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- Comment on I am a 15-year-old girl. Let me show you the vile misogyny that confronts me on social media every day 1 week ago:
That’s fair. She’ll get it.
- Comment on I am a 15-year-old girl. Let me show you the vile misogyny that confronts me on social media every day 1 week ago:
the politicians debating online abuse mean well
Let me stop you there
- Comment on Be Wary of Bluesky 1 week ago:
Fair enough. I guess I’m just overly sensitive to the broad-strokes assumption that any given thing is an AI “smoking gun” since I’m an em dash user.
- Comment on Be Wary of Bluesky 1 week ago:
(“it’s not just x, it’s y”, etc.)
Keep in mind, the AIs learned from us. So that’s a thing in AI responses because humans use that structure. Same with em dashes.
- Comment on 'We Thought It Would Be Fun': Nintendo Has a Whole FAQ on Why It's Selling Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen Separately for $20 Each - IGN 1 week ago:
OMG, a Pokemon All Stars would be amazing. But I do want them to get fancy with it: with every new game that starts, make me start with a starter as usual, but once I get access to trading, let me pull Pokemon that are below the soft level cap out of my boxes.
- Comment on Star Trek: Starfleet Academy actor Kareem Diané decides to do their AMA on Lemmy! 1 week ago:
Not even kidding, I think the fediverse is how message boards work on starships in Trek. Each ship has their own server, and as they pass within subspace range of one another, they federate. Probably most people even think it’s called “fediverse” because it’s how the Federation chats.
- Comment on The Japanese flag is a too-scale map of the solar system. 1 week ago:
Hey, it’s still rising, it’s just like 11am.
“Why’s it red then?” Uh…smog?
- Comment on Tesla Robotaxis Reportedly Crashing at a Rate That's 4x Higher Than Humans 1 week ago:
Username checks out
- Comment on Tesla Robotaxis Reportedly Crashing at a Rate That's 4x Higher Than Humans 1 week ago:
I mean, people are dying. Including the people who didn’t pay for it. So, kind of a bigger deal than that.
- Comment on I want to know more of the breen. 2 weeks ago:
I look some clips of Star Trek Discovery but I didn’t like the first episode of the series
It changed so much in between episode one and the season featuring the Breen that I’m honestly not sure you’d recognize it.
Your mileage may vary about whether it’s better, but it’s absolutely different.
- Comment on Young gamers in Japan may not be forming the same attachment to Final Fantasy or Dragon Quest because modern dev cycles are as long as their childhood, users theorize - AUTOMATON WEST 2 weeks ago:
I think I buy this worldwide, honestly. Case in point: one of the most popular video game series for young people recently has been Five Nights at Freddy’s, and that series dropped its first four games in eleven months, and its next four games in four years. Minecraft remains one of the most popular games in the world, and it’s releasing full free content drops every few months. Pokemon is still insanely popular among kids, and there hasn’t been a year without a new Pokemon game release since 2015.
So, yeah. Hey, kids like novelty. Who knew?
- Comment on Why are people disconnecting or destroying their Ring cameras? 2 weeks ago:
people were shocked that banks are businesses trying to maximize profits like any other business.
Because every ad they see talks about how respectable and responsible they are. Like I said above, they’ve spent billions trying to cultivate this level of obliviousness in their customers.
Still even if people are so ignorant that they are unaware of privacy issues, they have chosen to be willfully ignorant, because this issue has been talked about non stop for decades. For nothing to sieve in at some point, you have to be a special kind of willfully ignorant.
In our sphere, sure. But most people don’t live in our sphere. Most people don’t mainline tech news and privacy updates. A lot of “normal people” (i.e. people you meet dropping your kids off at school, or in line at the supermarket, or on a bus) would have trouble telling you the name of the company that made the phone they stare at for seventeen hours a day. Some of the smartest, most world-aware people I know couldn’t tell you the difference between “encrypted” and “password-protected.” The stuff that breaks through into the mainstream are the huge breaches, but the problem is always spun to be the hackers, or one guy in the IT department who did something wrong, or whatever, not the fact that they’re even collecting all of this data in the first place.
