AndrewZabar
@AndrewZabar@lemmy.world
- Comment on Meta must face FTC trial that could separate Instagram and WhatsApp 1 week ago:
Seriously, now that the FTC finally has grown a pair of balls they’re about to be chained and ball-gagged.
- Comment on Lack Of Interest In The PS5 Pro Is Forcing Scalpers To Sell Them For A Loss 1 week ago:
Yeah whatever. Matter of opinion, quite obviously.
- Comment on Microsoft stealthily installs Windows 10 update to nag you to upgrade to Windows 11 – and not for the first time 1 week ago:
I mean… in a perfect world lol.
- Comment on Microsoft stealthily installs Windows 10 update to nag you to upgrade to Windows 11 – and not for the first time 1 week ago:
I ran an IT company for many years until I became disabled. But I do tons of tinkering selling and supporting still as a hobbyist etc. most of them are laptops. My lab used to have 14 full tower chassis systems Buto got rid of all of those once their functionality was not needed anymore after I closed the business. I mean - computers that I use daily is basically like three or four laptops and a few Android phones. A couple of tablets an iPhone an iPad an Android tablet. Also a few really old vintage devices just for shits n giggles.
I mean… I got started in tech a long time ago. As in the early 1980s.
- Comment on LG's new stretchable display can grow by 50%, bendy panels can be deformed into new form factors 1 week ago:
Yes, just after they make Rorschach’s mask.
- Comment on Microsoft stealthily installs Windows 10 update to nag you to upgrade to Windows 11 – and not for the first time 1 week ago:
My twenty Linux machines just giggled.
- Comment on Lack Of Interest In The PS5 Pro Is Forcing Scalpers To Sell Them For A Loss 1 week ago:
I only ever owned or even used one console the original NES. After that all my gaming was on PC. Consoles are for suckers.
- Comment on Law enforcement operation takes down 22,000 malicious IP addresses worldwide 1 week ago:
“Infrastructure running on 22k ip addresses”. Either the authors are dumb, or they’re writing for a dumb audience.
Correct on both.
- Comment on Scientists Want to Teleport a Whole Human. A Quantum Breakthrough Could Make It Reality. 1 week ago:
We are easily thousands of years away from genuinely understanding this stuff. Right now we have absolutely no clue.
- Comment on Apple reportedly facing first-ever EU fine over App Store rules 1 week ago:
Over the past few years the EU has become my hero. They’re cracking down on companies for unethical behaviors in a time when the USA is rewarding those companies for unethical behaviors. The EU tells companies they must do XYZ. In USA companies tell the US government what to do. Because they own them.
- Comment on The Pentagon wants AI to enhance the capabilities of US nuclear weapons systems 1 week ago:
Ah, the beginning of the end. If you added up the IQs of everyone in the pentagon, you could still stay under 3 digits.
- Comment on Microsoft just delayed Recall again 2 weeks ago:
Roughly but y’know I approximated.
- Comment on Meta is pushing for the government to use its AI 2 weeks ago:
I tell you, I’m middle-aged, very intelligent, and left of center. I honestly think our species no longer stands a chance. How could we possibly stop the dystopia we’re already enthusiastically ushering in with a welcome mat? Seriously.
- Comment on Microsoft just delayed Recall again 2 weeks ago:
Thankfully, I went 99% Micro$haft free quite some time ago. I have two machines with windows literally only to support some essential services and tools that only exist for Windows and and are not able to be virtualized. Other than that, I’m all Linux. I stopped caring how much more fuel they’ve added to their own dumpster fire a long time ago because everything they do now is virus, spyware, data harvesting and government spying. I miss the days when they sometimes put out something outstanding, like OneNote.
- Comment on Tech billionaire Elon Musk’s social media posts have had a ‘sudden boost’ since July, new research reveals. 2 weeks ago:
Right?? lol wow what a coinkidink!
Jeez, literally anything for a headline.I truly think he has gone completely insane.
- Comment on Adobe execs say artists need to embrace AI or get left behind 3 weeks ago:
It should be noted that Adobe can fuck right off, and computerized art is not the only kind of art. It is generous to even call it art. It’s still all called graphics in my opinion.
