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- Comment on User data stolen from genetic testing giant 23andMe is now for sale on the dark web 1 year ago:
Yeah, this is a decades old ongoing issue with companies. They see pretty much anything IT related as a money sink that needs to be trimmed to the bare bones while giving salespeople absurd bonuses. Then they get all surprised pikachu faced when they get hacked or hit with ransomware and their last backup was 6 months ago when they let the IT department go without warning and hired some guys from overseas to handle it remotely.
- Comment on What do you call the next major American holiday which will occur on Monday, October 9th? - Lemmy.world 1 year ago:
All month? This is the 342nd day of Halloween. All days lead to Halloween.
- Comment on Men overran a job fair for women in tech — Grace Hopper Celebration is meant to unite women in tech. This year droves of men came looking for jobs 1 year ago:
Waiting for the inevitable man to come in and go “But how are we supposed to unify if we keep dividing ourselves?” or “You’d have a fit if men complained about women attending a male only event.”
- Comment on Detroit man steals 800 gallons using Bluetooth to hack gas pumps at station 1 year ago:
There’s a convergence of issues. First, and probably foremost, users are idiots. So it has to be able to be operated by a 5 year with a learning disability. Second, implementing security costs money up front. It is cheaper to let the customer deal with the fall out, then do damage control on the cheap, and keep going. Third, users can’t be assed to access things that a 5 year old with learning and physical disabilities and a peanut butter and jelly sandwich in one hand can’t access. These are all typical issues stuff is engineered towards. This is why you see this same basic issue crop up over and over again.
- Comment on Major airline faces backlash after using ‘ghost flights’ to exploit a legal loophole: ‘They weren’t even selling tickets’ 1 year ago:
I’m sure they investigated themselves and found no trace of wrong doing.
- Comment on Major airline faces backlash after using ‘ghost flights’ to exploit a legal loophole: ‘They weren’t even selling tickets’ 1 year ago:
Like Qatar gives a good god damn about human rights.
- Comment on Ever received a parcel notification that seemed a bit off? 📦 1 year ago:
That isn’t weird. This should be default behavior for everyone. If it was fewer people would get caught by scams. I also look at the sender’s email. All the ones I’ve ever received have come from domains not affiliated with the company they purport to represent. I’ve taught all my non-security savvy friends to do this, too.
- Comment on Study reveals some teens receive 5,000 notifications daily, most spend almost two hours on TikTok | Kids officially don't like Facebook 1 year ago:
Consider, if you will, a modest to large group chat. Say a few people start chatting. dindingdingdingding People float into and out of the chat keeping it going for hours and notification after notification after notification comes in. Maybe they’re in a group chat for several classes and/or interests and/or family. I can easily see it. I have to mute the group family chat I’m in when they really start to get going, especially my wife and sister-in-law.
- Comment on The games industry sucks 1 year ago:
Yeah, all that you described? That’s what a union does. points at WGA They did it against some of the biggest multimedia companies. The only people who are going to fix the gaming industry are the workers and that takes a union.
- Comment on The games industry sucks 1 year ago:
You know that their time’s coming to an end
- Comment on What is the attraction to kids? 1 year ago:
Precisely. It’s a mashup of what it has been trained on. Train it on celebrities in bikinis and pornstars getting railed in bikinis, smash the two together and et voila, suddenly every actress has a porn tape of getting railed in a bikini.
- Comment on TikTok working with Kenyan government to ban LGBTQ+ content in the country 1 year ago:
I do.
- Comment on A new smartphone again? Rethink unhealthy culture of frequent upgrades 1 year ago:
We have had watertight user serviceable with external batteries handheld amateur radios for decades. Your arguments are baloney. Phones are only this way because manufacturers want them to be this way.
- Comment on SAG-AFTRA Pushes For Another Video Game Strike - Insider Gaming 1 year ago:
The Variety article goes into more details.
variety.com/…/sag-aftra-vote-authorize-video-game…
SAG-AFTRA stated
“After five rounds of bargaining, it has become abundantly clear that the video game companies aren’t willing to meaningfully engage on the critical issues: compensation undercut by inflation, unregulated use of AI and safety,” said Duncan Crabtree-Ireland, SAG-AFTRA national executive director and chief negotiator, in a statement. “I remain hopeful that we will be able to reach an agreement that meets members’ needs, but our members are done being exploited, and if these corporations aren’t willing to offer a fair deal, our next stop will be the picket lines.”
