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- Submitted 2 hours ago to technology@lemmy.world | 8 comments
- Comment on Windows 12 release date in 2026 possible, with AI features that may force CPU upgrades 6 hours ago:
God sounds like a jerk. It’s freezing out there.
- Comment on Windows 12 release date in 2026 possible, with AI features that may force CPU upgrades 6 hours ago:
You can pick up malware from a website or an advert on a website. You can pick it up by a friend bringing an infected device and attaching it to your home network. You can pick it up from a phishing link or attachment. You can run an IoT device that downloads malware and propagates it to other machines on your network. You can install a dodgy app on your phone. You can run an application that has a chain of dependencies down to some obscure backdoored library (xz). You can run software that downloads automatic updates and whose update server was compromised (Notepad++) or whose signing certificate was compromised. You can pick it up because someone else in your family did any one of these things or many others.
Malware isn’t just for people who do obviously dangerous things like downloading cracks and keygens.
- Comment on Windows 12 release date in 2026 possible, with AI features that may force CPU upgrades 6 hours ago:
Or I get an incurable cancer.
So you are planning to upgrade?
- Comment on It's rude to show AI output to people 3 days ago:
That’s my boss. He isn’t a programmer and I have done it professionally for 25 years, but he has taken to sending me not only feature requests but also pages of AI-generated code, and now he expects me to do the work instantly since I can just paste in what he sent me. He thinks he’s being helpful. I’ve asked him to leave the implementation to my team but he can’t help himself. I don’t know how you explain it to someone so bad at reading the room.
- Comment on Asus and Dell announce new mini PCs for Windows 365 | Goodbye local OS 3 days ago:
Now with added surveillance and advertising!
- Comment on "Cancel ChatGPT" movement goes mainstream after OpenAI closes deal with U.S. Department of War — as Anthropic refuses to surveil American citizens 3 days ago:
Your link isn’t valid.
- Comment on "Cancel ChatGPT" movement goes mainstream after OpenAI closes deal with U.S. Department of War — as Anthropic refuses to surveil American citizens 3 days ago:
OK, and the point of the thread was that it’s still a good thing if they quit it now. No one can undo past mistakes but you can decide not to keep making them.
- Comment on "Cancel ChatGPT" movement goes mainstream after OpenAI closes deal with U.S. Department of War — as Anthropic refuses to surveil American citizens 3 days ago:
- Comment on "Cancel ChatGPT" movement goes mainstream after OpenAI closes deal with U.S. Department of War — as Anthropic refuses to surveil American citizens 3 days ago:
Cancelling now is still better late than never.
- Comment on "Cancel ChatGPT" movement goes mainstream after OpenAI closes deal with U.S. Department of War — as Anthropic refuses to surveil American citizens 3 days ago:
I can’t believe people were paying for it in the first place.
- Submitted 3 days ago to technology@lemmy.world | 10 comments
- Comment on US | Trump announces ‘major combat operations’ in Iran to ‘protect Americans’ 3 days ago:
Because Iran was causing Americans so badly problems every day. A world war will surely keep Americans safe.
And remember, the “imminent” threat any day now from Iranian missiles is something Netanyahu has been saying since 1995.
- Submitted 4 days ago to technology@lemmy.world | 12 comments
- Comment on Turns out Generative AI was a scam 5 days ago:
And those CEOs will go off with their vast piles of money to make the same mistakes again.
- Submitted 5 days ago to technology@lemmy.world | 23 comments
- Comment on Amazon Change Means Wishlists Might Expose Your Address 6 days ago:
They didn’t fuck up. They’re doing it deliberately.
- Comment on DVDs are the new vinyl records: Why Gen Z is embracing physical media 6 days ago:
Can we stop publishing these articles? I was enjoying the cheap CDs.
- Comment on Amazon BUSTED for Widespread Scheme to Inflate Prices Across the Economy— Amazon, its vendors, and competing retailers are price fixing, hiking up prices for consumer products 6 days ago:
Their post history reveals them to be kind of a jerk. If it was an attempt at sarcasm it was a bad one.
- Comment on Amazon BUSTED for Widespread Scheme to Inflate Prices Across the Economy— Amazon, its vendors, and competing retailers are price fixing, hiking up prices for consumer products 6 days ago:
The frustrating thing is we can’t boycott AWS since so many of the sites we use run on it. But yes, we absolutely shouldn’t buy things through Amazon or any of the other web stores Amazon owns.
- Comment on Trump's global tariff takes effect at 10%, despite announcement of 15% 1 week ago:
🌮
- Comment on Americans are destroying Flock surveillance cameras | TechCrunch 1 week ago:
Lasers tend not to be good for camera sensors, I’ve heard.
- Submitted 1 week ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 3 comments
- Comment on Microsoft 365 Copilot Mobile: Auto Uploads to OneDrive Raise Privacy Risks 1 week ago:
New Teams or Teams Classic?
- Comment on Colorado proposing Bill to move age verification to Operating System rather than web site 1 week ago:
Linux won’t be legal in Colorado if they pass this. You’ll need an account with some age-policing corporation to be able to use a computing device.
- Comment on CXMT has been offering DDR4 chips at about half the prevailing market rate 1 week ago:
If ordinary users could get a good supply of even DDR4 from China it would be a big relief. Not everyone needs to be at the cutting edge of performance, but we all need enough RAM to make a useful machine.
- The economic cost of Brexit has just been laid bare – and it’s devastatingwww.thelondoneconomic.com ↗Submitted 1 week ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 2 comments
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- Comment on Fairphone 5 bricked by faulty Android 15 update 1 week ago:
This happened last year. It isn’t new news.
- Comment on You probably can't trust your password manager if it's compromised 2 weeks ago:
It’s clearly a risk, but if you have dozens of accounts and passwords it’s hard to come up with a feasible alternative.
