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- Comment on Stop children using VPNs to watch porn, ministers told 9 hours ago:
So you need age verification for any Internet access? For any computer or phone that could connect to the Internet?
I mean, experts have said for a while that if you’re going to require age verification, doing it directly on the device would be the most secure way. Allow parents to verify their phones, while creating child accounts for their kids.
When the site needs to verify their age, it simply asks the device directly if the user account is age-verified. It all happens in the background, so the adults never even need to bother with it once it’s set up.
- Comment on The average age of Disney princesses is 505y. 1 day ago:
I guess Maleficent didn’t want to fill one of the princess of heart containers with saltwater.
- Comment on The average age of Disney princesses is 505y. 1 day ago:
Her actual age is unknown, due to nobody knowing what year she was born. But estimates put her at around 17 when she was taken hostage and forcibly married to a tobacco farmer.
- Comment on The average age of Disney princesses is 505y. 1 day ago:
Pocahontas is also younger than labeled. IIRC she was like 17 when she was forced into marrying a tobacco farmer. She died only a few years later.
- Comment on Trump mobilizing up to 1,700 National Guards troops in 19 states in crime crackdown 1 day ago:
They were absolutely punished by the people giving the orders. They weren’t tried for refusing during the Nuremberg trials, but the ones who blatantly refused during the war didn’t survive that long; They were quickly forced out of service, labeled deserters, or just outright killed for being Jew sympathizers.
- Comment on Mmm... 3 days ago:
Yeah, CO2 suffocation is a legitimately awful way to go out, because it feels like you’re suffocating the entire time. Basically, there isn’t an easy way for your body to detect how much oxygen you have. From a biological standpoint, there aren’t many good (or accurate) ways to measure oxygen saturation.
But CO2 is a different story. When CO2 is dissolved in water, it forms carbonic acid. This is the same acid that gives carbonated drinks their characteristic bitter bite; flat sodas taste overly sweet because there isn’t any acid balancing out the sugar. On a biological level, carbonic acid is really easy to detect.
So that’s what your body does. It detects carbonic acid in your blood. And when those levels rise, you feel like you’re suffocating. If you hold your breath, that urge to breathe isn’t caused by a lack of oxygen; It’s caused by a buildup of CO2. So if you gas someone with CO2, it instantly sends them into “I’m suffocating” mode. And they’ll stay there until they pass out from the lack of oxygen. But that entire time, they’ll feel like they’re suffocating, because their CO2 levels are continuing to rise.
A more humane method would be something like nitrogen. It still allows the CO2 to be expelled, so the feeling of suffocation never starts.
- Comment on UK Official Calls for Age Verification on VPNs to Prevent Porn Loophole 4 days ago:
Real talk though, Tor for porn would be an awful experience and would slow down the entire Tor network. Tor is slow to begin with, and downloading large files (like videos) only slows things down even more for everyone. It should be a last resort, not the first thing people flock to.
- Comment on I love bpd girls 4 days ago:
The mania also helps. Bipolar isn’t just a happy-sad thing. The manic phase is categorized in the same group as schizoaffective disorders. Some of the most common symptoms of mania are hyper sexuality and feeling invincible. Imagine being absolutely insatiable even while doing it. So you keep going harder and harder, trying to find something to sate the urge. And the entire time, you’re delusional to the point of thinking nothing will hurt you. If you’re a manic girl who just brought home a random hookup, he’s about to get sex so hard his entire genetic line will be impressed.
- Comment on Codeberg: army of AI crawlers are extremely slowing us; AI crawlers learned how to solve the Anubis challenges. 6 days ago:
Exactly. Imagine needing to pay a penny for every request. Not a huge deal for someone who only makes one or two requests per year. But if you’re running a bot farm and making tens of millions of requests per day, you’ll quickly find that your operating costs have skyrocketed. That’s basically the idea behind Anubis; Make someone pay in CPU time, so the legit users don’t really notice but bots quickly eat up all of their servers’ CPU.
- Comment on Anyone remember this famous press conference and how it ended? 6 days ago:
Yeah, plenty of folks encountered terrorist beheading videos when they were like 10. In the grand scheme of things, this video isn’t even that gory.
