limer
@limer@lemmy.ml
Long term computer programmer, making my own library. American based. Far left politically. Politics centered around promoting use of paper ballots. Follows news about environmental collapse, political corruption in my country, human rights, science and tech. Earlier
- Comment on The Secret Service traced swatting threats against officials. They found 300 servers capable of crippling New York’s cell system 22 hours ago:
I have read elsewhere that this is likely an older service, used for a long time, which was used in domestic crime. It was tracked down by the secret service because it was helping provide help in forgery of fake currency.
It makes sense why the secret service, which deals in counterfeiting, was involved.
But it was spun by the White House for other reasons
- Comment on Mozilla Welcomes Raffi Krikorian as Chief Technology Officer | The Mozilla Blog 1 day ago:
Just because he worked for bad organizations does not make him a bad cto. But if he was chosen from better candidates because of that, then yes.
- Comment on I'm very happy for her. In youth tightness can be a problem 1 day ago:
I googled monitors and the AI summary said something else.
Apparently the curved screens were a temporary fashion statement. But they fell out of fashion during world war 2 due to excess materials used in the design
- Comment on I'm very happy for her. In youth tightness can be a problem 2 days ago:
“Accident”
- Comment on Disney sells us imaginary heroes while supporting real world villains. 3 days ago:
I was thinking something else, like
The Boys Showrunner, Eric Kripke, says the superhero ultimately exists to protect the status quo, to keep things as they are or once were during more nostalgic times, while the supervillain seeks change. A superhero is pro-establishment, working to uphold the system, and viewers can be trained to believe some exceptional being will fix everything.
The earlier superhero movies made in the USA helped support the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and there were strategies and meetings to deliberately do just that.
I think the later Marvel movies drifted away from typecasting the villains and made the plots less American centric. But it did not loose the parallels to the popular movies in Germany made in the late 30’s.
- Comment on Disney sells us imaginary heroes while supporting real world villains. 4 days ago:
I have been thinking the superhero movies were having many fascist themes themselves. And their popularity was helped by a growing authoritarian movement in the USA.
The actual comics do not have many of the above issues, the movies reinforced certain themes.
I say this as someone who likes the comic books
- Comment on Estonia is digging a 40 km trench to stop Russian tanks — and 600 bunkers are next 1 week ago:
A tank driving on it will have issues. But this is easily overcome by itself.
This is just one small part of new emplacements. But even multiple layers are only expected to slow an advance
- Comment on Proton Mail Suspended Journalist Accounts at Request of Cybersecurity Agency 1 week ago:
If you look at their terms of service, they only talk about US law and Swiss law, no matter of which version. See proton.me/de/legal/terms (German version), proton.me/legal/terms (English version)
I am not at all an international legal expert! However I follow some legal threads elsewhere and there is no serious dissent that the legal status of Proton is, at best, hard to tell, when it comes to this issue. And perhaps can only be determined in court cases later.
It is at this point I must abandon the replies to this, but I must say there are too many uncertainties for certain groups to fully reply on this service
- Comment on Proton Mail Suspended Journalist Accounts at Request of Cybersecurity Agency 1 week ago:
They now have offices in the USA and if you look at what they say, they announce their operating under Swiss and USA law.
- Comment on Proton Mail Suspended Journalist Accounts at Request of Cybersecurity Agency 1 week ago:
Under USA law proton cannot reveal some requests, or even talk about deeper collaboration.
This is why some services use canaries. When something is removed from a page it can be assumed they ante under a gag order. This has happened many times ,see en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warrant_canary
By and large political opposition in an authoritarian country should not use tools under that jurisdiction.
I would definitely base my email outside of that influence.
- Comment on Proton Mail Suspended Journalist Accounts at Request of Cybersecurity Agency 1 week ago:
The important thing to me is not maliciousness, but reliability under political , social and legal pressure.
All of this is hard to understand, much of what is happening is opaque.
Also this does not apply to all people. Depending on hundreds of variables, one person’s issue is not relevant to another.
I am in a country that can exert legal pressure on them; and so I cannot use their services
- Comment on The Internet Will Be More Dead Than Alive Within 3 Years, Trend Shows 1 week ago:
I think it’s in those corners ignored by the big companies that true innovation will be seen.
That innovation will replace them later
- Comment on Scientific unprogress... 2 weeks ago:
Went tits up
- Comment on xkcd #3138: Dimensional Lumber Tape Measure 2 weeks ago:
I don’t think so, they are all 6 doggers old or more
- Comment on xkcd #3138: Dimensional Lumber Tape Measure 2 weeks ago:
harrumph…
Those nonsensical rules exercise the brain more. Helps stave off mental deterioration.
Carpenters in the USA have a higher mental acuity at advanced ages than scientists
- Comment on The planet still belongs to the dinosaurs. 2 weeks ago:
The parrot I asked insists she is still existing
- Comment on No, Google did not warn 2.5 billion Gmail users to reset passwords 3 weeks ago:
For anyone concerned about this; please login, using your google credentials, to your nearest scam website
- Comment on Mastodon says it doesn't 'have the means' to comply with age verification laws 3 weeks ago:
I was fruitful and multiplied, its hard to organize a large migration of people, some of whom want to stay.
I will travel, but am rather tied to this area, even if I do not see it changing for the better in my lifetime
- Comment on Mastodon says it doesn't 'have the means' to comply with age verification laws 3 weeks ago:
I agree with masterdon, even though eventually Texas will enact similar legislation forcing me to use a vpn to read it
- Comment on Here’s What Happened When I Made My College Students Put Away Their Phones 4 weeks ago:
Putting a device on airplane mode removes the distractions. If I play a video game while the lecture is going on, well that is on me, or the lecture, or both.
- Comment on 🎶 picture this we we're both butt naked banging on the bathroom door 🎶 4 weeks ago:
I git laid a month after I flipped through the first chapter of an introduction.
Coincidence? I think not
- Comment on 🤡 We've all been played for fools. 🤡 4 weeks ago:
Well, what a surprise. For the first time I feel smug about not having a phd, much education or common sense
- Comment on UK | Man arrested in dawn raid after sharing Facebook posts backing Palestine Action 4 weeks ago:
He aged pretty well
- Comment on Amy Klobuchar learned that a video clip of her was going viral. So she clicked on it and saw her face and her voice saying vulgar things she had never said. It was AI. 4 weeks ago:
She has a well earned reputation of sounding in private just like in the video . I’m sure the video is not her, but it was really accurate in tone; which is why it’s getting traction
- Comment on The Document Foundation is proud to release LibreOffice 25.8. 4 weeks ago:
If it was good enough for my parents, it’s good enough for me!
- Comment on Google’s healthcare AI made up a body part — what happens when doctors don’t notice? 1 month ago:
I used the word 50 years ago in a conversation once; I own it
- Comment on UK households could face VPN 'ban' after use skyrockets following Online Safety Bill 1 month ago:
It’s like watching an online version of Brexit, without the referendum
- Comment on Activist Who Helped Film “No Other Land” Shot and Killed by Israeli Settler 1 month ago:
“Barbarian horde” backed by a foreign empire
- Comment on Thailand sees US offering ‘very good’ trade deal after ceasefire 1 month ago:
Hopium
- Comment on A Second Tea Breach Reveals Users’ DMs About Abortions and Cheating 1 month ago:
Users are funneled towards actions exploited by both politics and greed. Many have no choice.