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deadcatbounce

@ deadcatbounce @reddthat.com

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  • Asda is still misfiring in supermarkets’ non-existent price war

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  • I'm done with Asda.

    • Useless apps that make things more and more difficult to do (substitution disabling).
    • Face recognition scanning in-store.
    • Useless IT that means American Express doesn't work every other time I try to use it
    • the substitutions so insane that half your delivery is returned.
    • Websites so stuffed with trackers you can't use it on Firefox.
    • repeated demand for spot-checks making the scan job you did pointless. You might as well have put it though a till that are never open. Had only one spot check with Tesco ever.

    And those are only the things I can think of offhand six months after I deleted their bullshit.

    Enough. Fvck Asda.

  • Support Swiss businesses and break free from American tech

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  • Hasn't Proton just pulled out from Switzerland? The move stems from growing legal uncertainty around changes to Switzerland’s surveillance law.

  • UK drops demand for backdoor into Apple encryption

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  • Does Google have an equivalent with Android?

  • UK drops demand for backdoor into Apple encryption

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  • VW introduces monthly subscription to increase car power

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  • When buying isn't owning ..

  • Ecosia and Qwant team up to launch an independent search index, challenging Google & Bing

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  • There was a need to apologise; I was very wrong in context. So there! 😜 (I don't see the point in maintaining a position which is entirely shown to be fatally flawed.)

    Thank-you for pointing to Perplexica. When I subscribed (for a year), Perplexity - unlike ChatGPT -was alone in giving references so I could avoid citing rubbish by checking unless I knew them; now they all cite. I won't be resubscribing and to have you refer this is really helpful. 😁

    Thank-you.

  • Ecosia and Qwant team up to launch an independent search index, challenging Google & Bing

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  • Very fair point. I'm embarrassed. Sorry.

  • Can’t pay, won’t pay: impoverished streaming services are driving viewers back to piracy

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  • It's not just a pricing issue. It's an ownership issue.

    Too many of the things we buy are not ours.

    Yesterday I saw the article about VW cars which need a subscription to use the built-in capabilities. The car you bought doesn't belong to you.

  • Ecosia and Qwant team up to launch an independent search index, challenging Google & Bing

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  • It's late in the day. Perplexity Set itself up as a search engine with AI. Don't know whose index they use.

    I rarely use a search engine anymore directly. I used to use Startpage which is/was a proxy for Google. And everybody knows how useful Google's results are these days.

    So I use Perplexity for search.

  • What would you do if you were an 8 year old again, with your current mind (including memories and skills)?

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  • Are you a feminist? (If so why, if not why not?)

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  • I'm an egalitarian. I believe women and women are, and should be treated, equal(ly).

    The clue is in the name feminist. Feminism is about equality in the same way an advocate of masculinism is an advocate of equality.

  • Facial recognition vans to be rolled out across police forces in England

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  • Firms apparently launching anti ANPR face film.

  • Can you get shadowbanned on Lemmy?

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  • Trump administration accuses UK of failing to uphold human rights

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  • SMDH in agreement. 😳

  • Chinese firm a leading contender to buy Thames Water, reports say

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  • I felt sure that Stalin Starmer was going to nationalise water and other stuff. Or have we had an odd number of u-turns in the year he's been fucking it up for our greater good?

    Giving ownership of your basic needs to a foreign party. What Could Possibly Go Wrong? It's not like foreign ownership of our electricity suppliers could be used to subsidise their domestic customers. Oh .. wait ..

  • What Git clients do you use?

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  • Fair comment.

    IANA developer at all. Mostly just keeping records of my dotfiles and odd bits I have playing with., and the experiments I try to run using branches. Sometimes I need a visual representation of the commits and hashes to make it easier to understand what I'm doing.

    git is my only nemesis.

  • UK homelessness minister faces calls to resign over tenant eviction claims

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  • Strange that there's no blue hair people here defending her.

  • Google Photos is cooking up a more social way to react to shared pictures (APK teardown)

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  • Google had a leak. They found a way to make your photos more social,

  • What Git clients do you use?

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  • Off topic: day-after-day with these kinds of posts and especially the replies, I need Reddit less and less. That's a very good thing.