porksoda
@porksoda@lemmy.world
- Comment on Apple iPhone sales decline 10% in first three months of 2024 6 months ago:
$1000? I have a hard cap at $600 on principle. Just get a phone one generation old and it’s easy.
- Comment on Health insurance giant Kaiser will notify millions of a data breach after sharing patients' data with advertisers | TechCrunch 6 months ago:
It’s the Costco of health insurance, and given the competition, that’s a good thing. Literal one-stop-shop for healthcare is pretty fucking nice in the world of networks, specialists, referrals, and “coverage”.
But yeah, they fucked up here.
- Comment on Senate passes TikTok ban bill, sending it to Biden, who has already committed to signing it 6 months ago:
Hah, well time to tell our CEO I’m shutting down our prod servers.
- Comment on Judge rules YouTube, Facebook and Reddit must face lawsuits claiming they helped radicalize a mass shooter | CNN Business 8 months ago:
Back when I was on reddit, I subscribed to about 120 subreddits. Starting a couple years ago though, I noticed that my front page really only showed content for 15-20 subreddits at a time and it was heavily weighted towards recent visits and interactions.
For example, if I hadn’t visited r/3DPrinting in a couple weeks, it slowly faded from my front page until it disappeared all together. It was so bad that I ended up riding a browser automation script to visit all 120 of my subreddits at night and click the top link. This ended up giving me a more balanced front page that mixed in all of my subreddits and interests.
My point is, these algorithms are fucking toxic. They’re focused 100% on increasing time on page and interaction with zero consideration for side effects. I would love to see social media algorithms required by law to be open source. We have a public interest in knowing how we’re being manipulated.
- Comment on A 7,000-Pound Car Smashed Through a Guardrail. That’s Bad News for All of Us. 8 months ago:
Yeah! Everyone should have to pay full price for their roads or build their own!
- Comment on Roku disables TVs and streaming devices until users consent to new terms 8 months ago:
So legally speaking, what happens if it was my 8 year old son, who clicks buttons with no regard for human life, that agreed to this BS TOS? How is that legally binding?
- Comment on Plex for books? 9 months ago:
Audiobook shelf does more than audiobooks. You can do epubs, etc.
- Comment on Disney+ Drops 1.3 Million Subscribers Amid Price Hike, Streaming Loss Shrinks by $300 Million 9 months ago:
The wording is confusing but they are making more money from the price hike. They were losing money, they are now losing less money.
- Comment on Unprofitable SF tech giant Okta lays off 400 workers, dozens in California 9 months ago:
What would you have recommended? We’re shopping solutions right now and looking at Auth0.com
- Comment on Commercials Are Streaming’s New Norm, and Creators Aren’t Happy: “It’s Almost Worse Than Broadcast” 9 months ago:
Don’t forget that on-demand is being reduced as well now that many platforms are trickling out episodes for their marquee shows at a weekly rate. Looking at you Apple.
- Comment on Content is King? - How it sucked out the joy of personal websites 9 months ago:
There are open source and self hosted alternatives if that’s your thing.
- Comment on 1 in 4 CEOs planning to replace workers with AI this year, according to recent poll 9 months ago:
There’s literally only a few of them
There were 735 billionaires in the US as of 2023. We’re being exploited far more than we all realize.
- Comment on Instagram finds that AI Mr beast scams do not go against community guidelines. 10 months ago:
Not every platform has to accommodate porn and/or nude art.
- Comment on Instagram finds that AI Mr beast scams do not go against community guidelines. 10 months ago:
I’m pretty sure they’re automated and there’s very little that can be done to trace them to their original sources.
Start by holding the ad account holder liable. When I worked in digital marketing and ran ad accounts, I had to upload my driver’s license.
- Comment on X removes support for NFT profile pictures 10 months ago:
Same. I’m getting to the age where I say “I don’t get it” when it comes to a lot of popular things these days. I said it loudly about NFTs, glad to see I didn’t misunderstand it.
- Comment on Amazon’s Twitch to Cut 500 Employees, About 35% of Staff 10 months ago:
What’s the API ordeal? I don’t use Twitch but I’m curious.
- Comment on Microsoft poised to overtake Apple as most valuable company 10 months ago:
They offer multiple products and services. Each of which can have a respective monopoly.
