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@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 Rewiring Mozilla: Doing for AI what we did for the web | The Mozilla Blog 3 days ago:
It’s almost like Mozilla had dementia and forgot who it was, while doing things earlier Mozilla would find hard to watch
- Comment on Why civilians don't crowdfund bribe money for politicians? 4 days ago:
Very cheap, but the cost is not only money but influence: billionaire politicians can be swayed by a measly million dollar bribe. The money is more a social norms thing in those circles. A token
Crowd funding cannot exert influence. It is not corrupt, does not own slave factories or stifle tens of thousands with unethical behavior.
- Comment on The Patent Office Is About To Make Bad Patents Untouchable 4 days ago:
Software patents… under some circumstances this would cripple many small USA companies, or legalize protection rackets where they must pay money
- Comment on One of America’s most dangerous volcanoes will soon power homes 5 days ago:
“…The radical left is trying to wake volcanos, it’s high time we outlawed seismology, which is like demonology, but for nerds”
- Comment on Big Tech Wants AI to Shop for You—Retailers Want Your Data. Guess Who’s Winning? 1 week ago:
“By clicking the ok button to activate this (critically important) site, you agree to allow us to make suggestions to the auto AI sales on your behalf”
- Comment on Big Tech Wants AI to Shop for You—Retailers Want Your Data. Guess Who’s Winning? 1 week ago:
I was imagining this not as an isolated event but a statistical small failure doing normal business practices of the future.
And chargeback against Google or Microsoft causes account cancellation.
What you said makes sense for this year.
- Comment on Big Tech Wants AI to Shop for You—Retailers Want Your Data. Guess Who’s Winning? 1 week ago:
My imagination thinks that in an AI shopping future, anyone who reads an article similar to this automatically buys a Micky Mouse plushie.
Did not want to ? That easy to fix: please go to your settings to turn off auto-shopping. Refunds work too, just ship it back
- Comment on Ruby Central tries to make peace after 'hostile takeover' 5 weeks ago:
I just want to also say thank you for using the þorn. It’s a lovely letter that had unjust fate, and it’s nice to see it in the wild
- Comment on hows keto working out for you 5 weeks ago:
This was me, is me. I had to start a no grain diet to get my blood sugar down. Between that and exercise I have avoided, so far, having to take meds for diabetes.
I am diabetic, but my average blood sugar is in the normal range without medication. If I eat wrong or get laz, I have problems
- Comment on What possible evolutionary advantage is offered by my ears suddenly sprouting tons of hair? 1 month ago:
Older people need warmth and avoiding ants crawling into ears?
- Comment on I'm tired of teen superheroes! 1 month ago:
Boomers in tights or bust!
As a geezer, I too have noticed a startling amount of baby faced caped crusaders.
One can simply assume being a super hero is dangerous. Few live longer than their 20s. What we see now are clones, who think they are the same people.
- Comment on Bacteria may kill us entirely, but we will never kill bacteria entirely 1 month ago:
I can see how bacteria may have developed our ancestors to be their hosts.
It’s like cats. People think they are the masters. People also think the gut biome is there to serve them. Silly people
- Comment on 1 month ago:
The anti Trump forces saw their power, revelled in it, and called it a day. It will not be applied to other companies.
It’s like the nationwide protests
- Comment on Trump says TikTok should be tweaked to become “100% MAGA” 1 month ago:
If you look at the Chinese press and social media no sale is expected.
Trump has a history of announcing sales without agreement. He did it before he was president.
Also at this point he had lied and broken promises so much the Chinese cannot rely on agreements, they can only try to not engage in non constructive ways.
People should not listen to Trump
- Comment on Trump says TikTok should be tweaked to become “100% MAGA” 1 month ago:
I think China and ByteDance are silent to not aggravate the situation, and I see no incentive to sell. Most likely TicToc will quietly cooperate with the American government more, or the service will be banned
- Comment on Trump says TikTok should be tweaked to become “100% MAGA” 1 month ago:
Why does anyone think this is true or will happen? Did ByteDance or the Chinese government say anything?
- Comment on The Secret Service traced swatting threats against officials. They found 300 servers capable of crippling New York’s cell system 1 month 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 month 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 2 months 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 months ago:
“Accident”
- Comment on Disney sells us imaginary heroes while supporting real world villains. 2 months 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. 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 months ago:
Went tits up
- Comment on xkcd #3138: Dimensional Lumber Tape Measure 2 months ago:
I don’t think so, they are all 6 doggers old or more