• Archmage Azor
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      This was the original cyberpunk-transhumanist message. Not “cybernetics will destroy your soul” but “corporations own your body, or worse parts of your body”

      • –Phase–
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        No, they’re far too busy using taxpayer money to bail out banks and businesses that are “too big to fail”.

    • @QuazarOmega@lemmy.world
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      Well that’s fucking bleak, at least I got a good chuckle out of this

      NPM’s novel implant for drug delivery.

      So that’s how they keep JavaScript devs hooked!

    • @ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works
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      3 years later they’ll end the support

      I don’t think that’s a fair characterization - it sounds like they ran out of money and the company that bought all their assets didn’t maintain support. In that company’s defense, it’s really hard to maintain support for something when you’ve bought the IP but you don’t have any of the institutional knowledge.

      • @sciawp@lemm.ee
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        Maybe it’s a hot take but if you are giving life-altering treatments, and your company goes under, you should open-source everything

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          Would that even be legal? The company has obligations to its creditors and shareholders; simply giving away potentially valuable intellectual property right before going under seems to violate those obligations. And it’s the sort of violation for which someone might be personally held liable.

          I’m not claiming that a company can never open-source anything, but rather than they have to have a plausible business case for doing so. And I don’t see a plausible business (as opposed to humanitarian) case here… But I’m not a corporate lawyer, just someone interested in this sort of thing.

          Edit: there’s also the FDA to consider. If you make medical devices and you want to release the source code, you probably need to demonstrate that it’s safe for users to reprogram their devices (and it’s not safe).

    • fades
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      Wow that made me so fucking uncomfortable, from the serious adverse affects requiring surgical intervention, the company trying to shout down negativity and just leaving these poor people to continue suffering….

      It’s all so horrid, I can’t imagine the stress and impact

  • FIST_FILLET
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    72 years ago

    imagine physically embedding the fucking musk into your brain, VOLUNTARILY. i can’t imagine anything worse in the world

      • @Zron@lemmy.world
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        I still don’t get how it’s at all safe or practical to have what amounts to a smart watch embedded into your brain.

        The surgery they want to do literally involves removing a piece of your skull. Falling and hitting your head without a piece of your skull removed is bad enough, this is going to seriously compromise the strength of people skulls. Which is especially bad when you consider it’s meant to solve problems like paralysis. I have a feeling that people who are just learning to walk again may be at a high risk of falling. Now they’re at a high risk of falling and cracking their skull open like an egg.

        It’s also charged with a wireless charger, which would need to placed on the device every night when you sleep. How many people remain completely still the entire night and don’t move their heads at all?

        This is a cool and valuable first step for brain augmentations that can probably help thousands of patients, but the implementation has so many glaring problems that it makes me wonder how well the actual product even functions.

        • @eestileib@sh.itjust.works
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          How many people remain completely still the entire night and don’t move their heads at all?

          Anybody with sleep apnea who has a CPAP has solved a harder version of this problem. It sucks and takes a while to get used to but it’s way better than waking up with a headache every day.

          I assume that if the implant is helpful the overnight charging will be readily accepted by users.

          (I’ve got a peripheral nerve implant myself so I am quite familiar with what lengths people will go to to relieve pain)

        • You have to drill or cut into the skull for plenty of medical procedures. I don’t think getting a dime sized piece of skull removed at the crown of your head means your head explodes when you hit it on something.

          As for the charging thing, there are plenty of solutions. Wear some kind of headband for one.

      • at_an_angle
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        12 years ago

        Yup. Gotta sell it as a medical miracle before you can sell it as a commercial product.

    • @masquenox@lemmy.ml
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      12 years ago

      i can’t imagine anything worse in the world

      I can… there are literally people who are willing to participate in Musk’s Mars colonization fantasies. They stand about as much chance of success (or survival) as those people who got imploded in that Titanic sub - except their deaths won’t be as quick and merciful.

      • @Toribor@corndog.social
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        Imagine living on Mars in a tiny hut that you can never leave while you slowly starve to death all while Musk is telling everyone on Earth how cool an successful his new colony is. New volunteers continue to arrive in waves while promises go unfulfilled and an endless line of corporate stooges tells you that you are lying about the conditions.

    • @const_void@lemmy.ml
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      People are still driving Teslas right now. Pretty much the same in my book. You’re trusting your life to a proven moron.

  • @crow@beehaw.org
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    42 years ago

    I’m not putting anything in me that’s not foss. I worry for the tech illiterate though when they eventually adopt this idea.

    • @abraxas@lemmy.ml
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      32 years ago

      I agree, I love the idea of a brain chip, but not if someone can change licensing terms on something that’s INSTALLED in me.

    • @Blackmist@feddit.uk
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      12 years ago

      Are you going to be that picky when they’re fitting you with a pacemaker?

      I agree if it’s just something for fun though, although personally I’d err on the side of not putting anything in me at all thanks very much. I’m quite happy with my tech on the outside where it belongs.

    • @worfamerryman@beehaw.org
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      12 years ago

      Dude, look at the current support for audio drivers. Do you really want to deal with that for your ears?

      Just kidding I don’t know anything about audio drivers 😂

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        I remember having to figure out why audio was not working on a new installation. That was once, probably ~5 years ago and was fixed quickly once I found a solution online.

        I’d vastly prefer my ears to stop working intermittently due to a FOSS driver issue over a corporate overlord installing bloat, spyware, demanding regular payment for the privilege of them not deleting my driver, just to drop support for them some years later anyway.

        • Programmer Belch
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          12 years ago

          If the audio doesn’t work, I want to be sure it is because of me, not some tech-suit trying to make me pay more for their rubbish services

      • SSUPII
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        12 years ago

        What’s wrong? It’s time to repair your brain’s Pulseaudio configuration after an update!

  • SokathHisEyesOpen
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    32 years ago

    I want to thank Facebook for making it blatantly obvious to us that we should never get any brain implants. They’ll definitely use them to read your thoughts and push ads straight into your consciousness. Oh, and you’ll probably have to pay a subscription.

  • @Adeptfuckup@lemmy.world
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    22 years ago

    You mean the FDA approved of lobotomizing a select few of desperate people to satiate the narcissistic impulses of its founder. Anyone else wanna take a ride in this plastic submarine???

    • @WNichArk@lemmy.world
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      12 years ago

      Uh, it’s a “submersible” and it’s not plastic, it’s throwaway expired carbon fiber from Boeing…

  • Monkey With A Shell
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    12 years ago

    There’e not enough knowledge and connectivity in the entire internet that could convince me to ever put a connection directly to my mind online.

  • @Durotar@lemmy.ml
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    This game’s advertising is so effective, people voluntarily put it in memes (myself included).

  • katy ✨
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    12 years ago

    All the Elon stans can get brain chips implanted in their head while buying Twitter X merchandise.

  • platysalty
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    12 years ago

    In my teens I thought I’d be like the Major or Batou in the cyberpunk future.

    Nope, Togusa. CYBER BRAIN BAD

  • @brap_gobbo@lemmy.world
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    12 years ago

    I’m picturing that one day people will need guides on how to “jailbreak” their own brains, because they want the be able to live without the constant advertising and recording. Their brains no longer belong to them but the companies