Eniko FoxMar 20

Imagine living through the 2020's rise of fascism and surveillance, looking at the OS age signal API and going "well this thing, in isolation, is not so bad, I think people are overreacting"

Ok yeah great the thing that could easily be weaponized further isn't so bad yet when viewed in isolation. I'm so glad the last 20 times people were concerned about similar slippery slopes nothing bad at all happened in the long term!

Show threadmoralrecordingsMar 20
@eniko "open source is a stronghold against malicious governments, unless it's illegal in the Bay Area in which case yes sir thank you sir we'll add that right away"
Show threadAnthkMar 20

@moralrecordings @eniko Being free software illegal in California would collapse the whole region and good chunk of the US economy. Cant wait to both Meta and the lobbies being sued into the oblivion and the NSA front get distmantled and trialed as both being traitors to the US citizens and money launderers thru the CSA. If that happened the fine would be so huge that IG, WA and FB would stop existing overnight.

First I remind you call that Meta stole billions of books via Bittorrent to train AIs. A multifront trial from media companies and cloud providers would make META shit bricks and Elon Musk delete stuff for Grok like crazy.

The slop generation would grind to a halt and most LLM rewrites will be deemed either under PD or plain derivatives of the previous work thus enforcing the GPL to *tons* of illegal MIT rewrites. Ditto with some AGPL rewrited projects.

Show threadundead enby of the apocalypse
@anthk @moralrecordings @eniko you forget that the legal system is rigged in favor of the megacorporations and so they can never be meaningfully held accountable through it.
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Show threadAnthkMar 21
@enby_of_the_apocalypse @moralrecordings @eniko
Good luck attacking libre software without bringing the whole cloud/AI/virtualisation industry and more *down* to a halt and collapsing the economy.