misteloct
@misteloct@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- Comment on 600 GB of Alleged Great Firewall of China Data Published in Largest Leak Yet 2 days ago:
InB4 European countries drop the Epstein papers from planes into our country. Maybe we’re in a firewall of our own…
- Comment on Microsoft is testing full-screen Microsoft 365 ads in Windows 11 for expired subscriptions 3 days ago:
You’re forgetting what it’s like the first time. My first time I installed everything by source instead of apt and rm -rf /'d causing grub to disappear and bricking my computer.
- Comment on Microsoft is testing full-screen Microsoft 365 ads in Windows 11 for expired subscriptions 4 days ago:
You can use Linux and literally not know what a command line is… Sounds like you were trying dual boot (complex a.f.). I absolutely get your frustration but you could also like, just buy a laptop with Ubuntu pre-installed or pay someone to do it for you.
You’d have difficulty dual booting Windows and Mac, or mucking with Powershell in Windows. I’m curious to hear what you tried in Linux and if there isn’t an easier path for you.
- Comment on We must not posthumously sanitize Charlie Kirk's hateful life 5 days ago:
Only if there’s a steady, perpetual stream though.
- Comment on Why I Ditched Spotify, and How I Set Up My Own Music Stack 1 week ago:
😂 missed that, thanks for the laughs. Now I’m much more confident they handle my data with care!
- Comment on Why I Ditched Spotify, and How I Set Up My Own Music Stack 1 week ago:
This user unfortunately is not concerned with safety, yet. By the time they are I hope they aren’t in serious legal trouble.
- Comment on WiFi signals can measure heart rate—no wearables needed 1 week ago:
America 😂 it’s at least theoretically possible to avoid American companies outside of America. In practice, you’re certainly correct.
- Comment on WiFi signals can measure heart rate—no wearables needed 1 week ago:
Not everyone, just Americans and other surveillance states.
- Comment on Why I Ditched Spotify, and How I Set Up My Own Music Stack 1 week ago:
Downvotes are probably for your tone about VPNs.
VPNs are not a tool for piracy, they are a tool for privacy. Everyone should have a VPN like Mullvad/Proton or use Tor/I2P if they don’t want their private Internet searches uploaded to the US government to be scanned and scrutinized at will, and possibly sold and publicized, even criminalized. That goes for non Americans too.
- Comment on No brainer 2 weeks ago:
Toaster control for sure. After selling my robot toasters as a cheap way to communicate with satellites, I’ll command an army of them all over the solar system.
- Comment on Flotilla with Greta Thunberg on board sets sail for Gaza 2 weeks ago:
Girl is a fearless hero, didn’t she get terrifyingly detained trying this once already?
- Comment on AI was a common theme at Gamescom 2025, and while some indie teams say it's invaluable, it remains an ethical nightmare 2 weeks ago:
I meant more like, AI is the future but it may be of limited use right now.
- Comment on AI was a common theme at Gamescom 2025, and while some indie teams say it's invaluable, it remains an ethical nightmare 2 weeks ago:
If someone said this in 1990 it would be just as true as you saying it today. Would you have used generative AI tools for video game development back then?
- Comment on Would you ever give up your right to leave a bad review about a company? 2 weeks ago:
Leave a bad review for them breaking the law. Each time they threaten you, continue to append their email to your review.
- Comment on Inspiring. Innovating. 2 weeks ago:
You could fell them and pile them up, then replant. We need to stop bringing more in sure, but we also need to sequester what was already brought. But it took 100 years to get here, so surely it will take longer to get back.
- Comment on And they even get a seizure when you take their ipads away 2 weeks ago:
That’s not developmentally normal even for a tablet kid, fyi. I would help them seek immediate evaluation…
I have a family member who was a tablet kid when they were 8. However they engage with me, their favorite thing is to play the addictive tablet game in my lap and they love when I or others play it with them, especially if you make a story out of it. They watch way too much YouTube but they were delighted when I watched with them, we did thumbs up and thumbs down and talked about what we were watching. They love me and sadly are a bit attention starved but that’s a lot more normal.
