CosmicTurtle0
@CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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- Comment on quick health tip 1 hour ago:
Eh, most people burn their coffee or get shitty coffee. Salt helps enhance the coffee profile and decrease the bitterness that comes out when coffee is over brewed.
The number of people who don’t know how to properly make coffee drives me nuts.
- Comment on A VPN Company Canceled All Lifetime Subscriptions, Claiming It Didn’t Know About Them 1 hour ago:
I remember when AT&T had “unlimited” data when the original iPhone came out and severely underestimated how much data people used.
Today, every cell phone provider has an “unlimited” plan and in the fine print says “up to x GB, after which you will be throttled.”
That shit should be illegal.
- Comment on Always 2 days ago:
Yeah there was a 26 year old woman that debuted on a MILF website which I thought was strange. She didn’t look like a mom but then again, looks can be deceiving.
- Comment on Airlines Are Selling Your Data to ICE 4 days ago:
Yeah so bad news. The government has routinely purchased data like this as an end run around the 4th Amendment. The data is collected by a third party, often with the customers “consent”.
This is why we need stricter privacy controls around our data. The fact that this data was collated in the first place is problematic. The fact that it’s being sold for profit is abhorrent.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
Despite what he said, he didn’t vote for Trump for the economy.
He voted for Trump because he was racist. So unless he suddenly became unracist, he will vote Republican again and blame a darker skinned person for the failure of his shoe business.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
You know for fuck sure this guy is going to vote Republican in the midterms and then do another insurrection to make sure Trump is “elected” in 2028.
- Comment on Windows Is Adding AI Agents That Can Change Your Settings 6 days ago:
That already exists
cat /dev/random - Comment on Trump's New Streaming Service Truth+ Is a Conspiracy Theorist's Dream Come True 1 week ago:
I actually recall a real, not fake, scientific paper (maybe it was an editorial or something but it was legit) that discussed the possibility of a hollow earth.
This was like 15 years or so ago so my memory is a bit hazy.
The thesis was that the working hypothesis of how magnetism and other evidence around the earth with layers can also point to a hollow earth. There was a lot of physics and math. The paper was serious but not like “I have cited sources” but more of an idea.
I suspect that, like most conspiracy theories, the hollow moon took that idea and perverted it beyond recognition.
- Comment on Things are getting really crazy. 1 week ago:
The problem was that The Onion tipped their hand. They needed to do what these high class tax dodgers do and create a completely separate legal entity (e.g. Information Combat Readiness Group) and submit bids under that name. Once purchased, sell the company to The Onion for pennies, or if they are really smart, rent the assets to the Onion for bajillion dollars, which then the Onion can write off and pay less taxes.
And yes, that’s how our corporate tax system works.
- Comment on The Beauty Of Having A Pi-hole · Den Delimarsky 1 week ago:
I waffled back and forth on a docker install. Outside of the initial panic to reinstall the OS (Ubuntu 24.04 for me), it was relatively straightforward outside of the config. It may be worth it to dockerize it so I can git control the config but not sure how easy it is under v6. They really changed how the files are parsed.
Before pihole was essentially a frontend for dnsmasq but it seems like it’s a bit more than that now. I haven’t had the chance to look too much under the hood.
If I’m being honest, I’ve wanted to off-load pihole to my router but lack the time and patience these days. I’ve reached the point in my life where IT isn’t the most important thing anymore and just need it to work.
- Comment on Skype was shut down for good today 1 week ago:
My company does it and it’s fucking stressful. And just like you said, it doesn’t make a ton of sense.
Occasionally there are certainly people who are just there to ride coat tails but I see this behavior more in leadership than in the front lines.
- Comment on The Beauty Of Having A Pi-hole · Den Delimarsky 1 week ago:
Literally just had my pihole hard crash this weekend due to a bad update to FTL. Apparently they had a major version upgrade and didn’t bother to read the notes so I had to do a full OS reinstall.
Back up your configs people. Had to dig through documentation to find the sqlite file and then parse through it like some sort of animal.
- Comment on Skype was shut down for good today 1 week ago:
I personally blame stack ranking, invented by Jack Welch to justify cutting 20% of the company.
If you want to get mad, the Behind the Bastards episode on him explains why corporate America is what it is today.
