BD89
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- Comment on X is now offering me end-to-end encrypted chat — you probably shouldn't trust it yet | TechCrunch 5 days ago:
Shouldn’t trust it yet.
Or ever.
- Comment on Automattic CEO calls Tumblr his 'biggest failure' so far 1 week ago:
Well like most CEO’s he gets paid no matter what so he doesn’t have to think. That’s the problem.
Imagine getting millions of dollars to ruin a company. The concept is insane to me.
- Comment on Huge internet outage live blog: Amazon, Disney+, Hulu, HBO Max and more experiencing issues 1 week ago:
Its back up now but that’s because Signal uses AWS.
I like signal and use it daily, but it is very strange that an app built for privacy and security doesn’t let you self host. I wonder about the reasoning behind that sometimes.
- Comment on DirecTV screensavers will show AI-generated ads with your face in 2026 1 week ago:
Sadly you might be right
- Comment on Satellites Are Leaking the World’s Secrets: Calls, Texts, Military and Corporate Data 1 week ago:
Is it illegal to do this? I mean they aren’t being used anymore so no harm no foul right?
- Comment on DirecTV screensavers will show AI-generated ads with your face in 2026 1 week ago:
I surprised you think they will “never do this”. They will have some study done by an entity closely connected to an AI firm that affirms that “this makes products X amount more likely to sell!”
Whether it is true or not will be irrelevant. They will do it.
- Comment on DirecTV screensavers will show AI-generated ads with your face in 2026 1 week ago:
If it means they will finally stop fucking voting then good deal all around!
- Comment on EU Chat Control didnt pass - proving the media got to alot of you 2 weeks ago:
There will be another one within 5 months.
- Comment on DIY YouTuber builds cheap VR headset and makes it open-source 2 weeks ago:
As another user said Linux comparability has been huge the past couple of years.
And PSVR2 has had some amazing games out that have completely changed the way I experience VR. And they also opened up their headset to PC via steam with an external dongle.
Mainly the accessibility has been at an all time high. But the games that have come out lately too are amazing. I can even do cross play multiplayer with many different headsets now which is also super cool
- Comment on DIY YouTuber builds cheap VR headset and makes it open-source 2 weeks ago:
This is so damn cool I want to throw one together just to tinker with it.
This has been the best year for VR as a whole.
- Comment on Google Calls ICE Agents a Vulnerable Group, Removes ICE-Spotting App ‘Red Dot’ 3 weeks ago:
When you have to “call for regulators” to make a company the size of Google play fair you’re already fucked.
And I hate that.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
Ah but see those people paid the bribe. Owner of Facebook and X are very close with Trump.
- Comment on Big Tech or Big Threat? Google’s Ukraine Military Ties Exposed 2 months ago:
Well tell them to get out of land they don’t belong in (which they invaded first with a “special military operation”) and switch to using Yandex maps.
US cried about Chinese phone companies (only we can spy on our citizens) and made them illegal (free market and all) so why doesn’t Russia do the same if its such a security threat?
Why are their embassies still using Google Maps and shit?
- Comment on Reddit will block the Internet Archive 2 months ago:
And I will block reddit.
- Comment on Spotify fans threaten to return to piracy as music streamer introduces new face-scanning age checks in the UK 2 months ago:
“Disinformation”
Ahhh ok I see now.
So who do you think should be in charge of that?
Who do we make “the good guys” that get to tell me the information I need to see. USA, CCP, Israel, Russia?
Fuck that shit. I don’t trust a god damn one of them and if you do then your opinions on regulating the internet don’t mean shit to me.
- Comment on Popup Ads in Your Pickup Truck? RAM Trucks Now Feature Scammy Ads on the Center Display 2 months ago:
Well don’t worry your brand new Dodge will last about 5-7 years max.
They’re truly horrible horrible machines. GMC is about the only American brand worth anything and even they suck now.
Honda and Toyota is the way to go anything else and you’re just wasting money.
Sucks they don’t have super duty trucks for people that need those like hot shotters though.
- Comment on Google Gemini struggles to write code, calls itself “a disgrace to my species” 2 months ago:
Shit at the rate MasterCard and Visa and Stripe want to censor everything and parent adults we might not even ever get GTA6.
I’m tired man.