I think they’re worried.
- Comment on EU considers calculating X fines by including revenue from Musk’s other firms 4 weeks ago:
The U.S.A. is - and has for a time been - a corporation owned by the small group of wealthiest in the country. Its shareholders are billionaires and the board of directors are those most powerful politicians with ties to billionaires.
The U.S.A. will never inflict justice on its own people, how else besides rampant mass criminal activity are those small groups supposed to rule the world?
- Comment on EU considers calculating X fines by including revenue from Musk’s other firms 4 weeks ago:
Yeah so the kind of thing that will maybe happen in EU but no damn way in the U.S.A.
- Comment on Google asks 9th Circuit for emergency stay, says Epic ruling ‘is dangerous’ 5 weeks ago:
Cry me a river, Google. Or, do you already own all the rivers of the world?
I hope that it’s not a secret to anyone still that within a few decades, Google and a few other corporations will just be Earth’s government.
- Comment on US judge says Google must open Android phones to rival app stores 1 month ago:
I already have several on my Android devices.
What do they mean? Does Google have to start preloading them? lol.
- Comment on Facebook is going to show you even more content from accounts you don’t follow 1 month ago:
I already just go straight into my groups. The main feed is just garbage.
- Comment on HP ink cartridge DRM bypass demonstrated using physical man-in-the-middle-attack 1 month ago:
Once upon a time I’m pretty sure all Brother printers were manufactured by Lexmark. That was back when Brother’s flagship products were their label makers. Which are still terrific. I have one that I still occasionally use.
But I think at some point it changed? Not sure. Most people I have known that had Brother printers would always say they were fine, satisfactory. A nice mid-range and mostly reliable product.
- Comment on HP ink cartridge DRM bypass demonstrated using physical man-in-the-middle-attack 1 month ago:
Hah reminds me of back around turn of the century, my company - for some reason - had a subscription to PC World. I started to notice a trend and did an experiment by following and charting two things: their product reviews/ratings, and their advertising.
Not all that many major brands back in that day so there would be an edition of the mag where multiple ads could be found in one issue, from the same company.
Anyway, it turned out that in the reviews of Graphics Controllers, Modems and other peripherals, every month - consistently - the winning pick among the products reviewed just happened to be the brand that spent the most on advertising in that issue! I tracked it across around 6-7 issues, and you’d see literally the same group of products sometimes, and yet different “winners” different months haha. What a joke.
- Comment on HP ink cartridge DRM bypass demonstrated using physical man-in-the-middle-attack 1 month ago:
Why would anyone ever buy those extortion machines?? I mean, I guess only the completely ignorant consumers who buy printers in stores and ask “sales” agents for advice. But other than them? Fuck every last one of them.
- Comment on YouTube blocks videos from Adele, Green Day, Bob Dylan, others in dispute with SESAC 1 month ago:
lol gotta love it “we take copyright very seriously” haha no you fucking don’t, you take negotiating leverage very seriously.
Meanwhile, every salty sailor who long ago gave up on the notion that these giant companies will ever play fair, already has every version of every performance they like, and if there’s something missing, can get it easily without having to rely on the likes of YouBoob “allowing it.” We started making our own rules long ago after being fucked for the thousandth time.
- Comment on A deepfake caller pretending to be a Ukrainian official almost tricked a US senator 1 month ago:
Well yeah Republican do tend to be morons. Good point.
- Comment on A deepfake caller pretending to be a Ukrainian official almost tricked a US senator 1 month ago:
Like they’re so smart?
Fucking Borat tricked plenty of them.
- Comment on CNN will start locking some articles behind a paywall 1 month ago:
There are ways around paywalls.
- Comment on Musk’s X blocks links to JD Vance dossier and suspends journalist who posted it 1 month ago:
What happened to his raving criticism of the censorship they were doing before he bought it? Obhhh that’s right he only doesn’t like censorship exercised on people with whom he shares political alliance.
- Comment on Microsoft details security/privacy overhaul for Windows Recall ahead of relaunch 1 month ago:
Yeah maybe in ten years the dept of justice will go “hey wait a sec, we have to deal with this”