“Enormous enthusiasm” for AI should be a fireable offense.

They’re working on a non-Google alternative, last I heard.

For the most part, it’s believed that carmakers are doing way with Android Auto support simply as a way to expand their control over user data. Because Android Auto utilizes your phone’s connection, all of the data that runs through it goes straight to Android and the phone manufacturer. So, by utilizing built-in systems, the car manufacturers would indeed be able to collect more data about how you use the systems in place, while also possibly getting more money out of you through subscriptions.

You are unfortunately correct.

Depending on where you look, Grindr CEO George Arison’s net worth is $20–80 million.

He joins a growing list of gay executives hell-bent on proving that enshittification isn’t just for the straights.

To Torvalds, Chromebooks “are the path toward the desktop.”

What does he mean by this?

I struggle to believe Chromebooks will meaningfully contribute to more people adopting Linux, because Google is more interested in getting people to adopt Google instead.

Simone reminds me of the class perspective: musicians here behave like atomized small owners, caught in their enterprecarity, who (legitimately) ask for some defense of their property rights, attacked both by hackers and by the big monopolists of platforms and AI. Because from these property rights, in this case IP, comes a rent, and from this rent, independent artists and label owners try to make a living. Again, right or wrong, this is what’s happening.

I remember reading somewhere that independent artists make basically no money from Spotify.

Is that still true, or have creators found a way to claw back value from the platform, and that’s why they’re defending it?

I agree that the (primary) problem is the state.

We’re talking about surveillance in the context of a surveillance empire, not just cops having bodycams (that they they can turn off at will).

Surveillance at scale is like giving a chronic pain patient a freezer full of fentanyl.

With perfect discipline, it’s not a problem. It’s effective pain medication that they’ll only use when they need it.

They will always find excuses to “need” it.

After all, why not?

This is how people justify surveillance states.

What you actually get is “accountability for thee, none for me”, because people with power get to turn the cameras off whenever they want.

Just look at !Epsteinfiles@lemmy.world to see how easy for people with money and power to [REDACTED].

We don’t need (state) surveillance (on citizens).

We need (citizen) surveillance (on the the state).

Thanks for the transcript and the tl;dr.

What is punycode?

We even had a huge reminder with V for Vendetta, but maybe that was too subtle.

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“Telegram is widely used for influence operations, particularly by state actors such as Russia, who invested heavily in information warfare on the channel.” WhatsApp and Telegram are among platforms with consistently expensive fake accounts, averaging $1.02 and $0.89 respectively.

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Small vendors resell and broker existing accounts, or manually create and “farm” accounts. The larger players will provide a one-stop shop and offer bulk order services for follower numbers or fake accounts, and even have customer support.

A 2022 study co-authored by Dek showed that around ten Euros on average (just over ten US dollars) can buy some 90,000 fake views or 200 fake comments for a typical social media post.

I’m glad that the fediverse is mostly humans and not corpo-bots, but I think this is mostly because it’s not popular enough to be a target yet.

We have manual sign-ups and instance-level blocking, but I wonder if that would be enough if the botters really decide they want a piece of us.

Looking through reviews and official specs, they are infuriatingly vague about what the refresh rate actually is.

It’s all “super refresh technology” and “four different modes”, which is about as meaningful as “natural flavors” on food packaging.

The latency with VNC is very little. The main bottleneck is the low refresh rate and the lag of my old E-ink tablet. This can be a much better experience with a newer tablet with higher refresh rate.

What refresh would we need to hit with e-ink monitors for this to be a viable alternative?

What the judge should have done is threaten to cut the domain name in half and see who was willing to give up their claim out of motherly love.

The video codec was AV1. Saved you a click.

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Trying to figure out what is up with that formatting.

I got nothin’.

Hundreds of thousands of internet strangers is different from lived experience.

I take the author’s opinion more seriously because they went out and tried it for themselves.

At the moment the only fix is likely a reimage, unless you can get to the registry to make some edits or deploy a Powershell script to delay the launch of Explorer.exe until the system is ready for it.

How has Satya Nadella not been fired for this dumpster fire of a rollout?

Guys, I don’t think we should use this for work.

It’s not safe.