softcat

@softcat@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨With Tim Pool in the White House Press Pool, will we ever find out what's under that beanie?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  🔮

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨China says it wants to partner with Canada to push back against American ‘bullying’⁩ ⁨⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Reject American bullying, embrace Chinese bullying instead.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Odds are you could live in a state that isn’t a dump like WV, without hitting income or raising cost of living much. That might be a better way to pitch it. I wouldn’t put it down to paranoia, people have a social and legal green light to openly be assholes again, as in 2016. If shtf WV will be a bad place to be.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨China's latest flying car prototype showcases a breakthrough in urban air mobility, offering a glimpse into how low-altitude flight could soon integrate with everyday transport.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe there’s a place for this with air ambulances or something, but in a crowded city I only see this integrating into buildings or the people below.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Indonesian student detained by Ice after US secretly revokes his visa⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I wonder when we’ll get copycat kidnappings and murders conducted not by the government criminals, but regular American criminals. A huge number of these “arrests” are being done with plain clothes, no warrants, no ID, unmarked vehicles etc. We’ll probably never hear about it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I cannot hook an ethernet cable to a router because the router is using all the plugs. What is a backup to make a Lemmy instance with Yunohost? If there’s no other way, what else can I use?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  A switch

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is 4chan dead forever? Where are the refugees going?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Upstairs

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I get that america is failing if it's duty to suppress the rise of fascist but did the rest of the world just put all its eggs in the america basket?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Much of the world has had the choice of putting your eggs in their basket, or having all your and your descendants eggs broken forever/taken away. Same thing with Europe.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube Music wants me to verify my age.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  As far as Google knows I was born on 1/1/1901

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How important is it that cans are clean when i put them in the recycling.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  A quick water rinse is usually sufficient, if even that. They get shredded and smelted so it’ll burn off drink residues.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Comcast announces a five-year price lock for Xfinity internet plans⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  What a terrible offer. Grab a modem yourself for $50 and schedule in two hours every one to two years to save hundreds to thousands instead.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Airport face scans could replace boarding passes and check-in as soon as 2028⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve seen this during boarding in the UK and US so far. Both times it was like a self service section at a grocery store- errors half the time holding up people and the gate agents having to fix the issue, scan themselves, or best of all, just go “yeah go ahead” without scanning anything.

  Hopefully it will improve in time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Make all women yours’: Rape game available online for Australian children⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It feels like they turned an article about this weird rape game into a Netflix ad.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An unreleased version of a Waymo privacy policy found by Jane Manchun Wong says it may use interior camera data to train AI models and sell ads.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Say “McDonald’s!” to continue ride

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t suppose this really applies anywhere outside of certain countries

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How did Mahmoud Khalil managed to challenge his (pending) deportation at all, while others were deported without due process? What makes Mahmoud Khalil's case different?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Abrego Garcia was a permanent resident though, so it becomes more confusing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How did Mahmoud Khalil managed to challenge his (pending) deportation at all, while others were deported without due process? What makes Mahmoud Khalil's case different?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I wonder if they know what the hell they’re doing. Or maybe they don’t care or keep track, it’s just “how much can we get away with this time”.

  This week will be telling, unless dates get pushed back again in both cases. I guess we see if rule of law is just openly gone now, without even the usual pretenses.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨gross either way, but do friends actually talk like this or would this be from people who are dating or something?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  People do all kinds of strange things on the internet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to get rid of Whatsapp?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Would it help if you told them you think Zuck is creepy? People often have a vague creeped out feeling about Facebook, Meta, and tracking. “I was messaging about (insert) here and started seeing ads for it on all my devices” might sell it and get them on your side.

  Beyond that it’s the pain point of them installing another app to communicate with likely only you, so leaning on things they already have might work. SMS/MMS may be a viable alternative, or maybe Delta Chat if they’d be willing to share an email address.

  It’s hard to deal with the saturation levels the big chat apps have so I wouldn’t rule out having to keep WhatsApp, unfortunately.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it a bad idea to seek medications for depression (in the USA), when it could be takes away for political reason?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Big Pharma lobbies too hard for that to happen, it’ll be ok. I hope medication will help your situation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to secure Jellyfin hosted over the internet?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They’d have to connect to it, and possibly reconnect. That aspect is the issue.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to secure Jellyfin hosted over the internet?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My users aren’t going to figure that out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to secure Jellyfin hosted over the internet?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh no they’ll see I’m watching TNG

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to secure Jellyfin hosted over the internet?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They prohibit large amounts of media being streamed, and they reserve the right to suspend or terminate accounts for it. Multiple years in, that has not happened.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to secure Jellyfin hosted over the internet?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Skill issue

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to secure Jellyfin hosted over the internet?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  CloudFlare tunnel with Zero Trust, plus their bot and abuse blocking. Users can get in with the right oauth, plus only allowed from the countries I know they’re in. Then just their username and password on jellyfin.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Secure encryption and online anonymity are now at risk in Switzerland – here's what you need to know⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ha, it even has affiliate links

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Power is not energy: why the difference matters [Technology Connections]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  kW/kWh aren’t commonly used outside of electrical applications in the US, so people are less readily able to quantify and compare in other contexts. Looking at a variety of natural gas companies’ bills, you’ll get volume multiplied by a therm factor instead of simply using kWh; horsepower for not just cars but even electrical motors and pumps.

  I think the average person will have looked at their electricity bill and put the basics together about watts and watt hours. As for comparison with natural gas, I think he didn’t touch on the real metric people then turn to- cost. Depending on the state it can be much cheaper to use gas vs electricity.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Overseas Dalai Lama reincarnation ‘could not be recognised’ by Beijing⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Does that mean the child tongue licking continues or not? Please be specific and clear.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Overseas Dalai Lama reincarnation ‘could not be recognised’ by Beijing⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I just hope there’s less child tongue licking with the next one