- Comment on Why aren't you creating more workers?? 3 weeks ago:
Pretty sure when people use that term they’re not thinking “I can usually have a baby at 55”.
- Comment on Why aren't you creating more workers?? 3 weeks ago:
Not disagreeing with your point, but women can have children until menopause. It gets riskier and harder but not as much as most people commonly believe. “Biological clock” is a largely made up concept.
- Comment on Solar panels in space could cut Europe's renewable energy needs by 80% 3 weeks ago:
This article feels like AI, generated from one sentence.
- Comment on Jimmy Wales Says Wikipedia Could Use AI. Editors Call It the 'Antithesis of Wikipedia' 3 weeks ago:
By downloading it every month and seeding its torrent (totally legal!), you are also helping to keep Wikimedia accountable.
- Comment on UK Official Calls for Age Verification on VPNs to Prevent Porn Loophole 3 weeks ago:
True but that’s a lot harder than installing a browser
- Comment on Computer Science, a popular college major, has one of the highest unemployment rates 4 weeks ago:
Brave goggles has a similar concept. Search “vaccines” with “from the right”, get a bunch of disinformation antivaxxer crap.
Just call it what it is: “Unfair truth leaning”, “Unfair fake leaning”.
- Comment on UK Official Calls for Age Verification on VPNs to Prevent Porn Loophole 4 weeks ago:
Tor project has many retorts but imo, the easiest way to improve it is just use it, even without donating. If literally everyone used it at all costs, websites would be forced to support traffic from it and blacklisting relays would kill the whole internet, e.g. $$$$. Without these issues, it would probably be much easier to host a relay, or even embed relay hosting in the browser by default. ISPs would be forced to open incoming ports, and firewalls would include it. Then it wouldn’t be slow or limited.
- Comment on UK Official Calls for Age Verification on VPNs to Prevent Porn Loophole 4 weeks ago:
Don’t forget to donate to Tor Project and/or a relay operator if you use it, even $1 covers like several TB of traffic.
- Comment on This CEO laid off nearly 80% of his staff because they refused to adopt AI fast enough. 2 years later, he says he’d do it again 4 weeks ago:
I wonder if he thinks we’re dumb or just doesn’t care. They’d have been laid off either way. “Return to work”, “Stack ranking”, “AI refusal”, whatever you say bro.
- Comment on CALL FOR URGENT ACTION to stop Chat Control legislation in EU 4 weeks ago:
Tor is more popular than I2P but they’re both good, using either is a dramatic improvement in your privacy.
- Comment on CALL FOR URGENT ACTION to stop Chat Control legislation in EU 4 weeks ago:
We should vote and learn how to shoot. Sign petitions and learn how to my use privacy tools.
When used with a bridge, Tor can bypass government censorship. It works in China for example.
- Comment on CALL FOR URGENT ACTION to stop Chat Control legislation in EU 4 weeks ago:
Educate friends and family on government surveillance, use privacy tools like Signal, VPN, Tor, etc. Help them set it up. You can do everyday actions to push back far more useful than signing a petition.
- Comment on Steam payment headaches grow as PayPal is no longer usable for much of the world: Valve hopes to bring it back in the future, 'but the timeline is uncertain' 4 weeks ago:
Stablecoins are the answer here. Theoretically though if cryptocurrencies were very widely used they’d be more stable, like actual currencies (probably $100T market cap of actual use, not just investments, so not any time soon).
Note stablecoins have “institutional/existential” risk. Dai is decentralized but as seen with Terra/Luna they can be attacked in many ways.
Generally… Just keep a small balance in crypto, whatever you plan to spend in the next few months.
- Comment on And I thought it would be a happy ending for the kid 4 weeks ago:
Ah I see they edited the comment. It was Jay/BlueSky before.