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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The U.S. Just Ran a Solar Storm Emergency Drill. The Real Deal Would Be a Catastrophe⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  A hundred years ago most food was grown a days walk away from a person. With no Diesel production or distribution, which some flairs knock out, there is no warehouse refrigeration.

  Even with reserves, there are spare parts drying up. Trucks, ships and planes need constant work.

  Some areas would get by, grains and beans can be moved without all that. Probably a huge percentage would survive. Barely

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump says US will unilaterally set new tariff rates for scores of countries⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Perhaps there will be another huge tariff raise again, in some months

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit will tighten verification to keep out human-like AI bots⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Slightly amusing because most of the active users are perhaps AI powered bots now, run by Reddit.

  If that is the case, then it seems to me that this is a repeat of the locking out of third parties, done by the api change was two years ago, but for now for those that use bots?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I knew one day I’d have to watch powerful men burn the world down. I just didn’t expect them to be such losers⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I read some books by Alice Miller that discussed some childhoods of authoritarian rulers and they were all of unloved. They had not one adult stick up for them, be their advocate or helper, during their childhood years.

  Many of us as children have been unwanted or unloved by our caregivers. Most of us had at least one adult: an uncle, grandmother, teacher etc, who truly tried to help at least once.

  What the monsters in history had in common is an absence of evidence of even that happening for them. And their revenge as adults was terrible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NASA's Dragonfly nuclear-powered helicopter clears key hurdle ahead of 2028 launch toward huge Saturn moon Titan⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s too early to say it, and I hope it never comes to pass, but I hope somebody made future contingency plans to transfer this to another country.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘You Can’t Lick a Badger Twice’: Google Failures Highlight a Fundamental AI Flaw⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  One arm hair in the hand is better than two in the bush

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A New Form of Verification on Bluesky - Bluesky⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not ideal, and can be abused by the central service later by price increases or probably other things.

  But it’s the best a corporate and evil platform can do to legitimize users.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Introducing Kermit: A typeface for kids⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My internet service blocked this site: says it was a threat

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fund managers worry about Trump’s mental state amid tariff debacle⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Uh, all of this was planned by the oligarchs who support Trump. It was literally advertised a year before he was elected, it is called a wealth transfer and has nothing to do with politics, sanity or ideology.

  It’s theft by means of terror, and events like this will keep happening: taking the markets to the brink and even beyond sometimes, over and over again for the next few years.

  After people get jaded enough to not be so shocked, the ante will be upped: expect everything to be used, eventually, to swing the markets, including threats of nuclear war and brinkmanship with China and others.

  This wild ride is only starting

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Determining the reason no one replied to your Lemmy post.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Cool !

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jack Dorsey and Elon Musk would like to ‘delete all IP law’⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  He tweeted about solving climate change by using a reverse heat pump to hell, where it’s very cold now

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Celebrate 50 years of Microsoft with the company's original source code.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Shout out to the employee who interrupted to accuse Microsoft of war crimes!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google adds end-to-end email encryption to Gmail⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I just see vendor lock-in. A closed source solution?

  End to end encryption already exists for email without everyone using the same service. Using open source solutions.

  How many services has google canceled through the years? What happens to email send by this when that alphabet department looses a turf war? Unrelated : how can anyone reasonably trust this company to keep secrets?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cloudflare announces AI Labyrinth, which uses AI-generated content to confuse and waste the resources of AI Crawlers and bots that ignore “no crawl” directives.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  He is not wrong. Unless people start to take steps , the dependency of tech will be used to chain most of us. Granted, these chains will be the kindest and gentlest chains seen in a long time.

  Social revolution lives on in decentralized services, like this; the true battles will be later though. This year is a mild warm up. I can’t imagine the challenges that await many

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I believe that the "Nicole" images being sent to Threadiverse users may be intending to deanonymize accounts⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Sounds more like a self replicating malware somewhere, probably in some totally unrelated Wordpress plugin on unrelated sites scattered about

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk blames X outages on “massive cyberattack”⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Is there… is there a go fund me the attackers? Asking for my cousin’s ex girlfriend’s dog

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: That nazis Don't Actually Believe in Free Speech⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Which is why liberalism in a not so democratic country can do little to stop this type of decline. Too non violent, too careful, too scared

  Ideally one would vote out authoritarian candidates, but what to do when it’s a taboo to criticize electronic vote counting? Vote counting on electronic platforms run by the very people the liberals oppose? Vote counting supported by a steadfast belief of state governments not being corrupted, and not being in cahoots with the wealthy families running said platforms?

