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- Comment on OneDrive automatically backups folders in Windows 11 without users' permissions 4 days ago:
Literally one of the very few things keeping me with a Windows partition, though it doesn’t get used very often
- Comment on After announcing increased prices, Spotify to Pay Songwriters About $150 Million Less Next Year 1 month ago:
Just want to add an extra FU to Google as a consumer and Android user. Killing off GPlay Music for YT Music was just a nasty nice, especially given that the latter has no mechanism to purchase music and a lot of the content or mixes in from YouTube uploads seems of pretty dubious legitimacy
- Comment on Nintendo DMCA Notice Wipes Out 8,535 Yuzu Repos, Mig Switch Also Targeted. 1 month ago:
IIRC they also had some stuff going around about how Tears of the Kingdom ran better on the emulator than the actual Switch.
Pretty sure that was the point at which Nintendo decided to unleash the dogs on them
- Comment on China unveils video of its moon base plans, which weirdly includes a NASA space shuttle 1 month ago:
Or just … use it like a port where other nations can rent landing space? Maybe even share resources like the ISS does and charge others rent
- Comment on Steam will stop issuing refunds if you play two hours of a game before launch day 2 months ago:
Yeah, and hopefully in general for cases where an update significantly changes functionality, like DRM requiring always-on our breaking stuff like Steam Deck compatibility for those users
- Comment on Microsoft reveals costs of Windows 10 end of life security update — and it might be more than you'd expect 2 months ago:
And honestly, I’ve been using Excel for work stuff a lot lately (no OO or I’d use that) and it fucks up a lot and in maddening ways. Click a cell at the bottom of your multi-page sheet “Oh, you must have been trying to click A5 so I’m going to scroll way the fuck up here”
Copy-paste from other (even MS) apps also sometimes does weird shit
- Comment on Spider cats 3 months ago:
Uhhhh, I hate that you’re technically correct in this
- Comment on Spider cats 3 months ago:
Also, if the spiders get really hungry then there’s an easy lunch nearby
- Comment on Wood 3D Printed GameCube Shell 3 months ago:
Yeah that seems weird. I have some wood PLA and it very much looks (and sounds) like wood especially once you smooth it out and paint/stain it. Pretty much seems like a printable version of wood-filler
- Comment on Reddit's new paid ads look exactly like user posts 3 months ago:
Oh, they’ll try, but that just means trolling needs to get more creative, like certain Amazon reviews
- Comment on The Terrible Costs of a Phone-Based Childhood 3 months ago:
Also, the fact that technology makes it easier to actually collect data on stuff like depression etc and people are more encouraged to speak about it, as opposed to previous “it’s life, man up and take it” generations’ attitude…
- Comment on Reddit's new paid ads look exactly like user posts 3 months ago:
Yeah, I figure it does two ways
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They get called out quickly and result in a bunch of shitposts or actively blasting the product
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They block posting which makes it obvious they’re ads and get little too no engagement anyhow
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- Comment on Played and beat A Libk to the Past for the first time! 4 months ago:
This game is literally the reason I bought a SNES. Heck, I bought the game before the console even
- Comment on Amazon hides cheaper items with faster delivery, lawsuit alleges 4 months ago:
I’m not sure about Amazon, but in the one eBay days stuffing the price of shipping versus the price of the item was a way sellers avoided percentage-based fees based on the item price.
- Comment on Amazon hides cheaper items with faster delivery, lawsuit alleges 4 months ago:
That’s becoming increasingly more difficult though. Search engines (especially Google) have their top results polluted with links back to Amazon or sketchy sites, reviews etc
The actual products in Amazon - and now pretty much everyone with an online store - heavily mixed with 3rd-party Chinesium products with names generated by room full of cats and keyboards, and then further obfuscated by what their algorithm actually wants you to see, often to the point where it completely disregards your actual search terms.
It’s not mindlessly clicking. Your could literally spend hours trying to find the thing you need but only seeing the thing they want to sell you.
- Comment on AI companies are violating a basic social contract of the web and and ignoring robots.txt 4 months ago:
The funny (in an “wtf” not “haha” sense) thing is, individuals such as security researchers have been charged under digital trespassing laws for stuff like accessing publicly available ststems and changing a number in the URL in order to get access to data that normally wouldn’t, even after doing responsible disclosure.
Meanwhile, companies completely ignore the standard mentions to say “you are not allowed to scape this data” and then use OUR content/data to build up THEIR datasets, including AI etc.
Shit is fucked
- Comment on France uncovers a vast Russian disinformation campaign in Europe 4 months ago:
The best lie is the one that contains grains of truth
- Comment on Amazon Prime Video drops Dolby Vision and Atmos unless you pay extra 4 months ago:
“pray we don’t alter the deal further?”
- Comment on Amazon hides cheaper items with faster delivery, lawsuit alleges 4 months ago:
Fun thing, if you don’t sort by “Prime” you’ll often find that there’s another one of the exact item you’re looking for - without Prime - but actually for a lower price. The Prime isn’t actually free shipping, it’s just baked into the price
- Comment on Queer.af mastodon instance has been shut down by the Taliban 4 months ago:
Does federation involve some sort of key exchange? If not, would that mean that if one loses control of a domain somebody could spin up a new Lemmy instance to spoof the old one and potentially harvest data?
- Comment on Samsung purposely knives customer's TV to weasel out of repair 4 months ago:
Yeah, the are many other reasons I don’t buy Samsung anymore but a singular PoS employee that did something they made good on wouldn’t be a reason to quit. Now if this was a common behaviour by employees that would be a different thing but I don’t think there’s a rash of TV-slitting assholes working for them.
- Comment on How I got scammed (05 Feb 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow 4 months ago:
My bank blocked a payment to my mortgage lender (I had more than enough money in the bank, but they had a bunch on hold when I transferred a recent deposit to savings).
The agent for the broker that called asked for a bunch of information that they should have had. I hung and and called back to find it was a legit call, but let then know that I their rep really sounded like a scammer and they should probably update their scripts
- Comment on More and more USB sticks and microSD cards are being made with dubious components — data recovery firm uncovers no-name, low-quality NAND inside many devices 4 months ago:
Sounds like part of the issue might be that your not-so-cheap storage might still be using the cheap components…
- Comment on Chinese malware removed from SOHO routers after FBI issues covert commands 4 months ago:
It’s not entirely uncommon for the latter to happen. Some greyhats have done similar things to clear out botnets in the past. It still counts as unauthorized access to a system though so most avoid doing so even if the intended result is beneficial
- Comment on Actually had to use this old friend at work the other day 5 months ago:
Why not just use a USB-TTY adaptor?
- Comment on Can I infer a breach of Epic Games payment systems? 5 months ago:
Possibly. We’ll probably see if there’s a pattern of compromised numbers between one or another
- Comment on Can I infer a breach of Epic Games payment systems? 5 months ago:
If their systems were breached, I’d expect charge attempts against whatever cards are funding that account, not the generated card #'s.
- Comment on Fujitsu bugs that sent innocent people to prison were known “from the start” 5 months ago:
Yeah what’s the charges for destruction of evidence? This should absolutely be treated as a criminal matter
- Comment on This tool for finding bad USB-C cables 5 months ago:
Do you trust the $4 tester from China to test the suspect cheap cables from China?
- Comment on These aren't "feel good" stories, they're "we live in hell" stories. 5 months ago:
Where I’ve worked you’d hit a limit after a certain number of consecutive sick days and then move on the a short or long term disability package which wouldn’t be at full pay but not ruinous either. I’m not sure those are usable to care for somebody else though