GiveOver

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[–] GiveOver@feddit.uk 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Wait till an American shows up and calls it noodles

[–] GiveOver@feddit.uk 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Look at some UK new builds on Rightmove and you will delete this. 1 decent bedroom turned into 3 shitty bedrooms just to make up numbers. You can't even fit a bed in them all

[–] GiveOver@feddit.uk 15 points 5 months ago (9 children)

I thought Americans used sq ft to casually describe houses? Please don't switch to number of bedrooms. That's what we do in UK and it's led to house builders squeezing closet-sized bedrooms into a house so they can sell it as a 4-bed.

[–] GiveOver@feddit.uk 5 points 5 months ago

Upset that "loop detected" isn't the fat lööps cat

[–] GiveOver@feddit.uk 10 points 5 months ago

Straight up misleading. Mentioning AI in the headline and then sneakily switching to "the cloud" (i.e. most of the internet) when discussing figures. They say it uses a similar amount to commercial flights? Fine. Ground the flights, I'd rather have the internet a million times over.

[–] GiveOver@feddit.uk 16 points 6 months ago (1 children)

On top of this, there's lots of ways that they would get the data without secretly listening to microphones, which people may not be aware of in all these anecdotes. In the one above, maybe just one party member googled lab grown diamonds, or perhaps messaged a friend on Facebook messenger about their trick. Not sure if that gets analysed for ads but it's more plausible than mics. Anyway if they're all on the same WiFi then they'll probably be on the same IP and could easily be shown the same ads, making all party members now ripe for a diamond ad.

There's a well known video of a guy saying "cat food" around his phone, and then his phone shows Google ads for cat food. He concluded that it was secretly listening to him, because there was no other way for Google to get that info other than to shadily tap into his mic. He performs this experiment on a live streamed YouTube video

[–] GiveOver@feddit.uk 10 points 6 months ago (1 children)

What about when you need to actually use do not disturb? I have it on at night to stop my phone buzzing when my idiot morning friends message me

[–] GiveOver@feddit.uk 0 points 8 months ago

Snake / snake-in-the-grass has the connotations of fake loyalty, not sure if it's specifically amongst several groups but it fits.

[–] GiveOver@feddit.uk 26 points 8 months ago

God actually does answer prayers but they get blocked by ufw

[–] GiveOver@feddit.uk 0 points 8 months ago

I assume you are a lawyer and this is legal advice?

[–] GiveOver@feddit.uk 7 points 8 months ago

I'm an idiot and I put emojis in my SSID and sometimes devices don't like that but I don't want to change everything. So there's a guest network with no emojis

[–] GiveOver@feddit.uk 3 points 8 months ago

Sounds like Speed 2, except with a bus instead of a boat

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