And this isn’t willful ignorance, it’s just not something they think applies to them. Maybe they bought the “if you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear” line, but more likely they just don’t actively think about it at all. Like how, if you live inland, you probably rarely worry about tsunamis; they’re simply a reality, and they probably vaguely know about the danger, but they’re a fact of nature, there’s nothing they can do to change it, and it’s not a risk they face personally. That doesn’t make them willfully ignorant, it just means they think it’s something that really only matters to spies or whoever.
Even people that are very low information on technology, know that the Internet is a source of potential surveillance, and having your info on the internet in any form is a potential for being surveilled.
But usually only in the abstract. “Oh, as long as I just look for the lock in the top left of the browser, I’m ok.” They think the threat comes from hackers and foreign governments, not companies that make the funny cat meme service.
Everybody knows that all the big IT companies are trying to gather as much information as they can. And Amazon is right at the top among them.
No, I think you’re wrong about that, and I think that’s because–again–these companies have spent billions trying to convince people that they aren’t. Even in the rare cases that they do, they have completely the wrong idea about what the threat really is; think about those memes that go around from time to time saying “I hereby declare that Facebook doesn’t own my photos!” or whatever. Zuck doesn’t want their photos, he wants to be able to lock them and their friends in, he wants their personal data, and he wants exclusive, 24/7 access to their eyes so that he can cram personalized ads into them.
And Amazon? If people have anything against Amazon, it’s probably just “oh, they’re trying to put mom & pop companies out of business!” (Which, in fairness, they are also doing). Do you think the average person knows that they even own Ring and Roomba and AWS? I would submit that a surprisingly large chunk of the population probably doesn’t even know that they own Alexa.
Not because they’re ignorant, just because (1) it doesn’t matter to them, and (2) they’ve been aggressively propagandized to not care.
- Comment on Why are people disconnecting or destroying their Ring cameras? 2 weeks ago:
Question is why they bought a Ring camera in the first place?
Probably because of marketing.
There is no way they can have been unaware that these gadgets can be accessed from outside.
(1) Clearly you’ve not talked to enough people outside the privacy-aware community. Absolutely they can have been unaware of that.
(2) They may well have known, but not known the scope, or not cared. If you’re having trouble with (for instance) porch pirates, you might not care about the privacy ramifications.
But it was only when the evidence was put right in their face they finally connected the dots?
Yes. When you don’t live and breathe this stuff, a lot of times that’s what it takes.
My mom used to use the same password for every service. It was a ten-letter password that she came up with in 1999, and she essentially never deviated from it; until I typed it in for her on haveibeenpwned and showed how many times it had been leaked. People who don’t care about privacy won’t care until they’re shown how it actually affects them.
So my answer is quite simple: Because they are stupid,
Profoundly uncharitable read on the situation. Are you “stupid” if you don’t know what you don’t know? We don’t have classes about this sort of thing in high school or anything. There are billions of dollars going toward telling people that sleazy products are actually great and companies actually care about their well-being, and only neckbeards like us on Lemmy spending $0 to tell them the opposite. If they’re not watching tech news because the regular news is too much, or because they have jobs and families and hobbies, or because they don’t know how to process or parse it, or just because they’re not interested and have never been convinced that they should be, they aren’t stupid, just propagandized.
and bought a sleazy product from a known sleazy company,
First of all, “sleazy” is a perfect word for this, and thank you for using it.
But second, keep in mind that for a lot of people, most companies are still responsible members of society; “pillars of the community,” and generally worthy of trust. It’s not because they’re dumb, it’s because they’ve been propagandized into believing it.
and when they found out it was in fact as sleazy as could be expected, they figured that maybe they didn’t want to to be voluntarily surveilled anyway.
People are waking up to the reality of big tech “convenience.” That’s a good thing. Don’t shoot at them for coming to their senses.
- Comment on outlawing pedestrians 2 weeks ago:
The freedom of cars.
