[-] nudnyekscentryk@szmer.info 29 points 6 months ago

You guys can afford houses?

[-] nudnyekscentryk@szmer.info 35 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

The more they claim they know about you the more they can charge for ads. I have recently realized that Google, Facebook and such are not only powerful because they aggregate data, but rather because they can sell their product (=your attention) to other companies very, very well. People often claim companies would not pay for advertisements had they didn't work — I claim otherwise; they pay for advertisements because Google falsely claims how effective they are and that's why they need to collect your data and be able to show that to their customers to boost their (Google's) sales. In other words they don't do that to sell the customers product well (the one that has been advertised) but rather sell their own product, which is ad space.

[-] nudnyekscentryk@szmer.info 34 points 8 months ago

Wait, Google Pay still exists? Wasn't it rebranded to Wallet?

[-] nudnyekscentryk@szmer.info 31 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

This is a necessary reminder that Ecosia is a scam:

  • they don't "plant trees" but rather contribute very little amounts to existing programmes
  • "Every search plants a tree" is a lie. It's not every search, but rather every couple clicks on an ad
  • They use Bing results making them useless

If you're using Ecosia with an adblocker or knowingly skip over sponsored results then you are NOT in any way contributing to the tree-planting

[-] nudnyekscentryk@szmer.info 32 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

The "u" in uTorrent is actually [greek letter mu](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mu_(letter)), which as a SI suffix is pronounced "micro" and means one millionth (10^-6)

[-] nudnyekscentryk@szmer.info 36 points 11 months ago

That's weird as well, but what I meant is in Europe you pack your groceries yourself

[-] nudnyekscentryk@szmer.info 36 points 11 months ago

It's a secret -- otherwise the streaming services in question would immediately patch the vulnerability

[-] nudnyekscentryk@szmer.info 26 points 11 months ago

Anna's archive is a catalogue which goes through multiple databases including libgen, therefore it's preferable

[-] nudnyekscentryk@szmer.info 30 points 1 year ago

If they have their keyboard set to a different language but type in English anyway, then it learns English words exactly how they're spelled. Which means they probably spelled Window with capital W at some point and then it got autocorrected to that exact spelling.

[-] nudnyekscentryk@szmer.info 29 points 1 year ago

When I learned balls have a significant role in child-making my first though was women got pregnant by surgically transfering a man's testicle to their belly. Then I realized balls come in two's and I do in fact have more than one sibling

[-] nudnyekscentryk@szmer.info 35 points 1 year ago

Oh, simple counterpoint to anyone making that claim: is Democratic People's Republic of Korea democratic?

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