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unconfirmedsourcesDOTgov ,

Well to be fair the OP has the date shown in the image as Apr 23, and Google has been frantically changing the way the tool works on a regular basis for months, so there's a chance they resolved this insanity in the interim. The post itself is just ragebait.

*not to say that Google isn't doing a bunch of dumb shit lately, I just don't see this particular post from over a month ago as being as rage inducing as some others in the community.

PayPal Is Planning an Ad Business Using Data on Its Millions of Shoppers (www.wsj.com)

Wall Street Journal (paywalled) The digital payments company plans to build an ad sales business around the reams of data it generates from tracking the purchases as well as the broader spending behaviors of millions of consumers who use its services, which include the more socially-enabled Venmo app....

unconfirmedsourcesDOTgov ,

I've generally had good experiences with Privacy.com. It seems like a decent solution when I want something from a semi-reputable website.

I particularly enjoy the bit where cards are vendor-locked, which has been interesting to observe in a couple of instances where a site seems to have had their credit card db breached and the attackers turn around and try to use the card on another site, where it is inevitably denied, but I still get an email that shows which site got hacked and where the attackers were trying to use the information.

unconfirmedsourcesDOTgov ,

Everything is transient and eventually becomes shitty, sure, but I generally trust them because they're able to make money just from people using the service. I don't know how profitable they are, but I am reasonably certain that as the card issuer they get a cut of every transaction. Given that they aren't issuing physical cards and have no obvious costs other than maintaining their platform, I don't see a reason not to trust them in the medium term.

unconfirmedsourcesDOTgov ,

This requires an Apple iPhone XR or newer, as the face scan utilizes the TrueDepth sensor.

Am I wrong in my reading that this hardware product is only available for people who already own and use an iPhone XR or newer? It seemed neat until I got to that bit...

unconfirmedsourcesDOTgov ,

You're right, it's not an insurmountable obstacle, I think I was just feeling petulant about seeing another product with a sign next to it saying basically, "you must be this invested in the Apple ecosystem to ride".

Let's be real though, it's already a better option than what Apple is offering for $3500, so I'm sure they will get some traction before being bought out.

Lastly, because you underscored the point I was making, fuck iPhones.

unconfirmedsourcesDOTgov ,

This is really just stereotypical Tesla driver behavior. They are far and above the most entitled drivers.

FTFY

unconfirmedsourcesDOTgov ,

I have one of these, and while the switch tech is certainly neat, I haven't really come up with many good ways to use it.

Their implementation doesn't seem to support changing resistance or being sensitive to multiple levels of pressure on the key, but one way I do use it is by changing the activation distance for certain keys that I tend to press by mistake when gaming, like caps lock, so that you really need to bottom out the key to activate it. This seems to help a bit but I suspect that if I wanted to get the most out of it, I would probably need to be a much more intense gamer.

unconfirmedsourcesDOTgov ,

For MANY Americans, the US is their whole world. 🤷‍♂️

unconfirmedsourcesDOTgov ,

Lemmy has a tagging system, definitely recommend tagging this user so you get a warning that they might be wrong but don't want to educate themselves, then you can just ignore them and move on with your day.

unconfirmedsourcesDOTgov ,

Sorry bud, you're in the wrong community if you're looking for allies when you bring logic based on reality into the conversation.

unconfirmedsourcesDOTgov ,

Yes, all of the most advanced chip making factories are in Taiwan. It's the biggest reason that the US passed the CHIPS act and also why there is so much geopolitical tension around Taiwan.

Why did you think there was so much focus on Taiwan? Boba is great and all, but surely it doesn't merit the protection of the US Navy. 😁

unconfirmedsourcesDOTgov ,

You lucky bastard. 😁

unconfirmedsourcesDOTgov ,

If you like that emoji then you'll love this.

unconfirmedsourcesDOTgov ,

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unconfirmedsourcesDOTgov ,

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unconfirmedsourcesDOTgov ,

How many wrong guesses were you allowed before the system would lock your account?

unconfirmedsourcesDOTgov ,

Yes, that was the "phishing" bit.

unconfirmedsourcesDOTgov ,

WhatsApp is also owned by meta, so out of the 7 options, 3 of them are owned by the same company and yet continue to lack support for interoperability.

unconfirmedsourcesDOTgov ,

You're probably in the minority, but probably not the only one.

"A dream. It's perfect": Helium discovery in northern Minnesota may be biggest ever in North America (www.cbsnews.com)

"A dream. It's perfect": Helium discovery in northern Minnesota may be biggest ever in North America::For a century, the U.S. Government-owned the largest helium reserve in the country, but the biggest exporters now are in Russia, Qatar and Tanzania. With this new discovery, Minnesota could be joining that list.

unconfirmedsourcesDOTgov ,

My label for that user is, "regularly confidently incorrect".

