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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨JPMorgan Chase fights off 45 billion hacking attempts each day⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah, yes, just over five attempts for every human alive. I assume they took the reply addresses at face value and have fowarded 45 billion cease & desists to Microsoft’s Redmond office?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube to eliminate 100 employees as layoffs at Google continue⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Could have been MMANAA 😔

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Persona 3 Reload - Official Opening Movie⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been collecting these, super hyped for February 🗣️🗣️🗣️💨💨💨🔥🔥🔥

  • WE MAKING IT OUT OF TARTARUS WITH THIS ONE
  • WE LANDING MARIN KARIN WITH THIS ONE
  • WE DISTURBING THE PEACE WITH THIS ONE
  • WE ENDING THE DARK HOUR WITH THIS ONE
  • WE MEMENTO MORI WITH THIS ONE
  • WE BURNING OUR DREAD WITH THIS ONE
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Head of Britain’s police chiefs says force ‘institutionally racist’⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The problem was acknowledged in a frank and unqualified manner… and they want to try fixing it? Is that allowed? Things can get better?? I, uh… gotta go return some videotapes

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google agrees to settle Chrome incognito mode class action lawsuit⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  No, I am not contradicting myself. Let me say it again with the ambiguity removed:

  1. Cox Media isn’t an advertiser, they sell a dressed-up analytics service. Think spreadsheets (that’s literally the service they’re selling in this copy, a monthly report spreadsheet).
  2. The “technology partner” selling this data to Cox is accessing it by bypassing the normal and correct operation of the device using malware.
  3. What does not “exist” is a shadowy cabal of smartphone manufacturers scheming to hide listening devices in the pockets of their consumers.

  I’m sure you still believe this is a load of apologia and frankly you can think what you want, but you should probably know that I’d already read about the Cox story when it first broke and specifically chose my words with that knowledge in mind.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google agrees to settle Chrome incognito mode class action lawsuit⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Read the document:

  The growing ability to access microphone data on devices like smartphones and tablets enables our technology partner to aggregate and analyze voice data during pre-purchase conversations.

  Key word is “technology partner”. They’re buying voice transcripts ripped from someone else’s spyware and selling the service of scraping it for keywords and maybe somehow tying that back to an individual by cross-referencing the hit against data from traditional above-board ad platforms.

  Google isn’t buying transcripts, Facebook isn’t buying transcripts. It’s Cox Media buying shady recordings stolen from spyware-compromised devices and then trying to whitewash it into something sellable with their (unverifiable) cross-analytics middleware.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google agrees to settle Chrome incognito mode class action lawsuit⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  we still have people that do not believe that the phones are always listening when seemingly any website or app you use gives you advertisements about what you were just talking about in the other room with the phone locked.

  Oh come on. Don’t bring this into conspiracy territory. Yes, eavesdropping does happen, but it’s not something an uncompromised Android phone will do when locked. Even when it does happen in the case of spyware, the people doing it aren’t selling your transcriptions to advertisers.

  People should still opt out of as many of GAPS’s spyware-like features as possible, as you suggest, but not because it’s a special anti-listening-device warding spell.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Whats your favorite Main Menu music?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Rocket Jump Waltz – TF2

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Exclusive: OpenAI investors considering suing the board after CEO's abrupt firing -sources⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It could probably be argued that the board didn’t do what was best for the investors, which is what they exist to do.

  Incorrect. OpenAI LLC (the traded company) does not have a board of directors. The board of directors actually belong to the parent company, simply “OpenAI”, which is a nonprofit organization – the only thing that they’re “beholden” to is the OpenAI company charter document.

  Here’s a simplified breakdown:

  Board of Directors =[controls]=> OpenAI (non-profit) =[majority shareholder]=> OpenAI LLC =[employs]=> OpenAI CEO

  OpenAI LLC is obligated to act in the best financial interest of their shareholders, but OpenAI LLC does not actually have control over who sits in the CEO chair. That power goes to the majority shareholder, which is the non-profit “OpenAI” parent company – a company beholden to their board, not shareholders.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Peasant Life⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Let’s not get too crazy. There’s a 15 year period where young men tend to get injured and young women tend to give birth that acts as a major filter. If you plotted death rates on a graph it would look like a trident – that’s life without antibiotics.

  It’s certainly true that elderly were not a rare sight, but those elderly who could be found were almost universally hardy of constitution or talented at avoiding danger. Quite literally the top of the bell curve.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨JavaScript's days are numbered⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Um excuse me time actually already ended in 1991

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  If it’s not fun, why bother?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Le origin story⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Do you have contamination and mutants, in your brain?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Le origin story⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  You’ll get another 3 seasons and you’ll like it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Redditor when women⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not likely. Don’t think

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tired Of Being Ripped Off By Monopolies, Cleveland Launches Ambitious Plan To Provide Citywide Dirt Cheap Broadband⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Whoops! I went back to double-check after seeing what you said and found that the provision was actually dropped from the bill in the time between when it was passed by the Senate and signed by the governor.

  The way it got quietly dropped like that kept it from being well publicized, but the long and short of it is that I misremembered and then failed to spot this detail while fact-checking myself. I’m sorry for spreading misinformation – I’ve updated the original post

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tired Of Being Ripped Off By Monopolies, Cleveland Launches Ambitious Plan To Provide Citywide Dirt Cheap Broadband⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not a precedent, it’s a playbook and telecos have been following it for decades. If you have one of the big telecoms in your city, they will sue to block municipal broadband. These suits win more often than not and even when they lose the rollout is usually delayed long enough as a result that they break even on legal fees.

