michaelmrose
@michaelmrose@lemmy.world
- Comment on A postal worker in Harlem attacked a trans woman. She fought back and fatally stabbed him in self-defense. This is how the NY Post framed it. 4 days ago:
You are not required to brandish a weapon because this isn’t a thing you should do outside of a movie. Waving around your gun means someone takes it from you.
This is even more laughable with a knife.
- Comment on A postal worker in Harlem attacked a trans woman. She fought back and fatally stabbed him in self-defense. This is how the NY Post framed it. 4 days ago:
This is a complete fantasy. You don’t even have to ensure that they are armed they represent a fatal threat by breaking into your house with you in it you would have every right to shoot them immediately
- Comment on A postal worker in Harlem attacked a trans woman. She fought back and fatally stabbed him in self-defense. This is how the NY Post framed it. 4 days ago:
This is basically fabrication. For instance around here in WA a woman shooting a man attacking her was deemed self defense because he presented a threat of great bodily harm or death you know actual legal standards. If she didn’t use it her merely having the gun wouldn’t prevent said harm so she got a free pass to ventilate him.
He lived she didn’t go to jail
- Comment on A postal worker in Harlem attacked a trans woman. She fought back and fatally stabbed him in self-defense. This is how the NY Post framed it. 4 days ago:
The person doesn’t have to have a weapon to be a threat to your lif. Based on your logic someone could say I’m going to beat you to death and go about doing it and 10 minutes later with 17 broken bones you’d have no case for self defense that doesn’t track at all.
I think you misunderstand
- Comment on A postal worker in Harlem attacked a trans woman. She fought back and fatally stabbed him in self-defense. This is how the NY Post framed it. 4 days ago:
She could have filmed him and got him fired. You spit on people you get punched. If you are going to start a fight don’t do it by doing something that instantly starts the fight while doing nothing to actually slow down your opponent. She could still have backed away, used pepper spray, used a taser, punched back.
All of these would see him face 99.9% of the consequences instead of him being dead and her life ruined.
You can’t start a fight and claim self care.
- Comment on Mom sues porn sites (Including Chaturbate, Jerkmate, Superporn and Hentaicity) for noncompliance with Kansas age assurance law; Teen can no longer enjoy life after mom caught him visiting Chaturbate 1 week ago:
She isn’t. After this lawsuit he will watch porn if he really wants to. She is wasting a bunch of her money for nothing. Money which she could invest in her family but is setting on fire instead.
- Comment on ‘My Property Tax Went From $15K to a Life-Altering $91K a Year’ 1 week ago:
Why would that be so.
Any investment has risks. On average real estate taxes are overwhelmingly taxes on real gains that are actually both enjoyed and eventually realized often without a commensurate tax rate especially when they are given to descendants and the value is “reset” to the level it was received and all those gains magically poof and cease even being capital gains.
A tax payer funded remission when the market drops would be full on pants on head crazy for so many reasons. It would encourage stupid risk on the basis that it would be subsidized by the government, it would be paid by everyone but overwhelmingly enjoyed by the rich, and it would oft represent fake losses. For instance collecting 10,000 for 5 years on a 1M property then remitting 25k back largely to the 1% who overwhelmingly own the country then oops it recovers its value after the crash!
Real permanent loss of value in consumer real estate is rare and impossible to sanely effectively insure against. Fortunately it is a fucking fake problem.
It is highly weird to see a bunch of people in the top 10% whining about the only real way they remotely pay their share.
- Comment on ‘My Property Tax Went From $15K to a Life-Altering $91K a Year’ 2 weeks ago:
They are paying money based on wealth they can obtain at any time directly by selling. So if you pay $50k and end with a 4M home you can sell it and live on the millions of dollars.
- Comment on ‘My Property Tax Went From $15K to a Life-Altering $91K a Year’ 2 weeks ago:
Sell it and live somewhere cheaper on your wealth. Oh nos the shitty market gave me 4 million dollars what ever shall I do!
- Comment on ‘My Property Tax Went From $15K to a Life-Altering $91K a Year’ 2 weeks ago:
They are actually rich. They have earned in many cases more money in real estate than many people have earned working
- Comment on ‘My Property Tax Went From $15K to a Life-Altering $91K a Year’ 2 weeks ago:
Most modern nations have higher taxes especially on the rich
- Comment on ‘My Property Tax Went From $15K to a Life-Altering $91K a Year’ 2 weeks ago:
The alternative is much higher income tax.
- Comment on ‘My Property Tax Went From $15K to a Life-Altering $91K a Year’ 2 weeks ago:
So you were house rich but they never reassessed meaning last year you paid 15k on a 3.9m home nicw
- Comment on Company Regrets Replacing All Those Pesky Human Workers With AI, Just Wants Its Humans Back 3 weeks ago:
Often even functional companies are in effect run by rank and file people paid almost nothing who know their particular aspects of the job very well. They are managed by people who as your rank rises know less and less about the actual work that makes the company run. This works fine when nothing major changes but when you ask people incapable of doing the job to make major strategic to the enterprise that they don’t understand shockingly it goes poorly.
- Comment on Windows 11 users reportedly losing data due to Microsoft's forcedWindows 11 users reportedly losing data due to Microsoft's forced BitLocker encryption 4 weeks ago:
Windows can’t be updated in any meaningful way without being rebooted because Windows can’t overwrite a file that is in use. This makes it fairly unlikely for a machine to be up for 12 years.
