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- Comment on Seeking feedback: how should lemm.ee move forward with external images? (related to frequent broken images) 4 weeks ago:
I really don’t see broken images often, it doesn’t bother me at all. I’d prefer to keep Option #2, especially if we could increase the period of how long the images are stored in the local proxy.
- Comment on U.S. approves mega geothermal energy project in Utah 4 weeks ago:
Cool! This makes more sense now
- Comment on U.S. approves mega geothermal energy project in Utah 4 weeks ago:
I don’t know enough of this technology, but the article says they do fracking to “release geothermal energy, not oil and gas”. So I imagine it will have the same ecological damage as fracking. Maybe someone more knowledgeable can explain where I’m wrong.
- Comment on A millennial couple who make $250,000 say they can't find a home in their budget: 'We refuse to become house-poor' 2 months ago:
Well, they are saying they bring home $11k, not $17k a month, not sure where you got that number. With $11k of income, spending $5k on mortgage is less appealing. Especially if you consider a risk of layoff.
- Comment on Why fed ship do not have dedicate landing team, but send bridge crew on dangerous mission ? 4 months ago:
Because we all know that a sergeant and soldiers can’t even hit a starship from 10 meters. Yes, Stormtroopers, I’m talking about you. What, this is what community again?
- Comment on Privacy services and non privacy payments options 5 months ago:
No, I didn’t say that. It depends on your risk model. If you are an average Joe don’t worry that services are charging your credit card. If you are hiding from government then better use less online services, and if you must then find ones that accept crypto
- Comment on Privacy services and non privacy payments options 5 months ago:
TLDR: “privacy” services can’t be bothered and you shouldn’t too if you are not doing illegal stuff.
These “privacy-oriented” services are businesses that need to earn money, not scare away potential clients and avoid legal issues. Accepting cash or crypto is a risk for legal and accounting reasons. They just don’t think it’s worth it.
Now, to link a particular activity on a particular service with you via your payment is not a trivial task. Government can do it, but it really matters if you think you are or will be targeted by it. Data miners can correlate bank payment with an account at a service provider only if both bank and service provider sell or leak data, which is less likely if you are using a privacy a oriented service.
- Comment on Stack Overflow bans users en masse for rebelling against OpenAI partnership — users banned for deleting answers to prevent them being used to train ChatGPT 6 months ago:
Well, reddit is doing fine so far. Shareholders are happy
- Comment on How Apple tricks people into believing the iPhone is cool 7 months ago:
I’m not sure how viable this is for the court case… but totally agree with sentiment.
Maybe in US it is different with very available loans and phone plans that include top of the line iPhones, but in the country I grew up having iPhone was a big thing. Especially when you are teenager or in your 20s. It was a symbol of wealth.
My friend owns a small business in that country and he says that he had to buy an iPhone. His partners were looking down at him because he had a Samsung phone.
I guess it’s not like that nowadays, as Samsung has phones that cost the same or even more…
- Comment on Proton Mail says that the new Outlook app for Windows is Microsoft's new data collection service 9 months ago:
A company would use a Microsoft 365 plan that includes Outlook for Office 365, not a Windows Mail app. An the MS365 agreement would come with protections of company data from sharing with advertisers.
In other words, I wouldn’t worry if my company used Outlook. But never log in to your private mailbox from a corporate device.
- Comment on Not even poor Notepad is safe from Microsoft's AI obsession 10 months ago:
Sublime is not FOSS
- Comment on Child psychiatrist jailed after using AI to make pornographic deep-fakes of kids 1 year ago:
Your first passage about criminalizing art is 100% correct and 100% irrelevant. You cannot call porn art. Porn with adults, children, dogs, pumpkins - all that stuff is made for people to get off, not enjoy the emotions that real art provokes in people. Therefore we cannot compare criminalizing porn with criminalizing art.
There are edge cases, of course, when art might be provocative and considered immoral, and maybe even illegal sometimes. But that would be edge cases, highly debated.
- Comment on Privacy respecting language learning tool? 1 year ago:
Yeah, I see many suggestions to do just that. Might be a good time to go check a local library.
- Comment on Privacy respecting language learning tool? 1 year ago:
OMG that’s the one! Thank you! I need to review the article and discussion though
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- Comment on Apple’s Decision to Kill Its CSAM Photo-Scanning Tool Sparks Fresh Controversy 1 year ago:
Here you go: