Generous to say Bazzite installation takes 20 minutes

Even more generous to say a Windows update takes 5 minutes

I spat my drink out reading this

I mean I think comparing Zuck to Hitler is a stretch, but also consider that Hitler would be a lot more limited if his soldiers knew what was going on and were morally concious

But yea I do it for the money. I make over 5x the salary compared to my previous job

(Blind is an anonymous shitposting board where people can only see the company you work for, not your name)

Meta employee here. People here are so entitled. I knew what I signed up for, but it seems many of my colleagues were/are oblivious

Valve allegedly threatened to delist all editions of Rainbow Six Siege after Ubisoft offered a cheaper option on its Uplay store.

Similar tactics to Amazon

Eh. I help run a service for coding games in Godot with AI (https://ziva.sh/) and we see users who are paying non-subsidized prices on small models produce some really good stuff. I would agree most services are selling borderline snake oil and evaporating lakes of water to get their thing working, but if you invest in genuinely good tooling, it’s affordable and works

He’s also streaming on Bluesky

The series will also be available live on YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, X, and Bluesky.

Would it kill Lemmies to read the article

Ok

The client does, AKA your phone

I work at Meta and interface with WhatsApp enough to know a couple things. First of all, data is encrypted at rest; that’s not even a WhatsApp thing, that’s literally how our infra works (it’s actually an efficiency thing, since deletions requires only deleting the key). So the “source” of the article saying

“Meta can and does view and store all the text messages, photographs, audio and video recordings” in an unencrypted format.

Is either lying or wrong.

Second of all, the encryption is legit. The only time “Meta employees” and “Contractors” are seeing your message content is when someone reports your message; because the person reporting it is sending a decrypted copy.

It may be true that there is some sort of device-level backdoor on your phone, or possibly that there’s a remote switch of some sort to send a second copy of the message in decrypted format for some targets, but I have not heard or seen this.

Fyi I use Signal and not WhatsApp, but in general I don’t think this article holds much weight

The people saying “Violence isn’t the answer” are the people who don’t want to see anything change

News outlets are generally graded by their historical reputabilitiy. If you find yourself continuously fact checking it, maybe consider following a better news outlet (even if they publish more “boring” stories that aren’t as “up to date”): https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reliable_sources/Perennial_sources

I would also love to see a better place for keeping news outlets accountable for their bad publishing actions. Wikipedia does, but it happens on discussion pages and it relies on human editors who know where those discussions happened to string it together