notarobot
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- Comment on They even do Price Discrimination on video games now 2 days ago:
I’m going to assume that you posted this trying to price me wrong but you didn’t check your sources and proved me right in the process
Price discrimination, known also by several other names, is a microeconomic pricing strategy whereby identical or largely similar goods or services are sold at different prices by the same provider to different buyers, based on which market segment they are perceived to be part of
The service for bothtiers is NOT the same. It is not discrimination
- Comment on They even do Price Discrimination on video games now 2 days ago:
I hope he and Linus torvalds both announce successors. Like a sort of "if my product fails you, this person follows my steps
- Comment on They even do Price Discrimination on video games now 2 days ago:
Steam is my favorite monopoly. They are not perfect, and probably not good either. but they are the best
- Comment on They even do Price Discrimination on video games now 2 days ago:
That is not price discriminationprice discrimination would be you having to pay more than someone else for the same products or service. Imagine paying more than someone else for the same tickets, just because. Or maybe black people have to pay more. That is price discrimination
- Comment on YouTube deleting videos documenting Israeli human rights violations 3 days ago:
Of course you are right. Those problems apply to Evey provider. My point is not that proton sucks. My point is that the protocol sucks and it’s not worth the hassle of switching providers. The “whatever you receive and keep is encrypted and no one can read it” is another one of those false of security kind of thing that make you relax and think you are safe, when in reality they could EASILY be copying your email somewhere else unencrypted when you send and receive. That means that you spent your time switching provider just for a “trust me bro”
Their drive service is worth it though
- Comment on YouTube deleting videos documenting Israeli human rights violations 3 days ago:
None. The problem is not the provider, it’s the protocol. Proton has the problems listed before, but it is impossible for ANY provider not to have those. I’d keep using whatever you are using
- Comment on YouTube deleting videos documenting Israeli human rights violations 3 days ago:
Yes. That is correct. I’ve sent pgp emails from my gmail to protonmail. But nobody uses pgp. So in practice you are spending all of that time and effort for basically 0 gain.
- Comment on YouTube deleting videos documenting Israeli human rights violations 3 days ago:
As someone who has gone to proton and back. I do not recommend it. The service is mostly OK, their android apo never delivers notifications probably because of the lack of play services, and while every client is open source and is guaranteed to be e2ee to other proton accounts, there are two huge issues with this:
- In my case, the people I email are all on google and Microsoft, so they will be reading my emails anyway
- When you communicate with non proton users the emails exchange HAVE to be plain text. So the only thing keeping proton from seeing you emails is a huge “trust me bro” that you can’t verify. There are no code or cryptographic guarantees.
- Comment on I love fucking pasta 3 days ago:
No honey. I said “i fucking love pasta”. This is not a new kink you have to learn about. Just a misunderstanding
- Comment on ‘Digital ownership must be respected’: UK parliament debates Stop Killing Games campaign, but government doesn’t budge 4 days ago:
Seems to be a misunderstanding. We are in agreement. I mentioned it because it seems that was something that was debated. Not because I’m against the initiative
She continued: “At the same time, the Government also recognises the concerns from the video gaming industry about some of the campaign’s asks. Online video games are often dynamic, interactive services—not static products—and maintaining online services requires substantial investment over years or even decades.”
- Comment on ‘Digital ownership must be respected’: UK parliament debates Stop Killing Games campaign, but government doesn’t budge 4 days ago:
I think everybody agrees that “digital ownership must be respected”. But if you check, you don’t own the games. You own licences. You may keep the licence after servers shut down. It is total BS, but we allowed it.
I have to agree that killing online only games makes sense because they can’t be forced to run the server forever, not they can be forced to release the source code. But offline / solo / bots should keep working.
- Comment on YSK before you buy a replacement for your cellphone that has stopped charging, buy the $10 cleaning kits and spend the time deep cleaning the phone's charging port. 5 days ago:
My toothpicks are not that thin.
