/tech/ - Technology

Consider not running shitware on your phone, thats half the battle

Yes, it sure is hard being a non-tech-savvy person who doesn't want to participate in all the bullshit.
>just don't run that on your phone
Well, tell the average joe how he can simply opt out of all that. Apple wants $1,000 for a phone, and Android phones won't even activate without a Google account. Average Joe me isn't going to break out the tiny screwdrivers and take apart a phone. He's not going to plug it into some computer and run safe mode or whatever and reassign directories or "break", "crack", "unlock", "root", or anything else because I'm not able to understand ANY of that. Even the simplest of those kinds of tutorials assume a great deal of tech knowledge, interest, and experience. I do have some interest but at my age it's not easy to dive in and learn how everything works.
I'd just like to have a flip phone with a keyboard on it. That's it. I don't want internet or GPS but everyone makes me text and I have to, even for work. I hate texting but there's just no getting out of it.

Every smartphone makes you sign up with software people outside of the phone network. They made these fucking side deals so you can't just use the phone without tying your entire identity to your number and some online presence. They want you to sync all your shit together. They want your phone and television and all your addresses and everything in a cloud somewhere. And we've already seen how this can be exploited. And yet 99% of people just do what they're told.
>nothing to hide
Well then come right in!!! Have a look and a listen!! Because me not having anything to hide is the exact same as being an exhibitionist you can watch and hear as better to advertise to. Sure, it's not anyone real actually listening. So who cares that the technology is there? It's such a blessing for ME that something is always listening for me to address it for MY benefit. What a beautiful future we have. I guess I'm supposed to be impressed. I guess I'm supposed to feel like Tony Stark with Jarvis there to assist me. Record me, LEARN from me so you can better serve me. Is that something I'm supposed to be okay with or even excited about??
Fuck all of this. I hope there's a massive EMP and we have to start over. Really rather we just voluntarily freeze technology anywhere between the 1970s and 2000. That'd be just fine by me. In fact, just eliminate the internet altogether. At this point I see morePost too long. Click here to view the full text.

>>29694
THIS
I fucking hate the "it's a you problem" retards. thinking in terms of individual actions doesn't make sense (and I find it odd to hear this in a lefty forum). they are tracking the whole population. if someone wanted to go after you and you had all the measures in the world to avoid tracking, they could go through your family, friends or coworkers. your careful use of your phone would be of no use.

>>29385
this is also why the "passkey" shit that pushes biometric identitification is promoted so hard.

and normoids will all willingly queue up to give their biometric data away and then in 10 years act like this was such a surprise???!!?! omg muh privacy!! why isn't someone doing something??!?!

>>30005
elaborate, please. does that shit send your fingerprints to some Google server or something?

Zombo.com

https://www.htmhell.dev/
"A collection of bad practices in HTML, copied from real websites."

"Support small businesses" of the internet. Just let go.

>>29531
I thought the thread already had this debate but I guess not:
It's not a call to supooort something, it's an understanding that the current state of things, where the internet has accumulated around a handful of centralized platforms and search engines, is collapsing as the material conditions that allowed them to exist have passed, and smaller websites are emerging from that.

The thread premise is to explore this new, immanently approaching landscape.

see also: >>>/siberia/674044

>>30115
chatgpt has safeguards to prevent erotic content from being generated AFAIK

>>30115
Not ChatGPT

>>30112

Please tell me which AI companies I should short. I need money kinda ASAP

>>29932
>Endless circles of poor getting punched making them poor getting …
That this is a very affordable form of low "learning".
And not only because it's cheap itself, but because it lowers "earned" highs too.

>>29927
This is all pretty cold, but, get the impression that since 2008 there's been a variety of attempts to figure out what to do with hardware performance which is eccentrically sufficient for consumers. Part of this is scaling, so you can have more tabs open, more pixels, and higher fidelity graphics etc. Another part is making thinks which couldn't have existed before 2008. The addition of production driverless cars and the transition from ELIZA-style chatbots to LLM are examples of this, but have only shown up recently. These are potential major changes in the means of production. Wonder if there was a twelve to fifteen year lull though. Probably something to do with innovation cycles or something.

