AutistoMephisto
@AutistoMephisto@lemmy.world
- Comment on First Porn, Now Skin Cream? ‘Age Verification’ Bills Are Out of Control. 20 hours ago:
Like, I remember the pirate radio station making a big hubbub during that time when rock n roll was banned in the UK. I could see illegal porn sites operating on ships in international waters, outside the boundaries of US enforcement using satellite connections to get their content out there. Problem is, the US is a little more trigger happy and might just send Navy ships out to sink them. If it happens in international waters nobody has to know.
- Comment on Russia-aligned hackers are targeting Signal users with device-linking QR codes 2 weeks ago:
For the landlocked, may I recommend the Dead Drop Protocol? Leave the message in a place that everyone knows about, but only the intended recipients knows a message is there to be read. Like the Message in a Bottle, it supports all encryption methods and is disconnected from the Internet.
- Comment on 'Uber for Armed Guards' Rushes to Market Following the Assassination of UnitedHealthcare CEO | Are you scared to walk down the streets of NYC and also have too much money? There's an app for that 2 weeks ago:
Removed the ability to communicate cryptographically. Our only tool.
Not entirely. The old methods still work. I’m talking about old fashioned pen and paper. OTP ciphers and dead drops. Messages, hidden where only the intended recipient knows it’s there. The problem is, there’s no dead drops in cyberspace. There’s no place one can leave a hidden message that can’t be seen by others in cyberspace. And while quantum computing might break OTP, it’s too expensive to use for that purpose.
- Comment on PSN Is Still Down After 14 Hours And No One Knows Why 4 weeks ago:
It’s the sequel to the first one, and historical accuracy was like, at the center of of that one. Your character starts off the game not knowing how to read, because in medieval Europe, literacy was not widespread and the son of a blacksmith certainly wouldn’t know how to read, so books you pick up in the game are total gibberish until you learn to read.
- Comment on Las Vegas' dystopia-sphere, powered by 150 Nvidia GPUs and drawing up to 28,000,000 watts, is both a testament to the hubris of humanity and an admittedly impressive technical feat | PC Gamer 7 months ago:
Honestly if we could get space elevators figured out, the best place to put solar panels would be in the upper atmosphere. Tethered to the ground by massive columns that feed the energy they collect to massive capacitors on the ground?
- Comment on Heritage Foundation insists it was not hacked by “gay furries” 7 months ago:
I want everything SiegedSec found. I intend to copy it and store it for safekeeping.
- Comment on Get in the Hilux 7 months ago:
There were also icemen at one point. Then we invented refrigerators. Nobody seems to miss having a giant block of ice delivered to their house to keep the food we buy at the stores cold.
- Comment on The fools! 7 months ago:
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- Comment on False Dichotomy Rule 7 months ago:
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- Comment on Internet Archive forced to remove 500,000 books after publishers’ court win 8 months ago:
Maybe I’m just seeing potential where there isn’t any, but I really think if the people of the Archive could find a way to get their stuff stored in TUL, or perhaps build a Library of their own, the publishers couldn’t go after them then, because to the outside observer, all they see is a buncha dudes playing Minecraft.
- Comment on Internet Archive forced to remove 500,000 books after publishers’ court win 8 months ago:
There’s a Minecraft server that has books and articles stored. it’s called The Uncensored Library, (visit.uncensoredlibrary.com), and they have various articles and books that are free to view. The Uncensored Library was created by Reporters Without Borders. If I were the people of the Internet Archive, I’d be talking to the folks in the RSF about porting some of their content to this virtual library.
- Comment on Helium-3: Mining the fuel of the future on the Moon 9 months ago:
Can a solar sail propel an object to relativistic speeds? The whole point of space travel is to go to other planets at a speed fast enough that the people going there will not be dead or elderly by the time they reach their destination. The only way to do that is by achieving light speed or damn near it. I do not want to board a solar sail vessel bound for Proxima Centauri b (4.22ly) and be dust by the time I get there.
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- Comment on Reddit embracing all out enshittification 9 months ago:
They think that the entire reason the Internet exists is to sell things. To make you want to buy things. And if you tell them it’s not, they laugh.
