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smeg,

It’s different if you’re choosing to go somewhere fancy and pay for something expensive and then negate the fanciness, but for a free work meal I’m going to give your colleague the benefit of the doubt and assume they know what they like. Don’t gatekeep food, who gives a shit what other people like?

smeg,

€200 for a single steak, paid for by the company? Man, that is a whole order of magnitude fancier than I was expecting!

smeg,

Theoretically, but probably just as likely as goblins sneaking into your router and eating all the 1s in your binary

smeg,

100% accurate to which version? King James version? The Latin that was translated from? The Greek that was translated from? The original (I think) Hebrew?

smeg,

No way this is staged, I refuse to believe they don’t allow bears in court.

smeg,

I like it. Looks completely insane but upon closer inspection it seems like its actually made really well.

smeg,

Actually a perfect ATBGE, it makes you go eeew and then go oooo

smeg,

Is it just a brand name for the morning-after pill (i.e. emergency contraception)?

smeg,

Never seen a joke before, eh?

smeg,

Can you and apparently 2/3 of the other readers of that comment (going by current votes) not detect obvious sarcasm?

smeg,

I guess it’s the point of sarcasm really, that not everyone will get it right away. I hate when people feel the need to do the “/s” though, it completely defeats the point.

smeg,

In Ancient Greece maybe, was this still the opinion during the Renaissance?

smeg,

Different kinds of racists. They’re not all hardcore white supremacist types, plenty of otherwise-normal people have prejudices against specific groups for being lazy, smelly, deviant, whatever.

smeg,

This is one of the worst quality videos I’ve watched til the end. Just about enough pixels to make out that I’m looking at some cars, but whoever was recording must have been as drunk as whoever was driving because they couldn’t even point the camera at the car half the time!

smeg,

Now I feel a dumbass for wasting two months of my life on it

Did you have fun? Because if you did (without actively damaging your life) then it wasn’t time wasted even if you wouldn’t ever go back!

smeg,

Yes and no. Games (all software, really) can be made slick and efficient, it just takes more time than most companies are willing to spend because they get their return even if its buggy and slow.

smeg,

The more you learn about Father Christmas the more you realise he’s an eldritch creature of phenomenal power. The fact that we can appease an Old God capable of destroying us in an instant with a simple offering of Sherry and a Mince Pie is nothing short of a miracle.

smeg,

This community isn’t called lemmyqualitypost now is it?

smeg,

Last time I tried it I was surprised to find out that Google maps works fine without any play services installed!

smeg,

If that’s the CPU temperature then it’s running really efficiently, you’d expect up to 100°C if you were doing something intense!

smeg,

That means your fans are good then!

smeg,

Too late, you’ll log in tomorrow and see GabeN’s little sprite hauling them down to Joja

Marketing Company Claims That It Actually Is Listening to Your Phone and Smart Speakers to Target Ads (www.404media.co)

A marketing team within media giant Cox Media Group (CMG) claims it has the capability to listen to ambient conversations of consumers through embedded microphones in smartphones, smart TVs, and other devices to gather data and use it to target ads, according to a review of CMG marketing materials by 404 Media and details from a...

smeg,

This seems fishy. Beyond being illegal in a lot of places, if this was actually possible without people noticing (e.g. detecting massive data usage of audio being uploaded or native battery/CPU usage of it being processed locally) then we’d know about it!

My first thought is that this is the classic tech sales bullshit of claiming your product can do something impossible in order to sell it. What’s most confusing is the statement from the bottom of the article:

“CMG businesses do not listen to any conversations or have access to anything beyond a third-party aggregated, anonymized and fully encrypted data set that can be used for ad placement. We regret any confusion and we are committed to ensuring our marketing is clear and transparent,” the statement added.

So are they admitting it was bullshit or what?

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