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Thanks to badly written software, you can literally design “planned obsolescence” into your products.
“The computer says you need to replace your 15,000 dollar battery pack.”
“But my car is only six months old!”
“Yeah, but the Computer SAYS-”
Thanks to badly written software, you can literally design “planned obsolescence” into your products.
“The computer says you need to replace your 15,000 dollar battery pack.”
“But my car is only six months old!”
“Yeah, but the Computer SAYS-”
Well, what are we supposed to do? Choose a presidential candidate who was born after the Battle of the Bulge?
Using AI lets scammers target hundreds of people at once and choose likely candidates for a pig-butchering scam (rich, dumb, vulnerable, etc). Once the AI finds one, it passes the phone number on to a human scammer for further exploitation.
It’s like the old war-dialers that would dial hundreds of people and pass along the call when they got an answer from a real human being.
I got the “It’s time to upgrade to Windows 11” message on my Windows 10 laptop. It’s getting aggravating.
You can get laptops on Amazon now with Ubuntu pre-installed. :)
Also, make sure your password contains L’s, 1’s, 0’s and O’s in a font deliberately chosen to make them hard to tell apart.
Yup. With VOIP, you can spoof any phone number. If this technology were fixed, 99% of spam calls would disappear, and Caller ID would be worth something again. Our government is either too lazy or bought-off to fix this problem.
They DID enact the national Do Not Call list and created heavy fines for people who violate that list, while knowing full well that they couldn’t catch the spammers in the first place (because of VOIP spoofing).
Well, you give them food one day and the next day, they’re hungry again! What’s up with that?
“Free ad-supported” makes you no different than a hundred other garbage-tier streaming services.
Yup, the fine needs to be much higher. People could have died because of this.
The entire point of fines is that they’re punitive. They’re supposed to HURT. To make you change your behavior and not do the Bad Thing again.
If fines don’t even make a dent in your daily profits, then laws become nothing more than suggestions. They become just a cost of doing business.
This is probably connected to China cloning the entire GitHub website to their own servers.
“Let them fight.”
I finally switched to Linux Mint a few weeks ago. CoPilot/ Recall was the last straw.
It is long past time we got over our child-like worship of billionaires.
“God never gives you more than you can handle.”
I know people who have been driven batsh*t insane by what God has given them.
Some Forbes op-ed writer: “But household income is keeping up with inflation!”
Yeah, if you consider that “household income” now includes the income of the wife and kids as well. A few decades ago, only one person was needed to be a wage earner. Now, everyone in the household needs to work to maintain that standard of living. And that’s why our quality of life is declining.
When you’re a centipede, EVERY day is Leg Day!
Whoever is downvoting this needs to have an encounter with the U.S. legal system, so they find out how little their precious freaking “rights” are worth.
This is also why gas pumps measure gasoline to the thousandth of a gallon. Consumers LOVE to see those numbers racing upwards and think, “Whoaaaaa! Look at those numbers GO! I must be getting an awesome deal!”
It’s a deliberate psychological trick, played on you by energy companies to fool you into thinking you’re getting more than you really are.
If the point of taking drugs is to “enhance your performance” then Biden took every drug he should NOT have taken before that debate.