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- Comment on HP ditches 15-minute wait time policy due to 'feedback' 4 hours ago:
“We’re always looking for ways to improve our customer service experience. This support offering was intended to provide more digital options with the goal of reducing time to resolve inquiries.”
Yes, that makes sense. Let’s improve resolution times by making customers wait 15 minutes before being added to the queue to talk to a representative.
We’ve asked HP to comment. We suspect we’ll be waiting longer than 15 minutes.
Oof.
- Comment on Copyright madness: YouTube seems to doubt whether Shakespeare is in the public domain. 1 week ago:
I doubt google are in on it. What is far more likely is google developed the reporting system in collaboration with copywriters to make it easy to lodge a complaint.
Also those copywriters are the same groups who also happens to be advertising on the platform.
They are a victim of their success (acquisition) with YT being beholden to advertisers.
- Comment on Leaking the email of any YouTube user for $10,000. 1 week ago:
That site was a wild ride.
- Comment on Handful of users claim new Nvidia GPUs are melting power cables again 1 week ago:
Looking forward to Gamers Nexus coverage on this.
- Comment on Why Celebrities, Actors, Writers, and Artists Fear AI. 2 weeks ago:
Money. They will likely get less work and lower royalties if AI does their work.
- Comment on PC Gaming Has Been Outperforming Console For Years - And It's Getting Stronger 5 weeks ago:
No, just Skyrim
- Comment on Destiny 2 Has Lost Massive Amount Of Steam Players Since Last June 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on X CEO signals ad boycott is over. External data paints a different picture. 1 month ago:
So muskrat will withdraw those lawsuits right?
- Comment on Wyden Again Warns That ‘SS7’ Telecom Flaw Lets Foreign Countries Broadly Spy On American Communications 1 month ago:
As always. Government mandated backdoors are a gold mine for non government actors to exploit.
- Comment on Tech giant Meta will pay Australians $50 million for enabling the Cambridge Analytica scandal 2 months ago:
The payment scheme will be set up by Meta but administered by an independent third party. It will be open to people who:
had a Facebook account between November 2 2013 and December 17 2015 were present in Australia for at least 30 days during that period either installed the This is Your Digital Life app using Facebook login or were Facebook friends with an individual who installed the app.
People can check whether they are eligible on a help page on the Facebook website. The information commissioner anticipates those who are eligible will be able to submit applications “in the second quarter of 2025”.
The help page.
- Comment on 🇷🇺Russia: Foreign Tech Companies Cave to Authorities’ Pressure 2 months ago:
No shit they cave. The money they make from
the USARussia makes it worth the regulatory burden. - Comment on Perplexity, not Google, is now the best search engine 2 months ago:
Meh, it’s an opinion piece
- Comment on Why Is Printer Ink So Expensive? 2 months ago:
How do they? Because there is enough illusion of competition that anti trust investigations won’t be launched.
- Comment on Former PlayStation Executive Says Its Time To Dial Back Game Lengths 2 months ago:
Na, dial back the length so they can churn more out faster at an ever increasing price.
- Comment on 63% of companies plan to pass data breach costs to customers 2 months ago:
Are the other 37% lying or did they fold because of the breaches?
- Comment on Opera labels every other browser 'f***ing boring' in an inexplicably sweary promo reel. Oh, and updates its gamer-focused Opera GX browser a little too 2 months ago:
Or US spyware?
- Comment on Streaming TV Enshittification Will Continue Until Morale Improves 2 months ago:
Moral? I think you mean profits.
- Comment on Law enforcement operation takes down 22,000 malicious IP addresses worldwide 3 months ago:
But what about fixed addressed that consumers use?
- Comment on Law enforcement operation takes down 22,000 malicious IP addresses worldwide 3 months ago:
Ummmm, no.
You don’t use ISO or clns at all. We standardised on the DOD TCP/IP model and still teach ISO because who fucking knows why.
And before you say otherwise check your network adaptor and notice you don’t have a clns or nsap.
- Comment on Can AI talk us out of conspiracy theory rabbit holes? 5 months ago:
No. They are regurgitation machines prone to hallucinations. With the right prompt you can makke then say what you want.
- Comment on What are your thoughts on Warframe? 5 months ago:
If you have 30 min, this video gives a fair overview of space ninjas for a new player
- Comment on Two Point Museum announced from the devs of Two Point Hospital / Two Point Campus 6 months ago:
Well if you have a formula,ay as well reskin it every couple years.
- Comment on The 10 largest GDPR fines on Big Tech 6 months ago:
- Meta (Facebook): Fined €1.2 billion (~$1.31 billion) in May 2023
- Amazon: Fined €746 million (~$815 million) in July 2021.
- Meta (Instagram): Fined €405 million (~$443 million) in September 2021
- Meta (Instagram and Facebook): Fined a total of €390 million (~$426 million) in January 2023
- ByteDance (TikTok): Fined €345 million (~$377 million) in September 2023
- Meta (Facebook and Instagram): Fined €265 million (~$290 million) in November 2022
- Meta (WhatsApp): Fined €225 million (~$246 million) in September 2021
- Alphabet/Google (Android): Fined €50 million (~$55 million) in January 2019
- Meta (Facebook): Fined €17 million (~$18.5 million) in March 2022
- ByteDance (TikTok): Fined around €14.8 million at current exchange rates (~$16 million) in April 2023
- Comment on What video game about the Vietnam war is your favorite? 6 months ago:
Battlefield Vietnam
I know it’s old and an EA title but it has the best soundtrack outside of 1942 menu music.
- Comment on CrowdStrike backlash over $10 apology voucher for IT chaos 6 months ago:
From what I read they were cancelled because they gift card comp thought it was fraud with so many people accepting.
Still a terrible thing to do.
- Comment on CrowdStrike backlash over $10 apology voucher for IT chaos 6 months ago:
I suppose this does exemplify the corporation mindset.
Lets break several hundreds of millions of PCs around the world bringing mass transit, hospitals and airlines to a halt. Causing billions in damages to our paying customers and their customers. If we offer $10 gift cards we are cool right?
- Comment on Google’s Play Store wants to pivot from grab-and-go to an active destination 6 months ago:
Just give us the option to hide apps/games we have no interest in playing.
That will increase the user experience so much. It will also give you more metrics to use for ads and increase your advert click ratios.
Oh this person likes casual games but has put the 30 clones of “match 3 to save the family” Into the ignored category. Maybe they don’t want to see clone number 31.
- Comment on Phish-Friendly Domain Registry “.top” Put on Notice 6 months ago:
The report includes a case study in which a phisher this year registered 17,562 domains over the course of an eight-hour period — roughly 38 domains per minute — using .lol domains that were all composed of random letters.
At $1.80 per domain, that’s about $28k on domains.
- Comment on Nigeria fines Meta $220 million for violating consumer, data laws 6 months ago:
Drop the fine after …donating(?)… To an official in charge of dropping the fine.
- Comment on Nigeria fines Meta $220 million for violating consumer, data laws 6 months ago:
But is it enforceable?