daniskarma
@daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- Comment on The longer you live, the harder it becomes. 21 hours ago:
I have been told that the muscles change with age to become more “resistant” and less “explosive”. Meaning that as people age they have less explosive force but they can do exercise for longer. That’s why a lot of people get into running when they are 50.
- Comment on In shower today: "I bet my YouTube account is older than most of the people on YouTube." ...Yes, yes it is. 1 day ago:
You are. My account is also over 18 yo. But youtube have tried to ask for ID to watch “adult content” on youtube before.
- Comment on If conditions on earth are perfect for life to form shouldn't have happened more than once? 3 days ago:
Life has to start pretty simple. Chains of very basic molecules, that kinda self replicate. Those molecules would be tasty nutrients without any evolutionary self defense mechanism. So anything like that would be immediately eaten by the stablished life forms. No chance for enough self replication to evolve into anything.
Our current life tree have had many million years of evolution, we all are perfect killing machines. No proto life have a chance.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
I don’t know in the US. Here in Spain we have euthanasia law for that cases.
- Comment on Mississippi's age assurance law puts decentralized social networks to the test 3 days ago:
Has Mississippi lower the age restriction to 14 years old?
- Comment on What age gap is too big of an age gap if someone's in their early 30's? 4 days ago:
I don’t think is that much the age (above 18 please) than the knowledge that you are not taking advantage of that person (or knowing that that person is not taking advantage of you though this is harder to notice).
If there’s a huge age gap you will get looks. But the looks of others are not that important as long as you know that what you are doing is right.
Are you taking advantage of the other person because of their age? If yes then don’t do it. If no, please continue.
- Comment on No Man's Sky: Voyagers update releases today, introduces customizable "colossal, fully furnished, completely bespoke Corvette-class starships" 4 days ago:
One of the best redemption arcs in recent video game story.
- Comment on How do I "sabotage" my own online content to throw a wrench in AI training machines? 5 days ago:
Your content just will get marked as “person trying to make it difficult for AI to train” and it will be useful when someone prompts about that.
- Comment on The recent Steam censorship debacle actually sort of opened me up to adult games. 5 days ago:
I remember a quote from a famous porn actor “nacho vidal”.
“I’d rather have my kids playing with “fake plastic penises” around the house rather than playing with fake plastic firearms.”
I’m not comfortable with the idea of kids playing with sexual toys. But it makes me feel something weird that I’m not more weirded out by kids playing to kill with fake guns.
- Comment on Spotifies come and Spotifies go, but that folder of badly-sorted MP3s will still be there in the 2050s. 6 days ago:
My library is better organized than Spotify’s database at this point.
- Comment on what are the grievances with the "male loneliness epidemic"? 1 week ago:
I’m a very fluid person. So I think I have great inside in the differences between genders and sexualities in loneliness.
A lot of it have to do with “be approached”.
As a girl (pretty girl I may add) presenting person a get approached a lot, a lot of people I don’t know want to talk with me. It’s ridiculously easy to make new acquaintances and friends. Everyone wants to talk and be around you.
As a man presenting gay I also get approached a lot when I’m in “gay spaces”. Again it’s impossible to be alone unless I voluntarily would want to.
Yes, these two have the handicap that a lot of approaches are “sex related” of by people wanting sex. But not all of them, among so much approaches there’s always some that doesn’t just want sex.
Then, as a male presenting person in not gay spaces and even more so in straight spaces. I don’t get approached, never, at all. Zero people talk to me just because they want to be near me. If I want to meet somebody I always have to be the one initiating the approach.
In my experience this is the root of the issue. And the experience that most people complaining about “male loneliness” are talking about.
There are other type of loneliness. As a Queer I’m quite familiar with loneliness related to being different, and people literally hating you for what you are, or not accepting you. But that’s a different thing. The male loneliness is that feeling of having the burden of all your relationships in your shoulders, knowing that if you don’t go after people people won’t ever go after you. And that can be devastating with time. Because your self worth get tanked, specially if you are introvert and have a hard time approaching people.
