bearboiblake

@bearboiblake@pawb.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Decreasing Certificate Lifetimes to 45 Days⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Allowing a certificate without proper validation for local only networks is a terrible, terrible idea. I could super easily use this as a loophole to set up a honeypot public free wi-fi, redirect all traffic through a reverse proxy and man-in-the-middle every single HTTPS connection, effectively allowing me to harvest everyone’s passwords in a really quick and easy way.

  Just use DNS verification. It’s not that hard.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It will not be long before we see ads claiming no ai was used in their product⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I saw an AI-GENERATED ad for AI-GENERATED MUSIC that claimed it was made by real humans who had their livelihoods ruined by AI.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you cheat in video games?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I consider cheat codes to be an accessibility tool for disabled gamers, and I think it is really sad that they are far less common than they once were, and it’s even sadder to see some devs/publishers (Ubisoft comes to mind) try to monetize cheat codes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The British Empire⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Or we could take a shortcut and just burn them down directly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hi, Jeffrey!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You think having a government offers any form of protection against aggressive militarism?

  If anything, it makes wars and invasions more appealing - if the infrastructure of control and oppression, the police, the military, the courts, etc. are all there, all they need to do is seize those levers of power.

  If that infrastructure does not exist and a population is hostile to your attempts to impose it, you would effectively stand no chance against a determined resistance. There are no major military targets, no leaders to assassinate, no positions of power to leverage. They would need to keep boots on the ground to maintain power. And those soldiers, while constantly stationed in hostile territory, can’t do anything else and would constantly find themselves under attack by decentralized militia forces - there would be very little hope for holding such territory, and as soon as the occupying force left, anarchy, and therefore peace and order, could once again be restored.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hi, Jeffrey!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Because it is. Politics in all democracies is that way, the US is just letting the mask slip a little.

  It’s always been ruling class vs. the rest of us. Who the ruling class are changes and the means of oppression changes but the structure of rulers oppressing those beneath them has been constant all the way back to neolithic humans.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hi, Jeffrey!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  we have to have a government

  Citation needed. I completely disagree.

  This reminds me of Always Sunny in Philadelphia. We don’t need to pick someone to “be in charge” to get shit done.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  because seven ate nine through twenty-thres

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Majority of AI Researchers Say Tech Industry Is Pouring Billions Into a Dead End⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  wait so the people doing the work don’t get paid and the people who get paid steal from others?

  that is just so uncharacteristic of capitalism, what a surprise

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨“Awful”: Roku tests autoplaying ads loading before the home screen⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  you can get a raspberry pi and install something called pihole on it, it’s a DNS server with ad-blocking. basically, it converts a domain name like example.com into an IP address, but rather than just faithfully supply DNS, it also effectively blocks some adverts by acting like the domain names don’t exist for servers that run ads

  once it’s set up it’ll just work, and it should protect everyone on your network/wifi from some ads

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Was the supreme court wrong to assess that because america is a capitalist society money is a form of speach?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes. I’d highly recommend checking out the 5-4 Podcast episode about Citizen’s United

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is 33 cents a small amount of money?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  even if people were mega geniuses it wouldn’t matter, money talks, and it talks a lot louder than people

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fucking leeches⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The solution is for the state to guarantee that everyone must have a place to live. Shelter is a human necessity, it should not be conditional.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Brother denies using firmware updates to brick printers with third-party ink⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  you’re adding way too much into this. who said that someone would guilt you? normally when you make someone sad they don’t say anything about it, they just feel a bit worse and continue with their lives

  i’m just explaining to you, there’s no way to rationalize your way out of this. you are in complete control over what you say, unless you have verbal tics. and people will understand if you accidentally say something offensive from a tic. do you not understand this? it’s just about responsibility.

  take some responsibility for what you say. that’s all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Brother denies using firmware updates to brick printers with third-party ink⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  so you think other people should take responsibility for something they can’t control, but you should have no responsibility for something you can control?

  you can’t stop yourself from feeling sad, but you can stop yourself from doing something that makes someone else sad

  having no concern for the feelings of others is just really irrational and selfish imo

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Brother denies using firmware updates to brick printers with third-party ink⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  feelings are important, though? if i can avoid hurting someone and all it costs me is saying blocklist instead of blacklist, that seems like an obvious slam dunk

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The situation got so bad that actuall news overtook memes in top posts on Lemmy⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  i hate trump probably as much or more than you do. please re-read my comment as i actually wrote it, because i meant what i wrote. i did not mean what you imagined i might be secretly thinking or whatever. please don’t jump to conclusions :(

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The situation got so bad that actuall news overtook memes in top posts on Lemmy⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  don’t get me wrong, i would have voted harris. (im not american) but she wouldn’t have been good. she wouldn’t have even been ok. but she was better than trump.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The situation got so bad that actuall news overtook memes in top posts on Lemmy⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  she still would have supported genocide in gaza, and her term would have pushed people further towards fascism. there was really no real choice in that election, sadly. the usa was already too firmly controlled by the ruling class.