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Is it unethical to troll arrogant people?

I’ve been on a mini quest to try and get my Twitter account banned without doing anything strictly against the ToS and my first idea was to start messing with people who say something completely untrue, then refuse to back down under any circumstances. But that got me thinking, is it okay? I’m not outright insulting/cyber...

sneezy ,

Though i agree it could be fun at first, conspiracies are legit dangerous. People are so desperate for meaning, 17% of Americans believe the government is lead by a kabaal of satanic lizard people eating babies and shit like that.
My mom is deep into the rabbit hole of nonsense, and it genuinely consumes her. Nearly all her friends abandoned her, she almost lost her job, and that’s only reinforcing these convictions. If something like January 6th was happening in my country, I bet you, she’d be there. The time conspiracies were harmless fun are gone. They ruin people’s lives.

You can't uninstall this software without being forced to participate in their survey (lemmy.world)

I initially only installed “Comodo Firewall” but for some reason they also installed a “Comodo Dragon Browser”, which I did not consent to. I always choose the “advanced” installation to uncheck bloatware, but in this case there was none and when you try to uninstall the browser, they force you to participate in...

sneezy ,

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U.S. to decide soon on GM's request to deploy cars without steering wheels (www.autoblog.com)

U.S. to decide soon on GM’s request to deploy cars without steering wheels::U.S. regulators will soon decide on a petition filed by General Motors’ Cruise self-driving technology unit seeking permission to deploy up to 2,500 self-driving vehicles annually without human controls, a top auto safety official said on Wednesday.

sneezy ,

That’s very interesting, actually. Because manufacturers of self-driving cars say they’re only drive-assisted, not autonomous. To dodge liability for their cars causing accidents. If the car is without a steering wheel and therefore fully autonomous, and the car runs somebody over, is the car gonna go to jail?

sneezy ,

Not quite true. I have a cheapo Doogee and there is 0 bloat. Super happy with the little brick.

Depends on company. I know from experience Samsung and Xiaomi are obnoxious with ads and unwanted software so I just avoid their stuff.

sneezy ,

Remember that consumers expect certain things from smartphones nowadays, which will mean that OEMs can’t just go back to the old way of doing things. An IP68 rating would be very difficult to obtain while still offering a premium-feeling device with an easily replaceable battery, for example. These are hurdles OEMs will need to get over to be in compliance.

this is straight-up BS. there were many phones with ip68 and user-replacable batteries back when sealing the battery in a phone was frowned upon. not all but many.

sneezy ,

Has anyone else always had a spare phone battery in the pocket to swap on the go?

Imagine you could just do that.

sneezy ,

Gotta say, the website works great on phone too. No reason to get an app

sneezy ,

install … a website? is that a thing?

sneezy ,

interesting. But that seems to rely on Chrome, which I’ve removed. I’m using Duckduckgo as main browser instead. So I just fireproof the login, bookmark and I’m good. Thanks for the explanation, though.

edit: there seems to be a sandboxed webapps browser on f-droid

sneezy ,

Lemm.ee is omnipresent

sneezy ,

Time sure flies when you’re having fun!

sneezy ,

Did the admin say anything or just pulled the plug and vanished?

sneezy ,

My favourite is “you only need better lock than your neighbour”

sneezy ,

Note that only works if the person argues in good faith. If they’re not, you’re just wasting your time.

sneezy ,

Note that beehaw defederated from lemmy.world and shitjustworks. Here’s a post talking about it.
lemmy.world/post/149743

sneezy ,

Well, it’s basically an extension to your insta account. So I imagine when you sign up, it sends requests to others you know to make it seem like everybody uses it.

sneezy ,

I do over all agree with you. Not sure about the non-profit, though. That seems like something for later when the dust settles.
However, as we all know - power corrupts.
Some form of governing body(ies) is probably necessary to keep the lemmyverse from falling apart by forces inside and outside. Right now the fediverse seems to be pretty much free-for-all. If there was to be a governing structure, it would need a lot of thought and careful consideration in regards to its shape, size and strength.
It is actually exciting to see and participate in how things develop.

sneezy ,

I couldn’t say no to that

sneezy , (edited )

That already happened. For example, we have mozilla !firefox

edit: I think it’s a mistake to throw mozilla into in the same bag with the other corpos. The whole truth is a bit more complicated than makes money = bad. In this case I’m happy to take the L

sneezy ,

The mastodon app on f-droid is marked as “promotes anti-features” with a description “This app promotes or depends entirely on a non-free network service” and I wonder why that would be, since there’s also Tusky, Fedilab, Husky, and some others, none of which have a warning like that.

sneezy ,

Aaaah, that makes sense.

sneezy ,

it’s version 1.2.3

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