jimbo
@jimbo@lemmy.world
- Comment on Own a Roku TV or streaming device? You're about to see a lot more ads on your home screen 9 months ago:
None if you block it.
- Comment on Own a Roku TV or streaming device? You're about to see a lot more ads on your home screen 9 months ago:
God damn this shit is so fucking annoying. I paid something like $100 last year for the Roku Ultra because it was better than the built-in software on my TV and now I have to see ads? Fuck em, I’ll repurpose a mini PC I have and replace the Roku.
- Comment on Not even poor Notepad is safe from Microsoft's AI obsession 9 months ago:
God damn. Fuck these guys. My bread and butter has been programming in the Microsoft ecosystem for 15 years. Now I’m running Linux on two different PCs and working on learning non-MS development stacks.
- Comment on A literal child taking orders in a fast food restaurant in the US 9 months ago:
It’s already normal and kids want to buy things as much as anyone else. This is like incredibly easy to understand.
- Comment on A literal child taking orders in a fast food restaurant in the US 9 months ago:
Kids routinely get hurt and killed just playing. As long as they’re not getting more seriously hurt more often at a job than regular activities, I don’t see what the issue is, at all.
- Comment on A literal child taking orders in a fast food restaurant in the US 9 months ago:
NO ONE HERE ACTUALLY KNOWS.
- Comment on A literal child taking orders in a fast food restaurant in the US 9 months ago:
Shame them for what? You don’t know what’s going on in that picture.
- Comment on A literal child taking orders in a fast food restaurant in the US 9 months ago:
There’s hardly anything to defend because you twats have nothing other than a photo with zero confirmed information about what appears in the photo.
- Comment on A literal child taking orders in a fast food restaurant in the US 9 months ago:
Everyone else in this thread is making conclusions based on their imaginations, so why not?
- Comment on A literal child taking orders in a fast food restaurant in the US 9 months ago:
Why shouldn’t a 15yo be allowed to work? Connect that dot with sex, drinking, and gambling please.
- Comment on A literal child taking orders in a fast food restaurant in the US 9 months ago:
"Looks 10“ and “is 10“ are not the same. We don’t actually know how old the kid is, nor do we know the context of why they are there.
- Comment on A literal child taking orders in a fast food restaurant in the US 9 months ago:
What’s the difference? You look down on fast food work more?
- Comment on A literal child taking orders in a fast food restaurant in the US 9 months ago:
Unrelated to what? You don’t know how old the kid is in the picture, how long they work, nor what time of year it is.
- Comment on A literal child taking orders in a fast food restaurant in the US 9 months ago:
Being intent on remaining outraged is idiotic. Spending a few hours doing a handful of minor tasks at a fast food restaurant for fun is worlds apart from being required to labor for day after day for a pay check.
- Comment on 23andMe tells victims it's their fault that their data was breached | TechCrunch 10 months ago:
Funny you calling me ignorant in response to a post where I asked you twice to explain more. That you resorted to insults instead of explaining your thinking says a lot more about you than it does me.
- Comment on 23andMe tells victims it's their fault that their data was breached | TechCrunch 10 months ago:
I’m not going to try and guess what you think the evidence is. If it’s as readily available as you claim, it should be trivial for you go find it and show me. The fact that you haven’t yet is telling about how honest you’re actually being.
- Comment on Microsoft is adding a new key to PC keyboards for the first time since 1994 10 months ago:
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- Comment on Microsoft is adding a new key to PC keyboards for the first time since 1994 10 months ago:
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- Comment on 23andMe tells victims it's their fault that their data was breached | TechCrunch 10 months ago:
If I am an insurance company, and I have data that says you are carrying a gene that is correlated with colon cancer…
You think an insurance company would leave money on the table if they thought your DNA could save them a few bucks? They’d either offer discounts to people for submitting DNA samples or require DNA samples as a condition of coverage.
If I am a med company, and I know what your genes correlate with known treatable genetic diseases …
Med companies don’t need your DNA to know that they can charge more life-saving medication. They just need you to know that you have a particular condition and then make sure you know about their medication. If the disease in question is fatal, like your example, it actually seems like a win for the person in question that there’s a cure for their condition.
If I am a texas politician, who is already threatening hospitals across the nation illegally for your private medical data, I am salivating trying to get your dna…
Ah yes, the Texas politician who is going to let the lack of DNA data stand in the way of his eugenic designs. Okay. Totally realistic.
