As a historian, I’ve studied the major consumer boycotts of history. We can take down ChatGPT and send a powerful signal to Silicon Valley, says author and historian Rutger Bregman

  • Aproposnix@scribe.disroot.org
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    11 hours ago

    Its a major opportunity for the FOSS community. We need to step up.

    Proprietary tech does completely suck though. Its all driven by capital.

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      10 hours ago

      Hardware is going to move to streaming. They want your hardware in a server farm and they eventually won’t let people buy hardware. That’s the future.

      It’s coming…

      The time for people to be going all out with anger was probably 2001. They basically already won and are in complete control of America in an evil way. Including the FBI and military.

      I don’t understand why people (myself included) are still participating in their games and culture. We are cogs in their evil machine.

      It’s blatantly obvious it’s over already.

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        I dropped out and plan on dropping out further, not rich but I did at least make some money out of this shit system but I am done done, I’ll work but not for these pedophiles

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          9 hours ago

          Never too late. the idea that it’s past time only benefits the big tech

          We can stop using their services, move to open source, stay with older hardware (so that they don’t get money from us) and promote the few open hardware projects

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          10 hours ago

          Exactly what I was thinking. If I were to be angry enough about this when it actually mattered and I could have steered the boat, I was way too young too even see that it was happening.

          Not to say I don’t actively pursue and promote OSS all the time, but I feel like the impact is so much more minimal than it could have been.