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- Comment on YouTube Jewels look like they were ripped straight out of the Reddit Gold playbook 2 weeks ago:
Can you imagine being paid for your work in digital jewels and rubies? It’s not there yet, but were getting closer and closer to being a modern day Tennessee Ernie Ford, paid in scrip and buying everything at the company store.
- Comment on Tidal is laying off more staff. 4 weeks ago:
That is a package like “tidal-hifi” or something like that that can basically put the web app on your linux desktop ad an app.
- Comment on How long do you think we'll keep seeing "formerly Twitter"? 4 weeks ago:
They really shouldn’t be allowed to name anything after a single letter. VW, BMW, ABC, TBS are all bad enough. X conflicts with too many established uses.
- Comment on Is it offensive for me as a man to dress as a male version of a female fictional character for Halloween?' 4 weeks ago:
I can’t see a problem with fictional characters. It’s when you bring in the real people that the drama starts. Trans JK Rowling, KaMANla Harris, Hillbilly Eilish, and Marjory Taylor Peen all seem like they would raise a few eyebrows.
- Comment on Sweden, Norway rethink plans for cashless societies over fears that fully digital payment systems would leave them vulnerable to Russian security threats 4 weeks ago:
I don’t like using cashless anything because I know part of the cost is my privacy. Having said that, convenience is a powerful draw and cash can be a pain, especially when you have to find a spot for small coins.
- Comment on Google creating an AI agent to use your PC on your behalf, says report | Same PR nightmare as Windows Recall 5 weeks ago:
I dread every day I log into my work computer, not because I hate my job, which is one of the best I’ve ever had, but because I have to try to do it using Windows.
- Comment on 'Electric Plastic' Could Merge Technology With the Body in Future Wearables and Implants. 5 weeks ago:
If you would like to activate your heated bum that’ll be 19.99 USD /mo. I know we already installed the hardware, but you have to pay us to use it.
- Comment on Wikipedia article blocked worldwide by Delhi high court. 5 weeks ago:
Yeah, you know there’s bound to be some juicy drama if they want to remove it so bad.
- Comment on Why do cell phones have a data limit but home internet doesn't? 5 weeks ago:
My German friends and family don’t believe me when I tell them how expensive internet and phone is in the US. They all think it’s expensive in Germany. Having said that, there are some big differences in take home pay.
- Comment on “I am still alive”: Users say T-Mobile must pay for killing “lifetime” price lock 5 weeks ago:
I agree about peertube. I’m lucky that my niche has some creators with a peertube instance at urbanists.video (like c/fuckcars) for me to watch. I check that before youtube now and it cuts my YouTube usage by 5-15%.
I know we’re off topic, but do you have call recording on Graphene? Also, how does the adblocker work. I find most adblockers use the VPN to create a loopback to listen on. I use a VPN frequently, so that interface isn’t available and I block ads via hostfile.
- Comment on “I am still alive”: Users say T-Mobile must pay for killing “lifetime” price lock 5 weeks ago:
I had a Google GSuite account from back when they advertised it as a free for life solution for families who wanted to use their own domain. They stopped offering this a long time ago, but kept us around. A few years ago, they tried to end it, but walked that back after facing resistance. We were among the earliest adopters and many of us shilled pretty hard for gmail over the years. Not only would they have gone back on their word, but my app and media purchases would be tied to a crippled no-email account (identity only) because they didn’t have a migration path to normal gmail. That means multiple logins. Also, the gsuite inbox doesn’t have the inline ads or anything while the regular one does. I’ve been working to move away from google because I imagine they’ll try to end this again later, but also just because we understand better who google really is.
The site the greedy little pigboy runs was instrumental to the resistance but since it’s enshittified, we may not be able to resist again. Its fine to say something is for a lifetime, but you have to honor that or you’ve been dishonest and no one can trusts thing you say.
The only reason I still have google around is android. When we finally get a linux daily driver phone that meets my minimum needs, I’m migrating the remainder of my stuff. I’ll happily give up some functionality to do it. I just hope they can keep their free for life promise until then.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Free™ with the purchase of a second item of equal or greater value. Free™ iPhone when you sign up for a 2 year contract… Unlimited™ data. Free™ tax prep.
Nothing is truly free and someone needs to buy these corporations a dictionary. Maybe a couple of government agencies could look at those dark patterns and offer some Free™ rides to a correctional facility?
- Comment on New largest prime number discovered by former Nvidia software engineer 1 month ago:
If Jesus had wanted us to use prime numbers why did he turn the water into wine and not numbers? Checkmate atheists. /s
- Comment on I hate how everything requires you to download a shitty proprietary data harvesting app nowadays when everything can be done just fine without an app. 1 month ago:
I find that many desktop sites scale just fine, and as you stated, the most common issue is simply that the elements may be sized a little strangely. The desktop sites tend to be way more functional. I miss my old Windows Mobile PDA with the stylus that could tap the smallest of links without a problem. With most phones I’ve had in recent history being at least 1920x1080, there’s no reason a site shouldn’t be able to display in desktop landscape mode.
- Comment on I hate how everything requires you to download a shitty proprietary data harvesting app nowadays when everything can be done just fine without an app. 1 month ago:
Yeah, I hate that. At an old job, sometimes people would go around and take lunch orders before running to Wendy’s, Hate Chicken, or Chipotle. I’d way rather give my coworker cash and let them have the bonuses and discounts and crap while I maintain the privacy afforded to cash-only Chads. It’s still an L though because we’re still giving the companies money.
