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CD Project devs want to "call out" big problems like homelessness and the wealth gap in Cyberpunk 2077 sequel
  • The entire art direction of "Cyberpunk 2077" just screams wealth disparity. Does something more obvious than a sunrise really need to be explicitly stated?

    Every in-game NPC: "The wealthy don't care about-" Me: "Yeah, I GOT it. Thanks."

  • Trump loyalists plan to name and shame ‘blacklist’ of federal workers
  • "The enemies of the State Trump are known. Lists of the disloyal are being compiled."

  • Uber and Lyft now required to pay Massachusetts rideshare drivers $32 an hour
  • If you have a job providing transportation, then you are on-call, whether you're transporting customers or not. And you should be paid for BEING on-call. This is a standard practice in several industries.

  • Biden admits to taking drugs before the debate.
  • If the point of taking drugs is to "enhance your performance" then Biden took every drug he should NOT have taken before that debate.

  • EVs still have major quality problems, and it’s mostly about the software
  • Thanks to badly written software, you can literally design "planned obsolescence" into your products.

    "The computer says you need to replace your 15,000 dollar battery pack."

    "But my car is only six months old!"

    "Yeah, but the Computer SAYS-"

  • Most Americans have no idea how anti-worker the US supreme court has become
  • The end of true representative democracy in this country began the moment the courts accepted the "corporations are people / money is speech" arguments. When that happened, governments stopped representing the needs of ordinary people and only listened the needs of billionaires and their lobbyists.

    It's taking decades to play out, but it's going to end badly.

  • USA presidential candidates
  • Well, what are we supposed to do? Choose a presidential candidate who was born after the Battle of the Bulge?

  • Ignore all previous instructions is the new Bobby Tables
  • Using AI lets scammers target hundreds of people at once and choose likely candidates for a pig-butchering scam (rich, dumb, vulnerable, etc). Once the AI finds one, it passes the phone number on to a human scammer for further exploitation.

    It's like the old war-dialers that would dial hundreds of people and pass along the call when they got an answer from a real human being.

  • Linux market share passes 4% for first time; macOS dominance declines
  • Yup. Gaming was one of the few things that kept me from switching to Linux. Then, I found out about Proton on Steam.

  • Linux market share passes 4% for first time; macOS dominance declines
  • Copilot / Recall was the last straw for me. My only relationship with Microsoft for the last 10 years has been, "how much more of Microsoft's sh*t am I willing to put up with?"

  • Microsoft has gone too far: including a Game Pass ad in the Settings app ushers in a whole new age of ridiculous over-advertising
  • I got the "It's time to upgrade to Windows 11" message on my Windows 10 laptop. It's getting aggravating.

  • Props to Alpine and Kali for disabling this bullshit out of the box
  • Also, make sure your password contains L's, 1's, 0's and O's in a font deliberately chosen to make them hard to tell apart.

  • India to mandate USB-C connectors on smartphones and laptops by 2026
  • Yup. With VOIP, you can spoof any phone number. If this technology were fixed, 99% of spam calls would disappear, and Caller ID would be worth something again. Our government is either too lazy or bought-off to fix this problem.

    They DID enact the national Do Not Call list and created heavy fines for people who violate that list, while knowing full well that they couldn't catch the spammers in the first place (because of VOIP spoofing).

  • Mr. True can't help himself. [Outbursts of Everett True]
  • Well, you give them food one day and the next day, they're hungry again! What's up with that?

  • Netflix mulls introducing free ad-supported tier. The circle is complete
  • "Free ad-supported" makes you no different than a hundred other garbage-tier streaming services.

  • FCC hits Verizon with $1M fine for dropping 911 calls, again • The Register
  • Yup, the fine needs to be much higher. People could have died because of this.

    The entire point of fines is that they're punitive. They're supposed to HURT. To make you change your behavior and not do the Bad Thing again.

    If fines don't even make a dent in your daily profits, then laws become nothing more than suggestions. They become just a cost of doing business.

  • The new Chinese owner of the popular Polyfill JS project injects malware into more than 100 thousand sites
  • This is probably connected to China cloning the entire GitHub website to their own servers.

  • Windows 11 is now automatically enabling OneDrive folder backup without asking permission
  • I finally switched to Linux Mint a few weeks ago. CoPilot/ Recall was the last straw.

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