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- Comment on Microsoft's AI Secretly Copying All Your Private Messages 4 hours ago:
Apple too, right?
- Comment on Getting mixed signals from Reddit. Furthermore I shall henceforth be on Lemmy full time. 1 day ago:
I did not communicate that well. I didn’t mean “just left” as in recently, I meant I left out of the blue 100%. When I’m done with something, I’m done. Did the same with lemmy .world. I don’t log in and I don’t look at any of the old places. Randomly, I get info from a search, but that’s it.
- Comment on Getting mixed signals from Reddit. Furthermore I shall henceforth be on Lemmy full time. 1 day ago:
I bet they’re focusing on the old.r users, they’ve been wanting to get rid of that for awhile. If they shadowban you and leave on your own randomly, there won’t be another mass exodus. That’s conjecture though.
- Comment on Getting mixed signals from Reddit. Furthermore I shall henceforth be on Lemmy full time. 2 days ago:
Having gone cold turkey and just left, it’s weird no matter how you leave. Realizing how addicted I was, was kind of hard for my psyche.
- Comment on Consumers make their voices heard as Microsoft's huge venture flatlines in popularity 2 days ago:
Gates must be rolling in his grave
Eh?
- Comment on Consumers make their voices heard as Microsoft's huge venture flatlines in popularity 2 days ago:
I think you have to have copilot installed to have the recall spyware though.
- Comment on Consumers make their voices heard as Microsoft's huge venture flatlines in popularity 2 days ago:
Glad to see it. It begs the question though, if they could get computers to want to talk to other computers and Microsoft could somehow make money, would that make them happy? Is computer to computer business something corporations want?
That’s right; Microsoft Copilot’s weekly user base is only 5% of the number of people who use ChatGPT, and it’s not increasing. It’s also worth noting that there are approximately 1.5 billion Windows users worldwide, which means just over 1% of them are using Copilot, a tool that’s now a Windows default app. This is quite scary from Microsoft’s point of view, which has put so much effort and money into its AI ventures that it really cannot afford for its business to dwindle out so soon.
- Comment on How I made a blog using Lemmy - a write-up 4 days ago:
You know, like any “free” app does. Wordpress can throttle who can see you as well. Unless you’re on world or similar, it’s pretty open on Lemmy.
- Comment on How I made a blog using Lemmy - a write-up 4 days ago:
I really like this idea. Being able to have a blog that directly feeds into Lemmy sounds great since Lemmy doesn’t really speak to a lot of other apps.
- Comment on How I made a blog using Lemmy - a write-up 4 days ago:
Do you mean like Wordpress? The upselling and throttling alone. I haven’t used it in years, maybe it’s better?
- Comment on US Visa Applications from Japan Now Require Disclosing Social Media History 4 days ago:
“It’s the death certificate of the land of the free,” posted one X user. “The United States is now pursuing policies similar to those of China’s Cultural Revolution. Considering how destructive the Cultural Revolution was to China, I think that if things continue this way, the United States will decline more than we can imagine. I can only pray that this will not happen, but I am currently feeling pessimistic,” wrote another.
- Comment on Tesla's "Predictive" Odometers Had 9+ Drivers Complaining of Inaccuracy Before Lawsuit. We Even Found Video! 5 days ago:
That makes your warranty expire faster. It’s not in the users favor.
- Comment on Blue Shield of California shared the private health data of millions with Google for years 6 days ago:
I saw an ad for Amazon telehealth a couple of weeks ago. I’m not digging the times we’re in. I also hope we don’t look back on this time with nostalgia.
- Comment on Trump’s Social Media Surveillance: Social Scoring by Another Name 1 week ago:
In March 2025, Secretary of State Marco Rubio launched an AI-fueled “Catch and Revoke” effort to cancel the visas of foreign nationals who appear to support Hamas or other designated terror groups. This program relies on the AI to scrape people’s social media to revoke visa applications of people who have been protesting Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza. As of early April 2025, at least 600 people have apparently had their visas revoked because of this AI monitoring, a massive incursion into people’s right to free speech, freedom of assembly, and the right to protest.
