poopkins
@poopkins@lemmy.world
- Comment on Mark Zuckerberg Thinks You Don't Have Enough Friends and His Chatbots Are the Answer 1 day ago:
Compelling sales pitch for Fleshlight.
- Comment on Your Phone Isn’t Eavesdropping on You to Show You Ads (It’s Worse Than That) 4 days ago:
Imagine all the times you’ve had a conversation with somebody where you didn’t identify a pattern match with your YouTube recommendations.
- Comment on Your Phone Isn’t Eavesdropping on You to Show You Ads (It’s Worse Than That) 4 days ago:
Same. My partner and I have heard so much about this that we have over several months randomly brought up topics that are absurd and foreign to us.
We do it like this: while preparing dinner or so, one of us scribbles a word on a post-it note and we engage on it as though we’re making plans or looking to buy something. We have phones, Google Home speakers and Nest devices nearby.
There are a few challenges:
- Make sure the topic didn’t come up from an internet interaction you already had.
- Don’t, under any circumstances, search the internet about any of those topics.
- Simply remember that you’re running this experiment. We keep track of topics we’ve raised through handwritten notes.
I feel that ordinary people are terrible at running these experiments because it’s honestly really difficult to be impartial and evaluate the results with statistical significance. As soon as you encounter one match, the pattern matching part of your brain will scream “told you so!” even if the success rate is 1%.
And guess what? Literally none of the topics appear as targeted ads for either of us.
- Comment on Hundreds of smartphone apps are monitoring users through their microphones 4 days ago:
Apps can use the microphone in secret and there’s no way to know when they’re using the microphone? This is a major security flaw in Android!
- Comment on Microsoft rolls Windows Recall out to the public nearly a year after announcing it 1 week ago:
This comment is critical of Microsoft because the company name was mentioned in the article.
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- Comment on Tesla's "Predictive" Odometers Had 9+ Drivers Complaining of Inaccuracy Before Lawsuit. We Even Found Video! 1 week ago:
Brace for downvoting from the Teslaholics cult.
- Comment on Tesla Slumps Below 50% Share of California's Electric Car Market 1 week ago:
What I’ve learned from insightful interactions in this thread is that Teslas are in fact the best car in existence, bar none. This whole situation about Elon Musk deciding to speak up as a fascist is just all very unfortunate. Other than the fascism thing, the only nits with Tesla is the image, and the countless broken promises, deceit and outright fraud should be ignored because other companies lie and cheat, too.
- Comment on Tesla Slumps Below 50% Share of California's Electric Car Market 1 week ago:
I certainly have; I bought a VW four years after the TDI emissions scandal. I’m by no means immune to this.
As an aside, the fact that the Wikipedia article didn’t exist doesn’t mean the issues cited in it weren’t already widely reported in the media. Some infamous court cases go back to 2017, including SEC fraud and union busting. False claims have been Elmo’s standard operating procedure with promises such as full self driving and range first becoming broken beginning 2016, and speed of supercharging and battery swapping in 2013.
This is of course to say nothing of the outright taxpayer fraud of Hyperloop and the Boring Company, but that’s a story for another day.
If you’re curious, here’s a nifty website that’s been tracking his truthiness: elonmusk.today
- Comment on Tesla Slumps Below 50% Share of California's Electric Car Market 1 week ago:
That’s completely relatable. I was in the market for a new car in 2019 and ironically chose for VW despite the emissions scandal.
For me, buying a car remains a multi-year investment, because I bought it to serve a purpose over an extended period of time. I ran the numbers for 10 years between different manufacturers, each with different base prices, but also prices for subscriptions, service and repairs, and contrasted against long term costs of alternatives like public transportation. What exactly defines an investment is somewhat of a grey area and I guess the same logic would disqualify a home as an investment. The only real difference is that a car is always a bad investment (unless you take Elmo at his word).
It’s unfortunate that the dealership situation has weighed in to your decision, as Tesla abused their position as a new entry into the market to be exempt from state franchise laws. Most other car manufacturers have been selling cars longer through the conventional dealership model and are literally forbidden from adapting. Some states have maximum market share requirements which were put into place after the popularity of Tesla took off, effectively squeezing new entrants like Rivian out of state markets like Washington. This issue is more about state regulations and how Tesla uses and abuses its power to increase their profit margin.
I’m not at all arguing in favor of dealerships—don’t get me wrong. But the fact that Tesla doesn’t have them is not because of any innovation, but an unfair competitive advantage.
- Comment on Tesla Slumps Below 50% Share of California's Electric Car Market 1 week ago:
That’s an odd position to take. Fraud is okay since others commit fraud as well? Not many companies have a Wikipedia entry documenting their ongoing deception and fraud since 2017.
My position on Elon Musk and Tesla by extension is clear. If you are supportive of them, that’s completely up to you.
