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US lawmakers vote 50-0 to force sale of TikTok despite angry calls from users in c/technology@lemmy.world

[–] spacecowboy@sh.itjust.works 0 points 8 months ago

Cool dude. Well you said your account is anonymous, and it isn’t. Words mean things.

US lawmakers vote 50-0 to force sale of TikTok despite angry calls from users in c/technology@lemmy.world

[–] spacecowboy@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 months ago (2 children)

No it isn’t.

When you download the app you let them have the following information/data about you:

Purchases, location, contacts, search history, identifiers (!!), diagnostics, financial info, contact info, user content, browsing history, and usage data.

Please tell us how any of that is “anonymous”.

Ubicloud wants to build an open source alternative to AWS | TechCrunch in c/technology@lemmy.world

[–] spacecowboy@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 months ago

Please yes.

EA has suddenly and permanently changed the prices for Command and Conquer (decreased prices, close to historic lows) in c/games@sh.itjust.works

[–] spacecowboy@sh.itjust.works 3 points 8 months ago

They’ve shown us who they are. They do not change.

Dragon Age: Dreadwolf is expected to release "later this year", says industry insider in c/games@sh.itjust.works

[–] spacecowboy@sh.itjust.works 11 points 8 months ago (2 children)

BioWare has EA’s grubby fat fingers all up inside of it so I ain’t holding my breath. And I say that as someone who has a relative working for BioWare.

The Great Monkey Tagging Army: How Fake Internet Points Can Save Us All! in c/fediverse@lemmy.world

[–] spacecowboy@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I thought you were done participating/contributing to the Lemmy side of things?

The Great Monkey Tagging Army: How Fake Internet Points Can Save Us All! in c/fediverse@lemmy.world

[–] spacecowboy@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 months ago

Holy fuck buddy, you need to log off and go outside.

1 in 5 new car sales globally were EVs in 2023, and that's curbed oil demand – IEA in c/technology@lemmy.world

[–] spacecowboy@sh.itjust.works 31 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Right? So many people don’t understand the phrase “perfect is the enemy of good”.

These Companies Have a Plan to Kill Apps in c/technology@lemmy.world

[–] spacecowboy@sh.itjust.works 9 points 8 months ago

Unfortunately, the lowest common denominator is becoming more and more common.

What's your take on private trackers? in c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

[–] spacecowboy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Stremio is bad?

Honda built a powered chair to zoom around theme parks while wearing an AR headset. in c/technology@lemmy.world

[–] spacecowboy@sh.itjust.works 9 points 8 months ago

This future is lame.

Diablo 4’s Hellish Microtransactions Go From Bad to Worse With $65 Horse Bundle That Costs More Than the Game Itself in c/games@sh.itjust.works

[–] spacecowboy@sh.itjust.works 20 points 9 months ago (4 children)

There IS a way to get this out of games, but it won’t happen. People would actually need to NOT purchase things from companies that display this behaviour, the games included.