People: "Ugh! Evil corporations!"
Also people: Spends all their time and money enriching and empowering said corporations.

#megacorp #cognitivedissonance #notmyproblem #wedoittoourselves

If you need proof that Mr Mark Zuckerberg is not the best guy -
just check out the history of Facemash ehm I mean Facebook ;)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook#History

DeMeta with others now: https://www.reddit.com/r/DeMeta/

#History #facebook #facemash #hotornot #meta #Zuckerberg #MarkZuckerberg #wikiepdia #screenshot #corporation #tech #socialmedia #social #online #internet #website #web #page #person #mark #billionaire #megacorp #corp

Apple has locked my Apple ID, and I have no recourse. A plea for help
https://hey.paris/posts/appleid/
#ycombinator #apple #megacorp #help #angry #rant #liars

Concept art of Beksina Camlorn working her office job.
#corporatelife #officelife #workspace #desksetup #corporateart #bosslife #megacorp #corporatefuture

I choose not to let corporations and states profile and target me.

Society: How dare you

#privacy #bigtech #megacorp #dystopia

Nope. Doesn't matter how good the technical capabilities. Just another #bigtech #megacorp cloud streaming service waiting for its time to enshittify.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3xYHYuMqZU

#nvidia

welp, the person emailed #Facebook & the account was restored a few days ago – no idea if the email was the reason, no response or even contact from Fb, no apology, no explanation of what imaginary transgression tripped their “immediate ban-hammer” response… 😡🤬 (#POSIWID 💁‍♀️)

…and the person still hasn’t had access to a connected account for their hobby stuff restored yet 😕
 
 
continued evidence that moving your #SocialMedia presence away from #MegaCorp platforms is the only sane choice – yes, it’s difficult. yes, the network effects are a bitch. but still. (obviously I’m preaching to the choir here on masto 🤪)

Can't wait for #A24 to be bought by some #megacorp and go to shit. 😃

@jack

Damage to American small (and medium) businesses. Not the megacorps.

The dude with the mall kiosk selling phone cases and chargers? He's getting reamed by this, and will likely go out of business, because he brings all his stock in from China in small shipments that have always fallen under the de minimis exemption (which is now toast). He can't compete with having to pay five times as much for shipping and tariffs all of a sudden.

The independent phone-and-laptop repair place? He and his 3 techs are probably twiddling their thumbs a lot soon. Most of the parts they buy to fix your broken screen or charge port come in just like the mall kiosk dude's. A replacement screen that used to cost him $30 plus $5 shipping now suddenly costs $30 plus $15 tariffs plus $20 shipping-and-tariff-collection-and-remittance-and-brokerage-clearance charges. He'll have to double what he charges to replace that screen in your Samsung.

Amazon? Walmart? Best Buy? All the other corporate behemoths? They're not importing in dribs and drabs by post. It won't affect them much at all, except they'll probably increase prices a bit to cover the extra paperwork to clear their shipments at the border, plus a lot more to cover the tariffs.

(Yes, you already knew this. I just wanted to say it.)

#tariff #business #ProBusiness #SmallBusiness #LittleGuy #screwed #shafted #MegaCorp #SMEs #import #duty

Aside from a copy of all your emails, what else to backup from Gmail before deleting your account?

My plan:

1. Download all email via IMAP
2. Remove all emails including attachments from Gmail interface
3. Closing my account

Anything I'm forgetting?

#google #email #megacorp

Welp, here it is. If anyone wants managed #Nextcloud #hosting, we'll spin-up some ready-made instances for you to get running. Collabora and Talk included.

We do #onprem server builds for local clients in #Malaysia #Singapore . But I figure there may be increased demand for smaller teams (and smaller budgets) around the world wanting to move away from US #bigtech #megacorp platforms.
https://jaykayenn.com/2025/04/managed-nextcloud-hosting/

Today on #Reddit

Asking people to be literate in order to enjoy the benefits of literacy is "elitist" and tyrannical.

If only people put a fraction of the energy they spend on defending stupidity to better use, they would have been educated by now.

#idiocracy #entitled #megacorp #dystopia #racetothebottom

@timpritlove As expected by me, also #YouTube #comments are written by a tiny minority if this survey is meaningful of some sort. That is a common pattern.

I also don't think that more people should interact on platforms like that: https://karl-voit.at/2020/10/23/avoid-web-forums/

Go, learn how to set up your own #blog and what #POSSE, #PESOS, #RSS and #Atom stand for. 😉

#publicvoit #decentralization #gatedcommunity #megacorp #cloud #NNTP

Eine:n Indieentwickler:in mit ein paar Euro zusätzlich unterstützen? Gerne. Eine Multimilliarden #Megacorp mit noch mehr Geld unterstützen, wenn man schon 50 € oder noch deutlich mehr für ein unfertiges Spiel gezahlt hat und mit #Microtransactions zugeschmissen wird? Fuck no!

#MikeYbarra #Gaming

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcFEzhXkHR8

Dear friends of 11's, had a sausage, tea and piece of #choccy,

That should give me the #strength to deal with MicroShaft #Copilot AI scheming. [spoiler alert: you need more than a sausage]

Basically this #Artificial #Insanity only #installs on a WinDows Index machination, up to date iPad, or a phone not running #Firefox focus or Firefox ... oh MS #Mega-corp has already put a #cookie or similar on my Debian powered, long-term release hardware, WITHOUT a permit, permission or by your leave. 😱

Typical. I feel dirty. Virused. Abused. Not safe in my own cyber-home. 🦠 #Youtoo?

Well I was warned. But as a #wer-lobster, I will enter #warm #waters and be boiled into pseudo-screaming. Here are my claws. Now I am a #crawfish with just #feelers...

Normal #scheduling is now resumed ​:blobcatthx:​

#Goomics (#comics about #Google) is hilarious!

https://goomics.net/

#fun #cloud #megacorp

@FeralRobots
#GenAI is going to get cheaper and already has gotten cheaper.

An 8b parameter #llama3 model performs better than GPT3 which had 175 billion parameters.

You can run a moderately degraded (4bit or 8bit instead of native) Llama3-8b on a top of the line gaming rig, or a $800 ATX.

#Generative_AI is being promoted as dangerous by #BigTech specifically to force people to use the #MegaCorp #monopolies

In fact, the fact that #Generative #AI gets exponentially more expensive for a linear gain in performance implies that it's _not_ going to get more expensive.