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- Comment on Get ready to see ads on your… Samsung refrigerator 2 days ago:
To display ads.
- Comment on 2 days ago:
I assume that’s HVAC. Makes more sense to fix that before solar.
- Comment on 2 days ago:
is that per-month, or for the whole span?
- Comment on Firefox Nightly Adds CoPilot AI Chatbot + New Tab Widgets 1 week ago:
The updates tend to trip up quarantine. I was using brew auto-update, which did not play nice with this app.
- Comment on Firefox Nightly Adds CoPilot AI Chatbot + New Tab Widgets 1 week ago:
There are extensions for overusing time zone. But yeah, I hated that, too. It’s another mechanism that it uses to avoid fingerprinting.
- Comment on Firefox Nightly Adds CoPilot AI Chatbot + New Tab Widgets 1 week ago:
Waterfox has been great so far. I only switched from Librewolf because updating that on MacOS is frustrating.
- Comment on Firefox Nightly Adds CoPilot AI Chatbot + New Tab Widgets 1 week ago:
Microsoft probably paid them for it.
- Comment on The Job Market Is HellYoung people are using ChatGPT to write their applications; HR is using AI to read them; no one is getting hired. 1 week ago:
Companies have been using algo-assisted application screening for way longer than LLM’s have been rapping on this process. It has just mad a bad problem worse.
- Comment on Who are the "middle class" supposed to support in the class stuggle? 2 weeks ago:
The middle class isn’t real. You are either working class or owner class. Anything else is just there to divide the working class in a forever class war with the owner class.
- Comment on Mississippi's age assurance law puts decentralized social networks to the test 3 weeks ago:
FreedomAdvocate? Yeah, username checks out…
- Comment on Mississippi's age assurance law puts decentralized social networks to the test 3 weeks ago:
Not if the instance isn’t subject to their jurisdiction.
- Comment on Why do i tip my bartender $2 per drink and per bar food order but 20% when I order food from a waitress? Am I tipping wrong? 4 weeks ago:
The latest atrocity I’ve seen in tipping is at the attended checkout at a grocery store. These companies are leeches.
- Comment on UK Withdraws Apple iCloud Backdoor Demand Following US Diplomatic Push 4 weeks ago:
I’m pretty sure Apple would exit the UK before complying with that, anyways. The damage they’d take in the global market would far outweigh the value of complying.
- Comment on 'Ad Blocking is Not Piracy' Decision Overturned By Top German Court 4 weeks ago:
Would that actually work? I think USPS gets paid to dump unaddressed mail in mailboxes.
- Comment on UK wants to weasel out of demand for Apple encryption back door 1 month ago:
They should allow a backdoor, but only on UK Parliament members’ phones.
- Comment on Microsoft suddenly kills its movies and TV store on Xbox and Windows 1 month ago:
That’s slightly different. You aren’t paying them to store that specific content, you are paying to rent space in their service. They guarantee that space to be available for whatever SLA they have and for as long as the service exists. If they shut down the service, you are still SOL on that content if you don’t have it backed up locally.
Contrast that to “buying a digital movie”. You are paying to access that content, at that time, and as long as it’s made available on whatever service you paid for it. The latter part is the kicker. My argument is that if I can’t download it in a usable format independent of the platform “selling” it, I didn’t buy it. I rented it. Buying digital movies is just renting them for a longer time frame, unless they let you download it.
I always argue with the less tech savvy people in my life that it’s like buying a car vs. leasing a car. If you buy it, it’s yours, period. If you lease it, it’s not truly yours. You have to give it back when the lease is up, or buy out the lease. You don’t truly own it until after that. The media companies just don’t offer the “buy out the ease, later”, part. While Microsoft retired the whole service, these companies also have this issue when they let media agreements expire with content producers. You buy a movie, but then they decide not to renew their agreement with Paramount? You just lost access to that movie.
- Comment on Adblockers stop publishers serving ads to (or even seeing) 1bn web users - Press Gazette 1 month ago:
Ad companies are getting butt-hurt because the pages you are referencing are being seen even less, due to AI scraping by search engines. So now they are going after:
- The consumer using an ad blocker. Last amount of protections/rights, easiest target to vilify.
- The search engines, for stealing content views where ads would be placed
- The publishers for allowing users that use ad blockers.
- Comment on Why doesn't Trump destroy or modify the Epstein files? 1 month ago:
Even that video would be brushed off as “fake news” or a “deep fake”.
- Comment on Microsoft suddenly kills its movies and TV store on Xbox and Windows 1 month ago:
If you don’t own the storage, you don’t own the content. You’re just renting it.
- Comment on Apple sues YouTuber who leaked iOS 26’s new “Liquid Glass” software redesign 2 months ago:
Any level of UI element transparency is hard nope from me. Based on your screenshot, it looks like Apple was listening, on that front.
- Comment on Reddit users in the UK must now upload selfies to access NSFW subreddits 2 months ago:
They’ll criminalize personal VPN users for non-work purposes, next.
- Comment on “Donated” plasma today 2 months ago:
Oh, I assumed this meant checking balance on a web site. Which should absolutely be free.
- Comment on “Donated” plasma today 2 months ago:
Getting charged to check the balance seems…not legal? I dunno, probably not. Some politician that also owns a payday lending company would probably ensure that’s legal.
- Comment on Exclusive: OpenAI to release web browser in challenge to Google Chrome 2 months ago:
Challenge to Google Chrome
Uses Chromium as the base
So basically they are doing exactly what Google is, and what Microsoft is with Edge.
- Comment on The Cause of Grok’s Increasing Antisemitism? Apparently, Two Lines of Code (Update: One of the Lines of Code Was Removed) 2 months ago:
Elon pushes directly to
main - Comment on It's the thing from the thing 2 months ago:
Israel just doing totally normal violations of the Geneva Conventions, every day. No big deal.
Also, TIL the Red Cross is technically supposed to be the enforcer of these conventions.
- Comment on Why Microsoft's enshittification of Xbox, Surface, and even Windows itself — are all by design 2 months ago:
Just about all of the O365 apps can be run as PWA, with some working better than others. Shifting to a device-centric model would basically make them Apple, but, 30 years late to the party.
I know I’m not offering solutions, but what I will say is, I associate Microsoft with 3 things, now, that were not the case 20 years ago. Their focus is purely about shareholder value, not customer value.
- Data harvesting as a business pillar
- Forced adoption of Copilot (Jamming it into Swiftkey really pissed me off)
- Ads
People shit on Apple a lot, and many for very good reasons, but Apple has the customer base it does because it is actively engaged in keeping them happy with their products, not trying to jam AI down their throats, sell them and their data to the highest bidder, etc. Microsoft has the customer base it does because inertia is hard to break. I’ve never met an Apple user that said “I hate this, I’m going to Windows”. Most Apple users I know are Windows ex-pats.
I know I can’t be on here being all happy about Apple, but I can’t be a Linux fanboy like most of Lemmy, either.
- Comment on Why does everyone hate Income tax ? 2 months ago:
You had me until the emergency services comment
- Fire department, available
- Police, available, you may end up murdered if you are the wrong skin tone
- Ambulance, available, but you’ll be billed for that ride. So what’d taxes pay for there?
- Mental health services, see Police
- Emergency room, available, see Ambulance and multiply by 50-100x
- Comment on Been a good couple of years 3 months ago:
I’m so happy with Voyager being a really good replacement for Apollo. If you use it, donate to the dev. Building apps this good, solo, is hard.
- Comment on Samsung teams up with Glance to use your face in AI-generated lock screen ads 3 months ago:
Samsung’s board of directors. Of which half are probably using iPhones.