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- 2023-10-13 16:35 irs says microsoft owes $29billion
Cory points out they just have to tie this up in the courts until another republican president is elected.
- 2023-10-12 08:13 former president and republican frontrunner says he has no duty to uphold the constitution
- 2023-10-06 10:15 Alexa is a collosal failure
I'm glad they failed to monetize their panopticon. I want to own something like this but there's no way in hell I'm letting amazon or google listen or watch everything I say and do. The best (but most unlikely) outcome of this failure would be if amazon opened the hardware and software and let us run our own local voice assistant nodes. I would buy two or three.
- 2023-10-06 07:46 ring promotes it's surveillance dystopia
- 2023-10-05 14:28 microsoft using copilot to serve ads
- 2023-10-05 11:29 microsoft will let copilot mess with your files in the cloud
- 2023-10-03 06:43 Problem Sleuth
Just a reminder that this webcomic exists and is awesome. I posted about this back in 2009
- 2023-10-02 07:02 linkedin requiring a phone number to log in
- 2023-09-28 07:14 Reddit removes the ability to opt-out of ad tracking
Reddit's been returning blank pages for me because my ad blocker blocks cookies. It's already like a gaping hole in the internet.
- 2023-09-25 16:03 a man called fran
- 2023-09-21 07:26 phillips hue will soon require you to make an account
- 2023-09-18 11:39 la dolce vita
- 2023-09-14 21:07 willingham sends fables into the public domain
- 2023-09-11 21:20 Wild Talents: Pynchon, Gaddis, and Charles Fort
- 2023-09-10 19:10 voice assistants used for targeted ads
- 2023-09-09 20:34 cars have the worst privacy
- 2023-09-07 16:40 chrome turns on it's user tracking ad platform
using a web browser owned by the worlds biggest advertising company is not a good idea.
- 2023-09-06 09:27 chrome uses your browser history for targetted ads
- 2023-09-06 08:45 musk in the social media attention economy
- 2023-09-05 19:14 how much intelligence did our last president give the russians
- 2023-08-30 13:21 google kills 2 year plan after 22 months
"To take some sting out of the move, Google is offering a "$100 loyalty reward credit" for active Pixel Pass subscribers. You can use it for $100 off a new Pixel phone from the Google Store or Google Fi, and it expires in two years." (or whenever it's convenient for them)
- 2023-08-30 13:20 Google Removes ‘Pirate’ URLs from Users’ Privately Saved Links
- 2023-08-30 08:20 housing is a labor issue
I'm not sure the solution is to build more houses though, I'd like to see a tax on people that own multiple homes.
- 2023-08-30 08:17 windows 11 malware like popups
- 2023-08-24 14:17 You're a cyclist who was struck by a car, here's why it's your fault
- 2023-08-22 14:11 ai porn market is like an angry and horny man demanding things from pornhub
- 2023-08-21 12:00 no longer able to do a clean install on windows
- 2023-08-21 08:43 want my appliances to be himbos stupid
- 2023-08-17 19:01 the cart narc
- 2023-08-12 08:16 conservative plans to destroy our biosphere
- 2023-08-11 07:36 you can't trust google maps
- 2023-08-10 16:09 The end of cheap streaming
- 2023-08-10 07:03 blocked by cloudflare
- 2023-08-09 07:09 Intel GPU driver capturing marketing data
- 2023-08-03 16:10 on the former president's indictment
- 2023-08-03 09:21 Google’s Plan To DRM The Web Goes Against Everything Google Once Stood For
- 2023-07-28 13:07 Apple DRM makes you draw squiggly straight lines
- 2023-07-18 12:56 windows collects a ton of stuff about you
- 2023-07-17 07:52 Johnson & Johnson sues researchers who linked talc to cancer
- 2023-07-03 08:38 how google reader died
The death of google reader was the beginning of the death of google.
- 2023-07-03 08:34 google moving to limit adblockers for youtube
I'm sad to see it go.
- 2023-07-03 06:35 how to kill a decentralized network
- 2023-06-30 17:03 Guillermo del Toro says we have to rescue animation from emoji behavior
- 2023-06-30 08:21 comcast doesnt want to list all it's hidden fees
- 2023-06-12 12:57 Edge sends the images you view online to microsoft
- 2023-06-12 12:56 WTF is happening with the climate
- 2023-06-12 12:48 the hand dealt to young people
- 2023-06-12 08:20 RSS is still great
- 2023-06-10 07:42 former president said "this is secret. look at this"
- 2023-06-10 07:41 former president asked kid rock for his advice on how to hand north korea
Cory points out they just have to tie this up in the courts until another republican president is elected.
I'm glad they failed to monetize their panopticon. I want to own something like this but there's no way in hell I'm letting amazon or google listen or watch everything I say and do. The best (but most unlikely) outcome of this failure would be if amazon opened the hardware and software and let us run our own local voice assistant nodes. I would buy two or three.
Just a reminder that this webcomic exists and is awesome. I posted about this back in 2009
Reddit's been returning blank pages for me because my ad blocker blocks cookies. It's already like a gaping hole in the internet.
using a web browser owned by the worlds biggest advertising company is not a good idea.
"To take some sting out of the move, Google is offering a "$100 loyalty reward credit" for active Pixel Pass subscribers. You can use it for $100 off a new Pixel phone from the Google Store or Google Fi, and it expires in two years." (or whenever it's convenient for them)
I'm not sure the solution is to build more houses though, I'd like to see a tax on people that own multiple homes.
The death of google reader was the beginning of the death of google.
I'm sad to see it go.
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