Ozymati

@Ozymati@lemmy.nz

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Your AI Girlfriend Is a Data-Harvesting Horror Show⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  He’s on social media. This could probably be arranged.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Japanese disaster prevention X account can’t post anymore after hitting API limit - The issue has arisen after major Tsunami warnings have been issued in areas of Japan following a strong earthquake⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You can trust them within a framework of expectations. Bureaucrats gonna bureaucrat, and it’s not a monolith. The level of mistrust should rise steeply with the level of money that can be made by being in a given governmental position. Do I trust rando post office employee? Sure, they’re just some schmuck with a job. Do I trust a congresscritter? Oh hell no.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Your Car Is Tracking You. Abusive Partners May Be, Too.⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah like, ok my hypothetical teenage child borrowing my car, I want to be able to see where the car went and how fast it was going to get there. Because I know from personal experience that teenagers are idiots and need some level of supervision. Similar vein, stolen vehicles. So it’s a feature with some utility.

  I’m even OK with my insurance company offering a discount if I give them telemetry so they know I drive the speed limit and am not a risk. Though for people on the low end of the economy in a place where insurance is mandatory that can verge on extortion - so I’m only conditionally OK with it, the condition being that there must be a tier of mandatory insurance which is price capped regardless if the telemetry is granted or not. Because in a lot of places not being able to drive cuts people off from pretty much everything.

  But I am absolutely not OK with the feature being so insecure that I can’t lock users out, and am not notified by several channels about new users. Also I am super not OK with the car company itself getting telemetry without my express permission. I dgaf how it might improve the future product. I bought a car, I did not buy a spy.

  In this particluar case though, it is complicated because the technically the ex is the actual owner of the car. I have no idea why the court didn’t force him to sign it over to her, but I can see why the car corp isn’t being helpful. It’s deeply unfortunate that this stalker is able to keep doing his thing via the car but at the same time regardless of how many unlockable doors the car has, it’s his behavior that is the proximate issue. Like yeah absolutely get the car fixed, but how about also the legal system steps up and makes this entitled loser knock it off?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How many of you actually use the headphone jack on your phone?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Rarely, but I like knowing it’s there if my headphones run out of battery and I need to join a meeting or make a call.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨🌿👀🌿⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The trees are watching us.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Redditor when women⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  There are no women on reddit. Only men, the FBI, shills, and the occasional dog who learned to type.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that there is no such thing as an "alpha wolf"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m pretty sure Moon Moon is an alpha version wolf.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not even the ghost of obsolescence can coerce users onto Windows 11⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I had to get a new PC and it came with WIN 11 honestly it’s not any more terrible than any other version of Windows once I shut off all the obnoxious options that are defaulted on. But also I never would have bothered installing it if I hadn’t gotten an entirely new system.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨23andMe User Data Stolen in Targeted Attack on Ashkenazi Jews⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Credential stuffing attack. Who wants to wager that the compromised accounts had a LastPass and have never changed their password?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do empty nesters deal with over cooking?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Just start feeding the neighbour teenager. Bottomless pit just waiting for all your spare cooking.

  Or, halve the recipes. If you don’t cook enough you can always top up with a snack.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unity apologises.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Attempted to fuck with dungeons and dragons. Google will bring you all the wailing and gnashing of teeth, probably far more informatively than I would.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unity temporarily closes offices amid death threats following contentious pricing changes⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  One threat, from and employee. Sigh.

  More realistic outcome - some game loving tweenage hacker does something fantastically destructive in whatever part of their infrastructure they can get into.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨More than $35 million has been stolen from over 150 victims since December — ‘nearly every victim’ was a LastPass user⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  2fA is an important element too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Most of My Instagram Ads Are for Drugs, Stolen Credit Cards, Hacked Accounts, Counterfeit Money, and Weapons⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Using umatrix. Difficulty is these are the ads presented as part of the feed so they’re difficult to block. Like the promoted posts on reddit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Most of My Instagram Ads Are for Drugs, Stolen Credit Cards, Hacked Accounts, Counterfeit Money, and Weapons⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I went on Edge, logged into Facebook, then proceeded to google various horse related things and visit the resulting websits. Now my ads are all about horses. I don’t own a horse, never been especially into them. But they’re nice and inoffensive in my feed.