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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stop Wasting Pumpkins!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I had an elementary school teacher who would ask all of us to save the seeds when making jack o lanterns and give it to her. She’d then make a ton of roasted pumpkin seeds and share it with us and some kids from other classes who brought seeds.

  They are pretty good. Highly recommend.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Five flavors 🤤⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Idk what genres you like so here’s a few recommendations across a few genres. On phone so no links.

  I’ve been obsessing over Hiræth lately, probably one of the best albums I have ever heard. It’s not a metal album, but it scratches that itch I have for metal, so it’s going on this list lol

  Witching - Vernal (blackened sludge) Flummox - Rephlummoxed (prog death/avant garde) Mamaleek - Vidal Blue (avant garde) Rail Yard Ghosts - Hiræth (Blackgrass/Blackened/folk punk, large band) Woe - Hope Attrition (black metal/RABM) Botanist - Paleobotany (Experimental Black metal) An Abstract Illusion - Woe (prog death)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Someone Put Facial Recognition Tech onto Meta's Smart Glasses to Instantly Dox Strangers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  In most cases there isn’t much you can do to fool the government without a lot of prep time such as scouting routes to find cameras, destroying them, or being really good at changing into bloc in the middle of a crowd and not getting caught.

  But the important thing is threat modeling. The past dozen or so protests I’ve been at haven’t had the government as a big threat, it has had fascists as the primary threat. While a fascist cop would be a problem, it is much less likely than fascists combing through protest footage to try and doxx people, or a fascist at said action trying to get good photographs. That’s why I masked up.

  The last real dicey action that I went to I still masked up, even knowing that the government could still try to track me if needed because I knew it would be time consuming to do so, and that they would only go through the process of doing that if I make it worth their while. Bloc is still effective, but quite hard under this heavily surveillanced police state.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Someone Put Facial Recognition Tech onto Meta's Smart Glasses to Instantly Dox Strangers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I think it would be funny to normalize wearing bloc in order to retain privacy. It’s why some people might wear accessories they normally don’t wear, such as beanies and sunglasses at protests, even if they aren’t in full bloc, covering hair and eyes (in addition to a surgical mask) can make it really hard to doxx someone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DuckDuckGoose⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m gonna have to snag that doom book. I love low level programming and I’ve heard a lot about how hacky game dev used to be and that just excites me

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DuckDuckGoose⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What are those books on Doom and Wolfenstein? Is it the game development black book by sanglard? That’s the book I found with a bit of searching

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We need to nationalise Google, Facebook and Amazon. Here’s why⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  FOIA is great and all, and so are public records laws and disclosure laws.

  But the state is gonna state, and when push comes to shove, social media will be another tool to manufacture consent, break up movements, and preserve itself over the interest of the governed.

  I’m not concerned about the ability to FOIA shit about Twitter or Facebook’s algorithm, as much as I’d like to know about how it targets the content slop to its users. I’m concerned about how it will consolidate power into fewer hands, and how state sponsored social media will be abused. And I don’t think FOIA would ever reveal that if it happened.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We need to nationalise Google, Facebook and Amazon. Here’s why⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Fuck nationalization of social media. Honestly, this is one of the worst ideas I’ve heard.

  The idea that giving the government a monopoly on the biggest data hoarders is somehow better than having the capitalists own it is mind-boggling.

  The government doesn’t need a warrant to search through its own data.

  The last thing we need is to give the state more power over our lives, more insight into our lives, and more control over the narratives we learn.

  Every time humans have centralized more power into fewer and fewer hands, nothing good comes from it. We need more decentralized forms of media, not more centralized forms.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨is it possible to be married and still feel lonely?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Marriage is a social construct not built upon love or companionship. It is just a social relation that is related to the two, with religious and legal backing to fortify it.

  If you see marriage as a means to love and companionship, you are not gonna have a loving relationship. Love and companionship are completely viable (and I’d argue stronger) outside the strange little box that society tries to place it in

  Fuck marriage.

  I don’t think there is anything that a person of any gender can’t provide in a relationship. I do see that society shuns certain people from performing certain roles, but anyone can do any one of them.

  If he is only ranting politics, he might not have anyone to talk politics with. Maybe he is the lone conservative, lapping up every scrap of talking points from Fox (or maybe Newsmax), but can’t spew them out around family who sees him as being crazy for watching Fox. If you aren’t pushing back, he probably sees you as safe, and if he is finding it hard for him to deal with political stressors, that’s probably why he is ranting and getting so emotional.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What self hosting feels like (It's painful, please help 🥲)⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is why I did a “walkthrough test” when I had to write documentation on this sort of thing. I’m a terrible technical writer, so this shit is necessary for me.

  I grabbed my friend who knows enough about computers to attempt this, but not enough about infrastructure to automatically know what I meant when I was too vague.

  Took two revisions, but the final document was way easier to follow at the end

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bing has been revamped to prioritize AI search results – whether you like it or not⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, microsoft chooses bing for you sometimes

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What would cause a person to speak in different accents randomly?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I met a southerner who speaks in a more northern accent, but sometimes slips into the southern accent on certain words or when yelling, which happens in the busy kitchen I was working with them in.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ball's in your court, Mikey.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I just use floppy disks

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon Workers Say They Struggle to Afford Food and Rent⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I wish I could avoid aws, but learning how to use a new cloud host is expensive and time consuming. And the other choices aren’t that much better

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Utah Locals Are Getting Cheap 10 Gbps Fiber Thanks To Local Governments⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Havig better speeds than broadband sure sounds utopian to me

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨blast me off, fam⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The thing I find hilarious about this is alcohol in the US is often measured in ml, and usually sold at 750 or 1500ml as opposed to quarts

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not happening, dude⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I need this shirt

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What a TikTok Ban Would Mean for the U.S. Defense of an Open Internet⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If whataboutism is reframing the question in a different light that includes what we were talking about and not simply deflecting with a what-about, then I guess I did a textbook whataboutism. I guess I did the classic whataboutism bit where I said tiktok wasn’t censoring, even though I swear I said they were, and instead I said what why do we give social media the power to censor shit like that I was saying tiktok wasn’t censoring and whatabout other social media. 🙄

  Whataboutism is when you don’t defend your point or argue against the original point and just change topic. Ex: “Oh you are saying that tiktok is censoring anti-ccp thought? What about facebook and twitter doing shit like banning XYZ political commentators???”

