In the video the guy stresses multiple times that it’s too large and heavy to use as a phone, so frames it as expensive, prestigious, and “rare” for yuppies.

All of those “features” are the opposite of what I would ever want in a device.

Can’t tell if fascist who wants to religiously indoctrinate their children in isolation, or has legitimate, sane issues.

You don’t have to be a millionaire to be “self made”. Tons of average joes consider themselves to be. The distinction is relevant.

“I will have you know I’m a self made man, just like my millionaire father and his millionaire father before him”

FTFY

Sorry for your loss, thank you for your service, my condolences, best wishes, etcetera.

Mental illness in its raw dog, rambling, least distilled form.

The most annoying part for me is the fact that none of them have the capability for annual recurring donations. It’s literally monthly or ad-hoc, which is fucking stupid and basically hands more fees to the banks.

Librepay/Forgejo had the best I’ve seen, which encouraged me to double my donation (to minimize fees) and said it’d remind me in 2 years.

Okay… Though I agree the system is run by criminals, I’m gonna continue protecting my data as best I can, and recommending everyone do the same, while you live in a magical fantasy land where we don’t live in capitalist plutocracies and the rule of law applies to everyone, equally!

This is the correct answer. I actually disabled LG’s version of it when I first heard about it. A few months later it had been reactivated in an update, so I just factory reset it and connected an old laptop.

You can’t trust anyone — corporation or government — to protect or respect your privacy. Ever. If it’s not open source and E2EE, assume that a criminal is going to view and process it for profit.

I would always just create 1 password and append a number and it’s special char, cycling from 1 to 0; like 1!, 2@, 3#. Never stayed at a place long enough to go higher than 7 or 8.

I never gave a fuck about doing this because it’s the companies fault for applying stupid policies. Whenever I’ve been allowed a password manager, they got real security instead of malicious compliance.

has also been working on an implant that would be able to euthanize Alzheimer patients unable to make their own care decisions, and told us the first one has been built. It will only be loaded with saline to test the timing technology used in the implant, we’re told.

Fuck yeah. Family members, nor the state, can be trusted to execute a demented persons wishes — wishes they were made while still of sound mind. I was already planning on building a suicide machine if I’m ever diagnosed (customised gas mask + nitrous oxide or nitrogen tank probably). Having autonomous, simple, well tested, painless options would prevent me having to waste my time on that.

The design files and software will probably be pirate-able within a couple of years.

Here’s NASA own source that is not sensationalist SEO-gaming dogshit.

Everyone wants a Her style personal assistant — as in one that is personal-context aware, can simplify, and generally enrich their lives (not for emotional support) — but if most people knew how unintelligent AI is, how spectacularly it fails, and how dangerous it is to integrate it into information systems and (especially) give it any ability to act … Literally nobody would want to give it access to all their data, or use it beyond an advisory role.

Edge is chromium, just enshittified by Microsoft instead of Google.

The beauty of late stage capitalism is you get the illusion of choice — a handful of options, and all of them involve selling your soul to the devil.

It was positioned well for the failure but I’m not a fan of the dramatic circling drone shot. It gives you no concept of size, scale or altitude of … anything. The static camera positions we get from spacex are way better.

A wooden spoon across the top of the pot prevents boilover, so why waste the oil?

It is critical that Australian consumers are able to rely on the accuracy of pricing and discount claims.

It’s almost like we as a society shouldn’t trust corporations to be honest, and should instead expect constant greed and ratfuckery, and opt for implementing continuous, real-time, transparent, and open data capture to mitigate these problems.

We already do this with energy regulators. Why don’t we do it for all big businesses? They can’t claim this to be expensive, because they already price everything digitally; it’d just be about enabling the regulator to view and capture it.

Except she probably wasn’t referring to identity theft; just how to handle dumb shits in management.

You ever heard the saying “like oil and water”? Oil doesn’t mix with water. It floats on the surface. Adding it just wastes 100% of the oil.