softcat
@softcat@lemmy.ca
- Comment on India's army says it hit nine sites in Pakistan; a spokesman for the Pakistan military says they shot down five Indian aircraft in Indian airspace, ground troops exchanging fire in multiple locations 4 weeks ago:
Which jets would Pakistan have likely been fielding? I’m surprised the Rafales came down.
- Comment on Sorry I'm not sorry 4 weeks ago:
I’m sorry you felt bad about the things I said
- Comment on Wise Little Weevil 4 weeks ago:
what a snout
- Comment on Indian court orders blocking of Proton Mail 5 weeks ago:
Last year, the police department of the southern state of Tamil Nadu had sought to block Proton Mail after the email service was found to have been used for sending hoax bomb threats to local schools. The Indian government’s IT ministry reportedly notified internet providers to block Proton Mail at the request of law enforcement. However, the Swiss federal authorities intervened to prevent the blocking of Proton Mail taking effect.
Oh.
- Comment on If all the people throughout history would have said to themselves: "It is what it is", then we 'd all still be living in grass huts and caves. 5 weeks ago:
Grass huts seem a bit too involved, let’s just stand under a tree.
- Comment on If I snapped you back in time 650 years right this very second, how would you use your current knowledge to succeed? 5 weeks ago:
die almost immediately
- Comment on To whom it may concern 5 weeks ago:
Let’s all do our part to help little boulders travel
- Comment on Religions have some of the wackiest rules 5 weeks ago:
“And turn some of them into facial cream in about two thousand years. Have celebrities rave about it in an extremely odd way for a few weeks on TV, then mysteriously let it be broadly forgotten.”
- Comment on With Tim Pool in the White House Press Pool, will we ever find out what's under that beanie? 5 weeks ago:
🔮
- Comment on China says it wants to partner with Canada to push back against American ‘bullying’ 5 weeks ago:
Reject American bullying, embrace Chinese bullying instead.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month 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. 1 month 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 1 month 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? 1 month ago:
A switch
- Comment on Is 4chan dead forever? Where are the refugees going? 1 month 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? 1 month 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 month 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 month 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 month 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 month 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 month 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. 1 month ago:
Say “McDonald’s!” to continue ride
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month 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? 1 month 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? 1 month 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? 1 month ago:
People do all kinds of strange things on the internet.
- Comment on How to get rid of Whatsapp? 1 month 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? 1 month 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? 2 months 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? 2 months ago:
My users aren’t going to figure that out.