silkroadtraveler
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- Comment on The Sam Vimes boots theory of socioeconomic unfairness 2 months ago:
Ah yes your comment represents the convergence of suburbanhell and capitalisthell!
- Comment on Microsoft says EU to blame for the world's worst IT outage | Euronews 3 months ago:
Typical MS gaslighting and manipulation to subvert meaningful regulation.
- Comment on Russia launches "social rating" platform to determine a person’s comparative “social status” 4 months ago:
Ah I see what you mean(t). You would have to have working systems with clean-enough data in the first place to integrate with in order to develop a system like this. Not just the expertise to develop it.
- Comment on The President Ordered a Board to Probe a Massive Russian Cyberattack. It Never Did. 4 months ago:
If you ever want to go down a depressing rabbit hole, read about the tax-avoiding antics Microsoft pioneered between 2010 and 2020. They’re still refusing to pay a measly $29M tax bill (likely a minute percentage of what they laundered / evaded). It is a truly evil corporation.
- Comment on Russia launches "social rating" platform to determine a person’s comparative “social status” 4 months ago:
That’s a monopoly I appreciate. Although it’s marginal depending on a number of factors.
- Comment on Russia launches "social rating" platform to determine a person’s comparative “social status” 4 months ago:
Comparing run of the mill government services with something as advantageous as a social credit app is not apples to apples. It’s not like they assign utility administrators to work for GRU hacking units. The people that build this tool will be highly paid technical experts. And there is no shortage of them in Russia. It’s definitely not 100% but there’s a decent chance they can cobble together a working system that tracks social scores for the vast majority of Russian citizens.
- Comment on Russia launches "social rating" platform to determine a person’s comparative “social status” 4 months ago:
I wouldn’t underestimate the engineering competence of Russians especially when it comes to autocratic surveillance tools. There are plenty of Russian-built tools and web apps that function quite well - Yandex, VK, etc. The west does not have a monopoly on innovation.
- Comment on Court To Elon: No You Can’t Just Ignore The SEC’s Investigation Into Your Failure To Comply With The Law 8 months ago:
They should put an asterisk below the reminders **does not apply if your net worth is in excess of $3M ir whatever point at which your lawyers outsmart the IRS annually
- Comment on Court To Elon: No You Can’t Just Ignore The SEC’s Investigation Into Your Failure To Comply With The Law 8 months ago:
That’s exactly what I was alluding to but was too lazy to type in full haha
- Comment on Court To Elon: No You Can’t Just Ignore The SEC’s Investigation Into Your Failure To Comply With The Law 9 months ago:
Yeah and he has a top secret clearance…different set of rules for our special brand of corrupt oligarchs.
- Comment on VW Is Putting Buttons Back in Cars Because People Complained Enough 11 months ago:
Yeah Amazon has opened the door to the lowest quality hardware out of China to put most name brands out of business for lower priced goods.
- Comment on VW Is Putting Buttons Back in Cars Because People Complained Enough 11 months ago:
Oh I see, that’s helpful and makes sense. I’m one of those newbs who took 15 hours to set up my own Jellyfin. Self hosting Home automation is a ways off in the distance for me haha.
- Comment on VW Is Putting Buttons Back in Cars Because People Complained Enough 11 months ago:
I thought this comment was trolling then I realized that zigbee and zwave are real brand names. You can’t make this shit up.
- Comment on 'Morale is at an all-time low': Ex-Googler writes scathing latter slamming layoffs and 'eroded' culture 11 months ago:
Gotcha, maybe it’s the fact I’m running iOS, I can’t get any type of rule or DHCP assignment options to show up. Just the same two options for telemetry and Nest. Oh well, thanks for the help. I’m getting my new router Tuesday and should be off to the races!
- Comment on 'Morale is at an all-time low': Ex-Googler writes scathing latter slamming layoffs and 'eroded' culture 11 months ago:
If you click into mine, all you see are two options both of which only serve to allow Google to Hoover more of your data.
Looking into this more a couple days ago, it seemed that without IP reservations, you can’t get the port forwarding option to appear. Which I haven’t messed with. On principal I refuse to deal with a router that has regressed in functionality and am instead dedicating my time to de-Google my life haha. I bought an openwrt compatible router this weekend. https://lemmy.today/pictrs/image/900cfd9b-ad9c-4a1c-8a41-5ce580c9b353.pnghttps://lemmy.today/pictrs/image/655586bb-2e04-42a6-97f5-75df79fb1915.png
- Comment on Suspicious 11 months ago:
Yes chef!! 🫡
- Comment on Suspicious 11 months ago:
My first time. Learned the hard way lol
- Comment on 'Morale is at an all-time low': Ex-Googler writes scathing latter slamming layoffs and 'eroded' culture 11 months ago:
I went to modify my 2018 Google Wi-Fi router to add a simple port forwarding rule, and the functionality is completely GONE from their already shitty Google Home app. It used to be so easy and simple on the old Wi-Fi app. I’m never buying another Google device.
This company has reached enshittification nirvana.
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- Comment on Google has sent internet into ‘spiral of decline’, claims DeepMind co-founder 1 year ago:
I switched to DuckDuckGo and have had zero issues I had on Google that would require any additional filters.
- Comment on Google has sent internet into ‘spiral of decline’, claims DeepMind co-founder 1 year ago:
Not to mention he sold his company to Google. So he’s as much a contributor as Google itself.
