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Says the person with a Lemmy profile. Do you pay bills online? Do you search things? Use maps?

Congrats, you have a shadow profile out there logging all the data about you.

You didn't keep shit private if you're carrying a GPS tracker on you at all times, which you are(your phone). You are VASTLY misunderstanding digital privacy and how statistics works. You don't have to type a single foreign language word for them to know you speak it. Just go to places and hang around people that it knows speaks it and it'll make the assumption. Every person you interact with who shares EVERYTHING is, congrats, basically a snitch on you as well.

It's statistics, like I said.

You have your phone on you, right? And he has his phone on him, right? And your phone's are constantly near each other, riiiiiight? Do you maybe see where this is going?

Your "Internet profile" is being linked to his "internet profile" because they can see you are constantly together. So they assume friends/relatives/coworker. But they also see that you're together at times people who are couples are(late at night while asleep, for example). So with basic time and location data, they've determined you're a couple. And that becomes another metric in your profile. Things that he likes, it will assume you like or are at least interested in, and same for him. All you had to do was type in the other language a few times and your profile got "speaks X" added to it. And him, by dating you, now has "knows someone who speaks X regularly" attached to his profile.

It's really very easy. Now imagine that everything you do is being catalogued like that. Then cross referenced with other people they know more about to flesh out more inferences about yourself("you like x and y? 98% of people who like X AND Y also like Z, so let's advertise Z to them".

It seems like magic but it's just advanced statistics in action.

That's what happens when states get to regulate these kinds of things. Notice it's mostly progressive states that this applies to. States that put laws on their books against this. The reason it doesn't count in those other states is because, for all intents and purposes, it was legal there.

People complain about California a lot, but this is what all of our "stupid useless laws" are for.

That's a wiring issue. Bulbs burning out shockingly fast means something else is wrong. Had the same issue in a ceiling light until we replaced the wiring.

You are a disgusting person who no one wants to be around. We deal with it by avoiding people like you

And how often do we see loaded language regardless. I'm praising them for being neutral when often times the media isn't. Especially with a topic like 9/11

Convenient that's it's occuring right before the anniversary as well.

I like how the AP story says he's "accused" and "has agreed to plea". Pretty passive wording instead of "person who committed", etc. I don't think they fully believe it either.

If this gains any traction, I hope every news site, blog, etc sues Reddit for profiting off their material that fills the entire site. The comment section wouldn't exist if there wasn't something to comment on in the first place. Digg and Reddit didn't even have comments at first. It was ALL content from other sources. Even "reddit original content" is" original content from a creator posted to Reddit". Reddits "value" is ephemeral.

It's called "sleep" and "hibernate". Existed since like windows 95.

So pretty much all of your complaints are cus you assumed things that aren't true and made no effort to fix your actual issues?

Sounds less like the tech is the problem and like you have a Layer 8 issue.

No need to attack ADHD people and use it as a slur. Some of us just don't feel the need for instructions that are going to be typed out anyways to be put into a video. Ffs, you just put the entire instructions in 4 sentences. Why on earth would I want a video for that?

You're the Dwight.

What service? It's baked into the cost of collecting data. That's literally the exact reason they give it to you FOR FREE.

You really need to learn the difference between free speech and free beer. You're asking for free beer.

Because it is. The customer isn't paying for the hardware, electricity, or bandwidth. Dude above is a nonce.

Do you miss the part where you're not paying to use that network and it's offered as a free service? I'm old too dumbass. I remember before wifi even existed. Do you also go to Walmart and expect to be able to charge your batteries for free off their power? Or use their phones for free?

You're confusing free as in beer and free as in speech. No one is forcing you to use their FREE service. Use your own cellular network jackass. The network that you DO pay to use.

What's next, going to someones house and demanding their Wi-Fi password because "the Internet is free man!"

Exactly. "Hey, we're gonna let you use our network. But if you do anything illegal or shady on our network, we'd be held liable. So we're gonna track what you do on our network to make sure if you do try something, we can remove you from the network and have proof."

I mean, yeah, they're also gonna collect advertising data, but do you really expect to have an expectation of privacy when using someone else's network? Just like they can film you in the building, they can monitor your network traffic on their network.

If this surprises you, maybe you should do some more research on how a network actually works. And get a VPN. And maybe don't connect to random public networks(you don't even want to know what OTHER PEOPLE can do to you on those networks, nevermind the company).

Also, you pay for your cellphone service, right? Are you paying for the wifi in the store? Nooooooo. They're giving it to you for free. Almost like they're offering you something in return for that data monitoring. Like they're offering you a service with a built in method to recoup costs... A service you voluntarily use and in doing so, agree to their terms.

Or you, you know, don't use it.

I think part of the reason it feels like "wtf are you doing?!?" is because we were really saying "Joe needs to step the fuck up or step aside" and then in the last week he's thrown some absolute hard hits at Trump making it look like "holy shit, we got old Joe back!". Then suddenly after appearing to wake up, he goes "nah, I'm good.".

Don't get me wrong, I'm glad he's stepping aside. But it's been a bit of a rollercoaster and not a very consistent message. They kept telling us to shut up and follow Biden and anyone who doesn't is supporting facism and then suddenly, "nah, not Biden, it's cool"? You can't pump a rhetoric machine up and then expect the brakes to stop it instantly.

Lol. None of my smart devices will connect to anything other than a 2.5ghz connection. Only my TV will accept 5g. The range is MUCH narrower than you think. Then figure in that the top 5 or 6 companies provide hardware for 90% of peoples home installations and that pool becomes even smaller. Also, a microwave operates on the same frequency as 2.5 and was a common disconnection problem in the past.

This is trivially easy.

While I agree with what you've said, I've always felt fusion and other such tech is the future of long distance space travel, not Earth based energy use. Wind and hydro are useless in space and solar has issues with power accumulation the further away from a star you go. We will still need some kind of "fuel" based energy source if we're ever to enter deep space and cross the gaps(unless battery tech increases much further to the point that a "battery" lasts a significant portion of the vehicles lifetime). Even then, you'd need recharge stations at each end or to park by a star to refuel in between.

We have fusion/fission now. That kind of battery tech is still a ways off. Feels shortsighted to ignore nuclear now just because it's not perfect in this specific environment. After all, name any vehicle not powered by nuclear that can run for 20-30 years before it needs to refuel/recharge. No battery tech can even come close currently.

Exactly. It's hard to argue that Steam has a monopoly when the other launchers exist and suck. Steam, despite its flaws, is still the best storefront we have. Gabe is the person who taught us that piracy is largely a service problem, not a price problem. People will pay when the paid option is quality.