CannedYeet

@CannedYeet@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘My Property Tax Went From $15K to a Life-Altering $91K a Year’⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Land Value Tax would solve this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When New Jersey Switches Prison Tablet Companies, I’ll Lose 10 Years of Family Memories⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  He was sentenced to prison for that crime. It wasn’t part of his sentence for everyone to impose their own abuses and disrespects on top of that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Resistance is futile⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I use Linux. Can someone explain this meme to me?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Recommendations for "girly" games?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Monument Valley

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨All four major web browsers are about to lose 80% of their funding | by Dan Fabulich | Apr, 2025⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s stuff comes on the regular release cycle. Chrome and Firefox are both on a release every 4 weeks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hundreds of smartphone apps are monitoring users through their microphones⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, Netflix knows I’m watching Stranger Things. But afaik they don’t sell that information. And even if they do, there’s still reason for this company to try to get it themselves for cheaper. And they know something else about you based on these crappy apps they’re embedded in. So that’s all extra data points they can cross reference and get even more data.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hundreds of smartphone apps are monitoring users through their microphones⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If it’s trying to figure out if you’re watching Stranger Things it can look for when your stationary at home and just needs to record a few seconds at a time every few minutes. I don’t know how the fingerprinting works. It might be able to run locally and not use a ton of power. We’re talking Shazam, not full text transcription.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Getting mixed signals from Reddit. Furthermore I shall henceforth be on Lemmy full time.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Can we talk about how screwed up that streak notification is? Let’s encourage people who show signs of unhealthy usage of the platform to further their addiction?

  You have a 300 day streak of using heroin, don’t stop now!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do people insist on not answering ALL the questions in an email or text message?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This. Use bullets or bold each question so the number of questions is clear before each question is fully read.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft's many Outlooks are confusing users and employees⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Sounds like that’s exactly what they’re trying to do.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  For further details, see “The Master Plan” podcast series from The Lever.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thinkpad for the win⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I hope they used the official Apple cleaning cloth that’s certified compatible with that model of MacBook