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The Tech Blog by @FangsRoyale | I believe technology should serve everyday humans and not the capital class | I aspire to be like the socialist anarchist equivalent of Tony Stark and use open source tech as much as possible.

[probablysomethingtm]

Lmao we have to fucking destroy this company are you fucking kidding me with this shit

Google Search as you know it is over | TechCrunch

Google is transforming Search from a list of links into an AI-powered experience filled with conversational answers, autonomous agents, and

[probablysomethingtm]

Remember that xkcd about how Google searches are shit now? What if we made them even worse for no reason?

[probablysomethingtm]

I will vote for any candidate who promises to go scorched fucking earth on every tech company. Break every single one of them up into companies based around a single product and then split those in thirds. Weaponize existing antitrust laws to the hilt and pass the most draconian versions of them ever seen on this planet. Nationalize google search specifically. Pass consumer privacy protections strict enough to kill the data harvesting industry for good. Make all of these fuckers go bankrupt for this rent-seeking shit

[probablysomethingtm]

[naughtypiggy]

Get some Firefox and duck duck go in your life. Get off of Google. Since they took “don’t be evil” out of their mission statement, it has been nothing BUT evil. Fuck them hoes.

[techturnsmagic]

Amen, i have had quite the positive experience with Kagi but it still doesnt sit well with me to have good useful search behind a paywall.

[tardigrade-gaming]

real, rb if you're a d&d enthusiast or sex pervert (or both like a True Linux User)

[techturnsmagic]

Can confirm as both a d&d enthusiast and a pervert.

[techturnsmagic]

God why is it so hard to keep the government out of your tech. System-d is introducing age verification, making a ton of Linux distros comply with authoritarian age verification laws.

But I hear you say, @fangsroyale that’s just to save the children yadayada.

No it is not, no government introducing these kind of draconian laws is caring about kids or many more pdf’s in the Epstein files would have been arrested.

While it seems harmless at first, this is just the first step to a future where even with Linux you’re gonna need to verify with your id card before using your computer. Linking everything you do or search to you, making you a honeypot target for hackers and meaning the end of anonymity or privacy.

I had just gotten used to using Fedora KDE, now im going to have to switch to a project that does have a spine. Thinking of using void Linux or Devuan.

You shouldn’t have to be a tech expert to have basic human privacy but it appears I have to.

[techturnsmagic]

Illinois now also wants age verification on an operating system level. Everyday it becomes more clear that Apple, Microsoft and Google are happily obliging to harvest even more data on people.

Are you going to comply with age verification requirements or switch to Linux?

Yes I need Windows

Yes I need Apple

Yes I don’t mind

I am already using Linux

I am going to switch to Linux

Voting ended onMar 16