fatalicus
@fatalicus@lemmy.world
- Comment on Brave CEO rants about "lefties," "glowies," George Soros 1 day ago:
Of course it affects the average user, if nothing else then by showing that the browser can’t be trusted.
If the people making the browser is willing to alter the Web pages people visit to steal money once, what makes you think they aren’t willing to do so again for any number of reasons?
- Comment on Brave CEO rants about "lefties," "glowies," George Soros 2 days ago:
It was a comment on your claim that brave is a great product.
Straight up scamming their users is in my opinion not something that is done by “great products”.
Other examples is that Web browser that added their own referral code when users bought stuff on a crypto exchange. Oops, that was brave as well.
Or that one that installed a paid vpn service during an update, without user consent.
You guessed it, brave that as well.
- Comment on Brave CEO rants about "lefties," "glowies," George Soros 3 days ago:
They stole money by adding donation links to content creators pages, then didn’t give the donated money to the creators.
- Comment on Amazon’s killing a feature that let you download and backup Kindle books 3 weeks ago:
Why “especially if you’re not i the US”?
I’m not in the US, and switched to kobo a couple of years ago, but i’ve had to keep buying books from amazon, sine the kobo store is just realy bad (missing a lot of books, even popular once), and there are few others who offer ebooks here.
The quality of the devices seem not the greatest either.
Bought a kobo libra first and it lasted just long enough for the warranty to expire before it just fully died. Replaced it with a kobo libra colour, and had to replace it three times before I got one that didn’t have pin holes on the screen where light shone through.
Meanwhile my 9 year old kindle oasis works just fine, it has just gotten slow and the battery is worse, which is why I replaced it with kobo.
- Comment on Amazon’s killing a feature that let you download and backup Kindle books 3 weeks ago:
Well fuck… Guess i’ll need too look at what is available for ebook downloads i my arr stack to get books for my kobo.
The kobo store is mostly useless, and there are limited options available for buying ebooks here, so amazon has been the best option for likely finding what i was looking for.
- Comment on Why does the winter solstice mark the beginning of winter, and not the center? 2 months ago:
I once again come to inform that “the start of winter” changes depending on where you are.
So in you case that is just how it lines up, but where I live the winter starts October 14th.
- Comment on USA | Bird flu detected in raw milk sold in California as fears rise of virus spreading 3 months ago:
That is what is great! With the thing trumps administration wants to do, they just won’t detect these things, so nothing to worry about!
- Comment on Monthly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing? 4 months ago:
I’ve started playing satisfactory.
That was a mistake…
- Comment on Norwegian government to set 15-year age limit for using social media 4 months ago:
Would probably require the sites to use Bank ID during signups from Norway.
Bank ID is a national system for confirming identity.
- Comment on Latest Macrium Reflect Version (X) will be a Subscription 5 months ago:
Everyone who goes from having a lifetime/onetime license to a subscription uses the same excuse: “it’s our users who want us to make more money”
- Comment on Microsoft begins cracking down on people dodging Windows 11's system requirements 6 months ago:
Hey man, I think your keyboard is broken.
Every single reply you have made in this thread is just the exact same thing.
- Comment on Smart sous vide cooker to start charging $2/month for 10-year-old companion app 6 months ago:
What I like about having the Bluetooth connection to the app, is mostly just to see when the water has come up to temperature.
But that was apparently too much to ask, since it says that they are also removing the Bluetooth functionality from the app…
- Comment on Google and Microsoft consume more power than some countries 7 months ago:
The thing here also is that I can’t see that they have taken into account that they deliver data center services globally.
So say that my company have 100 VMs in azure. That energy usage should count for our company and country, and not Microsoft.
- Comment on Winamp has announced that it is opening up its source code to enable collaborative development of its legendary player for Windows 9 months ago:
Don’t know about others, but I still have music in both mp3 and flac err I listen to sometimes.
Mostly they are rips off CDs that just aren’t available for streaming anywhere, but also just music I bought as digital before streaming really was a thing.
- Comment on How to opt out of the privacy nightmare that comes with new Hondas 9 months ago:
Right to the temple of anyone who decided it was OK to do this kind of data collection.
- Comment on O365 email local cache 1 year ago:
You still haven’t answered anyone about just using Outlook (the thick client, not Web access)
- Comment on Reddit must share IP addresses of piracy-discussing users, film studios say 1 year ago:
This has little to do with reddit though, other than they being the target.
These companies might just as well go after owners of fediverse instances, and would likely have more luck, as Lemmy owners won’t have the same resources as reddit to fight it in a court.
- Comment on Hackers discover way to access Google accounts without a password 1 year ago:
So it is session hijacking, something that has been known for a while?
- Comment on Rules of Aquisition (Of spics and other tasty ingredients) 1 year ago:
I hope that is an unfortunate typo in the title…
- Comment on Ally (bank)mobile app fails without connection to graph.facebook.com 1 year ago:
You are blocking NTP though. Look at your image, all the way at the bottom.