- Comment on Trump Signs Executive Orders to Militarize Police, Punish Sanctuary Cities and Refugees 2 weeks ago:
“You won’t be arrested if you don’t do anything wrong. Just let them do their jobs!”
- Comment on Backblaze responds to claims of “sham accounting,” customer backups at risk - Ars Technica 2 weeks ago:
Just a reminder that a cloud provider can oopsie delete your data
The customer was fucking lucky they had their data also in AWS. many companies don’t do multi cloud backups.
- Comment on Microsoft's AI Secretly Copying All Your Private Messages 2 weeks ago:
Have Frozen running in the foreground. I’m half tempted to install Windows on a VM and just have Frozen running on a loop.
Make Disney and Microsoft fight it out in court.
- Comment on Pronounced the same but totally different meanings 2 weeks ago:
Job like the name. Like in Arrested Development though they spell it GOB
- Comment on Pronounced the same but totally different meanings 2 weeks ago:
Polish and polish.
Job and job.
- Comment on Mexico bans ‘foreign propaganda’ after US anti-migrant ad 3 weeks ago:
The irony. If Mexico actually built a wall to keep Americans out, Trump would be fucking furious.
- Comment on Morpheus Actor Laurence Fishburne Reveals He Was Turned Down for The Matrix Resurrections — So He Might Not Be Back for Matrix 5 Either - IGN 3 weeks ago:
I felt like Matrix Resurrections was kind of a circle jerk against itself.
Boss: “Mr. Anderson. We want you to write a game for this old franchise”
Neo: “but it’s dead. Why don’t we make something new, and exciting.”
Boss: “💵”
- Comment on I can't believe it let me do that 3 weeks ago:
For now.
I hate how “Maybe later” has replaced “No. Don’t ask me again.”
Enshitification at its best.
- Comment on Encryption Is Not a Crime 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Mark Zuckerberg personally lost the Facebook antitrust case 3 weeks ago:
I’d say the crime he committed was thinking Trump would keep his promise even after bribing him.
How anyone can trust this motherfucker is beyond me.
- Comment on What are some FOSS programs that are objectively better than their proprietary counterparts? 3 weeks ago:
I switched from Apache to nginx maybe 10 or so years ago and haven’t looked back.
So much easier to configure
- Comment on CVE Board members launch the CVE Foundation, a dedicated, non-profit to continue identifying vulnerabilities, after the US ended its contract with Mitre 3 weeks ago:
Which…is absolutely wild. The government should absolutely be funding vulnerability research. If anything so that they can exploit them.
But I suspect they are taking the corporate approach. The foundation is going to do the research anyway and publish it widely. Just take advantage while adding nothing of value in return.
God I hate this fucking timeline.
- Comment on [Question] What just happened to 4 million posts? 4 weeks ago:
I haven’t seen a “don’t vote in elections” stance myself but the fact that you can say that and not get banned is a positive.
- Comment on [Question] What just happened to 4 million posts? 4 weeks ago:
I’d say dbzer0 is probably the most leftist, at least from what I’ve seen. I personally don’t go as far as being an anarchist but can appreciate the philosophy. I probably have more in common with anarchy than democratic/plurality governance, if I’m being honest with myself.
- Comment on Florida’s New Social Media Bill Says the Quiet Part Out Loud and Demands an Encryption Backdoor 4 weeks ago:
Not that I disagree with your point, but Florida law is only relevant within Florida and, to a limited extent, the United States. Admins of US-based instances could likely be subpoenaed and then held in contempt if they refused, assuming they don’t pull a PornHub and just block all of Florida.
That said, this is very worrying since subpoenas have a MUCH lower threshold of legal bearing than warrants. I suspect that Apple will likely challenge this in court or they stop selling iPhones there.
- Comment on Don’t Use Fake info to Sign Up To Volunteer for the Republicans 4 weeks ago:
Time to spin up my docker swarm…
- Comment on Trump’s DOJ will no longer prosecute most cryptocurrency fraud cases 4 weeks ago:
To a certain extent, honor among thieves typically only exists within their own group.
The administration is setting things up so their grifters won’t get charged.
If someone grifted them, the FBI would absolutely investigate them.
