ultratiem
@ultratiem@lemmy.ca
I am not me.
- Comment on Prime Video subs will soon see ads for Amazon products when they hit pause 1 week ago:
Same. I ditched AZ once they added ads PV. After 2 20s back to back ads, I unfurled my Jolly Roger. Fuck ads.
- Comment on ByteDance prefers TikTok shutdown in US if legal options fail, sources say 2 weeks ago:
Google is an American company. Apples and Oranges.
- Comment on ByteDance prefers TikTok shutdown in US if legal options fail, sources say 3 weeks ago:
I think you have it backwards, in that it’s the US that’s trying to stop all the Chinese propaganda coming from that app.
And if TT pull out of the US, it’s pretty telling that their core drive for that thing wasn’t money.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
One minute, you’re the savior of the rebel cause; next thing you know, you’ll be Cohaagen’s bosom buddy. You’ll even have fantasies about alien civilizations as you requested; but in the end, back on Earth, you’ll be lobotomized!
- Comment on EU tells Meta it can't paywall privacy 3 weeks ago:
Privacy is a fundamental human right. It’s not a luxury or a means to extort or monetize customers. That’s why the EU is getting involved. Because companies like Meta will leverage them against monetization.
It’s like going to your doctor and having them tell you that unless you pay them $50 for the visit, they’ll sell your medical data to whomever.
A company has to build their services on top of privacy and security, not use either as a means to monetize or boost profits. That’s what the EU is fighting for. Because we all know what happens when it’s left up to the companies…
- Comment on Pulsar, the best code editor 2 months ago:
The team also created the Electron Framework
😡
- Comment on Ecosia plants 200 million trees 3 months ago:
to local tree planting initiatives across the world
Pick a lane. It can’t be both. Either they donate to local initiatives or global ones. Pick one.
- Comment on Why do you remember some dreams and forget others? 3 months ago:
You have hundreds of dreams a night. You only remember the last one. And since time dilates while dreaming, you really have almost no concept of it at that point, so you come to believe that’s the dream you’ve had all night. But you’ve had countless.
And the reason you don’t remember them all is because they have no impact, like remembering what you had to eat for dinner, 3 weeks ago. Just your brain doing housekeeping.
- Comment on Musk says Tesla will hold shareholder vote ‘immediately’ to move company’s incorporation to Texas 3 months ago:
I’d soon as rather inhabit the body of a turkey with leukaemia than Musk thanks
- Comment on Angry bald man 5 months ago:
You could have, if you went to Hustlers University, like I did!
/s
- Comment on Why do it 5 months ago:
What I don’t get is neither path is very deep, so shining a light would reveal both dead ends. Can’t think of a worse way to go tho. And the fear and panic realizing you’re doomed.
- Comment on Back in my day 5 months ago:
Totally normal childhood movies 😬
- Comment on Cool SQL editor and database manager that I found today, licensed under GPL 3 5 months ago:
Electron 🤮
- Comment on The word movie is probably only about 100 years old, yet incredibly ingrained into our culture. 5 months ago:
I find things that carry over despite having little to do with the original. Tape for example. We were saying that for a while when digital recorders and cameras on phones could do video.
Same with the disk icon. Still used for save despite most millennials now having no idea what the thing is.
- Comment on Some animals' claws are like finger fangs, and their teeth like jaw claws. 5 months ago:
- Comment on We're probably pretty fortunate that humans have at least some degree of self control over when we stop eating. 5 months ago:
- Comment on Ada Lovelace: What did the first computer program do? 5 months ago:
tl;dr: Answer: not much, it was the first computer what were you expecting
- Comment on One line of code caused AT&T to lose $60 million 5 months ago:
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There I fucked up your entire codebase.
- Comment on Child psychiatrist jailed after making pornographic AI deep-fakes of kids 5 months ago:
- Comment on Monaspace - Microsoft presents a new font family for code 5 months ago:
Rushed, that’s just how they roll lol
- Comment on Monaspace - Microsoft presents a new font family for code 5 months ago:
You’d think after that page of “texture healing”, alignment, etc. etc., Microsoft would actually make a fully, complete font first and foremost…
- Comment on Monaspace - Microsoft presents a new font family for code 5 months ago:
Yeah texture healing is poorly thought out and will break way more things than it “fixes”. If your font needs that, go in and fix the damn font. A solution to a problem no one asked for, thanks Microsoft!
- Comment on As YouTube Declares War on Ad Blockers, Google Sponsors Ad Blocking Conference 6 months ago:
Research. Trying to kick up information on adblockers and how they function so they can kill the feature once and for all.
A 6 year old can see the contrived plan.
If devs are smart they would poison their data and use the event to troll Google. Wasting their cash.
- Comment on As YouTube Declares War on Ad Blockers, Google Sponsors Ad Blocking Conference 6 months ago:
Sorry but Adguard was never safe as they were always in the pocket of business.
For Apple devices: Wipr Everything else: uBlock Origin
Two independent developers that have not sold out.
- Comment on How Google, Facebook and others use our most personal secrets against us 6 months ago:
Behaviour patterns.
Surveillance is less about knowing specifics about one person, but broad trends on large groups. How communities respond.
This is why prices are 2.99 not 3. In many parts of the world.
Why we frame it “free delivery or 10% off for pick up” instead of “10% more delivery.”
Why all commercials are louder than the content they play from.
Why you’re more likely to pay for the same item if it’s packaged nicely.
These are the data points of value to capitalism. And this is why mass surveillance is so dangerous. Because it arms those willing to exploit us with vast amounts of information, most of it unobtainable without the invasion of privacy. It’s these data that makes things like V for Vendetta possible (given the right timing).
Espionage (foreign and domestic) are the byproducts of the Information Age.
- Comment on Are you actually horny or do you just need a shit and it's pressing on your prostate? 6 months ago:
- Comment on Starfish bodies aren’t bodies at all, study finds | CNN 6 months ago:
Right arm!
- Comment on Amazon made $1 billion through secret price raising algorithm -US FTC 6 months ago:
- Comment on Jeff Bezos urged Amazon to flood search results with junk ads, FTC alleges 6 months ago:
I think it’s more a case by case. In this case, there was sooooo much clear evidence. Like indisputable.
But generally, no I fully agree. Imagine some random lunatic says you raped his daughter. Even in our current climate you’d be kinda fucked but if news was allowed to report like you just plain did it, trial or evidence be damned… awww jeeezzz.
- Comment on Amazon made $1 billion through secret price raising algorithm -US FTC 6 months ago:
These companies own 80% of them. The other 20% are already bought by someone else.
