SF: Europa Report

The surveillance of this scale isn’t necessary. I’m not against serving me ads based on the current web page I’m on right now. Or based on the current email or search, since the provider has access to that anyway (unless it’s e2e). Or make a profile of me based on a voluntary questionnaire.

Some companies work like that and they survive just fine. It’s absolutely not necessary to collect every little bit of detail of my life to serve me ads. It’s only the predatory companies that do that, and especially the multi-trillion corporations.

Furthermore, those “free” services in exchange for user data may not even be good. Take Google, how they push everything that serves their needs, even if better alternatives are available (or were, before they were smothered).

I.e. crappy quality of Google search is well documented, Chrome no comment, Drive is pushed so hard that you can’t get a Pixel phone with decent storage and most phones don’t offer memory cards because Google makes it difficult… Etc.

So yea, I’m totally for limiting the collection of data to the barest minimum. There’s literally no downsides to anybody except to the dystopian corporations.

Ed: that’s not even mentioning all the dark patterns these corpos use to sign you up, or how you can’t opt out or you have no choice because of monopolies. That’s not “choosing” or “agreeing”, that’s extortion.

They shouldn’t be able to obtain data beyond what’s strictly necessary for the service, never mind sell it.

People don’t understand the value of the data, and there’s no good way to put a price on it, honestly. As in, no, just because Reddit or whoever can make 5£$€ a year off me, doesn’t mean I’d be ok to sell it for 2£$€.

If I had to pick one, I’d be very torn between Flash Forward, Odyssey 5 and Terminator TSCC. Probably the first one.

I have a mirror for that kind of content.

Just watching a World Endurance Championship race in Japan.

I always know I can never be 100% sure of anything. That removes some of the pressure of needing to be right, and ironically some of the uncertainty too. Other than that, well, just gather as much information as possible and go for it… Then don’t look back

Lingo Deer is pretty much the same thing for Asian languages, iirc

The latest SDUC standard allows for up to 128 TB.

You need to use lower power on the microwave.

I’m a poor person, I know a lot about how food lasts beyond expiry dates.

There’s being overly afraid of going past best-by date, and there’s being stupid by eating 2 weeks old leftovers from the fridge.

After 5 days I wouldn’t eat anything opened or already cooked from the fridge that isn’t naturally preserved (like cheese or sour cream). Things go bad in the fridge too.

I’ve not tried 2 weeks old rice, and I don’t want to. You want to keep something edible more than a few days, that’s what the freezer is for.

Right, salmonella isn’t the thing to worry about cooked food. But other things are if you keep leftovers for a week or two.

I agree with day or two tops, but the microwave/pan thing I see completely the opposite way. Microwave is ok to heat up eggs, while refrying in a pan you are likely to dry them up and it just can’t be the same the 2nd time.

A week or two for leftovers? How are you not dead of salmonella. Eggs are good for maybe 2 days in a fridge.

I’ve used it a lot especially when console gaming and using my phone for Discord chat. So even tho I use BT earphones more often, it’s useful to have.

USB dongles are unacceptable because I use magnetic cables, and USB ports are notoriously prone to breaking, making the whole phone useless.

Gimme a phone with 2 USB ports and I won’t care about a headphone jack that much.

I’d like the Reddit style flairs. On communities, mods could set up a bunch of flairs for people to choose from when making a new post. Also be able to assign a user flair.

I think this is useful for distinguishing e.g. questions from debates or memes.

Twitter-style (hash)tags, I understand why they exist but I don’t care for them. Everyone just puts all the tags into every post anyway. Communities on Lemmy serve mostly the same purpose anyway. Like, would technology posts on technology communities have technology tags? Silly.

Sin Bon?

Vihikl?

Koar… Koir… Koair… Koayre… Egh I’m not improving it am I

In my dictionary spelling is [ki:] so like “kee”