avidamoeba
@avidamoeba@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Airlines Are Selling Your Data to ICE 3 days ago:
True. But I think to a great extent that’s the case because business funds the weak ones and spends good money to convince us to elect them. Then they keep the profits rolling. Rinse and repeat.
- Comment on Airlines Are Selling Your Data to ICE 3 days ago:
The mental trick that keeps on giving. When government does it - it’s automatically bad, but when a private business does it - it’s between the business and its customers. Then all the gov’t needs to do is become a customer on the B2B side.
- Comment on i truly believe that there's an open war between Humanity vs. Advertisers and their allies. 5 days ago:
Yeah, it’s a necessary tool for achieving ever growing profits.
- Comment on i truly believe that there's an open war between Humanity vs. Advertisers and their allies. 5 days ago:
🥇
- Comment on U.S. seeks breakup of Google's ad-tech products after judge finds illegal monopoly 1 week ago:
Don’t worry, cheque’s in the mail.
- Comment on Mark Zuckerberg Thinks You Don't Have Enough Friends and His Chatbots Are the Answer 1 week ago:
I think most of here see it. But then again we already understand enough to move away from corporate social.
- Comment on Mark Zuckerberg Thinks You Don't Have Enough Friends and His Chatbots Are the Answer 1 week ago:
Not sure if sarcastic or I didn’t make my point well enough. Just in case I’ll expand. The bad thing is that the system necessitates ever increasing profits. It’s not the individuals. If Zuck fucks off to paradise Zuck’ would take over the social media market and keep finding ways to grow profits year-on-year. The problem with ever increasing profit is this profit comes from the wages and time of people one way or another, leaving less for other social things like paying to meet friends, a partner, having and raising children. Multiply this process to most firms in most markets and you’ll soon see that this leads to social instability, unrest, crisis, and worse. Like it’s happened in the past in different places around the world. Today in the US, Big Tech does it, Big Ag does it, Big Grocer does it, Big Insurance does it, Big Landlord does it, Big Pharma does it, and increasingly larger proportion of the population gets squeezed out of time and money… for the basics or luxuries like friends and partners. And they’re not gonna take it laying down. Electing Trump was one salvo, even if counterproductive.
- Comment on Mark Zuckerberg Thinks You Don't Have Enough Friends and His Chatbots Are the Answer 1 week ago:
Then use that to sell them products and adjust their worldview in profitable ways.
- Comment on Mark Zuckerberg Thinks You Don't Have Enough Friends and His Chatbots Are the Answer 1 week ago:
Thing it’s not the dude. It’s the system that forces most dudes to come up with newer ways to grow and make profit. If they don’t, they open the door to competition that would. Then their competitor could eventually overtake them, take their customers and profits, then hostile or peacefully takeover the OG dude.
- Comment on Mark Zuckerberg Thinks You Don't Have Enough Friends and His Chatbots Are the Answer 1 week ago:
- The system makes people poorer in money and time
- People can’t afford to make and keep as many friends
- The system gives people artificial friends that cost less
- Mark Zuckerberg Thinks You Don't Have Enough Friends and His Chatbots Are the Answerwww.404media.co ↗Submitted 1 week ago to technology@lemmy.world | 96 comments
- Comment on Fediverse Corporate Sabotage 1 week ago:
We can’t stop sovereign countries from banning services. We can however have external Fediverse services not comply with cutting off access to users from those sovereign countries, leaving it up them to ensure their citizens don’t have access. Since we’re not making off of doing business in those countries we can ignore non-legal requests instead of voluntarily complying. Then some of the more technical people in such places could use the existing tools for blocking circumvention in order to access the Fediverse if they really want to.
- Comment on Fediverse Corporate Sabotage 1 week ago:
Apart from running many instances which keeps copies of other communities which happens automatically when a user on an instance subscribes to a community; organize larger instances into well funded non-profits that can weather attacks. Lemmy.ca and Lemmy.world already have non-profits formed.
- Comment on Google and Adobe appear to be abusing copyright to silence a whistleblower's video 2 weeks ago:
Oh man, Tim Wu was a trailblazer during the Net Neutrality war.
- Comment on DeepMind UK staff seek to unionise and challenge defence deals and Israel links 2 weeks ago:
Wow, this could be significant if they succeed.
- Comment on Digg's reboot homepage design 2 weeks ago:
No 🙂↔️
- Comment on [Gamers Nexus] Death of affordable computing | Tariffs impact and investigation 2 weeks ago:
Great video. Steve keeps doing the good journalistic work.
- Comment on Google is killing privacy sandbox in Chrome. 3 weeks ago:
Perhaps more to do with this. Google no longer has legal problems in the US under Trump.
- Comment on Google is killing privacy sandbox in Chrome. 3 weeks ago:
What the 🦆
- Comment on Battery giant CATL showcases three innovations: 1500km range battery, 520km in 5 minutes ultra-fast charging, and 2025 mass-production sodium-ion battery 3 weeks ago:
Some additional keywords on the tech behind this extended range capability:
… self-generated anode battery technology (which no longer uses traditional graphite anode material but allows elements to deposit on the current collector in metallic form, increasing volumetric energy density by 60% and gravimetric energy density by 50%) … Additionally, CATL’s self-generated anode technology can be adapted to multiple material systems. For example, when paired with sodium-ion systems, the energy density can reach 350Wh/L; with phosphate systems, it can reach 680-780Wh/L; and with ternary systems, it can exceed 1000Wh/L.
- Comment on Game Boy clone maker Anbernic suspends all shipments to US 3 weeks ago:
You may still get hit with the tariff if it’s shipped from overseas. In such a scenario, you’re the importer and likely responsible for any duties and fees.
- Comment on Game Boy clone maker Anbernic suspends all shipments to US 3 weeks ago:
This thread makes me so proud 🥲
- Comment on Angry, disappointed users react to Bluesky's upcoming blue check mark verification system 3 weeks ago:
You’re hereby given a ✅
- Comment on Take Action: Defend the Internet Archive 3 weeks ago:
It’s got no legal standing, but as many things in life, when you want to advocate for something and you want to say that something is important to people, the arguments are a lot easier to make when you have “evidence.” A bunch of signatures can serve this purpose. This petition could even be just a first step, to be followed by others methods or actions.
Another function it could serve is getting people engaged and aware of the issue, spreading further awareness.
Another function is getting the contact information of people willing to do something about this issue. They could later leverage that to ask for other actions that are more meaningful.
- Comment on Take Action: Defend the Internet Archive 3 weeks ago:
That’s not necessarily the point. Organizing political action has many components and if the IA want these signatures, perhaps they need them. This is not necessarily the same as a random person making a random petition on change.org.
- Comment on FCC head Brendan Carr tells Europe to get on board with Starlink 4 weeks ago:
Financial pressure time.
- Comment on Android phones will soon reboot if they’re locked for a few days 4 weeks ago:
Can this be done with Tasker?
- Comment on NVIDIA to Manufacture American-Made AI Supercomputers in US for First Time. 4 weeks ago:
X
- Comment on Jack Dorsey and Elon Musk would like to ‘delete all IP law’ 4 weeks ago:
The population is already your subsidizer, even if you work and regardless of how much you make.
- Comment on Chinese chip giants say they don't care about U.S. tariffs — many don't sell to the U.S. anyway due to existing sanctions 4 weeks ago:
Ouch. Well said.