stinerman
@stinerman@midwest.social
I am Stine. Comfort the afflicted. Afflict the comfortable. High School Wrestler™. Can usually correctly use the past tense in French. Suffers from clinical depression.
- Comment on How abnormal is it for a mother to be her son a fleshlight for his 18th birthday? 12 hours ago:
Abnormal meaning “not normal?” Very abnormal. As others have mentioned there are some edge cases where this isn’t terrible, but in general it’s a pretty bad look.
- Comment on UK Government responded to the "Repeal the Online Safety Act" Petition. 3 days ago:
As an American, I’m worried that Starmer’s legacy is going to be giving you PM Nigel Farage.
- Comment on Hypothetically, if the police seized your electronics (for an unrelated investigation) and found out you have a lot of pirated content, what would happen? 3 days ago:
As far as the US is concerned (because a lot of this stuff does depend on jurisdiction), you’re most likely going to be raided by a state-level police department (local PD, county sheriff, etc). They don’t give a hoot about pirated material because that’s a federal crime.
If you were raided by the FBI, ATF, DEA, etc., they could use any pirated content they found to bring up criminal charges against you.
There are four essential elements to a charge of criminal copyright infringement. In order to sustain a conviction under section 506(a), the government must demonstrate: (1) that a valid copyright; (2) was infringed by the defendant; (3) willfully; and (4) for purposes of commercial advantage or private financial gain.
source - Comment on Isn't there somebody you forgot to ask? 6 days ago:
This is the actual stated goal of Bitcoin. And this is an actual use for it. But that ship sailed a very long time ago.
- Comment on What is piefed? 6 days ago:
It is similar to Lemmy in that it’s also a link aggregation platform. What makes it different is that it is created by different people using different code and has different priorities. But the same basic features are present.
I can’t speak to why it might be better than Lemmy because I don’t use it. Maybe some people think it’s better because of the features it offers. Maybe others don’t like the Lemmy devs and prefer supporting a different application. There are lots of possible reasons.
- Comment on How to get a new line in a post, but not two? 6 days ago:
Thanks for the question. I’ve been wondering how to do this myself.
- Comment on Would you take a short term job(1-2 months) over a local longer term that makes nearly 8months worth of salary?? 4 weeks ago:
Best wishes! I hope it works out. If I was the employer and you were a good worker, I’d want to retain you rather than lose you forever and then spend the time looking for a new hire and training them.
- Comment on Would you take a short term job(1-2 months) over a local longer term that makes nearly 8months worth of salary?? 4 weeks ago:
This sounds like OP has a full time position somewhere and is thinking of quitting to go work as a contractor. My guess is that he’s unemployed after 2 months and would need to find a new job.
My general feeling on this is that it’s fine if they understand the difference. I don’t know of they’re in the US or elsewhere, but in the US the taxes on 1199 contractors are pretty high and there are no benefits. This can heavily change the calculus.
I would see if my current employer would allow me to take a 2 month leave of absence and then come back.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
We’re talking about “I am a prominent member of an organization designated by the US as a terrorist organization.”
Either way I misunderstood OP’s question and my post wasn’t on-topic.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
This is a very good point. I misunderstood the post.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Yes. If you’re a rando, sorry you’re just not that interesting.
If you’re someone the US considers an actual threat, then yeah don’t buy anything from the US (use a 3rd party). But if you’re that big of a threat you already know that.
- Comment on Do people confuse your nationality? 1 month ago:
I would not come here either.
- Comment on Why is it ok to replace -ed at the end of a word with -t in some cases? For example, why are "vexed" and "vext" both acceptable, but "thrilled" and "thrilt" aren't? 1 month ago:
Could be a British/American English thing. We (Americans) say “learned”, they will often say “learnt.”
- Comment on Delicious 1 month ago:
He’s actually a decent dramatic actor. One Hour Photo was great. The guy is just not funny, probably because he was coked up half the time.
- Comment on Delicious 1 month ago:
Robin Williams was one of the most overrated comedians of the 80s and 90s.
- Comment on WTF is a rural town in the USA? 2 months ago:
Colloquially, it just means a small municipality. A “rural town” is a small municipality that is not near a larger metro area.
Town has a specific meaning in some states. I’m from Ohio. There is no such legal meaning here. Any municipality over 5k residents is a city. Anything other than that is a village. I am from a city with a population of about 6k. Outside of the city limits is farmland. I would say I’m from a small town/rural area.
- Comment on How many angels can dance on the head of a pin? 2 months ago:
None, because they don’t exist.
- Comment on Why do so many piece of Hardware come with windows only software requiring admin right for installation 2 months ago:
Linux distros have to ship all these drivers because otherwise someone would try that distro and say “nothing works, this sucks” if they had to go hunt for drivers to install. Windows computers really are the same way, but they’re almost always preconfigured.
- Comment on What are your thoughts about AI? 2 months ago:
- I find it useful for work (I am a software developer/tester).
- I think it’s about as good as it’s ever going to get.
- I believe it is not ever going to be profitable and the benefits are not worth reopening nuclear and coal power plants.
- If US courts rule that training AI with copyrighted materials is fair use, then I will probably stop paying for content and start pirating it again.
- Comment on 7 for me 2 months ago:
1, 2, 6, or 7 depending on the season.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
It is not normal. It’s fine that you do it.
- Comment on How would you run a society? 2 months ago:
There’s a song about it.
And I wanna conquer the world Give all the idiots a brand new religion Put an end to poverty, uncleanliness, and toil Promote equality in all of my decisions I want to conquer the world Expose the culprits and feed 'em to the children Do away with air pollution, and then I’ll save the whales We’ll have peace on Earth and global communion
- Comment on Choose a number, 1-5! 2 months ago:
- Long tines and a big “handle”.
- Comment on The pipeline 2 months ago:
I skipped right to boneless wings.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
I’ve been to the USVI and you do go through customs. It’s a separate customs zone.
- Comment on Bros being bros 3 months ago:
Do you think he’s using the single loop or double loop method?
- Comment on Realistically, how feasible is it to 100% boycott a massive corporation (such as Amazon) for an extended period of time? 4 months ago:
Good call. The greenest purchase you can make is fixing the thing you already own.
- Comment on Sooo, where did the blatant Nazism suddenly come from? 5 months ago:
Reminds me of the Rule of Goats:
If you fuck a goat ironically, you’re still fucking a goat. Same goes with ironic Hitler salutes.
- Comment on Could a US state prevent its citizens from paying federal taxes? 5 months ago:
Yes, by law. Of course the business will abide by federal law before state law because federal law is supreme.
- Comment on What happens when I run two VPNs on my computer? 5 months ago:
It’s a VPN within a VPN. So all your traffic over the Mullvad VPN connection has a VPN within it going to Proton (but only for Firefox).
To answer the questions directly:
- Yes, but not exactly. Everything goes through Mullvad, but Firefox goes through Proton going through Mullvad.
- No, they’ll just see the Proton information.
- It slows down your connection! That’s a lot more extra hops. Practically…I suppose if the “inner VPN” was necessary to connect to a specific host (like a work VPN) then it could be useful. For example you use Mullvad on your router, but your work laptop uses a VPN to connect to resources needed to do your work. Other than that I can’t see why you’d need to use 2 at the same time.