ThePrivacyPolicy

@ThePrivacyPolicy@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This toilet attachment uses AI and a team of physicians to photograph, analyse, and report the full scoop on your poop⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Pay by the weight to flush

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨2 in 3 People Often Encounter Hate Speech Online.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel like the only people left on X are the people who don’t think their hate speech is hate speech…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon's Monopoly of the tech industry is ruining the US economy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Either way, it still puts at least some money in American pockets. The reality of buying everything you need in life as American made is long dead.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon's Monopoly of the tech industry is ruining the US economy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  OP wants to support the US economy more - funnelling money directly to Chinese sellers definitely won’t do that and is arguably even worse than supporting Amazon (who at least employ Americans).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Linux Mint 22 released: An attractive option for migrating away from Windows | Windows 11 system requirements block millions of PCs from upgrading, while Linux Mint continues to work on older hardware⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Dead easy with Mint. I’ve been running it full time on my laptop for months now and my wife only recently came to find out it wasn’t windows when I was explaining Linux to her (and she’s not a technical personal - she’s the person who yells at TV remotes when they don’t work). Installation is super easy, much like installing windows - answer a few questions and off it goes. You can even install it alongside windows and pick what one you want to run on boot (I did this because of a couple windows-only apps I can’t ditch just yet). If you can figure out Lemmy, Mint will be a breeze too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cars Are Now Rolling Computers Now. So What Happens When They Stop Getting Updates?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel like these days the tech should be there to just leverage our cell phones for this. Most drivers have their phones paired to their cars now anyway, and perhaps some sort of emergency protocol could be created where a car could even connect through a nearby non-paired phone for an automated emergency call too. As for tracking - make cars have something like an air tag type function built in that can share both android+apple tracking networks. This is all a pipe dream anyway - there’s money to be made on connected car services so the shareholders won’t be for modernizing the approach anytime soon.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why don't low birth-rate countries make immigration to their country easier?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Unless you live there, your visit to BC likely did not involve needing to use any of those systems or services. You saw the country through tourist eyes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why don't low birth-rate countries make immigration to their country easier?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Add Canada to that list. 1 million immigrants a year and everything is collapsing - our housing, healthcare, education, nothing can keep up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is This the End of Plastic? Visa's New Technology Could Replace Physical Cards⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I did it when I was travelling to the US a few years back and the store clerk looked at me like I had two heads. It’s so normal in Canada I never thought much of it, and here I was a celebrity in this store and everyone was just wow’d at the magic I’d done.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Instagram and Facebook under EU investigation for causing child addiction and harm⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  We must have the same inlaws haha. Similar situation with my wife’s parents and one sibling. They’ve never met our kid and still put all their right wing Facebook conspiracies ahead of meeting him. No loss to us - we’d rather spend time with sane people anyway.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is Windows 11 'AI Explorer'? Everything you need to know about Microsoft's upcoming defining AI PC feature (including it always watching you)⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Most importantly - is it watching my porn with me too and learning about that?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is Windows 11 'AI Explorer'? Everything you need to know about Microsoft's upcoming defining AI PC feature (including it always watching you)⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Switched to mint on my laptop a couple months ago and love it, using it full time on that system. Still need to run windows on my desktop for some audio production and VR gaming, but honestly that system is going to Mint next for the other 90% of the usage. Couldn’t believe how refined the Linux desktop experience has gotten, but then again last time I gave it a try was probably well over a decade ago :)

• ⁨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:

