dannoffs

dannoffs , 8 days ago

Both Rabbit R1 users should be concerned.

dannoffs , 2 months ago

I'm seeing a lot of people make arguments like this and I just don't get it. Is your point that its okay for tech companies to prey on the ignorance of nontechnical users? We can't expect everyone to know everything about every service they interact with.

dannoffs , 2 months ago

I understand how the internet works but you apparently don't understand how people work. Normal people have absolutely no concept of how the internet works, they don't understand what data servers need about them to function, or what a packet is. They need to be explicitly told that even though they're using a privacy mode Google is still collecting data on them, especially since they're collecting data even if you are not going to google hosted sites.

dannoffs , 2 months ago

You're infantalizing people by assuming everyone who doesn't know how the internet works lacks critical thinking skills. Do you ever interact with non nerdy people? Additionally, some people do genuinely lack the capacity to understand how systems like the internet work, are we supposed to just let them get taken advantage of or exclude them from society?

I'm ignoring your last sentence because its entirely irrelevant to the situation, the data that Google was collecting from people using incognito mode is not data that they needed to make their services work.

dannoffs , 3 months ago

It says it because of this lawsuit.

dannoffs , 3 months ago

Nowhere on that page does it say that the browser is still tracking them. The whole point of the lawsuit, which Google just settled, is that that verbage is not clear enough to nontechnical users that Google still knows what sites they're visiting. People don't know shit about computers, if they advertise a "privacy feature" that says their searches and history aren't being saved, they assume they're not being tracked. People absolutely should have a basic understanding of data privacy but that doesn't mean it's okay to take advantage of those who don't.

dannoffs , 3 months ago

Fedora Core 6 is when I made the full switch.

dannoffs , 4 months ago

It's the systemd drama all over again

dannoffs , 5 months ago

Seriously. My only interactions with discord are in ways that its replaced a simple web forum or IRC channel.

dannoffs , 5 months ago

Cool edgy atheist meme, how's the 8th grade going?

dannoffs , 5 months ago

Do you genuinely think this is a good meme?

dannoffs , 5 months ago

The only person expressing any anger is you getting upset that other people don't like a meme that you also don't like. Edgey atheism is a phase most young people who leave religion go through and grow out of.

dannoffs , 10 months ago

Yeah, this is more of a design failure than people being assholes.

dannoffs , 10 months ago

Just check their comment history for like 30 seconds. Everyone makes a joke that misses the mark every now and then, but the shittiest people usually constantly spew their nonsense.

dannoffs , 10 months ago

Lemmy is worried about 1984 but in actuality is becoming Fahrenheit 451.

I don't think you've read either book because that analogy makes absolutely no sense.