- Comment on Reddit Falls Short of Ad Growth Targets Ahead of Likely 2024 IPO 10 months ago:
$6 million
Why that amount? I’m guessing I’m missing some backstory.
- Comment on Reddit Falls Short of Ad Growth Targets Ahead of Likely 2024 IPO 10 months ago:
while showing how many users they forced into their app where ad blocking is harder.
Laughs in DNS-level blocking
- Comment on Reddit Falls Short of Ad Growth Targets Ahead of Likely 2024 IPO 10 months ago:
I wonder if this is the motivation behind removing the auth-gate on mobile. Previously, if I browsed the mobile site on my phone in a non-signed-in state (I deleted my account), I could view 5-8 top-level comments and that’s it. Clicking “Show more comments” or trying to expand child comments would show a modal asking me to sign in or download the app.
That changed last week along with a complete rework of the mobile site. I’m betting that they saw a huge increase in unauthenticated mobile users with a far below-average time-on-site metric and decided to open it up.
Overall, I appreciate the change because I still lurk in many of the niche subs that I still haven’t found a good replacement for. self-hosted, datahoarder, webdev, 3dprinting, et al. have analogs here, but the content isn’t as deep.
- Comment on FastCompany: E-books are fast becoming tools of corporate surveillance 11 months ago:
Not just probably, they’ve literally done it. Look up the Sony rootkit scandal.
- Comment on Proton Mail founder vows to fight Australia’s eSafety regulator in court rather than spy on users | Australia news | The Guardian 11 months ago:
Generally speaking, serif fonts make it easier to distinguish between visually similar characters like o, O, and 0 or 1, I, and l.
- Comment on Dropbox spooks users by sending data to OpenAI for AI search features (Enabled by default) 11 months ago:
$6/TB/month
- Comment on Cloud engineer gets 2 years for wiping ex-employer’s code repos 11 months ago:
We are fully remote and require a VPN to access all resources. I literally have to do only two things for termination - disable their VPN account and initiate a remote wipe of their work computer.
There are other things, but once those two things are done, I can take my time.
- Comment on Dropbox spooks users by sending data to OpenAI for AI search features (Enabled by default) 11 months ago:
I use Unraid too. What app are you using for backup? Most allow for encrypted backups which renders this issue moot (though still shitty).
I use Duplicacy (not to be confused with the unreliable Duplicati) and send encrypted backups to B2 Backblaze.
- Comment on Thomas 🔭✨ (@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io) 23andMe just sent out an email trying to trick customers into accepting a TOS change that will prevent you from suing them after they literally lost your genome 11 months ago:
I would like some of your plenty of examples.
- Comment on Could X go bankrupt under Elon Musk? 11 months ago:
I know this reference.
- Comment on Return to office is ‘dead,’ Stanford economist says. Here’s why 11 months ago:
It’s hard to say. Here’s a high res version I found, but it’s a stock image and usually they remove branding in those. iongroup.com/…/T5502_Blog-Featured-Image_1-2048x1…
- Comment on Return to office is ‘dead,’ Stanford economist says. Here’s why 11 months ago:
My wife is a high school teacher. We returned to her classroom one evening after dinner this week so I could help her put together some shelves. After 30 minutes of assembly, I realized I needed to use the bathroom. She gave me her keys and pointed me towards the staff bathrooms. Whilst sitting on the porcelain throne, I realized that I couldn’t remember the last time I did a #2 in a public bathroom. I’ve been WFH since March of 2020 when COVID started, and while I’m sure I’ve crapped in a public restroom in the past 3+ years, it’s so infrequent that I can’t remember.
That’s not really the point though, more that I’ve actually been thinking about it all week and reflecting on what working in an office used to be like - crapping next to your coworkers, packing a lunch, trying to look busy when you just aren’t feeling it that day, the small talk, and everything else that result in me being absolutely drained by the time I got home. Seriously, sometimes I would just sit on the couch and stare at the wall for 30 minutes when I got home.
It took the greatest global event of the 21st century to shift us to WFH. We can’t let companies force us into backsliding into these out-dated work practices when all common sense says otherwise.
- Comment on Open source email pioneer Roundcube joins the Nextcloud family 11 months ago:
Same, but Poste.io. Zero complaints.
