deliriousdreams

Ahem. I’m just going to leave this here.

https://techoversight.org/2026/01/25/top-report-mdl-jan-25/

The military. Being on a ship with no wifi for months on end sort of makes you invest in entertainment that can go off grid. It started with a 3TB hard drive and what amounts to a NAS for hooking up to a computer screen or TV. I then moved to using Plex for streaming and the interface. Eventually I moved to Jellyfin.

At this point I just have a server in my living room with 10TB’s worth of drives and the ability to share just about anything locally or wirelessly when I’m outside my house.

My job is technical but not… IT, cyber security, or development related. I’ve always been interested in computers though and have built several at this point.

How did he ever think he was the exemplar human male of the species?

I wish I could put Linux on my work computer.

We didn’t win until I can remove it all from my computer.

Oh meth, mmmmm meth!

People aren’t just rejecting it and staying on 10. They are actively downgrading (going back to windows 10) or leaving the windows ecosystem entirely for Linux. Someone actually went out of their way to tally up and explain all the shit MS broke over the course of the last year. It’s a ridiculous number of things.

There’s a hard fork in the works called Servo. The developers are attempting to hard fork Firefox so that they don’t have to rely on it for updates in the future.

There’s another called Ladybird but there’s controversy surrounding the person fronting it and the fact that they use AI to code it.

https://servo.org/

More like fining a regular person $20.

You fail to understand that this wasn’t an attack on you, but commentary about the state of things and how they look from the inside rather than the outside.

And as someone who did enlist, I’m gonna just point out something. Your country should never have allowed allyship with the USA to divest you of a fighting force worthy of protecting your own assets, borders, or sovereignty.

I absolutely don’t agree that the US should be fucking about in any other country. But the entire world never even batted an eye when we were setting up puppet regimes and destabilizing whole countries where brown people live. So you’ll figure me if our problematic behavior has finally landed on your doorstep. I don’t agree with the shit we’ve done in South America, The Middle East, or half a dozen African countries.

But I also grew up in poverty and found my way out of that through enlistment, so I was part of the problem whether I wanted to be or not.

I am trying to have empathy for you and people like you while pointing out that our government is literally kidnapping people off the street and essentially using FLOK cameras as legal wiretaps. The people who are doing something need help to boost the signal and people are ignoring them.

I have tried to explain to Americans here and on reddit and other places too that the political landscape in Russia is very different and that what we think is possible is all passed through the lens of our own government and country. But people are gonna people.

For what it’s worth, I don’t agree with those people whole sale either. I recognize that what they’re asking the Russian populace to do is tantamount to a death or slavery sentence.

It’s very real. This is history repeating itself for the umpteenth time. You aren’t the first, nor will you be the last one to scream into the void about people who have been deliberately disenfranchised by their government with the direct intent of making them toothless against what is essentially a fascist regime.

The problem is that you’re screaming a lot but not offering actual solutions except a general idea of “Fight!”. That’s not helpful, and it sounds a lot like condescension.

I understand that you’re expressing frustration and disbelief and anger. But people here are angry too and they are fighting where they can. But as this and other news is very demonstrative of, the system is rigged against them and things get worse in that regard every day.

App stores removing apps that track ICE. People who share their outrage but not solutions/who don’t boost actual efforts to fight.

News articles that focus solely on the bad part and offer no solutions. The fact that you don’t come across many posts with actual solutions isn’t a bug, it’s intentional. People ignore things that help so they can remain outraged, supercilious, and smug.

Polyphia. Mostly their stuff that doesn’t have lyrics.

“Let’s speed run it.” “Say Less!”

I’m sure this will make people who use it feel better, but as a form of protest it does nothing. Unless you’re gonna install this extension on a bunch of public computers.

Lots of people who have taken to the internet at large may not understand the root cause of why, but they do know Google’s reputation for killing projects and enshittification. That discussion is happening everywhere. And you should also note that a lot of the early adopters of Google Now and Google Assistant (including the hardware) are tech enthusiasts who absolutely did have the realization at one point or another about how these companies were essentially rifling through their emails and other information they were collecting in order to provide such detailed information. There were multiple articles about it (from outlets and blogs that these kinds of people follow). Perhaps once Google assistant became more mainstream (where people were more likely to pick up assistant enabled devices and such in Target or the like), those people didn’t realize. But they still see the enshittification.

There’s a lot of people claiming “no one wants this”.

Thing is, people loved this when they introduced it with Google Now back in 2012. They literally used to trawl your inbox and tell you when to expect packages, when you had appointments, when your flight and hotel were booked for/when to leave for the airport.

All of that was useful information and it was free. Later their assistant could call to book you a table at a restaurant or add things to your shopping list or whatever. Some of this functionality started off very clunky, but it could absolutely be useful. But slowly but surely people started realizing that they were the product and that in order for Google Now and assistant to do this stuff it had to be reading emails and processing information in the cloud. We didn’t have devices that could do that kind of processing on phone.

After backlash (and likely because it wasn’t making them any money because they hadn’t figured out how to monetize the product yet), Google got rid of Google Now and Google Assistant took over.

it did some of the same things but distracted users from what was missing with flashy new hardware and smart home things. Lots of people loved that stuff too.

Then Sonos sued and forced them to kneecap their products. Suddenly the honeymoon was over in a big way. Some of the most basic smart home features were broken and in such a way that people who used them were irate.

Some of those integrations and functionality returned eventually. But right in the middle of that Google launched Gemini and it sucked at most all of it. It keeps getting “better” supposedly. But for a lot of smart home users the magic has been lost. They want what they had and lost and Gemini isn’t even a reasonable facsimile of that.

So it’s more that people are frustrated with Gemini and angry at Google for killing another service they found useful.

People still want technology to make their lives easier and more efficient. But they also want privacy and for things to just work. Google hasn’t made a product that just worked in a long time and AI isn’t going to be it.

“my name is not Playground”. Just what an alien robot would say.

I think it needs to cover infrastructure too.

I need some time to think about what you wrote before I respond. I need to switch gears here and also give some thought to how such a thing would play out.