smeggysmeg

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by smeggysmeg 5mo ago
Until we find out otherwise. There have been multiple organ harvesting scandals lately. Informed consent has become a marketing concept, no longer a reality.
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by smeggysmeg 5mo ago
The leaders who mandate AI have no understanding on how to actually use it for productivity. They use it like a Magic 8-Ball to confirm whatever ignorance they have and believe the hype that it can do anything.
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by smeggysmeg 5mo ago
Only to the extent you use Micro-G, and Micro-G mitigates a large portion of the Google data harvesting. The built in App Lounge does not require a Google login to pull downloads from the Play Store, so it's possible to remain entirely
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by smeggysmeg 5mo ago
I moved to a Fairphone 6 with /e/OS a few weeks ago. I can do everything I need to, everything I want to, and with more control over my digital footprint and what data is being collected about me. I've completely moved off Go
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by smeggysmeg 5mo ago
Employees maybe are too collaborative? And management thinks dividing and conquering will give them an even bigger hand.
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by smeggysmeg 5mo ago
This is it, exactly. In any org, current management only cares about you working on their ideas. If they thought up the project, then they get the credit for it. Customer ideas, and old ones at that, don't get leaders credit. Basicall
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by smeggysmeg 6mo ago
The most successful businesses are often the most harmful forces in society. There's a lesson there.
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by smeggysmeg 6mo ago
Operates illegal business. Claims to be a victim of company protecting itself from the customer's illegal business.
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by smeggysmeg 6mo ago
It can fail 100 times and it won't count, and the one time this surveillance legislation passes it will become law. Thanks EU, nice show of democracy.
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by smeggysmeg 7mo ago
* enable developer options * confirm that you are not tricked * restart phone and re-authenticate * wait one day * confirm with biometrics that you know what you are doing * decide if you only want unrestricted installs for 1 week or foreve
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by smeggysmeg 7mo ago
Rational market theory is dead. Markets are not rational and do not respond to situations in rational fashions like you suggest. People operate on hype, fear, and insider trading.
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by smeggysmeg 7mo ago
Yes, I want to see real, serious punishment for corporate crimes, on par with the life disruption experienced by people who see a jail sentence. It's almost always brutal - major income disruption, job loss, etc. If it's a small f
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by smeggysmeg 1y ago
I desperately wish Stirling wasn't a webapp. Having to setup and launch a web server and browser to edit a PDF on my computer seems insane. We skipped the "foss, local app" stage, where Adobe dominates, and jumped straight to
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by smeggysmeg 2y ago
I've seen this tarpit recommended for this purpose. it creates endless nests of directories and endless garbage content, as the site is being crawled. The bot can spend hours on it. https://zadzmo.org/code/nepenthe
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by smeggysmeg 2y ago
ActivityPub is exactly that. Mastodon, Pleroma, Pixelfed, etc. What you're asking for exists.
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by smeggysmeg 2y ago
Eliminate the 'light truck' exception to CAFE. Same standards should apply to truck bodies, retroactively to when CAFE began.
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by smeggysmeg 3y ago
It sounds like they're telling us their product has no value. If AI can reliably perform language translation, then why would anyone bother learning a language? Checkmate, Duolingo.
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by smeggysmeg 7y ago
I'm a long-time Google Fi customer and moderate another community about Google Fi. Some of the criticism about Google not being as customer focused is valid, but the two biggest problems with Google Fi are: * The dependence on rigid pr