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Assuming you’re new to the idea: never a better time to start. 😊

DeBeers, diamonds and FOMO marketing… not a new strategy.

But also not necessarily artificial scarcity in this case. Hard to tell.

It’s telling of this era that it’s impossible to initially know if this is corporate greed or vibe goonery.

So… intentional or unintentional enshittification, I guess. 😬

From OP’s linked article:

[The same people use] a second AI persona, a young purple-haired woman called Amelia, who appears in various Danny Bones videos and standalone clips. The character was originally created by the political and media literacy organisation Shout Out UK for a Home Office-funded video game designed to steer teenagers away from extremism – but was then co-opted by the online far right and became a viral sensation.

So yes, I guess “she” is. (Assuming Amelia and Emilia are the same persona; I didn’t check).

This reminds me of workers being paid in vodka during the USSR era. 😬

I wonder if it’s a coincidence.

Not in my case. Been happening for a year or more, and for as little as £3 (bus ride, etc).

For me it’s that 75%+ of my contactless payments trigger an “insert card and enter PIN” check, which defeats its purpose. Presumably because my bank has become super cautious or their fraud detection is managed by a clanker.

I never have a problem with the same transactions using my phone.

Honestly, I’d prefer to use my card, rather than gift transaction data to my phone manufacturer.

The pinned post explaining it can be found at !fedinsfw@fedinsfw.app on most instances (eg. lemmy.world has it). It has “VPS” in the title.

Either way, as an earlier commenter said: the post says it should be resolved next week.

Edit: Corrected community.

Sure it does. It lets them smile and say, “We did tell you. But you chose to do nothing.” Probably even while you’re grieving at the recent loss of your child or loved one.

As always, when it comes to the intersection of techbros, threats of legislation and society, this is about making their problems and decisions your responsibility. Politicians fall for it every time, because they love “personal responsibility” rhetoric, and Number Must Go Up continues as before.

Yeesh. I miss Joshua from War Games and Asimov’s three laws of robotics. What utopian fiction…

So what you’re saying is that you’ve engaged with football content a billion times.

Did Facebook’s shift to emojis teach us nothing? Engagement > Preference. You’re the product.

If they’d decided to use truth.gov as the domain, that would have been the cherry on top. 😄

A ludicrous “plan”.

Yup. That’s the main thing stopping me from yeeting Google from my phone (also Samsung): the tickbox sanctity of a non-rooted phone that financial (and some other) apps require. Very frustrating.

Don’t forget the phone. Almost everyone with a smartphone is either an Apple or Google user via it, and everyone seems to forget that.

Improvement? Unsure. Likely? Yes.

What does Zionism have to do with this topic?

Classic example of a buyer’s market.

Knew a guy who worked for Goldman Sachs in London pre-2008. One of their interview tests was to ask the candidate to stand on a chair with one leg in the air, and hold the pose. Will doing this absurdity get you the job? Choose wisely…

When you have people lining up down the street for one job, you can make people bark like a dog or cluck like a chicken, knowing they’ll never know if agreeing to debase themselves is a pass or fail.

The interviewer probably doesn’t even know until they spin the (mental) wheel. The humiliation/inconsequentiality is the point.

It’s a good post, but shitty clickbait headline. I’m not in the US, so will take their word for it on the details.

Good intentions, it seems, but classic thin-end-of-the-wedge territory. IP holders must be rubbing their hands with glee.

As with the US DMCA, I can easily see this DRM expanding to include patterns and blueprints of patented items so “Blocked: This file’s characteristics seem to match a patent/IP owned by Ford” (or Apple, Hasbro, John Deere, etc) will almost certainly follow quickly.

And as with the UK Child Safety Act, even poorly written, unfit for purpose laws can expand rapidly. It went from “age verification on adult sites” to “…and all VPNs” in mere months, and is heading to “age verify everything!” if they get their way.

I was imagining that setup with any stringed instrument that traditionally uses catgut or nylon. “Loaded gun” doesn’t begin to describe that. 😄

Waterfox had a rocky start, with privacy settings being reset to defaults on each load. Once that was unbroken, I made it my permanent browser on PC and mobile. Zero regrets.

Mozilla is a shadow of its former self. I understand they desperately want that Google pay cheque, but “number must go up” mentality and MBA-infected CxOs can both get in the bin.