The signatory companies stated
“We will continue to negotiate in good faith to reach an agreement that reflects the important contributions of SAG-AFTRA-represented performers in video games. We have reached tentative agreements on over half of the proposals and are optimistic we can find a resolution at the bargaining table.”
- Comment on Unpacking Amazon's stealthy mass layoff strategy in Seattle 1 year ago:
It’s almost like their workers should form some sort of association so that they could collectively work to negotiate with Amazon on a more equal footing. Too bad that never happened ever in the history of the human workforce. Sure would be nice, though. Oh, wait…
- Comment on I'm so glad I waited nearly 3 years to play Cyberpunk 2077, but I dread the fact that this is our new normal 1 year ago:
Like games that came out three years before!
- Comment on If Thanos had, instead of randomly wiping out 50% of all living things, he had instead in each species wiped out only the dumbest 50% what would the reaction of each avenger have been? 1 year ago:
Right? Nothing about him seemed really that insane or unhinged. Even killing Gamora, his adopted daughter that he appeared to care for, can be explained as him doing whatever it takes, not being insane. Even what he did to Nebula came off, to me, as just him being extreme in his desire for her obedience and perfect, like any other obsessed and controlling parent.
Honestly, he came off more as the “annoyed Titan” than anything else.
- Comment on If Thanos had, instead of randomly wiping out 50% of all living things, he had instead in each species wiped out only the dumbest 50% what would the reaction of each avenger have been? 1 year ago:
cougheugenicscough
- Comment on Pluralistic: Apple fucked us on right to repair (again) 1 year ago:
I get what you’re saying, but what is the return on those, though? Does it compare to the returns selling a phone? I mean, it could be better returns selling parts, but companies as big as Apple tend to get moribund in their view of the revenue stream. The current model works, so why mess with it?
- Comment on Is there any way to open a pop can stealthily? 1 year ago:
If you can, place it on a relatively flat surface and move it in a circle for a minute or two. Not sure of how it works, but I’ve opened cans with nary a hiss using this method. I’ve even managed to do it with the can just on my thigh and trying to keep it as perpendicular as possible.
- Comment on Amazon Prime Video will soon come with ads, or a $2.99 monthly charge to dodge them 1 year ago:
Right? Or maybe watching the first part of a show until the first commercial to determine if I want to take the time to find it elsewhere.
- Comment on Today The UK Parliament Undermined The Privacy, Security, And Freedom Of All Internet Users 1 year ago:
Nah, I think global sites should just block access from the UK. Let’s see how the politicians like it when facebook, etc, stop working.
- Comment on A cyberattack against Clorox last month that shut down factories has created a nationwide shortage of bleach and cat litter 1 year ago:
Clorox owns Fresh Step, amongst others.
- Comment on What does it mean to "get low" or "drop it down"? 1 year ago:
You realize that lordosis is a neurological reflex, not a sexual position, right? The position lordosis causes in animals may resemble similar positions in humans, but they are not the same thing.
- Comment on Google says it can’t fix Pixel Watches, please just buy a new one | With no official repair program and no parts, broken Pixel Watches are just e-waste. 1 year ago:
Same, but I will not buy direct from them because of the their absolute shit customer service.
- Comment on Google says it can’t fix Pixel Watches, please just buy a new one | With no official repair program and no parts, broken Pixel Watches are just e-waste. 1 year ago:
Google is first and foremost an ad company. Everything else they do is only to improve the worth of their ad business.
- Comment on The Unity Games That Could be Impacted Most by Controversial Fees, From Silksong to Cult of the Lamb - IGN 1 year ago:
Depends what is in the contract. If the contract says devs on are the hook for any future fees they deem necessary, then the devs are on the hook. Unless they want to pay a lawyer big bucks to take on the company behind Unity with their billions of dollars of revenue and the lawyers that buys. How many indie devs do you think can afford to do that?
- Comment on The Unity Games That Could be Impacted Most by Controversial Fees, From Silksong to Cult of the Lamb - IGN 1 year ago:
Welcome to capitalism! Ain’t it grand!
- Comment on Apple users bash new iPhone 15: ‘Innovation died with Steve Jobs’ 1 year ago:
Angry shareholder noises
- Comment on Open source community figures out problems with performance in Starfield 1 year ago:
But are they hiring the right modders?