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heavy ,

Sorry what? You know you can make Mac and cheese from scratch right? It's not too difficult.

heavy ,

I was getting into my car the other day and noticed someone getting out of their car and putting a pistol into their wasteband. Looked like they were going into a Buffalo wild wings or something. Like, are you gonna shoot someone in there or what?

My thing is, you're usually introducing a firearm into a situation where there likely wasn't one previously, and are putting at risk the lives of everyone around you. I own a firearm and I hope every day I never ever have to use it outside of recreation. Most gun owners are exceptionally irresponsible and don't give weapons their due respect, this is half the reason so many people get shot for no reason in the US.

heavy ,

Some new competiton would be nice too. I remember when companies like Palm made their own competent OS. I wouldn't even mind if Windows mobile made a reappareance. What do people even need anymore except a versatile browser and the ability to play games?

heavy ,

Of all the reasons to be like "Windows bad, Linux good!" This one doesn't really hit.

Of all the actual differences, this is the one people think makes Linux superior? This is just a circle jerk lol.

Rabbit R1 is Just an Android App (lemmy.world)

See, it turns out that the Rabbit R1 seems to run Android under the hood and the entire interface users interact with is powered by a single Android app. A tipster shared the Rabbit R1’s launcher APK with us, and with a bit of tinkering, we managed to install it on an Android phone, specifically a Pixel 6a....

heavy ,

I heard about this thing but couldn't really tell what the idea was. I think I want to carry less, not more on me.

Windows 11 Start menu ads are now rolling out to everyone (www.theverge.com)

Microsoft is starting to enable ads inside the Start menu on Windows 11 for all users. After testing these briefly with Windows Insiders earlier this month, Microsoft has started to distribute update KB5036980 to Windows 11 users this week, which includes “recommendations” for apps from the Microsoft Store in the Start menu....

heavy ,

No candy crush for this guy!

heavy ,

I wonder how much junk was created just because a device didn't support the latest version of HDCP.

heavy ,

This is the wrong way to go about solving this problem IMO, but then again the problem they're trying to solve is more about security than privacy as a right.

heavy ,

Haha right? Remember the Equifax breach? I think the security claim isn't genuine in intent, but I can believe that all else being equal, privacy violation does result in risk to security.

Even more reason to solve the underlying issues and hold companies accountable for how they handle privacy and personal information. Ideally I'd like to see the hoarding of personal data be somehow demonitized.

heavy ,

Wow this is gross. I'm gonna wash it down with some MOUNTAIN DEW ™

heavy ,

I know this is a joke but for anyone reading: Linux has many advantages and is great but is NOT immune to viruses or exploits.

heavy ,

Each day the US doesn't have a GDPR equivalent, it strays further from the light.

heavy ,

Musk is a moron and I hope he keeps getting exposed

heavy ,

Heck naw brother, we eat on Easter too, that IS related

heavy ,

Haha maybe I'm getting old, but people ITT don't seem to understand that "taking nudes" and deciding who, if anyone, gets to see them should be a basic right of privacy and freedom.

You should be insulted by, and scrutinize the idea of being told what you can and can't do with your body and your data, including nudes and beyond.

"Oooo uh, shouldn't have taken nudes!" is incel rhetoric.

heavy ,

I think I understand what you're saying, but don't discount the point here. I think the author is speaking to the experience of being a woman in a first world society. It's not necessarily always incels that react to women with violence, or the threat.

heavy ,

For fun context, Google "Microsoft Vortex Service"

heavy ,

These are the questions we need to keep putting out there so the law can finally catch up to the monotony of license agreements and terms.

It shouldn't be acceptable to present a layman with a 10 page legal jargon document for them to agree to and call it binding.

heavy ,

Hope that train careens off a clif

heavy ,

If you've ever worked at one of these big companies with fancy buildings, it's interesting that in the end, they're the same depressing row after row of cubicles, or "shared working spaces"

The architecture might look neat outside and upfront, but otherwise it's just sad and boring inside the actual working area.

Big thing about RTO is that these places just suck to be at. Quality of workspaces have been going down for years as they try to cram more and more people into less space.

We finally get a reckoning that a lot of people can just work from home and the economy won't blow up, but instead, rich folks want people back in the torture zones.

heavy ,

Business Email Compromise (BEC)?
(╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻

heavy ,

Please don't compromise my business emails, just my personal ones.

=)

Google apologizes for ‘missing the mark’ after Gemini generated racially diverse Nazis (www.theverge.com)

Google apologizes for ‘missing the mark’ after Gemini generated racially diverse Nazis::Google says it’s aware of historically inaccurate results for its Gemini AI image generator, following criticism that it depicted historically white groups as people of color.

heavy ,

Now that shit is funny. I hope more people take more time to laugh at companies scrambling to pour billions into projects they don't understand.

Laugh while it's still funny, anyway.

heavy ,

Seeing black people on the screen always seems to piss someone off ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

heavy ,

Weird, I didn't see any "there's no black people" memes today. Could you point one out?

Mark Zuckerberg: Tech layoffs in 2024 have been a natural response to pandemic-era over hiring (www.itpro.com)

Mark Zuckerberg: Tech layoffs in 2024 have been a natural response to pandemic-era over hiring::Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg believes companies are still readjusting to pandemic-era hiring tactics amid a flurry of layoffs across the industry.

heavy ,

If a CEO is saying it, it's likely the most chickenshit explanation they could've come up with about the situation.

Whats interesting about Zuck in particular is he's trying to blend in with normal society despite never really being a part of it. I hope he knows that we see him, and he'll always be a billionaire dick head who was ultimately bad for the planet.

heavy ,

Ah, sounds like what-about-ism. Metas behavior doesn't exempt Apple from criticism. That logic tends to drive all of our standards and expectations down.

Theres room to criticize and expect more from all of these companies who are more than capable of doing better.

heavy ,

This is true, but AI can be used as a tool to summarize and otherwise distill a massive amount of information to a form that someone can make sense of. It was probably cost prohibative to go through this data before or making specific snooping tools.

heavy ,

I know you weren't asking me, but to chime in, it's safer to say that the circumstances of memeing are actually way more complex than we give credit. I'd argue that it's rarely the case that a meme is just a meme. Situations where an event or a person becomes a meme can be totally misinterpreted, reinterpreted or otherwise change from reality. Memes are used tools, many times as propaganda, and who is in a meme possibly, does have an effect. Memeing is actually a big complex part of the human experience! Especially since proliferation of the internet.

Anyway, it's interesting to think about.

heavy ,

This is basically why the French Revolution happened

heavy ,

That's gonna be an uninstall for me, Tencent.

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