Jeff Bezos is saying the quiet part out loud.
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Jeff Bezos is saying the quiet part out loud. They want to kill local computing.
You will own nothing and be happy. You will rent your computing power from the cloud. You pay a subscription for the privilege of using a computer.
AI demand is artificially spiking DRAM prices and Big Tech is pushing "AI PCs," the squeeze is on to force us into a rental model.
Reject this future.
Keep your hardware local.
Run #Linux.
Own your data.
The "cloud" is just a landlord for your data.
#NoAi #FOSS #OpenSource #Privacy #SelfHost #SelfHosting #BigTech #RightToRepair #RAM #Amazon #EatTheRich
@terminaltilt considering I can get work done & have fun with any of fifty different sbcs (pi & its competitors, arduino, esp32) this isnโt a dire risk.
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Jeff Bezos is saying the quiet part out loud. They want to kill local computing.
You will own nothing and be happy. You will rent your computing power from the cloud. You pay a subscription for the privilege of using a computer.
AI demand is artificially spiking DRAM prices and Big Tech is pushing "AI PCs," the squeeze is on to force us into a rental model.
Reject this future.
Keep your hardware local.
Run #Linux.
Own your data.
The "cloud" is just a landlord for your data.
#NoAi #FOSS #OpenSource #Privacy #SelfHost #SelfHosting #BigTech #RightToRepair #RAM #Amazon #EatTheRich
@terminaltilt So what can we do about it?
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You will rent your computing power from the cloud. You pay a subscription for the privilege of using a computer.
@terminaltilt@climatejustice.social, this already happened, through the form of applications that are thin clients to SaaSS.
Run Linux. :tux:
Run :gnu: or something idk, but Linux users are renting computing powers through SaaSS. :android:
@cnx @terminaltilt I use Linux. and I have never ever used any SaaS.
and yes, it is Linux with only a very few GNU untils. because I can build Linux-based system without gnu utils at all. this is not important and does not have any special meaning,
really, I don't like it where GNU goes nowadays and prefer to avoid it, except, maybe GCC with is not ruined yet (but they try!). -
@terminaltilt This Jeff Bezos quote is like 10 yr old@ninesigns @terminaltilt yeah, it really sounds like 10 years old kid. a mentally healthy adult person cannot say such a rubbish.
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Jeff Bezos is saying the quiet part out loud. They want to kill local computing.
You will own nothing and be happy. You will rent your computing power from the cloud. You pay a subscription for the privilege of using a computer.
AI demand is artificially spiking DRAM prices and Big Tech is pushing "AI PCs," the squeeze is on to force us into a rental model.
Reject this future.
Keep your hardware local.
Run #Linux.
Own your data.
The "cloud" is just a landlord for your data.
#NoAi #FOSS #OpenSource #Privacy #SelfHost #SelfHosting #BigTech #RightToRepair #RAM #Amazon #EatTheRich
@terminaltilt Once they have a complete monopoly, they could charge their clients a fortune -which they would be obliged to pay, in a completely #digital society Besides, once they literally own our data juridically, they could reveal, cq sell them to any company or other instance, without even asking. - In connection with a #neofascist state, this would create hell for individuals. We would be deprived of all political, socio-economic and personal, including digital rights.
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Jeff Bezos is saying the quiet part out loud. They want to kill local computing.
You will own nothing and be happy. You will rent your computing power from the cloud. You pay a subscription for the privilege of using a computer.
AI demand is artificially spiking DRAM prices and Big Tech is pushing "AI PCs," the squeeze is on to force us into a rental model.
Reject this future.
Keep your hardware local.
Run #Linux.
Own your data.
The "cloud" is just a landlord for your data.
#NoAi #FOSS #OpenSource #Privacy #SelfHost #SelfHosting #BigTech #RightToRepair #RAM #Amazon #EatTheRich
@terminaltilt Linux isn't a panacea and, in many ways, it's not ready for consumer prime time but, given the alternatives, it's the only choice for thinking users.
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Jeff Bezos is saying the quiet part out loud. They want to kill local computing.
You will own nothing and be happy. You will rent your computing power from the cloud. You pay a subscription for the privilege of using a computer.
AI demand is artificially spiking DRAM prices and Big Tech is pushing "AI PCs," the squeeze is on to force us into a rental model.
Reject this future.
Keep your hardware local.
Run #Linux.
Own your data.
The "cloud" is just a landlord for your data.
