btaf45
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- Comment on Google’s ‘Secret’ Update Scans All Your Photos 2 days ago:
Whether the people at Google who did this knows they are evil or thinks they are not evil doesn’t really even matter. Having a phone app that automatically scans all your photos should scare the shit out of you. At the very least it wastes your battery and slows down your phone.
- Comment on ‘The tyranny of apps’: those without smartphones are unfairly penalised, say campaigners 6 days ago:
I hope you can see that, as an owner of a Android flip phone, it is annoying to see people use “flip phone” as a synonym for “dumb phone”. BTW not all dumb phones were flip phones, only the final wave of dumb phones generally were.
- Comment on ‘The tyranny of apps’: those without smartphones are unfairly penalised, say campaigners 1 week ago:
I can’t even go to a high school football game without having an app.
- Comment on ‘The tyranny of apps’: those without smartphones are unfairly penalised, say campaigners 1 week ago:
My Kia Sportage PHEV came with a “Kia Connect” app. There is a monthly charge but I get first 3 years for free. It’s got some sort of useful things but I don’t really use it much anymore. More likely than not I won’t bother to pay for it when the free years are up.
- Comment on ‘The tyranny of apps’: those without smartphones are unfairly penalised, say campaigners 1 week ago:
Hello McDonalds. My IQ is 500, so do I get like, free stuff or something?
- Comment on ‘The tyranny of apps’: those without smartphones are unfairly penalised, say campaigners 1 week ago:
I actually wrote my own text editor for the C-64
- Comment on ‘The tyranny of apps’: those without smartphones are unfairly penalised, say campaigners 1 week ago:
innocuous
Calling people “cultists” doesn’t sound very “innocuous”.
- Comment on ‘The tyranny of apps’: those without smartphones are unfairly penalised, say campaigners 1 week ago:
No way would I use that app.
- Comment on ‘The tyranny of apps’: those without smartphones are unfairly penalised, say campaigners 1 week ago:
Out of curiosity, how many flip phones have you used since 2007?
My current phone is a flip phone. A Samsung Galaxy Flip 5
- Comment on Digital Fingerprinting: Google launched a new era of tracking worse than cookie banners | Tuta 1 week ago:
Random User Agent.
I love this.
- Comment on hexbear.net comically loses its domain name 2 weeks ago:
literally a fiction book
Literally a 100% history book. 2000 pages of specific details. And literally nobody in the Soviet government ever claimed any of it was not 100% correct.
- Comment on hexbear.net comically loses its domain name 2 weeks ago:
That first link is pure cold warrior nonsense
Lenin and Stalin did more harm to socialism than any other people in the entire history of mankind. You are a 20th century fossil. Soviet genocide are well documented facts. Here you go…
en.wikipedia.org/…/Excess_mortality_in_the_Soviet…
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gulag_Archipelago
www.sciencedirect.com/…/S0967067X97000111
chinafile.com/…/who-killed-more-hitler-stalin-or-…
news.stanford.edu/…/naimark-stalin-genocide-09231…
reddit.com/…/how_many_people_did_stalin_actually_…
- Comment on hexbear.net comically loses its domain name 2 weeks ago:
I’m not the one pushing GOP or FSB propaganda here.
The point is that the GOP promised “smaller government” and delivered a big government proliferation of victimless crimes. Where do you think they got that con job propaganda from? Lenin did exactly the same thing but on an even bigger scale.
- Comment on hexbear.net comically loses its domain name 2 weeks ago:
You mean the French and Russians didn’t own slaves. But the Bolsheviks did kill millions.
[Soviet Genocide and Mass Murder Since 1917]
www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/NOTE4.HTM
And in the French revolution, just one single man killed thousands of people.
www.worldhistory.org/Reign_of_Terror/
[This led to the enactment of the Law of Suspects, which allowed for the arrests of between 300,000 and half a million citizens nationwide. 16,594 of these ‘suspects’ were formally executed after a trial, while around 10,000 died in prison, and thousands more were killed in various massacres staged across France. It is estimated that the total death toll during the ten-month Reign of Terror rests anywhere between 30-50,000.]
Did you really think I couldn’t back up my statement with facts? How is the Reign of Terror in France and the mass genocide in the USSR in any way “equivalent” to the American and Haitian revolutions?
- Comment on hexbear.net comically loses its domain name 2 weeks ago:
They were established 4+ years ago just to cause the dnc to lose an election in 2024?
The DNC did not lose. We are the losers. You and me will feel the impact way more than well to do politicians.
- Comment on hexbear.net comically loses its domain name 2 weeks ago:
However, every revolution, Russian, French, Haitian, United States, etc. used violence and murder to achieve its goal.
