Pirata
@Pirata@lemm.ee
- Comment on Celebrate 50 years of Microsoft with the company's original source code. 4 hours ago:
The only correct answer lmao.
- Comment on EU: These are scary times – let's backdoor encryption! 4 hours ago:
There really should be a law where the EU gets fined everytime they waste time bringing up the same proposal that has already been shut down multiple times.
- Comment on EU: These are scary times – let's backdoor encryption! 4 hours ago:
“let’s make encryption illegal”*
*for the peasantry, of course.
They love the idea of giving the political class an exception.
- Comment on Mozilla Thunderbird Challenges Gmail With Its Own Email Service 18 hours ago:
the entire world.
- Comment on Trump plans to announce a company called TikTok America, with a 50% stake for US investors and 19.9% for ByteDance, which would license the algorithm. 1 day ago:
I mean, have you seen how effective Tik Toks one is?
- Comment on SoA day of action following allegations of Meta’s mass theft of authors’ work 1 day ago:
And some people still complain that US tech companies keep getting petty fines in Europe.
We’re the only ones trying to enforce even an anemic degree of antitrust, since the US just allows them to do whatever.
- Comment on EU Possibly Emerging As One Of The Greatest Threats To Privacy 2 days ago:
I agree with you thoroughly.
- Comment on EU Possibly Emerging As One Of The Greatest Threats To Privacy 2 days ago:
It didn’t pass. Its just, they keep trying to push for it, but thankfully some countries are still shutting it down.
- Comment on Massive X data leak affects over 200 million users. 2 days ago:
I’m fairy sure the guy above said “use X” not use social media. X is a particularly shitty platform.
- Comment on The Mediocrity of Modern Google. 2 days ago:
I don’t lose sleep over having to add “reddit” or “forum” at the end of my search query.
- Comment on The Mediocrity of Modern Google. 2 days ago:
Do you know how SearXNG works? It literally pulls search results from whatever other SEs you define it should pull from. You just get to reap the perks of all engines, without having to deal with their antagonistic design.
Who pays for all of it in the end? The people who still want to use Google’s service and feed their all-reaching tentacles. But that is their choice.
- Comment on The Mediocrity of Modern Google. 3 days ago:
Yeah, that’s the thing about Sear. You can customise it how you want and that’s it. No need to let some corpo be in control of what and how you see your results.
- Comment on Open Source Genetic Database(OpenSNP) shuts down after 14 years to protect user data from misuse by authoritarian governments. 3 days ago:
Yikes. Thanks
- Comment on The Mediocrity of Modern Google. 3 days ago:
I meant to say SearXNG. Still being maintained.
- Comment on The Mediocrity of Modern Google. 3 days ago:
I’ve tried SearX and stayed there. And it costs me a whole 0€ per month. 10€/month for a search engine is insane.
- Comment on Google To Allow Double Serving Ads. 3 days ago:
Wasn’t Google in the middle of an antitrust investigation?
- Comment on Another 122.88TB SSD just launched and this one comes from an obscure Chinese startup you've probably never encountered 4 days ago:
China does everything better than the US. iPhones are made in China.
- Comment on What could possibly go wrong? DOGE to rapidly rebuild Social Security codebase. 4 days ago:
For my Americans across the pond, I ask earnestly:
What could Russia do today, to cement themselves as the ultimate oligarchy where just a few people control everything with no regard for the rest of the people of their country, that the US isn’t already doing?
- Comment on Which non-US domain registrar to use? 5 days ago:
Nice. Cheers!!
- Comment on Which non-US domain registrar to use? 5 days ago:
Understood 🫡 thanks for that. I am generally happy with IONOS however their DNS propagation seems to take forever. I have a new domain I bought a couple days ago and my email provider’s DNS still hasn’t propagated… I thought we were past the 72h propagation era, but I guess not with everyone.
- Comment on Which non-US domain registrar to use? 5 days ago:
Does their final price already include WHOIS protection?
- Comment on Which non-US domain registrar to use? 5 days ago:
I found OVH quite confusing. Do they upsell you like crazy? I don’t want to create an account on purpose just to find out.
- Comment on Which non-US domain registrar to use? 5 days ago:
Its also what you use if you want to have your domain stolen, apparently.
- Comment on California Assembly speaker and other Democratic state lawmakers ditch X, citing hate speech, disinformation 5 days ago:
I have a different view.
Have all governments move straight to FOSS federated platforms, so that the billionaire that caused this exodus (Musk) is eaten alive by other billionaires so that they learn that when they duck up, the entire billiobaire class loses revenue, so can have some class infighting for once.
If one billionaire’s F*ck up leads to another billionaire’s increase in fortune (Bluesky), then all you’re rewarding is them to keep manipulating people into hating each other’s platform.
There’s no such thing as “target” and “non-target” billionaire. They all are targets.
- Comment on California Assembly speaker and other Democratic state lawmakers ditch X, citing hate speech, disinformation 5 days ago:
bluesky
Why? So the same thing can happen as with X? Jack Dorsey is yet another unhinged billionaire with problematic views of his own.
Federation is the only answer.
- Comment on Reddit’s 50% Plunge Fails to Entice Dip Buyers as Growth Slows. 5 days ago:
I understand your fears, I really do.
Its just… I don’t think we’re totally lost yet, thank God. I’m hoping people keep being somewhat aware that fascism is not the way, even if it’s being increasingly promoted on the internet.
Let us do our part as well. Keep boycotting the US, keep protesting against Israel and Russia in public. There is little else we can do, but these things are powerful on their own as long as we don’t lose momentum.
- Comment on Which non-US domain registrar to use? 5 days ago:
I’ve had few problems in the 7 years I have used them. one of which is not possible to get back since I’m required to provide proof that I live in Sweden Wasn’t the case when I initially bought it in 2018.
Sounds like a severe case of Stockholm syndrome to me. /s
Anyways, you do you buddy. I don’t trust them at all after those reviews. Especially when IONOS exists.
- Comment on Which non-US domain registrar to use? 5 days ago:
What’s up with everyone promoting registrars with the worst possible reviews on this whole comment section? Lol. The only one that even has remotely good reviews is Mythic Beasts.
I’d like to recommend IONOS (German).
- Comment on Which non-US domain registrar to use? 5 days ago:
Those reviews don’t look very inspiring, not gonna lie.
Ultimately I don’t think these “privacy-first” domain registrars are a great choice, which is a rare thing to say on the internet, but you’re dealing with private property here and being ICANN-certified (which Njalla isn’t) is kind of important if you’re gonna do something serious with your domain.
- Comment on Reddit’s 50% Plunge Fails to Entice Dip Buyers as Growth Slows. 5 days ago:
The other one is a manual labourer or simple job worker bubble - I see a lot more diversity there, many people falling for different kinds of propaganda, superstition, fearmongering. Some of those are already hardcore nazis, some of them are sympathizers in some ways.
That’s fine, I’m not gonna disagree with this, however I don’t see these people as a large, organized group that is bigger than the anti-Israel, anti-Russia status quo.
They usually get informations from the TV, newspapers and friends, partially online as well - mostly Facebook.
From TV, really? Maybe if you’re talking about Fox News… That sort of TV doesn’t exist in most European countries, Thankfully.
From the internet though yeah, i agree. But again, these aren’t apolitical people at that point, if you’re getting so involved in political discussions like that.