Company I worked for got hacked so they gave us free Equifax for a year, Equifax got hacked so they upgraded us to lifetime membership and my company felt so guilty they gave us LastPass for a year, then LastPass got hacked, again and again. I feel like I got privacy herpes.

It is worrying how few media appearances he has done, and how light the questioning was when he did get interviewed.

If they think continuing with the same policies with a different presenter will work, Labour may end up fighting for 4th place in a couple of years.

Digital ID and this stupid Social Media ban needs to be binned on day one.

Sadly it’s nothing to do with solving the problem of young people Doom-scrolling, and everything to do with making money for ID services, while ensuring your advertising ID is tied to a government ID.

My first thought was the other way around… Starmer knew he was on his way out and needed to push through the social media ban to repay the tech oligarchs that got him elected. Either way Burnam needs to actually change tack, and TBH I’m going to take some convincing to not vote for the greens.

GPU - now the price of a 5 year old Toyota.

RAM - 10x price hike in the last year

CPUs - prices increasing faster than processing speed

Economy - destroyed

Wages - stagnant

Social contract for young adults - Broken

Motherboard manufacturers - “why is no one buying our products?”

This is my favourite Banksy so far. The conundrum going on right now about potentially:

• washing off artwork worth tens of millions
• removing a section of the 140 year old building
• covering the artwork
• protecting it behind plexiglass

There are a team of people going through a lot of stress right now, and pretty much everyone not rooting for the plexiglass is letting everyone else know what an arsehole they are.

Got to be Apple slowing down older iPhones to mask battery degradation, and hoping no one would notice.

I’ve said this on Lemmy a few times before but 25+ years ago my AI dissertation was on a mushroom identification algorithm, which concluded that even with all the computing power in the world it would not be possible to create an infallible system, and as such was wholly unethical to create, when the cost of failure is death.

25 years later and AI is still the same, we’ve just decided to give it all that computing power.

Why do I always get the knob seat?

The company that provides your banks phone system has full access to pretty much every piece of information your bank holds on you, including call recordings, phone numbers, addresses, debts, credits, and your phone password. We can trick our own systems into thinking it’s you on the phone.

Avoid calling your bank at all costs, and if they call you say “no thank you I’ll do that online or in branch”, as soon as you pass security the phone system is accessing all your data. If possible go into branch or do everything on a banking app which has far better security.

I’ve stopped watching YouTube shorts because of this, and the removal of the downvote count makes it harder to tell.

Not long now before ‘Donald the Cunt’ declares midterm elections cannot be held due to the civil war.

The leaders of the DNC chose wrong, America was not given the option.

Hey UK!

Can we just try not to be last for once, please?

Windows defender?

Seriously you don’t need anything else, it’s really lightweight and Microsoft uses it to enhance their paid for corporate offerings. Anything more is just expensive bloatware for 99.9% of users.

Edit: Kaspersky has been banned in several countries because it may be a Russian Trojan program.

What kind of backhanded EV misinformation bullshit is this?

Electric, gas, petrol, hydrogen, diesel, cooking oil or vodka; what you put in your car to make it go makes no difference to the tires or the wear.

I see your 5 eyes and raise you confiscation of all UK Trump/Musk assets to pay for the Ukraine war, as they are now both obviously Russian Oligarchs.

I used to travel all over Europe for work, one day I arrived in Munich where the passport control officer asked if I was there for Oktoberfest. I explained I don’t drink and I was just there for work.

He looked me up and down, tilted his head a little and said “Really? You, Don’t drink?

I’m a big guy, not fat fat, but big. I was so annoyed with suggestion that I must like my beer because of my stature, I stewed about it in the taxi all the way to my hotel until I caught myself in the mirror of the hotel room, where I realised I was wearing a Guinness shirt I picked up in Dublin the previous week.

We must also bomb Iran because War is Peace! Lock up the immigrants because after all Freedom is Slavery for the Proles! This was always the case, every record in the Ministry of Truth confirms it.

The preferential treatment was that the body cams were just muted during the cover up and not all accidentally turned off for the entire encounter, not getting beaten up, tased or shot.

I mean as far as preferential treatment goes I’d take that deal, but the fact remains he was pulled out of his car, roughed up, taken to the floor and handcuffed for 18minutes for no reason when the cop should have been writing him a (dubious) ticket.

There are at least 2 cops here who should not be cops and the rest need to be retrained to ensure they step in if they see mistreatment like this again, for face being fired.