The Onion if every punchline was racism (or transphobia)

Meta is largely the reason for the current state of the world via their purposeful boosting of alt-right talking points. They’ve helped incite a genocide ffs. They’re not actively on the streets shooting people but this is what the company pushed for

I’m not American but I am in tech and have been unemployed since January and even though my financial situation is grim, Meta and Palantir are two companies I would never, ever work for or even apply to. There’s always plenty of other companies to apply to (which is what I did and I start somewhere tomorrow!)

My car has been broken for weeks but I haven’t bothered fixing it because I can walk to everything I need and own an escooter (and a bike i’m slowly fixing) for anything further. Even my new office is only a 25 minute walk away. I’m not even sure what gas prices are right now and I don’t really care

The right to privacy is important

Only time it’s acceptable is in front of a cop since they can’t be trusted to operate the cameras they should be wearing themselves

As someone from the country north of the US, I’d assume this wasn’t a joke if it weren’t for the .au TLD in your fedi instance

Why is a company or person that doesn’t exist physically in Utah at all responsible for adhering to Utah’s laws?

This line of thinking is dangerous as it allows companies to disregard any sane legislation as long as their servers are located in a “safe” place. A large portion of websites accessible from Canada are served from US servers, for example. American companies ignoring Canadian laws because they don’t have Canadian-based servers would be a nightmare

If a company makes any money off users in a geographic area (which includes ad view revenue), they have to follow the rules there which is a GOOD thing - even if it’s ridiculous in this case

Also endorsing governments selectively blocking websites is just bad for obvious reasons

Hey maybe computer components will cost a sane amount in the sane rest of the west

Weirdly it is on Lemmy.ca though. This is what I see in Voyager

I actually think I’d prefer this over the false positivity

100%, I can get used to Bloodborne at 30fps but I’m never happy with it. It’s painfully noticeable when trying to react to attacks where split seconds matter

I initially disagreed but after actually reading the post, I’m with you. If it was only the article’s text that was generated and not the data or graphs then I don’t see why the whole thing would be written off. I mean, it’s really sad seeing people offload their writing to AI but I still found it interesting.

Yeah, I’ve never even thought about using PW BIOS protection since someone could always just pop out the drive and do whatever with it. I guess if it’s a soldered drive it makes slightly more sense but still easily overcome by anyone who’s determined enough

Full disk encryption is what you want really

By eating it, would that mean it’s just instantly paid off or do the lenders just lose any record of you taking a loan? The answer would either mean an infinite money glitch or very confused accountants and getting blacklisted by banks

The state or computer science right now is soul crushing

The support was forgiveable to me initially with the assunption that they didn’t know but they doubled down on it and I can’t forgive that. I like the company a lot but I’m not going to knowingly indirectly fund hate by buying their stuff.

It’s really sad how right wing the tech industry is now where even the objectively left wing open source/right to repair/privacy space is dominated by bigots. Like even Proton’s CEO is a MAGA

I’ve actually not heard of a single Canadian (ignoring those who sold out and moved to the US) who’s been on the list but someone can correct me if I just missed an article or something

I’d like to think that maybe it means we’re just better people but given the way the world is, our ultra rich probably just have their own snow-tinted Epstein who’s still alive and active

what

I hate this sort of meme/joke because it just perpetuates the idea that people’s skin colour affects their actions rather than their upbringing and personality which is pretty fucking racist but with a “progressive” tint.

It’s such a weird American thing