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Cops Keep Getting Arrested for Using Flock to Stalk People in c/technology@lemmy.world

[–] appauled@sh.itjust.works 17 points 2 months ago (2 children)

You gotta look it up but they use ai to track people and the US government installed them in almost every major city. They're also really incredibly bad security wise, you can just walk up to them and connect and download the videos on any smart phone

MIT Study Finds Gas Cars Aren't Secretly Better For The Planet Than EVs, Despite What Everyone On Facebook Says in c/technology@lemmy.world

[–] appauled@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I live in Atlanta and when I turned 21 (a couple years ago, but post 2020) I was kinda irritated because literally everything in the entire city was planned on Facebook Events, and I hated using Facebook.

It's overwhelmingly popular, especially in the 30+ crowd, not even restricted to your 55+. Genuinely everyone would create Facebook events (before Partiful got popular) to invite people over on a Saturday

Edit: spelling

Commodore Callback 8020: Flip phone without browser, social networks, and 5G in c/technology@lemmy.world

[–] appauled@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago

Let's not forget that it's $500 because they can't continually profit off your personal information being harvested from the software.

Is it expensive for the hardware? Yeah Is it expensive for an android compatible device with zero telemetry? Not entirely