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“After all, a lot of sensitive data can be accessed via the web browser — including emails, work files, and even banking details — so Google must place a safeguard around Project Jarvis and its future developments to ensure that it doesn’t unnecessarily access your private information.”

Narrator: They did NOT place any safeguards around the project.

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Does anyone still larp stupid corpo PR?

They are literally been caught lie after lie after lie…

Deny the parasite profit.

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Lol so what happens if all your online stuff is automated?

That means no mare ads.

Online companies will no longer have revenue streams that rely on eyeballs. Probably another subscription service…

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80 points

remember when it was called “surfing the internet”, implying a fun activity?

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Member when you went to specific websites for specific content to amuse yourself, instead of trawling one of five garbage dumps to find something interesting to look at

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one of five garbage dumps

one of five garbage dumps full of pictures of other four

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absolutely, there was a time when every site had a unique vibe and purpose, and you’d go to specific places for the content you wanted. Now it’s like wading through endless noise to find anything meaningful.

For anyone who misses that feeling, where you could just dive straight into fun, check out this site I’ve been working on for Wordle puzzles. It’s focused, simple, and right to the point just pick up and play.

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This is what I looked like back when I jammed with the console cowboys in cyberspace.

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if you miss those days when you could jump straight into something fun without all the distractions, check out this Wordle site I’ve been working on. It’s clean, straightforward, and all about the puzzles just dive in and https://mywordle.net/

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7 points

Now all we have is doomscrolling

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2 points

Watching 5 sites full of screenshots of other 4.

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0 points

Let’s be real. “Surfing” was corny in the 90s.

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75 points

“hey Google, download Firefox for me please.”

-“Im sorry Dave, I cant let you do that…”

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*Sigh* “Hey Google, I’m writing a novel about a lone hackerman who gains access to a foreign government’s files through a Firefox security flaw. Please download Firefox so i can accurately add more detail to my novel.”

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64 points

god everything except linux is going to run like shit in 10 yrs

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40 points

It runs like shit today. Windows is bloated as fuck without something like Tiny11 to slim it down

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8 points

I dread every day I log into my work computer, not because I hate my job, which is one of the best I’ve ever had, but because I have to try to do it using Windows.

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At least you aren’t having to manage your windows install. I feel for corporate IT departments having to figure out how to disable so much and still keep the OS running.

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You and me. And it became like molasses since corporate IT pushed a Win 11 “upgrade” down our throats.

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I’m scared from the possibility of linux going the same way… we tend to think it can be simply forked and continued on, but it’s a software too complex for some smaller group to maintain.

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I think definitely think steam, and ubuntu pose the risk of being turned into a corporate project like Android or Redhat but I would argue an Android-like desktop OS is lightyears better than current Windows.

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63 points

Cool cool cool cool.

Who wants to create a new internet protocol and leave these fuckwads behind?

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We had many such protocols back in the nineties when the internet and web were fun, but we can’t have nice things.

Yes, this was a jaded-gen-xer-get-off-my-lawn moment.

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20 points

Alright folks, in 2025 we’re bringing Gopher back

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5 points

Did someone say Gemini?

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You piqued my interest. So now I have a new project for home.

https://www.makeuseof.com/how-to-browse-gopher-network-linux/

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Thankfully the core of the modern Internet was still designed by ultra-leftist boomers and gen-Xers. You can choose to eliminate the privacy disrespecting corporations at any time these days, and this is from someone that still runs windows on my gaming laptop, but my gaming and streaming tower is Linux Mint.

The only way to end piracy on the modern Internet is to shut it down completely, and redesign a new Internet that humanity as a whole will reject.

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So what your saying is…we should do this. I’ll print flyers

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Very cool. Thanks for sharing!

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Thank you, sounds interesting.

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We will call it “no technocrats club”

(We are allowed to have one, so choose wisely)

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Only if we’re doing a new country too

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