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smeg,

I looked up what hotrail meant and I still don’t get it

smeg, (edited )

They fuck you up, your mum and dad.
They may not mean to, but they do.
They fill you with the faults they had And add some extra, just for you.

But they were fucked up in their turn By fools in old-style hats and coats,
Who half the time were soppy-stern And half at one another’s throats.

Man hands on misery to man. It deepens like a coastal shelf. Get out as early as you can, And don’t have any kids yourself.

This Be The Verse by Philip Larkin

smeg,

What’s a “photo enforcement camera”? Speed camera? CCTV? Detects you then just drops on your head?

smeg,

They recently did an update on mobile which basically treats playlists as tags, in that you press the + button and you can easily add and remove songs from multiple playlists with a single click. I’m probably not describing it that well, but it’s one of the best features they’ve added in years!

smeg,

There are a couple, but I’m spoiled for choice with great games so the convenience of being able to run something on my Steam Deck means that the few that don’t run just drop to the bottom of the backlog. Proton is really a brilliant feat of engineering.

smeg,

This community isn’t called LemmySeriousDiscussionPost

smeg,

Pretty sure this copypasta was used on reddit too!

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,

Hail Santa!

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,

What does that caption even mean?

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,

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,

I feel those captions are the wrong way round

smeg,

Plenty of services still unfortunately rely on SMS for 2FA, so we’ll still need a client to receive them. Doesn’t really need to be able to send them though, I don’t think any human has sent an SMS message deliberately for about 12 years!

smeg,

Trig is basically the study of a wiggly line and how it turns out to be useful everywhere

smeg,

Oh I didn’t even see that someone had blurred “pussy”, at least that could be explained by OP being a child and wanting to share this in the family group chat. I meant the fact that the original creator used “fck”*, like anyone who doesn’t have to deal with broadcasting regulations would ever have a reason to pointlessly censor themselves.

smeg,

It is true though, developers use macs because they give you a useful unixy environment but Apple do try to keep that hidden because the people they actually market the devices to are the casual users. I find myself constantly fighting with macOS because it has decided that things must be done The Apple Way and I have to go to the forums to find out where they’re hiding the features. Obviously I’m not going to use Windows for a dev environment (I’m not a masochist), but it’s a shame that most companies can’t be bothered supporting a Linux desktop environment.

smeg,

There’s definitely a disconnect between hardware and software. I quite like the hardware and like you say it’s definitely appropriate for the serious user. The OS that updates, changes my settings, and shouts about new emoji reaction features? Not so much!

smeg,

That’s not a prism, it’s a tetrahedron, the most triangular of the solids!

smeg,

I think you’ve double-posted

smeg,

If I recall correctly from the last time I saw this posted, the problem with projects like this that they rely heavily on very small teams making sure that every security update gets included from upstream, often not a simple task. Privacy from Microsoft is important but if you’re running an insecure OS then you may as well not have privacy from anyone.

smeg,

I don’t think the author is trying to be biased, but if you actually work on the code of one browser then you will (consciously or otherwise) write tests that focus on the same issues you consider when developing it.

Also I doubt Brave would let one of their employees run a website that didn’t paint it in a good light!

smeg,

That’s a pretty short-sighted read on the UK. We have serious issues with the Tories trying to undermine encryption, but the fact that there are a lot of 30-year-old non-networked CCTV cameras attached to businesses and residences is not really an issue.

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