics or the planet and god forbid the poor.
Programming needs to be bombed back into the stone age ?
#SiValleyGrift #UsersAreFodder #copilot #microslop #ai #llm #unethical
https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/02/copilot_terms_of_service/
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Oh no. Nobody could have predicted this. I, certainly never predicted it the day they announced the M$ takeover. Nothing to see here. Please continue hosting your code on github.
#github #UsersareFodder #SiValleyGrift #git #ai #dataTheft
https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/26/github_ai_training_policy_changes/
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"GUYS, get me some glue. I'm about to innovate!"
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This appeared on my android phone. I don't know what any of this is. No option to opt out of what to me seems like entirely unnecessary and alarmingly invasive technology.
Come on phone manufacturers! Make a model with opensource software!
#android #google #UsersAreFodder #SiValleyGrift #surveillanceTech #surveillance
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Android about to ban side-loading. This is exactly the future of tech that we imagined 20 years ago.
On mastodon it's probably like preaching to the choir. But still.
#android #google #sideloading #fdroid #UsersAreFodder #SiValleyGrift
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Western Digital has zero hard drives left for 2026. It’s February...
AI companies are deliberately creating physical memory scarcity so your data only lives on their infrastructure.
The goal is not innovation. It's holding your memories hostage and forcing you to rent space and useless AI compute that serves no real purpose.
https://gizmodo.com/because-of-ai-western-digital-hard-drives-are-sold-out-2000722591
#UsersAReFodder #SiValleyGrift #ai #greed #WesternDigital #harddisk #storage
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RESOLVED : dropbox on Debian 13
If you are on Debian 13 and want to use dropbox as a daemon/desktop application, I have found it impossible to use their new software (.debs created for Debian). I also think it is mining your browser data for AI analytics.
Go with the nautilus-dropbox package in the stable branch.
And start looking for an alternative. They are coming after your OS and browser. Shameful.
#dropbox #debian #debian13 #linux #SiValleyGrift #UsersAreFodder #unscrupulous
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Found this.
https://github.com/coveo/coveo.analytics.js/
What does dropbox need to log my clicks and searches for ? What ghouls. I'm leaving as soon as my subscription ends. Subscription services are such a unilateral and failed model.
#SiValleyGrift #UsersAreFodder #dropbox #DataTheft #badeconomics
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Dropbox is showing some very suspicious behaviour on Debian 13 LXQt. It tries to 'connect' by forcing a browser window to open. After I do log in, it doesn't work.
The commandline leaks errors. After logging in through one browser, it still generates command line output when I browse through a different one.
And there are errors about coveoua. Does anyone know what coveoua is ? Some sort of an AI analytics company ?
#debian #dropbox #brokenSoftware #UsersAreFodder #SiValleyGrift
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-- Halloween creepy crawly fun fact --
Did you know that almost 97% of traffic to opensource projects is from AI scrapers and crawlers ? ^1
So much so that many opensource websites use "proof of work" challenges and waste precious bandwidth to protect themselves ? ^2
It's as unscrupulous as it gets. The evil witch is winning.
--End of halloween story.--
#SiValleyGrift #UsersAreFodder #Unscrupulous #Greed #FOSS #codeberg
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AI is not safe, especially for the emotionally and psychologically vulnerable. We need to not bury these news articles like we bury all news that harms Si valley bottom lines.
https://www.wired.com/story/ftc-complaints-chatgpt-ai-psychosis/
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Once again. Instead of dedicating our earth's precious and fast-depleting resources to solving real problems, we get another bullshit generator.
- Making money off of our attention, vulnerability, and humanity's future.- Keeping the youth engaged in pointless activity to make money. I am wondering how they will spend it.
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I know "It just works" seems like a compelling argument. But how much of your privacy are you willing to give up for this illusion ?
https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/26/empty-threats/#500-million-affluent-consumers
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Holy crap this looks like a privacy catastrophe from the moment you put this data miner on. There is no need for this technology. It solves no pressing problems.
There are questions of human survival that need solving. And yet, all the tax benefits and natural resources are being used by Si Vallee for these idiotic toys.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KU81hhsnDiE
#SiValleyGrift #UsersAreFodder #StupidTech #NoVision #AI #Privacy #NoPrivacy #CyberSecurity
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This is top stuff. The sad news is this is tax subsidies and environmental sacrifices going to solve idiotic non-problems. Such an uninspired, uncreative, and unscrupulous industry. The intended users of this tech? A very sad bunch living for and in social media.
https://kotaku.com/meta-ai-mark-zuckerberg-korean-steak-sauce-facebook-2000626808
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More insanity. They continue with the model of psychological manipulation and have found something as powerful as the dopaminergic system. Exploiting loneliness to make money. Incredible. If you work in AI, stop. Think what you're contributing to. Is all the blood money worth it really ?
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/meta-ai-chatbot-death/
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What on earth is going on. This is so evil, even by Si Val ley standards.
Why did DW not report more on the actual bots ? It's only in the final few minutes of the film we actually see a couple of examples of how insane these bots are. Hopefully someone will make a longer piece on that.
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This is nuts. I didn't know such desperation and isolation existed on such a large scale. We have failed as a society.
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Holy crap. How much greed and lack of empathy does it take to come up with something as soul-numbing as an "instant interview" bot. The answer is LOTS.
