captain_aggravated

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft suddenly bans LibreOffice developer's email account, blocks appeal⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  How the hell are we down to two meaningful web engines and two meaningful search engines?

  There’s Firefox and everyone else, and everyone else uses Chrome.

  There’s Google and everyone else, and everyone else uses Bing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tea app leak worsens with second database exposing user chats⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree, a machine for doxing people in general is misanthropist, a machine for doxing men specifically is misandrist.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tea app leak worsens with second database exposing user chats⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I was today years old when I learned that Ashley Madison is still in operation

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tea app leak worsens with second database exposing user chats⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, and the US Marshall’s service said Operation Flagship was just a football sweepstakes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hate to see all the suffering ⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Pretty sure it’s a nose ring.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft suddenly bans LibreOffice developer's email account, blocks appeal⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yahoo still exists. Somehow. Apparently the brand is extremely popular in Japan, Yahoo Japan is on the list of top 50 visited websites. IIRC the brand was bought by Verizon, and I have no idea if Yahoo even offers web search anymore.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft suddenly bans LibreOffice developer's email account, blocks appeal⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Do they even still issue them? Like prior to ~2007 Hotmail was THE free email to have before Google, like, did it better. But aren’t they issuing outlook.com addresses now?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨First Australian-made orbital rocket crashes shortly after takeoff⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Went farther than Ranger 1 did.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to disable Microsoft Recall & stop the AI from taking screenshots of your desktop.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:
  • Decades of anticompetitive monopolistic practices
  • US government backdoors
  • Spyware
  • a price tag
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Your Lemmy Weather Forecast⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Man I spent the last couple weeks out in my workshop building a cabinet. I’m surprised the walnut didn’t melt.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Saw this on r*ddit, had to share with my people⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Someone write a scene where Rosanne sexually harasses M’s secretary.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Saw this on r*ddit, had to share with my people⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Rosanne Barr

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Saw this on r*ddit, had to share with my people⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Nope I want to see this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Women’s ‘red flag’ app Tea is a privacy nightmare⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  please tell me you did not just use ted bundy to describe what you think women like in men?

  I did, because he was. Two different ways.

  1. Bundy’s modus operandi was to approach women in public as a handsome, charming stranger. I’m pretty sure women like handsome, charming strangers; the entire female dating strategy seems to be geared toward attracting handsome, charming strangers. Ted Bundy was able to attract dozens of victims like that. There’s an inherent danger in attracting strangers, because sometimes strangers are psychopaths.

  2. Ted Bundy got a LOT of fan mail from women while he was in prison. Love letters, marriage proposals, nude photos. A shocking number of women saw his picture on the news alongside words like “murder trial” and “death sentence” and said “That’s the man for me.” He pulled some weird stunt to “get married” and he fathered a child from prison. This isn’t unique to Ted Bundy, lots of mass murderers and serial killers have groupies, from Charles Manson to Dylan Klebold.

  i said doxxing should be avoided, if you’d read any of my comments.

  You came across as pretty lukewarm to me. “Yeah doxxing is a problem I guess.” You can’t have a Don’t Date Him Girl website without doxxing. Doxxing is how they work.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Women’s ‘red flag’ app Tea is a privacy nightmare⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, we know what to bait a honeypot with. “Gossip about/slander men right here! To prove you’re a woman, insert your photo ID, bank details, credit card information, finger prints and retinal scans.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Women’s ‘red flag’ app Tea is a privacy nightmare⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I have the solution. Nobody’s gonna like it, everybody here is gonna scream at me about it, but I have the solution.

  Stop dating strangers on the internet.

  The entire personals site/dating app experiment we’ve been running for the last quarter century is obviously a categorical failure. Humans just don’t work like this.

