kadup

@kadup@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I still don’t think companies serve you ads based on spying through your microphone⁩ ⁨⁨51⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago⁩:

  I used to think the same. I’m all for digital privacy, but listening to a microphone? That’s ridiculous, the legal ramifications would be enormous. Plus, encoding and sending all this data? Not practical, and of course, we are fully aware of confirmation bias and selective memory so for sure those personal anecdotes must be coincidences.

  Then it happened to me. I use a VPN, all my devices have a billion types of ad blocking, private DNS, JavaScript disabled by default and so on. Then I mention a product next to my girlfriend, a product that only interested me and I had recently discovered, nothing she was ever aware of… and while I was still right next to her, five minutes later, her phone is showing up ads for said product. Her phone, not mine. The product is not Coca-Cola, it’s not something that often pops up.

  What other explanation could there be? The coincidence of the year? They are listening.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There’s No Dancing Around It: Apple’s Vision Pro Was An Ugly Dud⁩ ⁨⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m sure calling it a “dev kit” and not a product “expected to sell many units” whilst having inventories full of the thing and a few failed attempts at pushing sales is how they’re going to try to spin this failure.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta’s AI Profiles Are Already Polluting Instagram and Facebook With Slop⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d entertain your theory, but Facebook is pretty much only kept alive by boomers and Mark’s AI multiverse web 3.0 became a commercial failure, so I don’t think your idea that he understands young people and is just ahead of me holds.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta’s AI Profiles Are Already Polluting Instagram and Facebook With Slop⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I think Zuckerberg fundamentally misunderstands humans. I don’t even mean the memes of calling him a robot or lizzard or whatever, I truly believe being a billionaire in a tech bubble from a young age severely harmed his notion of his own species to the point of being pathological.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Family chat be like⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Delet this nephew

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is it considered sexist to ask women to smile?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Why do you feel the need to make “suggestions” about how women could look better? Or in other words, why would be of your concern if somebody is or isn’t smiling and looking good for you?

  You’ll notice this behavior often happens with women on the receiving end of the “friendly suggestion” but rarely does it happen with men.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the most abused word in today's vocabulary ?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Literally the word literally, like literally