#NoAi #FOSS #OpenSource #Privacy #SelfHost #SelfHosting #BigTech #RightToRepair #RAM #Amazon #EatTheRich
@terminaltilt No vuelvo a comprar nada en la tienda del calvo, ๐ก
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@ninesigns @terminaltilt yeah, it really sounds like 10 years old kid. a mentally healthy adult person cannot say such a rubbish.@iron_bug @terminaltilt it's very funny to namecall those you disagree with as "kids" or "insane".
He was perfectly sane and rational in his position to wish for bringing everything to cloud to make money of it. -
Jeff Bezos is saying the quiet part out loud. They want to kill local computing.
You will own nothing and be happy. You will rent your computing power from the cloud. You pay a subscription for the privilege of using a computer.
AI demand is artificially spiking DRAM prices and Big Tech is pushing "AI PCs," the squeeze is on to force us into a rental model.
Reject this future.
Keep your hardware local.
Run #Linux.
Own your data.
The "cloud" is just a landlord for your data.
#NoAi #FOSS #OpenSource #Privacy #SelfHost #SelfHosting #BigTech #RightToRepair #RAM #Amazon #EatTheRich
Watch the latest one-hour-presentation of Cory doctorow at 39c3 about anticircumvention law and the war on general-purpose computer. And search the eff site for countermeasures
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Jeff Bezos is saying the quiet part out loud. They want to kill local computing.
You will own nothing and be happy. You will rent your computing power from the cloud. You pay a subscription for the privilege of using a computer.
AI demand is artificially spiking DRAM prices and Big Tech is pushing "AI PCs," the squeeze is on to force us into a rental model.
Reject this future.
Keep your hardware local.
Run #Linux.
Own your data.
The "cloud" is just a landlord for your data.
#NoAi #FOSS #OpenSource #Privacy #SelfHost #SelfHosting #BigTech #RightToRepair #RAM #Amazon #EatTheRich
@terminaltilt Him and all the other billionaires and tech bros can go fuck a cactus. ๐ต They can kiss it and call it Ramona if they want. Billionaires should not exist. Theyโre the cancer of our societies. #BillionairesShouldNotExist
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@terminaltilt As much as I abhore anything that Jeff does and represents, I see an environmental point in a rental model. In the sense that ownership of hardware in a programmed obsolescence industry model is ecologically worse. Most people run their daily apps on massively overpowered individual machines, produced at huge environmental cost. And I see potential in sharing hardware here. But definitely not on AWS. Rather local hubs, something like a decentralized network of remote processors
@andre_ourednik @terminaltilt You're likely significantly overestimating the difference, and it may not even be a positive one. Servers in datacenters get rotated out and disposed of on a fixed schedule, typically, long before they actually stop working - whereas consumer hardware often gets handed down until it literally breaks.
Not to mention all the technical and resource overhead of remote anything. That network hardware and corresponding power use isn't free to the environment either.
If you're looking for a way to materially reduce the environmental footprint of computing, I would suggest that "the advertising industry" is probably the first place to look instead. They're responsible for a vast, vast chunk of energy and resource usage in computing and networking, while providing marginal to no value to society - it's a purely extractive industry.
Even ignoring the web, look up the power consumption of a single one of those video ad units they put on train stations and in shopping centers, and you'll probably be reeling from just how environmentally wasteful all this stuff is - and consumer hardware will suddenly look like a drop in the bucket. As a teaser: virtually all of those advertising screens have audible active cooling despite sound insulation attempts.
So... no, there's really no environmental point in a rental model. Insofar it makes any positive difference at all, that sure isn't the intention behind it, and all it does is further support an extractive culture that destroys the environment with no consideration for anything but its own profits. You don't even get to choose whether the hardware is turned on anymore. That is not an environmental win.
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Jeff Bezos is saying the quiet part out loud. They want to kill local computing.
You will own nothing and be happy. You will rent your computing power from the cloud. You pay a subscription for the privilege of using a computer.
AI demand is artificially spiking DRAM prices and Big Tech is pushing "AI PCs," the squeeze is on to force us into a rental model.
Reject this future.
Keep your hardware local.
Run #Linux.
Own your data.
The "cloud" is just a landlord for your data.
#NoAi #FOSS #OpenSource #Privacy #SelfHost #SelfHosting #BigTech #RightToRepair #RAM #Amazon #EatTheRich
@terminaltilt Quite right. Good, fast, and cheap computers are easily available to everyone these days. OS and browser "upgrades" are a lie. C.f. Liquid Glass, anyone? An old Windows or MacOS box that won't receive an "upgrade" could run Linux and still provide SSL for secure transactions, messaging, images, video...but no, now your bank or business or travel website is like, oh, you've got to upgrade your browser! If anything the apologists for capitalism say is true, then enshittification will eventually drive people to sane alternatives.
