ultratiem
@ultratiem@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Skimmer spotted in San Diego at 7-11 1 week ago:
One of my first jobs was at a gas station. The lady who hired me was in shit with the company because she hired some dude and he was skimming peoples CCs. They found out, fired him but she did zero background check on the guy. Came back to bite her. I was his replacement
- Comment on Dell Data Breach 1 week ago:
Honestly wouldn’t be that much work to create codes for shippers to give out. It’s basically how tracking works. But in this case, they give the seller a code. When that code is scanned in, the shipper pulls up the associated address, and delivers it. Only the shipping place would ever know your details.
Honestly sounds like terrific b to b software to develop. Create a universal standard and we all move to not exposing our name and number and address to random strangers who do god knows what with it.
- Comment on Elon Musk’s Neuralink reports trouble with first human brain chip 1 week ago:
It’s a con. There is no chip. None that works. This is Holmes 2.0. Except he may never be caught. The project will get into more “problem” and he’ll string investors along to secure himself a net positive position before letting it languish into oblivion. It’s probably one of the things that’s actually making him money.
Break down the whole thing. What am I supposed to go to McChip to get some kid with 6 weeks training to install these? If not some doctors with a 8y waiting list? How do you scale that part of the process? Doctors aren’t bountiful. And expensive.
And the elephant in the room: you can’t shove some electrodes into your midbrain and do things. The video of the guy moving the cursor around can be done now in macOS Sonoma with accessibility features. It would have been a different story if he was actually thinking about opening a photo from 3 years ago and it did that. But he was just moving a cursor around.
All he’s actually accomplished outside of lining his coffers is kill a bunch of innocent apes.
- Comment on Bluesky confirms Jack Dorsey is no longer on its board 1 week ago:
Jack Dorsey. In a life long mission to look like a pencil. Steady progress I see.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
This just in: “guy in the military claims they are smart”. More at eleven.
- Comment on Microsoft’s VASA-1 can deepfake a person with one photo and one audio track 2 weeks ago:
Because bags of money. And MS is a hyper toxic entity that’s been siphoning the data of every Windows user for decades now. That company is basically IBM during WW2.
- Comment on Apple's 'incredibly private' Safari is not so private in Europe 2 weeks ago:
Yeah that’s just some real tin foil shit
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Bro got recruited by the military. Kinda says a lot about his “intelligence.”
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Bro is buying the wrong sized bags, then complaining about how the bag companies are stupid. When someone points that out, they call them stupid.
The internet is a magical place.
- Comment on Beavis and Butt-Head - SNL 3 weeks ago:
So did almost everyone in the cast lol
- Comment on The Man Who Killed Google Search 3 weeks ago:
But do you know who has? Sundar Pichai, who previously worked at McKinsey — arguably the most morally abhorrent company that has ever existed, having played roles both in the 2008 financial crisis (where it encouraged banks to load up on debt and flawed mortgage-backed securities) and the ongoing opioid crisis, where it effectively advised Purdue Pharma on how to “growth hack” sales of Oxycontin. McKinsey has paid nearly $1bn over several settlements due to its work with Purdue. I’m getting sidetracked, but one last point. McKinsey is actively anti-labor. When a company brings in a McKinsey consultant, they’re often there to advise on how to “cut costs,” which inevitably means layoffs and outsourcing. McKinsey is to the middle class what flesh-eating bacteria is to healthy tissue.
Damn. That’s a third degree burn if I’ve ever seen one!
- Comment on Apple pulls WhatsApp, Threads and Signal from app store in China 4 weeks ago:
They had to. You don’t fuck with China. Whatever they say goes. But yeah, “China forces distributors to pull…” just doesn’t have that incendiary clickbait ring to it.
- Comment on Google fires 28 workers for protesting $1.2 billion Israel contract 4 weeks ago:
Google would murder every single one of these people for that contract get real. I can’t see how anyone expected to keep their jobs after this.
I’m just shocked it went on for like 8h lmao
- Comment on Crescent Rolls - Rare Vihart post 5 months ago:
That’s a mighty fine bread slug, English 💁♂️
- Comment on The current state of Instagram 5 months ago:
Our QA manager is absolutely KILLING it!
- Comment on Youtube has started to artificially slow down video load times if you use Firefox 5 months ago:
I watch interesting vids people link back on occasion but have left it as a service I would browse and engage with and let me tell you, life got a lot better.
- Comment on I'm so sick of dinky shitty devices with garbage rechargeable batteries 5 months ago:
Yeah this. Last cable had fray was nearly 20 years ago and it was cheap junk, known to buckle under use. But these days, even $5 cables from 7/11 are quite decent.
I guess stop trying to hang elephants with them? 🤷♂️
- Comment on Adobe tells you to use Chrome, not Firefox 6 months ago:
Only losers claim victory in such ways
- Comment on Adobe tells you to use Chrome, not Firefox 6 months ago:
Bots never do.
- Comment on Adobe tells you to use Chrome, not Firefox 6 months ago:
Wikipedia is pretty aggressive with these bots
- Comment on Adobe tells you to use Chrome, not Firefox 6 months ago:
Both are shit and developed by the same foundation. Browsers are not meant to negotiate its hardware. Period. This world will never be ready for that.
- Comment on Adobe tells you to use Chrome, not Firefox 6 months ago:
That’s why no one outside Google wants. Apple said no. Firefox said no. There’s a reason. WebRTC is shit. It leaks too much just for a small convenience.
And yeah, browsers don’t need my USB ports thanks.
This move was what hurt VIA as they moved to the API exclusively. So the only native apps are just electron wrappers 🤷♂️
- Comment on OK Microsoft... trying to log into Teams while work lapop updates to Windows 11. No longer works in any iPhone browser, including Edge. The app will not authenticate my work login... 6 months ago:
I can field this. The answer is simple: they don’t. They use Slack internally.
- Comment on Sure buddy just take as many spots as you need 6 months ago:
“Emotional support truck” lmaooo
- Comment on [deleted] 6 months ago:
- Comment on Starfish bodies aren’t bodies at all, study finds | CNN 6 months ago:
Right arm!
- Comment on What Is A Kibbutz? - Apr. 19, 2018 6 months ago:
YOU SON OF A BITCH IM IN!
- Comment on [deleted] 6 months ago:
Haven’t eaten a meal there in a decade now. Go for ice cream like once every two years. Went this summer. $6 for 2 cones. Bruh. What!
- Comment on HBO Max is removing features from my plan without reducing my price. 6 months ago:
I think the majority are probably like phewww the price didn’t go up 😮💨
- Comment on Xbox consoles getting full-screen ad 6 months ago:
Especially retroactively. I’m seeing that in a lot of apps. You buy it. A year later, ads regardless. That kind of chicanery should be illegal.
Also, I sold my Xbox SX a few months ago. Dodged one 😅