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- Comment on If you're still on Lemmy... 13 hours ago:
you been arguing with tankies?
- Comment on Perplexity CEO says its browser will track everything users do online to sell 'hyper personalized' ads | TechCrunch 19 hours ago:
tor is crazy, like you cant use half the internet with it - how do you sign into stuff while remaining anonymus? its good for hiding browsing history from the world, but other than that i don think its the best. iIuse librewolf and it seems to work well, i might switch in the future to something else but im fine with this.
- Comment on Perplexity CEO says its browser will track everything users do online to sell 'hyper personalized' ads | TechCrunch 19 hours ago:
use librewolf if you want privacy. idk much abt brave but i do know that their ceo is super homophobic, and ive heard that brave sometimes changes the referral links you select to make them money
- Comment on Google, X and Facebook Are Modern-Day Tobacco Companies 19 hours ago:
I think in some cases DAOs kinda make sense to be legal entities (in some contexts), like a public company is somewhat controlled by its investors, and if you want to create some sort of crypto-related product - im thinking of something like polymarket or opensea here - you could get investment by auctioning off special voting tokens for the DAO that controls it (so if the majority of token holders wanted to, they could for example, change the background of the site, or introduce a new feature). I imagine getting legal recognition of such a company would make this a ton easier.
Of course, replacing/creating governments with this sorta thing would be insane, but on a lower level, like for companies, it doesn’t seem that bad
- Comment on Microsoft rolls Windows Recall out to the public nearly a year after announcing it 1 day ago:
get linux if you haven’t already
if you don’t know how, ask, Lemmy is covered in Linux users
- Comment on MIT engineers create 'spaghetti' style metamaterial that could enable stretchy computer chips that are almost indestructible 1 day ago:
quantum computing once they break meaningful encryption, not 2 bit RSA. it’ll be super overhyped, become super important, and then it’ll settle down a bit once everyone switches to new encryption algorithms
- Comment on MIT engineers create 'spaghetti' style metamaterial that could enable stretchy computer chips that are almost indestructible 1 day ago:
they should put that in clothing, there’s probably tons of medical uses for this
- Comment on Elon Musk's Social Platform X has filed a lawsuit agains Minnesota, challenging a law banning political deepfakes 1 day ago:
just bc youve had a bad day doesn’t mean you need to spread that to everyone
- Comment on Perplexity CEO says its browser will track everything users do online to sell 'hyper personalized' ads | TechCrunch 1 day ago:
because they want ads that serve them things they want I imagine
- Comment on Perplexity CEO says its browser will track everything users do online to sell 'hyper personalized' ads | TechCrunch 1 day ago:
some people will see this as a feature to be desired, not a bug
- Comment on Google, X and Facebook Are Modern-Day Tobacco Companies 1 day ago:
The news thrives on things that get the readers attention, and right now people are paying attention to bad things.
- Comment on Google, X and Facebook Are Modern-Day Tobacco Companies 1 day ago:
And this yet another reason why we should be using cryptocurencies that provide actual privacy, like anyone could go right now and see every drug transaction on silk road, or any hacker getting their Bitcoin confiscated, or any transaction ever, except for those done through monero and some with zcash.
Btw where’d you hear abt this? or did you just come up with it?
- Comment on Social media sites should have 'reverse' Parental Controls; where adult children can block their boomer/senior parents' accounts from viewing conspiracy and radicalizing content. 1 day ago:
you should realize this is half a joke
- Comment on If you're still on Lemmy... 1 day ago:
there’s a few communities of authoritarian communists here, like the sort that like Stalin and Mao and they mostly reside on hexbear and (less but still) Lemmy.ml. Btw I’m also pretty new here.
- Comment on If you're still on Lemmy... 1 day ago:
how is it any less to the left than Lemmy?
- Comment on If you're still on Lemmy... 1 day ago:
with reddit the CEO ad shareholders control what gets promoted or silenced; with Lemmy they don’t have that power. that’s how it helps
- Comment on Google is killing privacy sandbox in Chrome. 3 days ago:
from rain clouds?
- Comment on Google is killing privacy sandbox in Chrome. 3 days ago:
And that lacks competition, so no wonder that it sucks
- Comment on It’s game over for people if AI gains legal personhood 3 days ago:
I mean an AI CEO doesn’t wanna buy a $500 million boat to show off, it would just keep the money in the company and reinvest it somewhere.
- Comment on Google is killing privacy sandbox in Chrome. 3 days ago:
Those exist but then that’s not competition anymore, its a cartel. If those were abolished it would be better.
- Comment on Google is killing privacy sandbox in Chrome. 3 days ago:
once they have a monopoly what if the government broke up monopolies, and promoted competition? then you wouldn’t have the large price increase you described afterwards. ofc competition alone cant fix the environmental issues you described, thats probably best solved by some government body, like if they taxed new plastic being produced so companies would be incentivized to recycle what they could. also thx for actually writing a longer reply
- Comment on Google is killing privacy sandbox in Chrome. 3 days ago:
So why don’t you start a bottled water company that’ll make it better?
- Comment on Google is killing privacy sandbox in Chrome. 4 days ago:
Competition that is meaningful. Like if you produce bottled water, and you lower the quality of it (like, idk maybe theres stuff floating inside) so its cheaper to make, people will notice and switch to an alternative. And when the alternative tries something similar, they’ll switch back to you. Regulation can also help with this but at the same time it increases the barrier to entry for new players, lowering competition. I think.
- Comment on Google is killing privacy sandbox in Chrome. 4 days ago:
unless theres meaningful competition
- Comment on Intel to Announce Plans This Week to Cut More Than 20% of Staff 4 days ago:
They’ve been struggling a lot recently, but this stuff with the tarrifs cantve made it any easier for them.
- Comment on It’s game over for people if AI gains legal personhood 4 days ago:
this all sounds really bad and stuff, until you realize that ai CEOs wouldn’t necessarily give themselves vast amounts of money. ngl other than the stuff with copyright this doesn’t sound too bad.
- Comment on Elon Musk: your new Tesla will drive from the factory floor, to your house 'this year' 5 days ago:
It does, and I’ve heard its safer than humans in some cases, but there’s legal issues in the way. Like if a driverless car kills someone, who’s fault is it?
- Comment on Elon Musk: your new Tesla will drive from the factory floor, to your house 'this year' 5 days ago:
I used to about some things, like when he talked about the how the spaceX rockets worked, but then he went insane. And now I’ve heard there’s a pretty good chance that starship isn’t gunna archive much at all, because its too heavy from the stainless steel they used to make it.
- Comment on What's with "*checks notes*" everywhere? 6 days ago:
fr fr on God no cap
- Comment on Are most people here left-wing? 6 days ago:
there’s a few thousand commies too