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- Comment on Elon Musk's X further squeezes developers with apparent new API fees 3 weeks ago:
Gotta launder that Russian money somehow. Now they can pay him more without having to make as many accounts.
- Comment on Facebook Is Being Flooded With Gross AI-Generated Images of Hurricane Helene Devastation 1 month ago:
Facebook is 99% AI slop at this point. And they don’t care. It gets engagement, and that’s all they care about.
- Comment on Windows 3.1 saves the day during CrowdStrike outage — Southwest Airlines scrapes by with archaic OS 3 months ago:
Maybe don’t pay a company to install a rootkit on your critical infrastructure?
- Comment on Comcast Unveils Peacock, Netflix, Apple TV+ Streaming Bundle 5 months ago:
It’s gonna take a miracle to pull me back off the high seas again. Netflix was big enough to do it all those years ago, but I can’t even imagine what could do it now.
- Comment on Does anyone use https://presearch.com/ 6 months ago:
“Earn crypto rewards” lol nah, I’m good.
- Comment on Ukraine unveils AI-generated foreign ministry spokesperson 6 months ago:
This is creepy and seems wildly unnecessary.
- Comment on Rabbit R1 is Just an Android App 6 months ago:
I never really understood who these products were for. I can’t help but think the only end result is a small number of people getting rich off of VC money and some misguidedly optimistic folks getting ripped off by buying these devices.
- Comment on Let’s not make the same mistakes with AI that we made with social media 8 months ago:
There’s a better chance of AI becoming sentient and stopping itself from being harmful than there is that people do the right thing.
- Comment on Should Caddy and Traefik Replace Certbot? 8 months ago:
I’ve used traefik for 7 years at this point and the only time I had to think about certificates was when I blocked my servers running traefik from making DNS calls needed for the cert generation.
I’ve got 6 domains now all with certs managed by traefik. Highly recommend checking it out, especially if you’re running most things in docker.
- Comment on Midjourney Accuses Stability AI of Image Theft, Bans Its Employees 8 months ago:
Oh no…anyway.
- Comment on Wyze says camera breach let 13,000 customers briefly see into other people’s homes 8 months ago:
I’m honestly impressed they are still in business. If the first time it happened didn’t kill them, the second time probably won’t either.
- Comment on Controversial benchmarking website goes behind paywall — Userbenchmark now requires a $10 monthly subscription 8 months ago:
Of all the things to try and monetize with a subscription…
Who’s more brain damaged, the site owner or the people that actually pay for it?
- Comment on ‘Zombie Offices’ Spell Trouble for Some Banks - The New York Times 9 months ago:
Let those banks burn. I could not care less. Let the corporate real estate market burn with em.
We don’t need them.
- Comment on TurboTax maker Intuit spent millions in record lobbying blitz amid threats to tax prep industry 9 months ago:
Wouldn’t it be wild if the government just…sent us our refund or our bill? Because they know how much taxes we owe or how much they owe us without needing to play the stupid fucking “gather all your forms” and put it into the right fields game.
That would also completely solve this problem by eliminating the need for turbo tax to exist at all.
- Comment on The U.S. economy is booming. So why are tech companies laying off workers? 9 months ago:
The same reason everything costs more without there being inflation, greed and the never ending desire to make the line go up. At the end of the day that’s all a publicly traded company cares about. Line go up. They will do whatever they can legally, or hidden from legal scrutiny to make that happen.
- Comment on Binance Code and Internal Passwords Exposed on GitHub for Months 9 months ago:
I look forward to the future article “millions stolen from crypto exchange binance”
- Comment on Google CEO tells employees to expect more job cuts this year. 9 months ago:
Don’t worry though folks, Sundars income will likely increase and he’ll still get his end of year bonus. I know everyone was real worried about him.
/s
- Comment on Haier, the air conditioner maker, takes down open source third-party Home Assistant integration 9 months ago:
“demand that you immediately cease and desist all illegal activities”
Good news everyone, this companies TOS is not the law. That code doesn’t do anything illegal. At best they could file a frivolous lawsuit that they would surely lose if it went to any competent judge.
Of course their aim is to use the cost of a potential lawsuit to kill a perfectly legal project. I wonder if any FOSS legal funds would help take on a fight like this to stop companies from using lawsuits to kill FOSS projects.
- Comment on More Police Are Using Your Cameras for Video Evidence 9 months ago:
Sadly, since our country is governed by dinosaurs, the responsibility falls on us to help our friends and family avoid sketchy cameras that force the use of their cloud services.
At least until we can convince them to elect people who weren’t born before computers were invented.
- Comment on YouTube is slowing down for users with ad blockers in new wave 10 months ago:
And still, I’m more likely to stop using YouTube than to stop using an ad blocker.
- Comment on ‘Don’t Mess With Us’: WebMD Parent Company Demands Return to Office in Bizarre Video 10 months ago:
Jesus. What fucking lunatics. That video never needed to exist. Just be like every other corp and send an email. At least that news story would have blended in with all the other RTO trash.
Now I’ll just forever remember that webMDs parent company is operated by unhinged boomers.
- Comment on Elon Musk's X claims it's now a 'video-first platform' as it tries to reverse an advertiser exodus that has cost it billions in value 10 months ago:
I claim that I am now a millionaire.
Doesn’t make it true though…
- Comment on It is essential to stop using Chrome. Under the pretense of saving users from third-party spyware, Google is creating an ecosystem in which Chrome itself is the spyware. 10 months ago:
I’m glad I’m in a position to basically never have to touch a chrome or chrome derivative for my work. It was a necessary evil to finally kill internet explorer, but these days it’s just hostile to its users.
- Comment on WB’s ‘Ready Player One’ Blockchain, VR, AR, AI ‘Readyverse’ Will Of Course Be A Disaster 10 months ago:
WB execs are currently in the #1 position on the list of dumbest motherfuckers of 2024. And boy are they setting the bar REALLY high.
- Comment on Is it time for 6G already? Traffic analysis says yep 10 months ago:
I’m still waiting for 5G to revolutionize everything like every carrier promised it would.
- Comment on Should instances defederate with other instances anymore if we can filter instances out on our end? 10 months ago:
To combat spam and blatant fuckery, absolutely. Openly hateful places have no business on the general internet.
But anything else is better left to user discretion IMO.
- Comment on Aliens decide to communicate with us 10 months ago:
At one point in my job I was effectively the translator between English speaking Indian software devs, and American project managers. If I can translate technical information into something understandable to a PM, and vague program specs into actionable technical requirements for the devs I think we’d actually be alright with the aliens.
- Comment on Wireless TVs use built-in cameras, NFC readers to sell you stuff you see on TV 10 months ago:
A TV manufacturer would need to pay me A LOT of money to buy a TV with a camera on it. And I mean a life changing amount of money.
I have a newer TV already and that thing will never be allowed to talk to the internet because even without a camera it’s creepy enough.
- Comment on Amazon Prime Video will start showing ads on January 29th unless you pay extra for ad-free 10 months ago:
Guess I’ll just start downloading that content too because I’m not paying you more for the same shit. I’d get rid of it altogether if it wasn’t just included as part of prime in general.
- Comment on China announced new laws to limit microtransactions, affecting major corporations like Tencent. 10 months ago:
Limiting micro transactions and banning predatory reward schemes in video games is genuinely a good thing. We need this to spread around the world.