Taking the long way around to Communism, aren’t we?

The only reason they haven’t is because our biggest platforms are built in the back of open-source software. Without actually contributing to it, of course.

And if you use ChatGPT the data is sent to the United States of America, including the chats you have with the AI.

Who will sell it to data brokers who will, in turn, sell it to China. And who knows how many other hostile foreign entities.

I’m honestly loving seeing corporate America melting down over being undercut by China like that hasn’t been the basis of our entire economy since 1971.

They gave it away on almost every platform when it came out, but I still haven’t gotten around to it.

I have my qbittorrent container set up the same way, no issues. Only minor inconvenience I have now is having to manually renew my subscription every month because they stopped storing payment information (good!).

This meme is old enough to drive away its third spouse after decades of habitual drinking