「黃家駒 Wong Ka Kui」

“Holy shit dude you killed him”

“uh dude, stop shooting, he’d already dead 100 times”

https://lemmy.world/modlog/79185

Old Internet? Nah, to me the internet was born in 2010 xD

Edit: Damn nobody gets the joke.

If they have fully open source hardware and software/firmware, I actually do not object to it, in fact I’d prefer that regardless of what country made it.

But for context, I was originally born in China, and later immigrated to the us, so I have a higher skepticism of my former country than most westerners have, and its not because I was trying to be an American nationalist or anything like that.

But to be honest, at this point I’m not even that worried about privacy, its kinda near dead even in western democracies and most people dont seem to care, lowkey given up on trying to advocate for it. My biggest fear is actually censorship, and I’m not saying that the west wont attempt to push for more censorship too, but China has a bad rap for censorship, I’m leaning slight for anything thats not China (or russia or their allies). Like anyone really. Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Brazil, Mexico, and hopefully a big bloc like EUROPE.

I’m hoping for European tech honestly. Europe pls start investing more in tech and lead the democratic world! 🙏

I have a feeling they’d lock them down and prevent alternate os installs.

Exhibit A: You can easily find bootloader-unlockable phones in the west (Google, Motorola), and in Europe, even some of the Chinese phonese are bootloader unlockable. But in mainland China, bootloader unlocks are being being heavily restricted.

Extrapolating from this behavior, its not hard to see them doing the same in the future for personal computers.

Who doesnt want an “anti fraud” app running on your devices all the time. Daddy Xi really wants to protect all his beloved children from the evil foreign “scams” by actively monitoring looking out for all under his reign protection!

I also lived in china (Guangzhou 廣州) from birth till when i was 8, and we had games on DVD discs that a portable dvd player could read from and the games would appear on the screen, so you hook it up to the tv and controllers and its a ghetto bootleg gaming system.

Unfortunately the thing broke withing a few years of immigrating to the us. I think its either in a pile of stuff in the basement or just thrown away when we later moved again. All that remains is memories.

I do remember cartdridges, vaguely, but um yeah the hippocampus is not very developed at a young age. But yeah I do know the “blow on the cartridge” thing.

There were two controllers, and one of them got mushy buttons so of course my older brother made me use that one, lol.

Some of the games I remember from memory, i tried looking it up but couldn’t even find info on it, possible just a thing unique to China? Like it would sounds so bizzare to even try to describe the games. But yea kirby and mario games I do remember, althought the actual old memory is like 5% of my brain by now, watching people play it on youtube consists of most of my memories of mario games

My family of origin was probably one of the few unique ones, my older brother didnt have to find a playmate cuz my mother gifted him one, that being me, cuz she ignored one child policy and gave birth to me. (Yes that was actually one of her reasoning as to why she gave birth to me, so “咁哥哥有伴” so my older brother has someone to play with.) So two player games were a thing, not that I remember, but we did play some two player games in the us on a potato laptop until eventually we drifted apart cuz of… you know, the typical sibling issues, fighting…

This was circa 2000 to 2010s, we had no internet in our area of Guangzhou.

Feel free to ask questions, I feel like questions are the best way to probe deeper memories to resurface.

It was like a past life long long ago. Hardly remember much by now. Sadly I never did any journaling or have old photos of like everything. Wished I had a camera to keep the past as a memento.

Oh daddy xi, pls no, not my social credits. 😩

习爹哋，饶了我吧！ Not the spanking again! 😭

(disclaimer: rant warning)

I hate discord too. If you mention anything slightly negative, they’ll ban you for “spreading harmful content”.

Including posting a slightly “dark” poem in a language exchange server. POETRY! Like whats next, are songs including “dark” lyrics gonna be banned too?
Literally the diaspora-run servers are the worst, I joke about the toxic culture that we grew up in and the top mod was like “um yeah we’re totally here trying to help you, but your chat will be deleted and this is a warning, stop complaining”

Hmmm…
I feel like I just hate my ancestry/heritage even more after those interactions. The more interactions with people of my heritage, the more it just pushes me towards western culture. Literally the western-raised ethnic Chinese simping for the toxicity of Chinese culture, like what do they even know, they barely speak the language, I know more characters than them.

So yeah I basically left every server and gonna delete the account soon after i delete all the contacts. Ugh. No wonder why there as Asians that wanna “Act White”.

People are probably going to discord or some random website they spin up locked behind user registration (they they’ll promptly disable after like a week cuz they fear authorities infiltrating)

Or telegram, I heard its popular for um… hackers, crypto, unlawful videos, intelligence operatives. (not trying to say that everyone using telegram is doing unlawful activities, but it is a reputation i heard when its mentioned)

Its like sitting near a window basically, people on the sidewalk are gonna have trouble seeing you with just their eyes (i mean like most sidewalks are quite far away to the window because of front yards) but anyone could get a camera with zoom lens and see your face.

My parents in a nutshell

“You can’t change the world, stop worrying about it and just focus on your self”

(They grew up in CCP-China)

Or:

1. Install Chrome
2. Use it for the Web-USB thing to install GrapheneOS on your phone
3. Purge Chrome

(seriously tho, why doesnt that web installer thing work for firefox???)

Mentioned it a while ago when I last watched it: 美國女孩 (“American Girl”) about Taiwanese girls that lived in the US for a while and the story beging with them moving back to Taiwan…

(Available on Netflix)

As for the privacy issue:

The only counter to this is to move to a closed end-to-end encrypted groupchat so it can’t be mass LLM analyzed…

If you want a public forum, well… its public…

You can’t stop a script from just grabbing all the posts/comments… and its also federated, so the bot only needs to be able to access one instance and get it…

I mean they could simply just set up their own instance and pretend its just a benigh single-user instance… like what are you gonna do, defed all small instances preemptively? Use “login walls” to make the forum private? And somehow trust all other admins that are federated and make them also enforce a “login wall” policy?

Its a PUBLIC forum…

the only solution for privacy is a groupchat and only let in people that can keep a promise to not screenshot everything and give it to a LLM.