anarchiddy
@anarchiddy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- Comment on Hi, I am TotallyNotForeignNational and only have the best interests of america in mind. You can trust me because this is reddit, not xitter, and I say good things about the American president. 2 days ago:
Oh my god they’re actually doing the south park bit
- Comment on US | Survivors on ‘narco boat’ targeted by Trump order were blown apart after Hegseth verbal command to ‘kill everybody’: Report 1 week ago:
identical morally
I think you are reading a different comment.
- Comment on Valve Addresses Steam Machine Anti-Cheat Concerns, Says It's Working Towards Support 1 week ago:
I consider it to be a function of when I grew up with video games and how my family restricted them broadly, but I have honestly never understood the appeal of competitive online games that require intense anti-cheat controls.
I grew up playing largely single player games, and the few online games I payed were limited to ones I played in private lobbies with friends i knew.
Any game that requires this level of policing for competitive play is an instant turn off for me. I realize I’m in the minority here, but I have no problem with a console that doesn’t support kernel level anticheat- to the contrary i find it to be a huge advantage
- Comment on Governor Newsom signs bills to further strengthen California’s leadership in protecting children online 4 weeks ago:
Why do people keep sharing this as if it’s an achievement?
Newsom and his tech donors can go get fucked.
- Comment on Nice try 2 months ago:
IMO this shitpost id bordering on parody, but dont let me be a killjoy
- Comment on Nice try 2 months ago:
Apparently? Idk, the conservatives i know have kinda shrugged it off at this point
That first week was fun though
- Comment on Nice try 2 months ago:
Not at all, I just dont think Republicans give a shit.
At least, not enough to effect their voting habits. Trump being a sex criminal isn’t a deterrent for them, but him looking weak is
- Comment on Nice try 2 months ago:
Look, im not saying its a little funny, but fascists dont need narrative consistency. Yea, mocking them about it isn’t a bad idea, but dont be fooled into thinking this is some serious line of attack for them. They are desperate to be taken seriously, but dont have any qualms about shifting the goalposts to protect their in-group
- Comment on Nice try 2 months ago:
Were people bothered by people asking about the emails?
Conservatives cared deeply, which is kind of the point
- Comment on Nice try 2 months ago:
Is it worse than using the US military to target political opponents and deport them to Guatemala?
Libs are pretending as if yelling about this will stop the stormtroopers in their tracks as they drag you out of your car in front of your family. Republicans do not give a shit about this - in fact, trump has already been found liable for rape and guilty of bribing a porn star to keep quiet about his affair with her. This is closer to a point of pride for them than something that they’d drop support over.
Its about as cringe as Schumer quoting Kendrick Lamar in a tweet.
- Comment on Nice try 2 months ago:
Just ask youself how much hilary’s emails bothered you in 2016, and you might have an idea how much republicans are bothered by epstine.
- Comment on 'Windmill': China tests world’s first megawatt-level airship to capture high winds 2 months ago:
I cant wait for the conspiracy theories about this
- Comment on Nice try 2 months ago:
This is the lib version of “where are the emails?”
- Comment on Based and Red Pilled Gigachad, many such cases 😔 2 months ago:
Im seeing this just after having a while conversation about conservative Christians making a big deal about ‘finding truth in faith’ after the Kirk shooting and this feels similar to me
There’s this clear implication that the ‘truth’ can only be found through your ideological worldview, and a complete abandoning of any attempt at justifying or supporting it through reason. Any piece of information that’s misaligned is dismissed as propaganda - but what’s especially annoying is that it doesn’t even have to be coherently opposed to truth but merely distracting from what’s supposedly more important.
Americans are one of the most propagandized populations on the planet - but I wouldn’t even put Russia in the top 5 sources of it.
- Comment on Upvotes and downvotes are public information on Lemmy 3 months ago:
You can disagree without a downvote option.
It’s more constructive to formulate a response for disagreement anyway.
- Comment on Upvotes and downvotes are public information on Lemmy 3 months ago:
I legitimately don’t even know why someone might think this.
- Comment on Upvotes and downvotes are public information on Lemmy 3 months ago:
Why? I don’t see a benefit to the button at all. Even being able to register disapproval is better done via comment, anyway, and having to articulate it makes you far more likely to self-reflect and temper yourself than if you can just downvote every comment in a thread
- Comment on Upvotes and downvotes are public information on Lemmy 3 months ago:
This is just further evidence that we just shouldn’t have a downvote option at all.
- Comment on Upvotes and downvotes are public information on Lemmy 3 months ago:
That’s just how a federated exchange needs to work, though. Without sharing which user is creating activity, there would be no way of verifying the legitimacy of activity without some convoluted blockchain process. On the other hand, sharing IP addresses isn’t just unnecessary but more involved.