There are a few power users like them around here and it can be fun to watch them argue with folks. Perhaps they just enjoy the act of arguing? They might just be malicious, but I prefer to imagine that most people are trying their best to engage in good faith more often than not.

unconfirmedsourcesDOTgov ,

I didn't downvote, but I briefly thought about it because their first statement is incorrect. Not factually, but the fact that many tech companies are downsizing isn't something that you could reasonably argue in court as for why these specific positions were eliminated.

"But your honor, all of the other cool companies are doing it!" isn't something that would stand up to much scrutiny.

The bit you quoted was what made me pause, because I agree with you.

unconfirmedsourcesDOTgov ,

Couldn't agree more. IMO, the perfect talent is the kind you grow yourself.

No number of interviews or tests will lead you to a magical perfect candidate 100% of the time, but those with less experience are great because they're eager to accept a lower salary and will attack just about any problem you throw at them enthusiastically because every challenge is a new chance to prove their mettle.

Obviously it takes time to build a program where mentorship is valued and more senior folks help to develop newer teammates, but if you want the highest quality talent, it's hard to beat homegrown.

unconfirmedsourcesDOTgov ,

Based on your post history, you'll just delete your comment within a few hours anyway, but have you considered that if adoption was such a perfect solution then more people would adopt?

Instead of simply imagining simple solutions to complex problems, maybe try having a bit of empathy and see where that takes you?

Good luck.

unconfirmedsourcesDOTgov ,

It feels like you're suggesting that adoption is a panacea, but for a majority of couples, it simply isn't. I agree it could be considered selfish, but selfishness is a virtue in our society so I am asserting that it should be expected and accounted for, rather than simply waving your hand at its inherent issues and pretending they'll go away.

Adoption has been proposed and has failed as a satisfactory solution to this problem for millenia, what has changed about it to make it relevant now?

unconfirmedsourcesDOTgov ,

I haven't looked into it personally, but from every account I've heard, it sounds like a horror show. Admittedly, there's probably some confirmation bias in there, but I'm also thinking about it from an anthropological perspective.

If adopting a child were equivalent to giving birth to your own child, why would people still go through the torture that is pregnancy? We know that there have been orphanages for centuries, so this seems to be a long running thread in the history of humanity.

From a behavioral economics standpoint, it seems presumptuous to suggest that more couples ought to change their preference from what they're predisposed to choose naturally, especially without an explanation for why they are likely to have this preference to begin with.

Once you start speculating on the reasons why people prefer adoption only as a fallback option, you'll likely find that the answer is complicated and personal to every couple, but in aggregate the average couple isn't thinking about adoption as a plan A.

Even when it comes to same sex couples - they're working on technology to be able to combine dna from two same sex parents and create an embryo that is truly a child of two people of the same sex.

Not that there's anything wrong with that, I'm just thinking of examples where adoption seems to run counter to people's revealed preferences.

unconfirmedsourcesDOTgov ,

I'm not suggesting that - I agree with you, once a couple decides to adopt, their adopted children are just as loved as any others. I'm simply pointing out that people will go to great lengths not to adopt in the first place.

If people are having children who shouldn't, would you agree that there is a moral imperative to prevent them from having children in the first place?

Passkeys might really kill passwords (www.theverge.com)

Passkeys: how do they work? No, like, seriously. It’s clear that the industry is increasingly betting on passkeys as a replacement for passwords, a way to use the internet that is both more secure and more user-friendly. But for all that upside, it’s not always clear how we, the normal human users, are supposed to use...

unconfirmedsourcesDOTgov ,

So if you lose access to all of your devices, you're completely locked out of everything until you're able to get a new working phone activated on a trusted phone number? The trade-off of inconvenience for security here just doesn't seem worth it to me.

unconfirmedsourcesDOTgov ,

Likewise - I'm consistently rated a high performer, but my lack of awareness around compensation consistently has me questioning whether it's worth my time to put those extra hours in - most of the time I decide it isn't.

We recently had a situation where my employer changed compensation criteria mid-cycle and the reaction from my coworkers is summed up by 🤷‍♂️

To paraphrase the corporate God himself:

When you're a Fortune 500 company, they let you do it. You can do anything. Grab 'em by the pussy.

unconfirmedsourcesDOTgov ,

Bluesky is supposed to be Twitter 2.0 - Jack Dorsey, who co-founded Twitter, is on the board for Bluesky and was supposedly very involved in building the platform. So in theory it could be a lot of things that Twitter wished it could, or it could just be bad like most other socials.

Either way if you have an interest in the tech world it's probably worth keeping an eye on.

unconfirmedsourcesDOTgov ,

Nah I don't think so.

unconfirmedsourcesDOTgov ,

I've always assumed you'd melt the gold down and create coins or other tradable sub-amounts of the gold that you could exchange for goods and services. If people are still peopling, they'll still want a currency to transact with; if the dollar has failed then gold has a historical precedent that would probably make it easier to convince people to trade with you using it as a medium of exchange. It always seems like it's more suited to be an emergency measure than a plan A to me.

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