🫰Done! I’ve deleted all existing recovery infrastructure! Now your disaster recovery routine has been reduced to 1 second, which is the time it takes to put your human head in your hands and cry!

Windows Slop Edition

The sheep await Fox News’ orders.

Oops, pretending to take the moral high ground is out the window as soon as MIC dollars are at risk.

Update: and seems like being ready to toss principles aside wasn’t enough for the Trump administration.

While I’d prefer better off-by-default and making AI opt-in, this is the next best option. Good job Mozilla.

Kinda neat about the human responses… sure some are trolling but maybe we have to test our global expectations. In North America, a car wash tends to be this garage thing with either automated cleaning or a set of supplies to clean your car, and your car has to be in the shed to be cleaned effectively. But if washing your car by hand is the norm, I wonder if people in some countries surmise that the cleaning staff could just walk over with the sponges, buckets and hoses and stuff to the car, if you’re already 50 metres away from the washing point.

I’d say it’s to help replace unhealthy addictions with a platform that’s smaller and less easy to fall into infinite scroll rabbit holes. Like nic-patches to stop smoking.

Steve Burke (of GN) described the absurdity pretty well, within the context of the currently uncertain Nvidia and OpenAI deal:

Nvidia offered OpenAI $100B in investment, money that it didn’t have, as long as OpenAI gave that money back to Nvidia to lease GPUs that haven’t been made, to then put in data centres that haven’t been constructed, which will be powered by electricity that hasn’t come online, to then rent to users who haven’t subscribed, to provide them features that haven’t come to fruition.

Oh, thank god, I was worried if there might not be a worldwide surveillance dragnet for in case I lost a pet iguana.

Who has more money? OpenAI needs buttloads of it right about now from all the promises they have made.

Hell, the Mexican colectivo van driver closes the sliding doors on his rattly 20 year old van simply by hard braking.

It’s not ready for full rollout until Microslop gets Slopilot to put sponsored apps back into it.

Oh perfect. That would be a good upstream base for other European govt projects.

I do think the EU should start with a more basic app like FluffyChat in testing but rebranded, then try to make their own app over the Matrix protocol that fits their specific communications needs and share that development publicly with open source.

feddit.nl can make a netherlandsEnglish community, Engels or something like that and invite people over.

!theNetherlands@feddit.nl is the Dutch-language community.

Basically ICE’s digital colour pantone. It sure does make their job at being racist easier.

It’s not any more sus than running any FOSS project binaries obtained from github. And OP wants to test a bunch of live environments, so that’s not really a security-critical environment.

I’d suggest it’s collective laziness over any even potentially malicious intent. The author listed about the 180 blobs they are aware of, the vast majority from FOSS projects.

Filters exist in Piefed so I hear, and you can already block instances and communities and users you feel are too American focused.

Anyway…

Edit: Don’t hesitate or wait for my validation, live life the way you want, with as much or as little modern tech in it as you please.

Have you found ways to reconnect with technology?

My rule is that I interact with technology on my own terms and volition. I get upset if I get led or ‘tricked’ into an app or consuming some form of media. I access tech when I want to and am looking for something, and try to reject the idea that content should come to me in a steady stream. If I am watching brainrot it will be because I want to click and scroll through brainrot videos, not because it was the next one to play after the video I actually wanted to watch.

If you want bliss at this endless beach, build your own little FOSS sandcastle. If it washes away, build it somewhere else, and find other people that like to build FOSS sandcastles.