DeathByBigSad
@DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on I can get a 430 hearing on any family member I want. Hell i can even testify if someone else needs one. So tell me why I can't go through the legal system to get an invasive one for Trump? 3 hours ago:
Did you miss the news? The president has “absolute presumed immunity for ‘official’ acts”.
Just like the good ol’ days ~/s~ where insane kings wage wars, massacres, and massive destruction.
- Comment on One Angry Man 5 hours ago:
Isn’t that just a…
Singularity
- 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 17 hours ago:
How do you even get in power to make gerrymandering illegal if this is what happens if you try “playing by the rules”.
This is a state legislature, but imagine, for the national legislature, if every republican state does gerrymandering to the maximum, while every democratic state draws fair borders, what do you think happens if the democrats win 55% of the popular vote nation wide? They will get less than 40% of the seats, just like with the Wisconsin’s state legislature. How the fuck do you abolish gerrymandering if you keep playing by these rules? Because you will never win a majority in government.
You have to use dirty tactics yourself, in order to even win enough seats to then pass the law that will outlaw gerrymandering.
Did you think nazis went away because we were nice to them? No, the allies shot and killed the nazis.
- 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 19 hours ago:
It means if democrats don’t gerrymander more, the house permanently in favor of republicans. Wont matter if you win like 60%, you still get a minority if seats.
Idk why people are downvoting, but I guess liberals love “playing by the rules”. Lol “when they go low, you go high” is why traitors have control of the countries. But anyways, libs being libs 🤷♂️
- 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 20 hours ago:
We need more 1 and 3, and less 2 4 5.
If the enemy has nukes, don’t unilaterally disarm. Same here.
- Comment on Why is kindness often viewed as a sign of naïveté? 1 day ago:
People think you are either (a) nice and let people walk all over you, or (b) you have to be evil to be strong. But the truth is you can be in between, you can be both nice and retaliatory in case others are evil to you first.
Its actually the best game-theory strategy, called “Tit-for-Tat”, you be nice to others, but don’t be afraid to retaliate when they start being evil. Because if you don’t retaliate they will take advantage of you.
- Comment on Florida sues some of the biggest porn platforms, accusing them of not complying with the state's age verification law 1 day ago:
Solution:
Make a site only available in [insert a privacy-respecting country]
Then anyone else gets redirected to a “This website is not available in your country, please use a VPN and set it to [country]”
???
Profit?
- Comment on Three questions about superpowers, which is the best, and which is the worst? 1 day ago:
Code Geass: Lelouch’s Geass
Good drawback would be just what happens in Code Geass. Just don’t accidentally look people in the eye when you’re making a joke about killing people… 💀
- Comment on Valhalla awaits 1 day ago:
Or just ask the smartest man in the
universecentral finite curve to kill you. But don’t hesitate for a second and then “nope out” then get hit by a car and end up in hell. - Comment on Spotify fans threaten to return to piracy as music streamer introduces new face-scanning age checks in the UK 1 day ago:
Eh, I don’t like it, but its kinda the norm if you wanna ever leave your country. My dad who’s a PRC Citizen doesn’t even have to go to the embassy/consulate anymore for passport renewal, its now done via an app, which of course they’d have to scan your face. I expect other countries to also adopt the same practice, just as they did with mass surveillance. And then it will eventually move from the government services to the private sector.
I mean, I hate to think about it, but we might have mandatory brain chips in the future… 👀
- Comment on Proton’s Lumo AI chatbot: not end-to-end encrypted, not open source 3 days ago:
Protonmail does not support IMAP, what they have is a program called Proton Bridge that locally decrypts you email then you can set it up so that your IMAP client then reads from Proton Bridge, giving you a seamless experience with one email client having access to all your email accounts.
- Comment on Proton’s Lumo AI chatbot: not end-to-end encrypted, not open source 3 days ago:
The law isn’t a law yet, its a just a proposal. Proton is still in Switzerland, but they said they’re gonna move if the surveillance law actually becomes law.
- Comment on Proton’s Lumo AI chatbot: not end-to-end encrypted, not open source 3 days ago:
Incoming Emails that aren’t from proton, or PGP encrypted (which are like 99% of emails), arrives at Proton Servers via TLS which they decrypt and then have the full plaintext. This is not some conspiracy, this is just how email works.
Now, Proton and various other “encrypted email” services then take that plaintext and encypt it with your public key, then they’re supposed to discard the plaintext, so that in case of a future court order, they wouldn’t have the plaintext anymore.
But you can’t be certain if they are lying, since they do necessarily have to have access to the plaintext for email to function. So “we can’t read your emails” comes with a huge asterisk, it onlu applies to those sent between Proton accounts or other PGP encrypted emails, your average bank statement and tax forms are all accessible by Proton (you’re only relying on their promise to not read it).
- Comment on Great Advertise 3 days ago:
Last I check, Canada isn’t accepting asylum applications from Americans, because having a wannabe dictator for president is apparantly not a good enough reason to be granted asylum.
- Comment on Nintendo sold almost 6 million Switch 2 units in less than a month 4 days ago:
It’s only great if you intend to play exclusives, otherwise, Steam Deck is probably better. I mean, you can save a lot of money by pirating the games, can’t do that on a Nintendo.
