DirkMcCallahan
@DirkMcCallahan@lemmy.world
- Comment on This speaks for itself 5 days ago:
TBF, the latter is a much better reflection of how lifeless and awful their food is.
- Comment on Brother accused of locking down third-party printer ink cartridges via forced firmware updates, removing older firmware versions from support portals 5 days ago:
It’s like every company that wasn’t complete shit just suddenly decided to…go to complete shit.
- Comment on Economist warns that Elon Musk is about to cause a "deep, deep recession" 2 weeks ago:
c/noshitsherlock
- Comment on For those of us that can spot the URL for "Never Gonna Give You Up" at a glance, we are getting rickrolled without ever clicking the link. 2 weeks ago:
Maybe the next generation of Rickrolling should involve providing a link to a real video but disguising it to look like the Rickroll link?
- Comment on Hate speech on X surged for at least 8 months after Elon Musk takeover – new research. 3 weeks ago:
Wasn’t that part of the point?
- Comment on Defaults are crucial for good UX and getting more users on the Fediverse 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, if I hadn’t been so committed to Rexit, I doubt I would have stuck around long enough to find a UX that I liked. Just to name one, it’d be nice if MLMYM were a default skin.
- Comment on Apple, Microsoft Joining Google Using Gulf of America in Maps Programs 3 weeks ago:
Not sure why anyone is surprised…they’re all bootlicking corporations that don’t want the mob boss to fuck with their mergers and/or investigate them for their various crimes.
- Comment on Google creating an AI agent to use your PC on your behalf, says report | Same PR nightmare as Windows Recall 4 months 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. 5 months ago:
It’s a perfect metaphor for the working class.
- Comment on YouTube confirms your pause screen is now fair game for ads 5 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? 6 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. 6 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 6 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 6 months ago:
Fuck.
- Comment on Some subreddits could be paywalled, hints Reddit CEO 6 months ago:
Posts like this remind me just how grateful I am for the Fediverse.
- Comment on [deleted] 8 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 8 months ago:
Edit: Thank you, kind stranger!
- Comment on New “Recall” feature in Windows 11 is a privacy nightmare 9 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 9 months ago:
c/fuckcars
- Comment on Prime Video subs will soon see ads for Amazon products when they hit pause 9 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 9 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 10 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 11 months ago:
Good. Fuck Twitter.
- Comment on Taylor Swift among 141 new billionaires in ‘amazing year for rich people’ 11 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 1 year 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 1 year 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) 1 year 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." 1 year 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 1 year 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.