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sab , 9 months ago to technology in Google antitrust trial: Tech giant denies abusing power to gain monopoly - BBC News

I don’t know what you’re talking about. But seeing as Apple won’t even allow other rendering engines on iphones, I doubt Google is bullying them into anything.

sab , 9 months ago to technology in The Batshit Crazy Story Of The Day Elon Musk Decided To Personally Rip Servers Out Of A Sacramento Data Center

Don’t get me wrong, I don’t think it’s clickbait, but personally I’m not that interested in a retelling of how he started gutting twitter shortly after he bought it last year. Maybe it’s not this article per se, just the straw of musk spam that broke the camels back.

sab , 9 months ago to technology in The Batshit Crazy Story Of The Day Elon Musk Decided To Personally Rip Servers Out Of A Sacramento Data Center

Honestly, outrage-bait / circlejerk articles like these is why I stopped using twitter and reddit to begin with. Hur dur, Elon bad, upvotes please. I don’t disagree - I just don’t want to see this kind of low-effort posts, which OP seems to excel at. Time for a mute.

sab , 9 months ago to technology in Google antitrust trial: Tech giant denies abusing power to gain monopoly - BBC News

That’s not on Google though, that’s on the makers of those websites for not wanting to test and support other browsers. Still shitty behaviour, but not googles shitty behaviour.

sab , 9 months ago to technology in Apple Announces iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus With USB-C Port, Dynamic Island, Frosted Glass Design

On the other hand: nothing looks as cheap as a shattered glass back, or having to use a cover because the default surface is too slippery for 1hand use.

sab , 9 months ago to technology in Twitter (X) loses over 30% of users in two months!

I apologise if I have offended you or made you doubt your worldview.

sab , 9 months ago to technology in Twitter (X) loses over 30% of users in two months!

Funny when the 1 month old account remarks that to the 9 month old account.

Hate to break it to you bub: the only places where the majority of people do not think cryptocurrencies are a scam, are crypto hangouts, and places where they haven’t heard about cryptos at all.

sab , 9 months ago to cat in she's helping me with my work

Kitty is just rewarding you with petting break for using proper design patterns in your code!

sab , 9 months ago to technology in Twitter (X) loses over 30% of users in two months!

Very likely, yes. I guess it also helps to have quite a broad definition of what being a nazi means.

sab , 9 months ago to technology in NFL 'Sunday Ticket' expected to have major delays on YouTube TV.

Is anything that happens on YouTube considered technology now?

sab , 9 months ago to technology in More than $35 million has been stolen from over 150 victims since December — ‘nearly every victim’ was a LastPass user

A NAS is a home storage server, like Synology that you can use to store images, videos and backups, etc on so you can access them from any computer or device in your home. With a couple of clicks, they can easily run applications like Syncthing or Resilio Sync, which are kinda like Dropbox, except you don’t have to pay Dropbox, you’ll just be storing the files on your own service.

If that’s too much to handle, you can still just store your Keepass file in Dropbox, so that it’s available on all your devices. But in the end you’ll still be storing your personal data on someone else’s harddisk.

So in short, is at easy as using a prefab service? No, you’ll have to invest some time, money, and knowledge yourself. But in the end, your data is not gathered in silo together with countless other users, which makes it a lot less attractive for hackers to try and steal it.

sab , 9 months ago to technology in Meta uses your Facebook data for AI training, but opting out is a "review" game

Yeah, it’s hilarious :( I have no idea how that’s legal under GDPR. So that’s why I’m part of the small group of WhatsApp-resisting signal users in my country.

sab , 9 months ago to technology in Meta uses your Facebook data for AI training, but opting out is a "review" game

saying that if I don’t create an account then they will do it for me

I would report the hell out of them, both to Facebook and HR. That’s literally the definition of identity theft.

Although the point is kind of moot - because of all the people who know you, that do willingly share their everything (including their phone contacts, photos etc), Facebook already has a You-shaped hole, even if you don’t have an account.

So when I got pressured into creating a Facebook account (not as badly as you were though), I was so creeped out by the amount of data they already had on me, I immediately deleted my account. It felt like being invited into someone’s home for the first time and seeing a stalker shrine dedicated to yourself.

“it’s okay, I do this with everyone.”

No, it really is not.

sab , 9 months ago to technology in More than $35 million has been stolen from over 150 victims since December — ‘nearly every victim’ was a LastPass user

…so far.

For those that don’t mind self-hosting, which can be as easy as just running syncthing or resilio sync on your NAS, I can really recommend keepass.

sab , 9 months ago to technology in X plans to collect biometric information, job, education history for safety, security, and identification purposes.

No censorship / unable to delete content? What happens when somebody decides to post illegal content like CP? I know that’s an easy target, but either it has a way to deal with that, or it’s going to attract a very scary crowd, at least as a subset.