IMDb has been making shitty decisions for a long time. They have always been a business first, community last.

I doubt RT is much better but I use it mostly. It at least has been consistently the same amount of shitty UI since inception. TheMovieDb.org has a decent ratings system too and is getting more use, but again it’s privately owned.

I’m not aware of a community run and operated ratings DB that’s got any significant uptake… Would be glad to hear of one if anyone knows.

Now that is a pet rock.

It was exciting. No idea what the phone call could bring.

Nowadays… ‘Unknown number’ just preloads frustration because you know it’s most likely a robocall.

My data is in this breach.

Thankfully, it’s all been exposed already by several prior banking data breeches over the last 5 or so years.

Yay?

The one I’m thinking of specifically recently is the revelation by Indian subcontractors that META was lying about their Rayban smart glasses having private mode that would not recording in private areas you set like bathroom, shower, in bed etc… And in fact it had sent tens of thousands of videos of people nude or fucking to the Indian subcontractors.

METAs response? Fire them, admit nothing. Lol. That’s some grossss shit that even normies want nothing to do with.

Agree. One thing that I’ve noticed is that if it’s about social media I say I “had to delete it for mental health, that shit is so bad for you”, and generally get a much more receptive response than when I explain it’s primarily for privacy and that I don’t trust them with my data.

Though Zuck and others are making it way easier to point out how creepy their platforms are, so that becomes a good entrypoint re: privacy also.

This is really fun, thanks for sharing it.

I use very popular router by Gl.Inet called Flint 2 (GL-MT6000). Goes on special for about $125 USD. Great specs, solid device.

Fully supported by OpenWRT, and I recommend flashing to that so that you have completely FOSS software with no possibly hijinks from the manufacturer’s OEM OS.

You’ll need to read some guides or watch some vids to get you set up on OpenWRT, bit of a learning curve, but it has everything you could possibly need. Check it out.

Yeah apparently you are (overestimating).

A guy named MK Ultra Victim posting obvious satire isn’t clear enough for a lot of Lemmy users, who’d rather pontificate against the parody.

I agree with the underlying premise that AI should not be given the reigns to anything of importance.

I disagree that they can’t find out.

The Amazon servers in the UAE and Bahrain found out just recently.

Anonymous works fine 99% of the time if you only install occasional apps from Google. It works by grabbing a random Google account from a large pool of Google accounts that Aurora (or someone) runs, and accesses the store for searches and downloads after logging you in. You’re logged out after a set period (several hours iirc) and then grab a new ‘anon’ account from the pool next time you do updates or search for an app.

The only issue you may face occasionally is if the app you want is geofenced to your area, and the ‘anon’ account was made in a different geographical location - in which case you won’t be able to find the app in the store to install (or update) it. I usually just log off and on a couple of times and this resolves. It’s a minor irritation.

Many create their own throwaway Google account on a different device (not linked to them in any way), but I haven’t bothered… Might be worth it if you install a lot of apps from Google store and want minimal issues though.

I think that would undo a lot of the attempted anonymity though, even if it’s just for app istalls/updates. I’ve used Aurora for… 4… 5?.. years as my only means of apps from the Google app store, only using anon accounts and only having occasional hiccups where updates don’t kick off automatically or geofenced apps can’t be located. I only use maybe a dozen apps from the store though, all the rest are F-Droid/etc.

So many good answers already taken.

I’m eating all the nuclear launch codes.

Religion.

Historically the primary reason that euthanasia is repeatedly challenged / legally blocked worldwide.

In countries that are not the US, they just don’t stand for that shit and make it illegal.

I get that.

Personally if it’s single player and I don’t want to support the authors urgently, I can wait.

So for HP I was happy to never buy it, then I saw Epic give it away and i thought… Oh. Well, I guess that works.

Ive played several games on Epic.

I don’t get this attitude for single-player games. If its free… Why the heck not.

Oh right you need people to see your game achievements on Steam?

That’s literally it?

Did people not get over the Achievement Hunter phase a decade ago and just start enjoying games?

Who would own Howarts Legacy on Steam when Epic gave it away free for a whole week…

The NYT haven’t changed. They’ve been aligned with corporate greed and neo-conservative goals and attitudes for at least 40 years. Yes you can find individual articles that don’t, but editorially they always have.

Though they always presented their image as ‘social liberal progressive attitudes’ and ‘fiscal responsibility with social support’, if you look at their actual reporting track record they’ve helped manufacture consent for almost every US war of the last 30+ years, and have consistently sided with the desires of whatever government is currently in power and fiscal conservative attitudes throughout.

Yeah this is the wildest overvaluation I’ve seen in ages. I’ve never heard of them, seems like most people here haven’t.

OpenAI must be getting pretty damned desperate to turn the AI narrative to do this.

Kinda hoping he’ll do it himself after some ketamine-induced psychosis snaps what’s left of his brain.

My guess with his ego, money and insecurity is that he owns a bunch of personal firearms and walks around his home cosplaying with them fully loaded on the regular.