RE: https://climatejustice.social/@terminaltilt/115896899179047548

[lily@foothills.social]

RE: https://climatejustice.social/@terminaltilt/115896899179047548

I’m now officially moving from “the cloud is just someone else’s computer“ to “the cloud is just a landlord for your data”

Very poignantly put @terminaltilt

[thomasjwebb@mastodon.social]

@lily this is I think where the important criticism of AI really lies - not a narrow focus on some specific tech, but refusing to budge on the older, more important battle over "the cloud"

[agentultra@types.pl]

@lily The AI model is just your lord that you rent tools to do your computing with.

[superflippy@mastodon.xyz]

@lily @terminaltilt And so we come full circle, back to the “dumb terminal” of the mid 20th century.

[1a1nc@mastodon.online]

@lily @terminaltilt A sh!tty landlord who keeps jacking up the rent, reads all your mail and won't return your furniture and oher posessions when you try ot move out.

[pwloftus@pwl.farted.net]

@lily @terminaltilt HOA fee for my background image!?!

[simonzerafa@infosec.exchange]

@lily @terminaltilt

Can someone within earshot of Jeff please tell him to fuck off with this shit.

[dianea@lgbtqia.space]

@lily @terminaltilt

Don't forget the billionaires will use the cloud to inject CSAM into your documents, like they are doing now

[yop32@defcon.social]

@lily @terminaltilt
That mother fucker can die right now and I would even flinch

[bakachu@infosec.exchange]

@lily @terminaltilt the current consumer RAM and storage shortage is conveniently timed for this too...

[chagrins@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@lily @terminaltilt I think it's hilarious that they are still trying this shit when they haven't fixed or addressed the very fundamental issue at hand.

Internet access. It's not cheap, it's not easy to get, it's not available every where, especially at reasonable speeds and has more outages than there are back orders on insulin!

[holdenweb@freeradical.zone]

@lily @terminaltilt looks like Bexos is eating all the pies now.

[thedailyburble@mastodon.social]

@lily @terminaltilt
Good luck with that. People can computer with 2 strings and a bit of sticky tape if they want to (yes I exaggerate hugely). The fundamentals are known. Mostly computing got physically smaller, which then allowed for more bloat. But a logic gate is a logic gate, even if you make it out of matchsticks, or bottletops or whatever.

[ppb1701@ppb.social]

@lily @terminaltilt Yes that's where it's moving towards. Apple and amazon both want you to use their cloud, hough microsoft has went further to make it default for everything, even your login. As amazon has big cloud business....I'm sure Bezos is all for it. I recently moved my cloud to self hosted nextcloud. I do still have icloud...but that is more i device convenience on some files and Apple one for my wife and I to stream apple music and few other things it provides.

[riswey@mastodon.social]

@lily @terminaltilt

[riswey@mastodon.social]

@lily @terminaltilt

Nothing ever changes. In feudal times you gave 50% of your produce to the land lord.. essentially you had a land subscription to the land owner. The rich will always make their power work one way or the other to extracting wealth from the poor.

[drwho@masto.hackers.town]

@superflippy @lily The industry has always moved in cycles. This is the latest one.

[drwho@masto.hackers.town]

@Chagrins @lily That's a determining function for them. Either you figure out how to get access or you're not worth taking money from.

[drwho@masto.hackers.town]

@bakachu @lily Almost like it's the second phase of trying to kill general purpose computing or something...

[n_dimension@infosec.exchange]

@lily @terminaltilt

EVERY DATA CENTRE IS A US MILITARY BASE!