Washedupcynic
@Washedupcynic@lemmy.ca
- Comment on I'm coming for you 5 days ago:
Soylent green has entered the chat.
- Comment on They even do Price Discrimination on video games now 1 week ago:
Credit scores are already how banks discriminate. That system is already in place.
- Comment on They even do Price Discrimination on video games now 1 week ago:
I’m the sort of person that likes proof before I decide to be angry about corporate gouging. So the first thing I did was to look for other sources that discuss this. Vice is reporting on this screenshot and the OG reddit post, there have been no comments from Sony. Insider Gaming is also reporting on this screenshot and OG reddit thread, in addition to discussing an earlier instance where someone reported going onto their browser to look up Astro Bot on the PlayStation Store while being signed out. It was $59.99. when signed in, it appeared as $44.99. Sony likes to call this bullshit dynamic pricing. This means that as you play, Sony is harvesting data about what games you play, how long you play the games in question, along with data in your library which gets fed into an algorithm to determine what price you should pay. This garbage is fucking reprehensible. This is the type of stuff that made me drop consoles and turn to the loving embrace of PC gaming. If I saw shit like this via my digital distributor, I would absolutely stop using them and look for other ways to legally purchase the game, or turn to piracy.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Is anyone else worried that Cuomo will be the spoiler dividing the democrats and an R ends up winning?
- Comment on You guys ready for NO Nut November? 1 week ago:
Later, “Honey, why is the drain clogged?”
- Comment on WTF BIT ME? 1 week ago:
It’s been 10 years since my bedbug nightmare. The bugs are long gone, but I’m still inspecting the mattress and box spring cover weekly with a magnifying glass, and blasting my laundry with hot water, high heat in the dryer, and sprinkling diatomaceous earth all the fuck over.
- Comment on If you don't understand it instantly you will never get it 2 weeks ago:
Stuck in the middle with you.
- Comment on School pickup lines are wild 2 weeks ago:
When I leave my home street, (on my bicycle,) I have to make a left hand turn. This means that I don’t proceed through the intersection until it’s safe, and I turn from the middle of the lane. My bike also has blinking turn signals, because people are dumb and don’t understand hand signals for turns. I had one of my neighbors behind me honking and screaming at me because I wasn’t turning fast enough for her liking. I screamed at her that I wasn’t turning until it was safe, and she could eat my ass. Then I got off my bike in the middle of the road and proceeded to dance the running man for 30 seconds before getting back on to attempt my left hand turn again. Fuck cars and the people that drive them.
- Comment on Man Alarmed to Discover His Smart Vacuum Was Broadcasting a Secret Map of His House 2 weeks ago:
So not only was the robot vacuum sending data without his permission, the moment he stopped that data from being sent to the company, the company remote bricked his device.
Seemingly more curious than ever, Narayanan now had no reason not to tear the thing apart looking for answers, which is exactly what he did. After reverse engineering the vacuum, a painstaking process which included reprinting the devices’ circuit boards and testing its sensors, he found something horrifying: Android Debug Bridge, a program for installing and debugging apps on devices, was “wide open” to the world.
“In seconds, I had full root access. No hacks, no exploits. Just plug and play,” Narayanan said.
Through a process of trial and error, he was eventually able to connect to the vacuum’s system from his computer. That’s when he discovered a “bigger surprise.” The device was running Google Cartographer, an open-source program designed to create a 3D map of his home, data which the gadget was transmitting back to its parent company.
In addition, Narayanan says he uncovered a suspicious line of code broadcasted from the company to the vacuum, timestamped to the exact moment it stopped working. “Someone — or something — had remotely issued a kill command,” he wrote.
“I reversed the script change and rebooted the device,” he wrote. “It came back to life instantly. They hadn’t merely incorporated a remote control feature. They had used it to permanently disable my device.”
In short, he said, the company that made the device had “the power to remotely disable devices, and used it against me for blocking their data collection… Whether it was intentional punishment or automated enforcement of ‘compliance,’ the result was the same: a consumer device had turned on its owner.”
- Comment on #environmentalist 2 weeks ago:
Found the Gen X-er. Good day to you, my fellow hose-water connoisseur.
- Comment on Another WSJ banger about why the poors aren't doing more 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Another WSJ banger about why the poors aren't doing more 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Another WSJ banger about why the poors aren't doing more 2 weeks ago:
Covid showed many people it didn’t have to be this way. The ppp loans that were appropriately used to pay staff that had to quarantine. (Lots of them were abused.) The extended unemployment benefits, some states expanded Medicaid, the roll out of work from home on a vast scale. I feel you though. I’m 45, and as a 20 year old it was clear the system was rigged.
- Comment on a sight to behold 3 weeks ago:
Largest BM a doctor witnessed in his career
So far.
- Comment on As Microsoft Forces Users to Ditch Windows 10, It Announces That It’s Also Turning Windows 11 into an AI-Controlled Monstrosity 3 weeks ago:
I think it’s time for a class action lawsuit. But yes, you make a good point. Our state agency just got new PCs due to the ending of windows 10 support, and it sucks because I have no way to turn off the AI bullshit because I’m not an admin. As much as I enjoy now having a machine with bluetooth so I can use earbuds, I’d go back to my old work PC in a heartbeat.
- Comment on Kaiju.meme 3 weeks ago:
And hengue, cause he was all different ages in it too.
- Comment on Kaiju.meme 3 weeks ago:
Naruto is in there 4 tmes. lol.
- Comment on Nintendon't 3 weeks ago:
Look at Nintendo trying to be Apple.
- Comment on Put your pride on the shelf and just go there, to the Y.M.C.A. 4 weeks ago:
I hope he gags and vomits on it.
- Comment on What’s wrong, babe? You barely touched your Spaghetacos 4 weeks ago:
cross post this to foodporn
- Comment on Caw caw 4 weeks ago:
🤢 🤮
- Comment on We interrupt your happiness to bring you this special message from our sponsors 4 weeks ago:
For those that don’t know, ASPD = Anti Social Personality Disorder. Symptoms of ASPD can surface before age 15.
- Comment on big savings 5 weeks ago:
I’m all about Hanniford. I’ve found their prices to be consisten between, Albany, Colonie, Niskayuna, and Latham NY stores. With price chopper their prices vary wildly based on which town you are shopping in. Downtown Albany and Schenectady prices are the moste jacked up, while those in the suburbs like glenmont, colonie ect are far better. I also chafe at having to carry around a fucking plastic card and have my data farmed to get stuff that’s on sale. I weep for anyone that doesn’t have any other choice besides Price
GougerChopper. - Comment on big savings 5 weeks ago:
On an unrelated note, I hate price chopper with the white hot intensity of 1,000 suns.
- Comment on Microsoft is endorsing the use of personal Copilot in workplaces, frustrating IT admins 5 weeks ago:
And I don’t have the ability to turn it off because I’m not an admin, so I am stuck with this shit on the new work PC.
- Comment on Red, gold and green. 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on they all start out the same but in a month they figure it out 1 month ago:
The only “reward” is more work.
- Comment on Children's reviews of a mobile app. 1 month ago:
Also, poor reviews get censored and removed. Write about how shitty it is but put 5 starts in the hope that your review stays up and others read about how shitty the product is.
- Comment on pokemon card 1 month ago:
It is a piss yellow pokemon.
- Comment on I Got This Right, Right? 1 month ago:
LOL. I totally didn’t realize I commented on your meme, before commenting on your shit post. HUGS. So, yeah, looks like you already got all the bases covered.