Windows 7 also doesn’t “idle in the low MBs” It uses almost 1G at least at startup more if you have apps that auto start and like every OS it caches recently accessed files.
- Comment on Windows 11 users reportedly losing data due to Microsoft's forcedWindows 11 users reportedly losing data due to Microsoft's forced BitLocker encryption 4 weeks ago:
Typically an actual key is effectively just a very long pseaudorandom binary blob and the passphrase is just used to unlock the actual key. This means you can add a new key just by encrypting the actual key with the new passphrase
- Comment on Windows 11 users reportedly losing data due to Microsoft's forcedWindows 11 users reportedly losing data due to Microsoft's forced BitLocker encryption 4 weeks ago:
Setting up encryption has previously been an affirmative step wherein the user opted into being unable to access their data if they lose their password. Because of this users have the opportunity to back up their recovery key you know after they even learn what one is.
Having it happen on upgrade to an existing machine is inherently confusing and its easy to see how it could lead to data loss.
- Comment on Windows 11 users reportedly losing data due to Microsoft's forcedWindows 11 users reportedly losing data due to Microsoft's forced BitLocker encryption 4 weeks ago:
For most folks they could just write down their encryption passphrase in a secure location with the rest of their papers since 99.9% of the risk is thieves stealing their laptops. For most folks the biggest secure item they have is the one they use constantly their browser and all the passwords it stores to all their services. You know the thing they use constantly.
A compartmentalized approach makes sense when the laptop contains really vulnerable data like laptops which have been stolen with bunches of client data on it or a journalists communication with confidential sources etc etc. In that case you STILL want to encrypt the whole thing but you want to separately encrypt the really important stuff with a different key so that every time you open your laptop to watch cat videos on youtube you aren’t also unlocking all the data you will have to tell your companies users you lost.
- Comment on That's all folks, Plex is starting to charge for sharing 4 weeks ago:
Likewise nobody is owed good feelings by users
- Comment on That's all folks, Plex is starting to charge for sharing 4 weeks ago:
If they can’t do anything better than jellyfin which is fully free open source I don’t see why they should expect money. If Photoshop were paid for gimp they certainly wouldn’t deserve anything.
I think the bad feelings are by virtue of taking away something that WAS free. This is just basic human psych people are loss averse.
- Comment on Future apocalypse movies won't have survivors scavaging abandoned cars. 5 weeks ago:
I feel like any apocalypse is going to see lots of people try to rush to or from somewhere leading to clogged roads that make cars virtually useless until one gets way way into the boondocks.
- Comment on What kind of CAPTCHA is this? 2 months ago:
KeyPress event, serial 41, synthetic NO, window 0x1400001, root 0x3d0, subw 0x0, time 844189822, (287,38), root:(6059,1110), state 0x0, keycode 133 (keysym 0xffeb, Super_L), same_screen YES, XLookupString gives 0 bytes: XmbLookupString gives 0 bytes: XFilterEvent returns: False
KeyRelease event, serial 34, synthetic NO, window 0x1400001, root 0x3d0, subw 0x0, time 844248757, (902,201), root:(6674,1273), state 0x8, keycode 64 (keysym 0xffe9, Alt_L), same_screen YES, XLookupString gives 0 bytes: XFilterEvent returns: False
- Comment on What kind of CAPTCHA is this? 2 months ago:
That is alt, windows is super
- Comment on What kind of CAPTCHA is this? 2 months ago:
Why wouldn’t a windows user be running as admin lol
- Comment on Zen browser had a backdoor enabled by default 2 months ago:
Their lack of manpower means delayed updates to fix zero days compared to Firefox
From their site:
LibreWolf is always built from the latest Firefox stable source, for up-to-date security and features along with stability.
As soon as firefox pushes a release, for instance to fix a security vulnerability, librewolf can immediately rebuild It is literally just firefox with different setting. Delay between firefox release and librewolf release should be negligible. You can verify this by noting that 136.0 was offered on the same day.
codeberg.org/…/2b90daeb5aa5a80443f4f7655393f610fb…
www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/…/releasenotes/
The difference in time between firefox and librewolf security updates is less than the variance between users updating their machines.
- Comment on Zen browser had a backdoor enabled by default 2 months ago:
Librewolf is firefox with different settings how does it not already benefit from Firefox’s security team
- Comment on Dad demands OpenAI delete ChatGPT’s false claim that he murdered his kids 2 months ago:
We value the gains both immediate and presumed more than the harm
- Comment on Dad demands OpenAI delete ChatGPT’s false claim that he murdered his kids 2 months ago:
Ok so explain particularly what this means
- Comment on Dad demands OpenAI delete ChatGPT’s false claim that he murdered his kids 2 months ago:
Because it makes up things that are 99% correct and in some areas the 99% + verification and expansion can be superior time wise to the 100% manual route
- Comment on Dad demands OpenAI delete ChatGPT’s false claim that he murdered his kids 2 months ago:
It would be more accurate to say that rather than knowing anything at all they have a model of the statistical relationship between a series of tokens and subsequent tokens which words are apt to follow other words and because the training set contains many true things the words produced in response to queries often contain true statements and almost always contain statements that LOOK like true statements.
Since it has no inherent model of the world to draw on and only such statistical relationships you should check anything important