Post by @thomasbeagle@mastodon.nz

2026-09-28 02:02 UTC

I reckon a good third of complaints about invasive modern tech are really just "Old man shakes fist at cloud." Not you of course. Yours are all totally reasonable and based on an insightful analysis of the power relationships between people, governments, and big tech. Nothing to do with the fact that it was released after you turned 35.

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@stephen@ephemera.vital.org.nz 2026-09-28 02:18

@thomasbeagle@mastodon.nz that ability is cool. What's not cool is phoning home regularly to a 3rd party with my information. Or borrowing my internet connection to be part of a proxy farm. Or deciding that it's time to stop working even though the hardware is fine. Etc.

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@h4nd@mastodon.nz 2026-09-28 02:08

tHeRe iS No cLoUd, jUSt sOmeoNe eLses cOmpUTer!!11!

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@sidawson@mas.to 2026-09-28 04:18

@thomasbeagle@mastodon.nz I feel maybe 20/80 "I've been told" / "wildly insulted" but then, you and I have spent the last 40 years _slightly_ at odds about similar things. So, I guess it's on par.

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@rmi@cloudisland.nz 2026-09-28 04:53

@thomasbeagle@mastodon.nz I fucking love smart appliances but I’ve learned not to say so in public

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@hugh@mastodon.nz 2026-09-28 04:55

@thomasbeagle@mastodon.nz When CCTV first appeared in shops in the 1980sI vowed to boycott those shops, but I couldn't keep that up of course without starving. But I can still put superglue in the new Sky remote's microphone.

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