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byjimbrooking
08, 2024 @06:17PM
(#64849917)
Attached to: MoneyGram Says Hackers Stole Customers' Personal Information, Transaction Data
Before entrusting money (or personal information) to a website, people might check to see if the entity behind the website is regulated by any credible government agency. Most are not, many (or most?) have been thrown together by a few tech-bros with the goal of turning a quick profit. They lack any regulatory oversight and likely dispense with the parts of their plan that isn't immediately profitable, like strong security. User privacy is a commodity, another way to make money, not a corporate sacred tenet.
Read the fine print, people!
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byjimbrooking
0, 2024 @03:43PM
(#64721680)
Attached to: Your TV Set Has Become a Digital Billboard. And It's Only Getting Worse.
Is there a resource that can give makes/models of "dumb" TVs?
I gave away my TV in 2005, and my IQ gained 20 points in 3 days! Haven't missed the TV, and have probably read a thousand books since then.
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byjimbrooking
2024 @07:55PM
(#64658994)
Attached to: RFK Jr. Says He'd Direct the Government to Buy $615 Billion in Bitcoin or 4 Million Bitcoins
He's as gullible as he is versed in immunology
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byjimbrooking
2024 @10:56AM
(#64510559)
Attached to: US Slows Plans To Retire Coal-Fired Plants as Power Demand From AI Surges
AI is consuming energy to accelerate global warming, hastening the takeover of human society by AI overlords!
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byjimbrooking
2024 @09:42AM
(#64505135)
Attached to: PayPal Is Planning an Ad Business Using Data on Its Millions of Shoppers
I haven't used PP for personal payments in a decade or more, preferring to pay using my Visa card. Always felt that PP was impersonating a bank without all those pesky rules and regulations that banks need to adhere to. Happy that I've also eluded another data sucker intent on making money by selling what they know about me.
Anyone taking bets about PP providing an "opt out" for this abomination?
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byjimbrooking
024 @05:49PM
(#64480327)
Attached to: France Bans TikTok In New Caledonia
Someone discovered a relationship between gasoline and flammable materials!
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byjimbrooking
9, 2024 @12:16PM
(#64197780)
Attached to: Amazon Prime Video Ads Start From Today - Up To 3.5 Mins Per Hour
They just can't stop showing ads in internet services. Free? Lots of ads. premium/paid service? We'll just show a few and see if anyone notices. Ne cancellations? Ha! More ads. It's internet evolution as predictable as thr sun rising in the east.
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byjimbrooking
1, 2024 @08:53AM
(#64121519)
Attached to: Will AI Just Waste Everyone's Time?
All "social media" is a time waster. Why is AI any different?
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byjimbrooking
er 01, 2023 @09:01AM
(#63971542)
Attached to: Microsoft Accused of Damaging The Guardian's Reputation With AI-Generated Poll
All the polling in the universe isn't going to find how the woman died. That's what medical examiners learn through autopsies and other methods. Who cares what everyone "thinks" happened. Dumb and dumber! Have we killed the notion of objective truth and critical thinking?
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byjimbrooking
30, 2023 @02:11PM
(#63809560)
Attached to: Microsoft is Using Malware-like Pop-Ups in Windows 11 To Get People To Ditch Google
Same thing. In the middle of some complex programming stuff and BANG.
In your eye, MS!
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byjimbrooking
2023 @06:28PM
(#63748712)
Attached to: Brazil Central Bank Names Its Digital Currency 'DREX,' Scheduled For 2024 Launch
Should be "drecks".
Dreck -
1. Worthless, distasteful or nonsensical material
2. Rubbish, trash
3. Trash, junk, worthless material, crap
Have at it, kiddies!
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byjimbrooking
2023 @07:53PM
(#63645148)
Attached to: YouTube Could Be Testing a Three-Strikes Policy For Ad Blocking
If I wanted to have ads, I'd have a TV set in the house. I don't and I don't. I'll give up an occasional YouTube visit (airplane porn!) but I'll never be without an ad blocker.
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byjimbrooking
5, 2023 @10:41PM
(#63211590)
Attached to: Symbolic Wyoming Proposal Urges Voluntary Phase-out of EV Purchases by 2035
It appears that you have never driven an EV.
Tesla owner
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byjimbrooking
9, 2023 @03:55PM
(#63193368)
Attached to: Microsoft Looks To Add OpenAI's Chatbot Technology To Word, Email
'Nuff said.
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byjimbrooking
03, 2023 @12:10PM
(#63176600)
Attached to: The Hidden Cost of Cheap TVs
I gave away my (last/only) TV in 2003. Tracking problem solved. Bonus: IQ jumped by 20 points inside a month!
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