- Comment on The World Will Enter a 15-Year AI Dystopia in 2027, Former Google Exec Says 2 months ago:
And as soon as it did they would have just killed it and split every single feature into different apps and then kill those too.
- Comment on AOL to discontinue dial-up internet service after 34 years 2 months ago:
The government gave them $400 Billion dollars to do it and they pocketed the money.
- Comment on Blamed for Steam games ban, Mastercard encourages censorship during Riot Games VCT livestreams 2 months ago:
Cries in American
- Comment on As electric bills rise, evidence mounts that data centers share blame. States feel pressure to act 2 months ago:
Yes it is! And this article is written about States being in the United States and how its affecting that infrastructure.
Trust me, I know shit is better everywhere else. My comments are about the current state of USA electricity and how its being affected by the content in this article. Which takes place in the USA.
I’m sure in the land where they actually care about people its different.
- Comment on As electric bills rise, evidence mounts that data centers share blame. States feel pressure to act 2 months ago:
Ok so 400 different providers lets me know you’re not in the USA then.
That’s where this article is written about
- Comment on Sony says it’s not done making Xperia phones just yet 2 months ago:
I agree with anti cheat in video games. 100% spyware designed as video games. I always install games like that on my PlayStation(lol)
However, the united states government did the Alabama Syphilis Experiment (that they like to refer to as the town it was in, Tuskegee so you think it was some far off place when you look at the name) and I straight up wouldn’t ever trust their ass again either. (Shit, MK Ultra, Agent Orange the verified list goes on and on)
Different situation for sure, but same energy. The lack of caring and lack of any repercussions cause these types of things to happen over and over again.
Sony definitely knew what was going on during that shit. They were pissed that you’d burn your friends CD and get to sell copies of it at school and shit.
And yes I do use a PlayStation only as a anti cheat gaming device and would never put any information into it I wouldn’t want 800+ companies to know about. They get hacked all the fucking time so I have a card that doesn’t even work as the payment method listed and just use gift cards.
Because I don’t trust them all the way. And that rootkit bullshit will always be why. You make it sound like they didn’t know. No sir, check out the wiki and all the bullshit covering up of it they tried to do.
- Comment on Sony says it’s not done making Xperia phones just yet 2 months ago:
Oh don’t worry, with Sony’s history I’m sure it’ll be around $2500
- Comment on Intel CPU Temperature Monitoring Driver For Linux Now Unmaintained After Layoffs 2 months ago:
If only there was an understood way to convey sarcasm.
- Comment on Blamed for Steam games ban, Mastercard encourages censorship during Riot Games VCT livestreams 2 months ago:
Straight up its like the shithole of western countries.
Although UK and USA are catching up
- Comment on Blamed for Steam games ban, Mastercard encourages censorship during Riot Games VCT livestreams 2 months ago:
They tried bitcoin. And also fraud was a concern too.
With Monero, fees are minimal and there’s no possible way to prove fraud thus if you KYCd youd be breaking no laws and it would work quite well. The volatility is still a factor though for sure.
Stablecoins exist but ETH also has large fees at certain times like btc so and other chains like Polygon are trash and not as secure.
Volatility is a factor, but using a different crypto than Bitcoin is necessary to avoid high fees and stolen coins
- Comment on Mozilla under fire for Firefox AI "bloat" that blows up CPU and drains battery 2 months ago:
You mean that annoying shit they do where I’m trying to move one tab and it puts it in a colored square with some bullshit?
Yeah there was NO WAY TO AVOID THAT. It straight up did that shit on its own. Like literally it almost magnetically attracted itself to the other tab to pull this shit. It effectively activates it for you this way whether you want it or not.
Man even Firefox is starting to shit the bed with their decision making.
- Comment on Blamed for Steam games ban, Mastercard encourages censorship during Riot Games VCT livestreams 2 months ago:
Is it possible for us the people to do it then? How do you organize something like a class action lawsuit against a big player like that?
They JUST finished paying out the 5.5 Billion in a class action lawsuit they’ve already lost before so we can for sure do it again, right?
- Comment on As electric bills rise, evidence mounts that data centers share blame. States feel pressure to act 2 months ago:
Yupp just like every single other aspect of our living here our lives have been made worse to protect the interests of large corporations.
Land of the free, and all that.