ShakeThatYam
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- Comment on What's going on at Mozilla these days? 3 months ago:
I’m willing to bet that the people who switch to Firefox for ad-blockers and ad-free YouTube aren’t the kinds of people who are donating much to Mozilla. People in online forums talk a big game about wanting to pay for products and not be the product. But it seems like people don’t really want to pay any meaningful amount of money for a browser.
- Comment on Stuck 9 months ago:
It’s kind of their whole thing though. It’s how NASCAR got started. Without it, it would kill a large part of their tourism.
- Comment on Stuck 9 months ago:
Tbf, there are American beaches known for being drivable. Specifically, Daytona Beach.
- Comment on Apple calls Android a 'massive tracking device' 1 year ago:
What are you talking about? Google does not give law enforcement information without a warrant or valid subpoena.
support.google.com/transparencyreport/…/9713961?h…
You clearly have no idea how any of this works and are fear mongering based on sound bites you may have heard. I work in this field and I know that Google (at least in the US) won’t just hand over data without a valid warrant or subpoena. Now this can be a FISA warrant where the defendant (imo) doesn’t have proper due process rights, but it is still a court order requiring them to comply.
- Comment on Apple calls Android a 'massive tracking device' 1 year ago:
Yeah, I realize it’s worse than that… When did I say otherwise? I even started off the comment by stating that Apple and Google’s privacy features were made for anti-competitive reasons, not to benefit the consumer.
Your type of fear-mongering isn’t really helpful though. It just makes people feel powerless to large corporations and makes people try to address the wrong issues. It’s important to accurately state what they are collecting and how they are using that data. We spent a decade complaining about Google not respecting privacy and selling data and what we got was Google gaining even more power. Because, that wasn’t what Google was doing or their end goal.
- Comment on Apple calls Android a 'massive tracking device' 1 year ago:
To say they are part of it kind of implies they even had a choice. When Yahoo tried to fight being a part of the program they were going to be fined $250k a day.
- Comment on Apple calls Android a 'massive tracking device' 1 year ago:
Only for things that are on Google’s servers. If you have something that’s on-device police will use something like Cellbrite to access it.
The vast majority of stuff Google has on their servers isn’t really all that useful to law enforcement anyway and Google requires a search warrant before handing it over. And they generally notify the user when it happens (when legally allowed to do so). Most useful would probably be location data, but law enforcement can also get similar information from cell phone companies (who are much more carefree about handing over subscriber data).
Google and Apple are both actually kind of a pain to deal with for warrant related stuff. In my line of work, I most often see subpoenas for cell phone and social media records as those are much easier to get.
People often act like Google is just handing out user user data to the highest bidder, but that really misunderstands their profit model. They are very protective of user data. Google does not like to give it out so that only they can be the ones to profit off of the data.
- Comment on Apple calls Android a 'massive tracking device' 1 year ago:
From what I’ve heard it’s been harder for law enforcement to get into Android phones now.
Also, the whole privacy features only make Apple’s data gathering more valuable because they become the only ones that can access that information. Google caught on and is doing the same thing with their privacy features. Like privacy features are nice, but it’s naive to think that Apple and Google don’t have other ulterior motives with implementing them.
- Comment on Los Angeles is using AI to predict who might become homeless and help before they do 1 year ago:
No thanks. If this is remotely successful these fucks will next use it to Minority Report us.
- Comment on Racist provokes Klingon. Klingon breaks Racists nose. 1 year ago:
Me too, but it brings me great joy to make the process as tedious as possible for the questioner and go through every single city I’ve ever lived in.
Most give up by the third or fourth city that isn’t my country of origin.
- Comment on Microsoft CEO says unfair practices by Google led to its dominance as a search engine 1 year ago:
- Comment on Microsoft CEO says unfair practices by Google led to its dominance as a search engine 1 year ago:
Windows is constantly nagging you to switch to Edge when you use a non-Edfe browser but apparently Nadella is totally cool with that.
- Comment on Major airline faces backlash after using ‘ghost flights’ to exploit a legal loophole: ‘They weren’t even selling tickets’ 1 year ago:
Love the double standard. When you do this as a passenger to get a cheaper fare the airliner will ban you for life.
