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- Comment on Facebook Puts a Price on Privacy in EU, EEA and Switzerland: It’s 9.99€ a Month + 6€ for Each Extra Account 1 year ago:
The only people using Facebook these days are people who don’t know what addons/extentions are, or people who are forced to use it through work/business.
- Comment on Australian Cheng Lei's first message from Chinese prison describes harsh conditions 1 year ago:
While the conditions are terrible and it’s obviously a made up charge, “her governement” is pretty much China.
She was born in China and lived in Australia from she was 10 until she was 20-21 and then she moved to China, where she has lived for the last 27 years. So ~20 of her 47 years was spent in China, and over a decade of that was spent working for a governement owned propaganda outlet.
She is technically an Australian citizen, which she became in 2003, after she had already moved to China.
- Comment on Rents set to continue rising sharply despite cost-of-living squeeze, experts say 1 year ago:
They don’t face any consequences, so why would they stop increasing it? They don’t care about people, they just care aboout themselves and their money.
- Comment on Russia starts blocking VPN at the protocol (WireGuard, OpenVPN) level 1 year ago:
It’s a custom protocol that uses SSL/TLS, so it can be detected. It’s actually causing huge problems for many large Russian companies, as many use those protocols for remote access, work, etc.
As mentioned in the article you need something like “Shadowsocks”, which fully disguises the traffis as standard SSL/TLS.
- Comment on Looking for games with strong female leads for my daughter (even just to watch as I play). Came across this link, but they're a bit old. Any suggestions from the community? 1 year ago:
You’d recommened AC: Origins for a five year old?
- Comment on The most popular Chinese keyboard app which is used by more than 450 million monthly users sends every key typed to Tencent in China. 1 year ago:
If you think that’s a kbin thing, you’ve not used reddit in years, you haven’t looked at anything lemmy, etc.
- Comment on Why you shouldn't use Brave Browser 1 year ago:
TL;DR: The ceo is a bigoted asshole, Brave is chromium, it was initially funded by Peter Thiel and they’re literally just trying to make their own adsense network.
The self-proclaimed privacy focused browser is tracking your browsing and want to serve you personalized ads, and use that tracking data for their AI training.
And lets not forget about their crypto currency that you can earn by turning on special ads. And they seemingly unironically called it “Basic Attent Tokens”…
- Comment on A peaceful protest againt Web Environment Integrity 1 year ago:
With the TL;DR being: Google wants to more easily block non-chrome browsers to their services.
Which also means that many people using accessability tools will be unable to access them. And they are trying to get Firefox to implement it as well, so they don’t take all the blame when shit hits the fan and they start getting multi-billion dollar monopoly fines from the EU.
- Comment on Tesla exaggerated EV range so much that drivers thought cars were broken 1 year ago:
After some quick reading, a big thing is that you want an EV with an cooled and heated battery if you live in areas that see snow. And if you live in a warm area you’ll want a battery pack that is actively cooled, as overheating will also cause poor performance, and even become damaged if they get hot enough.
According to a South Korean fine Tesla was given, their cars can apparently drop in range 40-50% if the temperature is around -15C(5F), compared to 20C(68F).
- Comment on The Fall of Stack Overflow 1 year ago:
Don’t forget that Duck Duck Go is even worse at it now. It will literally change your results if you go back after clicking a link.
- Comment on IMAX emulates PalmPilot software to power Oppenheimer’s 70 mm release 1 year ago:
In the military example it’s also a case of literally no one alive knows how it works, there is no documentation and they don’t want to pay millions and shut entire sites and operations down to reverse engineer it.
- Comment on Pentagon AI more ethical than adversaries’ because of ‘Judeo-Christian society,’ USAF general says 1 year ago:
The US military has a wide range of generals, all the way from people who can barely stop themselves from dribbling while staring at a wall for hours as entertainment, to actual comptent ones.
- Comment on Why do people self-harm? 1 year ago:
Deleting it goes against the premise of “No stupid questions”. Hiding information in a place literally made to give out information without judging the question, is literally the opposite of the intent.
Many questions posted here are easily answer through wikipedia, and people might ask them in a place like this instead for a multitude of reasons. One of them being that they avoid looing it up directly as a way to limit themselves getting triggered from the pictures or text that might be there, and just want a more summarized answer to their question.
- Comment on It works in my docker 1 year ago:
Always remember the magic words when it comes to coroporate bullshit: “Can I get that in writing?”
People either start thinking about it seriously to avoid getting in trouble, or they make themselves look like idiots. Although it can depend on what level of management says no.
- Comment on Why do people self-harm? 1 year ago:
One important thing to note is that for many it hurts a lot less than you’d think, basically feeling like a light scratch to many.
Wikipedia has more detailed information and sources:
Those who engage in self-harm face the contradictory reality of harming themselves while at the same time obtaining relief from this act. It may even be hard for some to actually initiate cutting, but they often do because they know the relief that will follow. For some self-harmers this relief is primarily psychological while for others this feeling of relief comes from the beta endorphins released in the brain.
Endorphins are endogenous opioids that are released in response to physical injury, acting as natural painkillers and inducing pleasant feelings, and in response to self-harm would act to reduce tension and emotional distress. Many self-harmers report feeling very little to no pain while self-harming and, for some, deliberate self-harm may become a means of seeking pleasure.
- Comment on James Cameron on AI: "I warned you guys in 1984 and you didn't listen" 1 year ago:
The replies annoy me. It’s just the same thing all over again— everything I said seems to have went right over most peoples’ heads.
Not at all.
They just don’t like being told they’re wrong and will attack you instead of learning something.