It’s the same Christian fascist lobby groups financed by psychopathic oligarchs and their corporations… I guarantee it. This is analogous to their attacks on wikipedia, VPN’s, DNS, encryption, our private communication systems, and our education, legal, political, and judicial systems.

Their goal is to control or destroy all sources of information on the planet, especially tools that are anti-authoritarian and anti-fascist — like they have been doing in the USA, for decades — one at a time, using every tool at their disposal.

Web archiving tools document fascisms psychological warfare across the internet, so they obviously must be destroyed.

Why should any of us approve of making things easier for technofascists?

They’re going all in on domestic chip manufacturing, and they are catching up much faster than armchair generals, and even actual generals, predicted.

Isn’t capitalism a blast?

Member when “no taxation without representation” was a thing people believed in?

Always have been

Morals are like religion to the sociopathic political and capitalist class; just another tool you can use to lie, cheat, steal, control, and virtue signal.

The catch is you can only commit crimes if you’re a billion dollar corporation!

For bots, by bots

And his narcissism is rewarded with extreme wealth and power.

Peak capitalism.

I checked my phone’s location settings, and sure enough, Instagram had recently accessed this information.

The average tech-illiterate journo is always going to be dogshit at these “experiments” because they don’t understand how most of the underlying tech works.

Other additions to my feed were harder to explain. … One video featured a woman in a sari frying up South Indian dumplings called kuzhi paniyaram — an obscure dish my mum would make when I was growing up.

Yes, numbnuts. Your precise location, plus a hundred other data points you’re ignorant of, associated the account with your mum. This journo probably doesn’t even know that location access likely means visibility of all the wifi and bluetooth devices in your radius.

If this is late stage cap journalism, in the age of omnipresent surveillance capitalism, it’s time to pack it in. We’re well and truly cooked. Welcome to costco, I love you!

Bait and switch is every tech companies modus operandi. Whether it’s injecting ads, or disabling an entire feature-set, the point is to build your dependence so greatly that they can amp up the value extraction and fuck you as hard as possible, without losing your dollars or attention.

Well, AI therapy is more likely to harm their mental health, up to encouraging suicide (as certain cases have already shown).

Sell all your data to the Christian corporate fascist dictatorship, so they can use it to wage psychological and economic warfare on a global scale.

Their blog implied you would need to create a separate sync account for each profile. It’d obviously be better if you could choose which profiles are linked to which account, in addition to local only.

Sure thing, buddy. Nice gate keeping high horse ya got there. FOSS is sure to attract more users with humble geniuses such as yourself antagonizing them. Do you also use Arch, btw?

“If you don’t spend hundreds of hours switching from big tech corp controlled platform A — you’ve used for almost 20 years — to switch to big tech corp controlled platform B, you obviously don’t support freedom and open source”

I actually contribute to the development of open source projects. Do you create/give value, or are you just a taker/user? … Or are you just salty you couldn’t see this highly predictable result coming a mile away?

This is why I didn’t bother switching to GOS, Lineage, Calyx etc despite being sick of Apple’s anti-foss monopoly — marketed as Privacy™️ and Security™️ — for years.

The late stage capitalism of western oligarchies indicated that Google’s rug pull of AOSP was an imminent inevitability. After already having to change my services and workflows multiple times over the last 2 decades — despite careful analysis and forethought — due to services ever changing value propositions, acquisitions, and all other forms of enshittification, I’m at the point where I won’t bother wasting energy on 99% of digital products unless they’re open source and I can run them indefinitely on my own Linux server.

The more dependent you grow on digital products, the more interdependent they become, and the more time and effort is required to replace or substitute them.

for Windows PCs

“Whoa! This Is Worthless”

Sinclair is already a monopoly that holds 100x more influence than any company should ever be allowed… therefore all participants motivations are entirely criminal; only to further entrench their pre-existing illegal monopoly.

I’m getting real tired of all this capitalist apologism, as though they don’t own our political class and aren’t directly behind both de-anonimization and anti-encryption leglislation.

All you have to do is follow the fucking money and power behind surveillance capitalism.