The isn't snark. The answer is simply greed. The rich want to be richer. They want it all. The mentality is, "I don't care about anyone else, I want it all."

Edit: removed a redundant sentence

:shocked pikachu:

Translation:

“Fuck you for not replacing your perfectly fine and still working 10 year old machine and making our line go up more. We’re gonna do our best to brick it because we want all of your money.”

Fuck capitalism. I will (and have been) doing my absolute to avoid buying any kind of physical device that requires an app to function

Privacy. That’s iPhone.

Unless the government says otherwise. Because really we don’t give a fuck about you or your privacy.

If you’re just doing a vanilla Linux install, ext4 is the way to go.

I’m familiar with a multibillion dollar international corporation that uses an excel spreadsheet to communicate between divisions.

Not email or slack or teams or the telephone. An excel spreadsheet.

The left column is where one division enters a message, and the right column is where the other division responds. For a new message, you start a new row. The file lives on a network drive.

If only. It’d be a real April fool’s if Canonical announced they were abandoning snap and throwing their supory behind flatpak.

For me, it was A Quiet Place. I found it incredibly dumb and impossible to believe that nobody on the whole of the planet ever considered that these aliens with ultra incredible hearing weren't somehow vulnerable to noise? Just dumb as fuck, especially when you consider that sonic weapons already exist and are used, and sound is routinely used in torture/incarceration scenarios.

Based on how the article is written, it sounds like no one would have noticed if his (now ex) wife hadn’t ratted him out to her bosses.

Watching sports/sports fandom. I just dont give a fuck about sportsball in any way shape or form.

Fuck Mitch McConnell.

surprised pikachu

What’s frustratingly awful about this is that US Senators and Representatives become millionaires doing exactly this, and the SEC doesn’t even blink.

Did he break the law? Yes. Is the SEC a joke and the law used to punish and oppress the proletariat, also yes.

I have zero interest in having AI in my terminal. And needing an account to even use warp is a non starter for me.

Obviously not, but the behavior already shows that Meta/Threads isn’t interested in being a good fediverse citizen, and in doing so lends more credibility to the idea that they’re aiming to embrace, extend, and extinguish.

Fuck Target. It’s just another corpo that’s just as horrible as Walmart.

I’d LOVE to shop small businesses in my town. Guess what. There aren’t any. Our options are Walmart, some shitty Kroger derivative, your pick of something like six shitty Dollar stores, and Aldi.

Edit to add: Even if I did have some decent local/small businesses to shop, I likely couldn’t afford it because like the vast majority of people, I’m an underpaid, undervalued wage slave.

And that she uses Arch btw?

I’ve been opting out of the internet at large. It started a few years back just disconnecting from social media, but as AI has begun to pollute everything and enshittification ruins everything, I’m just kinda done with it all.

I’ve been enjoying Lemmy, and I’m hoping Lemmy doesn’t turn into an AI circle jerk.

As a result I’ve been building out my server with services I want to use that I control so I’m not trapped by enshittification or inundated with AI where I don’t want it.

With all that being said, I know AI is here to stay. My biggest problem with AI is these companies gleefully gobbling up our data, our art, our words, our creativity, using it to feed and train, and to make billions, while we get nothing. It would be one thing if all these generative models were open source and freely available for everyone to use and benefit from, but that’s not the case. I know there are open source models, but the big ones are all paywalled and in many ways being weaponized against us.

At some point I hope generative AI becomes a boon to society. Right now, I’m too cynical to believe it will. I feel like it’s just going to make things worse for the majority of people.

It’s because they’re already part of the oligarchy, so it’s okay. The rules/law only applies to us normies.

I LOATHE that fucking google sign in overlay.

That’s not going to go wrong at all.

I noped out as soon as I read that line.

I so look forward to seeing an ad when I pause a video to inspect whatever is on the screen at that moment.

It’s not specifically anti-ad, but the lemmy privacy community regularly discusses ad-blocking as it very much overlaps with privacy.

The stupid. It hurts.

Don’t worry. With SCOTUS overturning Chevron this won’t stick. /s (in case it’s not obvious)

FTC says water is wet.

Edit: in all seriousness, it’s good that the FTC is talking about this, and it’ll be even better if it does something to combat it.

Color me shocked that a meta product is sacrificing trust so the line continues to go up.

My first thought was, “here comes the subscription.”

Came here for the fuck spez. Was not disappointed.

That flag is simultaneously trash and 100x better than the current WI flag.

Could be because, iirc, Amazon is starting to move away from Android.

Not that this is good regardless, but I imagine this pertains to wordpress.com users, and not people/organizations using wordpress to host/develop their own websites on their own servers?

Not gonna happen. We’re fucked.

Yup. Was waiting for the shoe to drop. Fuckers.

Shit like this should be opt in by default. But no. Instead of respecting the users they count on ignorance, forgetfulness, and obfuscation for this kind of fuckery.

What they’re saying: “we promise to support your device for seven years! Isn’t that great!”

What they mean: “We promise to keep our spying/data gathering/ad serving updated to the latest spying/gathering/ad tech to extract as much data and money as we can.”

(I 100% didn’t read this article and am 100% taking the piss on these shitty companies spying on us and manipulating us)

God, I wish there was. If there is, I haven’t found it. And I’ve been looking

This is true, however, Firefox focus has a built in blocker that’s pretty good, and the Orion browser for iOS actually supports Firefox extensions (even though it’s built on top of safari), and is also pretty good. I run bothe Firefox focus and Orion with ublock on my iOS devices.

It’s not exactly desktop, but I use Voyager. It’s a web app. You can also self host it if you don’t want to use the developer instance (I’ve got mine running in docker for desktop use. I use the Voyager app for iOS)