My garbage landlord installed an overengineered gate opening mechanism for the parking lot. The system is made by an Israeli firm and you can only open it by using an app that is a privacy nightmare and asks you a ton of personal information (including full name). If you’re dumb enough, there’s also a “feature” to enable tracking your GPS position constantly so the gate opens when you’re near it.
It’s absolute garbage and there was a break in this year because any kid could figure out how to open it. I have no words.
Why is it always Israel? You would think that this would be done somewhere in the US or UK, but no.
Yeah, I have an X account from when it was twitter, and wow, Israel needs to eat a few nukes, and become an uninhabitable wasteland where no one will get the idea to settle it ever again.
Username fits.
Im not pro Israel, they can fuck themselves. But wishing nukes on people because of a company is hard man…
Hardly because of a company. You’d have to be living completely off the grid to be unaware of the atrocities being perpetrated against their neighbours
On topic, but a side note…this is how come my trust in privacyguides.com tanked a few weeks ago. They fully support X and actually recommend using it. It’s a bunch of sloppy children running that site.
Can you link the privacyguides article? I used to rely on them quite a bit, so this would be disappointing to me. The only recommendations i found for social media are mastodon and element https://www.privacyguides.org/en/social-networks/#posting-content
No way, an Israeli company founded by Israeli spies is spying on people who speak out against Israeli crimes.
shocked-pikachu.webm
That is a scary organization to exists.
Sometimes I have to wonder, what’s it going to take to make people leave X?
I mean, it was a shithole even before Musk bought it, 4 years ago, and it’s gotten predictably and steadily worse ever since.
4 years?! Is this purgatory?
It’s not just twitter, this software is also used by airbnb, linkedin, and paypal.
k I need an alternative to paypal now :(
Paypal is pretty much the ground zero of evil in the world.
Now I have to remove LinkedIn - this a good reason! It over reduces my cyber footprint overall. I only have it bc it’s required for a places that I’ve applied about 60-70%.
They did me the favor of removing my account when they asked for my ID “to protect my identity”.
It’s a live experiment. How much a platform can enshittify before people leave? We are still going to find it out.
Sometimes I wonder what it will take to get people using the web less.
Getting them addicted to something more addictive, like meth.
You can’t make this stuff up.
A service requiring users to upload verifiable identification info, created and staffed by literal government spooks. And – what?!? – they’re using said data inappropriately?
Real people are still on X? I thought it was mainly bots and twats now
@dessalines weird to see their Wikipedia page reads like an ad https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AU10TIX
Even on Lemmy people think Wikipedia isn’t shit.
It can’t be trusted.It wildly depends on the articles/topic, but yes, it’s generally not trustworthy. Especially anything politics or corporate, but sometimes articles on objective topics can have issues.
Where is your NPOV now NATOpedia?
