You’re just using different words to describe wage-labour.

Let me dust off some British journals where governors debate how many women are needed to be sent to colonies to maintain order.

People are goldfish in your reality?

Colonize Australia

Take all the economically-productive land

Convicts then steal land from the “Crown”

National economy now based on baby-boomers swapping land-titles with one another

Gina owns the majority of land in Australia for some reason. Oink oink

Now you have to work harder and longer for scraps whilst giving the lion’s share of your income to remote-landlords to materialize ever-increasing ‘valuations’. Tell your landlord to get a job. If they refuse hang them.

YaCy isn’t just a peer-to-peer search-engine, it can be run as a non-connected private node as well. The operator decides whether they want to contribute to the larger peer-to-peer network, a private network or as a lone-node as a personal search-engine. However, any search-engine will struggle on lackluster hardware.

Buy a used Pixel and install GrapheneOS. Literally couldn’t be any easier. If you use Google services other than Android it’s a simple matter of well… not using them. It’s not tricky or difficult. No guidance is needed. If they want to do it they will. These sort of posts usually come from people who aren’t genuine. They’re aware of something that makes them uncomfortable about Google (an American surveillance-corporation drenched in blood), but they don’t know how to use computers because the state failed to provide a proper technical education. If they don’t have the motivation it’s pointless. No matter what you say or what you do you’ll always get the same response: it’s different; it’s too hard; but on Google you just did this; blah blah blah.

Their whole framing isn’t grounded in reality. It’s looking at a computer from a consumer point of view: Google does all those things that free-software could do, but it does it better and more! Why would anyone use free-software? They can’t even sell it it’s that bad! No one’s paying people to repackage free-software into a consumer-friendly commodity. There’s a reason why free-software fails in a capitalist-market as a consumer commodity. No one’s buying it. It’s free. Without the influx of capital from sales there’s no capital for marketing.

What ever changes happen usually aren’t worthwhile or they think they’re doing something, but don’t do anything at all. “I removed/don’t use any Google apps on my Google Android.” Ok… you accomplished nothing. Glad you felt like you did something though.

Every other day! I just can’t help myself! A new model is released and the hype machine starts up; updates are released to downgrade performance on older models–I just wag my tail non-stop! It’s so exciting! Those flashy lights and colours! Ooooo! This money belongs in their wallets and everyone’s going to get a hold them! And I tell myself pathetic lies: oh, the battery can’t be replaced… if only it had screws… it’s way too hard to heart up glue and put a new battery in. Besides–all my friends are going into debt too! Plus those new features: it can make phone calls and text! Look! E-mail access too!

But at what cost?

The rust has set in and the rot begins…

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A static image doesn’t bypass this. Vendors want a real-time selfie–access to a internet-connected camera responding to prompts in real-time, such as “turn your head to the right,” or “open and close your mouth”. It would be trivial on a libre-system to send it a simulated-feed of a puppet-ed prop in such a way that would be indistinguishable from a real human head–if you had capable hardware. This is what intelligence agencies do now, but it’s possible on high-end consumer hardware too. For the modest computer user it would be viable to feed it a simplified–but still meeting the criteria of a “face” as deemed by the computer–puppet, akin to what vtubers use. That’s on a libre-system. A system that obeys the user and that can not be tolerated, because users lie.

They give you a QR code to scan with a mobile-computer, because mobile-computers are the least free of all computers. The majority of mobile-computers are Google’s Android mobile-computer. Google redirects you to a computer that is entirely controlled by… Google. Surprise!

The boot-licking continues. This isn’t something forced on Google by authoritarian, nanny-state governments. This is Google’s will. Google is an authoritarian corporation that profits via surveillance-capitalism. Keep licking their boots and defending them. How dumb can you be?

Google wants to verify your ID.

Google redirects you to a Google Android slave-computer via a QR code, precisely because there’s too much freedom on traditional desktop-computers and outputs can be trivially simulated.

Oh, poor Google for…

…what? Collecting even more data about internet users? This is their bread and butter: surveillance-capitalism.

The unique thing about the Australian-context is that the liberal party began a project: to create a facial-recognition system that would underpin a virtual market of “identity providers”. From my perspective this is fraud, because underneath each identity provider was this governmental-department that would send a “yes” or “no” in response to a query: does this face belong to Johe Bloe. Their system doesn’t even deserve a critique because it’s from the party of blatant grifters and looters, but it’s now what we have and things don’t just disappear, especially when it’s a system that’s been in the works for decades and with bipartisan ‘support’.

Google is an upstanding corporate-citizen providing identity services in a free-market. It’s just capitalism, folks.

