Just think how efficient governments would be if we ran them like a business!

The cat has long been out of the bag. Only the cat is invisible (data) and the bag’s a computer. This invisible collection, sale and synthesis of data has become a central component of modern economies now. People playing Pokemon Go didn’t know (and the authors of the game-software probably didn’t know either) that they were collecting data for the use of training autonomous-suicide-drones. This is the economy now. This is surveillance-capitalism.

You can’t lobby for regulation, removedation or prohibition. Capital has invested large sums and that investment is paying dividends. Capital is flowing into this sector and something capitalists refrain from writing is that labour is subjugated entirely by capital. Capitalism is a dictatorship. That means scientists, engineers, technologists, marketers and others now find their jobs being: how can we make ever more sophisticated computers, networks and ways to surveil. This surveillance is done to generate data. Then capital is allocated in the pursuit of synthesizing this data into saleable products. One of its results is the ‘AI’ that you can use from ChatGPT or whatever it’s called. A less known result is the AI being sold to nation-states that target and kill autonomously.

There’s no going back. You and your child live under the dictatorship of capital. You live under capitalism. You are a commodity to be brought and sold by capitalists.

Aside from overwhelming collective-action this can not be stopped. The organization that brought these things are largely ignorant and non-caring. The most you’ll get from them is usually a parroting of “we value your privacy and it’s protected under some law” (which doesn’t protect anything). They don’t care. To care would be to prohibit all new procurements–this is what the market is now selling; this is what’s cheapest. It does something beneficial for them so they brought it. The fact it came with a computer that surveils the children is besides the point. The data is invisible and the computer is small and hidden. Out of sight out of mind. The cat’s invisible. It never purrs or meows. It only demands two things: electricity and a connection. But that’s normal. Everything requires those.

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It somehow feels like everything is owned by a handful of companies… Oh, that company? It was its own thing in the 1980s, but X brought them out. X also brought Y, Z and C. There’s no competition. X owns everything.

I think they’re planning a group dance over zoom. That or sending thoughts and prayers.

Europe’s washed up–capitalist liberal democracies can’t exist without looting. Each nation now wants to pivot towards war to begin the looting process again. Enjoy your austerity budgets. Meanwhile China will keep on winning.

LMFAO! Wait until you read about the industrial revolution and the environmental destruction caused by Great Britain. Go suck your king’s cock.

Meanwhile the UK has royalty that live in opulent luxury whilst the working-class dwells in poverty. Their hayday of wildly looting and enslaving foreign nations is over. They have nothing.

It works every single time. It’s so sad.

America’s perennial trend of bombing foreign nations is so much better at… creating dead children.

Hey crypto-investor! I’m letting you know I’m about to print my own crypto from the open-source bitcoin! Buy my alt-coins now! Your profits are about to go to the moon! Buy CON-coin! The only difference between it and bitcoin is hype and branding! Get in before it’s too late! Computers go brrrrrr infinite ponzi-schemes.

It really hasn’t. It’s always been a commercial outfit and it’s been true to that goal: make money. Consumers keep making fantastical stories about a titan of surveillance-capitalism though. It was financed via the CIA and it has been working with the USA’s intelligence-community from day dot. It hasn’t changed. It’s still Google and it will continue being Google.

The ones I use for mobile-computers are 10,000mAh batteries. At these sizes they fit nicely on the back and the mobile-computer can still easily fit into pockets.

This is something that doesn’t make sense in the Australian market. Consumers are lazy here. Felix sells an unlimited plan for $40.00 AUD a month. Other retailers are selling 30Gb a month for $44.00 AUD. I think the cheapest seller here is Aldi who resells Tesltra-capacity for $28.00 AUD a month with 12Gb of data. The price isn’t exceptional, often being cheaper than the dominant sellers.

You’ve gone from stating i2pd on Android would use 4TB of data to a mobile-computer would last only 4 hours if an i2p-router was running. Just state clearly: you’re making up shit. You haven’t used the software and you have no interest in it. The above is a screenshot of i2pd running on a Pixel 6 Pro under GrapheneOS. In 6 hours i2pd has used 94.31Mb. In a month with 31 days that would extrapolate to 11.69444Gb. How much data you’re willing to ‘donate’ is entirely up to you as it’s configurable. My internal-battery is full at 80% (charging optimization enabled which halts charging at 80%) whilst the external battery is at 66%. Bluetooth has been on the whole time sending audio to a headset. This mobile-computer also runs Briar non-stop.

I stick an external-battery to the back using hook and loop tape. It will last more than 24 hours. I honestly don’t know what you’re trying to say. People doomscroll on Tiktok all day and I’m pretty sure that’s just video content, probably hi-res too. No one’s pretending data is precious or limited except for you. (Australian retailers sell unlimited mobile-data plans.) You don’t want to use i2p on a mobile-computer? Ok. Other people do and I’m one of them. As I already stated in the previous post: if you actually want to do things with your mobile-computer pack batteries. Your imagination’s the limit.

I administer a cluster of irc-nodes that talk to each other over i2p. Some nodes live on mobile-computers whilst others are on laptops or desktops. Decentralised chat hosted on your own hardware using your own connections. No need to pay perpetual rents for whitelisted IP addresses or a domain. You get encrypted communications with anonymization built-in that supports both TCP and UDP. It’s great.

Surveillance-capitalism is the new norm. Don’t wait for regulation–it won’t arrive. Protect your own computers with libre-software. Don’t use their services.

Drop Google completely. Don’t use it. They’re telling the Americans who to kill and enabling Israel’s genocide.

But at what cost?

More like a phenomenon. Things come and go though. I don’t play games anymore; I don’t even know what’s popular.

Halo died a long time ago when I was still playing. Halo: Reach felt like the start of its decline.

I prefer the term mobile-computer because it’s a more accurate description of what it is. “Smartphone” is a marketing-term that immediately limits users’ perception around mobile-computers. Your post is a reflection of that.

One of the qualities of libre or libre-inspired -software is that it gives users complete control. That control is usually restricted behind technical knowledge though. Thankfully the developers of the Android port of i2pd (hosted on f-droid and github) have created a GUI where users can set limits arbitrarily. The user can even disable transit for their router, but this is parasitic and I encourage all operators to contribute what they can. The notion that you shouldn’t run i2p, i2pd or other such software on a mobile-computer is… nonsensical when you take it out of the consumer-smartphone context.

Mobile-computers trend on being more energy-efficient with larger battery capacities over time. If we’re to take your concerns about data and energy scarcity seriously we need to address the CPU-cycles and data that are forcefully wasted against the users’ wishes. We should tell Google not to transmit any data from the mobile-computer that’s related to ad-networks. We don’t want that and it’s a complete waste of CPU-cycles and scare data that users have to pay for. Likewise we will prohibit Google from transmitting ad related data to the mobile-computer. Imagine wasting wireless networks by transmitting ads in high-resolutions and wasting CPU-cycles to decode it!

The reality is this: mobile-computers are incredibly sophisticated and capable. When corporations abuse your mobile-resources it becomes the norm and is not even questioned. What I suggest is users take control over their property and use libre or libre-adjacent -software to redploy those otherwise stolen resources towards things you actually want. You may want a lot or a little. If you dream big pack a few batteries.

Google does not honour that flag that ‘grants’ permission to specific processes to be long lived. It will kill it.

It’s almost like the software that powers the internet was designed for a different time and is only still used because there’s monied interest in keeping it around. We need GNUnet.