  What I said is a bit more complicated than that, so I’ll boil down my points into something a bit more simple manner

  • Yeah, tiktok is censoring content
  • I don’t like the article’s framing that places instagram as the safe, non-censoring control
  • I think media is framing this in such a way that the main reason that tiktok is a problem is because it has a lot of dissent on it and it is foreign-owned, and therefore their flavor of censorship is worse
  • instead of forcing tiktok to be sold to an american company, why don’t we address the root cause of the problem, which is the amount of control social media companies have.

  Look man, you can’t claim someone is doing a fallacious argument tactic when they aren’t doing it. If someone argued something, fucking respond to it or don’t, it genuinely doesn’t matter. But if you are gonna just be a cunty smuglord instead, you’re a dick and I wish you the worst.

  Now, i’m gonna disregard your shit-slinging and go back to taking your comments in good faith. I have a serious question for you. You seem to have a problem with my points, but what about it do you disagree with? I’m literally agreeing with you in a few places and just calling the framing flawed. If you’re gonna respond to that, don’t take me out of context.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What a TikTok Ban Would Mean for the U.S. Defense of an Open Internet⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If I could do an analysis like this, I would. But I don’t have the technical know-how to do so. Being like “Why don’t you do [complex activity] rather than comment on an existing study” is a shitty mindset that attempts to shut down conversation and doesn’t build upon it in any meaningful way.

  Further, I think you completely missed the point of what I said. You presented an article that showed tiktok is biased towards CCP positions, and that isn’t really surprising. I said that I don’t think Instagram is any more trustworthy simply because it is American owned, and I think the framing of that view is flawed. I don’t think it invalidates the data, I just think it places a huge amount of trust in a social media company that has been in constant controversy for its entire existence. The point is why is the problem the fact that a social media company is using their power to promote CCP viewpoints, rather than the fact that social media companies have such power with such little oversight.

  You seem to be claiming there’s a fire without even seeing any smoke while simultaneously ignoring the flames in front of your face.

  I think you can only say that when you are intentionally misinterpreting what I said to the point I think you are trying to stuff me in some little box I don’t belong in. I acknowledge that TikTok is a problem. If the problem is algorithmic bias with social media, why are we stopping with the foreign company that has opposing interests? Why aren’t we angry that a single company can hold so much power and have such little accountability?

  the only issue with Meta is how they refused to take down offensive stuff from high-profile conservatives due to political backlash

  I wish I lived in a world that this was the only issue meta had.

  • Cambridge Analytica
  • Internal research shows Instagram knew it harms teens
  • The entire concept of facebook echo chambers and radicalization
  • That one time Facebook promoted housing discrimination
  • Massive tax avoidance and lobbying

  I bet I’m missing a ton, but these things quickly came to mind.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What a TikTok Ban Would Mean for the U.S. Defense of an Open Internet⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I skimmed the article and I see your concern, but my skepticism remains because of the inherent assumption that instagram is trustworthy and not already tinkering with their own algorithms. Just because the company is American owned doesn’t make it any more or less trustworthy in my opinion. I think the framing is flawed, but that doesn’t discount the concerns with things that are pro-taiwan having such a small presence

  I do think a big reason why tiktok is now being held to the flame is the fact there is so much dissent on it. Younger Americans are becoming increasingly anti-israel and more critical of the US’s stance on foreign policy.

  Instead of reacting hastily and banning tiktok I think a better action would be placing the same criticisms on domestic companies. Instead, I think we should make companies much more transparent in how they use their algorithms and filter content.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tankies hate this one simple trick⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not surprised I don’t see any birds here, considering the only thing I do see is men made of straw.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The House will vote on expanding warrantless wiretapping authority⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  On one hand I’m worried that this will get through because neither party has historically been strongly against expanding police powers, but on the other hand the house is an absolute mess

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hooooooooooooooooooot⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Give buskers the acoustic guitar with a link to the grid and every time they play they’ll generate a ton of electricity (in relative terms…)

  Electro-Acoustic guitars use piezos to pick up the audio if you didn’t know

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨acceptable screws⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s funny because I’ve opened those screws on something else using a bit of effort and the scissors on my swiss army knife.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Intel accused of inflating CPU benchmark results⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Wait, people trust corporate benchmarks?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unnamed island⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ireland

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Millions can no longer afford their rent⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Democratic serfdom. Unless we fall into autocratic governance before that, or (hopefully) liberate ourselves instead.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How a 27-Year-Old Codebreaker Busted the Myth of Bitcoin’s Anonymity⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The main way criminals are caught is when they transfer their crypto to an exchange so they can convert it to cash. Law enforcement will subpoena the exange and ask “Hey, who exchanged 0.7886 bitcoin for cash on this date?” and they will get their identity. Using the public ledger, they will be able to trace the transactions done and show that this person sent money to an address advertised as belonging to a trafficking site, an illegal market, or recieved money from the bad wallet address.

  The address owner is anonymous until there is a source of data that ties information the wallet, and often transactions can be used to do that, just as any way to advertise a wallet belongs to you can, or any way to exchange crypto to cash can.