- Comment on I hate how everything requires you to download a shitty proprietary data harvesting app nowadays when everything can be done just fine without an app. 1 month ago:
I will never throw it my mother in law’s stove or washer or dryer. I think all are 1950s-80s and repair parts and manuals are available all over online. Rather than fighting LG or Kenmore or Samsung or whoever and getting screwed after spending big $$$ on a smart appliance, I just buy a part, usually <$100, and fix it myself. I have a few more delicate items that I wash in my parents washer because it is more gentle, but it also doesn’t clean as well as the old machines. Power consumption doesn’t matter so much in this case because there’s solar on the roof offsetting the extra usage, and from an environmental perspective, replacing a machine and disposing of an old one has a cost as well.
- Comment on I hate how everything requires you to download a shitty proprietary data harvesting app nowadays when everything can be done just fine without an app. 1 month ago:
I saw this. It seems the app just shows you a picture of which quadrant you should be brushing and how to move the brush. I bought the appless one and it just vibrates every 2 min. or so to let you know you can move on to a new area of your mouth. No app required. If anyone thinks a glorified brushing timer is worth your privacy, might I suggest an egg timer instead?
- Comment on I hate how everything requires you to download a shitty proprietary data harvesting app nowadays when everything can be done just fine without an app. 1 month ago:
Recently got a notification when visiting m.facebook.com in a Firefox based browser that my browser will soon be unsupported on Facebook and I should download the Facebook Lite app. I haven’t had the FB app installed for over a decade and for much of that, I’ve been using the version designed for dumb(ish)phones that hasn’t had the experience enshittified the same as the full mobile site, the desktop site or the app. You can actually still see a list of your friends, potentially even in alphabetical order. Even the feed seems to still show real stories from your friends and not all the other crud. If the simple mobile site goes away, I will probably stop using FB except checking once a month to see if far away friends and family sent something. In no case will I install the app. It’s bad enough that I have an account there at all.
- Comment on I hate how everything requires you to download a shitty proprietary data harvesting app nowadays when everything can be done just fine without an app. 1 month ago:
I would also add that apps allow companies to more closely control your behavior. If I use amazon in the browser, I can open up 20+ tabs and save things to my browser bookmarks rather than storing my “likes” server side with their list feature. I also can’t copy text or save images in many apps, even something as simple as an order number.
I see the dark patterns you reference fruequently. Two-thirds of apps seem to abuse notifications now. It got to the point where I literally turn off all of them except phone and messaging. I just put a repeating task on my to do list to check email and such. I don’t need every app on my phone to spam me over every little thing, but the companies that made them sure seem to need that to happen. My attention is sacred.
- Comment on Internet Archive breached again through stolen access tokens 1 month ago:
You have more knowledge on this than I did. I enjoyed reading about Freenet and Ceph. I have dealt with cloud stuff, but not as much on a technical-underpinnings level. My first freenet impression from reading some articles gives me 90s internet vibes.
I remember ceph because I ended up building it from the AUR once on my weak little personal laptop because it got dropped from some repository or whatever but was still flagged to stay installed. I could have saved myself an hours long build if I had read the release notes.
- Comment on Internet Archive breached again through stolen access tokens 1 month ago:
Yeah, the projects I’ve heard about that have done something like this broke it into multiples.
For example, 1000GB could be broken into forty 25GB torrents and within that, you can tell the client to only download some of the files.
At scale, a webpage can show the seed/leach numbers and averages foe each torrent over a time period to give an idea of what is well mirrored and what people can shore up. You could also change which torrent is shown as the top download when people go to the contributor page and say they want to help host it ensuring a better distribution.
- Comment on Why do residential skyscrapers always seem to include balconies that never get used? 1 month ago:
Agreed. I live on my back patio when it’s warm enough. I’ve gotten called out (not in a bad way) on meetings for my hammock background. ;-)
- Comment on What websites still feel like the old internet? 1 month ago:
I love the old simple powerful websites at companies I’ve worked for. It’s when they add a bunch of whitespace and a chatbot that they really start to go to hell.
- Comment on Internet Archive breached again through stolen access tokens 1 month ago:
Yep, that seems like the ideal decentralized solution. If all the info can be distributed via torrent, anyone with spare disk space can help back up the data and anyone with spare bandwidth can help serve it.
- Comment on Facebook and Instagram Restrict the Use of the Red Triangle Emoji Over Hamas Association 1 month ago:
Oh no a symbol is offensive. Better try and wipe it from the internet.
…removes millions of road signs and people drive off cliffs.
- Comment on Does anyone watch Google, Microsoft, etc the way Cop Watch watches cops? 1 month ago:
I’m surprised I didn’t think of the EFF despite donating to them before. Thank you for the links.
- Comment on Does anyone watch Google, Microsoft, etc the way Cop Watch watches cops? 1 month ago:
This looks really interesting. I try to get stories from varied sources, but don’t particularly want it “curated” for me. I’m going to add this to my rotation.
- Comment on Does anyone watch Google, Microsoft, etc the way Cop Watch watches cops? 1 month ago:
You got closer than I did. I didn’t mention it in the original post, but I also tried duckduckgo with little luck. I hope to god this is peak enshittification because I can imagine how it gets worse from here.
- Comment on Does anyone watch Google, Microsoft, etc the way Cop Watch watches cops? 1 month ago:
Yes, I tried Duckduckgo, but also didn’t get great results. Admittedly, I could have revised my terms a few more times, but I’ve had good luck with things Lemmy recommends, and this doesn’t really seem like a niche interest on this site.
Thanks for the recommendation on all the 3 letter agencies. I bet there are mountains of CSPAN coverage out there for me to watch.
- Submitted 1 month ago to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world | 14 comments