Surely there has to be a breaking point right? I wonder if there could be some kind of workaround through Tor, maybe we’ll have to make a new internet with black jack and hookers, or maybe the populace will get complacent and we’ll be forced back into shopping malls to get our social interactions.

Plus it would open the door for even more tracking.

True. If there’s no law against it I’m sure it will happen sadly.

Maybe it’s meant as a disincentive to keep people from using services like klarna because too many people aren’t financially responsible enough to handle it.

Sorry you got some benefit out of it, but I would just stop using it after this. It doesn’t help much and if you delete the account it’s one less account you have to worry about getting sold or exposed in a data breach. The EU is better than the US for a lot of consumer protections, potentially including this law, but not necessarily privacy.

But think of the shareholders!

To raise this issue on github for our entertainment?

I’d like to know too. I bet most Lemmy users are here because we got sick of Reddit, which I consider part of big tech. I’ll participate in this strike as much as I can, but not because I saw this post, it’s just how I want to live my life. I think a lot of Lemmy users share similar goals, so this post may be preaching to the choir, and if it’s not, a 1 day strike on “big tech” won’t show results.

I don’t understand how that many more people are using reddit every month. It has to be mostly bots.

I won’t call it programming, but I could see people calling it that in another 10 years. I bet if people writing assembly code 40 years ago saw rust they would say it’s not programming either.

Thanks I’ll have to check it out!

That’s true, it’s not as bad as I was originally thinking. However, there’s probably a reason traditional power plants never use jet engines for power production. According to this article, “But repurposed aircraft turbines tend to be less efficient and more polluting than engines designed for conventional gas-burning plants.”

That would be nice, but I meant an alternative to Signal. Sorry I wasn’t very clear.

AI can make decisions and micromanage. What’s stopping the higher ups from replacing lower management now?

I don’t like the phone number requirement either, but is there a better alternative?

Hadn’t heard of immich, I already run a plex server so shouldn’t be too bad to set up. That just leaves the big problem of switching all my existing accounts off gmail.

Good info for those of us who still have an iPhone. A pixel with grapheme OS still seems like the best option for a smartphone so I think I’ll switch to that for my next phone.

I’m sure it’s a tactic to make the schools allow AI, but I hope they can resist. Google does not need a stranglehold on every person in every market. Google search has gotten worse anyway, so even duck duck go would be fine. Maybe even use this as an opportunity to teach kids about data privacy.

Yes but it only comes with a metal claw

Wow this can’t be efficient. Jet engines are primarily designed to produce thrust. But looks like Musk got special permission from the state to pollute more, so all’s good!

Ugh it’s going to be a pain to stop using Google, but it’s time. Long gone are the days of “don’t be evil”