I hate social media, but the (previously just a news) app Artifact has started adding social features and it’s not awful (yet). Regardless, anything I do join is anonymous (if I can actually use the service with no account) or pseudonymous. No service gets real, identifiable data from me, and I generally don’t use the…

“forcing people to put their money where their mouth is a great deterrent against automated attacks on the system.”

Musk was kicked out of Paypal.

I will never have a verified account on any service. The Internet needs to remain anonymous. 

Nintendo Online, Prime, and Spotify are all I’ve kept. I get video streaming services through family.

I try to stick to games that have an ending or have a lot of replay value. I played Spider-Man PS4 at least six times across multiple difficulties and the DLC.

That’s not what’s happening. Nobody wants monopolies. What we want is to stop companies from getting so large that they agree with their competitors to not impede on their territory, mafia-style. That’s an Oligopoly, and that’s what we have in nearly every American industry.

Nobody cares about 8K when nobody's making content in 8K. 4K however is gorgeous and you'll never go back to 1080p once you have a 75" 4K HDR TV. 

Then it's just cable all over again. I’d never use a streaming service again if they removed the option to cancel anytime. I have too many video games to play that are probably cinematically better than 90% of TV and movies anyway. 

Still cheaper in the long run. Would you rather spend $40 on two or three subscriptions for one month and watch everything you were hoping to, or $120 a year on one subscription that only has a quarter of the content you're hoping to see?

The answer is more complicated for video game subscriptions, but TV has a simple answer: subscribe to everything you need to watch the best stuff that came out in the current year on December 1st and cancel on December 30th. When looking at a full list of things to watch, and the cost of getting every streaming…

I hope Google is broken up simply so Android can either be bought by someone else with actual vision (Google's not had any real vision for any their products in years) or a new company can form around it and do a lot more with it than Google has done in the last 10 years.

If the future is everyone having an always-on recording device, I won't ever leave my house without a way to hide my face and change my voice. This is terrifying. 

Probably, but I've only used Galaxy phones for the last ~10 years. 

Cops are rarely expedient. There'll be time. 

On Samsung devices, the simplest thing is to turn on Lockdown Mode if there’s going to be a cop interaction. When it’s turned on in the settings, it appears in the menu when you press and hold the power button. When Lockdown Mode is chosen from the power menu, it disables biometric unlock and forces PIN/Password…

A percentage of a turd is still a turd, no matter how polished. 

This is a bit semantic. My job instantly went from incredibly difficult when I had to do 100% by myself to 75% easier with the assistance of an internal LLM tool. I’m still a human making decisions and being held accountable, but the AI is doing most of the work to get me to the decision-making part.

I'll definitely trust my financial security to a man-child that offered to buy Twitter on a whim for $44B, tried to back out, then was forced to by court decision. Real big-brain finance moves 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣.

Inching further into Christo-Fascism AND corpo dystopia. Murica! Fuck yeah!