A state that should have been obvious to everyone FFS. The cameras are pointed at neighbourhoods, the audio is poly directional, which includes inside the home, and are hooked up to wifi to transmit the data. We have facial recognition, speech recognition, even gait recognition, AI object identification, license plate readers, audio filtering, all automated and analysed for review and every smart device has cameras and microphones.

Yall are fucking morons for embracing all this shit and normalizing a surveillance state that none of us have any control of and doesn’t benefit society at all. It’s been a slow moving car accident for 20 years that the masses are too fucking stupid and too arrogant to see until the wreck happens.

Has Spotify had any new code written?

Do we only care while they do it or can we manage to care that they would do it?

Why anyone ever thinks empowering psychopathic companies is ever a good idea is beyond me. They ALWAYS fuck us over. Every damn time.

Advertising is a threat to your resources.

They’re stealing the power of information for themselves and kicking us back to manual labour jobs, until they steal that with robots too and we have zero means of engaging with the economy that controls all the world resources, so we just end up dying off, leaving them with the whole fucking planet to themselves.

Then you have to fight for it.

I have pointed it out and the response is hostile immediately. Midlife crisis is something men have and society criticises them for.

Yeah, those nobles also owned humans so like, not really representative of most of the population of Greece, probably.

Yeah, brought about by the invention of procreation, which is a very recent phenomenon.

But why? And why now? Why do they even care about vpns and ages l *all of a sudden *? What are they up to!?

Only women call it a midlife crisis and they only say it about men.

The government is run by incompetent but power hungry cretins who have been convinced by the techbros that LLMs can finally make them competent at being in charge, making them grossly over confident in their capabilities.

Edit. Cretins

Also, the salesman and marketing bullshit around LLMs has fooled those people into believing that LLMs are actually capable of letting them run things competently.

Its still unclear to me why all these countries are attempting this legislation at the same time.

You should always assume that if a way to lie to you exists, politicians and marketing will use it to lie to you. I don’t understand why people give them chance after chance to find a lie that works by exposing their eyes and ears to those attempts. You realize they would be content to enslave you, right? We didn’t ‘solve’ slavery for all time, just until they figure out how to enslave us again.

Like the psychopath he is.

But they have been paid off to kill vpns so…

So techbros can seize control over the last strongholds of independence and anonymity on the net. Then we have no choice but to use it how they want or not at all. The immense power of computing and the internet ripped out of the hands of the public, access sold to approved users and restricted to approved uses.

They don’t have to know, they just have to trade favours.

Decades passed and its not even remotely true anymore? Never really was tbh. Anonymity on the net is on its last legs thanks to adoption by the masse show need training wheels and rubber corners and a fence to not hurt themselves.