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Google’s probably not going to care and is probably going to find some way to disadvantage this so they can keep their monopoly.

I mean, this is the company that’s wide open about how weasely and underhanded they are to the web at large.

If it is, then the entire black/dark comedy genre is full of troubled people.

Yeah it is, and it’s their fault that it is.

Google has no right to say the open web is in decline, when they’re the main cause of it, this is basically them saying, ‘Yeah, we won this stupid war that we started, screw you, peons,’ this comes off like if MS broke WINE and then admitted no one uses desktop Linux anymore, it will have been their faults that hypothetical scenario happened, this is what Google saying the open web is in decline when it’s largely their fault that it is comes off as to me.

Mastodon’s main code repo is on GitHub, a government could just pressure MS to take down that repo, although that isn’t going to account for anyone self-hosting an instance and also hosting their own git repos outside of any of the major hosts.

In order to take down self-hosted instances, they’d have to raid people’s homes and take out their physical servers assuming they have physical servers in their place.

Blocking the domains connected to it is one way I can think of.

Nepal went full iron curtain. Hope the EU, US, and UK don’t get any ideas…

Couldn’t the US hypothetically put a clause in some ‘online safety’ law conveniently deanonymizing Tor given they own most of the exit nodes?

Easiest way is via Kiwix.

A right that’s getting rapidly eroded. Like, 1A is a right that’s pretty much reduced to only existing on paper at this point and some politicians are probably looking for a way to erase it from the Constitution entirely.

Good thing I downloaded it then because it’s probably going to be blocked in the US next.

Noooooo… Leave school kids in general but especially kindergarteners and first graders out of this shit!

To quote Pink Floyd, leave them kids alone!

AI shouldn’t even be a thing in school on the whole, but especially not in kindergarten or first grade, let the kids be kids and let them have their wonder and curiosity at that stage.

And custom-built PCs are already getting priced further and further out of the market for everyone who isn’t rich; mini PCs are slowly taking over the budget segments, and even some of the mid-range as well.

Next step if it’s allowed to get that far would be locking out alternate OSes after upgradeable PCs are all but eliminated except for HEDT.

I hope MS doesn’t start doing this to Windows or else that would kill WINE/Proton, and also severely harm Windows itself given how deeply sideloading exes or msi files is ingrained into that OS.

This extends to the animation review community and also the art and craft communities too given Google will probably flag those channels as underage with their AI at some point. Like, people like Saberspark, for example, also need to mirror to Odysee or PeerTube before their accounts get flagged, if not moving away from YT outright.

Even someone like PhantomStrider would benefit from doing that as well, and tbh, with his public disdain for big social media lately, Odysee or PeerTube would probably be a breath of fresh air for him.

Time for them to at minimum mirror their channel to Odysee and/or PeerTube so that they’ll still have a platform just in case their channel gets nuked.

Even if you don’t plan on ditching YT outright, it’s still a good idea to mirror to Odysee, PeerTube, or both, as a backup because of shit like this.

This is ‘GM in 2008’ all over again.

(because a company that’s ‘too big to fail’ has been bailed out by the government before)

and unlike the US it doesn’t even have constitutional limitations on surveillance of people on their own soil

• I’d argue the US doesn’t anymore either, or if it does, it’s only on paper. Shit, rights in general in the US are to the degree where they only exist on paper anymore, and I can think of some fascists that would get rid of the Constitution altogether and implement absolute, unbreakable rule if they could… Trump…

It’s finally happening, tech jobs are suffering the same unemployment that the trades had been suffering for years if not decades, only this time around it’s probably self-inflicted by the AI bubble.

Mirrorless and P&S cameras should still be able to work without an app. Also, there’s always used SLRs.

‘When you sigh and flip open your laptop to maybe do some work, you find that your software products refuse to even launch, as they absolutely needed to refresh their license key verification this instant. Feeling mildly upset by their accusations of you having pirated their over-priced software after forking over so much cash each month, you slam the laptop shut again. This is when you realize that your project files are stored safely on the now unreachable cloud storage account anyway.’

• Good thing most of those products have a viable free/open alternative, plus you can still store stuff locally on a PC, you don’t have to put everything on the cloud.

No, but for example, Office can be replaced by LibreOffice (and the EU is trying to do just that), Adobe CS can be replaced by GIMP or Krita, Inkscape, RawTherapee or Darktable, and Kdenlive for PS, Illustrator, Lightroom, and Premiere/AfterEffects respectively, Maya or 3DSMax can be replaced by Blender, and even Windows itself can be replaced by some Linux distro or alternatively BSD; PC as a platform isn’t locked to Windows, and you’re not locked into proprietary software generally, work contracts or more esoteric stuff which doesn’t have a viable free/open alternative notwithstanding.

Also, you can still technically buy new cameras and camcorders, although new camcorders have for the most part shifted to the pro video market nowadays, plus there’s always the used market, and you can still build a custom PC although that market has been getting squeezed out by rampant overpricing and the effective evaporation of entry-level parts, plus you can still buy physical music/movies and the gear to play them on.

And film of all things has been seeing a resurgence as a creation medium lately.