swelter_spark
@swelter_spark@reddthat.com
- Comment on European police say KidFlix, "one of the largest pedophile platforms in the world," busted in joint operation. 4 days ago:
I can definitely see how people could find it while looking for porn. I don’t understand how people can do this stuff out in the open with no consequences .
- Comment on European police say KidFlix, "one of the largest pedophile platforms in the world," busted in joint operation. 4 days ago:
File-sharing and online chat seem like basic internet activities to me.
- Comment on European police say KidFlix, "one of the largest pedophile platforms in the world," busted in joint operation. 5 days ago:
I don’t know about that.
I spot most of it while looking for out-of-print books about growing orchids on the typical file-sharing networks. The term “blue orchid” seems to be frequently used in file names of things that are in no way related to gardening. The eMule network is especially bad.
When I was looking into messaging clients a couple years ago, to figure out what I wanted to use, I checked out a public user directory for the Tox messaging network and it was maybe 90% people openly trying to find, or offering, custom made CP. On the open internet, not an onion page or anything.
Then maybe last year, I joined openSUSE’s official Matrix channels, and some random person (who, to be clear, did not seem connected to the distro) invited me to join a room called openSUSE Child Porn, with a room logo that appeared to be an actual photo of a small girl being violated by a grown man.
I hope to god these are all cops, because I have no idea how there can be so many pedos just openly doing their thing without being caught.
- Comment on European police say KidFlix, "one of the largest pedophile platforms in the world," busted in joint operation. 5 days ago:
It definitely seems weird how easy it is to stumble upon CP online, and how open people are about sharing it, with no effort made, in many instances, to hide what they’re doing. I’ve often wondered how much of the stuff is spread by pedo rings and how much is shared by cops trying to see how many people they can catch with it.
- Comment on Consumer GPUs to run LLMs 6 days ago:
With Ollama, all you have do is copy an extra folder of ROCm files. Not hard at all.
- Comment on Consumer GPUs to run LLMs 6 days ago:
With an AMD RX 6800 + 32gb DDR4, I can run up to a 34b model at an acceptable speed.
- Comment on GenAI website goes dark after explicit fakes exposed 1 week ago:
AI CP seems like a promising way to destroy demand for the real thing. How many people would risk a prison sentence making or viewing the real thing when they could push a button and have a convincing likeness for free with no children harmed? Flood the market with cheap fakes and makers of the real thing may not find it profitable enough to take the risk.
- Comment on Aptera’s production-intent solar EV completed its first road trip traversing over 300 miles 1 week ago:
It makes so much sense to have EVs be solar-powered, and would also ease my worry about running low on electricity and not finding anywhere to charge. I hope they’re a reality sometime while I’m still driving.
- Comment on LibreOffice downloads on the rise as users look to avoid subscription costs | The free open-source Microsoft Office alternative is being downloaded by nearly 1 million users a week 1 week ago:
I’ve used LibreOffice for years, and formatting is a constant struggle. I end up looking online to figure out how to make a small, simple change, and it turns out the only way to do it is by messing with styles, which is way more than I want. The focus on styles is LO’s biggest drawback, IMO.
- Comment on Why I recommend against Brave. 1 week ago:
Collaborating with Arkenfox on default settings was nice, but wasn’t fundamental to the goals of the project. You can look at their Codeberg to see that the latest activity was a few days ago, and there have been several releases since the date of the thread you linked.
- Comment on I've tried nearly every browser out there and these are my top 6 (none are Chrome) 1 week ago:
I remember that! Standards mode vs compatibility mode. That was a great feature, too. Opera was unique.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
This is very insightful.
- Comment on Why I recommend against Brave. 2 weeks ago:
That thread is several months old, and is specifically about integrating Arkenfox settings changes. I wouldn’t say Librewolf has ceased development based on the fact that their default settings differ from Arkenfox. Their Codeberg site shows ongoing work.
- Comment on I've tried nearly every browser out there and these are my top 6 (none are Chrome) 2 weeks ago:
And the ability to switch browser engines on the fly. That was a great feature.
- Comment on Internet forums are disappearing because now everything is Reddit and Discord. And that's worrying. 2 weeks ago:
You don’t have to read everything posted over the entire history of the forum. Old threads are kept so that when you need information they contain, you can find them with search, not with the expectation that new people are going to read all of them before posting.
- Comment on Internet forums are disappearing because now everything is Reddit and Discord. And that's worrying. 2 weeks ago:
Personally, I would be irritated to be signed up for an instance I didn’t choose and may not be what I like, especially if the app hid the fact that I had a choice.
- Comment on How do the Republicans feel about Project 2025 now? 2 weeks ago:
Ohh, now I get it.
- Comment on How Do You Solve a Problem Like Google Search? Courts Must Enable Competition While Protecting Privacy. 2 weeks ago:
I thought Mogeek used its own engine, and I know Yacy does.
- Comment on Attorney General Bonta Urgently Issues Consumer Alert for 23andMe Customers 2 weeks ago:
I felt weird about it when my dad used this 23andMe service. He was very privacy-conscious, so it was uncharacteristic for him. Now he’s dead. I wonder if there’s still any way to get it deleted.
- Comment on Zen browser had a backdoor enabled by default 2 weeks ago:
Librewolf updates follow FF updates pretty quickly. Arkenfox settings haven’t changed much in a long time, so I don’t see that as an issue, personally.
- Comment on How the fuck do I find out where and when all these protests and rallies are happening? 2 weeks ago:
It was. Sad that Reddit removed their subreddit with all its info, but I guess not surprising.
- Comment on Perplexity proposes to buy TikTok, says it wants to open source the algorithm and that it is “singularly positioned to rebuild” it “without creating a monopoly”. 2 weeks ago:
Interesting idea.
- Comment on How do the Republicans feel about Project 2025 now? 2 weeks ago:
Maybe I didn’t understand what you meant. Can you explain the connection you see between Nazis and the instance name?
- Comment on How do the Republicans feel about Project 2025 now? 2 weeks ago:
Reddthat isn’t a Nazi instance, wtf.
- Comment on How to protect against someone forcefully unlocking my phone and password manager with biometrics? 2 weeks ago:
You can set your phone to do that, of course, but I prefer not to have to unlock mine when I’ve just used it.
- Comment on How to protect against someone forcefully unlocking my phone and password manager with biometrics? 2 weeks ago:
I use Paranoid’s Pal, a similar app. It’s great. In addition to locking in response to motion, I have it set to automatically lock the phone a few minutes after the screen turns off.
- Comment on How likely is the US government going to identify and arrest every online user who have disagreed with the current administration? 2 weeks ago:
Maybe start using tor or i2p. You can use Lemmy over tor, for sure.
- Comment on I love cheese. 🧀 Do you love cheese? 🧀😄 2 weeks ago:
Eating cheese in food like pizza or lasagna upsets my stomach a lot, but eating cheese off a block is fine. 🤔
- Comment on Which game is it? 3 weeks ago:
It’s an amazing game. The sprat rescue…
- Comment on Kagi search engine now has a Fediverse search option. 4 weeks ago:
I’ve used Yacy por years. It’s very customizeable and gives good results, and I like that I can curate, to some degree, what it finds. Biggest drawback is that I don’t always feel like starting up a server to do a search.