comfydecal
@comfydecal@infosec.pub
- Comment on When you refuse to get nothing out of your 8 hour drive 4 days ago:
Welp, that’s enough internet for the week for me
- Comment on When your life is empty and you don't realize it 4 days ago:
Thanks Mickey
- Comment on I'm Tired of Pretending Tech is Making the World Better 4 days ago:
Agreed, but things act differently at scale and it’s not like there’s 10 billion+ hammers being used at the same time, almost all of the time, for years on end
- Comment on I'm Tired of Pretending Tech is Making the World Better 4 days ago:
Yeah I think blanket statements either way are misguided. Some tech does help the disabled, other tech makes their lives much more difficult. It’s like any other tool, when it’s used at scale by something aiming for optimizing profit it will have terrible side effects
- Comment on I'm Tired of Pretending Tech is Making the World Better 4 days ago:
You see, it actually did still save you time from finding a local shop that sells it and interacting with your neighbor
- Comment on [Louis Rossmann] Brother turns heel & becomes anti-consumer printer company 4 days ago:
Yeah, with the Vault 7 releases and recent leaks showing NSA follows homeless people’s connections (who tend to hang out at libraries due to a lack of 3rd spaces), I don’t doubt there’s specific tracking, malware and other unwanted software at libraries. I don’t have any sources of this, but it wouldn’t surprise me
Maybe I’m overly parandoid because ::gestures at everything::
- Comment on [Louis Rossmann] Brother turns heel & becomes anti-consumer printer company 5 days ago:
So issue here is privacy, the library is likely scanning whatever device connected, not just the files and file metadata
- Comment on How active is Lemmy now? 2 months ago:
At least a dozen right?
- Comment on [deleted] 8 months ago:
99% of the shit Netflix has is reruns anyways
- Comment on [deleted] 8 months ago:
I find putting a DVD into a DVD player without having to sign in, have credit, a credit card, and have wifi to be the easiest. Usually costs less too
- Comment on Later generations will have less attachment to how things were when they grew up because everything changes a lot faster. 10 months ago:
Yeah, whoever is benefiting from those changes is probably counting on it
That’s why education and reading books that disagree with your life, culture and understanding can be very beneficial
- Comment on Can I build a NAS out of a desktop? [Request] 1 year ago:
Stellar! Thanks for the info!
- Comment on A long and distinguished family 1 year ago:
Thanks for the info!
- Comment on Can I build a NAS out of a desktop? [Request] 1 year ago:
Thanks for the resource, might be good to at least research. Thanks!
- Comment on Does anyone else feel like 90% of the population is stupid? 1 year ago:
So thinking on this more, there are many studies that are impossible to replicate, either due to time, money, or team size. Think about weather studies, no human lives long enough, so we have to push the belief back on the original data being accurate. Human studies that span millions of people are also hard for small teams or individuals to replicate. Also hard to have a particle accelerator for most people, so we have to trust the accelerators function properly, the data collected is not malformed and the interpretations are also correct (the last bit is what we could possibly double check if we had direct access)
I love the scientific method as well, but I think we still have some limits. Even if we had infinite time, but without infinite resources we might not be able to replicate everything “scientifically proven” (and even then, due to space time curvature, it might not be possible if infinite time and infinite resources had a fixed physical point, but that is probably Einsteinian philosophy)
- Comment on Can I build a NAS out of a desktop? [Request] 1 year ago:
Hey sorry, thinking on this more, could I just turn on the NAS when desired? What is the benefit of running it constantly?
- Comment on Can I build a NAS out of a desktop? [Request] 1 year ago:
Nice, good things to balance. Thanks for the info!
- Comment on Can I build a NAS out of a desktop? [Request] 1 year ago:
Nice, didn’t realize a NAS could be on smaller hardware. Thanks for the info!
- Comment on Can I build a NAS out of a desktop? [Request] 1 year ago:
Nice, thanks so much for the info!
- Comment on Can I build a NAS out of a desktop? [Request] 1 year ago:
Thanks!
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- Comment on Does anyone else feel like 90% of the population is stupid? 1 year ago:
Totally agree that most of the tools are there, but how many trials have you personally duplicated? The average person?
- Comment on Does anyone else feel like 90% of the population is stupid? 1 year ago:
So our brains were crafted to intake “reality” at a specific speed and quality. We can’t see things at the atomic, much less quantum reality, nor understand the massive scale of the planet, much less the universe. Most “facts” are more beliefs from what others have suggested to be, than individually researched facts. Even our scientific method is a bit wanting in this area, since if we hear X, how can we prove X? We just need to take other’s word that they did the correct process, didn’t lie during any steps, didn’t have any bad data unknowingly, especially in a culture where reproducibility is not a high priority so most scientific papers are not thoroughly tested and retested
That’s roughly our skeletal social structure around “facts”, and we’re heading face first into a world of deep fakes and misinformation, to an extent never seen before in humanity. So maybe we should all extend each other a bit more patience and kindly help each other through these uncertain times
- Comment on Privacy is Priceless, but Signal is Expensive 1 year ago:
Thanks!
- Comment on Privacy is Priceless, but Signal is Expensive 1 year ago:
Have any suggestions for “normies” on iPhone and Android that aren’t Signal?
- Comment on Seriously 1 year ago:
Be cheaper if they could read your text messages.