The domestic response Donald Trump’s destruction of all of our alliances are giving these other countries the backbone to do the kinds of regulations that bribery have kept away from American tech companies.

Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, X, should be next.

Why is an online book retailer operating datacenters? How is a search engine 90% of the digital advertising market?

Monopoly powers and corruption, that’s how.

A thing broke, yay

e: Ahem, I mean: A thing broke

yay

I’m sorry that you read that as an actual literal argument instead of a satire comment

In the same spirit of pointless gatekeeping.

You only pressed the buttons. That’s hardly any of the work required for your text to show up on all of our computers.

You didn’t translate the pulses from your key switches into USB signals, or write the kernel code which translated those inputs into scancodes, or write the browser code which displayed the form box that packaged your text into an HTTP POST request. None of your work went into the firmware on the routers which carried your data and you didn’t do a bit of work burying the cables between those routers.

I haven’t check but I’m pretty sure you’re not a datacenter employee in Finland so you don’t contribute to the labor required to manage the servers, you probably don’t contribute to the Lemmy project or Mozilla/Chromium projects.

Your post is the result of a huge amount of tools, services in infrastructure that you had no hand in inventing, deploying or maintaining.

All you did was provide a few grams of force to some thermoplastic and sparked a few neurons.

All of your interaction with technology is mediated by other technology.

We all understand that when we say ‘I went on the Internet’ we’re not picturing a person, with no technological assistance whatsoever, inducing current into a wire in encoded pulses according to IEEE 802.3 and scratching the resulting HTML in the dirt with a stick.

So, when someone comes along and says ‘Well, actually, you didn’t do anything because YOUR BROWSER went on the Internet.’ it isn’t actually describing a difference.

Here, the comment isn’t making any argument on why this differentiation matters. It’s just changing the framing to bait anti-AI engagement.

They likely also used other technology, like an IDE, syntax highlighting, auto completion, a linter, git, a programming language that they didn’t invent themselves, libraries made by others… etc.

Implying ‘if they use x tool’ then they didn’t build it is pointless gatekeeping that doesn’t add anything to the discussion except create an on-ramp for more anti-ai bot content.

It’s over 50,000!

Did they build it though? Sounds like vibe-coding to me

Did you type that sentence though? It looks like keyboard manipulation to me

On one hand you have a soul sucking corporation who’s purpose in life is to profit off of the work of musicians and on the other side you have an AI company.

Sony isn’t doing this to help artists, they’re doing this so that they can demand more rent.

Stealing them is felony grand theft.

Vandalizing them is a misdemeanor (typically, check your local laws and also don’t do crimes).

If they were all stolen, it’s an easy PR ‘woe is us, think of the children’ win for Flock.

If there’s a bunch of social media posts that are showing chopped down flock cameras just laying on the side of the road then it has better optics from the point of view of ‘We don’t want country-wide surveillance networks’.

I think this, and other heavily distorted topics are the motivation for the push for Internet ident measures among all of the major powers. There’s no way to separate the signal from the noise at scale when all of the socials help obfuscate the sources and there are no AESMs for this kind of jamming.

From the article:

There is consensus to immediately deprecate archive.today, and, as soon as practicable, add it to the spam blacklist (or create an edit filter that blocks adding new links) and remove all links to it. There is a strong consensus that Wikipedia should not direct its readers towards a website that hijacks users’ computers to run a DDoS attack (see [WP:ELNO#3]). Additionally, evidence has been presented that archive.today’s operators have altered the content of archived pages, rendering it unreliable.

Evidence was presented here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_comment/Archive.is_RFC_5#Evidence_of_altering_snapshots

It’ll probably look like the electric kettle market. Where you can buy 11,000 different brands on Amazon for barely more than material costs.

There’s nothing rare about RAM other than the ability to do high resolution lithography, China is more than capable of mass producing this just like any other product.

US Tech companies have relied on their monopoly status to charge whatever prices they would like. There is a HUUUUGE amount of room between the material costs and the wholesale price and any Econ 101 student will tell you that this creates fertile ground for new competition.

Even selling RAM at half price, they’re still earning nearly 2x pre-AI RAM prices. That’s way more than enough to grown a company.

This is too many dependent probabilities

Finally, we can have sci-fi future that is just weird, rather than dystopian.

The Venn of people who would get that joke is ||

What if the thing that you want is to have SecureBoot-enforced hardware attestation?

Vibe coders did nothing wrong.

I wouldn’t be so angry if we weren’t actually giving them money.

Don’t sell yourself short. I have a feeling that you’d find another way to be angry

An archive site that alters content in the archive is worse than worthless.

The DDoS is just confirmation that the site is actively harmful.