  “There are safeguards”, ”I trust in the process”

  Then when voting fails what to do but use free speech to oppose what is happening?

  “Surely they will allow my voice to rise and be heard and I can use reason”

  Yes people will hear you but it won’t do much.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why most countries are struggling to shut down 2G.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Not yet another protocol invading me brain!?? For all I know the different pattern of signal does things to my delicate nets.

  I already had to contend with the fridge and garage door

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Brave CEO rants about "lefties," "glowies," George Soros⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The bad part is four things:

  • the op either deliberately or legitimately did not understand what was being said
  • the vast majority of the comments just read what the op wrote and not what was said
  • having this many comments out of whack with this many upvotes gives ammunition to the bigots
  • this is a tech forum ??
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Brave CEO rants about "lefties," "glowies," George Soros⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ok:

  • list of donors that are not all left
  • parent organizations that get money from above
  • mozilla gets money from parents

  Op latches onto one donor; pulls some other stuff out , and the crowd goes wild

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Brave CEO rants about "lefties," "glowies," George Soros⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The original op took some things out of context, Ford, last I checked, was not a bastion of the left. He names big donors.

  Then he describes how that money trickles down; and the last I checked the not so polite description is more accurate than not.

  I don’t mind people bashing bad guys here; and I’m sure this fellow has spent years raiding your hackles. But some people like me, it’s just embarrassing to read

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Brave CEO rants about "lefties," "glowies," George Soros⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh dear, here I go.

  Do you have reading skills?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit adds new tools, including Post Insights and Rules Check, which lets users see if what they are posting potentially goes against a subreddit's rules and will suggest communities for your post.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Strange they can only introduce new user tools now, for this. I thought they were absolutely incapable of innovation or improving any if its service

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Brave CEO rants about "lefties," "glowies," George Soros⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I understood what he said. Strip out some rude terms and it sounds accurate. The comments here sound like someone shouted “squirrel” to a pack of rabid dogs.

  I also lack common sense and am posting this comment. In my feeble defense I really don’t know the guy, and suspect he likes baiting others

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why Privacy Still Matters in the Digital Age - blog post by me⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In my campaign I used to have a cursed scroll of reading. Which provided such provoking and interesting content based on one’s feelings and desires, it trapped the person into reading it for a very very long time unless saving throw.

  I can imagine how much more effective it would be if one could reply to that reading, and enter another level of entrapment.

  And here we have cursed scrolls in real life. Me 30 years ago would never have guessed .

  Unrelated, but this is where I stop doomscrolling for the day. So long until tomorrow, unless I make my daily saving roll

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Big-tech is evil but could Fediverse benefit from more small/medium for-profit companies?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  People who support the server have greater voting rights; no revenue steam. But I think it would be cool to sell pirate plushies!

  Unrelated: If you code it’s not hard to insert ads in between the comments on your own lemmy instance. It would be a cool experience but probably would create significant vitriol and site wide bannings by most, if not all, major instances for trying.

  The problem for most monitization is psychological only ; many ideas would be an unwinnable uphill battle. Yes, can put ads in but also be a leper with zero traffic. You could probably put in perks if have good coding skills or can hire good skills; but if public relations done wrong then you are “poison to the community”.

  You could try to do awards ( Reddit gold) but may get laughed off the platform. It’s a tough crowd

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Big-tech is evil but could Fediverse benefit from more small/medium for-profit companies?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My home instance is starting to do some of this, it’s talked about a lot in lemmy.dbzer0.com/c/div0

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Life isn't easy if your last name is 'Null' as it still breaks database entries the world over⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yet here we are, it and the plugins handle too much of my daily traffic. It’s easy to dismiss the piss poor coding, but is done at our peril.

  Everyone of us has personal data stored in those God awful plugins, in their thousands of basic security holes

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Life isn't easy if your last name is 'Null' as it still breaks database entries the world over⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Word press code, and plugins, do not sanitize out of the box. You have to call an additional function, each time, that is not provided automatically. Many home made plugins miss that; many popular plugins used to be home made ones

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Life isn't easy if your last name is 'Null' as it still breaks database entries the world over⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Legacy systems still handle more traffic than modern ones, I’d wager