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smeg,

A good UI (for you personally) should do all the things you regularly do. Git is a complex and messy enough beast that when I have to use the CLI I’m going off the golden path and copy+pasting something arcane.

smeg,

I feel those captions are the wrong way round

smeg,

Definitely, last time I used github’s one it could barely do more than push and pull. I’ll almost always use a (good!) UI over the git CLI though.

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?

smeg,

SMS doesn’t have group chats does it? Unless your client is just sending the same message to everyone and grouping together the responses?

smeg,

So how do you have group chats or send files with your non-Signal contacts?

smeg,

SMS doesn’t have group chats does it? Unless your client is just sending the same message to everyone and grouping together the responses?

smeg,

Blimey, you and I have wildly different use cases, I don’t think I’ve sent an email to someone who wasn’t a business for decades!

smeg,

Villain, you know, like Sauron or Thanos. Imagine you’re about to shag one of them and they pull out a kawaii jonny, WWYD?

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,

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,

Oh I’m not going anywhere with it, just nit-picking.

I know Catholicism grabs you even earlier!

smeg,

The Morning After Pill is is technically not contraception as it happens after conception but prevents the embryo from attaching to the uterus wall (or something like that)

smeg,

That’s the normal contraceptive pill that you’d take regularly, the “morning after pill” is for when you’ve realised that you forgot to use any contraception and need to stop that embryo before it grows any more!

smeg,

Interesting, guess I missed that bit back in sex ed

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,

That means your fans are good then!

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,

The way it’s twisting I’d assume it’s a constrictor so probably not venomous. I’m no snakologist though.

smeg,

Ducks don’t honk, they quack, this is completely wrong! Art is fine.

smeg,

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

smeg,

What does that caption even mean?

smeg,

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

smeg,

Hail Santa!

smeg,

This community isn’t called lemmyqualitypost now is it?

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