I suppose it won’t end until it get normalized to approach cis men the same way it’s normalized in the other situations I talked about. The reason of why people don’t approach cis men as easy can be discussed, I get that there’s a fear/danger factor in approaching a cis male, specially after being approached by so many menacing people in your life. But still, I do think the root of the issue is that.
- Comment on project paperclip be like 1 week ago:
I do not think german nazis were too motivated against africans, specially african-americans. They were ultra racist against Jewish and Slavic.
The American nazis were the ones obsessed with skin color against black people.
At least that’s the impression I get when reading about those times.
- Comment on do what you love 1 week ago:
La might is doing some heavy load.
- Comment on Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel? 1 week ago:
I’m against it for several reasons. Running unauthorized heavy duty code on your end. It’s not JS in order to make your site functional, it’s heavy calculations unprompted. If they would add simple button “click to run challenge” would at least be more polite and less “malware-like”.
For some old devices the challenge last over 30 seconds, I can type a captcha in less time than that.
It blocks behind the necessity to use a browser several webs that people (like the article author) tend to browse directly from a terminal.
It’s a delusion. As shown by the article author solving the PoW challenge is not that much of an added cost. Span reduction would be the same with any other novel method, crawlers are just not prepared for it. Any prepared crawler would have no issues whatsoever. People are seeing results just because it’s obscurity, not because it really works as advertised.
Take into account that the challenge needs to be light enough so a good user can enter the website in a few seconds running the challenge on a browser engine (very inefficient). A crawler interested in your site could easily put up a solution to mine the PoW using CUDA in a GPU which would be hundreds if not thousands of times more efficient. So the balance of difficulty (still browsable for users but costly to crawl) is not feasible.
It’s not universally applicable. Imagine if all internet were behind PoW challenges. It would be like constant Bitcoin mining, a total waste of resources.
The company behind Anubis seems more shady to me each day. They feed on anti-AI paranoia, they didn’t even answer the article author valid critics when he email them, they use clearly PR language aimed to convince and please certain demographics to place their product. They are full of slogans but lack substance. I just don’t trust them.
- Comment on Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel? 1 week ago:
So? You have free will to use another captcha.
- Comment on The notion that "old is bad and new is good" is a seriously damaging part of western capitalism brainwashing 1 week ago:
Things should be judged by themselves, not by some indirect classification.
- Comment on Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel? 1 week ago:
What?
You don’t need to use google, or cloudfare, captcha to have a captcha.
- Comment on Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel? 1 week ago:
They don’t have to do anything but let an unknown program to max their cpu unauthorized.
Imagine if google would implement that. Billions of computers running PoW constantly, what could go wrong?
- Comment on Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel? 1 week ago:
First, I said reCaptcha types, meaning captchas of the style of reCaptcha. That could be implemented outside a google environment. Secondly, I never said that types were better for privacy. I just said Anubis is bad for privacy. Traditional captchas that work without JavaScript would be the privacy friendly way.
Third, it’s not a false proposition. Disabling JavaScript can protect your privacy a great deal. A lot of tracking is done through JavaScript.
Last, that’s just the Anubis PR slogan. Not the truth, as I said ddos mitigation could be implemented in other ways. More polite and/or environmental friendly.
Are you astrosurfing for anubis? Because I really cannot understand why something as simple as a landing page with a button “run PoW challenge” would be that bad
- Comment on Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel? 1 week ago:
Anubis is worse for privacy. As you have to have JavaScript enabled. And worse for the environment as the cryptographic challenges with PoW are just a waste.
Also reCaptcha types are not really that disturbing most of the time.
As I said, the polite thing you just be giving users the options. Anubis PoW running directly just for entering a website is one of the most rudest piece of software I’ve seen lately. They should be more polite, and just give an option to the user, maybe the user could chose to solve a captcha or run Anubis PoW, or even just having Anubis but after a button the user could click.
I don’t think is good practice to run that type of software just for entering a website. If that tendency were to grow browsers would need to adapt and straight up block that behavior.
