DontTreadOnBigfoot

joined 3 years ago
[–] DontTreadOnBigfoot@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Oh, so it's a week of inaction...

[–] DontTreadOnBigfoot@lemmy.world 27 points 1 month ago

And that info is being sent to DHS and every private data broker that can pay

[–] DontTreadOnBigfoot@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

As someone with an old wooden house, it's actually not bad. They're built so damn well that they just.. stay there.

The expensive part is if you need to do any renovations. Updating electrical, plumbing, and HVAC sucks.

[–] DontTreadOnBigfoot@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Holy shit.

I thought this was just going to be a matter of poor security implementation or crappy feature sets.

Turns out they converted the company into a loan shark operation owned by Chinese ad companies

when the Opera browser continued losing users (due to competition from Google and Apple), the company shifted gears to building mobile apps that provided predatory short-term loans. The interest rates on those loans ranged from 365-876% per year, and loan terms from 7-29 days.