TheEntity

@TheEntity@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Petrichor⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Shark is wife.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨X adds Twitch to its advertising boycott lawsuit⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You also can’t play the socom games from PS2, because of the idea of glorifying terrorists. Since if they win, the announcer says “terrorists win”.

  Wouldn’t the same apply to Counter-Strike? Did they change it since the last time I played ages ago?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemmy votes ARE public, should they be anonymous?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  On Kbin the votes are 100% public for anyone. I’ve migrated to Lemmy after the frequent server issues with Kbin and I miss that part dearly. It was very easy to gauge whether someone was engaging in a good or bad faith discussion by checking the votes within a discussion. That being said, personally I’m very light on my downvotes, and I can see how someone more trigger-happy would see it as worrying. Personally I see the vote transparency as healthy though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨obesity⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Probably no, not in this specific form, that being said I don’t want to compare one tragedy to another. There are lots of disgusting parts of the human history, and that’s certainly one of them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨obesity⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  To my non-American ears “negro” sounds far worse actually. Probably because of how rare it is in comparison.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨obesity⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Frankly that’s something I do not understand. Why this single specific word? We have dozens of terrible offensive words. Why this specific one is considered so bad we cannot even talk about it directly, even when merely discussing it? I would think discussing it and not directing it at someone would be pretty reasonable. As with every single other word.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Survey shows most people wouldn't pay extra for AI-enhanced hardware | 84% of people said no⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And what do the companies take away from this? “Cool, we just won’t leave you any other options.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Signal under fire for storing encryption keys in plaintext⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Either multiple different keychains or even you can have no keychain-like application in your system at all.

  The WiFi passwords are usually stored in /etc/NetworkManager as plain files. Granted, they are not accessible directly by non-root users as they are being managed by the NetworkManager daemon, but there is nothing generic for such a thing. Signal rolling a similar daemon for itself would be an overkill. The big desktop environments (GNOME, KDE…) usually have their own keychain-like programs that the programs provided by these environments use, but that only solves this problem for the users of these specific environments.

  To me it’s perfectly expected the Signal encryption keys are readable by my user account.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Signal under fire for storing encryption keys in plaintext⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There is no single keychain on Linux, and supposedly on Windows too. Signal would need to either support a few dozens of password managers or require a specific one, both options terrible in their own way. This isn’t something that can be done without making broad assumptions about the user’s system.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Overweight people more likely to take sick leave, European study finds⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Because the obesity and their bad health likely has a single cause. Whether it’s neglect, bad mental health or something else, it all increases the likelihood of obesity and being otherwise unhealthy. This headline seems to paint the fat people as leeches of the system, while they are often already sick and obesity just one of their symptoms.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I have nothing against veganism as a dietary decision, I’m actually seriously considering it for health reasons and for easier food preparation.

  I am sick of veganism as a moral high horse, especially with hypocrisy in the background. I have a friend constantly ordering stuff, including vegan ingredients, from Amazon of all places. If he’s going to low-key admonish me for hurting animals, I’d expect him to care about the Amazon warehouse employees to a similar degree. Unless it’s all just posturing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You can't see him!!!!⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I can’t unsee him.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨high energy⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  As if! I’m sure lots of neurodivergent people would disagree with half of these points.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EU tells Meta it can't paywall privacy⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Firstly, this is not “my argument”, this is EU’s argument.

  Secondly, none of these platforms present it as a choice between paying and giving the kind of consent that by law needs to be optional and freely given.

  Thirdly, being free to not use a service that is breaking the law does not make it any less illegal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EU tells Meta it can't paywall privacy⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They can just charge €10/mo like every other company does, for example Netflix. They can’t offer it as an alternative to the “freely given consent”. It’s not freely given if the alternative is to pay to not give this consent.