GreenShimada
@GreenShimada@lemmy.world
- Comment on How do I boot into the Corn Kernel? 4 days ago:
First, you gotta get ready for grub but being hungry for the kernel.
Then, you grab the butter and slather it on your keyboard.
- Comment on Did you know?... 4 days ago:
I really wish this just said “Did you know corndogs?”
Yeah! I do! :)
- Comment on How I block all online ads 6 days ago:
To quote someone from HN:
There is nothing special about the Troubled Engineer’s setup. It’s mostly a matter of using open platforms. With Firefox on the desktop and Fennec on Android (Graphene), you get full uBlock Origin support and therefore never see any ads anywhere, even on Youtube. On Android, there is also NewPipe that offers “free Youtube Premium” (play in the background and download).
It’s really just uBlock Origin, a DNS blocker, and a few other small tweaks for YT. I use NewPipe on Android and Invidious instances. At this point I only see ads when setting up a VM and open the browser for the first time and forget I need to install uBO.
- Comment on AI Slop Is Ruining Reddit for Everyone 6 days ago:
Ages ago - they tried to make it all these flairs and sparkles and whatever. Maybe it’s back lately?
- Comment on AI Slop Is Ruining Reddit for Everyone 1 week ago:
The day they got rid of reddit gold and started cash grabbing hard was the day the writing was on the wall.
- Comment on Manufacturer issues remote kill command to disable smart vacuum after engineer blocks it from collecting data — user revives it with custom hardware and Python scripts to run offline 1 week ago:
I expect this was in the terms of service, though
While I expect the same, there’s also just a reasonablility standard. If Meta and Google updated their TOS to say that users agreed to become human chattle slaves to mine cobalt and forfeit their rights, no court (…right, SCOTUS?..right?) would uphold that. A TOS is a contract, but it’s mostly for the protection of companies from liability. Takign active steps to brick someone’s device over the device not connecting to it’s C2 server (the company had zero evidence this was done intentionally and a router firewall misconfiguration could just have easily done the same thing), is IMO something that should result in a lawsuit.
- Comment on How Lemmy users feel when they delete their Reddit account 1 week ago:
How should I feel when reddit starts deleting and shadowbanning my alt accounts?
- Comment on Manufacturer issues remote kill command to disable smart vacuum after engineer blocks it from collecting data — user revives it with custom hardware and Python scripts to run offline 1 week ago:
IMO “Smart” refers to the lawyers that got paid to write a 900-page TOS that lets a company do whatever they want.
- Comment on Manufacturer issues remote kill command to disable smart vacuum after engineer blocks it from collecting data — user revives it with custom hardware and Python scripts to run offline 1 week ago:
The fact that this isn’t considered outright fraud is disturbing. This person OWNS the device, yes? They’re not leasing it.
FFS, this should be illegal.
- Comment on Reddit global rank is going down 1 week ago:
I feel like reddit is accidentally trying to speedrun dead internet theory.
I stopped using it when their quality contributor score shadowbanned me because I don’t post enough in the right subs.
My partner stopped using it for the same reason - account used every couple days for comments also shadowbanned out of no where.
Starting a new account means grinding for a month or two in subs that force you to spam each other with up votes before you can ever do anything other than post and ask the mods to approve your post manually.
- Comment on ChatGPT is down worldwide, conversations disappeared for users 1 week ago:
Oh no.
…Anyway
- Comment on NEVER OBSOLETE 1 week ago:
I be there’s a Linux distro that would run on it.
- Comment on He really made things worse 1 week ago:
Ew - eat an old? So stringy and greasy. You should have been feeding them to a volcano god!
- Comment on What did I forget? 2 weeks ago:
TIL I am, apparently, as well.
- Comment on He really made things worse 2 weeks ago:
Man, that PVC flavor was up there with cherry kool-aid.
