xhieron

@xhieron@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hack of Age Verification Company Shows Privacy Danger of Social Media Laws⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  We all called it. Didn’t matter. Time to move to the next box.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can we all agree that whatever version of predictive text we have nowadays is crap, and has been for a long time?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Christmas.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Negative electricity prices registered in nearly all European energy markets⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Water, meanwhile …

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Permission is Hereby Granted" -- MIT License text becomes viral “sad girl” piano ballad generated by AI⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  SO close. Just another five or ten seconds to finish the whole license. I would love to see someone cover this thing and tie it off.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AT&T won't say how its customers' data spilled online⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  For all other agencies it’s just sparkling subpoenas.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨enjoy⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s something wrong with mine. It’s not spinning. Does that mean I still get the death, or do I have to do something special? I don’t want to miss out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google Pulls the Plug: The End of Third-Party Cookies and What it Means | TWiT.TV⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Narrator: It didn’t.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Record waiting times for cancer treatment in the UK while King Charles begins treatment within days of diagnosis⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Indeed. As a Yank who always has to pay for healthcare anyway, it’s easy to see the parallels in labor/employment, civil rights, and financial security: We’re facing a global regressive movement from the political right, and those people have no scruples. They absolutely want to claw back every single gain the general public has made in rights and benefits over the last 75 years, and making benefits unpopular is the first step to privatizing them.

  Never forget the NHS, warts and all, is a thing that we Americans would die to have, and for want of it many of us too often literally do.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mark Zuckerberg made $29 billion this morning after Meta stock makes record surge⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Your solution to rampant economic inequality is … campaign and vote downballot.

  I mean, sure, that’s a great idea, but your argument essentially boils down to combating apathy (which isn’t a new or unique problem), and I guess attacking a hypothetical Sanders administration that never happened because–I dunno, you just wanted to get a jab in at voters who were actually motivated about a candidate for once in a lifetime? Well, good news for you; all the Sanders supporters are back to voting defensively until their kids grow up, if they vote at all. Does that feel like a win to you?

  People aren’t “taking the easy way out” by not voting the entire ballot. In fact, split-ticket voting is down historically, at least as of 2020, across both parties. Blaming people for not devoting their lives to political activism is akin to blaming minimum wage workers for not walking out: Yeah, maybe things would be better if they did, but people have to survive. Choosing to use what little spare time one has with family instead of participating in local politics isn’t a moral failure, and it’s not the easy way out. It’s just rational. People have limited time and limited means, and there are more important things than who gets to be the constable next year.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TikTok requires users to “forever waive” rights to sue over past harms⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Nope. You’re still wrong, but it’s not worth the trouble. I hope you never have to learn the hard way. Take it easy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TikTok requires users to “forever waive” rights to sue over past harms⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  None of these are legal requirements of an agreement in the US.

  Source: Am lawyer who writes EULAs for a living.

  There are plenty of good arguments for why a particular EULA might be legally problematic, but “no signature, no contract!” isn’t one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Be safe out there, Atlanta.⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Estuans interius …

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Netflix jacks up the price of its premium plan to $23 a month⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Yarr.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft is killing WordPad in Windows after 28 years⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  This is very upsetting to me–more as a point of principle than in fact–but I appreciate that it doesn’t bother younger generations at all. I just had a small argument with my 11 year old about how not-a-big-deal-who-cares this is, and it basically ended with us agreeing to disagree since it’ll be his problem and his kids’ problem.

  And the problem is normalizing the notion that an OS doesn’t need to include a non-subscription word processor. The entire point of this move is to shift the OS Overton Window in favor of consumers accepting and expecting that features like word processors, spreadsheets, etc., should be installed separately and paid for on a subscription basis despite previous iterations of the same software being feature complete on install and purchased at a set, non-recurring fee.

  WordPad hasn’t been anybody’s first choice for a word processor in years, but it was included with Windows and did the bare minimum for unsophisticated users. Now we’re entering an era in which those users will as a matter of course buy off-the-shelf computers that come pre-installed without WordPad, but rather with a trial of Office Fuck-You-Pay-Me Edition. Those users may well discover that after their first six months with their new computer (that has made Microsoft more money selling their data than they paid for it), they suddenly get a pop-up informing them that their trial is up and MS wants $99.99 to release the documents they’re holding hostage.

  It’s a step backwards for consumers in general, so even for the sophisticated of us who are least likely to be personally affected by this change, there’s definitely cause for alarm.