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pdxfed ,

Partenered with? It's owned by BOA, US Bank, Wells Fargo and JP Morgan Chase. Might be used by smaller folks too but was started by those goons to try to capture mobile and p2p needs and is proprietary and doubtless whores your data. Stay away.

pdxfed ,

Holy Christ someone using disingenuous appropriately, I'd almost given up on the word. Thanks for saving it!

pdxfed ,

I always see it being used in place or dishonest for people who think they are the same and feel it makes them sound more intelligent.

A Ticketmaster hack spilled sensitive data for 560 million customers, hackers say (qz.com)

ShinyHunters posted on Tuesday night in a hacking forum that it obtained data from Ticketmaster and its parent company, Live Nation, including customers’ names, addresses, emails, phone numbers, and order details, Cyber Daily wrote. The group is reportedly attempting to sell the stolen data for $500 million....

pdxfed ,

Not by venues the size that are whored out to TM, is an option. Just because something is slammed at you 1m times by radio, advertisers, YouTube, etc., you can still choose the music you listen to and like.

pdxfed ,

Didn't mean to say venues have many options, TM needs to be broken up. Even non-profits and the like have had to sign the Ursula contract with TM as they dominate the industry so

pdxfed ,

At some point the bigwigs will realize that a working item is worth more in future potential ad dollars than a broken one with a limited 1 year warranty and start asking their engineers why quality is so bad.

/The screams of 1,000 poor souls per second for 50 years

pdxfed ,

Between my birthday of 1/1/1901 and unlicensed game inheritance, shit is going to go down in the next 50 years. We'll have AI legal reps for powerful firms requesting a statement of all software licenses by the deceased, challenging them, and then having a court order the rest null.

I hate that I will be right about that.

pdxfed ,

I read this fully in Ace Ventura 2 intonation.

T-Mobile's Forced Arbitration

In an effort to increase my privacy, I decided to buy a Pixel phone second hand to use with GrapheneOS. Due to some miscommunications, the phone ended up being carrier locked with T-Mobile. GrapheneOS's own website advises against buying carrier locked phones in order to avoid the hassle of carrier unlocking it....

pdxfed ,

The Nexus series was bangin

pdxfed , (edited )

"No one will click my finance article unless I quote peak to trough as if it's not a 🍒 picked to exaggerate a point or trend."

Everything that is wrong with finance and news. I didn't start reading about business until the great recession and immediately thought it weird that instead of saying X company saw Y change over a standard set of time, it's always whatever time period serves the writers point the most and is super fucking irritating to anyone who understands journalism, statistics or isn't anything but a clickbait charlatan.

pdxfed ,

That is so good, and like most good scifi, depressingly, predictably accurate with human nature

pdxfed ,

Good, hope you're enjoying the Internet on "Pretty_Fly_For_A_WIFI" open network

pdxfed ,

"peak hilarity", or as they call it in copyright court, "Tuesday".

pdxfed ,

$.05 explanation for those unfamiliar?

pdxfed ,

Admired AMD since the first Athlon, but never made the jump for various reasons--mostly availability. Just bought my first laptop(or any computer) with an AMD chip in it last year, a ryzen7 680m. There is no discrete graphics card and the onboard GPU has comparable performance to a discrete Nvidia 1050gpu. In a 13" laptop. The AMD chip far surpassed Intel's onboard GPU performance, and Intel laptop was ~30% more from any company. Fuck right off.

Why doesn't this matter to Intel? Part of why they always held mind space and a near monopoly is their OEM computer maker deals. HP, DELL, etc. it was almost impossible to find an AMD premade desktop, laptops were out of the question.

pdxfed ,

Google would never have too many products and lose focus.

pdxfed ,

I assume Mercedes US has paid its tithe of 10%?

pdxfed ,

A gamer cannot sink lower. Build your own if you care!

pdxfed ,

It's not a big 🚛, it's a series of tubes

pdxfed ,

The 96 are still "doing their own research"

pdxfed ,

I have only signed through it and got the notice. I didn't have any info in my profile that would have been visible, assuming DB itself wasn't breached so seems ok for me personally but just another brick in the wall.

pdxfed ,

It's just a relief that competition is so healthy I'm the market, anti-consumer practices like denying a paid service and not fixing it because you know you don't have a regulator, are just forced out of businesses.

Lost internet from a different ISP for a week in Jan, escalated through every channel possible including local, state, fcc, Cfpb, DOJ consumer division, PUC...in the end the company fixed it exactly when they wanted, which took 5 minutes. Internet is more important than water in 2024, it can't be optional to provide.

Net neutrality is nice, but we also need service regulation with minimum standards. Presidential election this year will be huge to determine if FCC immediately defended by Trump or allowed to continue pushing back against telecom lobby

pdxfed ,

Take out Benin and replace it with the US, same accuracy

pdxfed ,

Tale as old as time

pdxfed ,

Pay no attention to the man variable sex person behind the curtain, just look at the marketing and PR please!

pdxfed ,

Ossified. Lethargic.

