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- Comment on “Donated” plasma today 6 days ago:
Oh, I assumed this meant checking balance on a web site. Which should absolutely be free.
- Comment on “Donated” plasma today 6 days 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 1 week 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) 1 week ago:
Elon pushes directly to
main - Comment on It's the thing from the thing 1 week 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 1 week 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 ? 1 week 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 4 weeks 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 1 month ago:
Samsung’s board of directors. Of which half are probably using iPhones.
- Comment on The IRS Tax Filing Software TurboTax Is Trying to Kill Just Got Open Sourced 1 month ago:
Don’t worry, that’s all written by defense contractors anyways, so they’ll sell it to the US, and to others the US allows, all closed source. The source won’t even be open to the US government, either, as that’d harm the bottom line of the contractor (support & maintenance contracts for that closed-source software).
- Comment on WTF is a rural town in the USA? 1 month ago:
“Town” is generally used to mean “something smaller than a city”. I live in a town, and the population is about 30K. It’s technically a township, but people don’t really use that term widely. I know that doesn’t really clear things up, but your real answer is “it’s complicated”.
- Comment on By Default, Signal Doesn't Recall 1 month ago:
I’d still want the browser to at least be able to do it as a default, not at the whim of specific sites.
- Comment on By Default, Signal Doesn't Recall 1 month ago:
They can, but this wouldn’t be a website thing, it’d be the whole browser. Not a bad thin, IMO, Recall is cancer that no one but Microsoft board members & investors are asking for.
I predict privacy-preserving browsers like Librewolf, Waterfox, etc. potentially deploying the same “DRM for a good cause” approach Signal is using.
- Comment on Google's AI now listens to your English language phone conversations 1 month ago:
I read that it’s “opt out” not “opt in”.
- Comment on Google's AI now listens to your English language phone conversations 1 month ago:
Nice, wholesale illegal wire tapping. It’s OK, it’s legal because it’s AI and Google is totally not storing any recordings. They say this is all on-device, but that’s an “oops” or equivalent from them hoovering up recordings of every phone call you use one of their
surveillance endpointsphones on.heavy /s
- Comment on Trakt Upcoming VIP Renewal Pricing Changes – Effective May 20, 2025 2 months ago:
There are open source alternatives? Do they handle Plex/Infuse integration? Trakt’s obsessive march toward enshitification has been pretty predictable, but maybe this price hike will be the last straw.
- Comment on “No Apple tax means we will lower prices” - Proton announces lower prices for users by up to 30% after US ruling against Apple fees 2 months ago:
Yeah, Proton is bucking the obvious trend, with this one. Most companies will totally take the profits rather than lowering prices.
- Comment on This is real 2 months ago:
Wait, so now he’s MS-13, not that other one Trump keeps butchering the name of? I know they provided zero proof of either, but still…
- Comment on Apple to Analyze User Data on Devices to Bolster AI Technology. 2 months ago:
It would be nice if they actually fixed the stability issues in Apple Intelligence before they start adding more layers of slop to it. Writing tools summarization has been broken off and on since it launched.
- Comment on How to harden against SSH brute-forcing? 3 months ago:
Does SSH have to be your only way? Could you deploy something like Tailscale? Can you restrict the allowed IP ranges on SSH with a firewall rule?
- Comment on World’s smallest LEDs from a new semiconductor: New LED displays packing 90nm 'virus-sized' pixels can deliver 127,000 PPI visuals. 3 months ago:
Non-human use cases, would be one. Like, having the ability for machines to “see” highly detailed imagery via camera. Just spitballing. My eyes are shit, so a screen that cool will never be of use.
- Comment on Microsoft is killing OneNote for Windows 10 3 months ago:
And it’s a web/Electron app anyways. At least the O365-connected version is.
- Comment on Discord plans to roll out third-party ads on its mobile apps, starting with a mobile pilot for Video Quests, video ads that let users earn rewards, in June 2025. 3 months ago:
And this is why DNS-based ad blockers are needed. Get rekt, Discord, you’re not funneling attack vectors into my chats.
- Comment on Does not the constitution say something one should not be charged or something to vote? If so then why does my home state charge 50$ to get a regular id to vote? Is that no illegal? 3 months ago:
Any state that requires ID to vote + any state that charges a fee for said ID. Granted, ID’s are used for more than that, it’s still ultimately a poll tax.
- Comment on HP adds 15 minutes waiting time for telephone support calls 4 months ago:
This is just layoffs with more steps. People aren’t this patient, so forcing a minimum wait allows HP to have less contact center staff. Irony is it’s far cheaper for this type of worker than it is for the C-suite making these awful decisions in the first place.
- Comment on Something like Sonarr but for Youtube? 4 months ago:
YoutubeDL-Material would fit the bill
- Comment on Chinese EV leader BYD to offer ‘God’s Eye’ self-driving system on all models 5 months ago:
So not full self driving
- Comment on Chinese EV leader BYD to offer ‘God’s Eye’ self-driving system on all models 5 months ago:
FSD isn’t even real, too, so if BYD’s is, they already won even without the price tag difference.
- Comment on I am required to pay taxes to the US government, not elon musk running a fraudulent government agency, why should I pay? 5 months ago:
Most employers don’t give you that option.
- Comment on Californians Say X Blocked Them From Viewing Amber Alert About Missing 14-Year-Old 6 months ago:
The mobile carriers and device OEM’s already participate directly in the Amber alert program. Why is X even part of this?