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- Comment on Half of companies planning to replace customer service with AI are reversing course 1 month ago:
If Bezos thinks people are just going to forget about not getting a $65 item that they paid for and still shop at Amazon, instead of making sure they either get their item or reverse the charge, and then reduce or stop shopping on Amazon but of his ridiculous hassles, he is an idiot.
- Comment on Half of companies planning to replace customer service with AI are reversing course 1 month ago:
I had a shipment from Amazon recently with an order that was supposed to include 3 items but actually only had 2 of them. Amazon marked all 3 of my items as delivered. So I got on the web site to report it and there is no longer any direct way to report it. I ended up having to go thru 2 separate chatbots to get a replacement sent. Ended up wasting 10 minutes to report a problem that should have taken 10 seconds.
- Comment on Google's AI now listens to your English language phone conversations 2 months ago:
All things are going into an authoritarian direction which needs control of the opposition.
Now that we don’t have a real president anymore Google started including white house announcements in Google News. I know every one of these is written by an idiot who is not qualified for their job so I turned them off. But why the fuck didn’t you do this back when we actually had a real president and these announcements were legitimate newsworthy information? Fuck you google!
- Comment on Google's AI now listens to your English language phone conversations 2 months ago:
With nobody to reign them in, they do all kinds of cool stuff
And they never ever ask themselves “Is this ethically the right thing to do”. And so they create things that do way more harm for society than good. For selfish reasons, just because it is a “fun” project.
- Comment on Google's AI now listens to your English language phone conversations 2 months ago:
It’s not been out for years.
New AI-Powered Scam Detection Features to Help Protect You on Android
March 4, 2025
- Comment on Google's AI now listens to your English language phone conversations 2 months ago:
We got baited by piece of shit journos
It’s an official announcement written by Google.
- Comment on Some Reddit users just love to disagree, new AI-powered troll-spotting algorithm finds 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months ago to technology@lemmy.world | 135 comments
- Comment on All four major web browsers are about to lose 80% of their funding | by Dan Fabulich | Apr, 2025 2 months 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 months 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. 3 months ago:
America Hates
#Traitorapist Trump
- Comment on Reddit’s 50% Plunge Fails to Entice Dip Buyers as Growth Slows. 3 months 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. 3 months 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. 3 months ago:
Piefed sucks bigtime.
- Comment on Why Lemmy is so superior to Reddit: No Karma, Just Value Content 4 months 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.
- Submitted 4 months ago to technology@lemmy.world | 113 comments
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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 4 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 4 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 4 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 4 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 4 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 5 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 5 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 5 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 5 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 5 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 5 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 5 months ago:
No way would I use that app.