UC spends enormous amount of energy on "diversity" and "equity" yet despite all the PhDs and HR teams have managed to avoid the inevitable conclusion that they have modeled themselves on an inequitable structure.

pdxfed ,

With the Pro version you can create generative AI film in color. With the Legibull feature you're allowed to display text on the screen of up to 10 frames in your video.

pdxfed ,

Bated

pdxfed ,

Well at least we have a representative democracy with checks and balances, I'd be terrified what that kind of structure would do in the hands of an authoritarian.

pdxfed ,

Curious to see how they approach this with their partnership with Verizon. I get it through a family plan, seems like it will be impossible for them to regulate who is/isn't part of a phone plan, since that could legitimately change at any time. Imagine they won't pursue it.

pdxfed ,

I hope you paid them for the lost ad revenue you caused them to suffer.

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.

pdxfed ,

Or Amazon, if you don't like your employees having labor rights, just sue to have the NLRB declared unconstitutional with such awesome groups as Elon Musk's SpaceX.

pdxfed ,

Musk's SpaceX is suing to have the NLRB declared unconstitutional with such awesome groups as Bezos Amazon, so that workers in the US stop having so much power and dominating economics, politics and society...

pdxfed ,

Big spenders here, NetZero crowd checking in.

pdxfed ,

Ulterior

Generative AI Is Coming To Your Home Appliances (www.forbes.com)

Across all industries, organizations are rapidly embracing generative AI. Among them, makers of home appliances like fridges and ovens. Generative AI in your oven? Why not? Ater all, AI has been creeping into our homes for years (think smart lightbulbs and Alexa) – but thanks to generative AI, these interactions will become...

pdxfed ,

"I'm sorry I can't answer that sweater question. GE AI devices cannot provide answers that might assume any liability for outcomes. But ask us anything."

pdxfed ,

Almost like presidential appointment powers matter! If only Democrats would have realized that before giving Trump 3 lifelong SCOTUS appointments.

pdxfed ,

93 nominations for the same thing, means I'm probably the wrong answer but I don't Graphene, but I was degoogling and found PlayerFM listed among good Free Open Source Software FOSS options. Hope it works as Graphene option.

General Motors Quits Sharing Driving Behavior With Data Brokers After Backlash (www.nytimes.com)

The decision followed a New York Times report this month that G.M. had, for years, been sharing data about drivers’ mileage, braking, acceleration and speed with the insurance industry. The drivers were enrolled — some unknowingly, they said — in OnStar Smart Driver, a feature in G.M.’s internet-connected cars that...

pdxfed ,

Oh sorry, Supreme Court has been working overtime the last decade to limit those. Probably thrown out.

pdxfed ,

1, you may be able to opt out within certain purchase time depending on product, company, etc.

  1. There is a suit in CA or somewhere currently challenging the ability of appliance company to prove the notice was provided or accepted. Insane fucking companies.
pdxfed ,

I called for a general boycott of TJs in Portland last week. Love shopping at their stores and have been a customer for 15+ years, but no contest to give up with this shit.

pdxfed ,

Freedom to turn down a religious meeting is already protected unless you're working for a religious org where religion is a bona fide requirement like a church, or religious non-profit.

Under current US labor law, however, companies can force you to sit through meetings presenting "their side" of why unions are wrong. If you skipped it they would say it's a disciplinary matter and there is no protection. Unions have been pushing, rightly so, for this. As soon as a union campaign or vote is announced, employers spend ungodly amounts of money hiring(money they previously refused to spend on your comp and benefits) anyone they can to assure you why a union is wrong. They can't legally lie, but they sew doubt about what unionizing can bring you(again and again and again) bordering on intimidation which is also legally forbidden, and if you aren't familiar with the process as an employee as most aren't, it's a scary position to be in. It's derailed enough campaigns unions know it need to be stopped and corporations are or course are hoping to take it to their the supreme Court.

pdxfed ,

To your point, Samsung's CEO said there is no such thing as a real photo when they were criticized for highly adjusting pictures on some of their newer cameras a year or two ago. Google's phones have had lighting and other effects that are helpful and make great improvements to shots(fixing lighting, removing photobombs, etc) that most people wouldn't say is AI but that's exactly what it is.

pdxfed ,

We do have a new beta version of mission critical software that is nowhere near offering the functionality of its current version, and we're hoping you can beta test it for us.

We are also announcing new ways we'll restrict your usage of your software and hardware and some new ways we can reduce your privacy and increase our advertising.

After a short coffee break we'll talk about a new AI mascot

pdxfed ,

Johnson, where is that quarterly turnover report? We can't train people fast enough! Why are we wasting so much money on all these HR costs like recruiting and pizza parties? What we need is a real game changer, I've got it, we'll give them access to the Calm app to help with 60 hrs per week.

pdxfed ,

We definitely need cars tracking every trip surreptitiously, think of all the data that we could give away!

Let’s not make the same mistakes with AI that we made with social media (www.technologyreview.com)

From the article: "In particular, five fundamental attributes of social media have harmed society. AI also has those attributes. Note that they are not intrinsically evil. They are all double-edged swords, with the potential to do either good or ill. The danger comes from who wields the sword, and in what direction it is swung....

pdxfed ,

Read about drone warfare in Ukraine and how AI drone swarm warfare is just a matter of months away if it's not already being done.

pdxfed ,

https://edition.cnn.com/style/vietnam-farms-jack-latham-beggars-honey/index.html

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