  This is actually Cleveland’s second attempt to expand municipal broadband after their last effort in 2021 was thwarted when the Ohio state government banned Cleveland and other cities from building out fiber – obviously at the behest of lobbying from ISP special interests.

  This new attempt works around the law by forming public-private partnerships instead of true state-owned infrastructure. It’s the most they can do without violating state law:

  SiFi and CircleC, not the city, will own the finished networks. With little to no taxpayer money being spent, it’s a tradeoff city leaders say they felt made sense.

  “They already have a right to use our right of way—we’re not providing any special access to it, the agreement is just us all getting organized for how permitting for such a large scale project will go,” Davis said of the SiFi partnership. “Since the city’s paying for it or putting anything in, it’s not getting an equity stake.”

  Similarly, Davis noted that DigitalC will also maintain ownership of their finished wireless network.

  “We at the City are not contracting for infrastructure,” Davis noted. “We’re contracting for DigitalC to take 23,500 households–about 50,000 residents–that don’t subscribe to at-home broadband today and get them to become at-home internet subscribers, and provide digital adoption services and training to 50,000 residents. Basically, we’re paying to halve our present unconnected rate of 32 percent.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You can never be too safe⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Just don’t stroke the barrel too hard if you don’t want to have an accident

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pawoo, a Japanese Mastadon instance on the Fediverse notoriously bad about moderating CSAM, has been taken down.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Another reason is that “CP” got jokingly coopted by abusers in the form of various dogwhistles (e.g.: “cheese pizza”). It made more sense to adopt a new acronym rather than try to uphold any sense of decorum while sharing ownership of the term w/ edgelords & predators.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨CEO Bobby Kotick will leave Activision Blizzard on January 1, 2024 | Schreier: Kotick will depart after 33 years, employees are "very excited."⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Who would win?

  • A massive entertainment industry filled to the brim with passionate creatives
  • One greedy boy
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft owes $29 billion in back taxes plus penalties and interest to IRS⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Alright, fine… You got me! It’s actually Microsoft’s problem.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft owes $29 billion in back taxes plus penalties and interest to IRS⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  With that much money, you could effectively end homelessness in the U.S. for a full year [^1]

  [^1]: According to a rough estimate by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, it would cost $20 billion in 2012 dollars to afford every homeless person in the U.S. with one year of housing via vouchers. Independent groups have more recently recalculated this amount as ~$30 billion in 2023 dollars using similar methodologies. This is an estimated annual cost, but advocates argue that the program pays for itself – both in the sense that eliminating homelessness will reduce costs to other social programs & in the sense that many homeless will eventually return to self-sufficiency if given a fair opportunity.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft owes $29 billion in back taxes plus penalties and interest to IRS⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  To misquote J Paul Getty: “If you owe the IRS $29,000 that’s your problem. If you owe the IRS $29,000,000,000 that’s the IRS’s problem”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨USB inventor explains why the connector was not designed to be reversible⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  USB-A is a spin-half connector type

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fahrenheit vs. Celsius vs. Kelvin⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s lord Kevin to you, peasant

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FBI indicts three in insider trading scheme that utilized Xbox 360 chat to hide comms | Ringleader could be looking at as much as 165 years in prison⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  A silly graph titled “Prison Time by Moolah Stolen”. It depicts a graph which almost immediately shoots from 0 to 50 years, climbs to 165 years at $300,000 and then immediately drops to 5 years at $1,000,000 and 0 years at $2,000,000

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨VR still makes 40-70% of players want to throw up, and that's a huge problem for the companies behind it⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The statistic quoted is “users”, so presumably the statistic was measured against randomly selected individuals of the population (though the frustratingly article fails to cite a source). This is important because the effect is not evenly distributed among demographics, per the article:

  What’s more, we don’t know why some people are so much more susceptible to it than others, but we know that there are numerous markers that make us more likely to experience it. Women, as mentioned previously, are more likely than men to get VR sick. Asian people are more likely than other ethnicities to experience motion sickness in general. Age is another factor—we’re more likely to experience it between the ages of 12 and 21 than in our adulthood… until we reach our 50s, upon which the likelihood increases again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spotify is going to clone podcasters’ voices — and translate them to other languages⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  So, like… a claim so broad as “As long as money’s involved, there’s no way AI tech benefits society” is obviously untrue, right? Even if we accept a premise like “On the whole, AI will hurt society more than it helps”, it’s basically just dogma to blanket deny any practical usefulness. Take firearms, for example: they’re strictly controlled, but rarely if ever completely purged – almost all societies accept that some situations exist where the utility justifies the harm.

  To be honest, I feel really weird pushing back against this, because honestly we seem rather ideologically aligned. I think we both agree that technologies which promote economic development – by default – will disproportionately empower the rich and powerful few. With that being said, from an ideological perspective, technological developments are not in fundamental opposition to Marxist philosophy (even technological developments which render some skilled work economically obsolete). On the contrary; if we are to believe that the next step of economic development lies in casting aside class division, then we must necessarily concede that the only way forward is to recruit novel technological developments to that purpose.

  It is self-undermining and shortsighted to argue that simply allowing a development will inherently undermine anti-capital interests, because how then could such a system so apparently incompatible with future technologies also claim to itself be the future?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gen Z falls for online scams more than their boomer grandparents do⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  NO! Look at me! I am the Boomer, now.