- Comment on Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel? 1 week ago:
Captcha.
It does all Anubis does. If a scrapper wants to solve it automatically it’s computer intensive, they have to run AI inference, but for the user it’s just a little time consuming.
With captchas you don’t run aggressive software unauthorized on anyone’s computer.
Solution did exist. But Anubis is “trendy” and they are masters in PR within some specific circles of people who always wants the lastest most trendiest thing.
But good old captcha would achieve the same result as Anubis, in a more sustainable way.
- Comment on Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel? 1 week ago:
Why the hell don’t you limit the CPU usage of that service?
For any service that could hog resources so bad that they can block the entire system the normal thing to do is to limite their max resource usage. This is trivial to do using containers. I do it constantly for leaky software.
- Comment on Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel? 1 week ago:
I still think captchas are a better solution.
In order to surpass them they have to run AI inference which is also comes with compute costs. But for legitimate users you don’t run unauthorized intensive tasks on their hardware.
- Comment on Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel? 1 week ago:
It’s working because it’s not very used. It’s sort of a “pirate seagull” theory. As long a few people use it it works. Because scrappers don’t really count on Anubis so they don’t implement systems to surpass it.
If it were to become more common it would be really easy to implement systems that would defeat the purpose.
As of right now sites are ok because scrappers just send https requests and expect a full response. Of someone wants to bypass Anubis protection they would need to take into account that they will receive a cryptographic challenge and have to solve it.
The thing is that cryptographic challenges can be very optimized. They are designed to run in a very inefficient environment as it is a browser. But if someone would take the challenge and solve it in a better environment using CUDA or something like that it would take a fraction of the energy defeating the purpose of “being so costly that it’s not worth scrapping”.
At this point it’s only a matter of time that we start seeing scrappers like that. Specially if more and more sites start using Anubis.
- Comment on Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel? 1 week ago:
Sometimes I think. Imagine if a company like google or facebook would implement something like anubis. And suddenly most people’s browsers would start solving cpu intensive constant cryptographic challenges. People would be outraged by the wasted energy. But somehow “cool small company” does it and it’s fine.
I do not think anubis system is sustainable for all the people to use it, it’s just too wasteful energy wise.
- Comment on Wealth inequality seems like the only outcome in a system where capital gains are taxed less than labor 1 week ago:
So increase capital gain tax. And run a net worth tax.
- Comment on Wealth inequality seems like the only outcome in a system where capital gains are taxed less than labor 1 week ago:
Taxed from 19% to 21% depending on quantity.
The reality is that not enough people have a significant amount of capital gains. My country only have 30 people with over a billion euro. For contrast USA have 900. I think here only one million people have over one million euros in total net worth.
The truth is that it’s not rational to pretend that society get sustained only taxing capital gains, even if they were taxed 100%.
I’m all for augmenting capital tax, mostly because I don’t think there should be billionaires at all. But I do not think their disappear would make my taxes significantly lower. At the end of the day they are very few.
- Comment on Wealth inequality seems like the only outcome in a system where capital gains are taxed less than labor 1 week ago:
Because it’s the greater way for the government to get money.
I’ll give my country example. 2023.
State tax income was 270.000 million euros.
Out of those 120.000 million were labor income tax.
Business tax was 35.000 million
Sales tax were 80.000 million.
The rest were other taxes.
Work is easy to tax, and more fair.
Sale tax is 21% to everyone. Labor tax depends on your income. The more your income the more you pay, so it’s proportional.
Removing all labor tax for sale tax would be highly unfair to people with low income.
I’m more on the opposite route. Sale tax should be lower and income tax higher.
- Comment on Dedicated music server or all-in-one media server? 1 week ago:
I use AIO approach with jellyfin but I’m thinking about changing it.
I like how jellyfin handles music, but the search feature is unusable with so many files.
Each time I search for a movie it search through thousands of music files and music people. And jellyfin search feature is bad as it is. I’m waiting for them to fix ot but it doesn’t seem like it.
- Comment on Now I finally get it 1 week ago:
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