Category: Technology
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I Already Turned that Off
Apple has this Enhanced Visial Search “Feature” in the photos app that sounds like it will do faster, better job at finding a specific photo from among the photos on your device. But when you read the “about” it says: “Allow this device to privately match places in your photos with a global index maintained…
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Silicon Valley is a Hate Machine
It seems the rich white men who run Silicon Valley have gotten together and agreed that women are bad. Every single one of them recently published a screed about how women are ruining everything. This is terrifying shit.
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But Sure, It’s a Meritocracy
Zuckerberg wants companies to have more male energy. What happened to Tech is a Meritocracy? It guess if you exude male energy, you merit a job at FB and you’ll even get promoted! If you come off as girly because, oh, I don’t know, you’re a girl or a guy who isn’t traditionally masculine enough…
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Little Mind Huge Ego
After a conversation with a family member I jumped on the interwebs and searched for “Elon Musk Path of Exile 2” and it was everything I was told and more. I highly recommend doing the same search if you haven’t already heard about it.Here’s the background: Path Of Exile 2 is an APG (Action Role…
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This is NOT helping me write
“Autocorrect” is getting more and more dangerous. I’m realizing now that we’re in this age of forced AI that after decades of writing fiction I have developed an expert level of finding normal typos and errors when I’m rereading/editing my work. Now autocorrect is making stupid dumb and WRONG changes that slip by me because…
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Free Speech for Some
Fucking Tech Bros. They bleat about free speech and how tech is a meritocracy and they are different trust them while they make billions off the misery they cause. Centralized social media with no brakes is a globally destructive disaster that harms anyone who isn’t a straight white cis-male or a social elite in their…
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Facebook is a POS
Facebook has spent the last 15 years preventing users from connecting with other users or other entities (such as bands and celebrities etc) and now they’re creating fake users (who are NOT identified as fake as far as I can tell) and shoving this slop into the timelines of real users. From all reports, FB…
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Blocked
If you send me an email that has no text to remind me who the f you are, you get blocked. Maybe I did subscribe or for some reason want to hear from you. But who remembers every single vendor or service they’re okay with? I sure don’t. Don’t put your information in images that…
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Privacy in the Rear View Mirror
How on earth are users supposed to figure out what privacy settings have been set or enabled by default after an app or OS update? The settings are scattered all over the place and there is no effing way a normal person can keep track or even know about a new setting. Eff that, that’s…