Some of these posts suggest they are using the pictures of someone else on purpose. Some say they're a bot. I personally haven't gotten these messages but I don't get DM's so that's probably why. I'm pretty positive this is some kind of Honeypot scam. Either way I wouldn't trust it.
That's true but it's a race to the top. Resellers selling cards at a price that is twice or more the MSRP. Meaning that these companies have to jump through hoops not to sell to them or raise prices to make it less likely they'll buy them if they can't profit. And everybody else loses.
Most of my hatred for it (if you can call it that) has to do with putting AI in everything. Blockchain makes sense in certain instances. I wouldn't say for money, but for information tracking etc. AI LLM's make sense in certain instances. But it's everywhere and it's taking the place of tech I use daily but doing a worse job overall by a wide enough margin that I just can't stand it. And I don't understand why companies want to put it in everything except that they don't want to be the only ones not shilling it.
There are always people who come out of the woodwork to claim it works for them but half of them don't even have a good understanding of how or why it works for them, and a lot of them are just lazy. I look at AI as a bandaid type tech in most of its applications right now and I'm tired of fighting to opt out of it.
This is a lot of the problem that I see with social media as a whole. Doesn't matter if it's the fediverse or regular corporate social media platforms. The problem is users in echo chambers spouting a lot of things that don't ever take into account the whole situation.
The "anyone who naysays anything I believe or say" crowd is alive and well on both sides of the political aisle and they use the same tactics.
-Anyone who has a logical problem with something I'm trying to do is a Nazi or a sealion.
-Anyone "who didn't vote because they have a moral reason to abstain to show the political party that it's not good enough to just not be the other guy anymore" is a Trump supporter or a vote for Trump.
Anyone who brings up the fact that there are nearing 1 million homeless people in America in 2025 and only 1 in 10 homeless people actually have the opportunity to vote - is using whataboutism arguments.
What I'm saying is, it's not just the transgender community seeing these problems and the problem is people on social media as a whole existing only in echo chambers.
The thing is, echo chambers are natural but they're also divisive. The people that exist in them peer pressure each other and subvert every narrative, pitting people who are nominally on the same side against one another because they don't happen to agree on one or two issues, or don't agree on how to effect real change. And anyone who admits that there are problems that need to be fixed before we can move forward, or education that needs to happen in order for everybody to get on the same page and work towards a common goal gets alienated or excommunicated.
Believe it or not, this happens in every single community. And while I think it's good that baseless reports were ignored in this instance, I don't know that 1. This is happening everywhere, and 2. Every report isn't baseless just because you happen to be on the side of the person who the reports are against.
The fact that baseless reports were not acknowledged or verified in the other instance is exactly the problem. Because the problem is people. So on the one hand, you have a homeless person being harassed for their politics because their real life experience negates the feeling some people in the platform have and those people reported her for it. And on the other hand you have a deranged individual actively weaponizing the report button in order to harass someone with intent and their reports are at best being phoned in by admins and mods who cannot keep up with the influx, and at worst are being viewed partially rather than impartially and allowed to victimize the user that was targeted, which was the intent.
The cognitive dissonance is happening on both sides of the aisle, and even though the way it manifests is absolutely different in some ways, the fact is, it is happening and it's a detriment to any movement that organizes or attempts to organize.
It's not just about the mics. The location data, microphone data, and accelerometer/vibration data are also important and the phones are likely cheaper than other specialized equipment, which may have factored into it. Especially if they bought them a generation or so behind.
This week the big news is that the government is selling off all EV's bought by the previous administration and shutting down all the federal owned charging stations used to charge these vehicles. So this right here is Trump taking something Biden tried to do and using it to line Elon Musk's grubby pockets and that tracks.
Yeah. This is why I've disabled copilot and Gemini on my devices altogether. It's not worth it to have this nonsense filling up everything you use or rely on on a daily basis.
I don't understand why people ask this. Most people you talk to on Lemmy will say they don't want the userbase to grow much more than it has because with that growth comes the other problems that larger platforms like shitter and reddit have.
That's true by and large and we also don't have enough moderators here as is.
And for reasons I don't understand, people keep asking why mainstream media outlets, influencers, and other trusted accounts don't transition to the fediverse, as if they won't bring with them an influx of users (at least a fraction of which would be considered undesirable).
Why do you want them to come here? (As someone who would like to see Lemmy grow, I'm curious about how you think this will rollout and what the consequences will be). I would like to see Lemmy grow but I'm not sure all of that growth will have solely good follow-on effects.
"But it turns out that, while this screenshot is indeed real, those eagle-eyed enough should already be able to tell that something isn't quite lining up here. In fact, nearly any Windows 11 user could open up the fully updated Notepad without getting this pop-up at all, even if they aren't already signed into a Microsoft account. So, what's the deal here?"
"The key is in the exact wording, identifiable within the first sentence: "Sign in with your Microsoft account to use Rewrite and its features in Notepad." This is a prompt that exists, yes, but one that's exclusive to Copilot+ PCs and explicitly requires the user to trigger it by clicking the Rewrite button, as confirmed by our own testing."
Please read the article. No. My access to notepad is not restricted. I also don't run any copilot features of any kind on windows 11. Yes, I believe Generative AI Copilot is enabled by default, but in this case the only time you get prompted to login is when you use a feature in notepad that directly needs copilot in order to work and you the user have to select that feature. Meaning you can use notepad without it entirely and never even see this prompt at all.
Microsoft is a tech giant with all the bad crap that implies. They do enough terrible things that we don't need to lie to make them look bad.
This is misinformation. They added the login requirement for their Generative AI and the actual notepad doesn't require a login. But I guess we're ragebaiting today.
Some of us played both Atari and computer games. Most of the retro games I still play are DOS games and there was quite a following. My very first game console was the PS2 (technically the Atari 2600 belonged to my dad). My first Nintendo system was the Switch. I've played the NES, SNES, PS1, game cube, and Sega consoles but usually at a friend or relatives house, so none of those games were ones I got particularly invested in or otherwise attached to. We also had arcades back then and I spent a lot of time there as a small child with my older brothers. We went to computer shows, and there were demos and shareware and freeware games all over the place.
Just because some systems had the advantage of being widespread doesn't mean they were the only way to play.
Distractions. There are a lot of them and most of us are replying to the distractions with emotional messages and Hitler/nazi-musk memes instead of doing our due diligence to find out what's going on and how we can stop it. The memes, they do nothing but give us the sense of camaraderie without direction or objective. And any time you tell the people making them that, they get mad and block you or downvote you.
Or they just didn't know how. Which is a distinct possibility. Some devices these days even let you share the Wi-Fi password through QR code or similar. So you don't have to enter it into every device.
I don't understand why they're considering a ban. People should be changing the default password on their router. If they aren't and they leak information that isn't theirs, tough shit, fine them. If they leak their own information, let them deal with the consequences.
The point is that while there are definitely downsides, there are also fairly painless ways to use fingerprint blocking on reputable browsers, and that it doesn't "break half the internet" it just might have a slight learning curve. Just because something isn't just plug it in and forget doesn't mean it doesn't work or isn't accessible.
I had seen posts like this circulating before so I tried to track them down:
https://lemm.ee/post/57432653
https://jlai.lu/post/16111085
https://lemmy.cafe/post/14113013
Some of these posts suggest they are using the pictures of someone else on purpose. Some say they're a bot. I personally haven't gotten these messages but I don't get DM's so that's probably why. I'm pretty positive this is some kind of Honeypot scam. Either way I wouldn't trust it.