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graymess ,

Doesn't matter. If your PC is ever compromised, that feature is a one stop shop for stealing everything you have ever done on your computer.

graymess ,

How long until the majority of the Internet is inaccessible to non-Chromium browsers because the pages "don't support them"?

graymess ,

If Biden and his remaining cabinet had any self awareness, they'd be utterly humiliated. Like how do you not feel even a little shame when the entire world watches you try to defend a fucking monster?

graymess ,

This is Microsoft, an American corporation, actively developing the things the Internet spazzes out about China probably doing. How happy this makes China? Buddy, imagine how happy this makes every marketing company in the world, your local police department, and your own government, all of which have a much more vested interest in everything you do on your computer and are considerably more of a threat to you than the ruling party of a country on the other side of the planet. Seriously, y'all need to get your fucking priorities in order. It's borderline satire how fast your average Lemmy user slaps the China Panic button as soon as a privacy-related issue hits their front page.

graymess ,

Could absolutely swap in Calvin and Hobbes and this would be a believable Watterson comic. That's a compliment, not at all claiming plagiarism.

Amazon Ditches 'Just Walk Out' Checkouts at Its Grocery Stores (gizmodo.com)

Amazon is phasing out its checkout-less grocery stores with “Just Walk Out” technology, first reported by The Information Tuesday. The company’s senior vice president of grocery stores says they’re moving away from Just Walk Out, which relied on cameras and sensors to track what people were leaving the store with.

graymess ,

Incredible. Their "AI" is just a bunch of people watching cameras in India.

graymess ,

This is one of those ideas I'd love to agree with, but I know the reality of the situation would mean negative consequences for the most vulnerable and disadvantaged, just like how current ID systems are now.

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Macs are used in a lot of "creative" industries and professionals tend to benefit from multiple monitors. Every editor I've known cuts on a Mac with at least two monitors.

graymess ,

Associating the concepts of "tops" and "bottoms" to gay couples having sex is at least kind of ignorant if not homophobic.

graymess ,

It is literally the meaning behind the meme. There's a silhouette of two men labeled "you" and "Microsoft" with the Microsoft man depicted as the top, the one doing the fucking, the one in the stereotypical position of power in the act. The message is, "Microsoft fucks you like this man fucks this other man in the ass." I don't have to spell this out, it's what's in the picture.

graymess ,

Yeah, it's all from the same origin. The implication being that the one penetrating is "the man" and the one being penetrated is "the woman." The other part of the implication being to fuck someone is good and powerful and dominating and being fucked is bad and immaculating and submissive.

If that sounds like I'm adding my own words and meaning to a simple phrase, think about what is actually being said when you say "you're getting fucked by Microsoft." What, you don't want to get fucked? Why? Sex is supposed to be a positive thing two people can do together. Unless the one "getting fucked" doesn't want to and now we're not talking about fucking, we're talking about using violent rape as an analogy for what a software company is doing to its userbase and that's just...kind of fucked up. I shouldn't have to explain why, right?

Anyway, no, I don't get mad whenever I hear a phrase that stems from heteronormative ideas of sex. I don't assume the person saying it is homophobic or an idiot, they probably just don't know. But a friend once educated me on the subject, I thought about it, and I agree. So now I avoid using phrases like that, and when someone openly questions it like you have, cool, I'll stop and talk about it.

graymess ,

Damn. I guess you're right.

Except the meme we're talking about is depicting a literal butt fucking, so I don't know what you're arguing. Clearly any of the alternate meanings of "fuck" are not so detached from what I've been saying this whole time or the meme wouldn't make sense.

graymess ,

Getting tired of engaging with this. The point is at least two people who saw the meme interpreted it as harmful representation and felt strongly enough about it to respond. You don't have to agree or even take action. Nobody requested the post be deleted or censored.

You could acknowledge the perspective of someone with a different lived experience, consider it or don't, and move on. Or you could do what you've chosen to do and deny that perspective and try to shut it up.

graymess ,

Standing up for another's lived experience is what an ally does. When a queer friend shares their experiences with me, I listen. I don't dismiss them as paranoid. Whether or not I get Internet points for it doesn't matter. All the more reason to hear them out, actually, because queer people are not the majority and their perspectives are easy to ignore if what you care about is which side the bigger number is on.

graymess ,

That's not communism, that's just a worker co-op.

graymess ,

Vending machines used to get vandalized at my school. How much tech are they putting in these things now?

Disney+ has started cracking down on password sharing in the US (www.engadget.com)

Disney+ started getting strict about password sharing in Canada last year, and now it's expanding the restriction to the US. According to The Verge, the streaming service has been sending out emails to its subscribers in the country, notifying them about a change in its terms of service. Its service agreement now states that...

graymess ,

It worked for Netflix. It's easy to scoff at the clearly customer-antagonistic policies these services are turning towards, inevitably accompanied by the "well, they lost me as a subscriber" flood of comments. But the unfortunate truth is the vast majority of people just shut up and pay, resulting in big net income for the corporations that enact these policies.

graymess ,

Linux users are what everyone says vegans are.

graymess ,

Meanwhile I'm thinking "ey, sounds like they're getting enough money, now maybe they can leave me the fuck alone."

graymess ,

Does it open Firefox instead, then?

graymess ,

Relationships typically involve more than just sex.

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