DirkMcCallahan
@DirkMcCallahan@lemmy.world
- Comment on Google creating an AI agent to use your PC on your behalf, says report | Same PR nightmare as Windows Recall 3 weeks ago:
“After all, a lot of sensitive data can be accessed via the web browser — including emails, work files, and even banking details — so Google must place a safeguard around Project Jarvis and its future developments to ensure that it doesn’t unnecessarily access your private information.”
Narrator: They did NOT place any safeguards around the project.
- Comment on The camel was already miserable way before that last straw. 1 month ago:
It’s a perfect metaphor for the working class.
- Comment on YouTube confirms your pause screen is now fair game for ads 2 months ago:
The sad thing is that most people won’t even give a damn.
- Comment on When EV startups shut down, will their cars still work? 2 months ago:
I look forward to the day when my refrigerator stops working because the company went bankrupt, or because their server was down.
- Comment on Your TV set has become a digital billboard. And it’s only getting worse. 2 months ago:
I pity the poor fool who sets up their smart TV instead of just grabbing an HDMI cable and plugging in their computer.
- Comment on Chat is this real 2 months ago:
The happiest place on earth, y’all!
- Comment on The Google antitrust ruling could be an existential threat to the future of Firefox | Financials show 86% of Mozilla's revenue came from the agreement keeping Google as Firefox's default search engine 3 months ago:
Fuck.
- Comment on Some subreddits could be paywalled, hints Reddit CEO 3 months ago:
Posts like this remind me just how grateful I am for the Fediverse.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
Well, it took them 60 years to make Pearl Harbor…
- Comment on Google's AI Overviews now link to Wikipedia and LinkedIn more than Reddit, study finds 4 months ago:
Edit: Thank you, kind stranger!
- Comment on New “Recall” feature in Windows 11 is a privacy nightmare 5 months ago:
We know this what the real purpose of this is, it seems like they’re going to sell it as a necessary tool for people who are too stupid to use a basic search function? Per The Verge:
“Microsoft’s launching Recall for Copilot Plus PCs, a new Windows 11 tool that keeps track of everything you see and do on your computer and, in return, gives you the ability to search and retrieve anything you’ve done on the device.”
- Comment on How to opt out of the privacy nightmare that comes with new Hondas 6 months ago:
c/fuckcars
- Comment on Prime Video subs will soon see ads for Amazon products when they hit pause 6 months ago:
Further justifying my commitment to avoiding Prime at all costs.
- Comment on They say your body is the only instrument that doesn't require any lessons 6 months ago:
Life is just one long, hard kick in the urethra, and sometimes when you get home from a long day of getting kicked in the urethra, you just want to watch a show about good, likable people who love each other, where, you know, no matter what happens, at the end of 30 minutes, everything’s gonna turn out okay.
- Comment on Peer pressure 6 months ago:
And the beauty of adult peer pressure is that I can completely ignore it without a second thought, and then go back to browsing Lemmy.
- Comment on President Biden is now posting into the fediverse 7 months ago:
Good. Fuck Twitter.
- Comment on Taylor Swift among 141 new billionaires in ‘amazing year for rich people’ 7 months ago:
You know how the right hates Taylor Swift? Perhaps this is the news that we can use to finally get them to agree to tax the rich.
- Comment on I don't believe Auto Save feature in any software 9 months ago:
It’s because the first time doesn’t always work. I swear, sometimes it doesn’t!
- Comment on Microsoft sneaks ads into the new Outlook for Windows 9 months ago:
This is basically “dog bites man” territory at this point.
- Comment on Dropbox spooks users by sending data to OpenAI for AI search features (Enabled by default) 11 months ago:
And this is precisely why you don’t store your files in the cloud.
- Comment on The fact that there's a lady out there named Stephanie who insisted the whole world call her Lady Gaga and we're all just like, "okay." 11 months ago:
Steph-Steph-ooh-la-la doesn’t have quite the same ring.
- Comment on 23andMe confirms hackers stole ancestry data on 6.9 million users 11 months ago:
Yet more evidence that we shouldn’t be handing over sensitive data to random companies. Will this change anyone’s behaviour? Sadly, probably not.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
And Star Trek.
- Comment on LinkedIn user data leaked: Database shows emails, profile data, phones, full names, and more confidential info. 1 year ago:
Well, fuck. This was the ONE social media site that I put my data on, and that was out of necessity (job hunting). I know it’s not the same, but this sort of feels like the Equifax breach.
- Comment on Elon Musk’s X Has Started Selling Off Old Twitter Handles For $50,000 1 year ago:
Sounds like a money laundering scheme.
- Comment on Elon Musk Offers to Also Ruin Wikipedia 1 year ago:
This does lend credence to the “He’s intentionally tanking Twitter” theory.
- Comment on The Monkey's Paw - A place where you can make a wish and ruin other's 1 year ago:
Nice community idea! I’ll definitely be subscribing.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
Rounding, let’s say that there are 125 million people in the Philippines and New Zealand. And let’s say that for some reason they all decide to make a new Twitter account and pay for it in perpetuity. Elon paid $44 billion for Twitter. At this rate, this move would allow him to recoup his investment in…352 years.
- Comment on Michael Caine Announces Retirement From Acting 1 year ago:
I can’t remember, tell me…what’s his name? My name…is Michael Caine
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