RodgeGrabTheCat
@RodgeGrabTheCat@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Colorado proposing Bill to move age verification to Operating System rather than web site 6 days ago:
Sounds good. Might even encourage more people to move to a privacy respecting OSs.
- Comment on ‘It was ready to kill and blackmail’: Anthropic’s Claude AI sparks alarm, says company policy chief 1 week ago:
This guy talked about this 4 months ago www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9HwA5IR-sg scary stuff.
- Comment on What YouTube downloader are the kids using these days? 1 week ago:
I’ve downloaded many videos with PipePipe on my Android.
- Comment on Why is no news channel reporting on the school shooting in Canada? 2 weeks ago:
I’ve got 14 articles in my RSS reader. Check Global News.
- Comment on This Autonomous Snow Blower Shovels on its Own, Recharges Itself, and Keeps Going 3 weeks ago:
My driveway isn’t nearly long enough to justify the cost but its very cool.
- Comment on If the government raided your house and found a bunch of .mkv files but you insist its all legally obtained, how do they ascertain if they are actually pirated or not? 3 weeks ago:
Encrypt your hard drive.
- Comment on Is there a way to filter news on lemmy 3 weeks ago:
If you have an android, “Thunder for Lemmy” can filter based on keywords. I very much prefer the app over using my laptop and a browser.
- Comment on What would you do if you knew your neighbor was an ICE/DHS agent? 4 weeks ago:
My first thought would be “How the hell did I get into the usa?”
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
I hate Windows, always did, always will. My final trial with that garbage system was last April when I installed Fedora on a bootable thumb drive. I might be one of the few people left who couldn’t care less what microsoft does. Here’s hoping they only make decisions that make people trust them less.
- Comment on Before social media/internet/cell phones/landlines/payphones; how would 2 friends living across the same city arrange in person meetings and stay in touch? 4 weeks ago:
Were streetcars and buses around before the telephone? I’m honesty not sure.
- Comment on Before social media/internet/cell phones/landlines/payphones; how would 2 friends living across the same city arrange in person meetings and stay in touch? 4 weeks ago:
A telephone attached to the wall with a wire.
- Comment on Question for the Americans. If Canada, Venezuela, Mexico, or Greenland dropped a nuke on Washington DC, would you be angry at the bomb dropper, or would you think we had that coming? 4 weeks ago:
As a Canadian, I’d be pissed at the bomb dropper. I have enough problems in my life without dealing with radioactive fallout.
- Comment on Why are americans taking health advice from a former heroin addict ? 4 weeks ago:
Just because junior is saying stuff doesn’t mean Americans are listening or obeying.
- Comment on What do you think is the opposite of Kiwifarms? 4 weeks ago:
You wanted the opposite of Kiwi Farms so I typed it backwards.
- Comment on What do you think is the opposite of Kiwifarms? 4 weeks ago:
smrafiwik
- Comment on If the 2028 election was held today, who would you vote for? 4 weeks ago:
Do you expect serious answers when you haven’t said who’s running in the 2028 election? At minimum, you need to make up a couple of candidates that are running against each other.
- Comment on If the United States of America was renamed, what should it be? 4 weeks ago:
I.C.E.land.
- Comment on How do you fight doomerism/pessimism in these trying times? 4 weeks ago:
I find that finding solutions to the problems that generate the feelings of doom is a good way to fight those feelings. Have a plan or several plans. You don’t have to solve the issue just find ways to get through it easier with less stress.
Example: Where I live, the power grid is garbage. Too much money has been diverted to the stockholders instead of grid maintenance. We’ve lost power three times since Christmas. There is a storm coming on Monday and the odds favor the power is going off. I have a checklist of what to do before and during the outage which makes it easier to get through.
- Comment on At what point do you consider a person an alcoholic? 4 weeks ago:
I used to work in restaurants and I often overheard a co-worker proclaim “I gotta get drunk tonight”. This was always on their last work day of the week. If someone turns to booze as a stress coping mechanism, I consider them an alcoholic.
Another co-worker, on a gas-drilling rig, and I were having a discussion about common causes of death. At one point I claimed that alcohol is responsible for more death than xyz (many years ago, I don’t remember the details). He got offended because I said something mean about booze. Taking that and the fact his first stop when he got back on dry land was the liquor store, I’m pretty sure he was an alcoholic.
- Comment on If the color of the Sun was orange, wouldn't the clouds and everything white also be orange? My friend is adamant that 30 years ago the "real" Sun was orange but got replaced with a white LED. 5 weeks ago:
Your friend is a moron.
- Comment on How many active robots do you think exist today on this planeeet by your best estimate ? 5 weeks ago:
If you aren’t going to define what a robot is, at least for this thread, you will get nothing but estimates based on feels.
- Comment on A new cooling technology freezes food without warming the climate 5 weeks ago:
Finally, someone else in this thread that sees the potential.
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- Comment on London PR firm rewrites Wikipedia for governments and billionaires 5 weeks ago:
Isn’t there a way to lock Wikipedia articles so they can’t be edited by just anyone?
- Comment on Why are they different shapes? 5 weeks ago:
All depends on the shape of the pan it’s baked in.
Baguettes make good home-made garlic bread if sliced the right way.
- Comment on Why does apartment management expect you to call the police over every tenant incident? 5 weeks ago:
Laziness
- Comment on Hypothetically, if your were a kid and your parents worked for a government intelligence agency, how would you keep secrets / have privacy from your parents? 1 month ago:
Generally speaking, it’s illegal to use government access for personal reasons. Now if you are talking about civilian parents:
Put TailsOS on a thumb drive. No traces left of your activities once the drive is unplugged.
Watch for basic consumer level spyware on your smartphone.
No vpn. Use Tor either through TailOS on a laptop/desktop or Orbot and Tor browser on a phone.
Don’t talk in your sleep.
Get comfortable lying.
- Comment on Digg launches its new Reddit rival to the public 1 month ago:
I felt this place was a ghost town when I first started - maybe 10 posts a day. Now, there is plenty to read. Partly due to me finding more communities and overall more people here.
- Comment on Digg launches its new Reddit rival to the public 1 month ago:
Competition is good. Also the less data Reddit has, the slower A.I. models can be trained.
- Comment on How to gain outside information / communicate safely if your government becomes oppressive and shuts down the internet? 1 month ago:
I didn’t think so.