ArcaneSlime
@ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Migrating here (or maybe keeping both) from @ArcaneSlime@lemmy.ml
Will put an eternal curse on your enemies for a Cinemageddon invite.
- Comment on New York City’s Rats Have a Secret Nightlife—And a Language Humans Can’t Hear 1 day ago:
- Comment on Flipper Zero, Car Thieves, and a Brewing Security Crisis: What’s Really Going On? 1 week ago:
But the firmware that can do this:
A) Still desyncs your real fob
B) Still has to read a signal from the fob, you’d have to do that before your OG broke.
C) Costs like $2000, is serial locked to two flippers, and is being sold sketchily by a guy recently released from prison who has no accountability not to scam you.
- Comment on Flipper Zero, Car Thieves, and a Brewing Security Crisis: What’s Really Going On? 1 week ago:
I’ma be honest, a wedge, a puffy bag, and a fancy stick is like $20 at every auto store and works just as well on those fancy doors as it does on keyed ones. If someone wants in they’ll get in.
At least the electronic ones ostensibly can’t be hotwired though, supposedly. Not sure how much I believe that though.
- Comment on Vape ban isn't working, says waste firm boss 1 week ago:
That is true, I never thought of that since back in my getting caught days vapes didn’t exist. Getting caught probably does factor into their rationale.
- Comment on Vape ban isn't working, says waste firm boss 1 week ago:
I mean I’m with you, I use refillable ones and brew my own juice, but often convenience outweighs everything else for most people.
- Comment on Vape ban isn't working, says waste firm boss 1 week ago:
“Duh.” Says anyone who’s ever bought drugs.
- Comment on Why is Lemmy much better with telling a user why they were banned? 1 week ago:
Sometimes. Some servers will “rule 1” you and rule one basically amounts to “don’t say things I don’t like.”
And then sometimes you say the Tiflis bank robbery was bad because they blew up innocent people on the street with grenades, and then a guy responds that “it was pretty cool actually,” and then you get banned for saying “well I hope something cool happens to you then” in an attempt to get them to empathize with the victims by putting themselves as the victim instead if the “pretty cool” robbers, despite being the one who in practice is against the murder of innocents, and then you can’t tell if you were banned because the mod couldn’t process the context of the thread or because they were a tankie who agrees murdering innocents is, in fact, pretty cool. I mean, sure I was being rude becauase I’m not usually nice when people say murdering innocents in the process of a bank robbery is “pretty cool,” so, 50/50, but it’s still silly.
And then sometimes you get banned because one person on your server has an argument with one mod on another and the second mod decides to ban your whole instance as a result because he’s totally not butthurt.
It’s a little more transparent, but this place can be just as silly as reddit.
- Comment on Sextortion with a twist: Spyware takes webcam pics of users watching porn 1 week ago:
This, thank you Framework!
- Comment on Sextortion with a twist: Spyware takes webcam pics of users watching porn 1 week ago:
Well you could use the -arr stack but you could also just set up SABnzbd which is the same difficulty to set up as qbit/jackett.
I haven’t touched the -arrs myself, just go to my indexer, click download, it goes into the correct folder which sabnzbd automatically picks up and starts a-downloadin’, then it transfers the complete files to another folder.
- Comment on Can anyone test a Square card reader real fast? 1 week ago:
Ahh I was afraid it might be. They make the only USBC magstripe reader in the world lol. I hate to resort to an a-to-c converter dongle and a traditional plug but that may be my fate.
- Comment on Can anyone test a Square card reader real fast? 1 week ago:
Ah I presume that means your pc does not, and frankly I’m not sure that’d work even if it did lol.
Thanks anyway!
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- Comment on YouTube Is Pausing Premium Family Plans if You Aren't Watching From the Same Address 2 weeks ago:
Idk about the alt browser but for downloading there’s ytdl on pc and ytdlnis on android.
- Comment on Ice obtains access to Israeli-made spyware that can hack phones and encrypted apps 2 weeks ago:
Oddly I agree, I’d have voted for either of those opposites as well. Though, I do agree with both of them on some things, and disagree with both of them on others.
Ideally I’d actually have them run together and temper each other’s views a little to land somewhere more reasonable, but no we have to pick from the two of the worst, most self serving people available instead.