These are only the obvious problems.
They’re all bad examples that don’t at all depend on your willingness to give up your DNA information.
- Comment on 23andMe tells victims it's their fault that their data was breached | TechCrunch 10 months ago:
This list shows 1500 people for me. I assume that’s just some arbitrary limit to the number of results. There’s significantly overlap in the relationship lists, so the number of relatives is less than the (140000.51500) that that math might indicate.
- Comment on 23andMe tells victims it's their fault that their data was breached | TechCrunch 10 months ago:
But why do you need access to any of your half sibling’s personal data to do that?
Nobody “needs” it, lol. People do it because it’s interesting to them.
Why do you need access to everyone who opted in’s data to do that?
Why does Facebook need to show you other people’s profiles? Why does Lemmy show me your profile and posts? It’s how the services work, and people choose to use them because they work that way.
- Comment on 23andMe tells victims it's their fault that their data was breached | TechCrunch 10 months ago:
Do you not see a responsibility to future generations in any of your actions or are you just here to “get yours” and check out?
Not on this matter. Simply asserting that danger exists is not the same as demonstrating it, and you’re doing a lot of asserting and zero demonstrating.
While there are real and immediate dangers today
Such as? You’re pretty light on details there.
our responsibility in this moment is to be a firm NO so that these things don’t find their extremes in our lifetime or beyond
Why does that require a “firm NO”? Plenty of actually dangerous things have been handled via regulation rather than a “firm NO”.
You’re the frog in the pot of cold water, but the burner is turned on beneath you.
Bad news: the frogs jump out. You’ve also completely failed to demonstrate that we are frogs and there is a pot of water.
- Comment on 23andMe tells victims it's their fault that their data was breached | TechCrunch 10 months ago:
Services like 23AndMe keep a database over all the DNA they have received.
Yes, it’s how they provide the service.
This database is often shared with governments, and can be used to create relationship maps - who is what to whom.
Your evidence for this claim?
This information can be and is being weaponized against us on a daily basis.
How? By who? What’s your evidence?
I’m betting you have no evidence and will simply appeal to some instance where some company sold some data to the government in a situation that isn’t at all analogous.
- Comment on 23andMe tells victims it's their fault that their data was breached | TechCrunch 10 months ago:
Sell to insurance companies. Genetic predisposition towards certain illnesses? That’s a premium.
If that’s something that those companies were interested in doing, why wouldn’t they just require people applying for coverage to submit a DNA sample? That would be way easier, more reliable, and less shady compared to trying to piece together profiles based on data being sold on the black market.
- Comment on 23andMe tells victims it's their fault that their data was breached | TechCrunch 10 months ago:
The biggest worry is that the data might be right and might be used by an insurance provider to deny a person’s coverage
Ok, but if that’s something insurance companies want to do, they’re not going to be stopped because you didn’t send a DNA sample to 23andMe, nor are they going to have to go scrape up questionable data off the black market. They’ll simply offer people some discount for sending in a DNA sample or even make it a requirement for coverage.
- Comment on 23andMe tells victims it's their fault that their data was breached | TechCrunch 10 months ago:
Sure, it’s a breach, but I would blame my idiot friend for re-using passwords. I wouldn’t blame the service for doing exactly what I expected the service to do, and is the reason I chose to use the service in the first place.
- Comment on 23andMe tells victims it's their fault that their data was breached | TechCrunch 10 months ago:
A successful breach of a family member’s account due to their bad security shouldn’t result in the breach of my account. That’s the problem.
How the hell would they prevent that if you voluntarily shared a bunch of information with the breach account? This is like being mad that your buddy’s Facebook account got breached and someone downloaded shared posts from your profile, too. It’s how the fucking service works.
- Comment on 23andMe tells victims it's their fault that their data was breached | TechCrunch 10 months ago:
Not then give you access to half their customers’ personal info?
That’s a feature of the service that you opt into when you’re setting up your account. You’re not required to share anything with anyone, but a lot of people choose too. I actually was able to connect with a half-sibling that I knew I had, but didn’t know how to contact, via that system.
- Comment on 23andMe tells victims it's their fault that their data was breached | TechCrunch 10 months ago:
by brute-forcing accounts with passwords that were known
That’s not what “brute force” means.
- Comment on 23andMe tells victims it's their fault that their data was breached | TechCrunch 10 months ago:
Why anyone would care is beyond me. Explain what someone’s realistically going to do with your DNA data.