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Show threadTim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPEOct 17

@oathboundfamiliar I had a spam phone call today:

Them (standard scam opener): "I am the energy advisor for your postcode area."

Me (standard response to spam phone calls): "Do feel happy when you wake up in the morning knowing that you're going to be spending all day scamming people?"

So far so BAU. But then:

Them (not the standard response!): "Yes yes" (and drops the call).

Better trained than the ones who waste time arguing with me. But they still could have saved half a second by dropping the call without saying anything at all.

Show threadEQOct 18

@TimWardCam

Those scammers are living in holiday paradises scamming old people of their money and laughing about it when the victims cry. There was a reporter that got under their skin for a while, documenting them. Realy horrible stuff.

Show threadBerg Am Laimerin (bis 12.2025)Nov 4

@eq @TimWardCam

The person on the phone might have been someone who is forced to do such "work" like those people in Myanmar.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5yr7j18edjo

Myanmar scam centres: Thousands who have been freed are now stuck in camps

The camps are unsanitary, food barely sufficient, and many of those being held are in poor health.

Show threadEQNov 4

@bergamlaimerin @TimWardCam

No, they don't laugh in your ear after they scammed you out of all your money saying things like "You deserve it!"

Show threadcallie 3: chipwreckedOct 17
@oathboundfamiliar great post but why tf are independent creators asking for donations catching strays here
Show threadAzaharaOct 17
@caligula9997 @oathboundfamiliar I don't know if the author meant it this way of course, but that seems pretty realistic in how they indeed catch strays for also daring to ask for money when everything asks for money, even if they're probably the only legitimate ask
Show threadAnthropyOct 17

@oathboundfamiliar not to be obtuse or weird about this because I realize there isn't always a choice here,

but I think selfhosting is an amazing solution to a lot of this (though not everything); whether it's social media (and video platforms), listening to your own music or video collection remotely, making sure your data doesn't get stolen or resold, etc.

it also seems to become easier and easier, and cheaper and cheaper to do so, so I sometimes wonder if it'll become a mainstream thing.

Show threadEQOct 18

@anthropy @oathboundfamiliar

The problem with self-hosting is that you host your own stuff. If you aren't around to pay the bills, your stuff will be gone and your relatives will not have your posts any more.

Show threadAnthropyOct 18
@eq well, I understand that it's something to keep in mind, but whether it's a problem depends on a number of things; it assumes that you're hosting in a datacenter rather than at home, and that you don't use some shared account for payments (which you could if it's a concern), and that you're not making any backups to your home in case you aren't hosting at home, for example.
Show threadfopsOct 17
@oathboundfamiliar this reads like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiO_mj2VEaY
Late Stage Capitalism Bass Solo

YouTube
Show threadWolf480plOct 18
@oathboundfamiliar there's too much adze, needs more axe.
Show threadF3715HOct 18
@oathboundfamiliar and thus the only valid teason is to refuse to use said shitty sites and srrvices that do #Enshittification!
Show threadSimon RichterOct 18
@oathboundfamiliar @mutax this should be a monologue read by Ewan McGregor.
Show thread-rbOct 18

@oathboundfamiliar

Total #enshittification

Show threadKiudecanOct 18
@oathboundfamiliar
This !
Show threadUrban CameraOct 18

@oathboundfamiliar

and then there are books. Faithful, quiet, exciting, books.

Show threadGodfrey642Oct 18
@oathboundfamiliar
Capitalism.
Oh and by the way I'm not Marxist communist or whatever the RW want to call me.
I just don't want to run my life as a servant of money or slave to the rich
Show threadJakub NerudaOct 18

@oathboundfamiliar This enshitification of products makes me so sad.

Bought a Backbone controller. Stopped working after my phone updated to Android 15.

Learned how to code videogames for Android. Google is going to require developer registration for everything.

Got a new laptop at work with Windows 11 after having 10. Microphone on all headphones stopped working.

Meanwhile 5+ year-old things work just fine, but they are usually not supported or they flat out cannot update to new software because it artificially inflates HW requirements. 😭

Show threadB ThuronyiOct 18
@oathboundfamiliar To the tune of "Fitter Happier" by Radiohead
Show threadBlue LumaOct 18
@oathboundfamiliar could you send have the source link ?
Show threadmimiimimOct 19
@oathboundfamiliar when you realize you are the product (not the user), the decision to walk away is much easier.
Show threadsteveOct 24
@oathboundfamiliar
Show threadSteve HoldenNov 1
@oathboundfamiliar summary: enshittification is rife.
Show threadgeorgiaNov 1
@oathboundfamiliar I never see ads on my debian gnu/linux computer running firefox with adblockers or my rooted lineageos phone running cromite
Show threadFace ThumbNov 1
@oathboundfamiliar This is a work of art.
Show threadIronskiNov 1

@oathboundfamiliar @texttheater

WE. WANT. YOUR. SOUL.

https://youtu.be/0oMEuyhBkRo?

Freeland - We Want Your Soul (Official Video)

YouTube
Show threadAndyNov 1
@oathboundfamiliar It's almost funny how most of these problems can be solved by reverting back to piracy like in the 2000s. That would be illegal of course, so please don't!!1!1!cos(0)
Show threadDeb Nam-KraneNov 1

@G33KatWork All I'm going to say is that I have exhausted options to get things that are both legal and ethical. Guess which one is more important to me?

@oathboundfamiliar

Show threadJohn Carlsen 🇺🇸🇳🇱🇪🇺Nov 1

@dnkboston @G33KatWork @oathboundfamiliar

If companies were genuinely interested in not having their wares pirated, they wouldn't make the mistake of making them so easily accessible via the internet. They could make it easy for people to pay a fair price to get what they want.

But now it's much easier to download and watch everything without ads, if one knows a few very simple tricks.

Best part: though it may be immoral, as long as we (in the US) don't republish copyrighted works, it's not even illegal.

Show threadDeb Nam-KraneNov 1

@johnlogic Sorry, I should have clarified my comment about ethics. I think YouTube, Spotify, and any company financed by Len Blavatnik is unethical, and that's before we get to how exploited the artists are. I would much rather be accused of breaking a law than screwing someone already getting screwed.

*Note: I'm not judging the customers of those services; I'm judging those services.

@G33KatWork @oathboundfamiliar

Show threadClaudiusNov 1
@oathboundfamiliar meanwhile on the Fediverse: oh, look: moss! 🤩 #LichenSubscribe
Show threadPeter HNov 1

@oathboundfamiliar
- Go to a shop
- Find what you need
- Go to the checkout
- "Are you in our system?"
- No
- "Can you give your details so we can add you to our system?"
- No
- "We need your details to email your receipt"
- I want a printed receipt.
- "We can't print sir"
- Then I'll snap a picture of your screen.
- "We can't do that, you need an account."
- Keep the stuff, I'll be shopping somewhere else.

Idiots.