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- Comment on Mozilla is launching a free built-in VPN on Firefox 149 — but with some conditions 22 hours ago:
Mullvad is dirt cheap though? $5 a month? Isn’t that just like the minimum amount a vpn can even cost these days?
- Comment on Pluralistic: The online community trilemma 1 day ago:
Yeah the article is good.
- Comment on Pluralistic: The online community trilemma 2 days ago:
I would say that’s not actually the key quote at all, especially since the author states that many times finding a smaller audience is the goal.
- Comment on feeling extra happy today🫶 2 days ago:
Nah, someone just darkened/changed the contrast of the top image. Notice how the white snow has no details in the bottom image but it does in the top. And the bottom image the splotch on the wall is the same shape but larger. It’s just the contrast slider.
- Comment on RIP Discord: Self-Hosted Discord Alternatives Tested (TeamSpeak, Stoat, Fluxer, Matrix, & More) 2 days ago:
Honestly if you’re that worried about it, I’d just wait and not use anything. Instead of wasting time trying to find a product that probably won’t get better, you can wait and get Fluxer when they make it ready.
Or you could pull stoat and modify the code yourself.
- Comment on RIP Discord: Self-Hosted Discord Alternatives Tested (TeamSpeak, Stoat, Fluxer, Matrix, & More) 2 days ago:
Are you talking about self hosting for fluxer? They explicitly state in their documentation they don’t want people using the current version because they’re doing a rewrite, so you should wait.
- Comment on Face scanning and age verification is the big new privacy invading feature of this decade. Meanwhile almost every single iPhone user has given away all of that for years, just to unlock their phone. 3 days ago:
You are right, sorry about that. Just tired of people spreading bullshit and then by the time the truth gets said the lies have gone halfway around the world. People need to verify stuff before posting their every thought and whim.
- Comment on Face scanning and age verification is the big new privacy invading feature of this decade. Meanwhile almost every single iPhone user has given away all of that for years, just to unlock their phone. 3 days ago:
You are right, it’s not proof! I was waiting for someone like you to say so, so I could point out that this has been tested numerous times by researchers and it does stay on device and is secure, that’s literally the entire point of a TPM.
- Comment on Face scanning and age verification is the big new privacy invading feature of this decade. Meanwhile almost every single iPhone user has given away all of that for years, just to unlock their phone. 4 days ago:
Tell me you don’t understand technology without saying you don’t understand technology. Biometrics don’t leave Apple devices. Proof? Go get an old touch iPhone and set up a fingerprint and then try to use that to log in to a MacBook with Touch ID.
- Comment on All 6 crew members on a US refueling plane that crashed in Iraq are dead, US military says 4 days ago:
Good point.
- Comment on Firefox's beta feature "Smart Window" shared browsing and search history to AI models without prompting 4 days ago:
It’s difficult. If people don’t support Firefox then the downstream browsers that everyone in this thread are suggesting are fucked. And we’re stuck with chrome and safari. But if people support Mozilla too much then they’ll just do whatever they want, like this AI nonsense.
- Comment on Firefox's beta feature "Smart Window" shared browsing and search history to AI models without prompting 4 days ago:
The latest Firefox release added a button that does exactly what you want. Turns off AI everywhere.
- Comment on All 6 crew members on a US refueling plane that crashed in Iraq are dead, US military says 5 days ago:
Sorry I was being facetious. They are all getting shot down, but it makes the American military look inept so they’re saying “crashed” and other similar things rather than “shot down”.
- Comment on Tim Apple calls for a rebellion! 5 days ago:
For those that don’t know, that’s a very famous Steve Jobs quote. Tim Apple is just repeating it
- Comment on Advice on swapping from Synology to a ugreen 5 days ago:
Well for things that aren’t my media collection (why would I care about a bunch of movies I can redownload at any time?) I use restic to Wasabi. I also have a secondary backup using the backblaze docker container which keeps prices very cheap.
- Comment on All 6 crew members on a US refueling plane that crashed in Iraq are dead, US military says 5 days ago:
Or hegseth demanded the pilot send him dick pics while flying and caused the crash.
- Comment on All 6 crew members on a US refueling plane that crashed in Iraq are dead, US military says 5 days ago:
Crashed or was shot down?
- Comment on Advice on swapping from Synology to a ugreen 6 days ago:
Most people with media collections use unraid or truenas, not an off the shelf nas. You can build an unraid server with almost anything. My unraid server has 27TB and that’s quite small in the community from what I have heard.
- Comment on Asus Co-CEO: MacBook Neo Is a 'Shock' to the PC Industry 6 days ago:
Yeah sidebery is the goat. I too have thousands of tabs open.
- Comment on Waffle House: Pull up then. 😐 1 week ago:
Is he saying “your wallet”?
- Comment on What differentiates Lemmy, Kbin, Mbin, and PieFed? 1 week ago:
So you set up a nice strawman with assembly and fortran there (which would never be used for a web server) instead of suggesting a realistic option like C# or the JVM, both of which have much larger communities of people that actually know what they’re doing.
You’d get just as many contributions in Java or Kotlin and the quality would be higher as well.
The decisions at the start of the project have the most influence on the project, more so than anything ever will later down the line.
- Comment on What differentiates Lemmy, Kbin, Mbin, and PieFed? 1 week ago:
Piefed is also written in python. No clue why you would do that when you know that you’re going to be dealing with a massive amount of network traffic, more so than most server infra. Lemmy already struggles with certain amount of traffic and that’s written in rust.
Takes a special kind of person to write federated software and they all seemingly make really really strange decisions when doing so.
- Comment on Breaking: BAD 1 week ago:
My wife and I complain about shows constantly (I’m talking about the shows and movies we like!), pausing to point out every little thing, and I’m in absolutely no way a movie critic, in fact I hate most shows that critics like. If I was to watch a show where I hated every character I would be pausing every five seconds (this isn’t hyperbole, I’m being serious it would be every five seconds) to complain more and more. The show isn’t enjoyable when there’s literally zero reason to like anyone in it.
- Comment on Breaking: BAD 1 week ago:
I never make it to that point, because if there’s only one redeemable quality of each character there’s literally no reason to watch the show at all. I want entertainment, not to be reminded of how shit people are.
- Comment on Breaking: BAD 1 week ago:
I don’t know what your sentence means.
- Comment on Breaking: BAD 1 week ago:
Same, why do people like watching shows where you hate everyone? There’s no one to sympathize with!
- Comment on Breaking: BAD 1 week ago:
I hate watching shows where you’re supposed to hate everyone. BB is one of those shows. Like how is that entertainment?
- Comment on Average Lifetime Credit Card Debt in Every U.S. State (2025) 1 week ago:
OP is just advertising that website, they’ve posted numerous other “infographics” from the same site. This one makes no sense, and they posted the article to drive traffic to the site but the article answers nothing.
- Comment on How to I prove to someone that the U.S. moon landing wasn't staged? 1 week ago:
Stop trying to argue to convince them. Ask them “Why?”
Why would the moon landing be faked? What’s to gain from it? (Correct answer, nothing, and everything to be lost when someone leaks).
There’s answers to all of their questions, but I guarantee they can’t give an answer to Why?
- Comment on Self Host Personal Health Record (PHR) 1 week ago:
I’d never heard that you could do this but it seems very smart. You could always contribute the features you want to Mere, since it’s open source. github.com/cfu288/mere-medical
That’s probably more likely to help you than trying to using a free version of a paid product.