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- Comment on 40% of US electricity is now emissions-free 10 months ago:
What is toxic in solar panels?
Mainly lead and cadmium, and they can be recycled, that’s not the problem, the problem is the cost of doing it vs sticking them in a landfill. Nobody wants to spend 5x to recycle something that’s dead to them and can’t generate income anymore, vs dumping it.
- Comment on 40% of US electricity is now emissions-free 10 months ago:
but the grid will just keep getting greener as greener is cheapest.
Really? As somebody that works in the power space, how exactly do you figure that? Nuke aside, which people constantly complain about, the NRC doesn’t like to renew licenses, doesn’t want to grant new ones, that leaves wind and solar, both are money pits, waste more than they generate, and have a horrible environmental impact both from lost land, spent panels that can’t be recycled or thrown out as they’re toxic as hell, wind farms need never ending maintenance and again, cost more to run than they give back.
Until modular nuke become the norm and coal plants are retro’d, standard nuke plants are the absolute best bet. There’s no consiracy to keep older coal plants alive, sorry, that’s political stupidity. Every power company on the planet would dump them if they could. They’re a nightmare to operate and keep going.
- Comment on Mint Mobile discloses new data breach exposing customer data 10 months ago:
Stupidest thing I’ve ever heard, you’ve clearly never worked for a company that’s dealt with a customer info data breach. It costs them massive amounts of money to clean them up, pay for identity protection (never take that) and the PR alone costs them more in the end.
- Comment on Mint Mobile discloses new data breach exposing customer data 10 months ago:
TMO is breached yearly, Mint customers and TMO customers aren’t the same thing, Mint is TMO’s customer, not the individuals. Not the same databases. In the end, Mint doesn’t have half the data on it’s customers that actual TMO does on theirs.
- Comment on Google Will Stop Telling Law Enforcement Which Users Were Near a Crime 11 months ago:
Honestly, these days there probably wasn’t much benefit. At one point, sure, but looking at it from the standpoint of a non privacy aware person, they’re handing so much data over, ignoring the line of their travel probably does near nothing for them, while having and holding that data is a huge negative since they’ll always be harassed for it from law enforcement. Without it, they can probably dissolve whole departments of people that had to be dedicated to LE ass kissing so the police didn’t have to do their jobs or so they could cast their dragnets and put tons of innocent people through hell while they figured out everything later.
- Comment on Netflix Resumes Advertising on X After Elon Musk Controversy 11 months ago:
No shortage of people cancel services because of a single thing one person or says, or because they place an ad on a platform that’s popular to bash because of a political view with no direct reason otherwise, so yes, it’s pretty common.
- Comment on Netflix Resumes Advertising on X After Elon Musk Controversy 11 months ago:
And there’s nothing wrong with that, that’s not cancel culture, that’s not giving a scumbag company money, that’s how it’s supposed to work.
- Comment on Netflix Resumes Advertising on X After Elon Musk Controversy 11 months ago:
More like realizing how much they were losing, on top of how bad their numbers have been for years…
- Comment on Netflix Resumes Advertising on X After Elon Musk Controversy 11 months ago:
Not everybody lives their lives based on political cancel culture.
- Comment on Google Will Stop Telling Law Enforcement Which Users Were Near a Crime 11 months ago:
Then you don’t grasp what’s happening, You think the Goog wants to be in the middle of that shit? That’s time and resources that don’t benefit them. Providing that data puts them in a bad spot Everytime, simply not having the data to provide obsoloves them of that and is in both their and the end users best interest. The push getting worse is because current Stingrays don’t work on 5G, so the internal police spying is very limited now, and getting location records from telcos requires more of a papertrail than going to Google and Apple in the past, and when cops are asking for shit they don’t really need, they don’t want to be in the books for it.
- Comment on Google Will Stop Telling Law Enforcement Which Users Were Near a Crime 11 months ago:
Well, no, not really. They’re more private than Google, but have also never had issues in the past with geofence dragonets, and only because of public backlash stopped the idea of digging through people’s gallerys to accuse everybody of being a pedophile. Yes, out of the box Apple (may) be a little better, but their descicions change with the wind, and at least on Android we have control to stop what Google does in most cases vs no options on the Apple side.
- Comment on Proton Mail founder vows to fight Australia’s eSafety regulator in court rather than spy on users | Australia news | The Guardian 11 months ago:
That’s a joke right? It has been for a very long time.
- Comment on Apple Makes It Harder for Police to Access Your Push Notifications 11 months ago:
Google has always had good privacy and security, it just doesn’t apply to them! Which is the problem.
