@fixatedpersonsunit
spot on… and only serves to confirms #TechBro manigance.
@fixatedpersonsunit
spot on… and only serves to confirms #TechBro manigance.
@emmadavidson
I run Mint on an old laptop as a second computer that I can jump onto when my microsoft machine eventually stops working with that OS. I also use it as a linux training tool (tinkering with Wine64 atm). So far, I’m very happy with the Linux Mint distro.
Getting free of #TechBro software is an ongoing tasks. I am a few days away from migrating my blog away from WordPress and onto @shlee ‘s enhance.net. Still have a Gmail account I need to get out of - that‘s ongoing too。
So much fun…
Oh, look! Yet another tech bro thinks he's the first to discover Invertible Bloom Filters! Get ready to be dazzled by the 'Eureka!' moment of applying #XOR to billions of rows, like it's the new sliced bread.
https://nochlin.com/blog/extending-that-xor-trick #techbro #eureka #invertiblebloomfilters #innovation #humor #HackerNews #ngated
Omfg I couldn't even get to the midway point of this article before I had so much vomit in my mouth I had to bail. Jmfc. I've got vertigo from all the tech bro horse shit. Please end either me or that shit.
#AI #Perplexity #TechBro
@theverge https://flipboard.com/@theverge/the-verge-5hobbaa8z/-/a-V_JSVhOjRwuMh8jtBvpsKA%3Aa%3A43611565-%2F0
AI tools are already helping marginalized communities daily - translations, image descriptions, text simplification.
You can/should hate Big Tech AND acknowledge these benefits exist.
Ah, yes, another tech bro's fever dream of sentient TPS reports . Apparently, we're all just one GitHub Copilot away from #Skynet, but don't worry—there's an "Advanced Security" feature to protect us from our own bad decisions
. Just remember to toggle that navigation menu before the #AI takes control of your sandwich maker.
https://github.com/iteebz/cogency #techbro #dreams #safety #GitHubCopilot #sentientreports #HackerNews #ngated
Behold, another tech bro attempts to save us from subscription hell by crafting yet another groundbreaking chat app! Because who doesn’t want a janky, one-size-fits-all solution for their AI needs?
https://prismharmony.com/chat #techbro #innovation #chatapp #subscriptionhell #AIneeds #jankysolutions #HackerNews #ngated
Most of them remember that one, @bram, but they fail to consider that “the default” is often itself garbage.
Too many implementors, whether #techbro or not, will unthinkingly decide “I don't want to make a political decision so I'll go with the default from my culture”. My nerd friends, *that is a political decision*.
Almost 600 people have signed an open letter to...Sequoia Capital after one of its partners, Shaun Maguire, posted [blatantly racist crap] against the Muslim Democratic mayoral candidate in New York City.
Maguire, a vocal supporter of President Donald Trump, posted on X over the weekend that Zohran Mamdani, who won the Democratic primary last month, “comes from a culture that lies about everything” and is out to advance “his Islamist agenda.”
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/07/founders-sign-letter-to-sequoia-on-shaun-maguires-mamdani-remarks.html #nyc #techbro
#Telegram-#Gründer #PavelDurov ist selber manchmal ganz schön #bizarr.
Beschwert sich über die negative französische #Berichterstattung (#LeMonde); gibt aber gleichzeitig dem grössten schwurbelnden #Nichtjournalisten des Planeten ein #Exklusiv-#Interview. So fällt es allen ziemlich schwer, den ansonsten charismatischen #TechBro ernstzunehmen. Dann prahl lieber weiter mit deinen Erfolgen, Pavel !
Good news! You can instead use our Windoze ystem which, granted, will throw ads at you every 15 seconds, oh and send all your details to a gazillion advertisers, and also won't run on any older hardware, but at least you don't need to know anything useful.
You know what, seriously, I'm done with the tech community rn.
Tech community be like:
"Oh you want to drive a pretty car? Well first you need to go to engineering school to learn how to design engines, we provide the vehicular frame but you have to build your own engine. Oh but painting your car is easy, you just have to know how to create paint from scratch. No we don't just use standard vehicle paint, we created a special type and only it stick to our car. Oh and don't forget that you have to design seats too, that's an entirely different tutorial, written by Sumerian monks! It's 80 percent out of date but you'll be fine.
Ugh. Sorry. But its not only AI killing the Internet, its this nonsense.
Are you still on #Spotify?
Spotify’s CEO Daniel Ek has raised €600M for his new startup, which is developing AI TECH FOR WAR. Ek still owns 9% of Spotify, but has 37% voting control. His net worth went from $2.5B to $10B in the last two years alone, on the back of paying musicians a pittance in royalties.
And don’t forget:
• Spotify spent $250M of your subscription dollars to invite Joe Rogan to spew his disinformation on their platform.
• They’re still trying to embrace and extinguish Podcasts.
• They’re developing in-house, AI-generated “music” so users will play them (royalty-free) instead of music created by humans (who demand royalty).
And now, he’s using his wealth, created by your subscriptions, to fund tech that will use AI to literally murder humans in war.
Stop funding him. Quit Spotify now.
#QuitSpotify #music #ai #militaryTech #techbro
“Spotify’s CEO invests $1 billion into an AI military start-up — and musicians are fuming”
via Krebs
https://infosec.exchange/@briankrebs/114777986932318938
a post from the other #techbro blue check site, a post AJ Sadauskas:
❝ For anyone wondering why #gravy has been trending: AI hucksters are trawling through your social media posts for training data and trends.
And you know what can gum up the gears of an automated sentence generator?
Posts that use the word gravy out of context.❞
Tech Bros weren't drafted into the fascist coup, they volunteered.
Delete windows, get a non google, non apple phone, drop twitter, delete Facebook, install linux, use blockers.
You may have ignored tech bro spying and control before, but now your life and family and country is at stake.
A great argument for setting aside our preconceived notions about AI.
#climateChange #ai #creativity #writing #technology #photography #video #techBro
https://itsblueturn.com/defund_broligarchy/
Some good tips here on how to hit the #techbro #broligarchy where it hurts them: in the wallet (by starving them of their raw material - your data)
We also inform about this on our nonprofit site: https://www.rebeltechalliance.org/
#privacy #surveillancecapitalism
This year is the countdown to coming off #bigtech. Follow and promote #Deadline2025 and #BigTechWalkout2025
We rightfully revile Silicon Valley style techbroism as we take moral higher standpoints, stick to our values.
Yet in our total rejection of #techbro culture, do we fail to learn from it? SV outperforms #FOSS under #hypercapitalism. #BigTech is winning. We must improve our fitness formula to catch up.
Is where SV #culture differs that folks from across the globe totally dare to unleash creativity? While fedi sees ideas usually followed with techies-impl-talk?