I don’t know if you understand what military funded means… It’s basically the military paying these guys to make something they can use in the military.
There is no doubt in my mind at least that all cute robots, useful AI, and other new things are just the public tip of the iceberg kind of a thing, to make people think it’s something positive and not be afraid.
The most advanced things will be used by law enforcement and military to control and monitor the populations in secret.
So while I like tech, I’m also convinced that humans are going to use it to make the planet horrible to live on, to the degree that “don’t get children” is the best advice ever.
It is crazy to pay these companies who are already run by billionaries and are already owning the largest sites on the internet.
It’s like people don’t take that into account. Who are we paying? It’s kind of important. I pay smaller companies for email and search because they are not cancers on the internet.
Do you want internet to be like cable TV with 10 massive internet sites that all require paying and all are owned by the same corporations? If not, stop supporting them.
Yeah many people say that but Ubuntu is not very good in my opinion. Outdated packages, snaps, commercials in the installer and so on. I would pick PopOS any day over that myself. But it’s because I’m really sensitive to those things.
It really is the best system for new people using Linux. Everything is so smooth and nice. Looking forward to the new cosmos desktop that is coming. :)
I’ve realized that most users actually don’t care about anything. No moral values in their tech choices, no interest in which company is behind their tech. No objections if Microsoft takes over their computer.
It doesn’t really matter what they use. As long as it’s open source and decentralized, avoiding big tech running the servers, it’s a huge win.
There is no peaceful existence with big tech when it comes to this. They will turn it into ads and tracking and that’s not compatible with the moral values of the open source community.
All instances using federation are publicly visible and it’s simple to script attacking all of us.
However it’s even easier to just attack Lemmy.world since almost everyone is there and it will have maximum disruption on everyone. People have centralized on one server. :)
But it’s just some denial of service attacks right now. Eventually they probably get tired of it too. There is no point to it really.