CosmicTurtle0
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- Comment on How I Reversed Amazon's Kindle Web Obfuscation Because Their App Sucked 8 hours ago:
The same public libraries that vigorously defend the privacy of our reading lists
The Patriot act allows the feds to get the books you’ve checked out at your local library.
- Comment on Remember when the whole family had to share it because you only had one 1 day ago:
I do on my laptop. Mostly so I can present with one user that has a clean browser history.
My main user has access to all my porn.
- Comment on Trans people in Kansas are being ordered to surrender their drivers licenses 3 days ago:
Not only that, but bare in mind that most government employees are there to do a job. They don’t always agree with the laws they have to enforce and sometimes they will make it as challenging as possible for fascist ideas like this go through.
Complaining to them is like complaining to the checkout cashier at your grocery store that the prices are too high.
- Comment on Firefox 148 introduces the promised AI kill switch for people who aren't into LLMs 4 days ago:
- Comment on Peter Thiel and other tech billionaires are publicly shielding their children from the products that made them rich 1 week ago:
This behavior seems to be very similar to NFL stars and how they never wanted their kids to play football.
Everyone involved knows how dangerous social media/football is and many of them are in positions to actually do something about it. But because it benefits them personally, they won’t even rock the boat.
- Comment on I'm in! 1 week ago:
- Comment on YSK that Politico is a subsidiary of Axel Springer, a right-wing propaganda house 2 weeks ago:
I’m on the same page. I’m a bit of a wonk and, yeah, politico has a perspective but I wouldn’t call it right wing. Centralist, to an extent.
- Comment on Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety after surveillance backlash 2 weeks ago:
In a completely unrelated move, Ring will partner with a complete difference company that will pay 20% above what Flock was paying.
- Comment on Why are people disconnecting or destroying their Ring cameras? 2 weeks ago:
I wonder if removing the cameras is the best move.
It might be better to let them run but have them watching a TV streaming Disney movies.
Then drop the dime to Disney that they are copying their IP.
- Comment on 'What a great way to kill your community': Discord users are furious about its new age verification checks — and are now hunting for alternatives 2 weeks ago:
My understanding is that if your community is not adult content and you aren’t on any adult servers, you won’t need to ID verify. But I suspect it’s only a matter of time before all accounts are required to verify.
- Comment on 'What a great way to kill your community': Discord users are furious about its new age verification checks — and are now hunting for alternatives 2 weeks ago:
If people didn’t leave Twitter when it became an unholy cestpool of alt-right propaganda, they have chosen to stay there because their audience is the alt-right.
- Comment on All fight no flight 3 weeks ago:
By this logic, I’m all fight as well.
Come at me.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
The DevOps way is to have them die at regular intervals in addition to other triggers and then rebuild on a regular cadence. Iirc correctly Netflix servers have a 12 hour TTL. Windscribe could easily do a 1-2 hour TTL with matching certs and encryption keys.
- Comment on Ad blocking is alive and well, despite Chrome's attempts to make it harder 3 weeks ago:
The biggest issue is that making a browser from scratch takes a lot of resources. It’s not cheap and takes a long time.
We essentially have Chrome and Firefox now. And Firefox is starting to enshitify.
We desperately need a third browser.
- Comment on Ubisoft Fires Team Lead For Criticising Stupid Return-To-Office Mandate 3 weeks ago:
The goal of companies mandating RTO is attrition. They want people to quit without firing or laying them off.
Their goal is to hire younger, hungrier (both literally and figuratively) coders who are cheaper and less experienced and will use “AI” to clean up their code.
- Comment on Ring Cameras Join Flock and Amazon to Now Create Direct Data Access for ICE 5 weeks ago:
Bare in mind that the government requires a warrant to obtain data against you, the barrier in which to get a warrant requires probable cause.
Obtaining data about you from a company only requires a subpoena if the company doesn’t cooperate.
BUYING data about you from the same company is completely allowed.
Until we get privacy laws, we are truly fucked.
- Comment on Nova Launcher gets a new owner and... ads 5 weeks ago:
I wanted to like lawn chair and gave them an honest try but so many features I have come to rely on weren’t quite there.
I realize that they were designed as a replacement of pixel’s launcher but still… I would have loved to keep using them.
I am now using a paid version of Smart Launcher and praying to God that they won’t do what Nova did.
- Comment on YSK: A real American Civil war will NOT be like Battlefield or COD. 1 month ago:
Learned about it from this episode of the Team Human podcast
But what is happening in Hong Kong is they come up with a slogan, which is translated as Do Not Split, which is, we know that some people are willing to be confrontational with riot police.
