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- Comment on Switch 2 GameCube controller will only be offered to those who pre-order the console 2 days ago:
I mean, it’s Nintendo - if there was a way to somehow automatically charge your card every time you say, hear or think the words “Nintendo”, “Mario” and such, they’d do it without hesitation…
- Comment on Google To Allow Double Serving Ads. 1 week ago:
…because if I’m not interested in something, I might change my mind after I see it a bunch more times on the same fucking page - what a brilliant idea! Hell, put the ad in 50 different spots and make me click no less than 7 times to close each one - who knows, maybe that will encourage me to buy whatever shit you’re peddling!
- Comment on In the latest Windows 11 preview build, Microsoft removed the “bypassnro” command, which let users skip signing into a Microsoft Account when installing Windows. 1 week ago:
Seems an alternative, easier method was found: windowscentral.com/…/an-even-better-microsoft-acc…
Relevant part:
But fret not, as a new, perhaps better bypass has already been discovered that still uses the command prompt (which you can open with Shift + F10) and makes skipping the Microsoft Account sign-in step a total breeze.
Discovered by user @witherornot1337 on X, typing “start ms-cxh:localonly” into the command prompt during the Windows 11 setup experience will allow you to create a local account directly without needing to skip connecting to the internet first.
- Comment on FBI warnings are true—fake file converters do push malware 2 weeks ago:
“Users who in the past would type ‘free online file converter’ into a search engine are vulnerable, as the algorithms used for results now often include paid results, which might be scams.”
Nooo, you mean turning search engines into monetization and ad delivery engines had downsides? Who would have thought!
Fucking greed at the root of another goddamned issue…
- Comment on Digg founder Kevin Rose and Reddit founder Alexis Ohanian buy Digg for an undisclosed sum from Money Group, aiming to focus on “connection and humanity” online. 4 weeks ago:
Inb4 it turns out they bought it to promote an AI that specializes in connection and humanity…
What, me, bitter? Naaaw, what makes you think so?
- Comment on Mozilla is already revising its new Firefox terms to clarify how it handles user data 5 weeks ago:
That’s good and I’m genuinely glad they’re trying to clarify it, but it proves yet again that their top management is out of touch with reality and their users: somebody (most likely more than one person actually) had to sign off on these changes and the message they sent out - this whole thing could have been avoided if they understood their users better (and/or if they actually cared nore about what users think).
- Comment on Amazon Restricted Vaginal Health Products for Being ‘Potentially Embarrassing’ 5 weeks ago:
That’s the advanced cutting edge AI recommendation system for you. Oh, you just bought a fridge and a large TV? Here are fifty more fridges and large TVs that would be great for your fridge and large TV collection! And also a cheap Chinese knockoff impact drill, because they paid us to show it to people searching for fridges, TVs, jewelry, mineral water and potting soil!
- Comment on Google will use machine learning to estimate a user’s age 1 month ago:
“When it detects a user may be under 18, Google will notify them that it has changed some of their settings and will offer information about how users can verify their age with a selfie, credit card, or government ID.”
This will definitely not be used to get a massive amount of face and ID data from users who get misclassified as underage due to “glitches” and suddenly locked out from their Gmail accounts or Android phones. Nope, no sirree, that will never happen at all!
- Comment on Palantir CEO Sures Seems Pleased His Tech Is Capable Of Getting People Killed 1 month ago:
People like him “love disruption” only if it’s them doing the disrupring. Some eggs have to be broken to make an omelet, but not their eggs. But the millisecond someone else disrupts or breaks their shit (which clearly shows it wasn’t working properly, right?), they’ll whine, get mad, sue, involve the government, protest and cry - because suddenly disruption and sacrifice and rolling heads are not as much fun anymore…
- Comment on Elon Musk makes 23 posts urging King Charles III to overthrow UK government 2 months ago:
He bought himself a president already - looking to add a king to his collection now?
- Comment on Bluesky CEO Jay Graber is reshaping social media, but advertising isn't off the table 3 months ago:
I have no complaints about Lemmy, but posting on Mastodon is basically screaming into the void - I’ve been trying for more than a year, and I basically hardly ever get any reaction at all. In comparison, in the first week on Bluesky I found multiple people following me, commenting on my silly wine and cactuses posts, and in general just interacting.
Don’t get me wrong, I still prefer Mastodon technically and ethically, but it’s just so goddamned barren and dead I feel completely unmotivated to post there…
- Comment on Türkiye police detain dozens protesting violence against women 4 months ago:
Honest question - when did everyone collectively decide to stop calling Turkey Turkey? And why? Must have missed that memo. I don’t really mind, I just wonder why and when it happened…
- Comment on KFC drops pledge to stop using ‘Frankenchickens’ in the UK 4 months ago:
”Plantation owners say they won’t be able to phase out slavery because of insufficient supply of people who work for free without being chained and whipped"
- Comment on Is there a Lemmy community for finding Lemmy communities? 4 months ago:
Not sure about Lemmy community, but I use this page when searching for communities: lemmyverse.net/communities
- Comment on Least-Intrusive Social Media Platforms; Reddit and Snapchat Leads The Way. 5 months ago:
"A new eye-opening report (that we are not going to link, or even give you a title of, because trust us bro) has revealed something surprising about our social media platforms
- Comment on Three Lebanese journalists killed in Israeli strike 5 months ago:
This one is certainly the last straw, right? This is when Israel starts facing consequences for their war crimes, right? Right?!
Oh, wrong? Put it on the pile of war crimes over there then, right next to the pile of money from Uncle Sam they got to perpetrate even more crimes…