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- Comment on Sweden, Norway rethink plans for cashless societies over fears that fully digital payment systems would leave them vulnerable to Russian security threats 3 weeks ago:
Until you forget changing 6 digit pin of your credit card before you travel to the country which accepts 4 digit normally. You’re f…d, the only way is to get call your family to make moneygram / western union transfer (or if you can do make such an order on your own).
- Comment on Sweden, Norway rethink plans for cashless societies over fears that fully digital payment systems would leave them vulnerable to Russian security threats 3 weeks ago:
It’s funny because actually you can receive mails pretty much everywhere without giving an actual address. P.O boxes and post restante. Only banks keep enforcing residential addresses as it was a guarantee of having lack of identity frauds.
- Comment on Wikipedia article blocked worldwide by Delhi high court. 3 weeks ago:
Has anybody a mirror? Couldn’t they just block it in India for Indians?
- Comment on Linus Torvalds affirms expulsion of Russian maintainers 4 weeks ago:
Some people would disagree with you lwn.net/Articles/995294/
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- Comment on Judge delays order in antitrust case requiring Google to open up its app store 4 weeks ago:
They are not exactly bribes. Rather undisclosed preferential consulting jobs or hiring promises. It’s quite easy to follow money in bribes. It’s somehow so: after they finish politics careers, they get hired as highly paid consultants for their preferential treatment when they were politics
- Comment on Facebook Is Being Flooded With Gross AI-Generated Images of Hurricane Helene Devastation 1 month ago:
For me it’s simple rule, if nobody tells the sources or credits, it’s not even worthy to analyze it and cross check the news. The worst thing is that even “reputable media agencies” like reuters and bloomberg use heavily “anonymous sources”. Very often used as propaganda purposes
- Comment on Social media is becoming infested with climate change denial and misinformation 1 month ago:
Turning egypt into desert wasn’t caused by human factor, it was caused by change of earth axial rotation nature.com/…/green-sahara-african-humid-periods-p… and it happened within less than 2-3 centuries. Far more drastic than what we see alleged by “human greenhouse gas emissions”. It’s all well documented that natural causes can be far more drastic than whatever we do on earth ( several degrees in global earth scale ). And no, climatology is not united around the greenhouse gas effect at least not about alleged scale
- Comment on Don’t ever hand your phone to the cops 1 month ago:
It’s not possible not to it you want to visit USA. If you don’t, they’ll reject your visa or deny entry. Thr only way is to use brand new cheap android before or after ( after is better ) and resell it once you go back. Most corporations do so
- Comment on Amazon's Monopoly of the tech industry is ruining the US economy 1 month ago:
Yes, asking for every damn material on facebook group of the university academic year is not suitable in the long run. Yes, there is to be one guy on my year hosting all material for free but he stopped and everybody moved to facebook groups.
- Comment on Discord lowers free upload limit to 10MB: “Storage management is expensive” 2 months ago:
That’s shitty times thar you have to use tools for pirating like torrent, Usenet to share big files . For smaller ones even email providers have bigger limits at least 15 megabytes
- Comment on Why is Facebook filled with so much random junk now? 2 months ago:
Yes, different generation. I didn’t write OLD or ELDERLY. Yes, we grow older - accept it or not :-)
- Comment on Why is Facebook filled with so much random junk now? 2 months ago:
The user base has changed. Before it used to be used by young people willing to share their parts of lives, exchanging f.e. studying material Now it is used by mostly older people (over 30) having family not willing that much to share anything from their lives except from talking to their relatives over the messanger.
So who creates the information today? I guess bots and sometimes some facebook groups but I noticed that facebook shares your group posts to absolutely not related people to that group.
Including your mum and sister, the posts related on smoking weed and going to techno parties.
Young people (Gen-Z) don’t use facebook pretty much at all. Sometimes maybe messanger because of their family
- Comment on Discord lowers free upload limit to 10MB: “Storage management is expensive” 2 months ago:
The user base has changed. Before it used to be used by young people willing to share their parts of lives, exchanging f.e. studying material Now it is used by mostly older people (over 30) having family not willing that much to share anything from their lives except from talking to their relatives over the messanger.
