shmoobadge

I used Brave for a few years but stopped when they absolutely refused to even consider letting people turn off autoupdates. They got insulting about it after many requests in github. It got a big comedic/tragic.

Ok, how about the google photos archive from the hotel next door with 1000s of pictures of passports taken on the shared unlocked $100 android phone that sits on the front desk? Not millions I grant you, but again, there doesn't seem to be an issue with active exploitation of these.

Much as passports are very important for proving identity etc, people who travel have had their passport scanned, photographed or photocopied by pretty much every hotel they've stayed in. I'm not sure the shoebox in the backroom in Koh Samui with the photocopies in constitutes good storage hygiene protocols.

How that doesn't turn into rampant identity theft I don't know, or maybe it does? Not, happily, for me... yet.

There was a cartoon floating around a few weeks ago wherein the sender of an email used an AI to pad out his 3 points into flowing paragraphs, whereupon the receiver used her AI to summarise it ... down to 3 points.

The value add in that scenario is nearly infinite.

"Elbows up" isn't rude, so is suitable for fora, and for one country whose sovereignty has been directly threatened by the country where Microsoft is based, captures that attitude perfectly.

I ditched MS office last year (for libreoffice) when MS updated their terms to allow them to hoover up all my content, even that stored only on my computer, to train their AI. Subscription costs (which I'd bought a version several years ago) pale by comparison to the wrongness of that.

Nothing new here. For years Mac updates would turn and leave on bluetooth, and ios updates routinely turn game centre on, and less so recently imessage and facetime. I don't know if its malice or sloppiness, but it is tiresome.

I've turned game centre off at least 20 times over the years without ever once turning it on.

Stopped paying for Slack, still use the free version. Had free integrations, don't use any more.

The WTF of Huddles and threads, and the complete lack of working notifications mean we can't trust integrations or complicated features to work or stay working.