[-] RFBurns@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago

Suddenly it's 1960.

Microsoft, Apple, Amazon and Google have replaced ABC, NBC, PBS and CBS.

Your "~~personal computer~~ internet appliance" is a black-box running rented software, just like in the 'dumb-terminal time-sharing' era.

[-] RFBurns@lemmy.world 12 points 7 months ago

Correct answer.

Using any form of biometric 'login' under the US's "justice" system is supremely ill-advised.

[-] RFBurns@lemmy.world 12 points 9 months ago

When the dust settles, it'll be just like Ma Bell in 1975: There will be the "Internet Company" just like there was the Phone Company, with a probable 'bonus' of an extra "National Internet Corporation" modeled on the BBC.

[-] RFBurns@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago

Storage has never been cheaper.

There's going to be a seppuku session in somebody's IT department.

[-] RFBurns@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

Off to the wrecking-yard and auto-parts house to get more spares for my '99...

If you're going to monitor me like an airline pilot, you can pay me like one.

[-] RFBurns@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

...and just turn the computer off and wait for the updates to finish.

[-] RFBurns@lemmy.world 78 points 10 months ago

Usual info-free article with clickbait headline. Tinfoil-heads will call it a "troll / honey-pot", designed to attract and identify 'troublemakers'.

And from that comment section, it's working.

[-] RFBurns@lemmy.world 101 points 11 months ago

Nothing on Reddit can be proved to have come from a "user", and it's been that way since the "Great Spezzing of 2016", where 'spez' admitted to falsification and alteration of 'user' content.

[-] RFBurns@lemmy.world 31 points 11 months ago

...useless tech

Oh, it is "useful"; to the real 'owners' of "your" car...

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[-] RFBurns@lemmy.world 16 points 11 months ago

I wonder if it was done on purpose after it came out that the Pentagon had typo'd ".ml" instead of '.mil' and exposed a lot of sensitive emails...

[-] RFBurns@lemmy.world 20 points 11 months ago

Yeah? What's that; 14 seconds of their profits?

[-] RFBurns@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

The 'hostage-taker' will never be able to duplicate my family's grammar and sentence structure quirks, so I won't care how it "sounds"...

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