CosmicTurtle0
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- Comment on Facebook flags Linux topics as 'cybersecurity threats' — posts and users being blocked 21 hours ago:
- Comment on Rainbolt never misses 3 weeks ago:
The thing that bugged me is that at the end of Season 3, they were legally married. This never got resolved in season 4.
If it got resolved in season 5, I didn’t watch it.
- Comment on Caveman technology 3 weeks ago:
A lot of people don’t realize that the wifi that they are used to is artificially made. The best wifi and the most ethical wifi is grown naturally underground and is harvested by established naturalists that won’t harm the ecosystem by harvesting too early or too much.
- Comment on Has the USA turned into an oligarchy? 3 weeks ago:
I’m here hoping to any god that is watching that Project 2025 becomes something like a dog catching the car situation. The Republicans are the dogs and now they are arguing amongst themselves what to do with the car.
I’m planning as if Project 2025 goes forward. If civil war is in my lifetime, the shots will start with the alt-right.
There is a quote that’s been ringing through my head ever since the CEO murder: “Those who make peaceful reform impossible make violent revolution inevitable.”
The Republicans have made any meaningful reform impossible through half-assed negotiations, bad faith arguments, and “fEeLiNgS pOlItIcS” over the last 50 years.
Democrats like AOC and politicians like Bernie are the acute minority. The DNC has moved more toward the right and given workers the middle finger.
Almost every regulatory body has been captured. The overturn of the Chevron doctrine made the rest completely powerless. We now have a fucking lunatic whispering into Trump’s ear to remove accident reporting requirements for his shitty cars. We will have an anti-vaxer running the CDC, a supplement pushing hack running Medicare, and a man who overpaid for Twitter running the fucking “Department of Government Efficacy.”
This is the tip of the iceberg. They aren’t even in office yet and they are already stirring shit.
- Comment on Day 1 Reddit Refugee 4 weeks ago:
Tbf, the number of posts on shit post pretty much outnumber the other communities.
Even the Linux and Star Trek ones.
- Comment on Developer of WalkScape (the fitness MMORPG where you progress by walking IRL) here again. We're accepting new players and have a Lemmy community! 4 weeks ago:
Not OP but here is the link
- Comment on Senators Say TSA’s Facial Recognition Program Is Out of Control | You can opt out of facial recognition at airports, for now, but the TSA wants to make the invasive technology a requirement 1 month ago:
To be stupidly fair, they are familiar with what a nail clipper looks like so it’s easy for them to find and screen them.
But if a legit bomb part went through security, they’d probably not recognize it due to its novelty.
The next bomb through TSA is going to be some popular toy like a Tickle Me Elmo or some other shit.
- Comment on Three Men Die When Google Maps Tells Them to Drive Off Unfinished Bridge 1 month ago:
If it’s not in airplane mode, how do you expect the car to fly over the gap in the bridge?
- Comment on Turkey Temptation 2 months ago:
Oh we’ll still have national parks. They’ll just have oil and/or fracking rigs on them.
- Comment on Let's Encrypt is 10 years old today ! 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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’ 2 months 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’ 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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. 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months ago:
So long as there is a risk of them reaccumilating wealth, no thank you. Yeet them into the sun.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 3 months 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 3 months 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 3 months 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 3 months 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 3 months 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 3 months 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 3 months 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 3 months ago:
I know it’s a meme but it’s pretty good.