The speed with which social media monitoring is growing is staggering. As of March 2025, the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency (ICE) has been working with web-scraping contractor ShadowDragon to pull data from over 200 different sites, social networks, apps, and services across the web to map out a person’s activity, movements, and relationships.
- Comment on May Christ be with us 1 week ago:
I had someone on reddit argue that the icons show “white” people on their gravestones, so he was probably white. I think he really believed it and it was pretty hilarious to see them do brain exercises to get Jesus to be white. Never mind that the coloring was probably adjusted on the screen, the pigment was falling off and they were 2000 years old. Also, it’s encaustic, which is painting with wax and has a sheen.
This is the one. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encaustic_painting#/media/F…
- Comment on RFK JR just told us Elon Musk can't use the toilet unassisted 1 week ago:
Okay, I didn’t know he had Aspergers, but that doesn’t excuse his racism.
- Comment on Meta Pissed Off Everyone With Poorly Redacted Docs 1 week ago:
The other broligarchs looked around Zuck’s bunker and couldn’t understand how it had gotten this bad. The expressions on their faces, one by one, changed to horror realizing that this is what they signed up for.
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- Comment on I’ve Worked at Google for Decades. I’m Sickened by What It’s Doing. 1 week ago:
Project Nimbus: wired.com/…/amazon-google-project-nimbus-israel-i…
- Comment on Suspected 4chan Hack Could Expose Longtime, Anonymous Admins 1 week ago:
I’d say it’s more like a right that’s been taken away and they’re okay with that.
- Comment on If all the money in the world can only make you look as good as elon musk or jeff bezos there is truly some things money can't buy. 1 week ago:
D:
- Comment on Another Wikipedia Admin Caught Making PR Edits 2 weeks ago:
I was going off the comments in this thread at the time. The right wants wikipedia to go away.
- Comment on Another Wikipedia Admin Caught Making PR Edits 2 weeks ago:
Do not go after Wikipedia because of one or two shitty people. We need it as a country. I would argue that the world needs it. Make it better and support it while calling out the shitty stuff, don’t take it down.
- Comment on Lemmy has the ideal number of posts for me. Just enough to have a good time but not too many that I'm scrolling forever 2 weeks ago:
Maybe you’re right, they did seem to be heading that direction a few years ago when I left.
- Comment on Lemmy has the ideal number of posts for me. Just enough to have a good time but not too many that I'm scrolling forever 2 weeks ago:
it seems like they are culling the reddit population to a small managable group, so they can probably sell it off,
Is that a thing? Why would they want a smaller user group to sell it? We are talking about Spez, so who tf knows, but that seems really dumb.
I thought it would be because everyone who made content left, kind of like how X is.
- Comment on [Question] What just happened to 4 million posts? 2 weeks ago:
I remember a bot purge, but I’m not sure if that was around the same time.
- Comment on As a US citizen who was born in the UK, how risky is it to leave and reenter the US right now? 2 weeks ago:
I know that they’re probably deported to El Salvador because E.S. made bitcoin their national currency.
It looks like it no longer is because it was a failure. I bet they still have a way to launder bribes through their system though
In December, 2024, El Salvador, in an agreement for a $1.4 billion loan from the IMF, agreed to reduce bitcoin purchases, removed the mandatory acceptance of Bitcoin requirement on merchants, will no longer accept tax payments with the asset, and will wind-down its involvement in the Chivo wallet.[77][78]
- Comment on Lemmy has the ideal number of posts for me. Just enough to have a good time but not too many that I'm scrolling forever 2 weeks ago:
They’re showing day or weed old posts on the front page? I wonder if they’re losing members that give content or is there another reason?
- Comment on Adobe Creative Curse 2 weeks ago:
The fediverse isn’t perfect, but it’s the best we’ve got. There are a ton of lists going around with replacemet software, most are free or have free versions.
- Comment on As a US citizen who was born in the UK, how risky is it to leave and reenter the US right now? 2 weeks ago:
Are you white?
Trump immigration raids snag U.S. citizens, including Native Americans, raising racial profiling fears
Those who are getting caught in Immigrations and Customs Enforcement raids are being targeted because of their race or skin color, according to witnesses.