- Comment on Ice obtains access to Israeli-made spyware that can hack phones and encrypted apps 2 weeks ago:
Unfortunately, looking at our track record, it does seem that may be a ridiculous request lmao. I’m with you 100% on that though!
- Comment on Ice obtains access to Israeli-made spyware that can hack phones and encrypted apps 2 weeks ago:
It looks like it says “yes if you haven’t updated grapheneOS since 2022” specifically, meaning they haven’t updated in 3y. No matter what phone is 3y out if date, I wouldn’t trust it either lol. It’s a cat and mouse game, the cat’ll for sure catch up within 3y.
- Comment on Ice obtains access to Israeli-made spyware that can hack phones and encrypted apps 2 weeks ago:
No no, anytime someone criticizes a democrat it’s because they love Trump. The democrats are infallible and above reproach you see, so the only reason you’d say anything they ever did was bad it’s because you’re a nazi childkiller who wants a dictator.
It’s probably not dangerous at all that we’ve positioned the US as either “uncritical support of the dems or you’re a nazi,” letting a party become unquestionable is good for sure, nothing bad could ever come of that.
- Comment on Use this science wisely. 2 weeks ago:
Rod Sterling, put some respec on his name.
- Comment on Who is the enemy? 2 weeks ago:
Thanks for backing up what I said.
Though it was never popcorn lung from the weed vapes, like I said that idiot used vitamin E acetate (think I mistyped and said A earlier but same diff.) Didn’t know he was in CA though I thought he was midwest.
- Comment on Who is the enemy? 2 weeks ago:
Well it’s an oil that leaves a bit of a layer to protect metal against rust, so probably not lol.
- Comment on Who is the enemy? 2 weeks ago:
Inb4 popcorn lung lmao.
(Diacetyl, the chemical responsible, is also found in cigarettes, 2,000x more than in vape juice, and cigarettes have never caused popcorn lung. The only recorded case afaik comes from the powder form being used in a popcorn factory with no respirators, and it acted like asbestos sorta where it settles in the lungs. That’s a far cry from the liquid form that was in some vape juice before the freakout, which has never shown to cause popcorn lung, just like it doesn’t with cigarettes.)
Inb4 vitamin A oil
(Black market weed carts made by some dickhead in his garage who didn’t know what he was doing. Legalize it already ffs.)
- Comment on Who is the enemy? 2 weeks ago:
How do they feel about Ballistol?
- Comment on Who is the enemy? 2 weeks ago:
Best live action show ever.
- Comment on what are the grievances with the "male loneliness epidemic"? 3 weeks ago:
Remind me never to employ your services lol, your “I’m better than you losers” attitude cannot make you effective at matchmaking.
- Comment on what are the grievances with the "male loneliness epidemic"? 3 weeks ago:
Tbh, while I could start drinking more again just to meet people, bars are expensive these days. I can’t afford friends nor dates. Unless maybe I only eat ramen forever.
Finding someone romantic/friends is difficult when you haven’t fully AA quit drinking, but you’re also disillusioned with hammered bar culture and driving drunk and don’t want to do that anymore, and also would rather spend your money on not $10 Evan Williams and gingers all night when they don’t even have the good Evan which only costs like $30 for a giant bottle.
- Comment on Concealed Handguns Create a Climate of Fear, Gun Industry Research Reveals 3 weeks ago:
Sure, why indeed?
I’m inclined to believe the number falls somewhere in the middle of these estimates, personally. And that’s still not low.
- Comment on Concealed Handguns Create a Climate of Fear, Gun Industry Research Reveals 3 weeks ago:
It’s the lowest we’ve got, so I’m using it to give you the “advantage” in your “low” argument, but it’s still not “low.”
- Comment on Concealed Handguns Create a Climate of Fear, Gun Industry Research Reveals 3 weeks ago:
We read a random sample of defensive gun use news reports for the Gun Violence Archive in 2019. We created a typology of 13 categories, including escalating arguments, drug-related, gang-like, romantic disputes, store robberies, unoccupied vehicle theft, unarmed burglaries, and home invasions.
See the more I read the more I question, they don’t seem to even understand the threshold for legal use of deadly force, most of these would be technically illegal, even for some where the defense itself was above board.
