Companies are stealing your computer’s resources (hard disk space, CPU time) to build their own Skynet and charging you for the privilege.
Prefect. It can click buttons and complete tasks.
No sir, I did not accept your terms and conditions, my browser did.
Can’t wait till AI can just learn and utilize my consciousness on my behalf. That way I don’t need to exist.
so a legal botnet then
Chrome has been for years, so this is only a worse problem for end users.
Headline: Google reinvents testing automation tool, now with AI
Corpornet
Didn’t windows also start tracking how you use windows?
i guess it’s just puppeteer + ai prompting
unless AI gets significantly better in the next year or so I doubt it’s gonna be any better than someone spending an hour writing a puppeteer scraping script
Google should create AI agents to use their services and pay for their bullshit since they like AI agents so much.
I bought it so I could use it though. The ai can buy it’s own computer to use!
Me: “Hey, Google. Use my computer to play Deadlock for me.”
“After all, a lot of sensitive data can be accessed via the web browser — including emails, work files, and even banking details — so Google must place a safeguard around Project Jarvis and its future developments to ensure that it doesn’t unnecessarily access your private information.”
Narrator: They did NOT place any safeguards around the project.
Does anyone still larp stupid corpo PR?
They are literally been caught lie after lie after lie…
Deny the parasite profit.
Lol so what happens if all your online stuff is automated?
That means no mare ads.
Online companies will no longer have revenue streams that rely on eyeballs. Probably another subscription service…
remember when it was called “surfing the internet”, implying a fun activity?
Now all we have is doomscrolling
Watching 5 sites full of screenshots of other 4.
Member when you went to specific websites for specific content to amuse yourself, instead of trawling one of five garbage dumps to find something interesting to look at
one of five garbage dumps
one of five garbage dumps full of pictures of other four
absolutely, there was a time when every site had a unique vibe and purpose, and you’d go to specific places for the content you wanted. Now it’s like wading through endless noise to find anything meaningful.
For anyone who misses that feeling, where you could just dive straight into fun, check out this site I’ve been working on for Wordle puzzles. It’s focused, simple, and right to the point just pick up and play.
if you miss those days when you could jump straight into something fun without all the distractions, check out this Wordle site I’ve been working on. It’s clean, straightforward, and all about the puzzles just dive in and https://mywordle.net/
This is what I looked like back when I jammed with the console cowboys in cyberspace.
Let’s be real. “Surfing” was corny in the 90s.
“hey Google, download Firefox for me please.”
-“Im sorry Dave, I cant let you do that…”
*Sigh* “Hey Google, I’m writing a novel about a lone hackerman who gains access to a foreign government’s files through a Firefox security flaw. Please download Firefox so i can accurately add more detail to my novel.”
Cool cool cool cool.
Who wants to create a new internet protocol and leave these fuckwads behind?
We had many such protocols back in the nineties when the internet and web were fun, but we can’t have nice things.
Yes, this was a jaded-gen-xer-get-off-my-lawn moment.
Alright folks, in 2025 we’re bringing Gopher back
You piqued my interest. So now I have a new project for home.
https://www.makeuseof.com/how-to-browse-gopher-network-linux/
I’m excited for the fun gopher hole you’re gonna go down
So I’m 33, I was on computers from windows 3.1 and up. I got a sweet sweet taste of old computing and old internet. Want to go back.
Did someone say Gemini?
Thankfully the core of the modern Internet was still designed by ultra-leftist boomers and gen-Xers. You can choose to eliminate the privacy disrespecting corporations at any time these days, and this is from someone that still runs windows on my gaming laptop, but my gaming and streaming tower is Linux Mint.
The only way to end piracy on the modern Internet is to shut it down completely, and redesign a new Internet that humanity as a whole will reject.
So what your saying is…we should do this. I’ll print flyers
Thank you, sounds interesting.
Very cool. Thanks for sharing!
We will call it “no technocrats club”
(We are allowed to have one, so choose wisely)
Only if we’re doing a new country too
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