LostWon

@LostWon@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They Exposed an Israeli Spyware Firm. Now the Company Is Badgering Them in Court.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes NSO, keep on claiming you’re innocent until proven guilty of targeting journalists… because every single person you want to dox/harass is automatically guilty of being a “terrorist” and none are innocent citizens. The burden of proof goes on the accused unless they’re you, apparently.

  I’m curious if it’s not just because they can count on judge/jury bias in their favour but because of warped legal expectations like this that they want the trials in Israel so badly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Vanguard takes screenshots of your PC every time you play a game⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There should be laws against this everywhere (with other forms of data collection included). There’s no way preventing cheating is more important than the fundamental rights to security and privacy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨conservation⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And ask their opinion what to do?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨As a long-time user hearing YouTube wants to play ads when I pause a video⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Usually, but I’m conscious of that and limit what they can get where I can for now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨As a long-time user hearing YouTube wants to play ads when I pause a video⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I was already blocking ads since long ago, so what really bugs me now is the heavily degraded and incredibly off-putting search results these days. (Fixed that godawful UI change right away too, and I’m just not over having to use an outside search engine for accurate results.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The startup offering free toilets and coffee for delivery workers — in exchange for their data⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah that phrasing was especially egregious.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Please hold⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  When I did that work, they encouraged everyone to put people on hold when looking anything up because it reset your call timer and made the numbers look better.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨tikatalik⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The image looks like our distant ancestor there is crawling in from another dimension, the way the water still encloses its body so high up… or at least like it portaled over from a deep ocean part of the ocean floor.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let's not give it ideas, ok?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Romaine says you’d better keep sewage runoff out of its water supply, if you know what’s good for you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Zionists doing a rave to block aid trucks at Ker Shalom crossing while Palestinians are starving⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s part of Israel’s propaganda to make this about religion to invoke irrational “War on Terror” sentiments in people who haven’t looked into it that deeply.

  In reality, they’re dehumanizing and targeting all Palestinian Arabs, including Christians. Hence the shooting up and bombing of churches along with everything else.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨One of capitalisms biggest tragedies⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Interesting point. This is consistent with a “Corporate Feudalism” chart I saw recently (and am still digesting/making up my mind on), which puts central bank heads, and then major bank heads at the top two places in the power hierarchy. Corporate CEOs (who might see benefit from a more educated work force) are in 3rd place. World leaders are 4th.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemmy has taught me that Firefox is the way⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  W = win L = loss

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You may want to wear sunglasses though⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I thought it was “duck, and cover”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pick your poison. Dystopian style⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I thought it was just the US and Canada where AirBnb was messing up housing for new buyers (as well as taking away options from renters).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I wish someone would flush already...⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ron DeSantis and his white boots and anti-"woke"ness

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I wish someone would flush already...⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I also thought they had the opportunity to draw two black lines in an X over the dead twitter logo bird.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The only thing keeping us Millennials going at this point⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  But… You Can’t Do That On Television.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Back in my day⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh my goodness, I remember for some reason people kept giving or lending my parents all these long play VHS tapes full of movies. Random video mix tapes where you didn’t know what you’d get next. Now and then some of them had kid movies (like the Sesame Street movie, Follow That Bird and there was at least one muppet movie), but most of them were PG and occasionally R-rated stuff, and I still watched it (except the R-rated stuff, but thankfully they were mostly pretty tame as I recall). I think my fave childhood movie was always on TV though: The Goonies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Brave truth teller.⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A while back, there was this thing where some very out of touch landlords were whining about having to actually do things for their tenants and that tenants should tip them for this. Naturally, they were rightfully shamed and ridiculed for it and it never caught on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨On bats.⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sounds like you mean South &/or Southeast Asia and not East Asia (or perhaps just Asia in general rather than subdividing)? Within Asia, injury/fatality rates seems to increase as you go westward.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Aliens did a little trolling⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I was once among a group of (fellow) university-educated expats, during a stint living abroad in the 2000s. While we were socializing, somebody asked everyone to say what group of people they would make disappear. (I can’t remember if it was kill/erase/nuke/remove from a map that was said, but something along those lines.) People’s answers that day (and their insistence that I, too, should “jokingly” hate some group of people and want them to die) taught me a lot. On top of that, I also am part of one of the groups that was named (no, I am not mixed race-- it was just ignorance the guy’s part).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple jacks prices to juice profits because $19.3B a quarter isn't enough⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Or juice “profits.” (And I’ve never understood people having cereal with juice.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pfizer says it will price Covid treatment Paxlovid at nearly $1,400 for a five-day course, which researchers estimate only costs Pfizer $13 to produce. That's a 10,000%+ markup. Shameful.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  So many Martin Shkrelis out there pricing drugs to the highest level they can get away with. Every big pharmaceutical company does this kind of thing, especially with new drugs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Firefox will have a built-in ‘fake reviews detector’ — Amazon is in trouble⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I avoid those as soon as I notice the signs, but I’ve found less and less instances over time (which is a relief since there used to be loads of pages like that). I thought I read somewhere it’s against Amazon’s own rules to do this. Not 100% sure though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unity CEO John Riccitiello is retiring, effective immediately⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  This is so true. Shareholders couldn’t care less if he was popular with customers. All they care about is whether he can do anything to boost profits. In their world, even the situation with Unity can be spun as a “innovative” (in the sense that it introduced another revenue stream for the company) and that even if this initial implementation is scrapped, it can be learned from and improved on for future ones.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Edge could use a win⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  There is a setting in Edge to stop it running in the background after it’s closed (it shouldn’t do that in the first place, but this is at least useful because if you don’t turn off the web links in your Start menu search results, Edge can be triggered to open by accident from there and then continue to run in the BG after you close it).

  Still on Windows 10 and I haven’t noticed Edge running in the background on startup (and obviously I have it set not to do that in Windows). I’m guessing though that it’s possible it might always be on if you use Cortana? I always have Cortana off too.