CosmicTurtle0
@CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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- Comment on A Texas Cop Searched License Plate Cameras Nationwide for a Woman Who Got an Abortion 6 hours ago:
I could only watch this show after Trump first left office. TV is meant to be an escape, not a documentary.
I want to watch the last season but I’m going to need to wait until after the revolution.
- Comment on Hit it and quit it 2 days ago:
All the risk without the fun
You’ve summarized religion in one phrase.
- Comment on do you think freewill truly exists? 4 days ago:
Small talk is the human equivalent to the initialization/handshake phase of the TCP protocol.
It establishes the connection, introduces the speakers, validates the presence of the other, and then allows data transmission to take place.
Unlike computers, we humans require years of practice to get it correct because there isn’t one set standard.
- Comment on Do you actually audit open source projects you download? 4 days ago:
I implicitly trust FOSS more than closed source but because that trust has been earned through millions of FOSS projects.
On occasion, I will dive deep into a codebase especially if I have a bug and I think I can fix it.
You can’t do this with closed source or even source available code because there is no guarantee that the code you have is the code that’s been compiled.
- Comment on Plex now will SELL your personal data 5 days ago:
“We have changed the terms. Pray that we don’t change them further.”
- Comment on (Technology Connections) Closed captions on DVDs are getting left behind [33:46] 6 days ago:
It really depends on the ripper. I’d say 9/10 times captions are included on most of my downloads.
It’s that 10th one that is super annoying and I have to wait for jellyfin to download them one by one from open subtitles.
- Comment on German court sends Volkswagen execs to prison over Dieselgate scandal 1 week ago:
two former VW engineers
Yeah, unless they are Chief Engineers, these two are just people who got caught in the churn.
Wake me up when the President of US Operations gets sentenced to prison. Hell, I’ll even be okay with club Fed.
- Comment on By Default, Signal Doesn't Recall 1 week ago:
According to Microsoft’s official developer documentation, setting the correct Digital Rights Management (DRM) flag on the application window will ensure that “content won’t show up in Recall or any other screenshot application.”
So I’m guessing that VLC will have a feature flag to enable or disable this setting. Then you play Disney movies that you pirated on loop. Let the lawyers sort it out.
- Comment on By Default, Signal Doesn't Recall 1 week ago:
Linux doesn’t protect you from other people you’re having conversations with.
- Comment on Researchers Scrape 2 Billion Discord Messages and Publish Them Online 1 week ago:
I skimmed through their paper and I can’t seem to find the instructions to download the dataset.
- Comment on Researchers Scrape 2 Billion Discord Messages and Publish Them Online 1 week ago:
- Comment on The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source. 2 weeks ago:
They released their code as MIT which is far more permissive than I was expecting. I was expecting some sort of proprietary license.
But they need to keep doing stuff like this. Devcontainers for VS Code is still proprietary and keeps me from running codium.
- Comment on Outstanding work 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on The Kids Online Safety Act Will Make the Internet Worse for Everyone 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on The Kids Online Safety Act Will Make the Internet Worse for Everyone 2 weeks ago:
Under the current regime it will be used to suppress discussion of all things that don’t align with the Ministry of Truth
Ftfy
- Comment on quick health tip 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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] 3 weeks 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] 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago:
That already exists
cat /dev/random - Comment on Trump's New Streaming Service Truth+ Is a Conspiracy Theorist's Dream Come True 3 weeks 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. 3 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 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 5 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.
