Hudell

joined 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 185 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Why is capitalism so anti-folks?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Opera has in the past been caught passing all of its users' data through their servers, decrypting and re-encrypting it there all while telling the users that the data was encrypted end-to-end.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Is it ever not having one? Brave is one of the shittier browser companies out there.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Sadly that sort of thing got so common where I work that I'll run the tests three times before considering looking into the error message to see if it is something I broke.

From time to time we take some days just to fix tests with inconsistent results, but there's always more popping up.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Depends on the kind of search. If you're wondering what was newton's second law, you can just Google that. If you're having an issue where your steam deck virtual keyboard is not showing up when you press its shortcut, the top 20 non-reddit Google results will all be random SEO articles about the basic features of steam deck.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Many years ago I liked the idea of it and thought it would turn out great. It never happened.

While every now and then I do get something useful out of it, most times a Google result puts me there the answers are either wrong, outdated or filled with broken links.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

I once worked as a 3rd party in a large internet news site and got assigned a task to replace their current captcha with a partner's captcha system. This new system would play an ad and ask the user to type the name of the company in that ad.

In my first test I already noticed that the company name was available in a public variable on the site and showed that to my manager by opening the dev tools and passing the captcha test with just some commands.

His response: "no user is gonna go into that much effort just to avoid typing the company name".

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I went to check it out and was so happy with the idea and the first impression that it gave me that I went ahead and bought the lifetime premium for it hoping to customize it to my tastes, only to quickly learn they are very anti-customization.

Damn I really hate opinionated software.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Haven't fully deleted mine yet, but I'm already using it a lot less. Lemmy is more than good enough for bathroom scrolling and I've actually gone back to reading books before bed. Just finished one yesterday.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I would assume the machine would predict I take both because it would know me too well to belive there would be anything in B, so I would take A.

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