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pop , 5 days ago (edited 5 days ago) to Technology in Uncovering Every Lie in MKBHD's Softball Interview; a scathing critique of 'brand safe' influencers

Every youtube reviewer's goal is to be popular enough to be a paid shill. It's money they're after, not your praises.

And Apple marketing invests a lot in their image in internet discussions. There are lot of shills and a lot of sock-puppets that prop them up. Every marketing company does but go to any popular Apple posts on reddit, hackernews, or Twitter, they just have same pattern.

Why this isn't obvious is just idk.

pop , 5 days ago to Technology in Shopping app Temu is “dangerous malware,” spying on your texts, lawsuit claims

There wouldn't be so much anti-china propaganda, if the popular companies didn't do so much shit behind people's back to drown out the good things coming out of China.

I mean China is becoming a economic powerhouse, just make your companies not be backdoors until your influence and trust increase without competition. But nooooo, they have to do every worse thing other big tech companies do, but at a script-kiddie level.

pop , 5 days ago to Technology in Shopping app Temu is “dangerous malware,” spying on your texts, lawsuit claims

By comparison Meta and Google merely take advantage of user ignorance and apathy by making opting out frustrating - but still technically doable.

This is simply just not true. Meta used an adversary-in-the-middle attack to decrypt Snapchat and other competitors traffic. Facebook, Apple, Twitter and Google have been intercepting traffic since before https/sandbox/anti-virus were the norm. Do you think they didn't do anything malicious?

Install any Google app on Windows and it will install a task schedule and a always online background service to "check for updates" and downloads and runs their executable without any user consent. I wonder why no body had a problem with that. hmm…

https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2024/03/facebook-spied-on-snapchat-users-to-get-analytics-about-the-competition

Google runs it own operating system so they could technically do anything they so fucking please. You think Chinese Android variants are using exploits or just scooping data wholesale, because it can. But you think Google and Apple aren't?

It's showing your prejudice, bias and concern trolling more than anything.

pop , 6 days ago to Socialism in Temperature rise ‘unprecedented in the instrumental record’

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Game on!

pop , 6 days ago to Technology in This cute pink blob could lead to realistic robot skin

Me: Terminator Skin v0.0001

pop , 8 days ago to Technology in Julian Assange has reached a plea deal with the U.S., allowing him to go free

Then prosecute him for that. But the US doesn't care about activists, does it? Why do you think US is after him specifically?

What about, what about, what about?

Post the actual proof rather than a link to a wikipedia article.

You do BETTER.

pop , 8 days ago to Technology in Julian Assange has reached a plea deal with the U.S., allowing him to go free

Regurtitating the same talking points your government uses for people that reveal its atrocities are "bots" no matter how you spin it. There are tankie bots and you are a wankie bot.

Tell us more about how revealing war crimes and global surveillance are traitors, bot.

pop , 9 days ago to Technology in European Union regulators accuse Apple of breaching the bloc's tech rules

Social media monitoring and marketing is a big business. There are tools that alert agencies to any critical posts for their brand/celebrity/product/keyword so they can defend or at the very least deflect any criticism with sock-puppet accounts. These accounts seem like normal individuals with lots of history but are either accounts sold to these agencies or home-grown to seem "organic".

Looking from outside people think karma and posts/comments count mean nothing but accounts with good standing, posts, comments has a big market in black hat marketing sites.

pop , 9 days ago to Technology in Finnish startup says it can speed up any CPU by up to 100x using a tiny piece of hardware with no recoding

I'm just glad there are companies that are trying to optimize current tech rather than just piling over new hardware every damn year with forced planned obsolescence.

Though the claim is absurd, I think double the performance is NEAT.

pop , 12 days ago to Technology in NASA finds humanity would totally fumble asteroid defense

Why the change of heart at tha last sentence?

pop , 16 days ago to Technology in DJI drone ban passes in U.S. House — 'Countering CCP Drones Act' would ban all DJI sales in U.S. if passed in Senate

hey, don't invade other countries mkay?

Considering recent history, you'd better say that to US more, don't you think? or is it that your country is free to invade other countries but others doing the same is where you start considering human rights?

Talk about hypocrisy. fuckin hell, read a history book.

pop , 16 days ago to Technology in DJI drone ban passes in U.S. House — 'Countering CCP Drones Act' would ban all DJI sales in U.S. if passed in Senate

Plus they steal technology and ideas from every company manufacturing there.

Stealing is the norm for every developed nation. They didn't just spin out of nowhere and became a super-power. Heard anything about hiring literal Nazis for space program? Does that count as unethical or stealing for you?

No?

I mean Nazis are bad, right? They were supposed to pay for what they did. But not these ones, these were the "good ones", so it's fine?

What about tech and knowledge stolen from colonial eras? Too old? it was the norm, not relevant anymore, it's okay when we did it or any other bs reason you come up with. However, doing the same now is unethical because the colonials created the "WTO" to protect their interests, but others arent playing your game, you're losing, and it's just not fair?

It's fine when you steal tech and talent (even if they were helped cause genocide) and US isn't shy supporting Israel do genocide again.

But as soon as other country uses what's made made available to them, use spies, and steals, It's unethical. The IPs that few countries arbitrarily created after looting through the whole world? How fucking convenient, eh?

Suck it!

I don't particularly like China but it's hilarious to think they'd be western puppet and do as they were told forever. Every other nation would do the same if roles were reversed.

pop , 26 days ago to Technology in Apple will update iPhones for at least 5 years in rare public commitment

Those updates are easy when you have to release an system update to update the safari browser. Hell, you could call it a major security fix and fix some security issue on an old phone and every fanboy would be like "OMG iPhone 3s got an update.🤤" whereas Google can just ship browser fixes over the app store.

And version history means jack all when you can just name releases as you please. Google has been doing the same thing last 5-10 years. Emoji mixers, magic cleaner, launcher with google search bar at the bottom, turning a toggle into a big button on nav bar, enabling aren't major updates. Sure there are underlying changes, but they're mostly security patches and bugfixes. Android is still a bloated mess that needs ungodly amount of RAM and processing to keep even few apps running reliably in the background.

And guess where did Google learn this deceptive "long term update support" trend from?

The only thing they'll need is to decouple chrome and require a system update, and they could be providing updates for a decade.

pop , 26 days ago to Technology in Google to start permanently deleting users’ location history

It's likely now your device does the initial processing of your data (store, categorize, and disseminate) and the aggregate is sent through as telemetry. They save on processing costs and users think it's privacy friendly.

But it's Google we're talking about here and smartphones are more than capable these days.

pop , 27 days ago to Selfhosted in "Designed to better support our users"

Developers also need to make money to live and survive. Why do you think you're entitled to all of their work for free? If it's such an inconvenience, you should try your hand at coding an alternative and giving all of it for free. We're waiting.