melsaskca
@melsaskca@lemmy.ca
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- Comment on Microsoft announces new Windows changes in response to the EU's (DMA) Digital Markets Act for EEA users, including Edge not prompting users to set it as the default unless opened 1 day ago:
Too little too late? Some European businesses have already made the change to open source. Shit should be free to anyone doing business with it anyway.
- Comment on This new 40TB hard drive from Seagate is just the beginning—50TB is coming fast! 1 day ago:
Hey! You! Get offa the Cloud (and grab yourself one of those drives). You can keep your thoughts to yourself, now you can keep your data to yourself, like in the recent old times.
- Comment on Meta plans to use AI to automate up to 90% of its privacy and integrity risk assessments, including in sensitive areas like violent content 3 days ago:
It goes to pay off the debt of all of the nations in the world and will then usher in a new age of peace, obviously.
- Comment on If AI was going to advance exponentially I'd of expected it to take off by now. 3 days ago:
That’s exactly what AI would say. Hmmm…
- Comment on Meta plans to use AI to automate up to 90% of its privacy and integrity risk assessments, including in sensitive areas like violent content 3 days ago:
I think AI is positioned to make better decisions than execs. The money saved would be huge!
- Comment on Windows 11 Start Menu Revealed as Resource-Heavy React Native App, Sparks Performance Concerns 5 days ago:
An OS that requires you to upgrade your hardware and now we are discussing performance concerns? The writing was on the wall.
- Comment on Why do people care so much that their friend or family member’s partner is attractive and not just loving? 6 days ago:
Better to be attracted by the person you love. In most cases men will fuck anything given the opportunity and they sure as hell don’t care about aesthetics when in that situation.
- Comment on Fediverse Social Media Guide 6 days ago:
A flowchart should cover all possibilities. I’m over 60 and have never had “The Facebook”.
- Comment on Rip willy boy 1 week ago:
Not many people know this but Will Smith’s uncle is Slappy White.
- Comment on Elon Musk's X temporarily down for tens of thousands of users 1 week ago:
He did the DOGE on his twitter minions.
- Comment on Do you think a story that mixes magic with super advanced technology can work? 1 week ago:
Yes. Do a time travel story and new tech will be seen as miraculous magic by those pesky Elizabethans.
- Comment on Tesla Full-Self Driving Veers Off Road, Hits Tree, and Flips Car for No Obvious Reason (No Serious Injuries, but Scary) 1 week ago:
I have visions of Elon sitting in his lair, stroking his cat, and using his laptop to cause this crash. /s
- Comment on It's Breathtaking How Fast AI Is Screwing Up the Education System 1 week ago:
It’s breathtaking how quickly the President of the United States and his good South African buddy can topple a superpower.
- Comment on Guardian reporters wins investigative journalism award 1 week ago:
It’s quite obvious who funds it. The media companies. Bit of cognitive dissonance going on between the two, eh? Go watch a commercial, buy a product and hate somebody should not be a mission statement. Some good folk out there pursue the truth regardless of the “very expensive” façade but they don’t live in the corporate/capitalistic structure of “very expensive”.
- Comment on Guardian reporters wins investigative journalism award 2 weeks ago:
Good news. We need more journalists and less “media companies” in this day and age.
- Comment on Verizon is charging extra to limit spam calls and texts: Scam calls and texts have surged, yet Verizon continues to charge customers extra for essential protections. 2 weeks ago:
You can bet Verizon has a special secret division to place scam calls and texts so they can protect you from them because capitalism.
- Comment on I'm guilty of not reading the f..ing documentation 2 weeks ago:
While investing money to create good documentation is the preferred way, I cannot trust it to be accurate in this day and age of cutting corners. It takes a bit longer but I’ll always look at the code itself to get me closest to the truth of what is going on under the hood.
- Comment on What Happens When AI-Generated Lies Are More Compelling than the Truth? 2 weeks ago:
This reminds me of an old quote well before the advent of tech and internet…“Why let the truth get in the way of a good story?”.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Driving a manual is a bit tricky to start with but minimum practice and you’ll learn everything you need to know. Everything else is experience. Once you’ve driven it for a while, especially through various weather conditions, you’ll find that you have more control of the vehicle when driving a manual stick shift. Even three on the tree makes you more free.
- Comment on YouTube's new ad strategy is bound to upset users: YouTube Peak Points utilise Gemini to identify moments where users will be most engaged, so advertisers can place ads at the point. 2 weeks ago:
Advertisers are invasive like zebra mussels.
- Comment on We gonna fight 2 weeks ago:
This meme reminded me of all the different flavours of Christianity.
- Comment on AI Could Be the Most Effective Tool for Dismantling Democracy Ever Invented 2 weeks ago:
I guess that means it could also be the most effective tool for saving democracy. Fuck these what if’s over factual news.
- Comment on License Plate Reader Company Flock Is Building a Massive People Lookup Tool, Leak Shows 3 weeks ago:
That was the goal the entire time. Get rid of the free phonebooks then charge you for that free information.
- Comment on Stop Internet Searching and Start Asking on Fediverse? 3 weeks ago:
All knowledge available for all, should be the goal. Us vs. them train of thought is so old and tiring but still continues to light a fire under some.
- Comment on So excited that Avril Lavigne did come back 3 weeks ago:
Just a bad english translation and an even worse pun.
- Comment on So excited that Avril Lavigne did come back 3 weeks ago:
In western Canada we call her April Vineyard.
- Comment on Tesla confirms it has given up on its Cybertruck range extender to achieve promised range 3 weeks ago:
$39,900? Not $40,000? Does Elon still think that old “99” trick still works?
- Comment on Showing your ID to get online might become a reality 3 weeks ago:
I preferred the pre-tech “phonebook” stage where all you had was your name (and whatever else was attached to it based on one’s own behaviour).
- Comment on Showing your ID to get online might become a reality 4 weeks ago:
I don’t like the idea but look where anonymity has gotten us. Lots of hate and false bravery hiding behind an alias.
- Comment on Trump orders rebuilding and reopening of defunct US prison Alcatraz 4 weeks ago:
It’ll be like the new Riviera on the west coast.