homesweethomeMrL
@homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world
- Comment on The TikTok Ban Paradox: How Platform Restrictions Create What They Aim to Prevent 3 days ago:
It also ensure those who don’t pay are tracked by default, which is a key component of not having privacy.
- Comment on The TikTok Ban Paradox: How Platform Restrictions Create What They Aim to Prevent 3 days ago:
wtf is techpolicy dot press
- Comment on Pornhub Is Pulling Out of Florida 3 days ago:
There are times when a Floridectomy is the right choice.
- Comment on Face Recognition Threatens to Replace Tickets, ID at Sports Events – and Beyond 4 days ago:
“One ticket please”
“Three hundred dollars. Scan your FACE.”
*opens fire*
- Comment on Face Recognition Threatens to Replace Tickets, ID at Sports Events – and Beyond 4 days ago:
It can be two things.
- Comment on AI Features Fall Short: 73% of iPhone Users and 87% of Samsung Users Say They Add Little or No Value 5 days ago:
“Fall Short”? Dude, in anyone’s book that’s “Abysmal Failure”.
- Comment on AI Features Fall Short: 73% of iPhone Users and 87% of Samsung Users Say They Add Little or No Value 5 days ago:
I would pay more for a phone without it (not that I should have to pay more for less).
Sounds like being a vegetarian on the road.
- Comment on Texas AG Launches Investigations into Character.AI, Reddit, Instagram, Discord, and Other Companies over Children’s Privacy and Safety Practices as Texas Leads the Nation in Data Privacy Enforcement 5 days ago:
Well I’m sure this will turn out well.
- Comment on What If Free Speech Means Banning TikTok? 1 week ago:
“Free Speech” isn’t owned by TikTok. Ban away.
Need to speek freely? Do so! Need TikTok to do it? HA.
- Comment on What If Free Speech Means Banning TikTok? 1 week ago:
Yes, but that describes all social media with engagement algorithms.
Hmmmmmmm
- Comment on TikTok's Role in Romania's Election Should Be a Wake-Up Call 1 week ago:
Exactly.
- Comment on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads are down 1 week ago:
“We’re aware that a technical issue is impacting some users’ ability to access our apps,” Meta says on X. “We’re working to get things back to normal as quickly as possible and apologize for any inconvenience.”
“We know there’s a technical issue impacting some people’s ability to access Instagram,” Instagram says on X. “We’re working to get things back to normal as quickly as possible and are sorry for any inconvenience.”
X. Lol.
- Comment on LinkedIn wants to have its TikTok era 1 week ago:
LInkedIn has nothing. It’s running on pure momentum from early 2000s and this gambit will probably kill it. Which is good.
- Comment on Microsoft gets community note on Twitter for saying Snapdragon Copilot+ PCs are the fastest Windows devices, saying Snapdragon CPUs can't game and have "less computing power” than Intel and AMD chips 3 weeks ago:
What’s “Twitter”?
- Comment on Microsoft is scraping Word and Excel data to "train AI models" 3 weeks ago:
EULA
- Comment on Microsoft is scraping Word and Excel data to "train AI models" 3 weeks ago:
A Microsoft spokesperson explicitly denied claims that it was using M365 data to train AI models and said: “In Microsoft 365 consumer and commercial applications, Microsoft does not use customer data to train large language models without your permission.”
Did you see it? Did you catch the fnord there? (hint: they slip it in the end there, if you know how they mean: BOGU)
- Comment on Microsoft is scraping Word and Excel data to "train AI models" 3 weeks ago:
Who is paying? Enough that microsoft could shut down all active development and still make a net profit for 1000 years.
- Comment on India orders Meta to curb WhatsApp data sharing, levies $25M fine 4 weeks ago:
They made $25M in the time it took them to write out the fine.
- Comment on Microsoft stealthily installs Windows 10 update to nag you to upgrade to Windows 11 – and not for the first time 5 weeks ago:
I still use Windows and Facebook and Xitter. And I’m a dumb jerk with a big butt and my butt smells and i like to smell my own butt.
- Comment on Microsoft CEO earns $30.6 million more despite laying off over 2,000 employees in 2024 — salary package represents a 63% raise from the previous year 1 month ago:
Fun Fact: Micro$oft is an evil-as-shit corporation and always has been.
- Comment on Snapchat is bringing ads to the Chat tab 2 months ago:
Yaaaaaayyyyyyyyyy
- Comment on Microsoft details security/privacy overhaul for Windows Recall ahead of relaunch 2 months ago:
Well only if you’re still using Windows.
I mean . . . you’re . . . . you’re not still using Windows, right?
. . .
Right?
- Comment on Microsoft details security/privacy overhaul for Windows Recall ahead of relaunch 2 months ago:
Microsoft: I’m gonna run full speed and bang my head into that brick wall!
Everyone: Please don’t
Microsoft: Everyone wants it! Here I go!
- Comment on Dell sales team told to return to office 5 days a week, starting Monday 2 months ago:
And you will STAY at the office until morale improves!
- Comment on CNN will start locking some articles behind a paywall 2 months ago:
HAHAhahahahahahaha
Oh Zazlav. You hapless fuck.
- Comment on Indestructible quartz crystal can store 360TB of data for billions of years 2 months ago:
Yeah, great can I buy it? No? Okay another 10 years then.
- Comment on AI is working its way into smartphones, but some tools could be subverted for misinformation. 2 months ago:
s/could/will
- Comment on Canva says its AI features are worth the 300 percent price increase 3 months ago:
Hahahaha!
- Comment on Hobbyists discover how to insert custom fonts into AI-generated images 3 months ago:
Yay
- Comment on Samsung TVs will get 7 years of updates, starting with 2023 models 3 months ago:
If a tv requires me to sign up, it’s either getting returned or an axe through it.