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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cox deletes ‘Active Listening’ ad pitch after boasting that it eavesdrops though our phones⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Low-bandwidth cellular chip…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EV Batteries Are Dangerous to Repair. Here’s Why Mechanics Are Doing So Anyway⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Depends on where you live and where you plan to go with it. Our EV at current range is fine to get to the nearby large city in the summer over a fairly long stretch of highway. In winter it would probably be doable but at the least it impact our stopping/charging schedule. At 70% range it might not be doable at all in winter and we’d have to be careful in summer. Governments pushing EVs absolutely should be pushing a reasonable recycle/replacement cycle for batteries and the infrastructure to support that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨VW Is Putting Buttons Back in Cars Because People Complained Enough⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re fine for certain things on an evolving menu etc, but not anything where a tactile sense might be needed to avoid distraction. A lack of volume knob is the thing that pisses me off the most in many vehicles, including my own.

  Also, power should be a physical cutoff and NOT a soft button for head units. The one of my car is a software toggle and when the system started glitching, froze and also put out high volume noise with no way to kill it except to shut off the vehicle when I could safely do so

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How many of you actually use the headphone jack on your phone?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I do but it’s certain circumstances where it make sense (on aircraft or when I’ve got a good pair of wired earbuds/headphones on me). Sometimes I use Bluetooth, sometimes wired but I appreciate having a CHOICE!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ubiquiti Users Somehow Being Fed Access to Strangers' Security Cameras⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ditto. “The Cloud” is just another name for somebody else’s computer which you don’t control

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Motivational⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Garage tech startups where the garage belongs to your already upper-income-class parents

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google Promises Unlimited Cloud Storage; Then Cancels Plan; Then Tells Journalist His Life’s Work Will Be Deleted Without Enough Time To Transfer The Data⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Raw high-def video and image files? But yeah, there’s unlimited and then there’s kinda pushing the limits of what’s reasonable. 233TB is more than the contents of some orgs’ datacenters

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google Promises Unlimited Cloud Storage; Then Cancels Plan; Then Tells Journalist His Life’s Work Will Be Deleted Without Enough Time To Transfer The Data⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Which is a matter of how little they’re allowed to have. If there were some sort of minimums that might actual force them to be somewhat effective.

  Instead it’s a race to the bottom of “your business is important to us, but nobody gives a fuck about your satisfaction”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  To scalp something though you’d have to have enough people want a thing that’s hard to get. I’m not sure that’s the case with the CT anymore

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Epic win: Jury decides Google has illegal monopoly in app store fight⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  But if they force Google to open their app store, I hope that do it for fucking everyone.

  At least on Google devices you still can sideload apps, and fairly easy TBH. My biggest annoyance is the “you can’t buy stuff in apps without giving us a cut” which fucked up stuff like ebook apps etc

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Omegle Was Forced to Shut Down by a Lawsuit From a Sexual Abuse Survivor⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Or even the opposite analogy. A guy goes to a bar that has an ID requirement. Has a few drinks. Meets a girl. They end up having a conversation and she and he hook up.

  A week later, the cops show and the guy is charged with a sex crime because the girl was under 18 even though:

  • By all appearances she was of a similar age to him and consenting
  • She was in a place where only adults would be expected to attend
  • The ID requirement of the establishment meant that she should have been well above 18

  So what’s the liability of the bar, both towards allowing underage patrons and allowing them to hook up with older individuals while potentially intoxicated? Could they be sued and/or shut down? How does that story change if the bar was known to look the other way on underage patrons, or not properly check ID? How about if the girl in question was known by some of the staff? How about if the man knew that underage patrons were not uncommon.

  Who has a case against the bar: the man; the girl or her parents; the police; or maybe all of them?

  Nobody should applaud an establishment working under the rules and doing their best being shut down, but when that establishment has a known history of illegal activities on their platform/premises there’s a case that can be built against them.

  That said, the internet is not a bad, and as a globally accessible platform with no physical presence validating ID and policing users/content can be quite difficult. Hell, we see that here on Lemmy with a not insignificant number of people who engage in illicit activities or troll .

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Omegle Was Forced to Shut Down by a Lawsuit From a Sexual Abuse Survivor⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The common thing I’ve seen in more well -knowncases was the abuser striking up a relationship and pretending to be somebody younger, getting compromising details/photos from the victim, then threatening to release those to family/friends unless the victim follows their wishes (which often providing further sexual images/acts).

  Not sure if that might be the case with a service like Omegle, but it was essentially what happened in the Amanda Todd case and other similar cases.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Omegle Was Forced to Shut Down by a Lawsuit From a Sexual Abuse Survivor⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah even mid-90’s “the Internet” started with a doodadootdootdadadoot and wasn’t exactly fast for the vast majority of little. Early 28.8kbps came out around '94-95, and real-time video of decent quality wasn’t so much a thing. More like RealPlayer buffering.

  That said, there was still plenty of janky stuff around. BBS’s weren’t uncommon even before that and generally had people uploading all sorts of stuff. Porn was plentiful, though you often had to wait upwards of a minute for that file to load and see if there were actual boobs.

