cyborganism
@cyborganism@lemmy.ca
- Comment on How to opt out of the privacy nightmare that comes with new Hondas 6 days ago:
Does OnStar even work in far out regions like this? Is there even any cell reception? If not then that point is pretty irrelevant.
And if it’s so far out, would emergency services even arrive in time to save you anyways?
- Comment on How to opt out of the privacy nightmare that comes with new Hondas 6 days ago:
No! I mean everybody else! Someone else is going to call for help.
- Comment on How to opt out of the privacy nightmare that comes with new Hondas 6 days ago:
With how everybody and their mother have smartphones in their pockets, I wouldn’t be too worried.
- Comment on How to opt out of the privacy nightmare that comes with new Hondas 6 days ago:
What kind of damage?
- Comment on How rental ‘libraries of things’ have become the new way to save money 6 days ago:
There’s a tax for foreign ownership now,I think…
- Comment on Google Fit APIs get shut down in 2025, might break fitness devices 1 week ago:
Great. Another Google service gets shut down. Why even bother with using any Google service at this point?
- Comment on How rental ‘libraries of things’ have become the new way to save money 1 week ago:
Yeah they built these big ass luxury condo towers downtown and most of them are empty. I know because I can see in them from my office building.
Some argue this allows richer people to move out of smaller units therefore freeing them for others. But instead you have international investors coming in to buy them up as a real tax haven. Or the rich will simply buy them but keep the old ones and rent them at a premium. It doesn’t help at all.
- Comment on How rental ‘libraries of things’ have become the new way to save money 1 week ago:
*cough* Maestria *cough*
- Comment on How rental ‘libraries of things’ have become the new way to save money 1 week ago:
With the size of housing units they build in condo buildings these days, who the fuck has any room to store appliances?
Plus, we live in an era where we produce too much shit anyway and it’s damaging the environment. So by sharing stuff like this, it means we need to produce less.
- Comment on Field Guide 1 week ago:
I think he knows. He’s the smartest of the bunch. I think Julian must’ve gone behind his back and took his photos.
- Comment on Field Guide 1 week ago:
As you can see at the bottom, Julian is the author.
- Comment on We can dream right 1 week ago:
Oh fuck yes! Any time!
- Comment on Microsoft's latest Windows update breaks VPNs, and there's no fix 1 week ago:
Skip 10 seconds. Skip 10 seconds. Skip 10 seconds.
- Comment on Higher-paid employees looking for work are having a tough time, and it could be a sign of a shift in the workplace 1 week ago:
I’m a software engineer. In Canada. There was no explosive growth. Only layoffs and stagnant wages. There was a huge brain drain to the US during that period. Many of my university friends ended up in the states.
- Comment on Higher-paid employees looking for work are having a tough time, and it could be a sign of a shift in the workplace 1 week ago:
We’re going back to the period between 2008 and 2020 where employers didn’t want to pay for well educated and experienced professionals and it was impossible to negotiate your salary. We’re back at having stagnating wages again. In a period of incredibly high inflation no less.
I only got a significant bump in 2021 when companies claimed worker shortages.
- Comment on Is anyone using PixelFed? How is your experience so far? 1 week ago:
Federated Instagram
- Comment on No one has predicted the end of the world in a while. 1 week ago:
Pretty much feels like it.
- Comment on If presidential immunity is absolute.. 1 week ago:
He should fake it and make Trump shit his pants. Order a hit on him and his role family and see Trump lose his mind only to then go “SIKE!” and ensure it can never actually happen.
- Comment on Why people are boycotting Asus all of a sudden? Asus outrage explained 2 weeks ago:
I didn’t even know that. Fuck.
- Comment on If Britain is so bothered by China, why do these .gov.uk sites use Chinese ad brokers? 2 weeks ago:
First of all, why would government websites have ads?
- Comment on Ex-Amazon AI exec claims she was asked to ignore IP law 3 weeks ago:
“Hello, we’re <insert multi billion mega corporation here>. Laws and rules do not apply to us. Go ahead. Give us a fine. Sue us. Whatever amount you request is mere crumbs to us.”
- Comment on Big Tech can’t hoard brainwave data for ad targeting, Colorado law says 3 weeks ago:
Fucking hell. Even our thoughts and feelings are being used to target ads to us. What a fucking nightmare.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, is called breaking up the company. Live nation can still do all this stuff if it breaks apart from its parent company. And it would encourage healthy competition and fairer prices.
- Comment on Open source versus Microsoft: The new rebellion begins 4 weeks ago:
Just saw in another post that Microsoft is pushing their copilot AI into Windows 2022 servers. Windows 11 will become a data syphoning ad-riddled spyware. And Microsoft office will send everything you type to some AI learning machine god knows where.
This will be a huge privacy concern for governments very soon and may force them to switch to Linux and libre office. Germany is not even the first one to do this. French police already use Ubuntu on their desktop computers.
- Comment on Whoops 4 weeks ago:
Canadian invented square Robertson screws are the best.
- they hold on the tip of the screwdriver at any angle
- the hole in the screw head doesn’t get all messed up because you can’t fuck it up.
- Comment on Standard notes: what about don’t put all your eggs in one basket rule? 4 weeks ago:
I don’t know about that. If I use Google to sign in to different separate services, if my Google account is compromised, then so are all the other services, no?
If they’re all independent services then it becomes a hassle. Having to have multiple apps or accounts to manage.
You make a valid point, but I think there should be some kind of middle ground between the two.
- Comment on Standard notes: what about don’t put all your eggs in one basket rule? 4 weeks ago:
I’m on the opposite of that opinion. I’d love it if proton had a whole suite like Google drive and Google keep all bundled into one secure and private service.
- Comment on A German state is ditching Windows and Microsoft Office for Linux and LibreOffice on the 30,000 PCs it uses for local government functions 5 weeks ago:
Good!!! I hope other governments follow.
- Comment on easter is a horrorshow 5 weeks ago:
An egg is more like a detachable uterus.
- Comment on Biden 'outraged' over Israel strike on World Central Kitchen staff in Gaza 5 weeks ago:
Wait. You just now figured it out?
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