WhatAmLemmy
@WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world
- Comment on Spyware maker NSO Group confirms acquisition by US investors 2 weeks ago:
The corporate fascist dictatorship is converting surveillance capitalism into big brother before our very eyes.
- Comment on Discord customer service data breach leaks user info and scanned photo IDs 3 weeks ago:
That’s the point. De-anonymize everyone for surveillance capitalism.
The “think of the children” argument should never be taken in good faith. It’s a trojan horse for authoritarians to destroy your rights.
- Comment on Mozilla Integrates Google Lens for Visual Search in Firefox Desktop 4 weeks ago:
Capitalism
- Comment on New Arizona law to restrict online porn access; Pornhub will block state 5 weeks ago:
Christian Nationalism
- Comment on New Arizona law to restrict online porn access; Pornhub will block state 5 weeks ago:
She is acting on behalf of lobbyists. That’s how America got to this stage. Lobbyist lawyers and marketers write laws that benefit them, and they “donate” to politicians to pass that legislation.
The only politicians who actually read anything they vote on are leftists like Bernie and AOC; everyone else is doing what their financiers tell them to do.
- Comment on Google deletes net-zero pledge from sustainability website 1 month ago:
We won’t stop burning fossil fuels until it’s illegal and militaries use force to destroy all extraction facilities, just like we won’t reduce our plastic consumption until it’s heavily restricted.
I’ve believed that for 20 years, and I believe it now more than ever. We’re decades away from either being a foreseeable course of action.
- Comment on Chrome increases its overwhelming market share, now over 70% 1 month ago:
“Browser, like from the video games?”
- Comment on Bluesky now platform of choice for science community 1 month ago:
Why is all of scientific research locked behind paywalls instead of some open source scientist-built system?
Because like most people, they’re just trying to get by with the least amount of effort. Structural change is hard and risky.
- Comment on US Takes Nearly 10% Stake in Intel, Clinching Unorthodox Deal 2 months ago:
This isn’t communism. It’s fascism… and conservatives love fascism.
- Comment on It Took Many Years And Billions Of Dollars, But Microsoft Finally Invented A Calculator That Is Wrong Sometimes 2 months ago:
Not necessarily. It would do better than current excel, but that’s a low bar… but it would also introduce less reliability / more randomness in date conversions, which is not what any business wants.
- Comment on India bans streaming apps you’ve never heard of — but millions watch 2 months ago:
There are similar forces at work everywhere.
Crimes pays, and the criminal oligarchs in every economy prefer dictatorship to democracy.
- Comment on ICEBlock climbs to the top of the App Store charts after officials slam it 3 months ago:
Everyone who downloads this app will be shortlisted for the gulags. Big tech is working hand in hand with fascism.
- Comment on FCC chair decides inmates and their families must keep paying high phone prices 3 months ago:
Corporate dictatorship, doing corporate dictatorship things, because it’s a corporate dictatorship.
- Comment on Investor With No Coding Experience Builds ‘$1.7Mn SaaS’ Using Replit | AIM 3 months ago:
This is an ad, and bullshit.
- Comment on Amazon Doubles Prime Video Ads to 6 Minutes Per Hour 4 months ago:
I’ve only ever used Prime whenever they offer it free or with a cheaper delivery than it costs.
Last time it started showing ads, so I just pirated everything I wanted to watch. I won’t even use it for free anymore, lol.
- Comment on Amazon vows to crack down on piracy on its Fire TV Stick range 4 months ago:
We’re rapidly approaching the time when a raspberry pi and bluetooth remote are the ultimate streaming stick.
- Comment on China's AI-powered humanoid robots aim to transform manufacturing 5 months ago:
Oh… goodie
- Comment on Trump admin announces plans to shut down the Energy Star program 5 months ago:
This will surely fix the price of eggs
- Comment on Trump's New Streaming Service Truth+ Is a Conspiracy Theorist's Dream Come True 5 months ago:
They’ve had Fox News for 30 years. His nazi party wouldn’t have won without it.
- Comment on Meta could take a $7 billion hit this year because of Trump's tough China tariffs 6 months ago:
Don’t get fooled by the oligarch-owned media. The wealthiest individuals will benefit the most.
Fascism is a fusion of corporation and state (e.g. state-capitalism, like China). The next few years will likely see the largest transfer of wealth in history, and the S&P 500 will consolidate from an ownership of 200 separate conglomerates to 20-50 (example only. not real figures).
- Comment on Elon Musk Cuts Funding for Internet Archive 6 months ago:
They need to federate and decentralize with some sort of p2p protocol, so anyone can donate their spare hard drives for additional redundancy. Seeing up shop in any jurisdiction is a single point of failure.
- Comment on Trump excludes smartphones, computers, chips from tariffs 6 months ago:
The emperor is a convicted criminal rapist, and probably a pedophile. The trillion dollar fraud is probably one of his lesser crimes.
- Comment on Apple sued for false advertising over Apple Intelligence. 7 months ago:
Good
- Comment on Researchers unveil Aardvark, an AI weather prediction system that they say uses thousands of times less computing power and is much faster than current methods. 7 months ago:
Nobody said ai is simple word competition. It’s pattern recognition, except without any logic to discern the signal from the noise.
- Comment on SpaceX Starship blows up twice in a row. 7 months ago:
Well, privacy invasion and eccentricity is one thing. Overt fascism and staging a coup are on a whole other level.
- Comment on Nothing unveils Phone 3A and 3A Pro, both with 6.77" displays, Snapdragon 7s Gen 3, and new AI tools to help organize files. 7 months ago:
Top investors include Google and Steve Pigboy Huffman. Fuck no!
- Comment on Microsoft click-baits users with useless 'How to Uninstall Microsoft Edge’ instruction doc 8 months ago:
It should get them a fine for false advertising, plus get ms links demoted in search engines.
- Comment on Journalist targeted on WhatsApp by Paragon spyware: 'I feel violated' 8 months ago:
Paragon Solutions was acquired in December 2024 by American private equity giant AE Industrial Partners.
Oh look. Private equity corporations can now legally own and sell hacking tools and malware. The type of tools and malware that hackers are prosecuted and imprisoned by federal governments for coding (not even selling).
- Comment on Smart sous vide cooker to start charging $2/month for 10-year-old companion app 1 year ago:
It should be illegal to reduce or remove features sold with a product, including charging for features that were free at time of sale. Anything less is false advertising and predatory behavior (bait and switch). It’s either free forever, free for an explicitly advertised period (on every piece of marketing and packaging), or you can’t advertise it, period. And if you ever go out of business, all associated code should be open sourced so users can continue with it if they wish.
In this case everyone who purchased existing stock should get it free, regardless of when they sign up. Only once all advertising and marketing, including packaging, is updated, they can charge future customers who purchase the devices that are explicitly advertised as subscription based. If companies don’t like it, fuck em. They’re the immoral actors engaging in the bait and switch. You don’t ask a criminal whether a law is bad for their criminal enterprise.
- Comment on Smart sous vide cooker to start charging $2/month for 10-year-old companion app 1 year ago:
I tend to avoid any hardware that uses an app, as there’s often little info about whether it’s required, and there’s always the possibility they could make it required or brick your device in future.