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- Comment on Some Reddit users just love to disagree, new AI-powered troll-spotting algorithm finds 7 hours ago:
We’ve all done that. One time I posted something and forgot about it. Came back next day and found the first person to comment completely derailed what I was saying by mischaracterizing it. And then all the replies were about the mischaracterization and there were no replies to the substance of what I actually said.
- Comment on Google's AI now listens to your English language phone conversations 12 hours ago:
It’s pretty easy to imagine all the ways this technology can because a nightmare. Maybe Russia puts AI spies on your phone that listen to see if you say anything bad about Putin to the person you are talking to and then pings their police. Fuck you google for creating this technology.
- Submitted 12 hours ago to technology@lemmy.world | 80 comments
- Comment on All four major web browsers are about to lose 80% of their funding | by Dan Fabulich | Apr, 2025 2 weeks ago:
The vast majority of it is not “security development”. There are just screwing around with perfectly good software, sometimes making it worse, because they have a large staff of developers they are paying a salary to.
- Comment on All four major web browsers are about to lose 80% of their funding | by Dan Fabulich | Apr, 2025 2 weeks ago:
I don’t want web browsers to be changing all the time forcing me to do updates. Software that is complete doesn’t need to be changed just for the sake of change.
- Comment on Musk 'Pressured' Reddit CEO to Silence DOGE Critics, Leaving Moderators Outraged: Report. 1 month ago:
America Hates
#Traitorapist Trump
- Comment on Reddit’s 50% Plunge Fails to Entice Dip Buyers as Growth Slows. 1 month ago:
There is no growth potential at all. They regularly bleed large numbers of users with their rando-bans, and the new user experience is so terrible that there is no reason any new person would ever want to use it.
- Comment on Reddit’s 50% Plunge Fails to Entice Dip Buyers as Growth Slows. 1 month ago:
I appealed it and it was lifted, but not before it was upgraded to a permanent ban for ban-evasion on other accounts (I’ve never had more than one account in my 14 years of reddit.)
Reddit has a feature where there helpfully link your account to stranger’s accounts. When the stranger is banned from any sub, you are too. But you don’t know you are banned from those subs. So when you innocently post, you get perma-banned.
- Comment on Reddit’s 50% Plunge Fails to Entice Dip Buyers as Growth Slows. 1 month ago:
Piefed sucks bigtime.
- Comment on Why Lemmy is so superior to Reddit: No Karma, Just Value Content 1 month ago:
You mean the exact same stuff that’s on Reddit, often copied directly from Reddit?
No. We mean all the stuff that Lemmy gets that Reddit either doesn’t get at all or gets a day later than Lemmy.
“Trump bad! Look at this latest bad thing Elong did!” posts a day is not quality content
This bad thing that Trump did looks like very worthwhile content.
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- Comment on Brother accused of locking down third-party printer ink cartridges via forced firmware updates, removing older firmware versions from support portals 2 months ago:
My general rule of thumb is that any software update has a 50% chance of making the software worse. So I don’t update anything without a good reason. That includes not just device updates but things like phone apps.
- Comment on Brother accused of locking down third-party printer ink cartridges via forced firmware updates, removing older firmware versions from support portals 2 months ago:
Urgent security fixes are gonna go unpatched
I don’t understand why a printer would ever need an “urgent security fix”.
- Comment on Nobody Wants a Nazi Electric Car 2 months ago:
Dotard Musk comes from a South African Afrikaner background. Those same people literally ran a white supremist government and jailed Nelson Mandela for decades.
- Comment on Nobody Wants a Nazi Electric Car 2 months ago:
Will there be meaningful software updates for your Kia EV6 in 2028? Absolutely not, no way.
I just got a new electric Kia and I don’t give the slightest shit about updates. In fact I would prefer no updates for fear it would make the great car I have worse. And no way in hell will I ever give Dotard Musk any of my money,
- Comment on Google’s ‘Secret’ Update Scans All Your Photos 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months ago:
innocuous
Calling people “cultists” doesn’t sound very “innocuous”.
- Comment on ‘The tyranny of apps’: those without smartphones are unfairly penalised, say campaigners 2 months ago:
No way would I use that app.
- Comment on ‘The tyranny of apps’: those without smartphones are unfairly penalised, say campaigners 2 months 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 2 months ago:
Random User Agent.
I love this.
- Comment on hexbear.net comically loses its domain name 2 months 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 months 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 months 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 months 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?