#usersarefodder — Public Fediverse posts

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

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

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

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

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

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/

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

Trying to evaluate vivaldi as a possible replacement for floorp (unless firefox reverses its stance on AI, which, very excitingly, is a possibility!).

But the lack of containers in vivaldi is so disorienting. It makes me feel so damn vulnerable because I know that ALL the sites are having a feast sharing my profile and fingerprints with each other. Nasty. It just makes me sick.

#vivaldi #firefox #browser #dataTheft #usersAreFodder

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

Ugh. Reporting another anti-pattern from apple. Here is a screenshot.

Clicked on an epub file, and macos automatically opened this software. Cannot close it. Obviously you can kill it with some sort of a system monitor, but not through the software's normal UI.

Then I looked at the settings. This software sends all your data to apple engineers so they can know you better. What a disgrace.

#macos #apple #antipattern #UsersAreFodder #BadUIX #BadDesign

Ugh. Reporting another anti-pattern from apple. Here is a screenshot.

Clicked on an epub file, and macos automatically opened this software. Cannot close it. Obviously you can kill it with some sort of a system monitor, but not through the software's normal UI.

Then I looked at the settings. This software sends all your data to apple engineers so they can know you better. What a disgrace.

#macos #apple #antipattern #UsersAreFodder #BadUIX #BadDesign

Ugh. Reporting another anti-pattern from apple. Here is a screenshot.

Clicked on an epub file, and macos automatically opened this software. Cannot close it. Obviously you can kill it with some sort of a system monitor, but not through the software's normal UI.

Then I looked at the settings. This software sends all your data to apple engineers so they can know you better. What a disgrace.

#macos #apple #antipattern #UsersAreFodder #BadUIX #BadDesign

Ugh. Reporting another anti-pattern from apple. Here is a screenshot.

Clicked on an epub file, and macos automatically opened this software. Cannot close it. Obviously you can kill it with some sort of a system monitor, but not through the software's normal UI.

Then I looked at the settings. This software sends all your data to apple engineers so they can know you better. What a disgrace.

#macos #apple #antipattern #UsersAreFodder #BadUIX #BadDesign

Sad we have to now waste double the resources. But we all knew this was coming ...

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/01/ai-haters-build-tarpits-to-trap-and-trick-ai-scrapers-that-ignore-robots-txt/

#ai #DataPoisoning #UsersAreFodder #CyberResilience #CyberSecurity

As the rent-seeking engine of Si Valley marches on. A possible stage 2 of the iPlan :

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/08/08/apple-could-charge-20-for-some-apple-intelligence-features-analysts.html

#macrant #apple #ai #appleai #rentSeeking #SiValleyGrift #UsersAreFodder

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

You remember the promise of the internet ? Knowledge at your fingertips etc ? Well, surprise surprise, that was a grift.

With search engines like google compromised by ad money and the LLM plague, the final paywalling of knowledge has begun through the emergence of subscription-based services like https://kagi.com/. The wealth differential can now translate directly to a knowledge differential as the internet turns into a cabal.

#Internet #UsersAreFodder #enshittification #paywalling