maplesaga
@maplesaga@lemmy.world
- Comment on Walmart Is Putting Digital Labels That Change Prices Instantly on Every Store Shelf in America 1 week ago:
Its funny everyone shit the bed that prices might go up, but the Fed is out there pumping out 8% more money supply a year, and they keep printing if that money simply bids up stocks or house values.
Then they think its grocery stores raising prices 30c that’s making billionaires trillionaires.
- Comment on Someone Forked Systemd to Strip Out Its Age Verification Support 1 week ago:
I am aware of the Orwellian privacy implication, but how do we deal with bots, now that AI is rampant?
Something like hashcash, or what?
- Comment on Disney Exits OpenAI Deal After AI Giant Shutters Sora 1 week ago:
Assumptions implies logic, thats where you went wrong. This is a QE inspired casino.
- Comment on hot girls hate fascism❤️🔥 1 week ago:
What is right leaning these days, is it Trump, Hayek, Keynes?
What is left these days, is it anti-universal healthcare like Biden, or is it some form of socialism?
The answer could just be power, people will lie to you to achieve whatever ends they seek, to whoever will vote for them.
- Comment on Disney Exits OpenAI Deal After AI Giant Shutters Sora 1 week ago:
Its horrible, a wave of green, the color of witches.
- Comment on The US bans all new foreign-made network routers 1 week ago:
Something is happening, first the age verification and now this. They’re setting up to verify identities online I presume?
- Comment on Microsoft once tried to cut Windows 11 RAM usage, install size by 20%, now it’s trying again in 2026 1 week ago:
Suckers keep using it. I’d personally rather use a Chromebook than Windows.
- Comment on Microsoft once tried to cut Windows 11 RAM usage, install size by 20%, now it’s trying again in 2026 1 week ago:
Well no, its doing more than just existing, its sending screen shots of your screen to Microsoft, displaying ads, updating advertising ID to allow them to track you across the web. It all helps shareholders of microslop.
- Comment on Intel is reportedly preparing a 10% price increase for consumer CPUs 1 week ago:
They are competitive, especially given motherboard prices. I used it for my wife as someone agnostic to it.
- Comment on Intel is reportedly preparing a 10% price increase for consumer CPUs 1 week ago:
There’s a 600$ Macbook now running ARM. It can probably run Linux as well.
- Comment on US man pleads guilty to defrauding music streamers out of millions using AI 1 week ago:
Maybe this is why there’s a global push for age verification?
- Comment on Microsoft announces sweeping Windows changes - but no apologies 1 week ago:
I’m sticking with Linux Mint.
- Comment on This is Android's new 'advanced flow' for sideloading apps without verification, includes one-day waiting period 1 week ago:
Motorola has Graphene OS soon.
- Comment on Germany has just made the standard Open Document Format (ODF) mandatory 1 week ago:
Much of Europe break their own procurement laws to choose Microslop, no idea why.
- Comment on Google Search referrals to the web have plummeted, AI links are 'less than 1%' of traffic 1 week ago:
Bing created by Microslop is quite bad for privacy as well.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
I’ve got 3 pieces of software broken right now from large corporations, Rubrik being one of them. A 10 billion dollar corporation and its broken specifically with HyperV, and all they can say is theyre working with Microsoft to fix it, meanwhile our backups dont work.
I think this is the tip of the iceberg, this shit is far reaching, Microsoft is doing such a terrible job with Windows that I think the entire tech industry is being affected.
- Comment on Did we win? 2 weeks ago:
I too am excited. I wish they’d just put it on a flagship Motorola now so I could buy it.
- Comment on Microsoft wants devs to build Electron AI apps on Windows 11, says no need of native code, despite RAM concerns 2 weeks ago:
Ah that explains so much.
They turned themselves into users of their own zero code solutions for shitware.
- Comment on Microsoft wants devs to build Electron AI apps on Windows 11, says no need of native code, despite RAM concerns 2 weeks ago:
Why is settings getting so bad, its like using a nonfunctional electron app.
- Comment on Xbox just revealed Gaming Copilot is coming to "current-generation consoles" later this year 2 weeks ago:
Nintendo is terrible as well, they dont even let people stream their games last I heard.
- Comment on Microsoft Confirms Windows 11 Bug That Locks Users Out of the C: Drive 2 weeks ago:
It would be stuck on thousands of missing articles and unable to go back due to a bunch of redirects, like a sketchy page from the 90s.
- Comment on Firefox's beta feature "Smart Window" shared browsing and search history to AI models without prompting 2 weeks ago:
I use Duck.AI a lot, and it says its privacy oriented. Is Firefox doing anything similar, or is it all monetized data?
- Comment on Google Fiber will be sold to private equity firm and merge with cable company 3 weeks ago:
There’s an obvious reason as to why. Municipal bureaucracy makes it unfeasible.
- Comment on What does the acronym MAGA stand for? (wrong answers only) 3 weeks ago:
My Always Gaping Asshole.
- Comment on Microsoft Copilot Update Hijacks Default Browser Links 3 weeks ago:
Microslop would do this?
- Comment on Bean virus 3 weeks ago:
Somebody get me another god damn John Mcafee.
- Comment on Happy IWD! 3 weeks ago:
The two peculiar days of the year when one half of the population celebrates the other half. This needs an Nathan Pyle Alien Comic.
- Comment on Fairphone posted 83% year-on-year growth in Q4 2025 - A journey away from Big Tech to a more sustainable alternative 3 weeks ago:
I’d be curious, it seems obvious the world is coordinating it in some way.
- Comment on Oracle Layoffs: Tech giant to slash 30,000 jobs as banks pull out from financing AI data centres | Company Business News 3 weeks ago:
Ah I see, that would be an interesting law. Maybe it will happen one day, and we will take it for granted like we do 8 hour work days.
- Comment on Online age-verification tools spread across U.S. for child safety, but adults are being surveilled 3 weeks ago:
I assume you can still use a foreign VPN?