Originally this was a reply to this article about a Windows feature called Recall, but there’s a good argument the author’s concerns resonate far beyond Windows and Meta to proprietary generally.

  • N0x0n@lemmy.mlBanned from community
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    7 hours ago

    Yep… Snowden, Chelsea* Manning, Assange and an older whistleblower who died recently but I forgot his name… They also forgot what Cambridge Analytica was about. They just need to throw some bread and games at us and we go one living as nothing ever happend.

    • queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
      18·
      10 hours ago

      Chelsea* Manning

      But, yeah, most people just do not care if they are spied on because they don’t think it will be used for anything besides advertising. Trump is going to wake a lot of people up to the immense power we’ve handed over to our tech overlords.

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      8 hours ago

      They just need to throw some bread and games at us and we go one living as nothing ever happend.

      I mean, there’s not a whole lot of alternative. It seems like the only two “valid” avenues of resistance are retreating from society into a hermetically sealed bubble and starting a podcast.

      • N0x0n@lemmy.mlBanned from community
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        6 hours ago

        Haha, yeah It seems so…

        Another option and a more long term solution would be to go back to the roots and relearn the basics of living !

        How to grow a garden, How to hunt, How to build a small wooden house, how to make fire and then rebuild the technology but only the needed ones.

        If we grew things and dug together the rare ores to make solar panels together, build small wind turbines, waterwheels as a community hands by hands… We would probably profit more and enjoy ourselves way more than ever…

        Regardless we prefer being held hostage by our own limitations and technology constraints… Not blaming anyone here except myself, It’s just a sad though we could all live happy in a more green state without this mass nonsense technology…

        But hey… What’s better than living for ourselves and hard earned money? Huh? Our day to day routine on Netflix, YouTube, Lemmy, twitter Facebook… 7-16 day to day job we all hate thinking we are going to enjoy life when we are old and retired? Emotionally dead gifts bought on Amazon, eBay, temu…

        Without saying… Life sucks ! And If you enjoy this kind of life, What can I say… :/ I either envy you for being a brainless sheep or hate you like I hate myself for not burning down this system all together !

        Pick your poison !

        /Rant off

        • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
          5·
          6 hours ago

          Another option and a more long term solution would be to go back to the roots and relearn the basics of living !

          That requires large plots of arable land.

          https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Clara_Valley

          The valley, named after the Spanish Mission Santa Clara, was for a time known as the Valley of Heart’s Delight for its high concentration of orchards, flowering trees, and plants. Until the 1960s it was the largest fruit-producing and packing region in the world, with 39 canneries. The growing high-tech industry in the 1960s transformed the area from farmland to densely populated cities, and it became referred to as the Silicon Valley.

          But we paved over paradise and put up a parking lot.

          There’s no unfucking that chicken. We are living in a world that is substantially less arable than it was a century ago. We do not have an Eden to go back to.