- Comment on Oxford study proves heat pumps triumph over fossil fuels in the cold 1 year ago:
Because your comment suggests that heat pumps can’t work in Canada. It’s like an American dismissing heat pumps because Alaska is part of the US. For at least 70% (if not more like 90%) of Canadians, heat pumps work just fine. Obviously, if you are in the part of Canada that gets consistently below -40 degrees, don’t get a heat pump.
- Comment on Oxford study proves heat pumps triumph over fossil fuels in the cold 1 year ago:
Which would account for 5-10% of the Canadian population. Just the three metros I mentioned would account for 35% of Canadians. The record low for the coldest of those cities (Montreal) is -36F, but the average low in January is 7F.
- Comment on Oxford study proves heat pumps triumph over fossil fuels in the cold 1 year ago:
Tbf, most Canadians don’t live in those areas. Places like Toronto/Montreal/Vancouver rarely get that cold.
- Comment on Is it recommended to wear a face mask when riding bicycle around cars? 1 year ago:
I wonder if this would be a possible use case for the stupid Dyson headphone filter. It uses positive pressure to provide you with filtered air. However, I’m not certain the filter would be enough to clean exhaust fumes.
Another issue would be that you probably shouldn’t be wearing headphones while biking, but maybe they have a passthrough mode.
- Comment on Space junk is on the rise, and no one is in charge of cleaning it up | There are at least 100 bags of human waste on the surface of the Moon. 1 year ago:
I need this premise expanded into a book or movie.
- Comment on Space junk is on the rise, and no one is in charge of cleaning it up | There are at least 100 bags of human waste on the surface of the Moon. 1 year ago:
For that to even remotely be an issue there would need to be millions of moon landings. If we reach that point we could probably easily yeet our fecal waste into deep space if we needed to.
- Comment on [MEGATHREAD] Starfield - Your experiences! 1 year ago:
Reddit has toxic positivity with regards to Starfield. I find the comments I’ve read here so far to be a much more measured take. Basically that it’s a good game but it has a few minor issues that make it not live up to what was advertised.
- Comment on Weaker subscription deals have hit indie publishers, says analyst | GamesIndustry.biz 1 year ago:
Cause a lot of indie devs are also idiots when it comes to business decisions. Many (especially solo devs) didn’t get into the industry to make boatloads of money; they are often creative types who are passionate about their work.
- Comment on Automaker Tesla is opening more showrooms on tribal lands to avoid state laws barring direct sales 1 year ago:
The dealers near me sell multiple different manufacturers under the same name. They won’t be on the same lot, but they will be directly adjacent to each other so that it’s effectively the same thing.
- Comment on The TSA will use facial recognition in over 400 airports 1 year ago:
Yeah, but I was very caught off guard and they didn’t advertise that as an option.
- Comment on What is your preferred fitness tracker/smartwatch? 1 year ago:
Second this. Battery life is only good for like 1.5 days but it charges in like 15 mins so it’s not a big deal for me. Sleep tracking and fitness tracking have been good. Only thing I don’t like is the default strap it comes with; it was irritating my skin. The stretchy fabric one is so much better.
- Comment on What is your preferred fitness tracker/smartwatch? 1 year ago:
I like my Pixel watch. It’s battery life doesn’t last more than 1.5 days, but I have no issues charging it for 15 or so mins in the morning.
- Comment on The TSA will use facial recognition in over 400 airports 1 year ago:
I was just at an airport that was doing this. I entered my ID into a slot and they scanned my face. There was a sign that said that the face scan would be immediately deleted, but I don’t believe it. I didn’t really want to be face scanned but I wasn’t about to make a scene.
- Comment on What's the proper way to get rid of books? 1 year ago:
Donate to library or school if in decent condition. Recycle if not.
- Comment on Here’s why the best IMAX movies still need a Palm Pilot to work 1 year ago:
I had a high school comp sci teacher who basically worked part time for fun. His main source of income was royalties from some DOS software he wrote like 20+ years before that a large number of companies still used. Always thought was interesting.
- Comment on A rant about slugs (trigger warning, towards the end) 1 year ago:
Where do you live that you are seeing this many slugs? I haven’t seen a slug or snail in years. I certainly don’t see dead ones littered across a sidewalk.
- Comment on Ya'll do realize you can customize what you can/can't see on kbin/lemmy, and your experience is about about how you make it right? 1 year ago:
I usually just do local for a few different instances. I think all gets too flooded with shit I don’t want to see
