dubyakay
@dubyakay@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Fear not, and enjoy this mere interlude to its fullest! 1 hour ago:
The universe ending is not actually fact. It’s just a theory.
- Comment on Israel Knesset panel advances bill to execute Palestinian prisoners 1 day ago:
Except it’s illegal to prove your Jewishness based on genetics in Israel. DNA tests are highly regulated and only medical and/or court order approved.
Probably because it’d reveal that Palestinians are just as semites as the Jews that lived in these lands before.
- Comment on OK what is your Roman name? 2 days ago:
This is some soylent green stuff lol.
I’m guessing you eat these as a way to not be really bothered with eating meals?
- Comment on What's your favourite menu music in a game? 3 days ago:
Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeenter the Gungeon… whispers: enter the gungeon
- Comment on Helium-3 mining on Moon: A new frontier for science and geopolitics 6 days ago:
They said movie. It was Moon (2009) directed by Duncan Jones and starring Sam Rockwell.
- Comment on Supporting the future of the open web: Cloudflare is sponsoring Ladybird and Omarchy 1 week ago:
They are the equivalent of the Dune universe’s Spacing Guild.
- Comment on Cable placement a little weird, but the ergonomics are excellent. 1 week ago:
body part is made to be in multiple different states without any tension info graphic implies that one state is “unnatural”
Yeah, that’s dumb.
- Comment on How did easy access to Porn while growing up impacted Gen-Z ? 1 week ago:
Your comment gave me an idea:
Can you imagine if a government, instead of mandating the stupid age verification system, would not bar “minors” from accessing the sites. But rather they would force the sites to implement a “tutorial on sex, sexuality and consent”, similar to the shitty corpo-mandated tutorials on topics like harassment, racism, security and GDPR. Heck, doesn’t even have to be as lengthy every time. Just simply play back a 30 second segment when opening the website and then have the individual answer a set of multiple choice questions to verify they have paid attention.
The government could sell it as “Teach the Children!” instead of “Protect the Children”. But here’s the biggest benefit of the former compared to the latter:
- It teaches children
- It’d also teach adults indiscriminately, who then may or may not really learn something ("Wait what? No really means no? I have a clitoris? How is babby formed?"
- It’d also eschew implementation of e-id and state monitoring
- Comment on 1 week ago:
We could use some antifu right now.
- Comment on Disney+ cancellation page crashes as customers rush to quit after Kimmel suspension 1 week ago:
Source?
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Winnie the Pooh is not a Disney creation. They had exclusive rights to it between 1953 and 2021.
- Comment on Microsoft announces it will automatically install the Copilot AI app alongside desktop versions of 365 products like Word, Excel and PowerPoint this October 1 week ago:
Hear me out. I work in fintech. Medium size company. Super duper strict compliance and security. Although not as strict as what I’ve seen and heard of from big data and military contractors. Still. Experian for example mandated us that as a third party API data processor everyone that even goes near their raw credit score data be in an audited room that has a camera pointing at them at all times and a camera be pointed at their computer screens at all times as well. That’s right, not on-device recording, but CCTV. The alternatíve was that we don’t see their data at all. So we opted to encrypt all data from them at all times instead. At rest, in transit, doesn’t matter. No visibility of it to us at all, except for the final numeric score you see on your credit reports and nothing else. And this is just one vendor we adhere to. There’s tons of PII running through us. You get the ghist.
Come AI, suddenly our slack has an AI channel, we have a director of AI(?), and then a whole department. And of course the AI-assisted tools proliferate and QA and engineering are both mandated to perform more after laying off 30% of our devs. And every product manager’s demo is talking about AI.
Meanwhile security said that no more Ubuntu and Fedora imaged laptops are allowed on our VPN. Windows 11 and the occasional Mac only.
Highly confidential business meetings are held with gong or other AI assist tools recording and summarizing everything. Code is being written with agentic AI. Internal-only docs are smoothed over with gpt. And all this with the notion that we should trust them that they don’t extract data from these enterprise subscription products.
My only hope is that there’s still some semblance of sanity left in this company because they have recently fired someone that proclaimed themselves being MAGA.
- Comment on Microsoft announces it will automatically install the Copilot AI app alongside desktop versions of 365 products like Word, Excel and PowerPoint this October 1 week ago:
I miss npp so much on linux. Kate is pretty good though, but need to tinker with it quite a bit to make it fit my workflow. But it’s also really hard to search for solutions, because just searching the Web for “Kate” brings a lot of noise. I wonder why they’ve never thought of it.
Also, I figure that long time linux users probably solve for what I experience as pain points completely differently. Like for example they use vim a lot instead.
- Comment on Flying cars crash into each other at Chinese air show 1 week ago:
Not the air show. Just a rehearsal. One vehicle went up into flames. No deaths, one seriously injured.
Saved you a click.
- Comment on None of the last 31 political attacks was by anyone from 'the Left'. Not one. We can count them. - AzExpress 1 week ago:
There is no left in the US political landscape.
Far right = republican
Centre right = democrat
- Comment on Microsoft is testing full-screen Microsoft 365 ads in Windows 11 for expired subscriptions 2 weeks ago:
The answer to this is usually to use an alternative. Reading the description and searching around a bit, isn’t this essentially what OBS Studio does?
