minorkeys
@minorkeys@lemmy.world
- Comment on Campaigners urge EU to mandate 15 years of OS updates 18 hours ago:
Or legislate that unsupported software becomes public domain or is open for development and the public can try and make the updates themselves.
Forcing people to upgrade entirely depends on the nature of the upgrades and the motive of the company. What we need is competition so there are alternatives for people to use if they don’t want to upgrade. But somehow Microsoft is not considered the monopoly of the PC OS market, despite being a monopoly, and uses that position to force changes nobody wants but them, like turning window into an AI data farming scheme that violates user privacy.
- Comment on Microsoft still can't convince folks to upgrade to Windows 11 4 days ago:
Only Microsoft wants to upgrade. A product without a market in a monopoly is capitalism end game.
- Comment on Microsoft is testing full-screen Microsoft 365 ads in Windows 11 for expired subscriptions 5 days ago:
They have this in Windows 10…to advertise Windows 11.
- Comment on Why the video of Charlie Kirk being shot was kept on social media platforms 5 days ago:
It’s news and the adults in the room have not just a right but a responsibility to remain informed.
- Comment on AI Startup Flock Thinks It Can Eliminate All Crime In America 6 days ago:
I’m not legally allowed to say yes.
- Comment on The McDonald's employee who called on Luigi has never received their "reward", folks chasing the 100k for Kirk may not either... 6 days ago:
Even if the tip was useful they can just claim to wasn’t and just not pay it out. Not like there’s an oversize process for it. Once they have the guy they can find the trail with whatever data they have and say they did it without the tip.
- Comment on 6 days ago:
Yeah he was a straight up psychopath. Preferring sympathy means pitying the fate of others but not feeling their experience. Psychopaths generally see themselves a superior to others and pitying people for not being as awesome as they are, while also being confused about the experience of empathizing is exactly what a psychopath does.
- Comment on Reddit is dropping subscriber counts on subreddits 6 days ago:
Lemmy needs to stop obsessing over everything Reddit does.
- Comment on A little memorial at the local dump 6 days ago:
Just Psychopath shit.
- Comment on AI Startup Flock Thinks It Can Eliminate All Crime In America 6 days ago:
No people, no crimes.
- Comment on 6 days ago:
Did he actually say that? That literally what genuine psychopaths say.
- Comment on About Star Trek Starfleet Academy blacklash 5 weeks ago:
Until Star Trek returns to technological optimism and the pursuit of human improvement, I’m not interested. Take your high school, technologically cromagnon melodramas and shove them up your ass.
- Comment on So glad I suck dick 1 month ago:
“Correctly”…
- Comment on UK households could face VPN 'ban' after use skyrockets following Online Safety Bill 1 month ago:
Funny how its always so important to ban useful and empowering things for citizens in the name of safety but someone we can’t ban business practices that cause mass extinctions, change the climate, impoverish the working class or kill enough of us to only be seen as a statistic instead of people. If they actually cared about safety, they would be banning the things that cause mass suffering and death, not VPNs. We should be opposed to these kinds of bans on the principle that it further disempowered us so we are less able to deal with the threats of all the mass suffering and death that they refuse to keep us safe from.
- Comment on Delta moves toward eliminating set prices in favor of AI that determines how much you personally will pay for a ticket 1 month ago:
Making sure you pay the absolute most possible for everything you buy. Welcome to tyranny capitalism. You will be charged a poor tax in the form of optimised pricing exploitatuon.
- Comment on YSK that apart from not having a car, the single greatest thing you can do for the climate is simply eating less red meat 2 months ago:
We could all stop them. What’s the hold up?
- Comment on Palantir accuses British doctors of choosing ‘ideology over patient interest’ in NHS data row 2 months ago:
K.
So one group has trained for decades to heal the sick and provide guidance to be more healthy and the other spent it’s time learning how to take as much as possible from their customers.
Which one is more likely to align with the patient’s interest?
- Comment on Take a deep breath and think about it 2 months ago:
You hope for it in the future because it doesn’t exist in the present.
- Comment on YSK that apart from not having a car, the single greatest thing you can do for the climate is simply eating less red meat 2 months ago:
I’m not voluntarily giving up jack shit unless the wealthy who devised and profit off the systems that make carbon footprints matter, are brought to heel. If the wealthy can’t be stopped, we’re all dead anyways. It’s their fucking mess, they can be the ones to sacrifice to fix it.
- Comment on King forgot his crown 2 months ago:
So like…makeup?
- Comment on 2 months ago:
If the economy doesn’t need 25% of the populace to keep functioning…what happens?
- Comment on Men are opening up about mental health to AI instead of humans 2 months ago:
So somewhere they feel safe to do so. Says something pretty fucked up about our culture that men don’t feel safe to open up anywhere. And no, it’s not their own fault.
- Comment on It's a tragedeigh 2 months ago:
Just not this one.
- Comment on It's a tragedeigh 2 months ago:
Really digging deep into the tickle trunk to find something to hate straight people for…
- Comment on It's a tragedeigh 2 months ago:
Bigot
- Comment on You're not alone: This email from Google's Gemini team is concerning 2 months ago:
Consumer activism kills businesses and products regularly. We call it ‘trends’.
But manufacturing a boycott for long enough to work is almost certainly going to fail. But like you say, it has a role to play, just not by itself. It must be an action used with precision as part of a larger strategy. We have plenty of tools, but nobody puts them together. It’s always an isolated boycott that flairs up and inevitably fades away. The company just waits it out. We also can’t boycott necessities, and that’s where they really get us. Consumer activism doesn’t work all in those cases.
- Comment on Judge Rules Training AI on Authors' Books Is Legal But Pirating Them Is Not 2 months ago:
Of course we have to have a way to manually check the training data, in detail, as well. Not privacy, just verifying training data.
- Comment on You're not alone: This email from Google's Gemini team is concerning 2 months ago:
Yet we keep empowering them with every purchase we make and half of the consumer base will never see an issue doing so. Some purchases we have no choice but to make, and that’s where they really have control of our lives. They seized the means of production, distribution and access of things necessary for life and leverage access to those necessities for access to more parts of our private lives. The majority appear to be naive morons who will happily sell all of us down the river for more camera filters and some pretty shoes. Basically, toys.
- Comment on the seven deadly companies 2 months ago:
That sounds more like gluttony, which isn’t exclusive to food
- Comment on the seven deadly companies 2 months ago:
Yeah, probably.