SulaymanF

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[–] SulaymanF@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That’s not the same as spying. Apple famously doesn’t hand over user data to ad companies.

[–] SulaymanF@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

There previously were scams that invoked Bill Gates’ name, but I guess crypto made it much easier, especially since anyone can watch Musk gush on about crypto on YouTube, thus validating the ideas for the gullible.

[–] SulaymanF@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Isn’t that the promise of App Clips? iOS and Android both allow you to run a mini app temporarily for shopping and not cluttering your system.

[–] SulaymanF@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

The internet always moves on; the most popular bulletin boards and usenet groups and web forums eventually fell and people moved away. Even Digg had a powerful following and heavy user traffic and due to Reddit style changes everyone left too. Reddit just as likely.

[–] SulaymanF@lemmy.world 50 points 2 months ago (2 children)

This isn’t rare and not altogether a bad idea.

My university had a problem of students bringing their own WiFi routers before the dorms had WiFi. Students would set them up incorrectly and cause a series of problems with colliding DHCP servers and interference and it would cause outages for nearby wired students.

A lot of IT departments locked the network down for these reasons.

[–] SulaymanF@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

That’s what I assumed too but it appears to be a package tracking website

[–] SulaymanF@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Unroll.me was a service that would scan your email and clean up your inbox. The New York Times reported that the company was gathering sales receipts emails, anonymizing them, and selling them to rival companies; for example Uber paid them to hand over all the sales receipts they could on Lyft rides in people’s mailboxes. The bad press made them eventually sell the company to Slice, mainly for the email archives they amassed.

[–] SulaymanF@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Good. Let’s hope the public moves to mastodon.

[–] SulaymanF@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Actually yes it had that effect. Without that immunity, the market would have felt the pressure and invested more into research into better gun locks etc. The immunity laws took away that incentive. Economists have discussed this issue at length about how the gun market is different than other markets due to this.

[–] SulaymanF@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

According to this article, the gun likely fired when dropped.

[–] SulaymanF@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Congress gave gun manufacturers immunity, so they don’t have to concern themselves with safety mechanisms or quality.

[–] SulaymanF@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Is that what I said? No. Of course it can be and is tracked. But I’m not going to Hand over my biometrics and make it easier for them.

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