You're right. A lot are being used to build up the surveillance state. Burn. Them. Down.

What a terrible article. Apparently the "0-day" is that the software can be configured by the user to point to a different backend, and that somebody with bad intentions could possibly convince a user to do that.

Corey's entertaining on the evangelical circuit but I'd be wary of reading those kinda shitposts as Gospels. Laziness still a factor methinks and people are often not that stupid ime, they know exactly what they are doing when they outsource social networking to meta or shopping to Jeff. We've been outsourcing effort since the oldowan and things got really bad in wake of writing, this is not new. The twitch thing seems a bit absurd where if streamers don't consent the poor LLM's will need to actually watch the drivel they are openly streaming for attention instead of getting it via API which will just waste more cpu cycles for lolz.

@BrennpunktUA it's not a 1-1, but this almost akin to someone starting their Mastodon instance with the default Mastodon codebase, then customizing it from there. Everyone starts somewhere!@darnell @ricci