This is a ridiculous false equivalence.
- Comment on hexbear.net comically loses its domain name 2 weeks ago:
Leninism is called that because it literally isn’t communism. Otherwise they’d just call it communism.
They actually do just call it Communism. Few people call it Leninism.
- Comment on hexbear.net comically loses its domain name 2 weeks ago:
Communism is stateless
This is propaganda comparable to the GOP wanting “smaller government” rather than authoritarian Fascism.
- Comment on ‘If 1.5m Germans have them there must be something in it’: how balcony solar is taking off 2 weeks ago:
I hung a solar panel vertically on my fence one time. It was facing west rather than south, but I was only getting about 3-4 watts on my 100 watt panel under the best conditions.
- Comment on Gulf of Make a Report to Apple 2 weeks ago:
Was it decreed by an absolute narcissist for no reason other than the kind of blatant arrogance Americans are notorious for? Absolutely.
Most of the things Traitorapist Trump does is a desperate plea for your attention. Remember that 1 day immigration “crackdown”? He just wanted your unneccessary attention for that one particular day. If finding illegals was that easy they would have already been caught by Biden. He will do another one, but it will be on a random day that Trump is worried you aren’t paying him enough attention. There is no master plan on immigration, just a bunch of 1 day stunts. You can also safely ignore everything Trump says about annexing Canada, Greenland, and Gaza.
Ignore all Trump’s meaningless nonsense and 1 day stunts. Instead of doing that, pay attention to his 2 big related things which are his (1) Enshitification Push and his (2) Fascism Push. Fascism involves Enshitification, but his Enshitification Push goes beyond Fascism and includes things like trying to normalize corruption, promote incompetence, and hugely degrade the quality of government. Somebody needs to track every single one of the specific details of those things. But here is what we do NOT need to do: don’t fall into Trump’s narcissism web and think that just because Trump says some stupid thing every day you need to pay attention to him every day. On most days you do not.
- Comment on ‘If 1.5m Germans have them there must be something in it’: how balcony solar is taking off 2 weeks ago:
By putting the solar panel at a 90 degree angle though it is much less efficient than e.g. a 45 degree angle.
- Comment on Elon Musk just offered to buy OpenAI for $97.4 billion 2 weeks ago:
Ruin company A so it is worth 80% less
Ruin country USA so it is worth 80% less.
- Comment on Jeep Introduces Pop-Up Ads That Appear Every Time You Stop 2 weeks ago:
I bought a 2025 Kia Sportage before the new Trumpflation taxes went into effect. No ads at all. I would have been pretty damn mad to see ads. Weird that Jeep has decided to self destruct.
- Comment on Freed At Last From Patents, Does Anyone Still Care About MP3? 2 weeks ago:
I think the first filesystems had flat layout (no directories),
That is true for MS-DOS 1.0. But Unix had a tree structured directory system from the very beginning (early 1970s). And the directory listing command “ls” was basically the same in the first Unix 50 years ago as it is in modern Linux.
- Comment on Workers at NASA Told to ‘Drop Everything’ to Scrub Mentions of Indigenous People, Women from Its Websites 3 weeks ago:
You need to read the manga versions of Das Kapital to really get it.
And we need to read this to really get you.
- Comment on Workers at NASA Told to ‘Drop Everything’ to Scrub Mentions of Indigenous People, Women from Its Websites 3 weeks ago:
I thought those fucking cretins were supposed to be reducing government waste. How is forcing agencies to paint over murals with positive vibes and update their website to remove magic words a good use of their time and money?
The best way to understand DOGE is to know what it really means: Department of Government Enshitification. The entire point of it is to generally degrade the quality of government.
- Comment on FCC’s Net Neutrality Rules Struck Down by Federal Appeals Court 1 month ago:
God our government is so fucking useless for anything that might actually help people.
More specifically: gop.gov
- Comment on Bluesky hits 20 million users 3 months ago:
Usenet to me seems more like Lemmy than anything else. All conversations are groups by topic, just like Lemmy. Although they are all just “text posts”.
- Comment on DOJ to ask judge to force Google to sell off Chrome, Bloomberg reports 3 months ago:
I don’t see how a “Chrome” company would make any money. Now if the Chrome Company also owned ChromeOS and Chromebooks that might be interesting. But it could also be bad, because such a company would probably want to take a cut of every Chromebook in order to actually make money.
- Comment on Amazon and Audible flooded with 'forex trading' and warez listings 3 months ago:
Isn’t forex just foreign currency trading? I don’t understand how a foreign currency could be worth 50000USD one minute and only 600USD 5 minutes later unless it was a country with hyperinflation.