pop
@pop@lemmy.ml
- Comment on TikTok sues the US government over ban 3 days ago:
grabs popcorn
- Comment on Google lays off hundreds of 'Core' employees, moves some positions to India and Mexico 1 week ago:
This was always the plan of why big tech companies hire Indian CEO. People that didn’t see it coming have their head under rocks.
Microsoft having so many security incidents shows what it is going to follow.
- Comment on Google lays off hundreds of 'Core' employees, moves some positions to India and Mexico 1 week ago:
- Comment on Doesn't the need for a permit fundamentally contradict the US's ideals of free speech? 1 week ago:
If you haven’t figured it out by now, everything US stands for is a bait and switch, which is selectively applied based on race and class.
- Peace? Nope, will destroy nations and fund genocide when convenient. It’s only bad when white people are being oppressed.
- Freedom? Nope, The surveillance state monitors you all (anyone remember snowden? )
- Equality? They’ll try to pass laws to kill ya if you speak up about women rights
- Guns? Basically a murder fantasy for the rich, that got out of hand and now everyone can enjoy that fantasy
- Slavery? It’s okay. private prisons here to help
- Democracy? with 2 parties???
It got rich by exploiting resources on a stolen land and using propaganda to push their clickbait ideals to entice smart people as the “American Dream”. They don’t even care if they’re Nazis, So yea.
- Comment on FBI: Scammers stole more than $3.4 billion from older Americans last year. 1 week ago:
A drop in a bucket for what US has stolen. From the native americans to countless wars abroad.
Karma works in mysterious ways.
- Comment on FCC fines big three carriers $196M for selling users’ real-time location data 1 week ago:
- US helps create monopolies
- Buys data off those monopolies for surveillance
- Pretend-fines pocket change for those monopolies
- Make it seem like a big deal in media
- The dumb populace believe the BS and point to it as some sort of win.
- Rinse and Repeat
- Comment on FCC fines big three carriers $196M for selling users’ real-time location data 1 week ago:
- US helps create monopolies
- Buys data off those monopolies for surveillance
- Pretend-fines pocket change for those monopolies
- Make it seem like a big deal in media
- The dumb populace believe the BS and point to it as some sort of win.
- Rinse and Repeat
- Comment on Google layoffs: Sundar Pichai-led company fires entire Python team for ‘cheaper labour’ 1 week ago:
Microsoft and Google have indian CEOs so they can penetrate the billion people market (indians are deeply patriotic, and it plays into overall brand loyalty) and these companies plan lower costs while doing so.
What’s a few million dollar paid for a (specifically chosen for the purpose) CEO, when you can make billions by using it to gain grounds in a emerging market.
Win-Win
- Comment on 30% of Children Ages 5-7 Are on TikTok 1 week ago:
That’s the thing. You don’t know. Nobody knows except the CCP. That’s the problem.
But you do about every other social media platform?
Fake news is not exclusive to a single platform. Teach your family about reputable news sources and stop trying to shoehorn US propaganda down everyone’s throats like it makes you look smart. Tiktok learned everything it does by the likes of facebook, Google and Twitter.
Why do you think US social media is everywhere all over the world with near instant or sometimes even get higher bandwidth preference in some countries? If you don’t think the US government has nothing to do with the level of complexities that entails dealing with local governments/infrastructure and planning, then I guess “ignorance is a bliss”, and I hope the US government will bring you peace and much freedumb. Don’t complain when they come in blasting tho.
- Comment on TikTok fears point to larger problem: Poor media literacy in the social media age 3 weeks ago:
Ban all social media if you think ownership is the point. Or is it only a problem now because you’re not the top dog in internet surveillance? You schum come over like the ownership matters “now” when the pole position is from a different country is hilarious and very telling.
They (Tiktok) has owned the information for about 10th of the time social media companies became a thing. Everyone in the US was fine then while social media companies were sowing discord/violence/hate and genocide abroad, now everyone else is fine most US social media data is owned by someone else. Deal with it.
It’s not the author who’s out of touch. The same recipe US used to create mega corp monopolies is coming to bite you, it’s just controlled by the CCP, LMAO.
Keep telling yourself whatever makes you seem you’re on the righteous side. You’re fooling no one. you do you tho.
- Comment on Past "that seemed lost forever" revealed as 200-year-old photos revived 3 weeks ago:
I’m so glad to read this wasn’t some AI. AI filling gaps in history is not something we need.
- Comment on fucking beautiful. almost a year into the 'verse and its starting to become more functional than that R place... better than i imagined. 3 weeks ago:
Their announcement motto was “we’ll merge every single PR”.
That’s how we got xz backdoor. Don’t go around exaggeratingly claiming everything you don’t like is dictatorial
- Comment on YSK : Dark patterns among large companies are becoming more mainstream 3 weeks ago:
We don’t need a youtuber to tell us what we’ve known for years?
- Comment on Report: TikTok’s efforts to silo US data are ‘largely cosmetic’ 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, they should have just donated to the political campaigns for people in congress like every other lobbying group. Then it would have been fine and dandy. Rookie mistake.
- Comment on YouTube’s ad blocker crackdown now includes third-party apps 3 weeks ago:
My guy, that’s why there is DRM. Your screen are loading pixels, because they let you. Those third party apps and frontends work because they let the users have a little freedoms.
If you steal something off the mall and bring it to your home, it doesn’t make it yours. People thinking all that code, infrastructure and labour to run something on the internet should be free because they have an internet connection are entitled as the sovcit bunch. Just cringe.