  Things have gotten so much worse since I was in high school. When I was in high school, the community of girls available to me to ask out were pretty much all girls I’d known since we were 5. A lot of them, I didn’t have to wonder about their character, their intentions, their capacity to do harm, I was there when all that was written. I remember how much of a bully Chelsea was in middle school, I remember how nice Ashley was to everyone, I remember how Justine seemed weirdly infatuated with me in the 4th grade. They’d all remember stuff about me and the other boys. We graduated high school, I never saw 80% of them ever again, and within 5 years that figure climbed to at least 95%. Four years of college with mostly abject strangers who you’re weirdly fast to form and break deceptively deep bonds with, all of whom I’ve also lost track of, and then the adult world in which everyone including you is an NPC.

  I happen to be the exact age where, I got out of college in 2007, I disappeared into work, like I went to the airport and I went home for two years. In 2009, I looked back up and everything had CHANGED. Instant messaging was on smart phones now, and you WERE NOT TO approach women in person, only through phone-based dating apps and you had BETTER FUCKING NOT already be acquainted.

  Don’t talk to women at the grocery store. Don’t talk to women at the gym. Don’t talk to women at the library. Don’t talk to women at your work. Don’t talk to women at their work. Don’t talk to women at the coffee shop. Don’t talk to women at the bar. Don’t talk to women at the club. Don’t talk to women. No woman, only app.

  How do you meet more women? Oh that’s categorically the wrong question because having the goal of meeting women in the first place is creepy. Stop wanting to meet women and instead organically decide you want to do things that women happen to like, and then accidentally meet women in the course of doing those things. You know, at those meetups that are always happening on a recurring basis, that aren’t advertised to happen at a place and time and then no one shows up and the listing is never re-posted. Probably just install more apps.

  It’s been women driving this, men vastly prefer asking women out from within their social circle. The pressure to make the first move is still on men, and he’d rather ask out women he already thinks he might like. Women on the other hand vastly prefer to be cold approached by a charming stranger.

  I think it’s gone far enough when we’ve got women saying dumb shit like “Systematically doxxing and libeling men is a risk we’re just going to have to take.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Women’s ‘red flag’ app Tea is a privacy nightmare⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You could easily convince me that it was a brilliantly executed honeypot. It’s just too damn poetic.

  “It’s a women’s safety app” No it wasn’t. This app was about women’s safety as much as the recent payment processor porn game censorship bullshit was about child safety. This was about slandering men for fun because women love gossip. The app’s name was “Tea.”

  Not a single woman who signed up for this app stopped to think, “Here’s a brand new app, just came out, has no track record, no reputation. I don’t know who runs this. I don’t know how they secure their database. I know what they’re asking, they want a picture of my government-issued ID. We’ve spent the last two decades reading news headlines of the pattern “tech company was hacked, 2.2 million users compromised including emails, home addresses and SSNs” on a weekly basis. There hasn’t been a week gone by since Dubya was president that hasn’t happened.”

  The women who uploaded pictures of their IDs to some app really had their own safety in mind. Turns out you can short circuit that whole process with hilarious ease if you say things like “women only” and “slander your exes.”

  I don’t think I could have constructed a better example as to why all the recent “prove your identity” shit is comprehensively retarded.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are your go-to sites to find free 3D files to print?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  How do you decide what to print

  I find a need for something. I need to attach my shop vac to this tool, so I’ll print an adapter. I need a bracket for this part on my ancient blinds. I’ll print a bracket. I need a case for a circuit board I just bought, I’ll print them.

  What sites do you use to find free files?

  At this point, Printables, though I don’t do that very often, I tend to model what I need in CAD.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨As governments around the world are set to make the Internet more restrictive and privacy-invading, we need a solution⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah I hold a general class amateur radio license, and that’s helped me wrap my head around how it works. And I’ve still got a lot of "somehow"s in my understanding.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hertz' AI System That Scans for "Damage" on Rental Cars Is Turning Into an Epic Disaster⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Sounds like they want to lose those customers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This Tiny Radio Lets Me Send Texts Without Wi-Fi or Cell Service⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes. LoRa (from “long range”, sometimes abbreviated as “LR”) is a physical proprietary radio communication technique.[2] It is based on spread spectrum modulation techniques derived from chirp spread spectrum (CSS) technology.[3] It was developed by Cycleo, a company of Grenoble, France, and patented in 2014.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨As governments around the world are set to make the Internet more restrictive and privacy-invading, we need a solution⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I just ordered a couple of meshtastic transceivers. Here’s what it is:

