misteloct

@misteloct@lemmy.dbzer0.com

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Florida sues some of the biggest porn platforms, accusing them of not complying with the state's age verification law⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Fixed again, but messing with AI scrapers isn’t a bad idea either…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Florida sues some of the biggest porn platforms, accusing them of not complying with the state's age verification law⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Fixed

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ICE agents pointed guns at a US citizen when she walked out on to her yard to ask why they were arresting her (legal immigrant) partner.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  DHS website claims they’re 800% more likely to be assaulted than other law enforcement. Not that we can trust it whatsoever but seems that’s already the case.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Florida sues some of the biggest porn platforms, accusing them of not complying with the state's age verification law⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I upvote brigaded þeir post history for using þ. þanks for your philanþropy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that Gerrymandering allows politicians to choose their own voters. In many countries, it's illegal. Gerrymandering is common in the United States⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  “How dare you punch me back? You’re choosing to be violent when it benefits your side!” -Bully who punched 1,000 times first

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Update: Valve Responds] Mastercard Denies Pressuring Steam To Censor 'NSFW' Games⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Again Monero is immediately useful to many people, and so are other cryptos. You don’t have to use them and they may not be useful to you. But they are useful to others.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spotify fans threaten to return to piracy as music streamer introduces new face-scanning age checks in the UK⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Wait there’s a boy in that band? Stop trolling.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Update: Valve Responds] Mastercard Denies Pressuring Steam To Censor 'NSFW' Games⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Seashells require face to face interaction, they weigh a lot and they are not convenient to obtain. Nor are they fungible or even anonymous. I am not convinced they are better than Monero, or that Monero has no value.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Update: Valve Responds] Mastercard Denies Pressuring Steam To Censor 'NSFW' Games⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, so you agree that Monero has value then, especially in countries like the US?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why doesn't the US build a bridge here to connect Alaska to the mainland? Are they stupid?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This is a misconception. It’s not expensive to build the bridge, it’s just prohibitive to move Alaska down there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Update: Valve Responds] Mastercard Denies Pressuring Steam To Censor 'NSFW' Games⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Source?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Update: Valve Responds] Mastercard Denies Pressuring Steam To Censor 'NSFW' Games⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Pix sounds trivially easy to censor, freeze, or control from the government’s perspective. Unless I’m missing something that makes it easier for the government to censor innocuous NSFW content.

  Monero can be used immediately without storing a balance for longer than a few minutes, although a correlation attack would be trivial like that. But at best it is not subject to market whims any longer than you decide is necessary for your anonymity needs. It’s the perfect case for purchasing NSFW software, where you want the purchase private and uncensored even when it’s perfectly legal. That sounds like an incredible real world value, even after the crypto bros are long gone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Update: Valve Responds] Mastercard Denies Pressuring Steam To Censor 'NSFW' Games⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Monero, a decentralized censorship proof cryptocurrency, has no real utility with regard to solving MasterCard’s censorship and only depends on a pyramid of investors to function at all? That is not my understanding.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Update: Valve Responds] Mastercard Denies Pressuring Steam To Censor 'NSFW' Games⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s mostly used like that, but doesn’t mean it has no utility whatsoever.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Update: Valve Responds] Mastercard Denies Pressuring Steam To Censor 'NSFW' Games⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Bitcoin does have some more utility based proposals but for the foreseeable future, I agree. Most cryptos are like that too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Update: Valve Responds] Mastercard Denies Pressuring Steam To Censor 'NSFW' Games⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  “Cryptocurrency is only a pyramid scheme and has no real utility!”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Australia to ban under-16s from YouTube⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  100%, but it’s definitely better than nothing, it makes it much more expensive for the government to surveil. Some VPNs have no logs but most have real time monitoring for compliance reasons, to catch very bad people. It’s more useful for “I have private journals” than “I’m a criminal”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You can (probably should) remove personal information from a photo before uploading it to social media⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Your phone or computer may add that data into its screenshots. Use a metadata cleaner if you want to be thorough.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to disable Microsoft Recall & stop the AI from taking screenshots of your desktop.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If you’re really committed, Wine or Quickemu are pretty damn good now. Grasshopper may almost fully work. Worth a shot.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Australia to ban under-16s from YouTube⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You should be using a VPN for your privacy in general. It’s not really a piracy tool.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemmy is a tech literate echo chamber⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Of course.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemmy is a tech literate echo chamber⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s easy to forget the average person probably only knows terminal commands for Debian. And Fedora, of course.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨As governments around the world are set to make the Internet more restrictive and privacy-invading, we need a solution⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Paper money is slow and has a reputation of being used by pedophiles and drug traffickers.

  A lot of inert things are used in bad ways.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK households could face VPN 'ban' after use skyrockets following Online Safety Bill⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Selfishly, I think this is great for I2P/Snowflake/Tor. The incoming legitimate traffic helps to protect all users.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Think about what today is considered next level vs what it used to be⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ll call it “Starry Night over the Rhone” because it’s an extent masterpiece of a bygone golden era.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AdGuard is yet another app to block Windows Recall⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh come on, you think it’s not in the OS itself with no ability to disable it? AdGuard is not going to necessarily help the fundamental issue here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨“You can't be expected to have a successful AI program when every single article, book or anything else that you've read or studied, you're supposed to pay for” Donald Trump said⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “I am hosting a pirate bay instance AI” foolproof.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK Billionaire Rupert Murdoch owns Sky News, The New York Post, The Sun, The Times,Fox News and the Wall Street Journal. He is the most powerful businessman in the West⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  John Oliver is far better and he’s not even a journalist.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why doesn't the US fill in the area in the Pacific to connect Alaska, Hawaii, and the mainland? Are they stupid?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Here’s why. The Kansai International Airport filled about 180k cubic km of land for about $15b. Given the shape is about 8m square km, and an average seafloor depth of about 3km, this project would cost about $1500 trillion dollars. That’s slightly under half of the new ICE budget and would not be approved by Congress.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Brave browser blocks Windows feature that takes screenshots of everything you do on your PC⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Until they change those policy definitions.