wrekone
@wrekone@lemmyf.uk
- Comment on Inside the U.S. Government-Bought Tool That Can Track Phones at Abortion Clinics 3 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 1 month 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 1 month 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.
- Comment on Don’t ever hand your phone to the cops 1 month ago:
What’s a lemon party? I should Google it.
- Comment on Amazon's Monopoly of the tech industry is ruining the US economy 1 month ago:
I’ve gotten some surprisingly long lasting gems there, but you can never be sure. Like you said, I’ve also gotten a number “single use” tools from Harbor Freight. Overall though, it’s almost always been worth it.
- Comment on Google denies reports that it’s discontinuing Fitbit products 2 months ago:
I too was married once.
- Comment on We need to nationalise Google, Facebook and Amazon. Here’s why 2 months ago:
Or both!
- Comment on We need to nationalise Google, Facebook and Amazon. Here’s why 2 months ago:
Or both!
- Comment on How the American war on porn could change the way you use the internet 3 months ago:
Oregon joins the chat…
- Comment on [Meta] Did we drop the "what are you playing" monthly thread? Also, mods haven't been active for a while, should someone take over? 5 months ago:
Thief, Power Wash Simulator, Dead Cells, South Park: The Stick of Truth, Car Mechanic Simulator 2021.
- Comment on Winamp has announced that it is opening up its source code to enable collaborative development of its legendary player for Windows 5 months ago:
Tiiiiiight
- Comment on Squarespace to Go Private in $6.9B All-Cash Transaction with Permira 6 months ago:
There will likely be no benefit for the employees or the users. For the PE firm, the goal is usually to pump up the value and resell or reenter the market, at a massive profit, in a few years. To do that, they’ll have to make a lot of unpopular choices, such as layoffs and other cost cutting measures. If they’re privately held, those choices have far less impact on the value of the company, since the stock market is heavily swayed by public perception.
- Comment on what lemmy web app do you use and why? 6 months ago:
Sync. It seemed to have the closest feature set to RiF early on and I’ve just stuck with it since then. I try other apps occasionally. They all have their strengths but Sync feels the most polished.
- Comment on After announcing increased prices, Spotify to Pay Songwriters About $150 Million Less Next Year 6 months ago:
That’s what’s stopping me too. I’ve tried to convince them that Youtube Music (I’m a holdover from the Play Music days, RIP) is good enough but they won’t have it. I miss Songza.
- Comment on Researchers unlock fiber optic connection 1.2 million times faster than broadband 7 months ago:
With further refinement and scaling, internet providers could ramp up standard speeds without overhauling current fiber optic infrastructures.
Don’t worry. They’ll find some way to use this to justify massive rate increases.
- Comment on El Salvador Will Keep Buying 1 Bitcoin Daily Until BTC 'Becomes Unaffordable' With Fiat Currencies, Says President Bukele – Featured Bitcoin News 8 months ago:
…El Salvador has decided to transfer a large chunk of its bitcoin holdings to a cold wallet and store it in a physical vault
What are we up to now, like Ocean’s 15 or something?
- Comment on AI Generated Videos Just Changed Forever (OpenAI Sora) 8 months ago:
When I was a kid, I had seen, or at least heard of, nearly every TV show from my parent’s generation. Going back probably 40 years. Like, I’ve probably seen every Looney Tunes, every episode of M.A.S.H., and most episodes of The Munsters, because some days there wasn’t anything else to watch. My kids look at me crazy if I haven’t heard of the latest flash-in-the-pan influencer, but if I bring up a 10-year old movie or TV show, they have no idea what I’m talking about.
- Comment on FLOSS communities right now 9 months ago:
It’s the “see no evil” approach. If you didn’t report the issue while the admin was online, then they aren’t compelled to do anything about it. Convenient for the project maintainer who doesn’t actually like maintaining things. Awful for the rest of us.
- Comment on FLOSS communities right now 9 months ago:
A bunch of the servers I’m on actively discourage the use of threads. No idea why. In a different server I’m on, an admin creates a thread for every post in general, so that people can talk about the post without cluttering up the main thread. I wish more servers followed that example.
- Comment on Don't expect iPhone apps to get cheaper now that you can pay for them outside of the App Store 10 months ago:
What a bootlicker.
- Comment on ‘The View’ Host Joy Behar Scoffs at Young People Feeling ‘Left Behind by the Economy’: ‘Oh Please, Get a Job!’ 10 months ago:
“Wealthy asshole has no empathy.” I’m shocked. Fuck her. Fuck talking heads in general.
- Comment on Has google stopped working for finding anything? 10 months ago:
That’s a good way to do it, whenever possible. Unfortunately most of the results on Amazon these days are from companies with word salad names, like ENGRTSIAL or LOFRABTAN.
- Comment on Report: Apple to end partnership with bank that backs Apple Card, savings accounts 11 months ago:
people with Goldman-backed credit cards like the Apple Card are actually making their payments less often than people with credit cards from other banks
Who could have possibly seen this coming?
- Comment on [HN] Reddit mods dumped tokens hours before blockchain program termination 1 year ago:
What would you do in that situation? Would you hold on to them out of a sense of propriety, or sell them off as quickly as possible? I’m not sure I can blame them. I might do the same if I learned that my unregulated assets were about to lose nearly all value.