- Comment on 23andMe frantically changed its terms of service to prevent hacked customers from suing 11 months ago:
That’s exactly how it works, as long as they notify everybody and set a drop dead date on it, usage beyond that point constitutes acceptance. No different than every other passive TOS on the planet.
- Comment on New systemd update will bring Windows’ infamous Blue Screen of Death to Linux 11 months ago:
Not a single assumption was made, only that you’d take something simple and make it more work. That’s not debatable, something you have to track down in logs, vs have right in front of you is more work. I’ve been running Linux as my main OS since RH8 Desktop, did you think that mattered? LOL! “Stay in your lane” LOL!
- Comment on New systemd update will bring Windows’ infamous Blue Screen of Death to Linux 11 months ago:
That makes perfect sense, why know what caused the crash right away when you can manually check logs… fail.
- Comment on Apple isn't happy about India's demand to upgrade older iPhones with USB-C 11 months ago:
If by “propaganda” you mean the bills actually submitted at the time, yes.
- Comment on Japanese Institute breaks optical fiber speed record with 22.9 petabits per second — 1,000 times faster than existing cables 11 months ago:
And that’s why I have FiOS even though I despise Verizon, and could save some money with Comcast.
- Comment on OpenAI employees really, really did not want to go work for Microsoft 11 months ago:
As a long time techie, and somebody that’s run Linux as my main OS for over 20yrs, hard to hate MS more than me, but, MS is a very different company now than in years past. They’ve come pretty far from the days of Ballmer destroying it, directly involved with more Open source shit now, Azure is literally Linux, they have people working physically with Canonical on all the WSL shit, they’re trying at least.
Still wouldn’t run garbage Windows for shit, but credit where credit is due.
- Comment on Apple isn't happy about India's demand to upgrade older iPhones with USB-C 11 months ago:
Exactly, it’s complete overreach and isn’t going to happen. What’s been made has been made already. As you said, they simply stop shipping older model phones, and then Indian people will have less affordable phones to choose from. No way in hell Apple is cracking open phones and desoldering ports and replacing them, the cost would make the old ones cost more than the new ones.
Govts always take shit too far.
- Comment on Apple isn't happy about India's demand to upgrade older iPhones with USB-C 11 months ago:
Good, China needs to go down in flames. More and more tech is also moving their manufacturing to India.
- Comment on Apple isn't happy about India's demand to upgrade older iPhones with USB-C 11 months ago:
Stupid people like to do stupid things…
- Comment on Apple isn't happy about India's demand to upgrade older iPhones with USB-C 11 months ago:
As somebody that owned a 92 F150, No the hell it’s not! Not even close. The Maverick is a car with a bed.
- Comment on Apple isn't happy about India's demand to upgrade older iPhones with USB-C 11 months ago:
Which they 100% will be. I was ALL for Net Neutrality, the first time that was huge news, but then started reading up on all the downsides and it’d end like all gov’t regulation does, de-facto government created lock in.
- Comment on Apple isn't happy about India's demand to upgrade older iPhones with USB-C 11 months ago:
Since when? We have pickups of every size. Small pathetic compact trucks like the Maverick, Mid sized like the Colorado, Tacoma, Ridgeline, Frontier, and then all the actual pickups. There was only a short time after the Ranger went away for the second time where there wasn’t many small P/U options, they’re plenty again.
- Comment on 23andMe is updating its TOS to force binding arbitration with a limited opt-out window 11 months ago:
It would if you dont utilize the opt out during the window, all TOS’ are written that way, every ody that’s used them already agreed to be bound by a TOS that’s subject to change, as long as they post the change and offer an opt out from that point forward, it’s legal. That’s why places always send those updated TOS notices.
Sadly many people that used them did so with real information. Anybody that did should download their profile, request data deletion and opt out of the terms.
- Comment on Apple isn't happy about India's demand to upgrade older iPhones with USB-C 11 months ago:
Wouldnt be surprising if they just stop shipping the older phones then. India isn’t the EU, most of their smartphones are cheap and low spec, most of their networks are terrible and small bump they’ve recently had is stil an incredibly small amount as a whole vs the rest of the Indian market.
- Comment on They forgot the LGBTQ... 11 months ago:
Relevance?
- Comment on Amazon is now automatically playing fullscreen video ads on Fire TV 11 months ago:
Depends, my autopay discounts were on Privacy cards, which I now can’t use. So losing a $20/mo discount becuase no way in hell will I give an actual debit card # or checking info to a company that’s going to lose it in their next breach, nor can I control or cancel them at will.
- Comment on Amazon is now automatically playing fullscreen video ads on Fire TV 11 months ago:
As well as AT&T. Its becoming more and more common.