  Newsgroups were full of weird groups as well as fairly normal ones where the occasional troll would post nasty stuff.

  You could definitely still run across predators hanging around in various places. IRC had tons of them, and A/S/L is a pretty well-known intro to this day. There were some video chats, though it would have been a pixel, low-FPS mess.

  Nowadays the internet is faster, more connected globally and with more people. There’s still terrible shit but I don’t know that it’s any more unexpected/unavoidable than back in the 28.8 days. Parents should be aware and children should be educated on how to be safe online, and platforms should do their best to stem abuse but that’s not really an easy thing without style pretty strict ID requirements, which are often strongly resisted for privacy reasons.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US judge rules: if you can't prove damages, car-makers can continue to intercept and record customers' mobile phone activity.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  One of the things it asks permission for when hooking up Bluetooth etc is “call history”, “contacts” or “text messages”

  I’d assume the system needs those to read it messages or call/redial. It wouldn’t need OCR to do other things with that data

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I finally figured out how to virtualize my OPNsense firewall. Suck it, Roku.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I can’t recall if I limited to Google’s IP’s or not actually. Just that I wanted to prevent their devices from ignoring the DHCP provided hosts

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I finally figured out how to virtualize my OPNsense firewall. Suck it, Roku.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I setup a NAT rule that redirects anything going to the Google DNS IP’s send sends it to my own DNS server.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Aliens did a little trolling⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  There’d be a 180° and people would start claiming that the political leaders were controlling the aliens rather than the other way around

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Aliens did a little trolling⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d try and convince them that politicians are a race…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla Model X Owner Has Had Enough Of Minimalism, Adds Physical Buttons⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Touch screens are great for dynamic interfaces, but terrible for anything that involves feedback or a tactile experience.

  My vehicle - though not a Tesla - still pisses me off that all the stereo controls except the power button are touch-based (even power appears to be a software-activated button as it failed once when the unit locked up). The saving point on my vehicle is that the steering controls (volume, prev/next) do still exist as physical buttons.

  At the very least, they’re should be a physical on/off, and physical dials/controls for volume and heating adjustments so a driver can change those without taking eyes off the road.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fantasy rednecks⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Most have Eurocentric accents because those are the areas the various legends and stories originated.

  Various depictions of leprechauns make them pretty much Irish rednecks. I love Mad Sweeney’s depiction in American Gods.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨True love⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  “lifetime” partner :-)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does anyone drink instant coffee anymore?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I generally only drink instant for late night decaf, though the premixed Korean instant coffee packets are a treat every hour and then

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Indian authorities raid fake tech support rings after tipoff from Amazon and Microsoft⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Also, India is used heavily for actual tech support and call-centers. Many of these places hide amongst them, sometimes in the same buildings as a legit operation which helps mask them.

  I’d imagine that a bunch of the people staffing the scam centers are defectors from a legit one, and take their knowledge - and probably customer lists - with them

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Brave appears to install VPN Services without user consent⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah the first time I tried Brave it the a bunch of ads for their services - and asking about providing info to their partners - at me constantly. I don’t understand why people use that PoS

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don't forget to tip⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Except that rising interest has also fucked up the market for builders who are now producing even less houses

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don't forget to tip⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  There are three reasons that “good landlords” seem to be scarce:

  • People tend to be more vocal about bad experiences than good, so we’ll definitely hear more about the bad ones

  • Many people decided to become a landlord because it outpaced other “investments” greatly, especially if you’re a shitty landlord who doesn’t put profit back into maintaining said “investment”

  • Many of the good landlords that did exist and weren’t gouging eventually got hit with a bad tenant that cost them a lot of suffering and $$$ while being extremely difficult to evict. Whether it’s true or not, I still hear current ones who say they’re charging [crazy amount] to pad for the eventual $20k bill when a bad tenant wrecks their place (and these days it’s not hard to do $20k+ in damage)

  Also per the comic: I’ve never heard of anyone tipping a landlord, good or bad

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Another 62 ‘Girls Do Porn’ Victims Sue Pornhub for $600 Million⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d say the condom thing is also because it raises the risk level considerably, not just because it was dishonest. It’s not just the act they didn’t consent to but the risk of unnoticed m unprotected sex.

  BUT, by that token the risk level of having your sex-acts put on the internet for potential millions to see - including family members, potential employers, etc - is still considerable. It can ruin lives in different but still very significant ways.

  These scum deserve to be stuffed in a cell.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Another 62 ‘Girls Do Porn’ Victims Sue Pornhub for $600 Million⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Been there, uh, didn’t do that because it’s fucking creepy. Also no hitting or calling me “daddy”, which is super creepy IMO

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon reportedly used a secret algorithm to jack up prices⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s no specific law for that, and that most stores did price updates in early/after hours to avoid foot traffic while open. Some place I know generally did it while stocking

  I’m pretty sure I’ve actually seen those tickets flashing while I was shopping.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon reportedly used a secret algorithm to jack up prices⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah it’s one of those things that needs to be stopped - preferably by legislation - yesterday. And you won’t have any choice not to shop they’re because everyone is starting to do it