ChaoticEntropy
@ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk
- Comment on Shopping app Temu is “dangerous malware,” spying on your texts, lawsuit claims 22 hours ago:
Yeah, the small tat items and accessories, as I said.
- Comment on Shopping app Temu is “dangerous malware,” spying on your texts, lawsuit claims 1 day ago:
A huge amount of products are just generic Chinese products that have a brand slapped on it. If you’ve ever bought a random small USB device (i.e USB hubs, etc) from a major brand like LogiTech and others, if you crack it open it is just the same device as cheap resellers with a branded coating. It’s not worth it to many companies to bother manufacturing their own small tat so they just sub-contract out.
- Comment on EU Council has withdrawn the vote on Chat Control 1 week ago:
I was thinking they might have meant SvD (Svenska Dagbladet), who are a news organisation, though I didn’t see any corresponding articles.
- Comment on iPhone owners say the latest iOS update is resurfacing deleted nudes 1 month ago:
Did you think some else’s nudes might have resurfaced there…?
- Comment on First human brain implant malfunctioned, Neuralink says 1 month ago:
Neuralink reportedly floated the idea of removing his implant
This immediately sank when someone pointed out that it would be a PR nightmare, which naturally was more important than patient safety.
- Comment on Stack Overflow bans users en masse for rebelling against OpenAI partnership — users banned for deleting answers to prevent them being used to train ChatGPT 1 month ago:
I guess you never want to be buried in your first attempt.
- Comment on Stack Overflow bans users en masse for rebelling against OpenAI partnership — users banned for deleting answers to prevent them being used to train ChatGPT 1 month ago:
You wound me.
- Comment on Stack Overflow bans users en masse for rebelling against OpenAI partnership — users banned for deleting answers to prevent them being used to train ChatGPT 1 month ago:
Thank you for your diligence.
- Comment on Stack Overflow bans users en masse for rebelling against OpenAI partnership — users banned for deleting answers to prevent them being used to train ChatGPT 1 month ago:
It may not have been a wholly serious question.
- Comment on Stack Overflow bans users en masse for rebelling against OpenAI partnership — users banned for deleting answers to prevent them being used to train ChatGPT 1 month ago:
How many trees does a person need to make one coffin…
- Comment on Windows 11 just isn't enticing Windows 10 users to upgrade, and its market share is actually falling 1 month ago:
I want to just convert to using my Fedora 40 KDE install, but there are just too many blockers for me, both hardware and software.
- Comment on Lawsuits test Tesla claim that drivers are solely responsible for crashes 1 month ago:
“It’s called whatever will make the stock price go up.”
- Comment on Tesla’s Autopilot and Full Self-Driving linked to hundreds of crashes, dozens of deaths 1 month ago:
I would highlight that not all Teslas will be being driven in this mode on a regular basis, if ever.
- Comment on ByteDance prefers TikTok shutdown in US if legal options fail, sources say 2 months ago:
As if an American company wouldn’t just pick up where they left off… have you seen Meta?
- Comment on Reddit embracing all out enshittification 2 months ago:
most Internet users are happy to do a quick Google Search
Yeah, the average redditor won’t throw abuse at you for suggesting they use google to find out what something is.
- Comment on Windows 11 Start menu ads are now rolling out to everyone 2 months ago:
My current woes relate to choosing a distro (Fedora 40 KDE) that is compatible with secure boot, for simplicity of dual booting, only to find that the DisplayLink driver that I need to run my screens is not signed. Therefore I either have to switch off Secure Boot anyway, or manually re-sign it after every kernal update with some convoluted series of terminal commands… which I will not be doing. That and there not being an equivalent of the CRU configuration tool that let’s me tweak my Freesync monitor’s ranges to stop intolerable brightness flickering. Finding that none of the useful AMD Software settings like Fluid Motion Frames or Anti-Lag are supported is also a random pain. Every attempt I go for, I generally find roadblock after roadblock until I give up because I have too limited a lifespan to spend it bouncing between forum pages tangentially related to my issue.
- Comment on Windows 11 Start menu ads are now rolling out to everyone 2 months ago:
As opposed to having a bajillion specific distros, repos, and sources flying around…?
Obviously I’d never touch the Microsoft store though.
- Comment on Musk moves Tesla's goalposts, investors happily move shares higher 2 months ago:
Everyone holding shares has a pretty vested interest in believing the bullshit, because it impacts all of their bottom lines. The truth loses them money, so they’d much prefer a semi-plausible lie.
- Comment on Windows 11 Start menu ads are now rolling out to everyone 2 months ago:
I mean… Windows is bad in many respects, but that respect isn’t necessarily one of them.
- Comment on Windows 11 Start menu ads are now rolling out to everyone 2 months ago:
If I could get easy to access, judgement free tech support for Linux then I’d be fine. I just don’t know how to solve my problems in Linux especially considering there are so many additional variables and often you either don’t get answers, are asking in the wrong place, or are asking in the wrong way. A lot of the time you just get scorn for not being born a Linux power user.
- Comment on Windows 11 Start menu ads are now rolling out to everyone 2 months ago:
How long until we get to the default “I don’t get paid to ask questions” mentality of ad services.
- Comment on Windows 11 Start menu ads are now rolling out to everyone 2 months ago:
It’s frustrating that the answer to any of the questions/issues I have are generally reams of commands and walls of text that I only partially understand. 😬
- Comment on Windows 11 Start menu ads are now rolling out to everyone 2 months ago:
You can use the official WinGet package manager for Windows pretty easily.
- Comment on You can now buy a flame-throwing robot dog for under $10,000 2 months ago:
At last, a way to commit genocide without dirtying your hands. Combine that with their AI modelling of attack vict… targets, and they’ll just have a 24/7 roaming robot kill squad.
- Comment on Judge throws out case against UK climate activist who held sign on jurors’ rights 2 months ago:
Disgusting that the government made the attempt in the first place.
- Comment on Food price fears as Brexit import charges revealed 2 months ago:
God fucking damn it.
- Comment on Court Bans Use of 'AI-Enhanced' Video Evidence Because That's Not How AI Works 2 months ago:
“When we enhance the image and place a knife in the defendant’s hand…”
- Comment on Britain’s Social Security has banned its staff from using ChatGPT—but it’s okay with Microsoft Copilot 4 months ago:
These are still two distinct products. What’s the issue?
- Comment on HMRC has seen a 50% drop in investigations into wealthy tax evaders 4 months ago:
Likely? Definitely don’t, and by design. A statistically significant portion of the tax evaders are in parliament, no doubt.
- Comment on Backdoors that let cops decrypt messages violate human rights, EU court says 4 months ago:
Good to get this sort of ruling on the books.