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  • I do think the world would be a better place with substantially less than a billion humans.

    If we somehow found a way to live in harmony and weren’t all competing to own everyone and everything, that kind of world could exist and chinas problems would be fixed with immigration and a partial focus of their economy on taking care of their eldest. Instead I’m sure they want to keep out “foreign ideas” and people who don’t “look right” like basically all nations. Heaven forbid things change or those in power diminish from their absolute control.

    I’m still waiting on that superpower to come along with a live and let live policy. I don’t think it’s possible. Human nature and the drive to compete is too powerful. We want someone “other” to blame and we’re willing to line up behind the ones who will do the dirty work when times get tough. Ours are just too important than “others” and that’s the human problem.


  • It just isn’t enough man. We’re still dependent on a handful of sources for everything. Adblockers break for me practically every single day.

    I don’t have solutions. I just see privacy slipping away at scale and i’m afraid where we will end up in just a few years.

    We can’t opt out of the system either because too much of it is necessary. Can anyone truly say they don’t need google? ever? I stick to stuff like lemmy and I use duck duck go, but I don’t think ddg is permanent.

    Everything just seems aligning for us to have digital IDs and fingerprints that are tracked with metadata and sold freely to any buyer with enough money. Combine that with technologies like flock and all the facial recognition tech everywhere, payment being basically completely digital today and sold/shared to anyone willing to pay… and every move we make is completely tracked and known.

    We’re at a point now where the tech used in The Dark Knight by batman to solve crime at the expense of everyone’s privacy is here, and it’s even worse. Nobody will destroy it because it’s too powerful to make money and crush dissent. With how dire the political situation is and how they are literally telling us now to not believe what we see, instead believe what we say… i’m worried, like so many others are.

    No one person should have as much power as even a billionaire has, and there are so many who have more than that. The only end to tyranny is our lifespans, until that is no longer a limiting factor from technology.



  • This is pretty nihilist to say, but we probably need to stop using what we’re calling the internet today.

    The web is not the innocent platform it once was in the 90s and early 00s. Privacy is practically nonexistent and the workarounds like disabling javascript break so much of it that what’s left is hardly usable.

    There’s no worthwhile alternatives imo. There’s no major competing internetworks or ‘web browsing’ alternatives outside of modern html/css/js… and there really should be.

    The internet evolved towards money making and nobody really stopped and made offshoots that are just cool fun things without the endless goal of capital.




  • A ton of factors have increased energy costs on the web over the years. It’s insignificant per person, but bandwidth is exponentially higher because all websites have miles of crud formatting code nowadays. Memory usage is out of control. Transmission and storage of all the metadata your web browser provides in realtime as you move your mouse around a page is infinitely higher than what we had in the early days of the web.

    The energy cost of ML will reduce as chips progress, but I think the financial reality will come crashing down on the AI industry sooner rather than later and basically keep it out of reach for most people anyway due to cost. I don’t see much of ROI for AI. Right now it’s treated as a capital investment which helps inflate company worth while it lasts, but after a few years the investment is worthless and a giant money sink from energy costs if used.



  • I don’t think so man. They were just started to mass train on SEO in the ad industry 15 years ago. Now it’s practically a household term.

    Google had very different goals and ambitions early on. Things changed. Now they’re like any other giant soulless corpo. Their goal is revenue, which as their platform has grown we’ve seen a metamorphosis from a focus on interesting things to a never ending professional jester troupe on every endpoint still making pennies on the dollar compared to what google earns from advertisers. They’re the middle men and should be making next to nothing since they produce next to nothing of value, but advertising sells.

    Google Search revenue was something like 175bn in 2024. A tiny fraction of that is paid out to websites from clicks. Someone with a proper LLM tuned for SEO can churn out hot garbage nonstop and fill up results in perpetuity with a guaranteed revenue stream far in excess of what is possible as a worker in something in the overwhelming majority of the world. There’s just more garbage than everywhere… and people have found exactly the right formula to rise to the top despite human-useless content. Google doesn’t think of it as a bad thing, 175bn in revenue from search! lol






  • The EU consumer laws you see get wider adoption tend to have copycat versions show up in other regions, usually too many regions to make it worth splitting the codebase.

    GDPR is still basically just EU & California (with it’s specific version that overlaps substantially.) The rest of us are boned.

    Apple’s side loading is just EU as far as I know.

    I know some things have been widespread like USB-C, but those are few and far between… and I still buy devices with microusb and other dumb connectors because of course people are still selling them in brand new products years after the EU ban.