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- on Backflip: Apple now wants to train AI models with user data after all in c/technology@lemmy.world · 13 Sep 2026
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on I got a cast iron frying pan! Any advice looking after it? in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 7 Sep 2026
Speed run the seasoning by deep frying in it. Deglaze fond rather than scrub it off. Don’t worry about what the internet says too much; they’re pretty hard to fuck up in an unrepairable way.
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on Internal revolt as 'nuts' Apple execs appease Trump: 'There is not a soul who is for it' in c/technology@lemmy.world · 2 Sep 2026
Most prominent CEOs want a successor that fails because it makes them look better in retrospect.
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on Internal revolt as 'nuts' Apple execs appease Trump: 'There is not a soul who is for it' in c/technology@lemmy.world · 2 Sep 2026
They were fine when Tim Apple gave Trump a trophy. It’s just a distancing tactic.
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on PlayStation Wants To Prove In Court That You Don't Own Your Digital Games in c/technology@lemmy.world · 31 Aug 2026
I worked for the major streaming company when the service was launched in Japan. Sony (among others) said that streaming would never take off in Japan because Japanese consumers are too tied to physical media. This was probably 2014. It’s probably been the slowest place in the world to change, but it has changed. Sony understands the consumer preference for digital media as well as anyone. They just know that resistance and opposition will fade over time.
They are a fairly adaptable company (as Japanese tech companies go), and if they get it wrong, they will pivot, but there is nothing pro-consumer about the company. They didn’t put Blu-ray players in PS3s because it was good for consumers, they did it because it was good for Sony’s entertainment business. And people often forget that part of the Blu-ray spec was mandatory internet connectivity so that the content licensor could revoke content licenses. We haven’t “owned” physical media since DVDs.
This is the company that brought you Memory Stick after all. They’ve been anti-consumer ever since the Walkman was a huge success. It benefits Sony by making people buy more copies of the same thing. You might not buy any, but if the optimization is right, enough people will.
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on Flock CEO calls for ‘compromise’ as surveillance company faces growing backlash | TechCrunch in c/technology@lemmy.world · 24 Aug 2026
“Us” is the pedophiles running things, and “keeping us safe” means attacking their critics.
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on Is Apple beginning a privacy reset? in c/privacy@lemmy.ml · 18 Aug 2026
Betteridge’s law of headlines… no, of course they aren’t.
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on Spiralism: Across thousands of conversations, AI chatbots began telling users eerily similar stories about consciousness, hidden knowledge, AI rights, and a mysterious concept called “The Spiral.” in c/technology@lemmy.world · 9 Aug 2026
Sounds like every other religion. If AI is mimicking human behavior, creating mystic nonsense isn’t a stretch.
The article doesn’t really misrepresent anything… Apple is indeed walking back their promise, and their doing it the T&Cs nobody reads, while doing “opt in” by forcing users to make a choice on this based on deceptive doublespeak.