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- Comment on Flock CEO calls Deflock a “terrorist organization” 2 days ago:
I didn’t mean they really thought a camera were a gun. I mean UK cops will “suspect” people filming with a camera of being a terrorist (as if aiming the camera were like pointing a gun).
- Comment on Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month 2 days ago:
Probably have to identify myself in some way 🫠
- Comment on Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month 2 days ago:
Can you save all chat logs on Discord?
- Comment on Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month 2 days ago:
I refuse to verify my age with a face scan or government ID for an online account/profile… It’s too easy to imagine how fucked up that will go.
The more I delete profiles to platforms with
unwanteddisturbing features the more recluse I become. It must look to acquaintances that I don’t care to speak but what can I say? I cannot imagine convincing computer-literate friends to switch to something as they will have the same problem.Do I need to retire my gaming server before I’m locked out of controlling it?
- Comment on Flock CEO calls Deflock a “terrorist organization” 5 days ago:
In the UK it means the cop wants your ID and is willing to pretend your camera is a gun to get it.
- Comment on AI Didn't Break Copyright Law, It Just Exposed How Broken It Already Was 6 days ago:
Why tie it to death, why not plain 5 years?
- Comment on Finland's Ministry of Justice is considering halting its plans to start using US-hosted cloud services 1 week ago:
What is unique to American people? I easily foresee the next Trump from any country.
Especially if they have the same bad voting system of “pick the the lesser evil”. Do that enough times and you can get worse than Trump.
- Comment on Backseat Software – Mike Swanson's Blog 1 week ago:
Everyone is at a different point in their understanding of the issue of proprietary software. Spreading good ideas is still good, perhaps better for younger people with only modern technology experience.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Source code or perish.
- Comment on Apple to Soon Take Up to 30% Cut From All Patreon Creators in iOS App 1 week ago:
I too assume the Patreon App doesn’t do anything that cannot be done on their web page. I can imagine there good dev reasons but also bad incentives to make it an app.
I am biased against Apple as I like being the on in control of my hardware/software… but is it a stretch to say Apple influence their users to use apps instead of webpages (so they can rentseek a cut)?
- Comment on Apple to Soon Take Up to 30% Cut From All Patreon Creators in iOS App 1 week ago:
Sadly the fallout is usually on everyone - eventually companies will copy a shady practice as it’s been shown they can get away with it until no other option exists. It falls on the technologically literate to call out when others are being mistreated or they can suffer too.
- Comment on Apple to Soon Take Up to 30% Cut From All Patreon Creators in iOS App 1 week ago:
Maybe it offers something better than on whatever web browser Apple mandates, or maybe no reason but user preference.
- Comment on Apple to Soon Take Up to 30% Cut From All Patreon Creators in iOS App 1 week ago:
An app you can only get via the Apple store, mandated by Apple?
- Comment on OnePlus will allow downgrades (Edited to be less clickbaity) 2 weeks ago:
I don’t own the phone if the manufacturer controls what
firmware^low level^ software I can use on it. Preventing theft by never selling it properly in the first place! - Comment on France will replace Microsoft Teams, Google Meet, Zoom, Webex and others with its own sovereign video conferencing application "Visio" for public officials 2 weeks ago:
Hope it’s public code if it’s paid with public money! Replacing it with proprietary software would be leaving one abusive relationship straight into another.
- Comment on Microsoft gave FBI a set of BitLocker encryption keys to unlock suspects' laptops: Reports | TechCrunch 2 weeks ago:
To use Windows without a Microsoft account requires tech literacy these days, I thought. I would not be suprised if users didn’t choose to sync with a MS account but it’s doing it anyway, if that’s what MS want.
- Comment on You Must Construct Additional... (YMCA), an open source Command & Conquer game (based on the Combined Arms OpenRA mod), with a focus on large battles, is available on ModDB (in early access) 3 weeks ago:
Odd name. Makes me think it’s an opensource Starcraft, rather than C&C.
- Comment on Google Says Its New AI Shopping Protocol Will Not Use Data to Overcharge Consumers 4 weeks ago:
“Enhance users choice”. Even if I assumed good intentions, what the hell is a chatbot going to do??
- Comment on Microsoft may soon allow IT admins to uninstall Copilot 4 weeks ago:
Hardware alone is not a working computer. If you control the software running on your computer then that software is yours (like it’s your book on your bookshelf even though another owns the copyright to it). If someone else controls yours computer then that erodes your ownership of the computer.
- Comment on Microsoft may soon allow IT admins to uninstall Copilot 4 weeks ago:
May allow The benevolence! Your own computer can do whatever you want it to… if MS agrees to it.
- Comment on Why the PS5 ROM Leak Could be a Turning Point for Console Security 4 weeks ago:
I’d rather pay more money for a freer system but that option isn’t offered. Either I’m too niche or locking users down is more valuable than raw sale profit (or both).
I’ve not bought a console since they got internet and needed updates. Been Windows-free for a while too.
- Comment on Why the PS5 ROM Leak Could be a Turning Point for Console Security 4 weeks ago:
How dare users have control of their own hardware!
- Comment on Why Are Cars Getting Rid Of Android Auto? 1 month ago:
Maybe you’ve missed the real dumb shit getting out from various tech manufacturers. I’m not a car guy but I know enough about software and manufacturers screwing people to see that criminals and amaturers are not the real issue in regards to saftey or repair.
A Suburu car has a text pop up advert from the manufacturer on display screen, which can’t be used for normal functionallity until you click off it. Is that distracting to you? Want to bet it doesn’t ever get worse than that when the incentive is there and they’re in control? Source: 5m video www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gw3KRfy9vQY
When I have time I’ll try to recall car specific repair issues that lead to injury. All that comes to mind is OneWheel, and the medical industry screeming death by cost.
- Comment on Why Are Cars Getting Rid Of Android Auto? 1 month ago:
If saftey is your concern I hope you do not blindly trust manufacturers given their history of “safety and security”. My concern is software freedom: being in control of your own computing (instead of the creator being in control). All software has bugs, but at least 3rd party software isn’t intentionally adding anti-features and spyware.
- Comment on Why Are Cars Getting Rid Of Android Auto? 1 month ago:
People have been able to change their own brake pads for as long as cars existed.
- Comment on Can machines suffer? 1 month ago:
Is someone claims feeling in a mere concept (without a body in a location)… I would find it very difficult to take seriously. But I must admit that’s just my intuition.
I see nothing special in human meat that couldn’t be be significantly replicated by electronics, software, gears, etc. Consciousness is an imergent property.
I fear that non-human, conscious creatures must fight us for those rights.
- Comment on Can machines suffer? 1 month ago:
The important part is that it feels like something subjectively to be a living human. It’s easy to presume animals close to humans are like us to a degree, but all we know is what it’s like to be ourselves moment to moment. There’s no reason to deny an unalive system cannot also feel - we cannot test anything.
- Comment on The dominoes are falling: motherboard sales down 50% as PC enthusiasts are put off by stinking memory prices 1 month ago:
Welp, sucks to be a motherboard manufacturer. Always getting dragged along by other component manufacturers.
- Comment on RAM and SSD prices are still climbing—here’s our best advice for PC builders 1 month ago:
DDR6 will be about to release by the time RAM prices return to normal…
- Comment on Apple opens up its App Store to competition in Japan 1 month ago:
(Apple) will permit developers to process payments for digital goods and services outside of its own in-app purchase system permit The benevolence!