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Half of Young Norwegians Say Online Piracy Is an Acceptable Way to Save Money in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 91 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (2 children)

People are being exploited and screwed over left and right. Piracy is not even a blip on the radar.

If society was built on moral rules and honest behavior, then maybe people should feel bad about pirating. But this society? Lols.

I struggle to even see the difference from slavery on most days.

Twitch declares “Zionist” a slur — and a bannable offense in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 40 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

It's great how people are gathering and having discussions under heavily censored platforms owned by billionaries, just amazing.

Men of Lemmy, how old were you when you found out that bra cup sizes are not standardized in the slightest? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I'm sad I missed the days of girls wearing no bras. Must have been nice.

Anyone else feel like humanity has too much apathy? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

Not to me, it just sounds normal. The reason people feel apathy is because there is a difference between expectation and reality that is very big for them.

It's the thought of "I need the world to be different for me to feel good" that is causing the apathy. You can change the thoughts on this and feel much, much better by being very grateful for having so much choice as a human being to find things you enjoy.

Anyone else feel like humanity has too much apathy? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (2 children)

It's always been wars, always been slavery, always been sickness.

If anything, we have it much better than before. How do you think it was growing up during the world wars?

Anyone else feel like humanity has too much apathy? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

It's from experience. Older people know this world well. Doesn't matter what you vote for, power stays with corporations.

Young people tend to believe you can change things by voting, which is naive and a bit cute.

I used to feel apathy until I realized there is one thing I can control - me. I can choose to do fun things, replace bad friends with new ones, learn new skills, grow as a person. I can put my phone down and read books and stop watching social media and porn. I can change who I am right now. And I will feel good from doing so.

The society will stay the same, but my perception of my life will be enjoyable, which is all I can actually do. You don't have power over anything except yourself. Once you get that through your head, you understand how to not feel apathy anymore.

Bluesky feels more like old Twitter than X does in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

Amazing, we have so much choice now. /s

As a young American, how do I motivate myself to work? It feels like the entire system is a scam and it's pointless to even try. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 days ago (8 children)

Don't think too much, you get depressed. Do like everyone else, buy shit you don't need and get likes on social media by bored strangers.

And watch Fight Club.

How do you know you aren't smart? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

I agree :) And I let them make this mistake for that reason too. Just like you say, it's best to go out there and try things and sometimes fail.

I still fail when I go my own way but I prefer it, because when I succeed, it's also my own win!

What seemingly random thing do you vehemently hate? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Happens all the time yeah.

20 years of Firefox: Happy birthday, little panda! - On November 9, 2004, the Mozilla Foundation released version 1.0 of its Firefox browser in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago

People did this to themselves.

Unless we see some kind of regulation, today's big tech is tomorrow's big brother.

Which dystopic megacorp do we get first in our brave new world? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Yeah I don't see how anyone can not see it's Google... Who else is even close to having all our data? All the web searches, mobile android play backend, maps, Google streetcar, etc etc... They know everything.

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LG monitor asking about ad tracking preferences (x.com)
 

It. Is. Never. Enough.

You paid hundreds of dollars for a new monitor, but it doesn't matter. More ads, more profits.

I hate it.

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Kagi Snaps (help.kagi.com)
 

This is not revolutionary but it saves some keystrokes when wanting to limit results to certain sites.

Personally I don't really limit anything with Kagi. It's usually just finding what I want without having to do anything.

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Removing Windows Recall breaks File Explorer in latest 24H2 update - NotebookCheck.net News (www.notebookcheck.net)
submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
47 comments fedilink
 

I wish I was a billion dollar company who gets away with stuff like this. Just generally break people's systems, add spyware, lie to users, treat them like shit.

All while making even more money and my stocks keep on going up, because AI, Ai, Ai...

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Hetzner launches s3-compatible object storage (docs.hetzner.com)
 

I can't express how much I love hetzner doing this. There is a huge market for people who just need some instances and reliable/cheap object storage to run their apps.

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My Job Is to Train Tesla's Cars to Drive Themselves (www.businessinsider.com)
 

Some quotes from the article:

There is something very strange about having this very intimate view into someone's life. It feels odd to see someone's daily drive, but it's also an important part of correcting and refining the program.

We review about five and a half to six hours of footage per day. It can be very hard to focus. You can get in this kind of fog when you're just watching clip after clip and it can be difficult to keep yourself sane.

Anytime you're not clicking around in the software program, it tracks you as if you aren't working and it basically sets off an alarm to your superiors.

These jobs sound very dystopian to me, and a bit psychopathic as well. All the movies I watched growing up about dystopian societies is reflected in what this guy says about his job.

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Microsoft's 'Recall' feature can't be uninstalled after all (mashable.com)
 

Who is surprised?

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Freetube is the best way to watch YouTube (www.popsci.com)
submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
139 comments fedilink
 

I'm using this all the time myself. There is no login to YouTube required and it supports adding subscriptions and doing everything important you can do on YouTube.

And the best part is no ads whatsoever.

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iPhones in the EU get ability to set more default apps, delete more built-in ones (m.gsmarena.com)
 

I don't expect most iPhone users to ever change their default settings, but it's nice that it will be possible in a year.

Who knows, maybe one day you can run actual Firefox on them too? :p

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Firefox Sidebar and Vertical tabs: try them out in Nightly Firefox Labs 131 – Firefox Nightly News (blog.nightly.mozilla.org)
submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
22 comments fedilink
 

I tried this last night and I actually really like it. The default theme seems to have changed also and looks much cleaner.

And you can have AI models open in the sidebar. Not only chatgpt but also other open source and free models like huggingface. I thought that was very cool.

I don't know if the general public have even tried any other model than chatgpt. It's fun to play around with others.

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Meta to pay Texas $1.4 billion in facial recognition case (www.texastribune.org)
submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
1 comments fedilink
 

Meta had been using facial recognition software on photos uploaded to Facebook without Texans’ consent.

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Netflix officially removes Basic - the cheapest ad-free tier (m.gsmarena.com)
 

Netflix execs needs a new jet.

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Tech Giants Withholding Products Because EU Regulation like GDPR (www.axios.com)
 

Does this mean we dont get to be tracked, data mined, ad-bombed, and exploited while our teens dont get depressed and sick from "social" media?

Well, if thats the price we pay, thats the price we pay... :)

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