- Comment on Microsoft is testing full-screen Microsoft 365 ads in Windows 11 for expired subscriptions 2 weeks ago:
With Linux Mint it’s so incredibly easy. Believe me.
Before migrating my desktop over (to arch btw) exactly a year ago I did a trial by fire during our end-of-summer get-away and installed Mint on a spare laptop with the aim of working one day remotely and also finishing a group project during a summer course which I had to do leading my team on teams (because lol universities).
The only thing that it failed on was getting the laptop’s built in speaker audio working, which I’ve heard can happen with certain models. I just used a headset instead.
Oddly enough, I have three other similar laptops, running OpenSUSE and Fedora on them, and the audio works on them flawlessly.You should try a live USB and/or a spare laptop to trial whatever distro people recommend. Distro hopping is child’s play, once you figure out how to disable secure boot.
- Comment on erotic scenes actors and actresses, how do you not get aroused while acting in those scenes? 2 weeks ago:
Viagra probably. For men at least. For women it’s probably more about ignoring the presence of the camera.
- Comment on Proton Mail Suspended Journalist Accounts at Request of Cybersecurity Agency 2 weeks ago:
It’s not that dire, unless you love seeding torrents and you encounter other peers that don’t have port forwarding either, or you are hosting something.
- Comment on Proton Mail Suspended Journalist Accounts at Request of Cybersecurity Agency 2 weeks ago:
I see nothing of sorts.
Instead what I see is this perpetuated crap about Proton being untrustworthy (they are not) and the CEO being a trump bootlicker (they are not). So this makes me think there’s a dissuasion campaign going on.
Nothing against what you are writing and pointing to. But look at the grander picture.
- The CEO makes a statement against big tech.
- Proton has been a thorn in the eye of big tech by eating into their margins (they don’t sell data and take customers away)
- Proton regularly fights against handing over data and doesn’t provide a back door to govt.
They don’t play along. They disrupt the market and modus operandi of stronger entities. Of course there’s going to be incitement against them.
The “That’s it, I’m not going to use them anymore and you shouldn’t either; here’s an alternative” seemed to spawn from a much lesser “charge” than many of the other usual suspects. Like a knee jerk reaction.
Is Proton perfect? No. Are they doing what they claim to do? Yes. Is it good value for money? Debatable. But they are not what people claim them to be on these posts.
Disclaimer: I have a free tier proton account that I log in to once a year, because I’ve moved on to Disroot for my email and mullvad for VPN.
- Comment on Nintendo’s Switch Mario Galaxy collection will retail for $70 2 weeks ago:
The highest compute cost.
- Comment on Proton Mail Suspended Journalist Accounts at Request of Cybersecurity Agency 2 weeks ago:
Does no one read beyond the headline any more?
“10 years ago, Republicans were the party of big business and Dems stood for the little guys, but today the tables have completely turned.”
This statement quickly went viral, leading to further controversy when Proton’s official Reddit account reinforced Yen’s sentiment. The now-deleted post suggested that Republicans were more inclined to take on Big Tech monopolies than corporate-aligned Democrats. However, within hours, Proton removed all traces of these remarks from its social media platforms.
Despite claiming political neutrality, Proton later issued a statement reiterating its support for stronger antitrust measures, particularly against Big Tech. The company noted that regardless of broader political views on the Republican platform, the appointment of Gail Slater as head of the Justice Department’s antitrust division under Donald Trump was a positive step.
Proton further argued that major tech companies were attempting to align with Trump because his administration posed an “unprecedented challenge to their monopolistic dominance.” This statement only fueled concerns that Proton was leaning politically despite its claims of neutrality.
Looks to me like the CEO is not aligning with the orange, but rather with the choice of a department head, in particular one that’s supposed to fight big tech monopolies at the DoJ. We have yet to see how effective this choice will be though, with all the ass kissers at the felon’s dining table.
- Comment on Proton Mail Suspended Journalist Accounts at Request of Cybersecurity Agency 2 weeks ago:
What pro trump statements?
- Comment on Russia targets WhatsApp and pushes new 'super-app' as internet blackouts grow 3 weeks ago:
Can you do a route via mobile -> home -> VPNs outside though?
- Comment on Age Verification Is A Windfall for Big Tech—And A Death Sentence For Smaller Platforms 3 weeks ago:
How do you use it without being caught at a node or getting on a list for downloading associated software though?
- Comment on YouTube is now flagging accounts on Premium family plans that aren't in the same household 3 weeks ago:
punishing paying costumers
Time to dress up as a pirate I guess.
- Comment on How long do we have before PCs get locked bootloaders and corporations ban installation of "non-approved" software? (for context: Google is restricting sideloading worldwide on Android ETA 2027) 4 weeks ago:
Beep-boop!
- Comment on How decentralized Bluesky is compared to the Fediverse. 4 weeks ago:
🤷
- Comment on Engineers wanted: Mexico looks to join the global semiconductor race 4 weeks ago:
crush the cartels
They do not need to do this. All they need to do is legalize all drugs and the “evil” cartels will turn into enterprises.
The war on drugs has been going on for over fifty years with no resolution in sight and not much to show for it except wasted tax payer money. A radically different approach is perhaps warranted.
- Comment on How decentralized Bluesky is compared to the Fediverse. 4 weeks ago:
They didn’t mean those kind of progressives. Not the political one. But the ones that actually see beyond VC backed big tech.