- Comment on Caption this. 1 week ago:
For real though, the left one is 100% how Trump stands at a lectern. I’m not even kidding. The dude has his aides set a little wedge behind the lectern, to lift his toes and make him look like he’s standing upright.
Image - Comment on Byeeeeeee 1 week ago:
Yeah, taxonomic classification always falls short of the natural world. It may be the same taxonomy, but that doesn’t mean they’re exactly the same.
Hell, if we only had dog fossils to work with, different breeds would almost certainly be considered entirely different species. But as it currently stands, they’re all the same species, (canis lupus familiaris), because we know the different breeds can mate with each other and produce viable offspring.
- Comment on Study Finds That School-Based Online Surveillance Companies Monitor Students 24/7 1 week ago:
Just don’t use accounts the school knows about…how hard is that? Don’t use the shitty equipment they give you because it’s loaded with spyware, haw hard is that.
From the article (emphasis mine):
The research team identified 14 companies actively marketing online surveillance services frequently beyond school-issued devices and outside of school premises, raising concerns about privacy, equity and oversight
Sounds like they’re using heavier tracking than simple device tracking. Probably lots of fingerprinting, which can be extremely hard to avoid; If any of your accounts even touch the same network as the school device, they likely track it.
- Comment on Homarr - A modern and easy to use dashboard. 30+ integrations. 10K+ icons built in. Authentication out of the box. No YAML, drag and drop configuration. 1 week ago:
Was going to say, isn’t this just an *Arr-flavored Home Assistant page?
- Comment on Broccoli Blooms 1 week ago:
It’s closely related to mustard, and mustard’s distinct flavor is from the seeds. So I’d assume that if you leave it long enough for the blooms to seed, they’d taste similar to mustard.
- Comment on Games Where Nothing Happens (SPOILERS for various game plots) 1 week ago:
Yes, but the bombs would have dropped regardless. So still the same end result.
Supposedly, the game was supposed to have a lot more atmospheric storytelling. Radios playing in the background, with news reports about rising tensions between the US and some nuclear state. Newspapers left laying around with headlines of nuclear war brewing. TVs playing with reporters talking about some country (Iran or North Korea, maybe?) developing nukes.
These were supposed to be scattered all over the place in ways that the player would obviously cross paths with them. The cult was less “doomsday prepping for no reason” and more “doomsday prepping because they think it’s soon”.
But Ubisoft being Ubisoft, they cut a lot of content because they wanted to launch the game sooner.
- Comment on Roku launches Howdy, a $2.99 ad-free streaming service 1 week ago:
Jellyfin/Plex with the *Arr stack is still the better option. A little bit of setup, but then blissful ad-free self-hosted streaming.
- Comment on Shit's getting real 1 week ago:
Why are they using anything imported anyways?
Ah yes, let me just buy local from all of the American tea farms, American bauxite mines, and American aluminum refineries. Oh wait, America doesn’t actually produce meaningful amounts of any of those resources.
- Comment on Upvotes and downvotes are public information on Lemmy 1 week ago:
Yeah, at worst it’s a necessary evil to prevent a rogue user on a second instance from mass downvoting. Your username is tied to your vote, because otherwise a rogue user could just spam downvotes at whatever they didn’t like.
Instance 1 has a post. Instance 2 has a user who disagrees with that post. User is able to spam downvotes, because instance 2 is not binding their username to the vote. So Instance 1 has no way of knowing if the votes are multiple different users, or all one user. The only real solution here is to disable external voting, but the entire point of the fediverse is cross-compatibility and self-hosting. By binding the username to the vote, instance 1 is able to detect repeat votes and disregard them.
- Comment on Have you encountered this? 1 week ago:
I’m all for refusing to tip, but be up-front about it. Let the server know ahead of time that you won’t be tipping. You’ll still get served, but it’ll be with the level of service that the waiter thinks you should get, rather than with the level of service that you think you deserve (without paying them). If you’re going to refuse to tip, at least take the mask off so your server can do the same.
If you’re willing to do that, then more power to you. Believe it or not, many servers will be chill about it, and treat you the same as any other customer. Especially if you’re there when it’s slow. But if you’re afraid to be honest because you might get worse service, then you’re just a scab who is leeching from the tipping culture and only hurting the working class.