- Comment on How rental ‘libraries of things’ have become the new way to save money 9 months ago:
- Comment on [deleted] 9 months ago:
I’m still waiting for this shit to come full circle back to how it was with Cable, where someone links the various streaming services together in one convenient app and they tell you you can switch and save!
- Comment on If presidential immunity is absolute.. 10 months ago:
Most of SCOTUS is not in favor of “broad immunity”, for exactly this scenario. They want to make sure that Trump is never held responsible for his actions while in office, and that every President after Trump(if he doesn’t declare himself President for life) is criminally liable for everything. Trump has even said that he’ll have Biden prosecuted if he wins.
- Comment on Tesla Lays Off Employee Who Slept In Car To Work Longer Hours 10 months ago:
Yeah. Because someone who merely “meets expectations”, you don’t know what they’re thinking. They could be plotting something and you wouldn’t know. Many employers pride themselves on thinking they know what their employees are thinking while on the clock. Meanwhile, the “quiet quitters” are the hardest to read.
- Comment on As a long-time user hearing YouTube wants to play ads when I pause a video 10 months ago:
Here’s the thing about YouTube. From the very beginning, it was a video-hosting platform. Users create content. They upload the content to YouTube’s servers. Other users view the content, and upload their own. A simple formula, no? That’s why their pre-Google slogan was “Broadcast Yourself”. The thing is, storing video data long-term is expensive. This is where Google comes into play, because, unless you’ve got Google’s money, you cannot afford to store literally 100s of Yottabytes of video data, not for very long, anyway. Even if YouTube becomes a “mostly-worthless relic”, there’s nobody who can readily replace it.
- Comment on TikTok's CEO is feeling the pressure and users are freaking out 10 months ago:
This, basically. Google took YouTube and made its algorithm push more long form content for the purpose of generating revenue from ads. Not saying TikTok doesn’t have ads in my feed but at least I can skip literally all of them.
- Comment on Reddit embracing all out enshittification 10 months ago:
See Also: r/thisiswhyimbroke
- Comment on Reddit embracing all out enshittification 10 months ago:
So they started by making polls and surveys not obvious? That makes sense. If people know that a survey is a survey, especially on a site like Reddit, the users will tell each other and attempt to fuck with the results
- Comment on Reddit embracing all out enshittification 10 months ago:
What research is telling them that? Where was the survey? These people are making shit up.
- Comment on Wgen you donate, do you ever think of the person that gets your blood and how high their hospital bill will be? 10 months ago:
Khorne cares not from whence the Blood flows, only that it flows forever and without cease!
- Comment on YouTube’s ad blocker crackdown now includes third-party apps 10 months ago:
That was the purpose. You see, Big Tobacco actually sponsors the anti-smoking campaigns, which does give them some creative input. They tell the writers to make them as annoying as possible.
- Comment on What Neuralink is missing (it turns out that connecting brains with computers is the easy part) 10 months ago:
Or they use the addictive qualities to make workers behave. “Work a 30-hour shift, then the pain stops.”
- Comment on Someone call the PETA folk 11 months ago:
Not Daft Punk! What a horrible Discovery! Please forgive them, they’re only Human After All! Please do your Homework before saying such lies.
- Comment on Reddit: Return Of The Junk Stock IPO 11 months ago:
They know WSB can tank their stock and there’s sweet fuck all they can do about it lol.
- Comment on AI companies are violating a basic social contract of the web and and ignoring robots.txt 1 year ago:
Exactly. Capitalism spits in the face of the concept of a social contract, especially if companies themselves didn’t write it.
- Comment on Canada to ban the Flipper Zero to stop surge in car thefts 1 year ago:
Yes, but even if the base model hardware is incapable of doing something, someone savvy enough could modify it. It’s the same logic they use to ban AR-15s in some states in the US. By default, all civilian ARs are built to fire in semi-auto only, BUT, a knowledgeable individual can make it fire in full auto if they drill a hole in the lower receiver in just the right spot.