- Comment on He really made things worse 2 weeks ago:
Scoff! I remember when Thanksgiving was venison and dry corn cobs dipped in sandy beach water.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Thanks, I’ll check it out.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Rituals are very important for humans. Always have been, since before we knew how to write them down. They punctuate the year, they anchor cultures, they provide context within a lifetime to measure change, and the seasonal progression defines the agricultural cycle.
It’s interesting that Buddhism is also on a spectrum, like you say, where the Tibetan versions lean way into their original shamanic roots, and it goes from there down to the nearly secular Western versions. Zenju Earthlyn Manuel write a cool book about the shamanic origins of Soto Zen, and it really all tracks. It’s order overlayed on the ad hoc nature of animism. There’s a gap where intent and, to some degree, ego powers magic, but with Buddhism, it’s like a negative space where you kind of are affecting the world around you, but you’re not invested in outcomes.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
I don’t subscribe to Chaos Magick per se, but I do appreciate the postmodern view and willingness to sort of aggregate what works. Personally, it’s the cringe folks leaning into “I’m a mess, so I do chaos magic” crew that turn me off to the whole movement even though the premise is rational and based. That and I don’t like dealing with the costs of doing magick that just come with the territory. Sort of like remote viewing - if it works, then you get results and you’re doing it right.
I’m pleasantly surprised at Lemmy’s response to this comment, though.
- Comment on Change my mind 2 weeks ago:
OK, come find me on a youtube video about sheep cheese and I’ll debate you.
- Comment on Holy shiiiiit 2 weeks ago:
Ah - that’s my bad, I forgot civilized places in the world had pension still and not speculative con jobs where we prop up the private industry via the stock market with retirement money.
- Comment on Holy shiiiiit 2 weeks ago:
This happens in the developing world on occasion, with the assumption is that insurance pays out to the family. I’m 99% sure doing the deed yourself means it doesn’t pay out at all. Tragic all the way down.
- Comment on It is permnent! You are become him. 2 weeks ago:
Credit to Obvious Plant
- Comment on Amazing 2 weeks ago:
Ultra Mega Hyper Orthodox
- Comment on Someone should put the 63 actual humans who are still MAGA on suicide watch after this past several days. 2 weeks ago:
If you look at the insanity of the denial, it’s all over the map. Favorite I saw was that Epstein hated Trump, so none of this was possible, and being banned from Cheney’s funeral was a badge of honor.
…as if the money part didn’t work in anywhere. As if Bannon and Epstein weren’t literally all over the emails, and Trump didn’t reach out and try and lure him back in after he won in 2016.
- Comment on Amazing 2 weeks ago:
The best show that never got the CGI or plot development or really much else it deserved beyond trying to get Jennifer Sky and Gina Torres something to lure Xena fans away as they started to sunset that series.
TIL that Gina Torres sings the theme. Never knew that, and I love it so much.
- Comment on Amazing 2 weeks ago:
Ah yes, Orthodox^Orthodox Christmas
- Comment on Browser Fingerprinting And Why VPNs Won’t Make You Anonymous 3 weeks ago:
Google tag manager, which would be first party scripts now.
- Comment on Browser Fingerprinting And Why VPNs Won’t Make You Anonymous 3 weeks ago:
Look at the uBO trackers on each site and you’ll br surprised how often Google comes up.
- Comment on Browser Fingerprinting And Why VPNs Won’t Make You Anonymous 3 weeks ago:
Not your ISP. Google likely is the one following that. If you have uBlock Origin installed, click on the badge on any site and you’ll see which trackers there are. For Lemmy, it’s just going to list other lemmy instances. When you’re on that forbidden site, see if they have any Google analytics trackers - those are what will fingerprint you.
Then go to amiunique.org or hidemytracks.eff.org and see what information you’re giving up. Vanilla FF gives up fonts, sound card info, and graphics info, which are enough to pin you to specific hardware. If your machine isn’t extremely common, then Google knows it’s you.
Why not download the Mullvad browser? It’s free, and you’re paying for its development if you’re paying for the VPN.