not a single mention of how using a “cloud computer” reduces your privacy protections from already pretty shitty down to absolute fucking zero
Call me paranoid, but:
What if all this babble about AI is a way to force hardware demand thus prices up, so the average person cannot pay for a half-decent machine?
That’s obvious. That’s exactly what they are doing.
Besides flat out refusing their “cloud” services, what else can we [in the short term, without too much co-ordination being necessary; unlike, you know, a revolution] do to foil their plans?
…actually screw that. We need a revolution. Now. Seize the means of computation.
Go yo the town nearest the data center, and tell everyone to use up as much power as possible. Than have a bot farm maximize the power draw of the servers by doing an almost DDoS attack. Keep the grid constantly under pressure so the UPSs in the data center can’t compensate when the power goes out. Constant surges will destroy their equipment eventually, or just cause so many outages that people stop using the services.
This would cause people’s appliances to shut down too, but if everyone turned off fridges and HVACs or whatever, and then just have heaters blow air outside constantly in high as much as possible, and maybe use ovens on broil at the same time, that might work.