So who creates the information today? I guess bots and sometimes some facebook groups but I noticed that facebook shares your group posts to absolutely not related people to that group.
Including your mum and sister, the posts related on smoking weed and going to techno parties.
Young people (Gen-Z) don’t use facebook pretty much at all. Sometimes maybe messanger because of their family
- Comment on Climate scientists flee Twitter as hostility surges 2 months ago:
Exactly, the title is as at least misleading. They mention only on scientist with not that Cristal clear reputation. X is wild west of astroturfing but at least it’s better to be honest
- Comment on Climate scientists flee Twitter as hostility surges 2 months ago:
The same Peter Gleick caught on forging documents to prove his point Image
- Comment on Brazilian court orders suspension of Elon Musk’s X after it missed deadline 2 months ago:
They gotta love my mailing lists. Backups stored on every subscriber hard drive
- Comment on Uber drivers in Kenya are ignoring the app and charging their own rates. 2 months ago:
Uber needs to show the car plates and allow to block drivers by car plates. This is the only way
- Comment on Studios are cracking down on some of the internet’s most popular pirating sites 2 months ago:
Honestly most of the modern movies are so bad that even nobody will most likely want to pirate them
- Comment on Threads Enables Fediverse Replies 2 months ago:
Embrace, extend, extinguish. Irc ( slack ), jabber ( google talk, facebook messages, hip chat), Usenet and Google groups. Just to name few
- Comment on Matrix let-down 2 months ago:
Yes, while desktop is mostly working well, other clients are far from being usable. I totally agree with this and choices of matrix foundation are not making it any better imo. Their inventing “new features” and not polishing current ecosystem, is not a best strategic choice
- Comment on Questions about the safety of Tesla's 'Full Self-Driving' system are growing 2 months ago:
Everybody knows that tesla sacrificed lidar sensors with cameras because it was cheaper. Yes, lidar can do it easily
- Comment on Matrix let-down 2 months ago:
Which client do you use? Desktop is the best working, second android element slow and laggy but fullest implementation so far, worst are element x which they created only to test still draft phase feature speeding up syncing but otherwise half backed. There is no other third party clients which would be significantly complaint with the protocol
- Comment on Is Telegram really an encrypted messaging app? 2 months ago:
No, it’s not the rule itself. It’s rather an advice not to do as rolling own crypto is very tricky and complicated thing. You have to be very aware of many possible attacks, how they do work, to create own crypto properly
- Comment on No one’s ready for this: Our basic assumptions about photos capturing reality are about to go up in smoke. 2 months ago:
Photography manipulation existed almost since the invention of photography. It was only much harder see the famous photo edition history.com/…/josef-stalin-great-purge-photo-reto…
- Comment on European Commission cuts funding support for Free Software projects 2 months ago:
It’s informal way of transferring the money. You give your money to Hawalardar which contacts the Hawalardar in the destination country. That person gives back the money minus fee which you pointed out or any person who knows the code. It works like money transfer but outside the formal payment system. That’s why it’s hated by most governments in the world. In many countries it has names like in China “flying money”
- Comment on Why are so many leaders in tech evil? 2 months ago:
Nah, she knew about his husband and Epstein ( and his at least strange occupation ) far lower than she’s wiling to admit.
- Comment on Microsoft finally officially confirms it's killing Windows Control Panel sometime soon 2 months ago:
I know this but they can break it as well if they do remove it not only hide it ( class ids ). For me it’s plain as the new windows settings are dead slow and it won’t be usable if your computer is under very heavy load. Only cmd, maybe powershell and maybe sys internals will be what’s left for you
- Comment on European Commission cuts funding support for Free Software projects 2 months ago:
Hawala awaits :-)
- Comment on Private voting has been added to PieFed 2 months ago:
Millions flies cannot be mistaken. Democratic mob cannot be mistaken. Mobs have never lynched anybody. How ignorant you are in your ego with your “whining” argument
