Starlink is objectively a fucking terrible thing, possibly worse than data centers.

Rural connectivity is a good thing, but why do we all pretend it’s cheaper to invent a private space company to launch disposable satellites that burn up into toxic byproducts and need to be refilled every few months so that the sky internet can be controlled and monitored by the same people that want machines to automate all the labor so they can let us die because they hate having to deal with us?

We should run fiber to every home and business.

50,000mbit / 25mbit/sec = 2,000 seconds = 33 minutes

It’s 30 mins at full speed.

Tim Cook sucked ass too

True hardware costs in 2026 without residuals from advertisers

It’s not the algorithms people oppose, it’s the way they are trained within a capitalist system (infringement of many copyrights without compensation), they way they are being marketed as a living mind that can basically befriend us and take a mental load off of us (they can’t and it’s problematic to humans who allow them to try), and they way they’re being used an excuse to buy up the wntire world’s capacity for computing so that rich tech oligarchs can force us all onto the cloud services for all computing in the future.

I think if at the very least they weren’t bulldozing people’a home and poisoning their drinking water in order to forever capture all technology and then rent it back to us we might have a more favorable view of the possibilities, but so far Big Tech has done almost nothing but try to find ways to make individuals and enterprise addicted to their Mechanical Turk in order to take advantage of us.

There is a difference between an AI doing a security review (which they have become quite accomplished) and generating code that gets committed into the codebase.

Again, how does one verify that the code it has generated isn’t some verbatim chunk of copyrighted code that it happened to be trained on, and it turned out to be the best fit? There’s no guarantee that a model will not do this, even if instructed.

Also, content generated by AI models has already been deemed uncopyrightable, and this includes code. So are some larrtsmof the Linux kernel now able to be copied freely without GPL restrictions? How can you license code or executables compiled from said code if you do not hold the copyright on it?

If doesn’t stop at ads. Someone with all the data - remember this includes enterprise - can predict markets. They can get ahead of new inventions. They can insider trade. They can pick winners and losers. They can censor unfavorable articles. They can swing elections.

Why do you think they push for laws to force you to ID yourself online at all times? Why do you think they push for backdoors in encryption? And, conveniently, both of those things also make cloud platforms an easier way to enforce compliance, as well as providing them with full access.

The techbros are building a panopticon for total control, not just to sell more ads. It’s WAY more nefarious.

That’s part of the AI push. Those in power want to retain it - now they can fabricate evidence, or claim real evidence is faked.

Bonus round: when they make it so that everything has to be stored in the cloud, they can just modify or delete stuff at will.

Ok my wallet votes for buying components and doing the compute I need at home.

Not some bourgeois-approved libertarian fantasy about renting widgets of functionality.

Yes that precious silicon, the rarest of earthen elements of which we have so little.

And of course the fabrication of semiconducting integrated circuits, which was always in such high demand that prices kept all the peasants from being able to operate any.

Such powers should be reserved for those with superior power and ways of thinking anyway, don’t you agree?

Literally the point of AI is to get everyone to store everything in the cloud so they can do to all your data what Facebook did to your social profile (and worse)

Trumps goal is revenge for forcing him to kill Epstein in order to get away with everything, which is why he does such dumb shit as “let covid run rampant” and “destroy all safety nets” and “rig elections with the help of oligarchs”

Agreed we’re missing the punk part

Cramping AI into everything, including your “privacy” product, is enshittification.

It’s just not really in the same form as capturing market share and then paywalling your captive market to achieve rent seeking.

In this case you aren’t capturing rent you are capturing profiles, which in turn you will rent out to marketers.

Proton will betray everyone. I’m glad I stayed away.

The real reason is because the data centers aren’t for AI. They’re for taking up all the components so you can’t compute independently anymore and you need to run “apps” from the ”cloud” so they can “monitor” your “behavior” for “tailored ads” and “terrorist threats” and cut you off completely if you ever retroactively violated their updated EULA that covers all the people they don’t like.

They are stealing computing from us and the business world is letting it happen in the name of cost savings.

I swear to god before I die I will see capitalism driven into the mud to drown

Ok, make them all change then. Exercise your authority.

Oh? No one has any so it’s important to maintain existing infrastructure for the best outcomes?

It only includes sites where the server-side language can be detected. That’s often easy with PHP because of URLs ending in .php and well-known software like Wordpress which identifies itself in ways that are easy for a crawler to detect.

So there are possibly more PHP sites out there than we realize, because the ones which disguise their URLs are ambiguous

It counts sites, not traffic. There are a lot of Wordpress sites out there which get three visitors a month.

You shouldn’t be as concerned with popularity, and much more concerned with attack surface. Your argument certainly can’t be that there are thousands of idle servers out there that should no longer be maintained because no one reads the blog hosted on them?

Looks like you’ll never pay that much for a device ever again

AI companies ruin the RAM and video card market, so no one runs 200GB models for free.

No, AI companies ruin the RAM, Storage, and video market so no one can compute independently, and they all have to stream cloud services which can be monitored by AI, gatekept without the possibility of piracy (or first sale doctorine), unhackable/unmodable, and rented forever.

This is way bigger than gaming. What happens when they can predict markets? What happens when they can move markets? When journalists get silenced, when inconvenient truths are hidden?

Why wouldn’t they when we are so dependent on it?