Sophie 🏳️‍⚧️ 🌜

129 Followers
481 Following
4.5K Posts

AKA: Starshine

Believer in beauty, kindness and spirituality in a time where such things are out of fashion.

30-Something Old Maid | British | Woman | Trans | Pagan | Dyspraxic | Autistic | Netizen | Recovering Tech Person | Slow Movement | Nature

Read my pinned introduction post for more info! (If you don't see it pinned you may have to view on my home instance)

My boosting or following of an individual does not necessarily equal endorsement or approval.

#nobot

PronounsShe/Her (https://en.pronouns.page/@dfstarshine)
Gemini Sitegemini://gemlog.blue/users/starshine/
Websitehttps://dfsshine.neocities.org/
Linkshttps://dfsshine.neocities.org/contact
Otterly adorable
💯

"We are being asked to drain our reservoirs so a chatbot can write a poem." --Will Hollingsworth

See council room video below.

https://futurism.com/future-society/city-council-meeting-case-against-data-center

Man at City Council Meeting Makes Devastating Case Against Proposed Local Data Center

A former programmer spoke up during a city council meeting in a small town in Ohio, making a well-articulated argument against data centers.

Futurism

"If we stopped surveillance advertising, most modern internet companies would collapse"

Good! They're laying off humans at a record pace in order to juice their stock prices and further facilitate this bubble. Take 'em all out.

“software can’t just ignore laws it doesn’t like” it literally can. corporations do it constantly and I really doubt any of them will drop linux if it doesn’t comply with a set of godawful fascist age verification laws. historically one of the forms of pushback against unjust laws is to show some basic fucking solidarity and do nothing to assist in their enforcement because it really isn’t practical to sue everybody, but unfortunately solidarity is alien to most of these computer fuckers

Last night I was watching a video from a YouTuber I enjoy. He’s likeable and reviews all kinds of smartphones. I find it relaxing, it makes me smile. In yesterday’s video, he showed his partner switching from an iPhone to Android and sharing his impressions.

At one point, the partner started saying that iOS is "dumber2 in many ways, specifically talking about the keyboard, because "Apple’s privacy is stronger, so they spy on you less". To me, that’s a feature, not a bug.

He went on to say it’s absurd, that he would actually like Amazon Alexa, Google, Android, iOS, and so on to know everything about him, so they can make things easier and provide more convenient features.

I was honestly stunned. So I went to check the comments and... they were all focused only on the fact that, "finally", he introduced his boyfriend in a video.

As long as this is how the average user thinks, big tech will keep their balance sheets locked tight and their hands on everyone’s data.

#Privacy #Security #OwnYourData