Bootstrappers with real gumption:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHUsYWzsMWICommentary:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Chpb8B441vs#UsersAreFodder #SiValleyGrift #Greed #AI #Interviews #Jobs #JobSeek #Dystopia #DystopianFuture #NoEmpathy
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Holy crap. How much greed and lack of empathy does it take to come up with something as soul-numbing as an "instant interview" bot. The answer is LOTS.
Bootstrappers with real gumption:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHUsYWzsMWICommentary:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Chpb8B441vs#UsersAreFodder #SiValleyGrift #Greed #AI #Interviews #Jobs #JobSeek #Dystopia #DystopianFuture #NoEmpathy
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Holy crap. How much greed and lack of empathy does it take to come up with something as soul-numbing as an "instant interview" bot. The answer is LOTS.
Bootstrappers with real gumption:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHUsYWzsMWICommentary:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Chpb8B441vs#UsersAreFodder #SiValleyGrift #Greed #AI #Interviews #Jobs #JobSeek #Dystopia #DystopianFuture #NoEmpathy
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Holy crap. How much greed and lack of empathy does it take to come up with something as soul-numbing as an "instant interview" bot. The answer is LOTS.
Bootstrappers with real gumption:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHUsYWzsMWICommentary:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Chpb8B441vs#UsersAreFodder #SiValleyGrift #Greed #AI #Interviews #Jobs #JobSeek #Dystopia #DystopianFuture #NoEmpathy
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The ultimate ad agency does it again! Go apple!
https://www.404media.co/apple-is-selling-ipad-repair-parts-for-astronomical-prices/
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A very low price to pay considering how much money can be made in the short term by scrappy bootstrappers taking all the risks!
#ai #vibecoding #slop #UsersAreFodder #SiValleyGrift #AISlop
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You don't own it ! An entertaining talk, mostly hits all the right nails on their obsolete heads.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ol3rMem_Eg
#plannedObsolence #electronics #ownership #lifetime #SiValleyGrift #UsersAreFodder
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Interesting. So zoom held my login hostage until I updated the software to whatever idiotic form it has morphed into now. I was late for the meeting, and zoom started showing an unasked for AI, UI-element that I can't get rid of. Data-theft by holding your communication hostage.
Is there a way around this situation? Some modded version of the software?
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This is so terrifying. What has become of the internet. Certainly not the information highway anymore, that's for sure.
#UsersAreFodder #SiValleyGrift #generativeAI #ai #dystopia #badTech
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/01/03/business/meta-ai-accounts-instagram-facebook/index.html
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An extremely worrying development for anyone who cares deeply about technology. It continues to be driven down a path that is both socially destructive and morally repugnant.
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We are extremely visual creatures, and we are choosing to destroy the planet to fool our senses.
Here's a thread analysing generative art used for an election campaign. All they want is an illusion of art, not art.
https://scholar.social/@SylviaFysica/113198007866265099
They know nobody will notice because nobody really looks at these images. We are choosing to waste many many gallons of water running a large statistical model when a simpler poster would have suffised.
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Do you know what pause-screen advertising it?
I just learnt about it. What a repulsive concept. A dishonest way to bite off yet another chunk of our waking hours so we can be sold useless things.
Adverts on your phone lockscreen ? Adverts every time you pause a video ? Unless you pay the ransom (subscription) of course.
Disgusting.
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Laptops with AI, phones with AI. Products are being engineered so the hardware is LSM (large statistical model) friendly. This is alarming.
It reminds me of so many SiValley grifts like everything-as-subscription, smart devices, etc. The process starts benign, dependence for basic services is created, and then the user-as-product model is deployed at scale.
AI/LSM integration into basic devices are the setup for the next big rental and data-theft scams.
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As the rent-seeking engine of Si Valley marches on. A possible stage 2 of the iPlan :
#macrant #apple #ai #appleai #rentSeeking #SiValleyGrift #UsersAreFodder
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Very interesting wording of the headline here. It is never the supply that is too high, it is always the demand that is low.
This is how deeply ingrained supply-side theory is in our daily discourse and the media.
Don't fall for it. Low demand is ok. You don't need everything they are selling. You don't need much at all.
https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/23/24138487/apple-vision-pro-cut-shipment-forecast-kuo-rumor
#UsersAreFodder #SiValleyGrift #apple #supplyside #macroeconomics #headline #media
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Surge pricing for food. This poison is spreading from failed Si valley businesses run by greedy grifters to essential industries run by greedy grifters. The future of the unprivileged masses looks bleaker with each passing day.
Link : https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/27/food/wendys-test-surge-pricing/index.html
#SurgePricing #SiValleyGrift #UsersAreFodder #wendys #Food #greed #FailingFast
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I think most people already know this, but in case you don't - 'Incognito Mode' does not do what you think it does. A recent settlement by google ...
#SiValleyGrift #UsersAreFodder #chrome #google #incognitoMode #incognito
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Public service announcement :
https://glammr.us/@hedgielib/111571037417166425
We desperately need dumb shit. All this "smart"/SIM -driven tech is fast turning into an excuse to appropriate more data from lazy and/or blinded-by-the-bling users.
No doubt, this sort of engineering can be turned into a promising tool for some tasks, but not in the current economic and political framing. We need more/better laws, and states with some spine.