We know everything about the victim and nothing of his captors.

My biggest takeaway from that article is that Google has been charging website owners to train their AI for them. What a bunch of greedy cunts.

Please let this all be a simulation that I’ll wake up from!

This is even worse with anime! Back in the 90’s anime had men and women doing awesome shit. There was sex and violence. There were characters I could relate to.

Now it’s all teens. Spineless boys who piss themselves at the sight of a female. Everything is PG. No badasses or relatable characters (unless you’re 12 I guess).

I love the medium but I hate that 95% of the time the target audience is children.

Because bondage, S&M and the leather community are all different things. Sure they’re all under the kink umbrella but that doesn’t mean somebody into one thing is into All of the other things. Most people I’ve met in the leather community aren’t even into bondage.

I’ve been purging all big tech from my life as much as possible. Meta was easy because they don’t really offer anything. It took quite a while to eliminate google. Once that was done, it was Microsoft’s turn.

I’ve also been absolutely fed up with Windows over the years. Each release somehow gets worse and more clunky and in my way of doing what I’m trying to do. So on top of being untrustworthy, using my data and generally being capitalist assholes, Microsoft’s product itself is shit.

I installed Mint and seen what innovation actually looks like. I also realized most of the things I love about android are actually features of linux under the hood. So I intend to jump on the linux phone bandwagon as well.

I’ve been using Photoshop for over 20 years. That’s been the hardest part. GIMP is impressive but for as long as it’s been around it’s still a little rough around the edges here and there. I’m learning to deal with it though.

Yeah I think I’ll just click an icon in my password manager instead.

I’m literally camping out in the woods right now and installed linux on a mini PC last night. No real home, no job, but I’ve got penguins!

I think this is somewhat true on X, Meta’s platforms and Reddit but not so on lemmy.

I think the last time I tried a bunch, it came down to Breezy and Cirrus. I think they’re pretty similar but I settled on Cirrus for whatever reason. Here’s a link for anyone interested.

https://f-droid.org/packages/org.woheller69.omweather

You’re having an argument with a voice in your head or something. I’m just going to tag you and go about my morning. Good luck with whatever it is you’re dealing with.

Absolutely. Just don’t do anything shady with that information. I think that’s all anyone’s asking.

Sure, and it would be cool if that dude didn’t pass my personal information to a third party.

Nearly every weather app that exists is repackaging data from an official, tax funded source. Apps using weather underground data possibly being the only exception.

Show me one that doesn’t want location permissions and such. So now they’ve got Your data and can do as they please with it.

Because greed.

I had to scroll down too far to find something like this.

If you’re home the solution is simple. If you’re not home, then they’ll likely steal an inexpensive boomstick rather than your network gear.

My story is very similar. I used DD-WRT for years until something broke. Then I switched to OpenWRT and never looked back. That was maybe ten years ago.

Officers can view live drone footage from their patrol car computers…

Interesting. I wonder who else can view that live video stream.

I suppose one must ponder if the alternative is considered living. For many, it is not.

Sure, if you change the meaning of words…