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 Are physical mail generally not under surveillance? If everyone suddently ditched electronic communications and start writing letters, would governments be able to practically surveil everyone? 1 hour ago:
If you’re just a rando, yeah you’re not going to have much to worry about. They also can’t track everyone. But it is certainly possible for high value targets.
- Comment on Are physical mail generally not under surveillance? If everyone suddently ditched electronic communications and start writing letters, would governments be able to practically surveil everyone? 3 hours ago:
My understanding is that there is an expectation of privacy in the USA in the contents of a sealed envelope. I don’t believe that the government can legally open one without a warrant. According to the case Ex Parte Jackson they can’t. However…
You have to trust that they wouldn’t break that law or someone else wouldn’t open it. Depends on your threat model. And as others have said, the government would know who you are communicating with, just not what you’re saying.
- Comment on Why have so many services started using single-factor passwordless authentication in the last little while? 1 week ago:
It is coding for the lowest common denominator of user – those who use the same easily-guessable password for everything. Making them click a link to login is honestly better security.
Of course there should be an option for those of us who have a TOTP app and use a password manager.
- Comment on how do you deal with those characters fully convinced a job is something you have to enjoy? 2 weeks ago:
Even if you love your job, you’re going to grow to hate it, to a certain extent.
Yes, I got a job in a line of work I like and now I don’t like the line of work because it’s my job. I associate it with bad things now.
- Comment on Why are some many people role playing as animals? 3 weeks ago:
I think it is interesting that relatively recently it became possible for furries to wear suits that allow them to express themselves in this matter. How many people throughout human history wished to be able to do this, but couldn’t because the “technology” simply wasn’t there.
- Comment on If a girl asks you if you're big, are you supposed to lie or not? 3 weeks ago:
I am not a good person to ask because I’ve never been asked that question. My only suggestion is to try to discern the tone of her voice when she asks.
You are allowed to ask “are you serious?”
- Comment on If a girl asks you if you're big, are you supposed to lie or not? 3 weeks ago:
It depends on the context. Does she expect a serious answer? Do you feel comfortable telling her? If so you may want to use quantitative measurements (ie., an accurate length in cm/in) rather than vague adjectives like “big”. One person’s “big” is another person’s “average.”
- Comment on Did they stop throwing dildos at the WNBA? 4 weeks ago:
Well the WNBA season is nearly over so that might be some of the reason you’re not hearing anything.
- Comment on I can't say I am going to kill the president. But can the president specify me a civ saying he is going to kill me? And it be legal? 5 weeks ago:
You can say it. It’s legal as long as it’s not deemed a legitimate threat. If you disclose specific plans about how you might do so, expect a visit from the FBI.
- Comment on I can't say I am going to kill the president. But can the president specify me a civ saying he is going to kill me? And it be legal? 5 weeks ago:
“Carl’s Jr…fuck you! I’m eating.”
- Comment on Are Street Racers "bad people"? 5 weeks ago:
Yes.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
No. People even in the beginning of civilization lived for much longer than 38 years.
- Comment on Do all American stores have greeters? 1 month ago:
This is kind of why I like going to Microcenter. They do the “hey, how’s it going” thing, but it’s in a really professional way. And if you tell them you’re just looking they back off and let you stand there for 20 minutes. And if you ask for advice on something, they’ll give you suggestions and detailed explanations about why they think that way.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
How the application is started is a separate question. I don’t know enough about Wine to know if it would install a Windows Service as a user service in systemd or init.d or something like that. But if the app is started it can do anything it wants subject to that user’s permissions.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Yes. There’s no sandboxing in Wine/Proton. It’s just another application running with the privileges of the user running it. So it can do anything any other process could do with that user’s credentials. This is one reason why Wine recommends that you never run it as root.
- Comment on Does the AGPL license allows not disclosing the source of third party scripts indirectly interacting with the main software? 2 months ago:
This is a question about what constitutes a derivative work. IANAL and that’s a difficult question most of the time. I’m not going to try to answer it. I’m reasonably sure that the last 3 are not derivative works, but again, IANAL.
If something is a derivative work of an AGPL-licensed product, that work must also be AGPL. This basically means you must provide source to anyone who has a copy of the binary or any user of the software. If only you are using the script, it’s a pretty trivial case. You’re the only author/user of the software and you have the source so you’re in compliance.
- Comment on Why is "mythology" in the public domain in the first place? 2 months ago:
Yes. OP could make up a new story based on mythology and it’s not in the public domain.
The Church of Scientology is well-known to aggressively assert their copyright interest in some of their religious texts. At some point these will lapse into the public domain and anyone who has a copy can publish them.
- Comment on For some reason suicide is illegal. If someone is going or trying to commit suicide and get talked down are they still in trouble or get locked up or sent to a medical facility? 2 months ago:
I was in a combined depression and substance abuse unit. It was mostly boring. We had privacy when in the shower or the can. Doors had to be open when we were sleeping. Law enforcement wasn’t involved at all. It was a private hospital, not state-run. I wouldn’t ever want to go back but AFAICT it was pretty good as far as mental hospitals go.
- Comment on Priority seating indeed. 2 months ago:
A story in 4 acts.
- Comment on For some reason suicide is illegal. If someone is going or trying to commit suicide and get talked down are they still in trouble or get locked up or sent to a medical facility? 2 months ago:
Not great but better. There will always be bad days.
We thought I lost my cat and I was only a few months from being inpatient the first time. So I took a knife, turned off my phone, got in my car and started driving to where I was going to kill myself. After about 30 minutes I thought better of it and pulled over and called my wife. She already had local PD there. I talked to them while they had the county sheriff come get me. They held me until my wife cane and got me. Then back into inpatient I went.
- Comment on For some reason suicide is illegal. If someone is going or trying to commit suicide and get talked down are they still in trouble or get locked up or sent to a medical facility? 2 months ago:
The police released me into the custody of my wife. They did pat me down and put me in the back of a cruiser so I wouldn’t hurt myself.
- Comment on For some reason suicide is illegal. If someone is going or trying to commit suicide and get talked down are they still in trouble or get locked up or sent to a medical facility? 2 months ago:
Legal in Oregon! You need a lot of paperwork, but if you’re terminal it can be done.
- Comment on What are the easiest types of internet videos to make that are not slop? 2 months ago:
Somewhat seriously…porn.
But completely seriously, the easiest videos to make are a matter of pointing a camera at yourself and talking.
- Comment on Does anyone say "What ho!" anymore? 2 months ago:
Criminally underrated comment.
- Comment on YSK that Gerrymandering allows politicians to choose their own voters. In many countries, it's illegal. Gerrymandering is common in the United States 2 months ago:
Yes. There should be no gerrymandering. However, you can’t have one party unilaterally disarm while the other one keeps doing it.
- Comment on YSK that Gerrymandering allows politicians to choose their own voters. In many countries, it's illegal. Gerrymandering is common in the United States 2 months ago:
Because if you have the power to make it illegal, by definition, the old system worked for you (you won), so why would you change it?
It’s cynical as all hell, but that’s how it works.
- Comment on GOG NSFW Giveaway 3 months ago:
Actually I already own that one but I wanted my post to be brief.
- Comment on GOG NSFW Giveaway 3 months ago:
I’m not really interested in these games but this is pretty freaking awesome.
- Comment on How abnormal is it for a mother to be her son a fleshlight for his 18th birthday? 3 months 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 months ago:
As an American, I’m worried that Starmer’s legacy is going to be giving you PM Nigel Farage.