What do you do if you want to leave tech?

You don’t. Every aspect of modern society needs some amount of tech. But the tech we need doesn’t automatically need to be the adware-laden, spyware-as-a-service enshittified garbage that BigTech foists on us in the name of ever-increasing quarterly profits.

We all have a choice. If you can make tech, you can choose to make tech for humans, not corporations. There are numerous apps that we would all love a simple, cleanly implemented version maintained by a small team of individuals dedicated to creating a useful application that solves real-world problems without ripping anybody off or filling our viewscreens with pointless ads.

There’s a simple equation anybody can follow. Make something useful that someone else finds value in, sell it for a reasonable price. That’s it. That’s all any of us need to do in tech. Grab the off-the-shelf hardware, the open-source software, make something useful, and sell it for a modest profit that the makers can live a modest life on.

We all can choose to be less greedy any time we want. We can choose to work for less greedy people. We can choose to maximize for human impact, or for quality, or for longevity. We do not need to keep choosing maximum profit at the expense of our own ecological well-being.

Try asking deepseek about why Tienanmen Square is famous or whether Taiwan is an independent nation. Compare deepseek’s answers to chatgpt’s answers for the same question. See for yourself.

There are already AI models trained for distributing intentional misinformation. Grok and DeepSeek are two such examples.

This is the childish actions of a whiny technofascists that’s gotten himself banned for cause. Note the open bigotry right in the README. For some odd reason he feels the need to make an anti-DEI statement. Treat it like the far-right dog whistle it is.

Wait, why does George takei attract magas?

Its because he’s their most prominent gay, non-white opponent. They don’t like it when he reminds them he actually experienced American concentration camps before they were moved to El Salvador.

Kissinger died in 2023.

Glad to hear the initial setup has gone well.

How do you know that to be true? What evidence do you have to support the hypothesis?

Even if the outcome you fear to be true comes to pass, that will not mean you were correct today.

Without evidence to support the hypothesis, you’re doing nothing more complicated than guessing the result of flipping a coin.

Because IBM has bought HashiCorp, and IBM also owns Red Hat, who has deep experience with fixing licensing issues (see: Qumranet).

I don’t think there’s much reason to switch. The licensing situation is likely to be cleared up within the next year, once the dust from the acquisition settles.

“The world” is a convenient way to say “somebody else with a gun”.

This kind of thing is never done peacefully. So, if you’re going to advocate for violence, at least be honest about the fact that you’re looking for someone else to perpetrate violence on your behalf because you’re too much of a coward to do it yourself.

They weren’t that good, just charming.

They weren’t even that charming. Just a little more able to keep their mouths shut while in front of mixed company.

Source: In the early 2000s, I worked in a position that was two degrees away from BillG. I put together presentations and demos that my boss delivered to the man.

Listen to how Melinda talks about her relationship with him for clues about how little actual charisma he has. She’s responsible for every bit of humanity he’s shown over the last three decades. There were interviews he gave prior to marrying her where he expressed open disdain toward humanitarian endeavors.