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Jeff Bezos is saying the quiet part out loud. They want to kill local computing.
You will own nothing and be happy. You will rent your computing power from the cloud. You pay a subscription for the privilege of using a computer.
AI demand is artificially spiking DRAM prices and Big Tech is pushing "AI PCs," the squeeze is on to force us into a rental model.
Reject this future.
Keep your hardware local.
Run #Linux.
Own your data.
The "cloud" is just a landlord for your data.
#NoAi #FOSS #OpenSource #Privacy #SelfHost #SelfHosting #BigTech #RightToRepair #RAM #Amazon #EatTheRich
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@luciedigitalni @terminaltilt Which is why I've never put things on the cloud.
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Jeff Bezos is saying the quiet part out loud. They want to kill local computing.
You will own nothing and be happy. You will rent your computing power from the cloud. You pay a subscription for the privilege of using a computer.
AI demand is artificially spiking DRAM prices and Big Tech is pushing "AI PCs," the squeeze is on to force us into a rental model.
Reject this future.
Keep your hardware local.
Run #Linux.
Own your data.
The "cloud" is just a landlord for your data.
#NoAi #FOSS #OpenSource #Privacy #SelfHost #SelfHosting #BigTech #RightToRepair #RAM #Amazon #EatTheRich
@terminaltilt On the same note, here's a reminder. Your PC that "can't install Windows 11" because of hardware requirements will very likely run Linux with no trouble. One of the laptops I use almost daily is old enough it had a Windows 8 sticker on it.
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@terminaltilt
Honestly, I really like cloud computing and cloud storage.
Since weโre almost always connected to the internet, itโs an incredibly useful solution.I'd be happy to pay a subscription fee if:
1) my data is properly encrypted
2) my data stays on a European server
3) my money doesn't go to a dictatorship country (such as where Bezos lives)
4) the system I'm using is FOSS@LorenzoBonomelli @terminaltilt ๐คฃ๏ธ I'mma call you Mark
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@terminaltilt considering I can get work done & have fun with any of fifty different sbcs (pi & its competitors, arduino, esp32) this isnโt a dire risk.
@cascheranno @terminaltilt โฆfor you, maybe. Not everybody is as computer literate.
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Well, I'm not an IT expert, so I'm not sure I got what you said to me ๐
Isnโt data encryption on servers enough to keep my files reasonably safe from everyone, including the hosting company?
If the system were FOSS, could a law force the provider to insert a decryption backdoor without the user knowing?
In short terms: is on-device scanning for such systems technologically feasible?
@LorenzoBonomelli @terminaltilt Politicians in several countries have been trying to pass laws to force companies to put backdoors in encryption. Last year the UK hit Apple with a gag order and an order to remove Advanced Data Protection in the UK. The EU is constantly fighting with chat control. I think the chat control one is trying to force it at the OS level, which would be nearly impossible to enforce for everyone if the users still control the hardware. If we all move to hosted PCs, I canโt imagine privacy will be possible for too long.
Quickly searched links (I only have a short break to respond):
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvgn1lz3v4no -
@LorenzoBonomelli @terminaltilt Politicians in several countries have been trying to pass laws to force companies to put backdoors in encryption. Last year the UK hit Apple with a gag order and an order to remove Advanced Data Protection in the UK. The EU is constantly fighting with chat control. I think the chat control one is trying to force it at the OS level, which would be nearly impossible to enforce for everyone if the users still control the hardware. If we all move to hosted PCs, I canโt imagine privacy will be possible for too long.
Quickly searched links (I only have a short break to respond):
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvgn1lz3v4noWell, I guess you succeeded in the impossible task of convincing someone in an online discussion!
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Jeff Bezos is saying the quiet part out loud. They want to kill local computing.
You will own nothing and be happy. You will rent your computing power from the cloud. You pay a subscription for the privilege of using a computer.
AI demand is artificially spiking DRAM prices and Big Tech is pushing "AI PCs," the squeeze is on to force us into a rental model.
Reject this future.
Keep your hardware local.
Run #Linux.
Own your data.
The "cloud" is just a landlord for your data.
