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@CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org
Formerly u/CanadaPlus101 on Reddit.
- Comment on Beyond fucked up 1 week ago:
According to someone else in this thread it was written by the founder and owner, as well. You can still publish weird predatory shit about a tween now, although you’d probably try to stay anonymous.
- Comment on Counting the waves of tech industry BS from blockchain to AI 2 weeks ago:
We both agreed that the late 20th century – broadly, the period from the early 1990s onward for a decade or so – had mostly been one of fairly steady improvement.
Ah yes, a famously bubble-free period. /s
Talking to old-timers, and reading history, it sounds more like revolving hype cycles have been around for the whole industrial age. TBF they do touch on that timeline later and correct themselves a bit.
Foo-as-a-service wasn’t even a new concept, that’s just called renting shit out.
- Comment on Why Owning Nothing Is So Expensive 2 weeks ago:
Wow there’s some really bad deals here!
History is full of hustles, but people aren’t usually dumb enough to keep falling for them forever. Probably that will apply here too, and a lot of these shitty subscriptions will go the way of the Juicero.
It’s worth mentioning renting rather than owning isn’t an intrinsically bad concept. Owning your own bus probably doesn’t interest you, and while streaming costs are going up, it’s still a better deal than buying a DVD you watch once. I have to think when the infamous “owning nothing and being happy” quote was coined, they were imaging there still was a nice diversified portfolio of investments in the background, which amounts to owning a small piece of everything.
- Comment on "No eating for free allowed! You must only watch it rot on the beach!" 2 months ago:
Yes, without hesitation, although I’d want to rinse it first to avoid cross-contamination.
Banana picking and shipping as it usually happens isn’t exactly sterile, either. This is also why you should wash anything you don’t peel.
- Comment on "No eating for free allowed! You must only watch it rot on the beach!" 2 months ago:
Yeah, I futzed with it a bit. At first I did sesquicentennial, but that’s purely an adjective which isn’t great. Sesquicentenary refers to the day, so that wouldn’t work. So, I made a nonce word which, if you know these other two, is clear.
I’ll just ignore the insulting tone.
- Comment on "No eating for free allowed! You must only watch it rot on the beach!" 2 months ago:
True to the spirit of journalistic inquiry, your correspondent can attest that seawater has not degraded the taste of the bananas, with the only threats to health posed by skin slippage and by eating too many of them.
- Comment on "No eating for free allowed! You must only watch it rot on the beach!" 2 months ago:
Definitely peel it first.
- Comment on "No eating for free allowed! You must only watch it rot on the beach!" 2 months ago:
I mean, that was slightly fictional. And a sesquicentennial ago.
- Comment on The most invasive cookie/tracker option is listed as “Platinum” while the most privacy-respecting option is merely “Silver” 2 months ago:
Man, they really are trying everything to get you to click the magic button.
- Comment on Engineer proves that Kohler’s smart toilet cameras aren’t very private 2 months ago:
Not shocked. The fact other people might be shocked just tells you how out of control trust in the magic boxes and the people who sell them has gotten. When they collect something more sensitive or embarrassing, people just assume the security and regulation is tighter to match.
- Comment on My Car Is Becoming a Brick: EVs are poised to age like smartphones. 2 months ago:
Putting aside from the implied EV context, I’m not sure I’d go that far. They were repairable, but had a lot of proprietary design in them as well.
I would still go with one of the “legacy” manufacturers, though.
- Comment on My Car Is Becoming a Brick: EVs are poised to age like smartphones. 2 months ago:
FairCar when?
- Comment on Americans are holding onto devices longer than ever and it's costing the economy 2 months ago:
X to doubt.
About the “hurting the economy” part. Replacing more stuff = more economy is a well-known economics fallacy and they should know better.
- Comment on 3 months ago:
Oh? What else have they said? I didn’t know there was a reputation for fibbing.
- Comment on 3 months ago:
Yeah, but they were talking about building out WhatsApp third party compatibility on top of it.
There already was Element One, which bridged to a bunch of things for a small subscription fee, although it had to break E2EE to do so. I’m finding a lot of broken links now, though.
- Comment on This Spiral-Obsessed AI 'Cult' Spreads Mystical Delusions Through Chatbots 3 months ago:
Wow, I’m surprised that got it up that high in a practical application.
- Comment on 3 months ago:
They let OpenWhisper do the underlying protocol, so it’s solid. Beats the shit out of a plain text message anyway, and people might actually have it.
- Comment on 3 months ago:
Wasn’t Element going to integrate into it as well?
- Comment on Youtube can detect VPNs now... the fuck? 3 months ago:
Well, you can put your DNS requests over the proxy as well, so kinda a skill issue. I don’t know if people do though - you’re the professional.
- Comment on 3 months ago:
Now that I’ve actually looked at it, what they did exactly is make an apparatus with continuously adjustable resolution and try to get people to distinguish two fairly similar clips until they couldn’t anymore.
Actual maximum pixel-per-visual-degree values varied quite a bit based on colours involved and the like.
- Comment on 3 months ago:
A link, because I don’t see one in this very clickbait-feeling source.
- Comment on 3 months ago:
It sounds like the study actually did include display distance, and gave different requirements depending.
- Comment on Youtube can detect VPNs now... the fuck? 3 months ago:
That seems like a failure on their part. Buy more exit IPs.
- Comment on Youtube can detect VPNs now... the fuck? 3 months ago:
Because all the videos are still there.
If that seems like a self-perpetuating problem, it’s because it is.
- Comment on Youtube can detect VPNs now... the fuck? 3 months ago:
It seems like most people will believe any technical-looking message shown to them.
- Comment on Spit On, Sworn At, and Undeterred: What It’s Like to Own a Cybertruck 4 months ago:
Like, libertarians? I have to think anyone seriously down the chud rabbithole would be embarrassed to even ride in one.
- Comment on Spit On, Sworn At, and Undeterred: What It’s Like to Own a Cybertruck 4 months ago:
Looks like somebody’s backpedalling on a definite political statement after it became personally inconvenient.
- Comment on Viral ‘Cheater Buster’ Sites Use Facial Recognition to Let Anyone Reveal Peoples’ Tinder Profiles 4 months ago:
It’s still possible to be off of the digital surveillance grid, but it is hard and a small subculture at best. I’m in it.
The Clarke book brought up elsewhere had the the right idea, but the wrong manifestation.
- Comment on Viral ‘Cheater Buster’ Sites Use Facial Recognition to Let Anyone Reveal Peoples’ Tinder Profiles 4 months ago:
It’s a logical conclusion of facial recognition and mass indexing existing that anywhere remotely public you put your face is just public.
I have less of a problem with that than the fact an illusion of privacy is created anyway. Now we have a whole part of our economy that exists because people don’t really understand it’s there.
- Comment on Viral ‘Cheater Buster’ Sites Use Facial Recognition to Let Anyone Reveal Peoples’ Tinder Profiles 4 months ago:
Dope. This one is new to me…