And when they are, that’s going to cost the state in terms of not only resources, but it’s going to cost the state in terms of political capital and support. And we know that there are some people who are not willing to do that. And we are going to abide by the protocol of Do Not Split, which means that we’re not going to criticize them openly, and they’re not going to criticize us openly.
If we’re the pacifists, we’re not going to have them criticize us for being sort of like, I don’t know, limpid or flaccid or not courageous or whatever. And we’re not going to criticize them for being more confrontational. And the thing is that the support is also tacit.
It’s not like they have to come out and tell the media, oh, we approve of our more sort of confrontational colleagues. They just keep quiet. They just keep quiet.
Understanding that a range of tactics is probably going to be necessary. Nobody really knows what’s going to work. But if everybody’s pushing back against a particularly violent state, then everybody’s really on the same side.
- Comment on Bluesky just verified ICE 1 month ago:
take accountability
[Citation needed]
- Comment on Never-before-seen Linux malware is “far more advanced than typical” 1 month ago:
As we push more average Windows users to Linux, we need to be prepared for these users to download and run completely untrusted code.
- Comment on Insider trading, but make it worse 1 month ago:
What?! What are the odds?!
- Comment on What's it going to take to truly stop the US? 1 month ago:
Nations can’t ignore the fact that the US has one of the active militaries in the world. Our Navy is more of less second to none and we have nukes. In the hands of a normal president, we might be fine but you sure as heck know that Trump and his Project 2025 people are just itching to launch one.
This is a situation where there are no good options. The best you can do is continue political pressure, get other nations to rally behind you in the hopes of creating a strong economic resistance.
But the real answer is that we, the US citizens, need to fucking take this country back. I hate to say it but protests simply aren’t enough anymore.
- Comment on We own the hardware, but not the experience anymore — Big Tech keeps building smarter, more connected devices, but the user experience feels more intrusive, more confusing, and less human 1 month ago:
I’ve been a developer for decades. I’ve contributed to FOSS code and do a lot of my own development.
I just want a desktop that works. No fuss.
Yes I could compile my own x11 (and have) but I would rather spend my time doing my own shit than trying to stand up a new VM for some edge issue I’m having.
Just…just give me a UI I can use.
It’s why I use Ubuntu.
- Comment on Quick post about AI-free FireFox Based Browsers (Keep your Adds and avoid the Bloat) 2 months ago:
I feel like you’re just here to piss into the wind.
Do you hear people screaming to disable the extension frame work or devtools?
No?
If you don’t want those features you can compile your own version of Firefox and remove them.
But lots of people are anti-AI. And there are people willing to provide a browser that keeps it out.
If you want it, have at it. But don’t piss on people just because they don’t.
- Comment on Devastated PC builder orders DDR5 RAM from Amazon, receives DDR2 and some weights — counterfeit 32GB kit a worrying sign of rising return and sales fraud 2 months ago:
Iirc correctly, Amazon actually doesn’t resell their returns. At least not through their storefront.
They have “return auctions” where returns are put onto a pallet and then people bid on them to purchase. Apparently this is cheaper than having a workflow for their returns, checking them to make sure they are resellable, and then stocking them back into their warehouse.
- Comment on Verizon refused to unlock man’s iPhone, so he sued the carrier and won 2 months ago:
It was the exact same. the math of this is that verizon makes enough money on the contract that they can pay for a phone within your 3 year contract.
- Comment on earth, fire, water, wind - it's not hard 2 months ago:
Our education system values rote memorization over actually learning something. So instead of teaching you how to use the periodic table, they teach you “The element of Hydrogen has an atomic mass of 1” etc.
A few teachers who actually give a fuck will do both, but they are required to teach the test for funding. Because that’s how they are graded.
- Comment on Verizon refused to unlock man’s iPhone, so he sued the carrier and won 2 months ago:
When I left my company, I had to get a new phone. When I talked to the rep, the phone cost was essentially free with a contract.
The offer was that Verizon would pay for the phone over the course of three years.
So it’s not financing so much as it was free with a contract. When I asked why this was, he said that it was due to how the market was. Everyone has a phone at this point so now cell service provides have to compete to keep people. So they are willing to pay for your phone so long as you are locked in with them.
- Comment on Stack Overflow Rolls Out Native Ads in Q&A Feeds for Funding Boost 2 months ago:
Line must go up.
- Comment on US | State Department to deny visas to fact checkers and others, citing 'censorship' 2 months ago:
It is not lost in them. The intention is to equate their “facts” with actual reality.
And they are succeeding.
