Still dislike Microsoft for cheaping out on the later generations Lumia. Cheaper displays so the 950 didnt support Glance. Wth?

I still miss my 920 tho. The Lumia 920 is only recently dethroned as my favorite (smart)phone of all time.

Microsoft messed up badly in Europe by completely and utterly ignoring the continent. Nokia managed to gain a larger marketshare than Apple in both Italy and France at the time. With meaningful marketshares in the rest of Europe.

Nokia was doing alright in several Asian countries Microsoft ignored as well.

After the take over, Microsoft kept all their resources forced on the US market, failed and in turn lost the European and Asian markets.

GG.

The 7 october 2023’s bodycam footage will haunt me when I turn senile.

It is ignored by most people just like Iran bombing Tel Aviv in october 2024, by Iranian official statements, celebrate Hamas their actions a year prior.

The current result in Gaza was the only realistic outcome of what started 3 years ago.

However this is not proportionate and is just making sure this cycle will continue forever by creating a new generation of ‘terrorists’. It is a dumb course of action and even though most of the world hates on Israel for the wrong reasons, the international pressure is valid.

Israel pretends to be a civilized nation, then it should start acting like it.

How come Hamas is not in your list?

It makes perfect sense.

Palestinian terrorists initially claimed responsibilty for the attack. Palestinians in Gaza and West Bank were celebrating the 9/11 attack en masse.

It is a perfect argument to use the 9/11 memory to defend the Palestinian cause.

Advertisement has been datamining ever since Google and Facebook figured out how to monetize their markets and is at this point, old enough to drink in the US. Absolutely not something recent.

Nobody here saw anything of Apple’s keynote a few days ago.

Several times my privacy-WTF sense went tingling off the radar. Those devices are the absolute pinnacle of privacy invasion.

It’s scary how much data you can transmit with those batteries on optimized hardware.

I have IoT things eating more data than a cheap voice call that last months.

Oh don’t worry. These tech companies pretty much all do this. If the TV’s aren’t listening and even watching us. It are our iOS and Android based smartphones and watches. Our in home smart cloud connected “security” camera’s. Our ‘smart’ doorbells, fridges, ovens. Our Windows/Macbook laptops. Our cars.

We’re already long passed the dystopian threshold.

The worst part is, the vast majority of people chose for this and socially shunned people that never opted in for this 1984 bullshit.

LG is nothing, last year Apple settled for spying on their users. Nobody cared. Facebook has been charged for this, multiple times, nobody cares considering the popularity of Whatsapp and Instagram to this day. Everybody goes wild about the new iPhone, haha, it’s an absolute privacy nightmare that’s spying 24/7.

LG is just a popular target now because they’re Asian.

How are they casually finding these home assistant servers? I sure hope people dont have port 8123 exposed publicly like that? Are you all broadcasting it in to the ether?

It’s been that case since forever now. Nothing has really changed and the same rules still apply.

I still remember ‘hacking’ my ISP ADSL router 2+ decades ago and listening to the WAN interface. Hundreds of thousands of attempts per day in the early 2000s. Mostly US, Russia and China.

My personal #1 threat on the internet for the past 20 years has been DDOS and thanks to billions of IOT devices and privacy invading ‘smart’ appliances everywhere… The botnets have never been this plenty. DDOS as a Service for mere cents a day.

LLM’s joined the fray in recent years but it still can’t do anything it hasn’t learned from us humans.

The Fairly Oddparents is kind of the last reminisce of golden age Cartoon Network.

What was Wenger thinking, sending Walcott on that early?

I would wish the EU would be more strict in its laws. Cookiebanners are NOT required when you only use functional cookies that the website technically needs to work. I never had to show the banner for my websites, because I simply don’t include 3rd party bullshit, no ads, no tracking.

Same with the new age rating rules, websites and communities that aim at CHILDREN are required to not be invasive when checking for age (ID checks are last fucking resorts!). If your website or community is obviously 18+, like porn, gore and such websites. There is no requirement for an age check!

Fuck the companies abusing our EU systems and that put the EU in a bad spotlight because of RABBLE RABBLE RABBLE social media ragebait.

Why the fuck is it socially acceptable for billion dollar (foreign!) tech companies to manipulate our children?

Why did we normalize getting our asses spied on? And why are we accepting the excuse of these tech companies to scan our ID’s and passports?

The GDPR does not allow scanning of identity cards/passports except for a very limited section. Like: banks, your employer, your health insurance and your government. These tech companies are not on the GDPR VIP list.

That’s because of the 22,3 year rule. Tragedies become funny to joke about without shockhumor after about 22,3 years. Like aids became socially funny ~20 years ago and 9/11 became socially acceptable to joke about just shortly after COVID.

It’s uncanning how accurate Matt and Trey’s documentary was. As usual.

I see, I don’t see it now, but I do see the editor pencil thing near him, maybe our pocketsand friend here did us all a favour.

No wai!

i mean, yeah they were memes and used as memes.

You’d just be chilling on IRC or the alt-binaries somewhere for your daily dose of Warez, random link appears, you click it. BWAM Goatse in your face. And people where laughing.

These early rotten.com-like memes are basically the source for the Rickroll, the not being able to trust links thankfully turned in to a fun song.

If that’s the approach you’re going to take. You are aware that the US has a lot of its economy and position to thank of their global projection of power. The current above global average standards of living in the US is not possible without this mass exploitation of the world.

Which thanks to the orange baboon is falling apart, good luck amigos.

lollercoasters.

I still use icanhazip.com to find my wan ip.