CatZoomies

@CatZoomies@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Massive X data leak affects over 200 million users.⁩ ⁨⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Great questions! Seriously, those made me think for sure.

  For question one, I suppose a profiler could do that. If my domain name is myemaildomain.com, they probably could track all emails and sell it collectively. But I don’t think corporations do that at this time. That would be akin to profiling all Hotmail, Gmail, Live, etc emails, appreciating those are massive services. I suppose if nefarious actors were to do that to my domain, I could consider switching domains - I have multiple domain names I own, and it’d be trivial to use the other ones. In the years I’ve been using a custom domain for email, I haven’t encountered any nefarious actors and have significantly eliminated any spam.

  For question two, the domain provider I use doesn’t do that in their terms of service. However, if they did look at my MX records and decided they wanted to profile me as a user of Addy, they definitely could do that. Though it would hurt their business as many users would migrate their domains to new registrars - I certainly would move my domains to a new registrar!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Massive X data leak affects over 200 million users.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  When you get an email from Company A that sends to your alias email, the email goes to your inbox. When you reply to that email, your alias provider forwards it to Company A where the sender is your alias address.

  In short, you simply reply and your alias service takes care of it for you so that the recipient only sees your alias email and not your true email.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Massive X data leak affects over 200 million users.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I signed up with them ensuring I read their privacy policy. Based on my personal privacy threat model, I’m okay with their policy. This wouldn’t fit a more intensive threat model.

  I haven’t read it recently but last I remember they do have the option to temporarily store an email in the event of a failed delivery, until it can eventually get sent to you. This is opt-in I believe, and a toggle you can enable in your account.

  In the time I’ve used them I haven’t had any issues with email deliveries. Been happy with the service so far, having left SimpleLogin and Proton for political reasons.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Massive X data leak affects over 200 million users.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This is what I do as well. I purchased my own custom domain name and run aliases off it using Addy. So as an example, an email for an online account would look like: ‘random9.words@mycustomemail.com’

  Then I feed these accounts into a password manager so I don’t have to remember them.

  All the aliases forward mail directly to my main inbox. Companies never see what my real address is. If I get spam, I know which company either sold my data or leaked my data. I can then take action by simply turning off that email alias and then spinning up a new one.

  The best thing about owning your custom domain is that you’re in control and never have to change your email addresses. If I want to move to a new email provider, I can easily do that. The process, simplified:

  • Buy a domain name
  • Sign up for an email account at Tuta, Mailbox, etc.
  • Set up your custom domain at that provider.
  • Go to your Domain provider and update your MX records so that it syncs with the email provider.
  • if you want to switch email providers, get a new one and then update your MX records to point to the new provider.
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Qobuz reveals how much it really pays per stream, and I want to see more of this transparency to help us spend money more ethically⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Not necessarily. If you can find on Bandcamp, it’s probably best to buy from there since I heard more money goes to the artists. I buy from wherever I can find the music, and thus I’ll cycle between Bandcamp or HDTracks if I can’t find it on Qobuz.

  Separately I dislike how Bandcamp embeds their name in the metadata of the tracks you buy, but it’s trivial to remove it. Just rubs me the wrong way, so most of the times if songs are on Qobuz I buy it there since they don’t do that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Qobuz reveals how much it really pays per stream, and I want to see more of this transparency to help us spend money more ethically⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I only can answer your second question. You can redownload your purchases at any time. Music will remain in your library forever until one day licensing will take it away from you.

  Qobuz has been very transparent - when you complete a purchase, they warn and recommend you to download it as soon as you can because license revocation can remove that music from your account. They’re my preferred platform for buying music.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nicole endgame⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep, these are public ledgers. If you run a full node you can see the transactions yourself. Or, you can just use services online and explore the blockchain itself by searching a Bitcoin address.

  Here’s the activity of the mentioned BTC address: blockchain.com/…/1H5qsQHFgQbLGgk1qDMTBiVFaxBdSZVF…

  At time of this comment, it’s a brand new address and has made no transactions. Wallet balance is 0 BTC.