>>29932
>Not sure the best way things are learned and overcome however.
Turns out you have to be told!

>Endless circles of poor getting punched making them poor getting …
The same messages paid for again … to listen.
Literally and deeply as well as critically.
Some tips are not to buy things that hurt you.
And to receive payment in necessities! (learning)
But really there's not trick to get out and it's stupid!

>>30030
Within a few short generations my technological Amish may ripen to a technological chardonnay!

>>29911
>the entire argument is premised on the idea that this makes it easier to hire for, but the more popular your language choice is the more scriptkiddies you’re gonna get applying for your company

Script kiddies use scripting languages.

Typically this argument is used for "enterprise" languages like Java/C#, so the people applying won't be script kiddies but moderate skill 45 year old boomers with 20 years java experience and every java certification you can think of.

They're not geniuses who will invent the next meme database technology at a hot silicon valley startup, but they will get the job done for your midwestern airline/bank/tractor company/etc. 99.9% of the time at a moderate wage.

wget --recursive --level=inf --no-clobber --page-requisites --convert-links --domains marxists.org marxists.org

Or something.

>>30100
Didn't realize that the archive would be so large.
Was wondering why there wasn't an effective google like service to do this sort of thing.
the site: search generally doesn't work for me,

Im sure a torrent exists somewhere of collected works.
learn how to internet gooder

>>30102
Not OP, but I've looked and there definitely isn't a torrent anywhere and the two guys that maintain the site have strongly suggested people just wget the parts of the archive they want, or mirroring it if you've got the stuff needed to do it.

>>24079
>>24421
Really not that dumb if you think about. Iris scan is whatever and at least they got paid, people actually PAY to have their DNA uploaded to the FBI database.

>>24421
>>24083
democracy is lovely

>24420
>I wouldn't worry that much, most of this shit will fail to stick, at least outside of the US.

You are either coping or you are just naive. Governments are currently in the process of creating techno-totalitarianism all around the world. From the US, the EU up to China. The dead internet theory is becoming real, it's all happening right now.

lol the "adam ruins everything guy" promoted this shit and got his iris scanned too for a substantial pay check so much for being anti OpenAI

>>24422
>people actually PAY to have their DNA uploaded to the FBI database.
there's something really hitlerian in doing these ancestry tests, so they deserve it anyway

Are the mods afraid of banning stupid shit on tech for fear of being called ignorant?

I don't think this shit can be defeated. Even doing so much as a cash withdrawal adds to your credit profile.

>Cash based transactions are becoming less accepted and every credit card purchase is sold to advertisers (and the feds)
Btw, this happens in plain sight. All your transaction data is sold to credit rating bureaus like TransUnion and Equifax. I'm Indian, and the same happens here. It's worse because here we have a casless payment processing system called UPI, which has gained popularity in recent years. It links directly to your actual bank account too, unlike venmo or paypal that require you to store money in wallets. I've seen alternate data products that scan your SMS history to look for these transactions and create a credit profile based on that. Many banking, insurance and trading platforms integrate these into their applications. So the moment you give them SMS access, they profile you.

You could be a basement dwelling shut-in who never goes outside, but the moment you interact with any banking or insurance systems (which is something everyone has to do) you get profiled. Your transaction and medical history can be used to track you. In fact, in my country it is mandatory for any financial services provider to upload your KYC data to a centralized government database (CERSAI). It's done in the name of fraud prevention, but we all know there are ulterior motives.

All in all, even excluding all the fancy AI-powered surveillance tech available nowadays, governments can still track you. There's no escaping it. Only widespread class-consciousness can make people even start considering this to be important and lay the basis for the collective action needed to counter it. Where I'm at, people literally call you a traitor questioning feds. So yeah, nothing will be happening anytime soon.

>>30001
And basically everything regarding the hype was made up because Sam Altman was panicing and needed to assure the stock holders that they must stick around. That's why he announced AGI, and that's why he announced ASI, and that's why he'll annound AXXLI in the coming months..

Ok

Permaban everyone in this thread

>>29959
came here to say this lolol

i just want the robo proles to kill the bourgeroise