TechnoBabble

joined 1 year ago
[–] TechnoBabble@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

Lemmy.world got way too big too fast and the small team behind it can't handle it all.

Everyone should disperse to a random stable instance, or make their own, and it'll be better for the health of the network.

[–] TechnoBabble@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I hate to ever give law enforcement any leeway as abuse is so common, but if someone is hurting children I don't care how you stop it.

Is this satire? Because that's exactly the excuse government has been giving for hundreds of years, to take your freedoms away.

It's never about the children. The Catholic church operating with near total immunity, after all these millennia of abuse, is proof of that.

[–] TechnoBabble@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

And guess who's got a lot of funding to run honey pot nodes?

[–] TechnoBabble@lemm.ee 34 points 1 year ago (4 children)

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.

[–] TechnoBabble@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] TechnoBabble@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[–] TechnoBabble@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

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

[–] TechnoBabble@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I get your analogy.

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

[–] TechnoBabble@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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

[–] TechnoBabble@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] TechnoBabble@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] TechnoBabble@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

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