- Comment on Tesla Slumps Below 50% Share of California's Electric Car Market 1 week ago:
I understand your rationale, that makes sense.
Perhaps my priority is different, as I don’t make a habit of making investments with companies that have well documented track records of misleading and lying to customers. I didn’t buy a Tesla then, and I wouldn’t now, and the only thing that has changed is the public perception. That, for me, is secondary to the trustworthiness of the company.
- Comment on Tesla Slumps Below 50% Share of California's Electric Car Market 1 week ago:
If you knew then that he was a liar, then I really don’t see how you can complain about it now. You evidently knew which business you were getting into.
- Comment on Tesla Slumps Below 50% Share of California's Electric Car Market 1 week ago:
But if the scam was already running for three years, then it seems all the more sensible not to trust this person, no? How is it better that people are still falling for his lies after a decade?
- Comment on Tesla Slumps Below 50% Share of California's Electric Car Market 1 week ago:
Are you suggesting that full self driving was fully implemented by 2019? Because it’s 2025 and it’s still not ready. How have I failed at math?
- Comment on Tesla Slumps Below 50% Share of California's Electric Car Market 1 week ago:
He was a boldfaced liar six years ago, too. You fell for the “full self driving by 2016” scam and the other false claims and fabrications.
- Comment on Microsoft starts testing Copilot Vision update that can “see” your screen and apps 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Most Americans think AI won’t improve their lives, survey says 4 weeks ago:
You’re saying the addition of Copilot into MS Paint is anything short of revolutionary? You heretic.
- Comment on Self-Driving Teslas Are Fatally Striking Motorcyclists More Than Any Other Brand: New Analysis 4 weeks ago:
*affected
- Comment on Online ‘Pedophile Hunters’ Are Growing More Violent — and Going Viral: With the rise of loosely moderated social media platforms, a fringe vigilante movement is experiencing a dangerous evolution. 4 weeks ago:
I’m completely with you on this, and I’m surprised your comment is so highly voted because this community is quick to endorse vigilantism. Just the other day I was scrolling through a thread full of comments about how a guy who was arrested should have been more brutally assaulted by an angry mob.
- Comment on LibreOffice downloads on the rise as users look to avoid subscription costs | The free open-source Microsoft Office alternative is being downloaded by nearly 1 million users a week 5 weeks ago:
Obligatory comment that endorses pirating software. We need to make sure this stereotype about Lemmy remains accurate.
- Comment on After 50 million miles, Waymos crash a lot less than human drivers 5 weeks ago:
Back in February, I took a Waymo for the first time and was at first amazed. But then in the middle of an empty four lane road, it abruptly slammed the brakes, twice. There was literally nothing in the road, no cars and because it was raining, no pedestrians within sight.
If I had been holding a drink, it would have spelled disaster.
After the second abrupt stop I was bracing for more for the remainder of the ride, even though the car generally goes quite slow most of the time. It also made a strange habit of drifting lanes through intersections while the turning indicators went from left to right alternatively like it had no idea what it was doing.
Honestly it felt like being in the car with a first time driver.
- Comment on Microsoft is killing OneNote for Windows 10 5 weeks ago:
For me it doesn’t roll off the tongue. For lack of a better word, it’s dinky. Generally speaking, naming a product for its primary feature narrows its future growth.
It’s also a bit awkwardly close to a reality TV personality I personally detest.
- Comment on Microsoft is killing OneNote for Windows 10 5 weeks ago:
I’m referring to the odd choice for the name of the software.
- Comment on Microsoft is killing OneNote for Windows 10 5 weeks ago:
Not to judge a book by its cover (ironically), but that name…
- Comment on Reddit will warn users who repeatedly upvote banned content 1 month ago:
You are right! Thanks for teaching me.
- Comment on Reddit will warn users who repeatedly upvote banned content 1 month ago:
I had the strangest experience on Reddit that was the final drop for me to leave. In a thread of lousy jokes, I commented something along the lines of “This is all the fault of Leon Trotsky of Mexico City! Let’s find him and get him, boys!”
It was flagged as doxxing and I was permabanned from the subreddit. I replied to the modmail ever so gently, saying, “Whoops, it looks like my poor sense of humor may have been misinterpreted, because Trotsky was famously assassinated in 1940.”
The mod came back absolutely lamenting me, riddled with explitives, further calling my username a “racist dog whistle” (my username there is the same as here but suffixed with a number). They then proceeded to attempt to have me banned sitewide for “abusing modmail,” although I was ultimately only suspended for 7 days.
The whole thing just left me so confused. But boy was that mod upset, holy moly.
- Comment on A new study found adaptive traffic signals powered by big data reduced peak-hour travel times by 11% in China’s 100 most congested cities – saving 31.73 million tonnes of CO₂ annually. 1 month ago:
Wait until they run the numbers on carbon emissions of stop signs vs. sensible yielding laws.
