ExtremeDullard
@ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org
- Comment on Algerian man found alive after 26 years in neighbour’s cellar 2 days ago:
Something tells me the victim had mental issues - which doesn’t make him any less of a victim.
- Comment on Not only is this not how anyone writes, I do not understand why anyone would want to read anything that sounds anything like this 3 days ago:
Is your beef that the review is fake or that it’s poorly written?
Because everybody knows ALL reviews on Amazon are fake. If that’s what you find depressing, I guess you’ve been living under a rock for the past 10 years. It’s nothing new…
As for the low quality of the fake review, fear not: AI will soon make all fake reviews literary works of art. You’ll soon be able to spend countless hours on Amazon enjoying high-quality machine-written reviews 🙂
- Comment on Trump pledges to scrap offshore wind projects on ‘day one’ of presidency 4 days ago:
During his first campaign, most people with common sense simply dismissed Trump. “Who in his right mind would vote for him?” they thought. Boy! were they in for a surprise.
Now this is his second campaign. Trump is still the same Trump as the first time but on steroid this time. He tried to stage a coup, and he’s now sitting in a courtroom trying to defend his ass in a really shameful scandal.
And most people with common sense, again, dismiss Trump. Because really, this time around, who in his right mind - including the most staunch ultra-conservative bible thumping republican - would vote this guy in again?
Well, watch as many, many people will inexplicably say “Watch me. Hold my beer…” on election day. It will truly boggle your mind that not only anyone voted for him at all, but in fact a sizeable portion of America has.
- Comment on Remains found at former Nazi base 'too decayed to be identified' 1 week ago:
From TFA:
their advanced decay made it impossible to determine the cause of death
Even if the exact cause is not known, I’m pretty sure the guy died from a bad case of WW2.
- Comment on Russia blames 'hostile' Baltic countries for split in relations 1 week ago:
Three of the countries forced to be in a union for 69 years take measures to avoid being attacked by the country that forced them into that union after seeing it attack a 4th country that was also forced into that union. Gee, I wonder why they’re hostile…
- Comment on Henry Cuellar: US congressman and wife charged with taking $600,000 in bribes 2 weeks ago:
Corruption is apolitical. The guy isn’t a bad democrat, he’s a bad public servant.
- Comment on Apple's 'incredibly private' Safari not so private in Europe 2 weeks ago:
The problem isn’t suddenly allowing third party browsers.
The problem here - the ONLY problem - is using a fucking browser to do everything, instead of… you know, browsing.
An app store app should be installed as an app. It has no business being specially handled by a browser.
That’s what you get when you turn a browser into a mini OS: the thing’s attack surface increases by orders of magnitude.
- Comment on Bodycam video shows DA calling cop an “a**hole” after being pulled over for speeding 2 weeks ago:
The only smart thing to say to police is nothing at all: keep quiet.
- Comment on ‘It’s catastrophic’: Italian restaurants in London struggle to find staff post-Brexit 4 weeks ago:
You mean to say “Shaddap you face!”
- Comment on ‘It’s catastrophic’: Italian restaurants in London struggle to find staff post-Brexit 4 weeks ago:
Most everybody in the UK didn’t want to leave Europe until a bunch of politicians with an agenda planted the idea in their mind and argued for it with lies after lies.
The people was lied to and Brexit was manufactured. You can’t put all the blame on the people: part of it is to be dished out to the education system that failed to give enough of them critical thinking abilities and teach them history so it doesn’t repeat itself.
- Comment on ‘It’s catastrophic’: Italian restaurants in London struggle to find staff post-Brexit 4 weeks ago:
The best and most accurate commentary ever on Brexit can be found here:
- Comment on Police in Japan have arrested a 36-year-old man on suspicion of selling illegally modified Pokémon save data to customers online 5 weeks ago:
Forgive me if I’m saying something stupid, as I know nothing about Pokemon. But two minutes of Googling turns up this repo that apparently lets you edit save files and more.
Which raises the disturbing question: do people really pay to get data they could make themselves for free?
Although I could be missing something obvious and perhaps this man was selling something this project or other similar ones couldn’t generate. Like I said, I don’t know the first thing about Pokemon.
As for this guy being arrested for selling fake stuff, is it really dystopic? It’s no different than selling fake Rolex watches or fake signed sports memorabilia: you’re either deceiving customers if they don’t know what they’re buying from you, or you’re damaging / debasing a company’s brand.
- Comment on ‘Insane’: Xi’s call for ethnic Chinese to tell Beijing’s story stirs anger 5 weeks ago:
Define “ethnic Chinese”…
It makes as much sense as “ethnic English”: are they German? Vikings? Jamaican - hence African? Is Joe Biden an “ethnic Irish”, “ethnic French” or “ethnic English”?
Aren’t we all strictly speaking scatterlings of Africa, like Nick Clegg said? In which case, aren’t we all “ethnic homo erectus”?
Ethnicity, like race, is one of those terms that has no actual meaning, but consistently come up in racist and populist utterances. It’s usually a big red flag for me to immediately cut the discussion short with whoever starts invoking those concepts.
- Comment on Here's why Americans under 40 are so disillusioned by capitalism 5 weeks ago:
Wait… This article is dated Apr 1st. So by the rules of April’s fools, this means Americans under 40 are in fact absolutely absolutely delighted by capitalism, yes?
Either that or American over 40 too - or in other words, all Americans who aren’t grossly undeserving rich fucks - are disillusioned, which is far more likely.
- Comment on Building bombings and 14-year-old hitmen: Organized crime overwhelms Sweden 1 month ago:
Yeah, the other way round 🙂 Fixed. Thanks!