- Comment on Europe’s $24 Trillion Breakup With Visa and Mastercard Has Begun 2 weeks ago:
It’s kind of a weird game theory thing, because the industries affected aren’t consistently losing. A decision he makes on Wednesday can help the finance industry but hurt the tech industry, and then he can reverse it on Thursday and now the finance industry is tanking but the insurance industry is up. It’s tough to know who would work together to pull him out of office, because between any two given days, the people who have the money have different opinions on how he’s doing.
- Comment on Discord Alternatives, Ranked 2 weeks ago:
I can’t imagine “Discourse”'s branding will survive for long.
- Comment on Using the same abbreviation scheme as "internationalization" -> "i18n", the word "to" can be abreviated as "t0o". 3 weeks ago:
Whoa, that’s very impressive! The only one you missed was “p10y,” which is in fact “particularly.” But honestly that’s still amazing.
- Comment on Using the same abbreviation scheme as "internationalization" -> "i18n", the word "to" can be abreviated as "t0o". 3 weeks ago:
That would be…what, an ampliviation scheme? (since it’s longer than the original word)
A4y, t2s i0s n1t p10y r6e a1d t3s m2h l4r t0o c5e.
- Comment on You won: Microsoft is walking back Windows 11’s AI overload — scaling down Copilot and rethinking Recall in a major shift 3 weeks ago:
Oh, absolutely–but back then it was just normal, ordinary platform decay, not the sparkling AI hellscape of today.
- Comment on You won: Microsoft is walking back Windows 11’s AI overload — scaling down Copilot and rethinking Recall in a major shift 3 weeks ago:
Office has been Microsoft 365 for five years now. They added “Copilot” to the name at some point last year, but it’s been M365 for a while.
- Comment on Is Wikipedia's Volunteer Model Facing a Generational Crisis? 3 weeks ago:
I don’t disagree that some articles could use better information hierarchy. Headings could make that experience way better.
- Comment on Is Wikipedia's Volunteer Model Facing a Generational Crisis? 3 weeks ago:
That’s what the info boxes on the side of the article are for. They’re the simplified, just-the-facts version. If you want to know more, you read the whole article.
- Comment on Reddit is now promoting ads for fascist paramilitary invaders 3 weeks ago:
That’s a good one. I was thinking, stop trying to make it seem like you’re helping agents improve, and just go with something like “HOLD THE LINE.”
I mean, it’s an odious slogan for an odious government org, but at least it’s better than suggesting the opposite of their stated mission.
- Comment on Reddit is now promoting ads for fascist paramilitary invaders 4 weeks ago:
Wait-- their slogan is “go beyond?” That’s so parodic I can’t believe it’s true…
… WHAT.
NOPE, IT’S TRUE.
How is this government so completely and entirely inept?
- Comment on Elon Musk says Tesla ending Models S and X production, converting Fremont factory lines to make Optimus robots 4 weeks ago:
Musk is well-known for bringing a project to a close way late and way over-budget. He’s the king of overpromising and undelivering. After a couple years of “next quarter, I promise!” they’ll be wishing they’d bought the bulldozer.
- Comment on Elon Musk says Tesla ending Models S and X production, converting Fremont factory lines to make Optimus robots 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, lol. All the robots need is any actual robotics, and then they’re good to go!
they can do “policing” even more effectively than ICE.
A bulldozer with a brick on the pedal can do “policing” more effectively than ICE. That’s not much of a flex.
- Comment on Elon Musk says Tesla ending Models S and X production, converting Fremont factory lines to make Optimus robots 4 weeks ago:
He desperately wants people to think he’s cool.
- Comment on Elon Musk says Tesla ending Models S and X production, converting Fremont factory lines to make Optimus robots 4 weeks ago:
You’re not crazy, but it won’t be Elon who does it. The Tesla robots are nowhere near ready for production. This is vaporware, just like the Roadster.
- Comment on How/why does Microsoft teams exist? 4 weeks ago:
Because Microsoft owned Skype at the beginning of the pandemic, had 100% mindshare, a practically genericized trademark, and an install base of a gazillion users, and yet still managed to somehow fumble the ball to Zoom.
- Comment on If someone tells you "you support socialism, yet you use products of capitalism", what would you say? 5 weeks ago:
"It’s called socialism. I need a society to do it. You like baseball? Why aren’t you playing it right now?