  Sadly, that’s also the exact description of who Canada is most likely to elect as their next leader too. “bitcoin millhouse” we call him.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google tests a feature that calls businesses on your behalf and holds until an agent is available | TechCrunch⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I remember evaluating call centre systems probably 12 years ago where I was working at the time and this was becoming a thing - I’m surprised it hasn’t become more widespread in that time. I’ve honestly only interacted with two companies between then and now where this was an option given to me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cisco to lay off more than 4,000 employees to focus on artificial intelligence⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Like all the companies I’ve worked for that have off-shored work, and then later brought it back on shore after realizing the horrible quality work and drop in delivery times their attempts to save money resulted in.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨WhatsApp Chats Will Soon Work With Other Encrypted Messaging Apps⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I had all but forgotten about Trillian! Man, that was huge in my circles back in my youth. Such nostalgia reading that name again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GM Reverses All-In EV Strategy to Bring Back Plug-In Hybrids⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I guess if you have a crappy brand of hybrid that might be true. I’m 8 years into owning a Toyota hybrid and I’ve done nothing but once a year oil changes, one set of tires, and just did my first set of brake pads. I guess cabin air filters and other regular consumables too. There’s actually added reliability in the fact that the engines have no belts or mechanical driven accessories, which are common failure points, because the mechanical engine isn’t always running to drive those accessories. The electric controlled accessories are overall more reliable with less moving parts to fail. Being friends with a recently retired Toyota mechanic he said they didn’t often see the hybrids for anything but routine stuff. I suppose there are exceptions to this, and there are certainly far shittier car brands than Toyota making hybrids too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Japanese disaster prevention X account can’t post anymore after hitting API limit - The issue has arisen after major Tsunami warnings have been issued in areas of Japan following a strong earthquake⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I can’t even install software on my work computer unless IT and security have vetted it, questioned the company if necessary, and approved it. Government and corporate use of social media platforms should be no different. I bet the lack of privacy most of these platforms have wound be against the security policy of any company with a competent IT and/or compliance team. Imagine what social media would be like if all the corporate clients were just like “nope, not happening”, hell, we might even have slightly more responsible social media platforms.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wayfair CEO Niraj Shah tells employees to 'work longer hours' in year-end email⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Part of my employers year end message was that they’re giving us even more time off starting next year so we can disconnect more! Sure glad I got a good one compared to this tool. (we all get 5 weeks now)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New study finds bots and fraud farms responsible for 73% of web traffic⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I recently switched cell providers to save a pile of money, but the new one doesn’t have call control like the old did. 100% of my calls over the last two weeks were spam calls. I keep telling myself the savings are worth it, but my God it’s annoying.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨On the bright side, I didn't kill my BLtouch.⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I snapped a probe of a bltouch from a forgotten print on the bed :( after that day I added a webcam into my octoprint setup!

  On the upside, went crtouch the second time around because if had a shorter metal probe.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DoorDash now warns you that your food might get cold if you don’t tip⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Even when I do tip, and tip well, they now add so many other stops in between my food and my house that it still arrives cold anyway. I’ve largely stopped using them now too. They were convenient during peak pandemic and our newborn phase at home, but running out to grab take out really isn’t the end of the world again now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Honda says making cheap electric vehicles is too hard, ends deal with GM⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Former 2012 Forte owner here - first engine made it to 90k, second one was knocking already about 2k in. Basically walked from a freshly paid off vehicle and bought a Toyota.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘It scars you for life’: Workers sue Meta claiming viewing brutal videos caused psychological trauma⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Huge industries emerging in this field right now for everything from this type of social media moderation to helping fight CSAM more effectively so humans aren’t having to be a frontline for that type of material. This is one area I can really, really get behind AI on and see a very valid use case that isn’t just marketing hype like so many others. I know there’s some great stuff happening just based on my own field of employment and being close to a few things in the works this year.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Netflix may hike prices after success of password-sharing crackdown⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I downgraded from the top tier to that grandfathered one when they announced it was going away. Not holding my breath it’ll be immune to price hikes for long. We haven’t watched anything on there in months and will definitely cancel if they hike it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Goodbye Youtube and thanks for all the fish⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel like with the storage space and bandwidth needed for something like that that anyone with the money to start a true competitor would probably just be another mammoth tech company we all hate just as much :(

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Goodbye Youtube and thanks for all the fish⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel like with the storage space and bandwidth needed for something like that that anyone with the money to start a true competitor would probably just be another mammoth tech company we all hate just as much :(

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  This is incorrect unless you’re providing a source. I follow several space need sites and they do dedicated launches. Here’s an article even showing the payload setup - which fills the cargo bay. spaceflightnow.com/…/next-spacex-launch-to-deploy…