- Comment on [Poll] What social media platforms do you know about? 5 days ago:
WeChat
(commonly used in Mainland China and amongst First-Generation Chinese immigrants)
- Comment on Whatever happened to the blockchain/smart contract 'revolution' we were told about? 6 days ago:
It doesn’t have the backing of a powerful government unlike fiat does, so its effectively worthless in the eyes of the average person.
- Comment on Be nice 6 days ago:
- Comment on Are you worried about your child’s screentime? Get a landline 6 days ago:
That kid is gonna get bullied in school.
Source: I was that kid, I didn’t have a phone for most of High School, so I didn’t get into groupchats so I basically had no friends for most of highschool. Fun times 🫠
(I mean this “no-smartphone” thing has to be a collective thing across society, you can’t expect this to work if only one parents does this.)
- Comment on Could one legally get a hold of those bank bill dye security dye packs, dye your own legally obtained cash with it, and spend it places? Just to make people suspect you're secretly a bank robber. 6 days ago:
There’s a law in the US where if the police kills someone in pursuit of you when you’re committing a felony, you get blamed for their death (aka: felony murder). So I assume the bank robber just get blames for it.
- Comment on Have most people never seen a full starry night sky 6 days ago:
I vaguely remember when I was like 6 or 7, I was at my maternal grandparent’s ancestral house and it was summer and I was just lying outside on the ground staring at the night sky, and I think the adults were just talking about stuff I don’t remember. I mean its been almost 2 decades, the memory is very fuzzy. I remember ther was lizards on the house, and there was like a very swampy farmland area thing (idk how to describe it lol). It wasn’t like the done with machinary, at least not at the time, it was done manually. (Luckily I never had to do that, my Hukou was rural so it would’ve been quite shitty), I heard from my mother there was some blood-sucking worm hiding on the farm. This was in Mainland China around 2000-2010s, so there wasn’t much electricity in the village, and very few light-pollution. I don’t remember there being internet, my concept of the world was so small, now I’m all the way in the United States. I heard that most people die very close to where they were born, and don’t even have a passport. And I’ve have passports from 2 different countries! (well not simultaneously, but you get the idea)
I don’t think I ever recognized any contallations, I was way too young at the time. Or maybe I did and forgot… 🤷♂️
Now I kinda wanna just go someplace rural to see the night sky, bit unfortunately, not being white and going to a rural area in America feels… um… 👀 verrry sketchy, to say the least (cuz racism lol).
- Comment on Samsung’s One UI 8 might shut down bootloader unlocking on Galaxy phones 6 days ago:
Exactly, which makes the “you can’t buy from a carrier in the US or you’ll often get a special version that” invalid, since its locked bootloader whether or not you get it from a carrier
- Comment on How to disable Microsoft Recall & stop the AI from taking screenshots of your desktop. 1 week ago:
You can’t convince 99% of windows users to switch, the real solution is done via legislation. The force of a government is more powerful any boycotts you can muster. (For example: European Union has been passing a regulations on right to repair, do privacy laws next)
- Comment on Lemmy is a tech literate echo chamber 1 week ago:
Its not just the extra headache of setting it up, I also don’t like the cost of it.
- Comment on Lemmy is a tech literate echo chamber 1 week ago:
Nah, I’m only partially tech literate. I don’t know how in the fuck to use a terminal or command line stuff.
But I know what HTTPS is and how to check the header of an email to know if its phishing. I know how to use and manage PGP keys (although I have zero people to communicate with so I end up never using it, in practice).
Boot from USB is just spamming one of the F1 F2 F11 F12 button repeatedly then select the USB, very easy, learned that in 2 minutes using a web search.
But don’t ask me to set up a Lemmy Instance, I aint got the brain power for it, I’m likely to mess up setting up the security aspect of it then a hacker is gonna deface it like lemmy.world that time when they got hacked. I actually have zero clue on how to set up self-host stuff. I don’t bother with a NAS, I just copy my photos, videos, movies, wikipedia .zim files via a USB cable directly to a portable SSD (I keep multiple copies of the same files). If I need my files on the go, I just take one of the SSDs and put it in my pocket. No NAS needed.
(Also NAS are kinda expensive, and you have to buy the drives separately, so the NAS thing is kinda just expensive stuff on top of the storage you already have to pay for, so I don’t bother, I love my portable SSDs)
- Comment on Samsung’s One UI 8 might shut down bootloader unlocking on Galaxy phones 1 week ago:
I bought unlocked phones from samsung’s website and got locked bootloaders
- Comment on And nothing of value was lost 1 week ago:
I’d say give her back her driver’s licence, but its only valid in towns occupied by the kkk/neo-nazis
- Comment on UK households could face VPN 'ban' after use skyrockets following Online Safety Bill 1 week ago:
Someone should start a bussiness near the border of Republic of Ireland and get two antennas pointed at each other across the border, with the RoI side having connected to the free internet, then the UK Northern Ireland side connected to the Intra-net. You pay a “Club Membership Fee” to get access to the proxy network.
Its not a VPN, its a Nerd Techie Club, just with a free proxy service as part of the club membership 😉
- Comment on Bitchat is a new private Bluetooth messaging app that doesn’t need the internet – here’s how it works 1 week ago:
Briar is already audited lmao
The other option is Meshtashtic
Either is better than this amateur stuff
- Comment on Samsung’s One UI 8 might shut down bootloader unlocking on Galaxy phones 1 week ago:
That’s Carrier Unlocking, not Bootloader Unoocking.
