wrekone

@wrekone@lemmyf.uk

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Inside the U.S. Government-Bought Tool That Can Track Phones at Abortion Clinics⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I see your point. I have no illusions that democracy is healthy in modern times. Perhaps not ever? We don’t even live in a democracy any more, we live in a corporatocracy.

  But doing nothing will solve nothing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Inside the U.S. Government-Bought Tool That Can Track Phones at Abortion Clinics⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If you don’t want to be tracked illegally, don’t bring your phone.

  If you don’t want any to be tracked legally, write/call/tweet/visit your representatives.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Inside the U.S. Government-Bought Tool That Can Track Phones at Abortion Clinics⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If you don’t want to be tracked illegally, don’t bring your phone.

  If you don’t want any to be tracked legally, write/call/tweet/visit your representatives.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kroger’s plans to roll out facial recognition at its grocery stores is attracting criticism from lawmakers, who warn it could lead to surge pricing and put customers’ personal data at risk⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A Kroger spokesperson said in a statement that the company’s business model is built on a “foundation of lowering prices to attract more customers.” “To be clear, Kroger does not and has never engaged in ‘surge pricing,’” the statement said. “Any test of electronic shelf tags is designed to lower prices for more customers where it matters most.”

  I know these PR people get paid a lot to tell bald-faced lies, but I just don’t understand how they live with themselves.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Baidu CEO warns AI is just an inevitable bubble — 99% of AI companies are at risk of failing when the bubble bursts⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well put.

  Soon, it won’t be this idiotic hype cycle, but it’ll be some other idiotic hype cycle. Short term investors love hype cycles.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Please Don’t Make Me Download Another App | Our phones are being overrun⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I get emails from school, with a link that opens a 3rd party app, which only displays a link that opens in the default browser. I’ve asked the school to just send me direct links to the announcements, but they say they can’t. The site doesn’t require authentication, but the URLs have UUIDs so I can’t just guess what the link would be. The app is quite literally just a data exfiltration layer that does everything it can to make sure you can’t bypass it. Good luck getting any other parents to give a shit though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit is making sitewide protests basically impossible⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  …we cannot allow actions that deliberately cause harm

  Seems like that’s about the only actions Reddit execs have taken over the last several years. Glad I left when I did.