Yeah this feels very much like, “censor content, but don’t change Meta’s practices”

Which begs the question, does the author know what they’re cheering for?

Jesus Christ dude. I’m talking about how you are immediately hostile to everyone in this thread. Get over yourself.

No, I focus on that because it’s real. It sounds like you don’t get out much, just judging by how you talk to people. So let me lay it out for you. People are resistant to change and you have to convince them. You aren’t good at that, which is why you’re so mad. I’m trying to get information to help convince people I know and love, which is why I’m asking for more information from the person who seems to know a lot. However you also seem to be bad at providing resources to back your claims up.

We already know it’s a honeypot

Oh?

Signal is the only way I’ve been able to get my friends and family onto an E2E messaging app. Before this, they were all using SMS and WhatsApp. Signal is how we survived ICE in Minneapolis and organized to stop a bunch of jackbooted fascists from kidnapping all of our neighbors and deporting them to unknown countries. I have a lot of respect for the folks at Signal as a result.

I get that you all are on better platforms or whatever, but I don’t appreciate the dismissive shit that I’m seeing in these replies. Especially when it’s about one of the first privacy-oriented apps that normies get started with. You have some information about Signal that shows it’s shitty or a honeypot? Great, then post it. I’d genuinely love to see it (and not in a “post it so I can argue with you like an annoying redditor” kinda way). But this shit about high salaries at a non profit is not convincing to me and none of your replies here are doing your cause any service.

I’m really trying hard to see the point that’s being made. Is it just the “high” salaries, or is there some other implication? The OP seems to be insinuating that Signal is a honeypot or something. I am going to need a lot more proof than, “hey, these guys work at a non-profit and they aren’t underpaid!” Given that most tech jobs offer stock options in addition to normal salary, it would make sense that base salary should be higher at a non-profit (where stock options don’t exist). Their salary structure also seems much flatter than other non-profits that I saw within the propublica link.

What am I missing here?

And yet so many people have a hard time acknowledging it.

To be fair to Cash for Clunkers, the intent was to get people on better gas efficiency cars, not to downgrade people to worse cars.

I was a supporter of the program at the time and agreed with that intent. However, In retrospect it was more of a handout to the auto industry. And whether intended or not, it hurt the used car market and got people to abandon very reliable (and more importantly, easily self repairable) cars that were built in the 90s.

2008 was right around the time when automakers started adding more tech to cars. So that’s where my suspicions about surveilance comes in. In fact, an infamous vulnerability, which can be used to uniquely identify vehicles, was introduced into most US vehicles made after 2008.

So this is my understanding:

• Microsoft is moving to a subscription model OS
• new tpm requirement
• hardware is sold out and/or 3x more expensive because of Sam Altman
• Microsoft is leaning into thin clients

I see people celebrating this “stupid decision” by Microsoft and saying that it’s the year of the Linux desktop. Honestly, I’d love that outcome.

But what if Microsoft is willing to destroy Windows right before the AI bubble pops, shift the entire industry away from consumer parts, get people to throw all their old devices in a landfill, and then recoup their losses when Trump inevitably bails out the industry?

I always think about how Obama’s Cash for Clunkers got people to trade in their old, reliable cars for arguably shittier new cars with built-in Surveillance capabilities and planned obsolescence. It ended up ruining the used car market too. I wonder if we will see something like that for AI. “Trade in your pc for a free year of windows 12 and a new pc (thin client) to run it”

My SO works at a callcenter and they get dinged for the use of what they call “tragic phrases.” These include, but aren’t limited to:

• “Unfortunately”
• Words/phrases that imply uncertainty like “should”
• Words/phrases that imply non-commitment like “I can’t do that” or “that’s against policy” or “that’s not my dept”
• So-called sloppy words/phrases like “No problem” or “hold on just a sec”

Its fucking ridiculous. They pay some outside vendor for training and guidelines.

Yeah, I personally wouldn’t be announcing this failure to the world if I were in her position. I don’t think you could torture it out of me lmao

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Fun fact: X is ASCII representation for the decimal 88, which is Nazi code for Heil Hitler. Dunno if that is what motivates him to name things like that, but he IS a descendant of grandparents who belonged to the Canadian Nazi party. They moved to Apartheid South Africa because Nazism became too taboo in Canada. So, it seems a likely possibility to me.

Even if this thing was left on a single city block for 8 hours with its door open, the data it collects about nearby cars, Bluetooth devices, phones, WiFi SSIDs, recorded video/audio, etc. makes it worth it for alphabet, I imagine.

Not to go all conspiracy-nut, but it feels like the net (at least the social spaces) is decaying, and it feels intentional / coordinated.

At this point, I don’t think it’s conspiracy-nut to say this. We have a group of tech oligarchs in the US who are openly collaborating with a fascist administration. It is a conspiracy and this kinda shit is the result.

Yeah, my group of friends will be very resistant to moving away from discord. They’re all aware of the issues with it, but It’s too convenient of a platform. Personally, I will give up most of the comforts to not be under the thumb of a corporation, but I’m an outlier in my friend group with that perspective.

Deport anyone they feel like. Blame the app and “AI” when the damage is done.

Yeah I really think this administration trying to muddy the water by “accidentally” fucking everything up with the release. Weaponized Incompetence.

• We have Steve Bannon suggesting that Trump send ICE to polling locations on election day .
• ICE is currently purchasing large warehouses across the United States so they have more capacity to jail people.
• ICE is now one of the most funded military orgs in the world.
• Trump issued NPSM-7, which lists a bunch of ordinary things as terrorist activities
• ICE agents have started following activists to their homes and intimidating them

So…

What, everyone?

Yes. He will keep broadening the definition of “terrorist” and narrowing the definition of “citizen.” Not saying it will work, but I believe he will try. I think there’s plenty of evidence showing that it’s a real threat.

To track, intimidate and eventually disappear activists I imagine