CosmicTurtle0
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- Comment on Let's Encrypt is 10 years old today ! 4 days ago:
Cloudflare sort of provides this now by being a MITM to secure your site between your server and the end user. But this requires you and your end user to trust Cloudflare.
And fwiw the ACME protocol is open so anyone can implement it. I believe even the ACME software that EFF sends out allows you to choose your server with some configuration.
- Comment on You Pay For It, We Own It - Sony's $7.9B Lawsuit 6 days ago:
I remember complaining on Amazon about the price of digital books when they were still relatively new. They wanted me to pay the same price for a digital book as a physical book. Back then, Amazon still had pretty decent customer service and wrote me back saying that the price for the book wasn’t for literal pages but for the work in making the book, etc. etc.
I told them I understood that but I don’t get the same rights with the digital book as I did with the physical, namely the right to sell the book.
Books, board games, etc. any physical media is technically a license, yes. BUT the copyright holder cannot bar you from doing whatever you want with the physical copy, within the limits of copyright law. Those same rights simply do not exist with your digital copies and, in fact, is often codified within your terms of service that you don’t fucking own anything and they can pull your license at any time.
DVD is next to impossible to revoke while Blu-ray is not. But you can’t revoke Blu-ray licenses to specific people but to regions. I haven’t heard of this happening but if it did, you could, in theory, still play your Blu-ray disks on players that aren’t connected to the internet to receive those updates. That said, I’m like 80% sure that Blu-ray keys have been leaked and you can rip them like DVDs today.
- Comment on AI tool that sounds like elderly grandmother created to waste scammers' time 1 week ago:
I wonder if mobile providers are still getting paid for long distance calls. Because if they are, they have a perverse incentive to keep scammers on the line.
Which, in this isolated case, I’m okay with.
- Comment on The Onion buys rightwing conspiracy theory site Infowars with plans to make it ‘very funny, very stupid’ 1 week ago:
If Alex Jones becomes press secretary, I’ll be convinced that this is all a simulation.
- Comment on The Onion buys rightwing conspiracy theory site Infowars with plans to make it ‘very funny, very stupid’ 1 week ago:
A part of me actually wished that the Onion would have purchased InfoWars, but in secret, like maybe under a subsidiary corp that has a right-wing sounding name.
They don’t change Infowars’ branding or anything but the articles become subtly liberal.
Maybe an overt purchase is better but I really want to troll the right.
- Comment on American house 3 weeks ago:
Of all the shitting Trump does to immigrants, he signed the bill into law that required giving each naturalized citizen a Glock and an AR-15 upon taking the oath.
- Comment on Dropbox lays off 20% of staff, says it overinvested and underperformed 3 weeks ago:
OneDrive is so fucking confusing to administrator.
The files exist on your physical drive …except it doesn’t?
You can’t remove the files…except when it does it on its own.
You can’t move a file without some sort of synching issue.
You can’t fucking disable it without going into the registry!
I legit tried it in the early days of Win10 and it was a nightmare. I literally had to reinstall Windows and disable it upfront before things worked the way I expected.
- Comment on Stop whining. Do it yourself. 3 weeks ago:
Yeah the level of effort to keep the community engaged and to moderate the content is a tough job and really only possible for people who are really dedicated.
- Comment on They're a different species, so it's cool to eat them 3 weeks ago:
Do you want a galactic war between Mars and Earth? Because that’s how you get a war between Mars and Earth.
- Comment on They're a different species, so it's cool to eat them 3 weeks ago:
So long as there is a risk of them reaccumilating wealth, no thank you. Yeet them into the sun.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
If they are too big to fail, then they need to be nationalized.
All of these companies have two things in common: they socialize risks and liabilities and privatize profits.
- Comment on Cable companies ask 5th Circuit to block FTC’s click-to-cancel rule | Cable companies worry rule will make it hard to talk customers out of canceling 4 weeks ago:
I think a bank should be more complex. If you have all sorts of auto drafts, withdraws, checks, etc. you’ll want to make sure you got all of those.
It should absolutely be simpler but I don’t mind an extra check for banks where all your money is held.
Services like gyms and Netflix, they don’t have any excuse. My life will not be as adversely affected as cancelling a bank account.
