circuitfarmer

circuitfarmer , 2 months ago to technology in So much for free speech on X; Musk confirms new users must soon pay to post

When will people stop supporting this clown?

Remember when some people were like “well, I don’t support him, but I’ve had this Twitter account forever, so I’m not leaving.” This is what happens. Things just get worse until you gain plausible deniability for continuing to support the bullshit.

circuitfarmer , 2 months ago to technology in ISPs can charge extra for fast gaming under FCC’s Internet rules, critics say

Who saw this coming???

/s

circuitfarmer , 2 months ago to youshouldknow in YSK : Dark patterns among large companies are becoming more mainstream

But at a certain point, it’s still a cop out. And part of the trick. If you drown anyone in enough bullshit, you can’t expect it to all get called out – but that doesn’t mean it’s not all bullshit. It is divide and conquer in another form.

circuitfarmer , 2 months ago to mildlyinfuriating in Live Nation/Ticket Master won't give you your tickets unless you install their app

You also can’t do shit with their service, app and web, if you’re on a VPN. It just refuses. Even – and this may be illegal – unsubscribing from their emails.

circuitfarmer , 3 months ago to technology in Users ditch Glassdoor, stunned by site adding real names without consent

This is the way

circuitfarmer , 3 months ago to technology in Microsoft defends barging in on Chrome with pop-up ads pushing Bing, GPT-4

This result is predictable for a lot of different things that started as products and seem to be ending up as services.

Microsoft wants Windows to be a subscription service with the associated perks to the company (namely, targeted ads, and also extreme control over anything the system does, including this ad scheme), and so an increased number of people seek a more traditional OS.

The movie industry pushes streaming down everyone’s throat as a highly fragmented market where media ownership no longer exists; thus an increased number of people start to return to physical media.

Car companies push to paywall features of their cars behind subscription services. An increased number of people seek used cars which have no such paywalls.

The patterns are clear, in my view, but the C-suite is always driven by a naïve lust for ever-increasing profit.

circuitfarmer , 3 months ago to games in Star Wars: Battlefront Classic Collection Launch Is a Disaster - IGN

And not to mention: the original versions actually run fine to this day. Pure money grab and they made the product(s) worse to do it.

circuitfarmer , 3 months ago to workreform in Amazon union president knocks Biden: ‘No cavalry coming’ for American workers

Also why in the hell is a giant corporation like Amazon, with pockets do deep they exceed the GDP of many countries, getting a loan from the federal government. Make it make sense.

circuitfarmer , 3 months ago to technology in What Do People Think of Apple's Vision Pro Headsets?

Meh.

It’s not designed for or good for VR gaming. As an AR device, I find it a bit silly since I can just look at a real screen. It would be a novelty at $100, but at the price Apple wants I kind of think of it like a joke.

circuitfarmer , 3 months ago to techsupport in Will installing windows on a separate drive break my current linux install?

I’d even suggest unplugging the Linux drive entirely. Let Windows install as if it is on the only drive. When complete, plug everything back in and set up your boot order accordingly. Manually add the Windows drive to your Linux bootloader.

circuitfarmer , 3 months ago to world in Pornhub and other adult sites sue EU over landmark digital content law

The crypto involved can be furnished such that nothing but the issuing authority and the fact “18+” gets transmitted, no name, no id number, no nothing.

This is a best-case-scenario implementation. I just think it is extremely likely that any approach actually implemented would not have the privacy of the user in mind.

circuitfarmer , 3 months ago to aboringdystopia in American election season

I’ve had 2-3 a day for the last few weeks.

circuitfarmer , 3 months ago to world in Pornhub and other adult sites sue EU over landmark digital content law

The infrastructure to support such things are naturally anti-privacy. Ultimately it requires someone to simply ignore other info that would otherwise be accessible. There could be a unique governing body for that part which is chartered for only sharing appropriate info, but even then, it’s an ask for people to trust that body and that it wouldn’t leak.

circuitfarmer , 3 months ago to aboringdystopia in American election season

Do you get as many filtered to spam? I think a lot of it comes down to phone number leaks, not spam filtering (and also spam filtering on SMS is dicey, because a false positive can be very costly).

circuitfarmer , 3 months ago to news in At least 5 killed after air dropped aid falls on them in Gaza | CNN

I suppose dropping humanitarian aid is kind of like dropping bombs without the boomy bits, so I can definitely believe it. The bigger issue is that the only effective way to get aid in is air dropping. If a certain country would be a little more sensible, the logistics could be easier.