almost no citizens want surveillance

Yet masses of people are voluntarily paying good money to have corporate spy cameras and listening devices installed in their homes.

Devices that can (and have) leak personal information to both criminals (in the traditional sense) and government agencies.

lol yeah that’s not gonna fly in court.

Doesn’t mean they won’t try.

Wasting everyone’s time and money in the process, while hoping to bankrupt anyone standing in their way with obscenely huge legal bills.

Why they push AI so much where it’s not needed.

Because they “need” to intrude on every second of everyone’s life in order to increase their profits.

How those profits will increase is probably by shoving more advertising down your throat once their “advanced technology” has been inextricably entwined into everything.

You don’t necessarily have to put in the time to remove them. You can also quickly re-decorate them with a bit of spray paint and then move along before anyone has a chance to react to your presence…

To be fair, it’s never DNS ;]

Sometimes it’s BGP.

What wording would you have them use?

The stated reason behind these laws is to “protect children.”

https://imgur.com/QqabC7T

Friends don’t let friends use Facebook.

Interesting… I wonder why?

Haven’t heard of kjiji, I’ll have to check it out.

It’s essentially Craigslist, but in Canada.

Craigslist doesn’t really have a user base here.

The same thing might have happened if she bought a Mac and needed some Windows only software.

Is it off, or is it an optional module that doesn’t have to be adding bloat to my system if I don’t want to use it?

LLMs can take up a pretty big storage footprint.

My biggest issue with that is the amount of bloat a full local LLM implementation would add.

But if it’s an optional module that you can choose to add (or choose not to add) after the fact, I have no complaint.

My kids only knew Linux from the first day they used a computer.

They didn’t have any difficulty transitioning between that at home and the chromebooks or windows desktops the school had.

Firefox has an option called copy link without trackers

Thunderbird also does that . (Not surprising since it’s also a Mozilla project)

If I were buying today, it wouldn’t be a smart TV

Good luck finding one of those.

Those shouldn’t exist at all, and if they have to, the settings should be expressly asked about as part of the initial setup, not buried in a menu that nobody goes to unless they’re specifically looking for the options.

Black Friday, the shopping day is a gimmick

And one that’s been exported to other countries who don’t even have the same national holiday adjacent to that friday giving people the excuse to shop more on that particular day.

Here it’s nothing but a cynical corporate cash grab.

And scrub the metadata off the pictures before posting them.

No your hair salon, grocery store, car wash, restaurant, etc. **doesn’t ** need my email address or phone number to “improve customer sercice”.

Fuck off, just take my money and give me the damn thing I’m teyi g to buy.