skisnow

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[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 45 points 4 days ago (1 children)

The starkest signal of the MAGAfication of Silicon Valley isn't this fairly par-for-the-course spyware tech, but their public response.

A short couple of years ago they would have downplayed the whole thing and peppered a few apologies in, but these days the standard response is attack, attack, attack. Call the journalist a liar, call the journal failing, no need for evidence on either, just as long as you keep attacking.

[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

You can get on a horse, or horse-drawn carriage, completely wasted drunk out of your mind, or high, or just too tired to drive. Tell horse “home” and he will go to the stable he came from, dragging you with it all the way.

Horses are statistically more dangerous than motorcycles (or skiing). I can't find any statistics on drunk riding because most horse owners aren't stupid enough to try it, but it seems very likely that riding a horse drunk is way more dangerous than driving drunk.

[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 week ago

As soon as I saw "Florida" I thought, what's their real angle?

If the settlement takes the form of a new data center being opened in Florida, please quote this post in the comments section of the news article announcing it.

[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 54 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm not sure what you think an "example" would look like. It's not taking a photo of you, it's measuring what's distinctive about the way you personally mess up radio signals and how it differs from how other people mess them up. Internally it's just a ton of numbers.

[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 weeks ago

This guy is the kind of cartoon villain that gets left out of the newer "dark" iterations of a franchise for being too fucking ridiculous

[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 weeks ago

Blit, nobody says "Bet" any more, get with it frizzo

[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 18 points 3 weeks ago

The important thing that often gets missed in stories like this, is that this apparently tiny harmless thing is actually a big deal, because it's the canary in the coalmine that alerts you to how shoddy the entire structure is.

[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 45 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

This is an extremely high quality list for spear-phishers, because it's all gullible morons with highly visible levers.

[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 4 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Call me sexist but that guy has really girly handwriting

[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I mean ok, she's definitely an awful woman and shouldn't be doing this job, but judging an individual for their membership of a group that represents some statistical shift from the median is as close to textbook bigotry as you can get. You wouldn't tolerate someone suggesting that women shouldn't be allowed physical jobs because they're statistically weaker.

[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 31 points 1 month ago (6 children)

It's infuriating how successful the oil companies have been at turning solar vs oil into a fucking culture war.

[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 24 points 1 month ago (3 children)

There's only about eight billion humans in existence. 3.56B daily active users is as close to saturated as you can get.

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