Meron35

@Meron35@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How does Google make money from Gmail, the google calendar, drive or other services when used with third party front ends?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Shoshana Zuboff really was ahead of its time. So many people who were privacy conscious and therefore thought they were clever by simply thinking that Google makes money by only selling your data completely missed the scale of manipulation and control big tech has (myself included).

  Google/big tech doesn’t sell your data. Google/big tech sells advertisers predictions of your behaviour, a highly refined, processed version of your data. Advertisers cannot purchase your data, only “impressions” or “views.” In an extra sinister twist, Google/big tech then uses it’s resources to manipulate you in ways such that their predictions become true.

  This is why their predictions are the best, because after making them, they have a financial incentive to manipulate them into being true. It is why we naturally see more and more polarization, because after Google has sold the prediction that you will engage is a specific type of content (e.g. right ring rabbit holes), it is financially incentivised to make that a reality, and therefore further push you in that direction, to make their prediction true.

  How to “improve” prediction using behavior modification - ScienceDirect - www.sciencedirect.com/…/S0169207022001066

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Luxury bones? In *this* economy.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Sike! Many developed nations such as Canada, Australia, the UK, Hong Kong, and Singapore all provide little to no support for dental. Although the UK does have dental ln the NHS, finding an NHS dentist is very difficult.

  Many of the residents in these nations end up engaging in dental tourism to nations such as Poland and Thailand, where a dental travel package that includes round trip international air fare + 5 star hotel + dental work is still cheaper than getting dental work done in their home country.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Brother accused of locking down third-party printer ink cartridges via forced firmware updates, removing older firmware versions from support portals⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Kyocera. Also Japanese, and plenty of cheap generic toners available online.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not likely to be AI-generated or Deepfake⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well duh it detects AI generated images that are at scale and that snail cat is way too small for it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Clever, clever⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Trap street - Wikipedia - en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trap_street

  Example of an entire fictional town: Agloe, New York - Wikipedia - en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agloe,_New_York

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Monkey business⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Wake up babe new dolphin fucker copyoasta just dropped

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why Surgeons Are Wearing The Apple Vision Pro⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Seems similar to factory mechanics using Google Glass to look up schematics etc.

  Of course, Google being allergic to commitments discontinued it anyway, despite its success sin industrial applications.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Modern Cinderella⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There must be a gay Cinderella remake out there somewhere. Grindrella gets visited by the fairy thotmother, who transforms his button up shirt and black skinny chinos into a harness and jockstrap and sends him off the royal orgy. The next day Prince DomTop has to go around and top everyone in the village because it was a blackout orgy and he couldn’t see anyone, meaning the only way he can find who Grindrella was is by remembering the feel of that bussy.