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 Realistically, how feasible is it to 100% boycott a massive corporation (such as Amazon) for an extended period of time? 2 days 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? 2 weeks 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? 2 weeks 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? 2 weeks 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.
- Comment on How dare the alarm I set betray me like this? 3 weeks ago:
I literally yell “fuck you” at my alarm from time to time.
- Comment on What is a metaphor you like in your language? 4 weeks ago:
“I have to see a man about a horse.” It means you’re going to the bathroom.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
It doesn’t. Might have been New Brunswick. Or I just made it up somehow. I can’t remember where I saw it.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
My understanding is that some province is charging double on US commercial trucks that cross the border. Nova Scotia?
- Comment on If me and a bunch of my lemmy friends got on a yacht. Went into international waters what could we get away with legally and what would still be illegal? 2 months ago:
Rebroadcast Major League Baseball with implied oral consent.
- Comment on How does interoperability work between different fediverse services? 2 months ago:
So I replied to this comment as well as the original post via Mastodon. Apparently this doesn’t work anymore (or I was wrong and never did or it’s very slow).
- Comment on How does interoperability work between different fediverse services? 2 months ago:
Possibly! I have replied to this post from my Mastodon account. People on Mastodon can see these posts and interact with them, but it’s kinda clunky. The posts and comments are implemented as boosts. So you post here and I see this on Mastodon: Image
Every reply will also show as a boost from nostupidquestions@lemmy.world.
I don’t think it works the other way around. I don’t believe you can follow specific AP accounts from here (like you can’t follow my Mastodon account from your Lemmy account). I think they have to be groups/communities. Someone please correct me if I’m wrong.
- Comment on Why do the majority of women still take their partner's last name? 3 months ago:
I have a coworker whose maiden name is Dykes. She was very happy to change.
- Comment on Is it possible to install my own OS on a "smart" TV? Is that a thing? 3 months ago:
- Comment on If a leftist ran for president, would liberals support him? 3 months ago:
In terms of what he got done, he’s easily the most left wing President since LBJ. Perhaps FDR. Whether or not that is defined as left-wing/leftist/liberal is a matter of opinion.
- Comment on Is it possible to install my own OS on a "smart" TV? Is that a thing? 3 months ago:
Linux copyrights are owned by many different people, so it would be prohibitively difficult to ask every person to agree to a GPLv3 change. Even if you could, Linus Torvalds is not a fan of the v3 license.
- Comment on USA President term limits 3 months ago:
Legally he’s only got 2 terms. However as my government teacher explained, the constitution says what the Supreme Court says it says. So who knows what they’ll say about it.
- Comment on What kind of person am I if I decide to stay in a job, even if my supervisors work against me? 4 months ago:
You are a person who likes to eat.
- Comment on Infinite Suffering 4 months ago:
I made it through. My degree is actually in math. 15 years ago, I used to know what an abelian group is!
- Comment on Infinite Suffering 4 months ago:
We were on quarters, so we had calc 1-4. Makes sense that Calc 2 was rough if you were on semesters.
- Comment on Infinite Suffering 4 months ago:
Where I’m from Calc 2 is integrals. That wasn’t so terrible. It was Calc 3 (vectors and series) that was the hard one.
- Comment on Steam will let you sue Valve now 5 months ago:
I’m not a lawyer so I have no clue about the legal issues, but I’m more than happy to put my name to anything that costs a corporation money. I don’t even need the money. They can take it out of Valve’s pocket and burn it for all I care.
- Comment on Steam will let you sue Valve now 5 months ago:
It’s because there’s effectively a class-action suit going on right now, but because the user agreement says you have to use arbitration, there were tens of thousands of people who are like “sure let’s go to arbitration”. Valve is losing tons of money having to fight all the suits.
www.classaction.org/steam-antitrust-refund-2023
Note: I am one of the people involved in this suit.
- Comment on It's coming! :( 5 months ago:
Until people are donating enough money to make maintaining an open source browser doable, this will continue to happen.
- Comment on Does leaving a single board computer caseless can be a problem or not? 5 months ago:
In college (2003ish), I ran a desktop PC without a case. Hell I ran the processor (450MHz P3) without a fan, just a passive heatsink. It ran fine.
- Comment on We lost Keanu 5 months ago:
Same with Trump!
- Comment on Why is Kamala Harris being held at such a higher standard than Trump this election? 6 months ago:
Also white supremacy is a hell of a drug.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 months ago:
There’s a guy who works as a product owner at my employer. He has a PharmD. He got fed up with the metrics for how many prescriptions he had to fill. Now he does software.
It’s crazy to think that someone has a terminal degree in a really technical field and he nope’d out because of how bad it got.
- Comment on Google pulls the plug on uBlock Origin, leaving over 30 million Chrome users susceptible to intrusive ads 6 months ago:
- Comment on Why do people complain about multiple streaming platforms existing? 6 months ago:
I could only imagine if each record label had their own streaming service. People would go nuts.
- Comment on [deleted] 6 months ago:
I looked it up and still have no clue what it is.
