TechnoBabble @ TechnoBabble @lemm.ee

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I'm honestly surprised that people are so partisan, instead of saying "fuck them all, we want change!"

It's 2023 and people are rooting their entire identity based on their political party. It's madness.

For many people, Google controls the entire network stack from their ISP, router, OS, DNS, their browser, all the way down to the platform hosting the content they watch.

Google has captured such a wide part of the Internet that any changes they make will have at least a moderate effect on our lives. Even if we don't use any Google services.

The only thing that can stop them is probably the EU at this point. And I'm sure Google has a plan for that.

Where's the limit on acceptable surveillance on your own property?

Should the state be able to check for unlicensed structures by drone?

What about sending investigators into your backyard? Into your house?

Just because people break rules doesn't give the state the right to inspect their citizens any way they please.

NHTSA estimates that approximately 96 percent of model year 2013 passenger cars and light-duty vehicles were already equipped with EDR capability. The significance of this measure is in the specifics of what data it requires such devices to collect and its guidelines for how the data should be accessed. - Black Box 101: Understanding Event Data Recorders

Event Data Recorder - Supported Vehicle List

I will debate part of what the previous poster said, in that EDRs are technically optional, as there doesn't seem to be any US law that requires them.

But automakers benefit from the data they provide, so I'd expect just about every new car contains one.

We know for a fact Tesla, for example, uses Video Event Data Recorders, and they have near total access to any footage recorded by the vehicle at any time. That's one big reason I'd never buy one.

It's definitely been in their back pocket since the early days at Google.

Your markdown is showing.

As a corporation they are always going to be greedy, but calling them dumb is an extreme underestimation.

I get your analogy.

But are there situations where ABS is less effective than a standard braking system?

All Google domains are transferring to SquareSpace, and you get 1 renewal at the old rate before SquareSpace can charge you whatever they want.

It's a little bit of both, but you're right. Google has had years to improve their algorithms.

But as an advertising company at heart, the more time people waste on those bullshit sites, the more Google profits.

There's definitely a need for regulation, but I'm not going to pretend I know where to begin.

She's speaking to those who get all their "news" from alt-right sources. But if you haven't been paying attention to alt-right media, none of this will make sense.

I'm not sure it's an effective campaign strategy, because as we've seen, the broader public doesn't understand the intended message behind these convoluted narratives. And the people who do understand them were never going to vote for a democrat in the first place.

All a civil war will do is put a bigger boot on all our necks.

Nobody rational wants to see that happen.

Unless you enjoy the thought of American military might amped up to 11 and deployed on it's own citizens.

Sounds like a town so devoid of life that it would be more productive to just let it collapse.

There's a bunch of tiny rural towns that have basically no jobs and no real reason to exist anymore.

Globalization was not kind to rural America. And people listen to snake oil salesmen like Trump because he's the only one talking at them with a distorted compassion.

I buy steam games, even ones I've already pirated, for a few reasons.

• Quick and easy downloads
• Seamless updates
• Almost all my other purchased games in one place.
• Cloud saves
• Durability, just knowing my games will be available to download on my next PC for the foreseeable future.

And I pirate just about everything I watch mainly because I'm not willing to play musical subscriptions to watch the shows I want to see at the end of a long day.

If the film industry had a service that offered a similar experience to a Plex share, I'd pay quite a bit for it. But instead they have this system designed to extract maximum value from every viewer, and I'm tired of it.

Gabe Newell was right on the money when he said piracy is a service issue, not a price issue.

I thought it was insane that they take apart a fully built laptop to sell the diy version.

It's way more work for Framework, but they charge less for the diy model.

I wonder if user comfort with modifying internals on the diy model creates more sales in the long run, because customers can visualize what they'd be doing when installing an upgrade.

And if the state is going to legislate that way, there's even more reason to pull coverage.

It's half climate change related, and half their own doing.

I can't fathom why these media companies still love to do exclusivity agreements. There's no way it's more profitable than just allowing everyone to watch your show from any service, with commissions for the number of views.

I'd probably start paying for a streaming service again if I could watch every show in one place. But I'm not interested in playing musical subscriptions.

A mobile only platform is pretty much destined to be the lowest quality social media site around.

Just having a keyboard and mouse makes thoughtful expression so much easier.

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That's why change needs to come from the corporate level through regulation.

People generally just want food, shelter, health, and comfort. And most people in the world are struggling to maintain food and shelter.

Their evironmental footprint doesn't even register as an afterthought.

For example...

Go look at your local Walmart and it's bazillion products. They expect to sell almost everything in that store multiple times within a month. All that generates enormous waste on a scale that's literally impossible for the earth to sustain for another 100 years without total ecological collapse.

We're living in the single most polluting decade in human history, every decade, since all of us were born. Even if the entire Lemmy user base become subsistence farming monks, the factories would just keep churning out poison unphased.

I'm not saying it's bad for people to try and consume more responsibly. I'm just saying it doesn't make a difference over any meaningful time period until there's a radical change in how our global economy functions.

Environmental catastrophe will continue until we literally cannot ignore it, only then will we do anything substantial about it. Unfortunately that's just how our society works.