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Photoshop Terms of Service grants Adobe access to user projects for ‘content moderation’ and other purposes

Holy Shitballs:

Sam Santala

Jun 5

Also, hilarious that I can't even get ahold of your support chat to question this unless I agree to these terms beforehand.

Jun 5

I can't even uninstall Photoshop unless I agree to these terms?? Are you fucking kidding me??

Jun 5

Realising I also need to agree to the terms if I want to sign in and cancel my subscription

16h

Can someone there give me an email for someone who can cancel my subscription without having to sign in and agree to these new terms first?

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JWST Detects the Earliest, Most Distant Galaxy in the Known Universe—And It’s Super Weird

“A redshift of one corresponds to a distance of more than 10 billion light-years. JWST’s studies showed that JADES-GS-z14-0 has a redshift of 14.32, the highest ever recorded.”

Wow!

“Usually gases like oxygen show up only after large groups of stars have lived their lives and died in supernova explosions,” Hainline says. “So seeing oxygen in a galaxy this young is like if you are an anthropologist and you find an enormous, ancient city that has evidence of iPhones.”

That just boggles the mind!

Can’t wait to get more data on this wee, spry, bizarre find.

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Location tracking of phones is out of control. Here’s how to fight back.

One thing I am always aware of are apps that want permission to access Bluetooth and/or Wi-Fi and/or Networks.

Even though Bluetooth is very short ranged it can still be used to tie you into a location within a database based on other database records that are more detailed.

Yeah, I love playing you “My Great Dog-sitting Simulator” (not a real app) but you do not need access to my BT. The OS handles sending your audio to my headphones!

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What did you have to learn the hard way?

Before you share unasked for information with someone consider these two points:

  1. Is this a teachable moment?
  2. Does this person want to be taught?

If the answer is No to either one or both, keep to yourself.

In related news: Sometimes people want to vent, sometimes they want solutions. If you don’t know which one is needed it’s okay to ask!

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Everything going on has got me down, I need a break. What's something good that's happened in your life recently?

I was on Lemmy and saw a post where a user named TooManyPancakes (which is a lie!) asked everyone for some uplifting news to brighten their day.

It was a wonderful exchange! This caring person, with the poorly chosen user name, took time out of their day to reply to as many comments as they could, with uplifting affirmations of their own.

Completely made my day to see someone ask for help and then return it in kind, many times over. ❤️❤️❤️

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people who deliver or install things to people 's houses. what kind of odd things have you seen?

NSFW INCOMING…

::: spoiler Tap for spoiler I once saw a boner!

Was delivering pizza and after knocking on the door, and no one answered, I took a few steps back and looked around to see if anyone was at home. I saw two people on the couch in the living room, naked, face to face.

Well fuck! They’re home, but busy, and if I leave we lose a sale. So I knock again, a but louder.

Door opens a he’s standing there in the buck with a wet, raging, erection. I can smell the sex on him. “Yeah!?” he says…

Now I’m there, in uniform, holding a pizza delivery bag, and my running car is behind me with a big ol’ corporate pizza logo lit up.

“You ordered a pizza?”

“Oh yeah, right!” He hold out his hands.

“That’ll be $18…” He looks confused. “You have to pay for the food sir…”

Light bulb goes off. Weed smoke starts wafting out the door.

He looks down, laughs to himself and just turns around and walks away. Leaving the door open. I hope he’s going to find his wallet, so I stay there.

A few minutes later he returns to the open door, smelling strongly of weed and pussy, his dick now dripping wet. He hands me a $20, and waits for his change. :::

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Giuliani Concedes He Made False Statements About Georgia Election Workers

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It's important to note that the #1 rule of Misinformation is: Be First.

The information doesn't have to be accurate, verifiable, etc., it just has to Be First and it'll get repeated often enough that people will start to believe that it's true. "Oh Shirley, how can 'Biden Eats Babies' be wrong when I've already seen 18 shared posts on my wall this morning [Meta/Facebook] talking about it. I've received 3 e-mails from other family members talking about it. Why I even saw 4 articles on my favorite websites last night and this morning reporting on it. They can't all be wrong!"

Then when the truth tries to assert itself there's so much noise that it gets drowned out.

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Done with Twitter and Reddit

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Mastodon gets better when you start following people by hashtag.

Account Settings > Profile > Featured Hashtags

Populate that area with hashtags of what interests you. Pretty soon you have people popping up that share your interests and you follow those that seem interesting.