Confused_Emus
@Confused_Emus@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- Comment on Upcoming California law to require operating systems to check your age 1 week ago:
This isn’t acceptable in the least. The very fact it seems so innocuous right now is to get opinions like yours circulating to make everyone feel comfortable with it. People have got to stop thinking in the short-term when it comes to privacy.
“Oh, it’s just one more data point, what can it hurt now? All you have to do is type a number in a box. You don’t even have to provide any documentation to prove you aren’t lying!”
Their “age verification” method is useless for accomplishing any actual age verification. So why is it still being pushed? Because the groundwork is being laid now for the actual surveillance to be implemented later.
- Comment on Humans Have a Third Set of Teeth. New Medicine May Help Them Grow. 1 week ago:
The foods that damage our teeth the most are things that are really sugary and/or highly acidic. Things like sodas, sweets, alcohols, for a few examples. We already consider stuff like that unhealthy without considering what they do to our teeth. And unless you’re consuming stuff like that excessively, they’re not likely to cause you too many problems as long as you’re practicing good dental hygiene.
- Comment on Humans Have a Third Set of Teeth. New Medicine May Help Them Grow. 1 week ago:
Think that speaks more to the quality of the food.
- Comment on You are strong 4 weeks ago:
The reincarnationists were right. Clearly Homer lives amongst us again!
- Comment on Taste the flavor 4 weeks ago:
You could imagine it like a vending machine that’s supposed to dispense soda if you put Euro coins in, but it’ll equally dispense soda if you put other flat pieces of metal in it.
Superb explanation!
- Comment on US | Trump Says He’ll Only Accept 2026 Midterms If He Deems Them “Honest” 4 weeks ago:
Depose the US president. Let’s just fucking do it already.
- Comment on US | Two CBP Agents Identified in Alex Pretti Shooting 5 weeks ago:
Jesus Ochoa and Raymundo Gutierrez?! Are you fucking kidding me?!
- Comment on Anyone have a favorite NAS (for normies)? 1 month ago:
I have a Synology DS918+. Older model, but it’s still chugging along and it serves me and my Plex users well. That said, I don’t plan on getting a new one if/when this one dies. They reversed their decision on the vendor lock-in for drives, but the fact they did that at all really put me off.
I get their reasoning behind wanting to vendor lock the drives - Synology is a great chassis for amateur network storage enthusiasts, the kind of people who likely blew their budget on the NAS chassis thinking everything would work fine long-term when they slapped some cheap used desktop hard drives into the box. The shitty drives eventually die, and they blame Synology for their own bad hardware choices. That’s not an issue I struggle with, though, so I’m just thinking I’m no longer Synology’s target customer.
These days I’d recommend just building your own rig if you can swing that. And if you do go with a prebuilt chassis, for fuck’s sake don’t just slap any old hard drives in there!
- Comment on 1 month ago:
I’d guess someone with that mentality started making crotch spawn at 16 or 17, perpetuating a genetic line that will continue to be about as useful to society as an indoor kite. The Stupid breed like rabbits.
- Comment on Israel sees spike in PTSD and suicide among troops as war persists 1 month ago:
Good.
- Comment on I love science 2 months ago:
Could be a Lemmy.Zip thing, then. Would be nice if the people who run instances would also consider how their personal hosting choices effect sharing across the wider internet. I get us tech nerds have our respective preferences for obscure formats for various reasons, but we really should be playing somewhat nicely with other environments if we want to attract users.
- Comment on I love science 2 months ago:
Tested uploading an image reply in browser and Voyager, and they both seem to upload in webp. Perhaps a lemmy.zip instance thing?
- Comment on I love science 2 months ago:
When I try to use the built-in share feature, it’s sharing it as a .avif file. Wonder if it’s specific to the app I’m using (Voyager). Something I’ve only noticed happening recently.
Either way, good content at least!
- Comment on I love science 2 months ago:
sigh Great, another format I have to wait for other apps to support if I want to share the memes. And webp was finally getting to the point where it wasn’t annoying the fuck out of me.
- Comment on ASUS plans to produce RAM amid shortage problems 2 months ago:
At the very least go back the first English version of the article chain.
- Comment on ASUS plans to produce RAM amid shortage problems 2 months ago:
The language of the end-post should probably be in the language used in the info bar, yes. And this article is in English. What you implied is that if a story originally came from a non-English source then it’s automatically suspect.
- Comment on Grindr CEO Says App Will Be “AI-First” and “Not in the Business of Politics” 2 months ago:
The app’s already made up of mostly fake accounts. There’s more bots on Grindr than actual people.
- Comment on ASUS plans to produce RAM amid shortage problems 2 months ago:
That kinda gives the impression that English news is the only real news, doesn’t it?
- Comment on TikTok allegedly monitoring users’ Grindr activity, digital rights group claims 2 months ago:
9 times out of 10 that tap or message you just got came from a fucking bot. Grindr is such a shithole app.
- Comment on I'm not even gay 2 months ago:
If I don’t sin, what did Sky-Daddy-Incarnate die for?
- Comment on Starlink VP confirms ‘dangerously close’ Chinese launch incident — close call saw satellite pass within 200 meters of Starlink travelling at over 17,400mph 2 months ago:
Fascists are fascist. We’ll call them out anywhere. Good for you that you’re fine with them, though.
- Comment on Starlink VP confirms ‘dangerously close’ Chinese launch incident — close call saw satellite pass within 200 meters of Starlink travelling at over 17,400mph 2 months ago:
Bury your head a little deeper in the sand, you’ve almost achieved blissful ignorance! You can do it!
- Comment on Having a rough morning. I'm still pondering the question about beavers, and my kid asks me THIS 2 months ago:
According to 28 Years Later, yes.
- Comment on Sooo... This is happening on Imgur 2 months ago:
That site needs to pick a font and stick with it.
- Comment on Accidental rapture 2 months ago:
And it won’t even be the stuff that at least sounds nice like the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. Oh no, it’s going to be hymns sung by backwoods Baptist church choirs. The ones too small for the blended sound to make up for their hopelessly out of tune joyful noises.
- Comment on ‘End-to-end encrypted’ smart toilet camera is not actually end-to-end encrypted 2 months ago:
If you’re hacking a toilet camera, you deserve whatever horrors you find.
- Comment on Crucial is shutting down — because Micron wants to sell its RAM and SSDs to AI companies instead 2 months ago:
That does sound lovely, but like every other utopia it’s a fantasy. It’s got the same fatal issue as every other utopia - people. A person can be good and decent, but people suck. I’d say the modern use of that quote is more accurate to reality than the rose tinted view of its origin.
- Comment on Why do some people have so many tabs open on their browser? 3 months ago:
AuDHD
Intrusive thought when I first read that, “Gold tier ADHD!”
- Comment on Tattoo Ink Moves Through the Body, Killing Immune Cells and Weakening Vaccine Response 3 months ago:
And yet humans have been tattooing themselves since the dawn of recorded history - significantly longer than any of those other things were around before their harm became evident.
- Comment on Have you noticed this? 3 months ago:
Yes, the MacNeils were not a religious family at all in either the book or movie. Kind of an ironic pairing of text and imagery here.