I usually pass various phone shops on my way to buy groceries, so it’s not an inconvenience
- Comment on YSK before you buy a replacement for your cellphone that has stopped charging, buy the $10 cleaning kits and spend the time deep cleaning the phone's charging port. 5 days ago:
10 USD??? I justo walk into a phone repair shop and ask them if they can clean it. they do it in under a minute for free
- Comment on JD, you dog. 6 days ago:
It seems there were some comments made. I haven’t looked into it yet so they might have said something actually stupid
- Comment on JD, you dog. 6 days ago:
I see. I was ootl so I after a saw like 5posta about it, I went to look it up and all I could find was that the hugged, and that she said he was a dear friend or something like that
- Comment on Got Banned for Fixing Roku — The Paul Blart Mod Chronicles 6 days ago:
I’m not simping for them. But bad people can also be right. In THIS case, from what I can tell, the actions were justified. I do believe that is 99% likely that the original takedown was BS, but after that, op was in the wrong
- Comment on China solves 'century-old problem' with new analog chip that is 1,000 times faster than high-end Nvidia GPUs 6 days ago:
It can be 1000x faster because it analog. Analog things take very very little time to compute stuff. We don’t generally use them because they are very hard to get the same result twice and updating is also hard
- Comment on Got Banned for Fixing Roku — The Paul Blart Mod Chronicles 1 week ago:
Yes. You didn’t know you had to read the rules before posting. Happens to all of us. But the second time, you again reposted without reading the rules. The “try posting somewhere else” message AFIK wasn’t even sent by the mods but a generic reddit message. Yet eve though the suggestion was to literally POST SOMEWHERE ELSE, you decided to post on the same community.
If you wanted to know why you post was removed, you should have asked the original and try to work with them. The second mod is following the rules.
- Comment on JD, you dog. 1 week ago:
Is all his about a stupid hug? Are you al seriously attacking people over a hug? This is stupid. Cut it out. Yes, they deserve their days months and years ruined, because they ruin everybody else’s life. But still, grow up and attack with something that actually matters.
- Comment on Got Banned for Fixing Roku — The Paul Blart Mod Chronicles 1 week ago:
I might be way to sleepy but I think I’m missing something here. The way I read it, the sequence is:
- you first posted something that got taken down,
- you posted it again and that got you a ban because you reposted
- you asked the mod who banned you why the first post was taken down, which of course doesn’t matter. You can’t keep reposting it until a mod allows it.
- you were rude to the mod and got banned
I see nothing wrong here except that you MAY not have been given an explanation of why the fist post was taken down
- Comment on US Government Urges Total Ban of Our Most Popular Wi-Fi Router 1 week ago:
Nah. The Chinese surveillance company would still sell your data to the us
- Comment on Rant on technology 1 week ago:
This is a very stupid rant and I already know people will downvote me(it has happened before)
The internet is no long just a network of computers. It has at least 2 centralized points
- icaan controls names and numbers. That includes DNS and IP addresses. When the Ukraine Russia war started they were asked to disconnect Russia from the internet by rejecting their IPS. They said no, but COULD have yes. Also, companies like google and amazon can get their own TLD (.aws and .ggl) you you and I can’t because we are not buddies with them
- certificate authorities: there is a fucking huge list of companies that are allowed to sign certificates. No, you can’t just get on that list, you have to ask permission and be audited. If ONE of them fucks up, there are serious consequences for EVERYBODY (yes, I know certificate pinning is a thing, but still)
- Comment on Are you even old enough to remember number 1? 1 week ago:
Motorola c115
- Comment on And what car did you learn in? 1 week ago:
Right. Most of you are from the US. Argentinian here, everybody drives manual. I even wanted to buy an automatic last time but my mechanic was like " Don’t even look at it. There is none in this city who can fix those. It might be a great value, but if it breaks, its done for"
- Comment on PC Master Race 1 week ago:
Clarification. I’m way to asleep and meant wow, not DND. Forget I said anything. I still think I’m right. But I’m not in the correct state to even formulate coherent sentences
- Comment on PC Master Race 1 week ago:
Wait the section on “Psychological Dark Patterns” sounds kind of over inclusive. Leveling up and progressing are thing that give a sense of accomplishment. Granted, things like cs2 skins are a form of manipulation. But you can’t tell me that making a build on a game like DND or building a world you like on Minecraft are “dark patterns”
- Comment on Breaking News! 1 week ago:
Waldo had taken the files. He might be on them.
- Comment on $1,000 richer 2 weeks ago:
Yeah! Is it like “there is a character that is so ugly they are always sad and kill themselves and you seem perfect for that role!”
- Comment on AWS crash causes $2,000 Smart Beds to overheat and get stuck upright 2 weeks ago:
Eight Sleep confirmed that while AWS was down, the metrics collection system was still working using internal memory. This means the dead man’s switch is engaged, and any attempt to power it off would violate the terms of service, causing the bed’s very obvious human-sized mousetrap to have its safety disengaged.
- Comment on X is now offering me end-to-end encrypted chat — you probably shouldn't trust it yet | TechCrunch 2 weeks ago:
are you being dense on purpose? sender and recipient are both users. never twitter.
i’m not saying that twitter’s messaging is secure. the opposite. what i’m saying is that you statement of “All end to end means is there’s a blocker preventing the network from seeing what you send not twitter” is 100% objectively wrong.