Advertisers, Malwares and Ad blockers are all to blame for the current state of the internet. We’re heading for paywalled internet and entitled basement dwellers are going to complain you miss the “old internet”
Seriously, I use adblockers but the rationale people make up for this like countless others are just plain stupid.
- Comment on Apple cuts hundreds of jobs after ditching the car project and more 5 weeks ago:
They’re a fashion tech brand, They sell fancy stuff with little tech inside.
What sells big to the rich solely based on looks?
They’ve already got a market in phones but they thought cars would be easy with all the competition around who have decades of experience.
They thought wrong.
- Comment on FCC won’t block California net neutrality law, says states can “experiment” 5 weeks ago:
The founding fathers were the rich that wanted all of the riches of the new found land for themselves and their rich friends.
So far, it’s going exactly as planned.
- Comment on "No, seriously. All those things Google couldn't find anymore? Top of the search pile. Queries that generated pages of spam in Google results? Fucking pristine on Kagi – the right answers, over and ov 5 weeks ago:
You’re accusing Cory Doctorow, the guy who invented the phrase “enshittification”
wow, what a genius. he’s going to solve world hunger next. he’s totally not “milking” nerds who think that word is the best thing since sliced bread.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
I don’t do business with people who don’t know the difference between your and you’re.
- Comment on Lemmy.world seems to have banned the largest piracy community on Lemmy. 1 month ago:
yep I got downvoted, as expected. More proof. What’s a surprise. Just like Reddit
Where have I heard it before? If my memory serves me right, it was very popular cope on another discussion platform. What a surprise. Just like Reddit.
“dOwNvoTeS pROvE mE rIgHt”
did you think you’re going to get a hero’s welcome?
- Comment on Pornhub shuts down in Texas... and predictably, VPNs benefit 1 month ago:
Lots of shady free VPNs out there from Chinese/Russian companies. Now instead of just letting people watch porn, they’ll send their data to a shady/foreign entity. The apps will ask all the permissions, and people who don’t know shit, will grant them.
Same thing will happen when they ban Tiktok.
Well done, You played yourself.
- Comment on Discord began blocking servers with information prohibited in the Russian Federation 1 month ago:
The U.S. is ranked around 45th which is disappointing considering the first amendment is supposed to guarantee freedom of the press.
Not really disappointing looking from the outside. Clickbait constitutions are good for propaganda for the populace. They tell you you’re living in the best country in the world while the politicians propose death sentence for women who have abortions. Cause war crimes the world over while populace thanks them for their service.
“Disappointing” is putting it lightly to the amount of disgrace it has caused.
- Comment on Discord began blocking servers with information prohibited in the Russian Federation 1 month ago:
“Nestlé also p̶a̶i̶d̶ gifted/lobbied someone in congress, we can’t be making the politician/billionaire look bad. We might lose our money tree”
People are fed so much clickbait/propaganda by their news, they end up believing ratings made by themselves.
- Comment on Discord began blocking servers with information prohibited in the Russian Federation 1 month ago:
Lemmy is just decentralized censorship.
It more like the opposite. Federated instances can keep all the federated posts without ever deleting them. Then also sell and monetize it.
anyone can start their own community instance and kill it on a whim.
Shutting down an instance doesn’t mean it’s censorship. If a library shuts down if it can’t stay up, is that censorship?
It’s a lot of work to set it up and sustain that type of situation, so it’s not realistic for a rational person that does not have a severe internet addiction to waste their time and effort doing it.
Lol, freeloader says what?
- Comment on Telegram founder says the company will become profitable next year | TechCrunch 1 month ago:
Well, there’s the death knell.
Like Microsoft, EA, facebook, twitter, reddit right? With the amount of corporate death nerds within their bubble have been predicting, there would be no evil corporations. and yet, here we are.
Stop overestimating when your intuition tells you what’s a death knell.
Not that it was awesome to begin with, just a stepping stone to get people away from WhatsApp.
People can use Signal, XMPP, Telegram and also whatsapp depending on their privacy requirements. Modern smartphones are capable like that.
I used to use scp to transfer files off of remote servers 20 years ago. You don’t see me recommending it every time dropbox gets mentioned. Cool down with self-agrandizing bs.
- Comment on An engineer bought a prison laptop on eBay. Then 1,200 incarcerated students lost their devices. 2 months ago:
I never realize what responses like this add to the discussion.
do you have any other community platform free from clickbaits? do you need a pat on the back cuz you think you’re immune to clickbaits? what’s the point?
- Comment on Big Tech firms beat lawsuit from child laborers forced to work in cobalt mines 2 months ago:
The western way of a civilized society was only ever a gimmick. Calling for human rights, equality and peace while benefitting by exploitation, wars, and poverty of people who can’t help themselves somewhere else.
Those mega yachts aren’t going to build themselves.
- Comment on Our [Stack Exchange's] partnership with Google and commitment to socially responsible AI 2 months ago:
[Duplicate] question. Closed
- Comment on Lemmy's Image Problem 2 months ago:
You seem to know what you are talking about. Have you made a pull request yet?
- Comment on 'China has a lot more to lose than Russia': U.S. considering sanctioning Chinese firms aiding Russia's war after measures were proposed by the European Union, U.S. lawmaker says 2 months ago:
China supporting Russian war crimes
You’re not supposed to do that.
US supporting Israel’s war crimes
Ship them moar weapons. ASAP