Darkassassin07

Darkassassin07 , 3 months ago to Technology in FCC bans cable TV industry’s favorite trick for hiding full cost of service

My family hasn't been subscribed a satellite/cable tv service in almost 16 years... 8 if you include streaming services.

Their shitty services, comercials, deceptive pricing, arbitrary limitations, and lack of content drove me away long ago. 🏴‍☠️

Darkassassin07 , 3 months ago to Technology in Users ditch Glassdoor, stunned by site adding real names without consent

Companies like to keep posts/comments/other data, but they rarely keep the history of changes you've made to that data.

So before deleting the account, replace all the data in it with garbage. Then it wont matter if they keep it.

Darkassassin07 , 3 months ago to Technology in Users ditch Glassdoor, stunned by site adding real names without consent

Finger missed the n key... Didn't mean to type gleam

Darkassassin07 , 3 months ago to Technology in Users ditch Glassdoor, stunned by site adding real names without consent

They weren't storing your name in the first place; they've acquired a new service 'blowfish' for which an account is automatically created for you if you currently or in the past have used glassdoor. Blowfish demands a real name to be used at all. (including to delete your account)

Ontop of this, after linking the two services on your behalf; glassdoor will now automatically populate your real name and any other information they can gleam from blowfish, your resumes, and any other sources they can find, regardless of whether the information is correct (users have reported lots of incorrect changes). This is new.

Darkassassin07 , 3 months ago to Technology in Users ditch Glassdoor, stunned by site adding real names without consent

As well as subpoenas from lawsuits / law enforcement.

Darkassassin07 , 3 months ago to Technology in Reddit's new paid ads look exactly like user posts

That's weird; I've never seen any of those....

Oh yeah, that's because I haven't visited reddit in ~9 months.

Darkassassin07 , 3 months ago to Memes in Well shit it took me a minute.

Guess I'm the one in ten.

Spent a good 30sec staring at the top line wondering wtf the writer was smoking before I read the bottom...

Darkassassin07 , 3 months ago to Memes in Materialism

https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/f31d077a-3c45-4fac-b1f0-1392a2e74d7b.jpeg

Darkassassin07 , 3 months ago to Technology in Let’s not make the same mistakes with AI that we made with social media

Bahahahahahha, NEVER gonna happen.

Humanity learning from its mistakes, I mean.

Darkassassin07 , 3 months ago to Technology in Microsoft now permits uninstalling Edge, Bing, and OneDrive to adhere to the EU's Digital Markets Act.

At least they actually got to choose which browser they wanted.

Darkassassin07 , 3 months ago to Technology in Microsoft now permits uninstalling Edge, Bing, and OneDrive to adhere to the EU's Digital Markets Act.

Ahh shit, Freudian slip...

I thought we were talking about copilot. Microshafts desktop AI tool. Not autopilot, the corporate device deployment/lifecycle/recycling program...

I'd imagine most of the upvotes thought the same.

Darkassassin07 , 3 months ago to Technology in Microsoft now permits uninstalling Edge, Bing, and OneDrive to adhere to the EU's Digital Markets Act.

Or you actually bought a 'pro' license in the hopes of being treated less like an insolent child by a device you own.

Darkassassin07 , 3 months ago to Technology in Microsoft now permits uninstalling Edge, Bing, and OneDrive to adhere to the EU's Digital Markets Act.

Meh, I purged windows from my systems last month. I will never be forced to (re)install Edge, use the garbage search, or link my pc to a gd Microsoft account again. I've had enough of Microsofts bullshit.

Darkassassin07 , 3 months ago to Selfhosted in Backup solutions

After reading this thread and a few other similar ones, I tried out BorgBackup and have been massively impressed with it's efficiency.

Data that hasn't changed, is stored under a different location, or otherwise is identical to what's already stored in the backup repository (both in the backup currently being created and all historical backups) isn't replicated. Only the information required to link that existing data to its doppelgangers is stored.

The original set of data I've got being backed up is around 270gb:
I currently have 13 backups of it.
Raw; thats 3.78tb of data.
After just compression using zlib; that's down to 1.56tb.
But the incredible bit is after de-duplication (the part described in the above paragraph), the raw data stored on disk for all 13 of those backups: 67.9gb.

I can mount any one of those 13 backups to the filesystem, or just extract any of 3.78tb of files directly from that backup repository of just 67.9gb of data.

Darkassassin07 , 3 months ago to Technology in US gov’t announces arrest of former Google engineer for alleged AI trade secret theft

According to the indictment, Ding, who was hired by Google in 2019 and had access to confidential information about the company's data centers, began uploading hundreds of files into a personal Google Cloud account two years ago.

Lmao. Stole googles trade secrets, and uploaded them..... To google.