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- Comment on At least Wilson was gone by this point 5 days ago:
Some kind of Hegseth, US warcrime, boat bombing joke
- Comment on A New Anonymous Phone Carrier Lets You Sign Up With Nothing but a Zip Code 1 week ago:
By asking users for almost no identifiable information, Merrill wants to protect them from one of the most intractable privacy problems in modern technology: Despite whatever surveillance-resistant communications apps you might use, phone carriers will always know which of their customers’ phones are connecting to which cell towers and when. Carriers have frequently handed that information over to data brokers willing to pay for it—or any FBI or ICE agent that demands it with a court order
This is pretty pointless i believe. Your sim location can always be triangulated which means you will immediately identified if you ever go home with the sim card active.
All the feds have to do is either know where you live, or any specific location they know you were at, or your phone number and they will instantly have the same degree of insight as they would have had if you signed up to the provider with your name.
- Comment on Helldivers 2 install size reduction effort yields 131GB in cuts, and you can try the slim build right now 1 week ago:
These loading time projections were based on industry data
Good reminder that lots of industry “knowledge” is just as scientific as the story your great grandpa always used to tell about the war. So much stuff just gets established once and then never questioned again.
- Comment on idk 1 week ago:
Rich guy doing rich guy things. They never expect reality to catch up with them until it does 🤷
- Comment on Are they still underpants if you aren't wearing pants? 2 weeks ago:
How long does your pubic hair have to be to qualify as underpants?
- Comment on Epic boss Tim Sweeney thinks stores like Steam should stop labelling games as being made with AI: 'It makes no sense,' he says, because 'AI will be involved in nearly all future production 2 weeks ago:
All their own games have lootboxes and stuff like that.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Yeah thats about what i expected.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
That is very interesting 🤔. Thanks!
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
I was considering buying Risk of Rain 2 on sale yesterday for 9€ but buying all the DLCs costs 45€.
- Comment on In the future, there will be a sad scene of widow watching AI porn of their dead spouse 2 weeks ago:
Eh i considered that it might be meant as a horny joke, but wanted to voice my disgust for post death AI slop anyways.
- Comment on In the future, there will be a sad scene of widow watching AI porn of their dead spouse 2 weeks ago:
Its true that the dead cant care, but living people like parents, friends and other siblings might.
- Comment on Simple new engine sucks power from the night sky 2 weeks ago:
This is enough to keep something like an ESP32 running throughout the night, but it would be way easier to just add a little battery instead.
- Comment on In the future, there will be a sad scene of widow watching AI porn of their dead spouse 2 weeks ago:
Its not morbid, its disrespectful. Let dead people be dead.
- Comment on I will just leave this here.... 2 weeks ago:
People born in Israel and just existing there aren’t land thieves
Until they join the IDF (which is mandatory) and become land thieves once again.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Even at 1000$ it will most likely outperform any 1000$ prebuilt you can buy. If they market it like this it can absolutely work at that price point.
- Comment on I will just leave this here.... 2 weeks ago:
There are basically only first or second generation land thieves. I think thats the implication, just reiterating that Israelis are land thieves.
- Comment on Everyone's got a fetish, I guess. 2 weeks ago:
I recommend Stand-up Maths video on this where he tries to recreate the scale with a bigger sample size. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vv-lWg5HNaM
- Comment on Feeling that groove 2 weeks ago:
Even simpler to visualize: Its the movement of the membrane of the speaker turned into a physical line.
- Comment on Hi, Jeffrey! 3 weeks ago:
Of course there are vulnerabilities sometimes, thats why i wrote “unless there is a major security flaw” but this kind of thing is usually fixed with days of being found.
- Comment on These should be brought back 3 weeks ago:
Yeah basically disallow smoking in all places where people gather. Bars, outdoor restaurants, sports events, etc.
- Comment on These should be brought back 3 weeks ago:
I wish it was banned everywhere. If you wanna kill yourself with cigarettes then do it the normal slow way with cancer, but dont endanger other people by being distracted while driving.
- Comment on These should be brought back 3 weeks ago:
Smoking while driving is illegal in many countries so it makes a lot of sense that they would be removed.
- Comment on Hi, Jeffrey! 3 weeks ago:
Yeah. Unless there is a major security flaw in your browser, no website can do any harm to you or your computer if you just dont give it any information.
- Comment on Companies that buy up homes should be known as home scalpers 3 weeks ago:
Which brings us back to the issue of all the empty and unused housing which is used to artificially increase rent levels. There is actually more supply than demand, but the supply is being limited by the gatekeepers (corporate and individual landlords). With proper legislation this would improve quite a bit.
- Comment on Companies that buy up homes should be known as home scalpers 3 weeks ago:
How is this different when every house for rent is owned by an individual?
Obviously there should be limits to individual land ownership too…
- Comment on Can't afford the rope so you improvise 3 weeks ago:
Roleplaying as a turtle i see.
- Comment on Companies that buy up homes should be known as home scalpers 3 weeks ago:
In Germany they are called “Heuschrecken” which translates to “Locusts” because thats how they operate.
Only in german: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heuschreckendebatte
This is what librewolf translated the first section to:
A locust debate in Germany in April and May 2005 over a statement by the then SPD chairman Franz Müntefering is referred to as a locust debate. This compared the economic action of some “anonymous investors” with locust plagues.
The term “locust” has since been regarded in German political parlance as a derogatory animal metaphor for private equity companies and other forms of equity participation, such as in the public-private partnership model, with allegedly short-term or excessive return expectations, such as hedge funds or so-called vulture funds.
The term and debate have been criticized variously, including as in parts anti-Semitic and anti-American.
- Comment on Companies that buy up homes should be known as home scalpers 3 weeks ago:
Yeah no. Last i checked there are 4 times as many empty apartments than homeless people in Germany. The housing market here is completely fucked and corporate housing ownership needs to be disincentivized or outright banned for this to be solved. Whenever people try to buy housing they will be outbid by companies that already have plenty of capital. This leads to an everlasting spiral where the rich people will always have more buying power and normal people are perpetually stuck paying absurd rents to those same rich people.
- Comment on Gmail can read your emails and attachments to train its AI, unless you opt out 3 weeks ago:
Proton is definitely no good. Ads, freemium, AI garbage, Bad 3rd party client compatibility, CEO loves Trump, collecting excessive metadata that they are then regularly forced to hand over to the cops, etc.
Its better not to put all your eggs in one basket so dont try to find a single provider for all your needs.
All email services will be able to read your emails unless you encrypt them yourself (PGP). So there are no “private” email providers really. What you should look for is just a functional provider that works well with proper clients like Thunderbird (available for desktop and mobile).
This is a list of many tried and tested servers, just pick any of the “OK” ones: providers.delta.chat
Deltachat is an app that allows you easily use email in and end to end encrypted way while making it look like a standard instant messenger. For this to work properly the provider needs to support 3rd party clients properly, so this list gives you a good look at the technical quality of the email provider.See how Outlook, Proton and Tutanota are non functional? Thats because they dont implement the email standard properly in order to lock users into their platform and apps.
- Comment on Trump calls Democrats who told US military to refuse illegal orders 'traitors' who should face death penalty 3 weeks ago:
Damn the earlier article i read didnt include the “SEDITIOUS BEHAVIOR, punishable by DEATH!” quote. Thats not something that should just be left out.