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[–] phx@lemmy.ca 1 points 9 months ago

That's becoming increasingly more difficult though. Search engines (especially Google) have their top results polluted with links back to Amazon or sketchy sites, reviews etc

The actual products in Amazon - and now pretty much everyone with an online store - heavily mixed with 3rd-party Chinesium products with names generated by room full of cats and keyboards, and then further obfuscated by what their algorithm actually wants you to see, often to the point where it completely disregards your actual search terms.

It's not mindlessly clicking. Your could literally spend hours trying to find the thing you need but only seeing the thing they want to sell you.

[–] phx@lemmy.ca 37 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (6 children)

The funny (in an "wtf" not "haha" sense) thing is, individuals such as security researchers have been charged under digital trespassing laws for stuff like accessing publicly available ststems and changing a number in the URL in order to get access to data that normally wouldn't, even after doing responsible disclosure.

Meanwhile, companies completely ignore the standard mentions to say "you are not allowed to scape this data" and then use OUR content/data to build up THEIR datasets, including AI etc.

That's not a "violation of a social contract" in my book, that's violating the terms of service for the site and essentially infringement on copyright etc.

No consequences for them though. Shit is fucked.

[–] phx@lemmy.ca 1 points 9 months ago

The best lie is the one that contains grains of truth

[–] phx@lemmy.ca 11 points 9 months ago

"pray we don't alter the deal further?"

[–] phx@lemmy.ca 1 points 9 months ago

Yup. Literally just set up a VM with that one last night to test out since a bunch here have recommended it

[–] phx@lemmy.ca 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I'll keep that in mind next time I've got relative with a Windows machine they need help on. Thanks

[–] phx@lemmy.ca 1 points 9 months ago

Linux Desktop, Android Phone, sometimes Windows if I'm hitting something from work etc

[–] phx@lemmy.ca 98 points 9 months ago (18 children)

Fun thing, if you don't sort by "Prime" you'll often find that there's another one of the exact item you're looking for - without Prime - but actually for a lower price. The Prime isn't actually free shipping, it's just baked into the price

[–] phx@lemmy.ca 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Does federation involve some sort of key exchange? If not, would that mean that if one loses control of a domain somebody could spin up a new Lemmy instance to spoof the old one and potentially harvest data?

[–] phx@lemmy.ca 1 points 9 months ago (2 children)

So virt-manager binary run locally but connecting to the remote host. I've done that before on Linux but haven't seen a binary/client available for other OS's

[–] phx@lemmy.ca 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Yup

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/solve-pc-problems-remotely-with-remote-assistance-and-easy-connect-cf384ff4-6269-d86e-bcfe-92d72ed55922

It even works most of the time. No self-hosted server though. AFAIK it connects via an MS host as the intermediary.

[–] phx@lemmy.ca 1 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Is that the same as Windows Remote Assistance? I'm guessing just a rename

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