Europe needs to be more forceful against Trump and the United States. The constant appeasement and coddling isn't working.
Ban US social media, tax US products (including software and subscriptions), tell my government that if the want Greenland they should be willing to trade California. I beg you guys, please fucking retaliate against this guy while you still can.
Listen, this is a minor issue, relatively speaking...
But as someone who just spent like $130 on fucking printer ink, I'm curious how much printing out all of those reactions would cost.
I don't think there is much evidence of the Enterprise's computer being used to do much more than provide or process basic information. You basically never see the characters in Star Trek rely on the computer for creativity or solutions at all, from what I remember. On top of that, we don't know how the computer on the Enterprise was created or what the ethical implications of it may be.
Star Trek is a show that delves into ethical dilemmas often, and the problem with today's generative AI is an ethical and legal one, not necessarily a technological one.
Today's generative "AI" is much more like the Borg than Commander Data or the Enterprise-D: it is powered by the forceful assimilation of human culture for the benefit of those that own and control it. We are also quite literally being told (by the stakeholders) that resistance against this new technology is futile and that we must adapt to a new reality in which our work will be assimilated whether we like it or not. There is no consent, let alone compensation. They are simply on a neverending mission to take everything within reach for their own benefit...
ChatGPT No thank you.
Jesus, dude... Their fucking business model is theft and they still can't make a profit...
Lemme go buy some shares right now! 🙄
Proud "no" voter chiming in.
I mean, you can make whatever you want. And I get it, to quote The Clash, I'm pretty bored of the USA too.
Of course, an IP block isn't going to work because an American like myself can just use a VPN in another country to get around it. And yes, the moment you start federating with other instances you're going to come across American stuff again, so unless you isolate your instance (which you could do... but then people are unlikely to join it) you're gonna have to deal with Americans.
With that said, I actually think it's a great idea for people to make regional fediverse servers, not necessarily to block out Americans in an attempt at digital nationalism/isolationalism... But to make sure that the infrastructure of the internet is not so America-centric, and to make it so that there is always a place to talk about local issues and events that matter to you, in your native language.
Even as an American, I feel that right now the internet is far too reliant on American infrastructure, services and communities.
I'd love to see, for example, Japanese lemmy server, an Italian mastodon server, a German peertube server, a Brazilian pixelfed server, a Canadian misskey server, and so on.
I just think that banning Americans and American topics is probably not an effective way to do it, particularly because there are lessons to be learned for us all about what is going on here right now.
I have nothing against showing emotion, but this isn't about me...
I believe that Donald Trump is a bully and strength is the only thing that will dissuade him. He's not a person of empathy who will be moved by a show of human emotions. He's a wanna-be strongman piece of shit who needs to know that Europe is not going to simply sit back and cry in their pillow while he walks all over them.
Trump is laughing at this response from Greenland. It shows that they are prepared to lose.
Maybe!
Or it's possible they didn't like me saying that you can play with a band in just a few weeks of practice. Even though I think you definitely can if you focus on rhythm and moving roots or power chords around.
No more tears. Europe, now its not the time for weakness.
For guitar and bass:
Not really, no. In fact, I feel that free and open source tech is the only means we have of fighting back against big tech corporations and technofeudalism.
I think about the fact that I can use tailscale (or headscale, or even a DIY wireguard mesh network) to create a WAN that allows me to log into my home server and access an entire collection of music, shows, games, utilities and projects that I care about from anywhere in the world and I realize that I actually don't have much use for the "world wide web" anymore outside of work, shopping and social media.
Corporate social media, I should add, is becoming increasingly useless as it fills up with more bots, slop, and unhinged people, making the importance of the fediverse and self-hostable FOSS alternatives that much more important. While it's not always easy to get people to move away from corporate social media, the first step towards a more healthy future for society is, at least, the existence of an alternative.
The web itself is poisoned.
Why do you need "the web" at all? What websites and services are you using on a daily basis?
For me it's mostly the fediverse, a little bit of browsing reddit (i no longer comment or participate), github/gitlab, youtube, youtube music, twitch, amazon and the occasional other online store.
I have a script running on my PC which "backs up" all of my favorite youtube videos and music. I clone interesting repos to my home gitlab. I'm weaning myself off of reddit more and more all the time. I use the *arrs to through a VPN to get access to shows that I want to watch. I play some online games, but mainly ones that work peer-to-peer or have self-hostable servers. Unlike most people, I have basically zero subscriptions.
Reddit is already garbage and gets full of more and more AI slop every day (i really only continue to check it out of addiction/habit, and only to read from a bigger pool of comments when some fucked up shit happens). The minute youtube becomes useless to me for discovering or acquiring new media, I'll be done with it. I only check twitch for the network effect of the few small streamers that I like there, and usually only once a day.
I don't find that I need a lot from the corporate internet anymore.
Browsers are turning into tracking engines.
The great thing about FOSS is that there will always be someone who rips out the AI slop and tracking shit, even if that person ends up being you.
Sites rely on manipulation and dark patterns. Social media is full of misinformation and ragebait.
Stop going to those sites.
It feels exhausting to route around a web that’s already been captured.
The part I don't understand is why you feel that the problems of the WWW are at all relevant to your WAN?
So Facebook, Reddit and Youtube are a disaster... but what implication does that have on your private technology stack?
Why not trade the illusion of digital control for actual peace, get a dumb phone, a CD player, and check out books, movies, music, and games from the library as my entertainment?
Sure why not? Nothing wrong with that...
But why not also take those things from the library, rip them into a digital format, and store them on your server?
The "internet" is certainly in a death spiral. But I'll be fine because I understand that technology isn't the enemy, large corporations are. FOSS technology belongs to the people and we can wield it for our own benefit without any corporate or government gatekeepers other than our ISP (and maybe not even them...).
Just because you can download something does not mean you have the IP rights to do whatever you want with it.
Gotta love how CNN just parrots whatever DHS says happens because they're too lazy, stupid and afraid to do any real reporting.
While it's sad that things have even come to this at all, it's good to hear someone is at least doing the bare minimum to stand up to Trump.
This has all the markings of more VC AI garbage. Hopefully it does pull some users away from Reddit just to break up the centralization a little bit more, but overall I don't see what the appeal is supposed to be.
I'll stick with the fediverse.
Where they are... even more dead?
Between the UK prostrating themselves to Donald Trump while trying to regulate consensual adult sexuality, Denmark rallying the EU to eliminate digital communications privacy, France still arresting people for cannabis, Italy oscillating between incompetent governments every few years, Greece being broke, Hungary being ruled by nazis, etc., I'm not so sure the smug Europeanisms are really warranted anymore.
America is, without a doubt, a fucking mess run by evil fascist idiots. But when it comes to strength, democracy, civil rights, and standing for something, I'm also not overwhelmingly impressed by the leadership I'm seeing elsewhere on Earth.
Some people (particularly terminally stupid people and/or tankie sock puppets) seem to think that being pro-Palestine also means being pro-Hamas, and by the transitive property of Islamic extremist power-brokering, pro-Iran.
Tell me... Did your sense of humor also mysteriously "commit suicide" in prison? 🤔