#NoAi #FOSS #OpenSource #Privacy #SelfHost #SelfHosting #BigTech #RightToRepair #RAM #Amazon #EatTheRich
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Abbiamo superato ๐ฅ๐ ๐๐๐.๐๐๐ ๐๐ข๐ซ๐ฆ๐ (alle ore 17:23), e si continua a firmare ๐๐ข๐ง๐จ ๐๐ฅ ๐๐ ๐ ๐๐ง๐ง๐๐ข๐จ, ma la cosa importante da capire รจ questa: con il quorum raggiunto, i promotori possono depositare le firme in Cassazione e diventare a tutti gli effetti ๐๐จ๐ฆ๐ข๐ญ๐๐ญ๐จ ๐ฉ๐ซ๐จ๐ฆ๐จ๐ญ๐จ๐ซ๐, cioรจ un soggetto riconosciuto dallโordinamento che rappresenta direttamente la ๐ฌ๐จ๐ฏ๐ซ๐๐ง๐ข๐ญ๐โ ๐ฉ๐จ๐ฉ๐จ๐ฅ๐๐ซ๐ e che ha quindi titolo per pretendere ๐ฌ๐ฉ๐๐ณ๐ข ๐๐ข ๐ข๐ง๐๐จ๐ซ๐ฆ๐๐ณ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐, regole di paritร e strumenti di campagna, come avviene in tutte le consultazioni referendarie.
Se poi il Governo, fissando il voto al 22 e 23 marzo e comprimendo i tempi del confronto, limita di fatto la possibilitร di far conoscere ai cittadini cosa cโรจ davvero nella riforma, il Comitato puรฒ anche aprire un fronte istituzionale ulteriore, il cosiddetto ๐๐จ๐ง๐๐ฅ๐ข๐ญ๐ญ๐จ ๐๐ข ๐๐ญ๐ญ๐ซ๐ข๐๐ฎ๐ณ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐ davanti alla Corte costituzionale, che in parole semplici significa chiedere: chi decide cosa e con quali limiti, quando รจ in gioco un potere riconosciuto direttamente ai cittadini.
Cโรจ poi un altro punto molto concreto. ๐๐ฅ ๐ช๐ฎ๐๐ฌ๐ข๐ญ๐จ ๐ฌ๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ ๐ฌ๐๐ก๐๐๐ non รจ un dettaglio: oggi quello ammesso richiama soprattutto il titolo della legge, mentre i promotori sostengono che debba essere piรน chiaro e indicare esattamente ๐ช๐ฎ๐๐ฅ๐ข ๐๐ซ๐ญ๐ข๐๐จ๐ฅ๐ข ๐๐๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ ๐๐จ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ข๐ญ๐ฎ๐ณ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐ vengono modificati, cosรฌ che tutti possano capire davvero cosa stanno approvando o respingendo.
Insomma, ๐ฅ๐ ๐๐ข๐ซ๐ฆ๐ ๐ง๐จ๐ง ๐ฌ๐จ๐ง๐จ ๐ฎ๐ง ๐ซ๐ข๐ญ๐จ, sono ๐ฅ๐ ๐๐ก๐ข๐๐ฏ๐ ๐๐ก๐ ๐ฆ๐๐ญ๐ญ๐ ๐ข ๐๐ข๐ญ๐ญ๐๐๐ข๐ง๐ข ๐ง๐๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ ๐ฉ๐๐ซ๐ญ๐ข๐ญ๐, con strumenti veri.
E adesso il passaggio decisivo รจ trasformare questa energia in ๐ฉ๐๐ซ๐ญ๐๐๐ข๐ฉ๐๐ณ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐ ๐๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ง๐, perchรฉ alla fine ๐ง๐จ๐ง ๐๐๐ฌ๐ญ๐ ๐๐ข๐ซ๐ฆ๐๐ซ๐: bisogna andare a votare e ๐ฏ๐จ๐ญ๐๐ซ๐ ๐๐Questo il link per firmare: firmereferendum.giustizia.it/rโฆ
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@giorgiosarto Mamma mia che figura ignobile! ๐คฆ๐พโโ๏ธ
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too cold in here today. good day for running the unreal engine
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US Visa Processing Frozen By Trump Administration in 75 Countries: Full List of Countries #press
https://www.newsweek.com/us-visa-processing-frozen-countries-list-trump-administration-11359433
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@elithebearded @NoveltyBot Wait. Here we go.
I'll bet this is it.
https://kira.salevortex.shop/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=6292999
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@elithebearded @NoveltyBot I wondered that too.
I tried to look, but I couldn't find one. It's basically impossible to search for, though.
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I wonder if these show up on ebay
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@warandpeas ยซrechargeable this timeยป