  For the other address, Litecoin, I don’t know anything about that crypto so I can’t find it when I search online LTC explorers. Don’t know if LTC is a public ledger like BTC, and frankly I don’t care enough to find out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Deck / Gaming News #6⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep we really do love them. Hopefully persons keep up the engagement on your posts. And also, hoping we’ll get some more to help create content in this exciting sphere. Thanks for what you do and glad you get a kick out of this! I’ll explore how I can try to help create some content too that inspires me. Something I can nerd out about as well!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Deck / Gaming News #6⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Thank you so much for putting this together. I really do look forward to reading these! Must take so much work prepping and finding this, but man it’s just great.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨“Awful”: Roku tests autoplaying ads loading before the home screen⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Just a heads up that the Smart Cancer has already begun infecting PC monitors. Samsung makes Smart Monitors.

  It won’t be long before there are no longer Dumb Monitors.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We all deserve better than this⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Same strategy here. I’m in the U.S. and tariffs were my big concern. In December, I waited for the Sapphire Nitro+ 7900 XTX to go on sale and I paid less than MSRP for it brand new. Having experienced both the disasters of the previous two GPU gens, I had the foresight that the launch of the next gen cards would also be a disaster, and here we are.

  PC Gaming has become a rich person’s hobby.

  Buy current gen right before the next gen launches, and you’ll be set. I expect to get 10 years out of my card, with the incredible performance, build quality, and 24 GB VRAM.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mozilla Introduces Firefox’s First-Ever Terms of Use⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Nah, you can still try Floorp. It’s very similar to Vivaldi (Chromium). I’m happy with it after using it for a few days to where I uninstalled Firefox. Shame for Firefox, been a user since 2003 or whenever.

  It took me less than five minutes to easily migrate my data from Firefox to Floorp. If Floorp enshittifies in the future, it’ll be super simple to migrate to another Gecko browser, or possibly Ladybird or other engines.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do most people still use computers, or do people only use a smartphone as their main/only device?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Millennial in the US. These are my main devices: iPhone, gaming pc, steam deck, and an old MacBook Pro.

  • iPhone - general phone use, killing time browsing Lemmy when I should be working, playing roms, and Pokémon GO.
  • Gaming pc - primary. I prefer doing everything here including shopping because fuck shopping on a phone, I’m a millennial and for big purchases I have to use a big screen and a computer.
  • Steam Deck - mobile PC gaming for couch and rare occasions I’m away from home for a long time.
  • MacBook - secondary PC, only when I need a PC and don’t want or can’t be at my desk.

  Honestly with how far right big tech has moved, along with the predatory tracking and telemetry, I’m considering giving up smart phones for good. Not sure I even want to bother switching to a Pixel with Graphene OS after my iPhone is done.

  I miss simplicity, so I’m actively evaluating if a dumb phone (or even an e-ink dumb phone) is right for me. I’m also evaluating lugging my laptop around when I’m out and about because I can simply buy mobile service and plug in a USB cell modem if I need internet. My old 2012 MacBook Pro running Linux doesn’t track me and treat me like data cattle, so it may be worth carrying that around since I don’t get the same feeling of disgust compared to when I look at my smartphone.

  Big tech ruined everything.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo discontinuing Gold Points on the Switch eShop, ahead of Switch 2 release⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  “My body is ready… to spiiiiiiiiiiiiiiin!” - Iwata-san, channeling inner Reggie Fils-A-Mech.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is Pokémon Emerald so grindy?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep, it’s an excellent way to hide loading. If you played the Tomb Raider games, crawling and worming through tight crevices as Lara was a loading screen in disguise.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what was the last game you played in 2024?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sea of Stars and Superhot VR

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NYPD confirms suspect had a British accent⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  British accent, they say? Okay NYPD, then explain Kevin Costner!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨your mom falls significantly faster than g⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s too many words in this meme that’s making me dizzy from all your fancy science leechcraft, wizard.

  I reject your reality and substitute my own: the feather falls faster. It’s more streamlined than the bowling ball, and thus it slips through the vacuum much faster and does hit the ground and stay on the ground, I think. The ball will bounce at least once, maybe even three times. On each bounce, parts of it probably break off, which change the weight. Thankfully those broken pieces won’t hurt anyone because they’re sucked up by the vacuum. Thus, rendering your dungeon wizard spells ineffective against me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Woman wedged upside down between boulders for seven hours after trying to retrieve phone in regional NSW⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Gosh the Nutty Putty Caves thing is awful and breaks my heart every time seeing the diagram of how the kid was trapped and couldn’t be rescued.

  Good reminder to always prep your children for safety in all their endeavors.