Seriously, no way. I’m giving up my guns now that we have brown coats.

Ever is this data dump so I can mirror it?

Did I say that it did?

No?

Then why the rhetorical question for something that I never stated?

Now that we’re past that, I’m not sure if I think it’s okay, but I at least recognize that it’s normalized within society. And has been for like 70+ years now. The problem happens with how the data is used, and particularly abused.

If you walk into my store, you expect that I am monitoring you. You expect that you are on camera and that your shopping patterns, like all foot traffic, are probably being analyzed and aggregated. What you buy is tracked, at least in aggregate, by default really, that’s just volume tracking and prediction.

Suffice to say that broad customer behavior analysis has been a thing for a couple generations now, at least.

When you go to a website, why would you think that it is not keeping track of where you go and what you click on in the same manner?

Now that I’ve stated that I do want to say that the real problems that we experience come in with how this data is misused out of what it’s scope should be. And that we should have strong regulatory agencies forcing compliance of how this data is used and enforcing the right to privacy for people that want it removed.

I build software and can confirm this.

This is pretty run-of-the-mill analytics and user session recording. There’s nothing surprising here.

Usually it’s not actual screen recording but rather user action diff recording (Which effectively acts like recording the application except that it only records things that changed so that the recording is much cheaper to store)

This is extremely effective for tracking down bugs, solving user support issues with software, or watching session recordings to figure out if users are using the software in unexpected ways.

Pretty much any error tracking analytic software worth it’s salt does that these days!

Your argument against the article that talks about copper usage is founded on incomplete knowledge of where copper is actually used?

🤦

Proof that it’s already too late ☝️

Parsing commas is hard, right? No, not really.

• young
• poor
• women

Parsing commas is hard, clearly, since you still missed the lack of parallel structure. “Young, poor, women” reads as a list of adjectives modifying a single noun, “women”.

🤦

Young poor women are the primary recipient of Medicaid?

I do! I’m actually using an NVidia Shield. Which runs android TV

I tried last year to install a recommended one but it required that I download a third-party APK. And I would have to jump through a meant hoops to be able to install it on this device when I was poking around then. If it’s not on the Play store, apparently it’s rather difficult to install?

On my tv, yes :(

They have a shitton of other products, services, and tech though?

Just because it’s not marketed at you doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist.

I interact with the development ecosystem that Microsoft largely controls. They’re constantly doing new stuff there.

Shit megacorps? Yeah. No innovation? No.

Yeah, but they hold none of the actual real emotional needs complexities or nuances of real human connections.

Which means these people become further and further disillusioned from the reality of human interaction. Making them social dangers over time.

Just like how humans that lack critical thinking are dangers in a society where everyone is expected to make sound decisions. Humans who lack the ability to socially navigate or connect with other humans are dangerous in the society where humans are expected to socially stable.

Obviously these people are not in good places in life. But AI is not going to make that better. It’s going to make it worse.

Found the Linux user.

Not Arc though, they would have said so

Really wish we didn’t have bots posting at all

32TB right now.

Got +80TB coming in the mail!

And offside backup coming soon ™️

I’ve seen it several times on Lemmy, Reddit, my news feed, my bloody RSS feed…etc

And I block ads., I don’t see ads, but now social media in general is just half astroturfed ads.

Have we collectively forgotten that Facebook tested manipulating users emotional states all the way back in 2014?

Where they tested to see if people with depression can be even more depressed if their social media feeds are manipulated to take away positive interaction.

Yeah, the title calls this out… “Strategic Stamina”. Something meant countries just don’t have anymore

It’s actually worse than that this person committed no crimes saw no trial has been kidnapped, stripped up their human rights, and sent to another country to be held and used as forced labor for the rest of their life.

This person literally just got slave traded.