  LoRa is a patented radio technique that uses some kind of fancy spread spectrum technique to give very low power sub-GHz UHF radio somewhat impressive range. We’re used to a single Wi-Fi access point being able to cover about the size of a large-ish house with wireless data. I can’t pick up my house Wi-Fi in my workshop at the back of my suburban property. LoRa manages to reach out several miles on the same amount of power as a Wi-Fi signal. The tradeoff is bandwidth. A typical Wi-Fi connection can stream video, LoRa isn’t really practical for much more than text messaging. It is my understanding that it’s designed to do things like industrial telemetry.

  On top of this is built Meshtastic, an open source mesh networking protocol. You buy a little circuit board that’s got a microcontroller, a LoRa transceiver and a bluetooth transceiver. You flash the Meshtastic firmware to it, and now it is a “node.” “Nodes” can be configured in several ways, but in general they’ll sit there and scream into the void looking for other nodes. Messages sent are like “Tell John I say hello. Pass this on Three times.” If your node hears that message, it will automatically transmit “Tell John I say hello. pass this on Two times.” So in that way, nodes can automatically act as repeaters.

  So they have astonishing range for their band and power, and the automatic relaying of messages means a message can propagate pretty far. Mind you, it has limitations similar to old school SMS; a message is pretty strictly limited to something like 288 characters, including emoji.

  Many “nodes” don’t have much of an onboard UI; some do but the main intended way for the user to access a node is over bluetooth from the Meshtastic app running on an Android or iOS device. Some units do have onboard UIs or can host a web interface accessed via wi-fi or ethernet.

  Meshtastic essentially forms an ad-hoc off-grid SMS-like service. The bandwidth is simply too low to allow anything like web hosting, audio or video. At a ham convention, several hundred nodes saturated the available bandwidth just with procedural pings leaving no room for actual traffic.

  Encryption is permitted on this network, I wouldn’t exactly plan a coup over Meshtastic but I think I could coordinate meeting friends at a restaurant without being stalked.

  If your project is to abandon the internet, this may be one of many tools necessary.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This Tiny Radio Lets Me Send Texts Without Wi-Fi or Cell Service⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  “WiFi goes down”

  Or more to the point, the ISP fails. A Wi-Fi router isn’t that much more difficult to power than a meshtastic node, but my old ISP, I don’t think they even bothered to install UPSes, if the power was out, so was the internet. I could keep my Wi-Fi up indefinitely, but it’s basically useless outside my house.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Phonecall campaign to tell MasterCard & Visa to stop censoring adult content⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Fry was too much of a shlub to have an AmEx card.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This Tiny Radio Lets Me Send Texts Without Wi-Fi or Cell Service⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Isn’t LoRa proprietary? Like, Meshtastic is open source, but something about the radio itself is proprietary tech?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Phonecall campaign to tell MasterCard & Visa to stop censoring adult content⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It was Discover.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Phonecall campaign to tell MasterCard & Visa to stop censoring adult content⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If they seriously ONLY take credit cards and can’t be paid via bank draft, cash, personal check etc. you should be talking to your government.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Phonecall campaign to tell MasterCard & Visa to stop censoring adult content⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Your utilities won’t take checks. Sure.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Australian anti-porn group claims responsibility for Steam's new censorship rules in victory against 'porn sick brain rotted pedo gamer fetishists', and things only get weirder from there⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Feminism increasingly displays an in-group out-group dynamic characteristic of religions.

  They’re increasingly dogmatic with their teachings, a feminist will spout party lines without thinking about them precisely the way a christian will.

  A god hasn’t emerged yet afaik but a canon of saints is emerging, to include Marie Curie and Amelia Earhart.

  Unironically yes, who else has any use for International Women’s Day.

  They’ve even got unhinged extremists, like these assholes in Australia.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨She's a keeper⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  25 year old girls don’t want w5 year old guys. women also prefer married men to single men.