There’s frankly no point in making votes private, anyway. Why should it matter who knows how you vote?
- Comment on Upvotes and downvotes are public information on Lemmy 3 months ago:
Important to note here, too, is that ip addresses of users arent synced across instances.
This is only a problem for people who care about the reputation of their user account - which is something people should be rotating out anyway if they care about their privacy.
- Comment on Upvotes and downvotes are public information on Lemmy 3 months ago:
IP addresses are not something that can be pulled from just any instance. You would need to be the administrator, and even then you’d only get access to the ip address of just your own instance users. AFAIK, at least - maybe they’ve made efforts to mask ips, too, but im not even sure how that’d work.
Federated posts and comments are copied from server to server. When someone from .world is looking at a comment from .dbzer0, what they are seeing is information that was synced from the dbzer0 server address, not the user’s.
There was a brief moment when there was a vulnerability with linked images sent via DM that could route you to an external server and log your IP address, but that has been patched now by most instances.
As with anything on the internet: assume your activity is not private at all times, or take active precautions to mask your identity, or both. No opsec is perfect and often the only thing standing in the way of a hack or dox is the endurance and motivation of the bad actor.
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- Comment on Reddit users in the UK must now upload selfies to access NSFW subreddits 4 months ago:
A simple toggle, secured with a password would do it.
Yea, that’s the thing - I don’t think it would ‘do’ it for legislators. Like you mentioned - it’s not really about protecting children, but also the only way to enforce a law like this would be to log or register devices to specific people or children. This would essentially just shift the point of verification from the individual website to the point of sale of the phone or tablet. Verifying the age is the part that necessitates identification - the only thing a hardware-locked strategy does is centralizes that verification to a governing body instead of individual websites, but it still associates individuals with specific devices.
I get why this might seem preferable, but the problem of online privacy still persists.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
I’m so tired of this civility meta.
Lemmy is half as uncivilized as any other social media space I’ve ever been in, including reddit or Twitter. I think people are just confused by a lack of centralized authority to settle disputes on what is or isn’t ‘civil’ behavior - but it certainly isn’t the case that it’s any less civil than just about any alternative.
Maybe this places extra stress on instance admins for constantly addressing complaints of users on and off their server, but that has less to do with the kind of user civility people are talking about and more with a culture of mob justice evidenced by communities like MoG and PTB.
People seem uncomfortable with multipolar systems, and maybe it’s because of my political bent but I think distributed systems are way better.
- Comment on Reddit users in the UK must now upload selfies to access NSFW subreddits 4 months ago:
I don’t think this is a good idea…
This is even more invasive - it would mean all the traffic and activity in every device would be traceable to a registration. Whereas now they might have a pretty good lock on individual device ids, they’d then have an actual registry of devices and owners to verify it against
- Comment on 3D-printed drill press can drill through metal — costs around $45 to create your own drill press 5 months ago:
Not that I’m aware of, no
- Comment on spicy one 5 months ago:
Whoever drew this went to great lengths to keep Israel on the map
- Comment on 3D-printed drill press can drill through metal — costs around $45 to create your own drill press 5 months ago:
Once you’ve finished this project, you’re only a hop and skip away from this 3D printed Machining Mill. He uses the 3d printed pieces as a mold for reinforced concrete, so that it’s heavy enough to resist the vibrations so that you can mill solid metal stock.
The single most impressive 3D printed DIY tool i’ve ever seen.
- Comment on What's going on with Borderlands 2? Steam is giving it for free, but the game has 23% positive recent reviews. 5 months ago:
IIRC Borderlands 3 scales the value of loot to the game’s difficulty setting, with some mechanics aimed at encouraging players to join online coops at high difficulties in order to earn more valuable loot. I imagine cheats undermine that intent, and I also imagine borderlands 4 might be aiming at a pay to play scheme.
I’m guessing this EULA is being used for all their IP with the intent of taking advantage of it in the future.
- Comment on Plex now will SELL your personal data 6 months ago:
Yea, I don’t disagree, and I don’t actually fault anyone for using plex for it’s simplicity of remote configuration.
I do think a lot of people overlook simple workarounds to doing straight reverse proxies. I’ve used a VPN to access my remote services without issue for a long time. Granted, that’s still a prerequisite skill a lot of people don’t have, but I think a lot of people already inside the self-host space already have that knowledge. And frankly, self-hosting as a concept stems from this idea that with a little bit of effort, we can free ourselves from corporately owned SAAS companies - it shouldn’t be so divisive to be advocating for self-sufficiency.
There’s absolutely a place for plex. It’s a lot of people’s first foray into selfhosting. But I think people miss the opportunity to learn a new skill when they decide they’re willing to put up with abuse instead of taking the hint that it’s time to migrate.
