Corgana @ Corgana @startrek.website

/r/StarTrek founder and primary steward from 2008-2021

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Jesus wept

This might actually be my favorite scene in DS9, and that's saying something because DS9 has a lot of good scenes.

Future historians will endlessly debate our decision not to kill Risa when we had the chance.

Ah nice, I think I missed that line when I watched it the first time.

Cory Doctorow is uniquely able to cut straight to the heart of the matter. He is the same person who coined the term "enshittification" last year.

How far do they have to stretch it before they get Worf's purple space bazooka from Insurrection?

And given Season 3 of Picard, it might even be Data, with his new hybrid with-bits-of-Lore personality.

Goddammit man, I had finally convinced myself I hated the fan service in PIC S3 why are you doing this to me??

I'm wondering if she even knows what Soong-type androids are, since they would have appeared after her time.

That didn't even cross my mind while watching. Most of the crew would have no idea who Picard was either which is kinda funny.

I’m more curious why they didn’t just hook up Fred’s head and turn him back on.

Same but holding out hope they still do this at some point!

They use "proxigram" which has also never worked for me.

No. Clicking "ask app not to track" prevents apps from collecting your data. It does not prevent Apple from collecting that same data, which they do.

I heard Neeva was amazing too, but it ultimately couldn't find enough people willing to pay for a search engine.

Libredirect is great, but it's usefulness is waning. The frontends for Twitter and Instagram no longer work which hurt the usefulness. The frontend for TikTok is great when it works, which is only about half the time.

Can you provide any examples of ads someone (maybe you?) received directly due to Apple’s policies and behavior? Totally serious question.

If you use an iPhone and have app tracking transparency enabled then any targeted ads you're seeing are almost certainly coming from data that Apple has collected from you.

A few years back Apple made a big change to iOS that prevents user data from being sold to data brokers and ran a big ad campaign about how they are the good "privacy option". But the reason they made the change was not to protect user privacy, but because Apple wanted the money that Facebook was getting from iPhone users. The same data is still being collected and sold, just by Apple now instead of Facebook. That was the crux of Facebook's big lawsuit against Apple accusing them of anti-competitive practices.

Well said, private companies are incentivized to make their customers happy. Corporations are incentivized to make their shareholders happy. Sometimes those goals align, but they are not the same.

Apple is one of the best Hardware companies out there for not selling your data.

Don't believe their ads, they are actually one of the worst!

But the threat of Apple turning on its customers isn't limited to China. While the company has been unwilling to spy on its users on behalf of the US government, it's proven more than willing to compromise its worldwide users' privacy to pad its own profits. Remember when Apple let its users opt out of Facebook surveillance with one click? At the very same time, Apple was spinning up its own commercial surveillance program, spying on Ios customers, gathering the very same data as Facebook, and for the very same purpose: to target ads. When it came to its own surveillance, Apple completely ignored its customers' explicit refusal to consent to spying, spied on them anyway, and lied about it:

I didn't know that, my google-fu turned up nothing do you have a link with more info?

ya know seems odd that a phone by such a data hungry company, can be made into exactly the opposite.

It shouldn't feel odd, because we should have control over the hardware we buy, yet here we are.

I am a fake fan and had to look this one up:

It's the one where Uhura is hearing voices and everyone thinks it's Deuterium poisoning. I want to commend OP's great OC and apologize for my transgression explaining the joke.