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- Comment on Do you think he'll respond? 1 day ago:
Exactly, none of them are innocent, so that part is just plain irony. “hypothetically terrorize” makes sense because simply identifying as anti-fascist can get you on terror watch lists these days.
- Comment on Do you think he'll respond? 4 days ago:
How dare you hypothetically terrorize innocent fascists!
- Comment on 4chan and Kiwi Farms Sue the UK Over its Age Verification Law 4 days ago:
I have no idea how precedence works in the UK. If they lose, is that a huge issue, or could a more legitimate service sue oater and realistically win if the verdict hinges on Kiwifarms being Kiwifarms?
- Comment on Steam payment headaches grow as PayPal is no longer usable for much of the world: Valve hopes to bring it back in the future, 'but the timeline is uncertain' 1 week ago:
Because, even if you do have a fully functional credit card which is not a given in many countries, US-based CC payment processors like Stripe are equally horrible third-party companies that gobble up all the data they can get their hands on somehow.
Seriously. You cannot even start “free trials” on US-based websites without handing over everything a bad actor would need for perfect identity theft.
- Comment on Why is the abusive parent always portrayed as being the father, why is the mother never portrayed as abusive? 2 weeks ago:
So reality is only your lived experience, not that of others?
- Comment on Microsoft's Windows lead says the next version of Windows will be "more ambient, pervasive, and multi-modal" as AI redefines the desktop interface 2 weeks ago:
Apparently “invasive but like, when it’s a good thing”.
- Comment on YouTube just quietly blocked Adblock Plus — the internet hasn't noticed yet, but I've found a workaround 2 weeks ago:
ABP has also been owned and run by a shady investment firm for the past decade.
- Comment on Battlefield 6 cheats day 1 of early access. Depite kernel level anti cheat, forced secure boot TPM 2.0 3 weeks ago:
Cheating humans already perform closely enough to trick such a system. Many cheaters are smart enough to use an aimbot only for a split-second to nail the flick. With a tiny bit of random offset, those inputs indistinguishable from a high-skill player.
- Comment on Spotify fans threaten to return to piracy as music streamer introduces new face-scanning age checks in the UK 3 weeks ago:
I hate Spotify and would like to stop paying them even 1/5th of a family subscription. But I have researched alternatives and haven’t found one that meet my need to manage offline files, playlists, and the current playback session across many (and I mean many) devices.
- Comment on Mastercard deflects blame for NSFW games being taken down, but Valve says payment processors 'specifically cited' a Mastercard rule about damaging the brand 3 weeks ago:
They forgot the part about “damaging the brand”.
- Comment on Mastercard release a statement about game stores, payment processors and adult content 4 weeks ago:
Stripe can also go fuck itself and die, thanks
- Comment on Mastercard release a statement about game stores, payment processors and adult content 4 weeks ago:
Unfortunately they are indeed big players, Stripe where people use credit cards and PayPal everywhere else. Both horrible companies that we’d be a lot better off if replaced with privacy-respecting alternatives.
- Comment on Is this the end of Bootloader Unlocking in the EU? 4 weeks ago:
There’s so many lobby groups and national interests pulling in various directions that it’s not really surprising to have both simultaneously.
I’m still surprised GDPR ever made it through against the cries of every corporation in earth, to be honest.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Yes that is absolutely the norm in such communities. It was the same for subreddits that went default.
Obviously you can’t trace every single up-/downvote and comment to a certain gender, but it’s very apparent from the content of comments and the general tone. That’s the whole issue.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
I entirely agree. Power dynamics and questions of projected vs chosen identities add whole new dimensions to the matter. I restricted myself to this limited analogy to avoid losing those who aren’t ready for that conversation and insist on focusing on individualist perspectives.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
We’re all human but that doesn’t erase systemic issues. And not being effectively brigaded is all they ask for.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Imagine every public linux forum overrun by 90% Windows user,s and you might just begin to understand.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
On Lemmy?? lmao
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
“male scum” oof. Cool it with the self-victimization mate.
If you genuinely don’t understand why it’s helpful to have both kinds of spaces and not something to get mad about, I’m happy to explain. But some good-faith effort on your part is required.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Consider what the word “majority” means and how that impacts the balance of such discussions. Especially on a platform where people vote on each other’s comments.
In the Linux forum example, the occasional “as a Windows user…” comment isn’t a problem, but it does become one when it makes up 80-90% of comments / visitors. Try to understand how this shapes a community when the fewer directly affected people are annoyed by this and stop contributing.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
It’s not ironic at all. I’m guessing you have never been in a setting that would have benefitted from such a policy.
I don’t find it too difficult to comprehend why it’s useful to have spaces where minority-focused topics are discussed by everyone, alongside other spaces where the same topics are discussed primarily by the minority in question. Not if you understand what the words “minority” and “majority” mean anyway.
- Comment on Women’s ‘red flag’ app Tea is a privacy nightmare 4 weeks ago:
Exactly, it’s not necessary. It’s bad / lazy design. You don’t expose the DB storage directly, you expose a frontend that handles all the authentication and validation stuff before accessing the DB on the backend. That’s normal Client-Server-Database architecture.
- Comment on Women’s ‘red flag’ app Tea is a privacy nightmare 4 weeks ago:
It’s a little more complex than that. If you want the app on the user device to be able to dump data directly into your online database, you have to give it access in some way. Encrypting the transmission doesn’t do much if every app installation contains access credentials.
Obviously there are ways around this too, but it’s not just “use TLS”.
- Comment on Women’s ‘red flag’ app Tea is a privacy nightmare 4 weeks ago:
It’s a little more complex than that. If you want the app on the user device to be able to dump data directly into your online database, you have to give it access in some way. Encrypting the transmission doesn’t do much if every app installation contains access credentials.
Obviously there are ways around this too, but it’s not just “use TLS”.
- Comment on We wouldn’t need the Epstein files to prove DJT’s guilt if society just trusted women in the first place. 5 weeks ago:
Wow, you solved the problem with nothing but misogyny!
- Comment on Securely Expose your Homelab Services with Mutual TLS - YouTube 5 weeks ago:
From localhost? Did you mean from local network or am I misunderstanding your point here?
- Comment on Realized 99% of all my chargers are USB-C. This can only mean one thing. New USB bout to drop! 1 month ago:
USB-D will be round again
- Comment on Pop it in your calendars 1 month ago:
Steam itself shows the rankings, I believe.
- Comment on Pop it in your calendars 1 month ago:
Yep, it loops between exploration and basebuilding / crafting.
The exploration part is what usually gets people hooked because the alien underwater setting is amazing. The other stuff is more to give you a reason to stick around for longer, and pace your exploration since need to unlock things at certain points.
- Comment on I can fix her 1 month ago:
Now I’m imagining being conceived between two psych ward patients and I’m like… really trying not to sound judgemental, but that’s not great odds for the baby both in terms of a stable and nurturing environment growing up, and a genetic predisposition towards mental instability later in life.