- Comment on Eat lead 4 weeks ago:
The debate between Bill Nye and a creationist is so rage inducing. It’s a terrible premise and the fact that Bill even agreed to it gave the creationist credit.
- Comment on Intuit possibly succumbs to the Streisand effect 4 weeks ago:
Tbh the exchange is a bit testy. Even if they didn’t request it to be removed, I have a feeling it would have gone viral.
But the Streisand effect is going to show the coverup and the juicy parts. It’s just…amazing
- Comment on sometimes it's just easier 4 weeks ago:
Is that what’s going on? My covenant eyes installation kept crashing.
So glad someone was kind enough to do that! Otherwise I would have had to furiously masturbate.
- Comment on Syncthing Android app discontinued 4 weeks ago:
Thank you but I don’t run a Mac. I used to back in the day. I just know how anal Apple is about people using their devices in any way that they don’t specifically want you to.
- Comment on 2024 Self-Host User Survey Results 4 weeks ago:
I sort of get it. When you self host mastodon or lemmy, you have to deal with the moderation that comes with it. That’s a headache unless you have a ton of free time. Judging by the age distribution, I’m guessing most of us just want things to work so we can do what we enjoy.
- Comment on Syncthing Android app discontinued 4 weeks ago:
My primary phone belongs to my work. I get a stipend every two years that essentially allows me to buy any supported phone I want.
The conditions are that it’s managed by them via MDM and all my work stuff is on the work profile side.
It is a choice I make since it allows me to not carry two phones. I did that for the first two years at my company and it was annoying.
- Comment on Syncthing Android app discontinued 4 weeks ago:
I was today years old when I learned that you can run a custom WM on a Mac.
That’s like…the equivalent of a coca cola soda machine dispensing Pepsi.
And in terms of down votes, I don’t really care too much. It evens out overtime.
- Comment on Syncthing Android app discontinued 4 weeks ago:
As much as I want to use F-Droid, my work blocks all third party app stores so it’s either have access to my work stuff on one phone (via profiles) or dual wield two phones.
I lack the patience to dual wield again. It’s very annoying.
- Comment on Drink it, I dare ya 4 weeks ago:
I know it’s a meme but it’s pretty good.
- Comment on How come people who are against abortion are in favor of the death penalty? Kind of seems like a contradicition/ 4 weeks ago:
I could have sworn that there was a news story of Peloci being denied the sacrament due to her supporting an abortion bill.
- Comment on How come people who are against abortion are in favor of the death penalty? Kind of seems like a contradicition/ 4 weeks ago:
Former Christian here.
This is it. Criminals have (theoretically) been proven guilty. Some crimes are worthy of death.
A fetus (ahem unborn baby) has cast no sin and does not deserve death.
Christians would also say that they would never get out to death because they would never do anything wrong but when you bring up the fact that Jesus himself said you should be willing to suffer even to the point of suffering on a cross, they start changing the subject.
- Comment on I want to take better care of my house plants. I got this plant recently, does anyone have tips? 5 weeks ago:
The number one killer of indoor plants is over watering. Wait for the leaves to wilt before watering.
I don’t know much about this particular plant but judging by the dark leaves, it probably doesn’t need as much light as the label says. Put it in a corner of a room that gets light, but not right in front of it.
Once a week, move the plant closer to the window and see if that helps it perk up.
- Comment on Badgers 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on Badgers 5 weeks ago:
I don’t want to know if this is true or not. Nobody look it up.
- Comment on The Butterfly Man 5 weeks ago:
And turtle tears!
- Comment on Too Much 5 weeks ago:
The America Test Kitchen agrees with you.
Their book goes into extensive detail as to why better and dark brown sugar are important to the recipe.
- Comment on Wikipedia is under assault: rogue users keep posting AI generated nonsense 1 month ago:
There is a group of people who have been systematically dismantling education, making access to information harder, and generally known to fuck shit up because they want to punish people who don’t agree with them.
- Comment on Patent troll Sable pays up, dedicates all its patents to the public! 1 month ago:
They should have increased the payout. It should have been a percentage of what CF would have paid had they paid the troll.
I don’t expect attorneys to be experts in technical work. Even those who are won’t have the same experience as the literal millions of techies out there who know really obscure technology.
