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I remember when I used to be able to find dedicated message boards for bands that I liked. Now I’m lucky if there’s a subreddit where it’s just a bunch of people submitting poorly drawn fan art of the band.
I remember when I used to be able to find dedicated message boards for bands that I liked. Now I’m lucky if there’s a subreddit where it’s just a bunch of people submitting poorly drawn fan art of the band.
Another day, another moment of being thankful for my dedicated .mp3 player.
This won’t affect me - seeing as I have no use for Instagram - but I do worry that some actual DECENT sites will adopt this in the near future.
The full article is well worth reading. It’s good to find a lucid, logical deconstruction of why, precisely, this will be a complete disaster.
We know this what the real purpose of this is, it seems like they’re going to sell it as a necessary tool for people who are too stupid to use a basic search function? Per The Verge:
“Microsoft’s launching Recall for Copilot Plus PCs, a new Windows 11 tool that keeps track of everything you see and do on your computer and, in return, gives you the ability to search and retrieve anything you’ve done on the device.”
Oh, and apparently “Microsoft is promising users that the Recall index remains local and private on-device.” Something something Brooklyn Bridge…
c/fuckcars
Further justifying my commitment to avoiding Prime at all costs.
Long live Garry Chess.
My boomer parents will die on the hill that it sounds “wrong” to use “they” to refer to a singular entity. And whenever they bring that up, I always remind them that the word “they” has been used in that way for AGES.
Example: “Whose umbrella is this? Did they already leave?”
It doesn’t seem to make a difference.
I’ll keep using Windows as long as programs like Open Shell and OSSU are able to deal with the bullshit. But if there comes a day when they no longer work…well, Linux awaits.
Don’t blame it on COVID. Blame it on people being massive idiots.
Good. Fuck Twitter.
Privacy isn’t dead, but it will be soon because those of us who seriously care about it are the 0.001%.
This is basically “dog bites man” territory at this point.
The “Blocked since install” stat on uBlockOrigin is always an eye-opener.
Yes, this exactly! I still cannot fathom how Discord took off. It offers literally no advantages over forums, and introduces some massive disadvantages.
A lot of it is familiarity. I begged my parents to cancel Netflix, especially since they complain about the programming (or lack thereof); I pointed out that they could try another streaming service for a month, and then if they really hated it, then they could just go back to Netflix. But they wouldn’t even entertain the possibility. They’re afraid of change.
And Netflix is making bank on that.
Absolutely horrifying, but not surprising. This kind of shit is exactly what we were worried about when facial recognition tech started to take off.
Good Girl Millionaire
Edit: Thank you, kind stranger!