- Comment on Building bombings and 14-year-old hitmen: Organized crime overwhelms Sweden 1 month ago:
“Much” higher is stretching is. According to Wikipedia, Sweden has a homicide rate of 1.2 per 100,000 in vs 1.1 for Finland.
Meaning it would just take a couple of drunken Swedish guys with a fruit knife to put Sweden ahead.
- Comment on Building bombings and 14-year-old hitmen: Organized crime overwhelms Sweden 1 month ago:
I asked Finnish colleagues what they thought of the situation in Sweden - and not just the latest events, but how the country has turned evermore violent and dangerous for the past 20 years. They told me quite unapologetically: Well, the Swedes opened their borders wide to all kinds of people from wildly different cultural backgrounds coming from really troubled countries and the Finns haven’t. Now they have the problems those people brought with them and we don’t.
I’m starting to think there’s some truth to this. But as a foreigner, whenever I go to Finland, the reverse - the lack of cultural diversity, the sea of whiteness and the absolute lack of non-Finnish-sounding names - is equally unsettling, rather stifling and feels genuinely bizarre sometimes.
I guess you can’t have the best of both worlds…
- Comment on New Discord TOS binds you to forced arbitration - Opt-Out Now 1 month ago:
Even simpler: don’t do Discord.
I was invited to some Discord chatroom once: when I hit the website, the list of blocked scripts in uBlock Origin was longer than my arm. That was all I needed to close the tab immediately. I don’t need to run 500 trackers from sketchy advertisement companies to join a glorified IRC chatroom with enough emojis and color to put an epileptic sufferer in danger.
- Comment on One-party, communist country Vietnam is seeing US ties as it seeks to diversify from China 1 month ago:
Uncle Ho is spinning in his grave.
- Comment on British army ends century-old ban to allow troops to grow beards 1 month ago:
25.5 mm… So nobody can say “Give them an inch…”
- Comment on Google was ordered to identify people who watched certain YouTube videos. Privacy experts say the orders are unconstitutional. 1 month ago:
The scary thing isn’t that this sort of thing is technically possible. It’s that the cops try this lazy-ass investigative method because they know full well the information oligopolies readily play ball and provide the data more often than not.
And that my friends is the very definition of Fascism: when big business is in cahoots with the authorities. Don’t take my word for it: Benito Mussolini, the very dude who invented Fascism, said it himself in 1932:
“Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power.”
I’ve known Big Data would eventually lead us to full-blown fascism since Scott McNealy inadvertently spilled the beans about the future of privacy in 1999. Everybody dismissed McNealy back then and said nobody would stand for this. But I instantly realized he was telling the naked truth as it would happen that day. And I’ve been called a nutcase and a conspiracy theorist ever since, for a full quarter of a century.
And now here we are: everybody is finally coming to the same realization - too late to do any goddamn thing about it.
This is sad…
- Comment on Magali Berdah: Dozens jailed in France's largest cyberbully case 1 month ago:
I think it’s pretty safe to say that a Youtube “influencer”, a rapper and their fans aren’t prime candidates for a Mensa membership.
- Comment on Magali Berdah: Dozens jailed in France's largest cyberbully case 1 month ago:
Here’s the takeaway:
28 people between the age of 20 and 49 were convinced by a rapper to bully a Youtuber.
Let me rephrase that: 28 FULLY GROWN ADULTS who should know better elected to heed a local celebrity’s incitement to ruin someone’s life on the internet.
This is pathetic on so many levels…
- Comment on Trump unable to pay $464m bond in New York fraud case, his lawyers say 1 month ago:
If he can’t pay, saddle him with a debt repayment plan that will rob him of whatever he doesn’t need to strictly survive in order to pay back what he owes.
That’s usually what happens to ordinary shmucks.
- Comment on Forget the paycheck, employees really want a raise in emotional salary 1 month ago:
I go to work for a dollar salary. I don’t get up in the morning and go to work every day because it makes me feel warm and fuzzy. I get my emotions with my family and my friends.
- Comment on Estonian prime minister says Putin is "afraid" of war with Nato --- (video, 2 min) 1 month ago:
I think she’s wrong on one thing: European countries aren’t afraid of going to war with Russia, they’re afraid of losing access to Russian gas.
Putin doesn’t fear anybody and knows nobody will wage war on Russia: he holds almost all the European countries by the cojones because he controls their energy supply.
- Comment on Cummins Diesel Cheats Emissions Tests - Fined $1.6B by US 2 months ago:
Corporations have no shame. From the article:
Cummins says it will continue collaborating with investigators to lower the environmental red flag.
If your neighbor got caught stealing mail, then solemnly declared he’d continue working with the police to reduce theft in the neighborhood, you’d punch him across the face.
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- Comment on How to stop privacy/security theatre? How to stop worrying? 2 months ago:
The first step to stop worrying is to know what you’re up against and define the problem exactly. Once you know, you can do something about it, which gives you control. Once you have control, you stop fretting.
First, know you threat model.
Then figure out what your requirements are in terms of security and privacy (not the same things) according to your threat model: what you absolutely cannot accept, what you can compromise with, what you can do to hurt the adversary if you can’t fully avoid them.
Then research countermeasures you’re happy to live with that meet your requirements.
Then implement the countermeasures.
Then simply make it a habit to regularly assess the effectiveness of your countermeasures, learn about new threats and assess how they might affect you. Rinse, repeat.
If you do all that, you’ll be on top of the problem and you’ll stop worrying.
- Comment on Denmark orders schools to stop sending student data to Google 3 months ago:
Indeed. And all that goodness is on purpose, as the device is Google’s trojan horse into your private data.
All Google products are designed to be as attractive and popular as possible so people are drawn to them like flies on a turd and give Google their data. That’s why Google axes so many projects that aren’t quite attractive and popular enough.