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    21 hours ago

    not a single mention of how using a “cloud computer” reduces your privacy protections from already pretty shitty down to absolute fucking zero

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    14 hours ago

    Call me paranoid, but:

    What if all this babble about AI is a way to force hardware demand thus prices up, so the average person cannot pay for a half-decent machine?

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        11 hours ago

        Besides flat out refusing their “cloud” services, what else can we [in the short term, without too much co-ordination being necessary; unlike, you know, a revolution] do to foil their plans?

        …actually screw that. We need a revolution. Now. Seize the means of computation.