If you’re the one escalating, that is illegal. Can’t legally have guns and drugs at the same time. Gang activity often involves crime while not being illegal itself. Romantic disputes would be legal if the partner immanently threatens your life, then good, otherwise illegal to use gun. Store robberies is above board, as long as they’re armed. Using deadly force to protect against unoccupied vehicle theft is illegal, against armed carjacking is legal. Unarmed burglaries would be illegal, you’re allowed to use normal force (mace or fists) not deadly force. Home invasions is legal, IF you’re in a state with castle doctrine, if you’re in a state with a Duty To Retreat law, you’re required to surrender the house if possible.
Their methodology here, to include things that are straight up crimes as “defense,” is questionable. Furthermore they seem to be using the same methodology questioned in the Kleck and Lott numbers, phone surveys, but when they do it it’s ok:
We analyzed data from a telephone survey of 5,800 California adolescents aged 12-17 years, which asked questions about gun threats against and self-defense gun use by these young people.
So we’ll just ignore that people 12-17 can’t legally buy nor carry a gun which would undeniably skew the numbers this way anyway (their parents can buy them one, they still can’t carry, and just how common do you think it is for parents to buy their kids guns?) The Kleck and Lott study’s voracity is called into question due to the self reported and unverifiable nature of the phone survey, basically “people could be lying.” Meanwhile 12-17yos always tell the truth? Horse hockey.
Using data from a national random-digit-dial telephone survey conducted under the direction of the Harvard Injury Control Research Center, we investigated how and when guns are used in the home. We found that guns in the home are used more often to frighten intimates than to thwart crime;
And “intimates” never lie either.
other weapons are far more commonly used against intruders than are guns.
Only what like 45% of people even own guns? And of those that do a significant portion just have a shotgun in a safe for hunting. DUH, more people use “what they have.” Bet the guy defending himself with a baseball bat wouldn’t have turned his nose up at the AR15 beside it, given the opportunity.
This study is no better than the Kleck and Lott study, and 60k is still more than “low.”
- Comment on Concealed Handguns Create a Climate of Fear, Gun Industry Research Reveals 3 weeks ago:
I mean most kidnappings are from family or friends, not strangers. Most rapes are from family and friends, not strangers. It’s not outside of the realm of possibility to actually have to defend yourself against family or friends. In fact if it follows the trend it’d be more likely than having to defend yourself from strangers. Hell my friend’s house was broken into and he was pistol whipped by a masked dude, and everyone in the house said the same thing, “It was [Name Redacted], I would recognize that voice anywhere.” He had been our friend, y’know, until the armed home invasion. None of us had a gun at the time though unfortunatly, but had they one and it was used, it would have been used to defend against said “friend.” Not a stranger, a “friend.” Another friend in that same neighborhood pulled up to another mutual friend to (admittedly) sell him 2oz of weed, and that mutual friend stabbed him. That’s two people who were supposedly “friends.” The one that happened to me at walmart was a stranger, but as the data and my empirical evidence suggest, actually having to defend yourself from someone you know is more common, so, yeah I’m not surprised by that and never argued the opposite. My argument was that regardless of one’s familiarity with the attacker, DGU happens at a higher rate than “low.”
(Home invader did time in prison for robbing a gas station with a shotgun after this. Idk if he’s out now or what, that was the last I heard of him. No clue what became of stabby either, but stabee is doing fine now, took up a trade.)
Duh “most DGU stems from escalating arguments,” if an argument gets heated enough that someone needs to defend themselves however, they still need to defend themselves. Sure “letting the argument get to the point where uncle Steve pulls a knife” is “socially undesirable,” but if uncle Steve pulls a knife, he’s still pulled a knife. Whether or not you find it “socially undesirable,” if it happens then it happens. Not everything that takes place on this earth is “socially desirable.” While you should take steps to deescalate the situation, those don’t always work, maybe Steve likes meth (which is also socially undesirable, yet prevalent), whatever the reason, if they don’t work and Steve pulls the knife, as far as I’m concerned it’s more socially undesirable for me to be stabbed, uncle or not.
- Comment on Concealed Handguns Create a Climate of Fear, Gun Industry Research Reveals 3 weeks ago:
Again no matter which you choose to go by, it’s hard for me to call it “low.” I suppose to a point that’s subjective, but even your lowest number, 60k, is on par with our total gun deaths/yr including accidents, homicides, and suicides. So, if it’s low than that’s low too.