- Comment on Have you encountered this? 1 week ago:
On the surface, I can understand this. It’s not the server’s fault that they got the happy hour rush when everything is 50% off. If anything, they had to work harder because it was busier. Why punish them for that extra work with lower tip calculations? The drinks aren’t any easier or faster to pour just because they’re half off.
What does bug me is when the tip calculations are based on the after-tax total. Fuck that, I’m already getting taxed 10% on this, you don’t need your 18% calculated from that extra 10%.
- Comment on Have you encountered this? 1 week ago:
Every single time I see a fucking Square cash register… One of these motherfuckers:
ImageEvery single time I see that piece of shit, I know I’m about to hear the “it’s just going to ask you a few questions” line. And those “few questions” will be asking me to tip 25 goddamned percent on something that I’ve never tipped for before.
- Comment on If I wanted to bury a hard drive for archival purposes (e.g. Country becoming Dictatorship), how to keep the contents from being damaged and where is the safest place to bury it? 2 weeks ago:
Flash isn’t a good long-term storage option. It relies on an electrical charge to store the data, and will discharge over time. It’s literally physically storing electrons, but those electrons are constantly trying to escape. Good flash may last 7-10 years without being plugged in, but the standard off-the-shelf stuff will be dead much quicker.
Tape or M-DISC are the gold standards, though both are more expensive than flash. Tape is by far the single most resilient method; it can even be reconstructed if it is physically damaged. But it’s also the least convenient and most expensive. M-DISC is a nice middle ground. It’s essentially just a burned disc, but made with materials that won’t rot over time like standard burned discs will. So storage is as simple as storing regular discs. Though if you’re truly trying to apocalypse-proof it, you’d probably want to consider bunkering/burying them somewhere to protect from physical destruction.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
VPNs don’t stop fingerprinting. IP addresses are nebulous and change all the time. All a VPN does is hide your traffic from your ISP. So they’re handy for things like torrenting, where you might otherwise catch a scary letter from said ISP.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
It’s just a basic IP blacklist, not a true VPN ban. They’re not going out of their way to block every VPN server. Shortly after the Reddit API exodus, some bad actors were using VPNs to spam CSAM everywhere, trying to get instances shut down. This was before automod capabilities were really fleshed out, and child porn laws made it illegal for the instance owners to have it uploaded or even cached. So it was a big issue where several instances started locking sign-ups and blanket defederating to try and avoid the CSAM getting cached via users scrolling past it. Attackers started finding abandoned instances with lax sign-up rules, and would create like a dozen accounts to spam from; many instances switched to federation whitelists (instead of blacklists), so those smaller zombie instances wouldn’t be federated by default. So if you’re on a VPN, you might be fine. But you also might be blocked, if you land on the same IP that someone uploaded CSAM from.
- Comment on Feeling insecure about going to a 'girlie pop' concert as a 30 year old man, am i overthinking it? 2 weeks ago:
and apparently the singer is a LGBT icon.
Anyone who sees this and doesn’t immediately go “oh they’re gay as fuck” needs to replace the batteries in their gaydar:
ctrlaltmusic.com/…/PVRIS-Press-Picture-2021.webp - Comment on Why do people like the Punisher comics? 2 weeks ago:
There’s even a scene in the comics where Frank is cornered by some cops. Like they have him dead to rights, and there’s no way he’ll escape. The cops let him go, saying they’re a big fan of his work.
That has Frank going on a tirade about how they shouldn’t be cops if they’re fans of his work; He exists specifically to take down cops like them. His entire family is dead, and the killers walked free because of dirty cops.
- Comment on What are some games with absolutely fantastic soundtracks? 2 weeks ago:
Oh it has been a while since I’ve seen Furi mentioned anywhere. Carpenter Brut is a regular on my playlists, and I always forget they helped with the Furi soundtrack.
- Comment on Y'ALL GOT ANY OF THEM HALLOPINERS 3 weeks ago:
Glad it made at least someone twitch. I got a good chuckle as I was typing it out.
- Comment on Mastercard deflects blame for NSFW games being taken down, but Valve says payment processors 'specifically cited' a Mastercard rule about damaging the brand 3 weeks ago:
Payment processing is really one of those things that should have been nationalized as a public utility from the start.
