We call those externalities, the taxpayers will handle them if we ignore them long enough that they become a crisis

Quick someone draw duckbutt

The real question is how were they faked? These demos almost never use the real production technology, they’re just scripted to appear to

Whoosh

There’s definitely an opportunity for someone to run their own curation service for personalized feeds based on a user’s activity on other social networks.

I tend to just check All periodically for the first couple of months and follow tags and people that suit my own interests and build my own feed from zero. But that takes effort and time, and for folks who want an option further toward the convenience end of the privacy/convenience spectrum I suspect it would be a fairly popular option.

I will give bluesky credit for their focus on moderation. Hopefully some of that design is cloned by the Mastodon folks sooner than later

Leaving one privately run garden for another sure seems like a choice 🤔

It’s possible to go after both. M$ has some fucked up practices that trick the user into using edge that shouldn’t be okay

I recently had to explain to my boomer mom why a Ring doorbell was a bad idea. She didn’t seem to get that the system is cheap because it’s constantly feeding whatever it sees to both Ring and your local cops.

Glassholes was coined back when Google was working on Google Glass about 10-12y ago and people kept theirs on and recording while in public

Welp, guess it’s time for IR reflective tattoos to defeat facial recognition

Get ready for corporate announcing the layoff of 67% of the workforce

+1, I only have a yt music sub because it’s grandfathered in with my yt premium subscription and extra drive storage. YT music recommendations are mildly terrible compared to Spotify, but I’m not throwing $15/mo at Spotify when I only use it a few times a year.

That’s a good start, now keep going

He was just basking in the rosy glow of his campaign while it goes up in smoke

Greetings fellow human!

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Why are we tolerating this criminal behavior by corporations?

Because it’s done in the open and it’s accepted as part of the cost of the device. This is an expected consequence of our adtech surveillance economy where devices are now subsidized because they can harvest data about you, your usage and your behavior to sell on an ongoing basis. We’ve been screaming about these sorts of practices since the late 90s and consumers have just blithered right along with every new and creepy intrusion because they get cheap things and don’t think about the real costs or consequences. And so … Here we are.

I’m just waiting for them to add a sideband channel to some LoRa network so they can exfiltrate data even when their devices are “offline”

Hell even Costco probably has photo paper

There are sequels?