Like usual the morons will loudly blame Labor when the fruits of the liberal party turn rotten. The wider, global context is rising fascism which creates an environment where obeying remote prompts to wiggle your tongue and open and close your mouth is deemed ‘expected’ behaviour when all you want to do is watch cat videos on the internet.

Liberate your computers. Hack your mobile-computers and send dummie feeds. It only gets harder from here on. Push back now. It’s rather easy too: don’t use Google. Actively avoid it.

Matrix was always a terrible protocol made by Zionists to embed themselves into government and corporate channels whilst posturing itself as ‘secure’ and independent (self-hosted). Critics said over and over: it’s shit. Now those duped are getting defensive. Good ploy mossad. Overall it’s been very effective.

This isn’t support for Signal either. It’s shit too.

The problem is users. Always has been.

Correct. Let’s now have ourselves a chicken dinner winner.

Shift the conversation towards autonomy, dignity and self-respect.

The user’s interaction with the-billion-dollar-company’s software is unpaid labour, which is why they profit and the user suffers. They suffer from having their data stolen; they suffer the expenses fostered on to them; they pay for the computers that spy on them; they pay for the electricity to run the spyware; they pay for the data-subscriptions that facilitate the theft of their data. They cover all the expenses of a billion-dollar-company and are deprived of any profit. They do not even garner a wage.

If one wishes to move towards the point of “my data is worthless” point out the company’s profits or even its speculative valuations. Clearly it’s not worthless. The products that are derived from their exploitation lead to even greater profits for those companies. “A.I.” is a looting of the collective commons. A privatization of humanity’s interaction with computers.

Do they like being exploited? Do they like their batteries draining faster, because their mobile-computer is running software to spy on them? Do they like running out of data because their mobile-computer is forcefully downloading ads and spyware-updates? Do they like ads? Do they like being interrupted by the highest bidder? Do they like annoying notifications that are just ads? Do they like this shitty experience? Are they complete docile slaves? They are less than wage-slaves for they do not even garner a wage! Have some self-respect and dignity!

Is this a human thing, or a ADHD thing? I feel like I get trapped. I can’t just go in and out. Zone out. Ok, I’ll get out… ok, in a minute. Ok I should get out now. No? Ok soon… Any moment now…

I have not heard one good thing about India. Please share. As far as I can tell only China has blossomed and it’s incredibly striking. India? … I guess capitalism just doesn’t work. Let’s check back in maybe… 100 years? How long does it take for a capitalist nation to build itself up? 500 years?

Everything’s wrong on your list my dude.

We were all panicking a bit about this one. Glad it turned out to be nonsense. Full steam ahead–er… full oil burn everything!

It must be stated: Google is malicious! The language used here and elsewhere conceals the fact that: a) Google is a for-profit company with no morals (they work with militaries and surveillance-agencies to kill); b) they operate in a monopolistic manner; c) they’re eroding control of your personal-property.

This is just another move by Google to consolidate control over the AOSP. It doesn’t matter that this convoluted sequence can temporarily ‘bypass’ Google’s wishes–in fact I would state this is clearly worse. Removing the ability to install non-Google-endorsed software on your own private-property could be illegal. This is perhaps the only thing they could do to prevent lawsuits, only they’ve made it so asininely convoluted that only 0.01% will actually complete the process that it should be illegal monopolistic behaviour. American courts have absolutely failed everyone by allowing this rampant malicious behaviour to be the norm in American-software.

Google’s Android already created friction for installing software outside their ecosystem. There is no justification for this behaviour. It cannot be defended. Stop following their market-speak. This is belligerent and malicious behaviour!

To put a finer point on this: Google is charging a recurring fee to anyone who wants to distribute software to phones–Android-phones. If you have a need to distribute software to your organisation’s mobile-computers you now need to pay a recurring fee to Google, or… jump on one foot, spin around, touch the ground and hope Google doesn’t bully you further. Oh, and you have to do this dance personally for all 438 mobile-computers you manage. The absurdity of the situation is appalling! The fact you have users defending–and that is what these sort of responses are doing: defending one of the most profitable companies in existence–“oh, just do the dance now so it won’t inconvenience you later”.

The “escape hatch” is down that corridor, to the left, left, right, left, left, up, right & behind the book-case; take the stairs up, down five flights; depart at Washington D.C. and on arrival you’ll see a button. Press it. It might not do anything.

–Google

Is there actual evidence that CBT actually works? It’s always thrown out there as something that helps, but it doesn’t. It doesn’t work.

However, he noted that the US government and intelligence apparatus have “not been organised for espionage to gather technological secrets for decades”.

So… what has it been doing the past few decades?