flop_leash_973

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[–] flop_leash_973@lemmy.world 2 points 27 minutes ago

Gross. It looks like an open air mall food court.

[–] flop_leash_973@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago

Most western governments look at the ability of some of the more authoritarian places ability to just snap there fingers and make the entire internet go away with great envy.

[–] flop_leash_973@lemmy.world 27 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (9 children)

You mean an LLM that doesn't have the ability to understand context fails to make decisions that require context to do properly? Shocking /s

[–] flop_leash_973@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Then those EU firms should immediately make getting out of anything and everything Microsoft a top priority. As a US citizen, all our government and companies understand is personal profit and personal data hording. So make it hurt where they will feel it.

[–] flop_leash_973@lemmy.world 35 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (21 children)

Petitions like this are meaningless unless they come with a viable solution to the duopoly in payment processing that is Visa and Mastercard.

It doesn't matter what Valve agrees with, if they want to survive as a business they have to ultimately do what the only 2 companies that handle the payment processing tells them to do.

[–] flop_leash_973@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

No one loses control of the D like Riker.

[–] flop_leash_973@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

I miss the days of boring US politics

[–] flop_leash_973@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

How very Reagan of them

[–] flop_leash_973@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

We have location sharing enabling via Find My since everyone but me uses Apple. I don't think my wife ever uses it and I only use it as a means of checking they seem to still be alive when they are otherwise late to somewhere they planned to be if I get worried about them.

In years past I would just call them, but this way is less actively intrusive. But people that use it as a spying tool have issues.

[–] flop_leash_973@lemmy.world 33 points 1 week ago

Let me know when it is discovered that they in fact replaced MS Recall with their own version that was scraping your data in yet another sketchy attempt to make money.

[–] flop_leash_973@lemmy.world 30 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Tells you that the guy behind it is causing some folks in the halls of power to get some uncomfortable questions.

[–] flop_leash_973@lemmy.world 46 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

If ad networks weren't the number 1 way to get malware installed on your machine, didn't slowly take over the dedicated space for the actual content of a website, or put pressure on the websites in question to only publish things inoffensive to the advertisers maybe adblockers wouldn't be such an issue.

If your site can't exist without being a cesspit of annoying and useless infomercials and a deployment mechanism for malicious code injection then your site should not exist.

Not too many people had an issue with static banner ads back in the day after all except greedy website operators and advertisers.

 

I wonder if there is something subpar about whoever Google is getting the batteries from for the A series phones.

 

If its not more blatant ways to display ads or AI Google isn't working on anything it would seem.

 

As if those AI overviews weren't already useless enough.

 

It feels dirty to agree with an ISP on something. But even the worst corporations are on the right side of something from time to time I suppose.

 

Jesus, that is a gross way to inject advertising into turn-by-turn navigation.

Edit/update from 9to5google so this post does not spread what is apparently inaccurate information: https://9to5google.com/2024/07/08/google-maps-pop-up-quick-detour-ad/

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