Some appliances are louder than others. Curious to hear what appliances you can hear

I’m able to hear the AC hum from motors and any inductive heating elements.

When it’s completely silent in the room, I can hear the transformer in my phone charger make a variable squealing sound

10B could make a couple underground metro lines in an otherwise extremely car dependent city with no public transport

The way we socialise has changed to the point where it’s normal to talk to people over text chat. This leaves a footprint that talking face to face with someone does not.

In addition to other privacy concerns, I don’t want things I say that I would’ve gotten away with had I spoken it to my friends in real life, to come back and haunt me, either by a platform having a massive data breach, or it being used as evidence in a legal case against me.

On that last point, I’m not using chat services to organise crime, but taken out of context, any message I send can paint a picture that I’m an awful person and change some jury’s opinion of me. This isn’t something I want to think about before sharing a dank meme to a friend on discord.

Until we get AI that mimics the layers

I believe there is still a major court case underway to decide if AI trained on copyrighted data makes it’s derivative works copyrighted too.

It’s an important court battle because it will set a precedent for every other AI related case for all the other AI companies

Royalties every time you use a line from a Disney musical in spoken conversation

Or leave it in the office, always on charge, and with no lock screen so anyone can take the phone and accept a request

8.1 as well

So what you’re saying is we should short the stock to make it big

Could even open a lawsuit and force reddit to investigate how much of their traffic is bots, immediately after the IPO

It’s not like we’ll not see it coming Once threads.net starts federating with the big instances, it’s all over

The information that can be gathered and sold is pretty intense, even when your account is on another instance

• All your posts and comments (this is public information, no cause for alarm)
• Everything you upvote/downvote
• Every time you load an image from another instance (link tracking, can probably be correlated with your IP address you signed into facebook with)
• With enough posts in your feed tracking you, a general picture of your interests and time of day you interact with lemmy will form, which can be sold

I think you’re confusing “encrypted in transit” versus “end to end encryption”

Your email between protonmail and gmail would be encrypted between the servers, but both protonmail and gmail could read your email. OpenPGP makes it so incoming emails are encrypted with your public key, so there’s an extra stage of encryption that only your email client can decipher. OpenPGP therefore has the capacity for end to end encryption

Is working 2 full time jobs just to be able to afford rent and utilities considered slavery?

Your smartphone probably has a comparable amount of processing power to some of the earlier mining farms. May as well just mine the bitcoin

That means you would doom yourself to die alone…

Or you have to spend your whole life building a boat, collecting food and being able to navigate, just to rejoin civilisation