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- Comment on It seems like when I eat meat my ears ring more. Any ideas if what causes this? Not so much with hamburger but more with pork. Thoughts? 17 hours ago:
Might it be related to the chewing of a tougher food? My tinnitus gets worse sometimes when my TMJ is acting up.
- Comment on Online age-verification tools spread across U.S. for child safety, but adults are being surveilled 1 day ago:
Who’s dumb enough to believe it was ever for child safety?
- Comment on I recommended The Fediverse over on Upscrolled 2 days ago:
We keep things open and simple with lightweight, common-sense protections-spam/bot filtering,
That is incredibly not-true. That platform is an absolute dumpster fire of spam and illegitimate content.
- Comment on Boy I was wrong about the Fediverse (blogpost) 2 days ago:
Its ok to be that long-winded but combining it with the exhausting and bottomlrss clever snark makes this impossible to read in it’s entirety.
We get it. You’re cool. Just fucking tell us what you think of Mastodon.
- Comment on President Trump, Pam Bondi sued over sale of TikTok assets 4 days ago:
Another court case with no ramifications. That’ll teach him.
- Comment on Facebook accounts unavailable in worldwide outage 6 days ago:
Oh no.
Well, anyway…
- Comment on In the US we have signs that say No Shirt No Shoes No service. When did this become a norm? Also if I am wearing a shirt and shoes but no pants can I still enter? 2 weeks ago:
I remember these signs when I was a kid in south FL in the 70s. It was popular to keep the beachgoers out, I don’t know if it was to keep the company out of hot water should something happen to the shirtless or shoeless customer while they’re in the store or whether it was just a choice in who to serve.
As for your question about pants: Since the “No shirt….” phrase isn’t there to make something legally binding but rather a notice to people that this particular business is exercising their right to not serve you, no, you likely won’t get served without pants.
- Comment on Loops is a new short form platform created by Pixelfed creator Daniel Supernault. 2 weeks ago:
It needs an app
There is an app both for apple and android. Just scroll down the page a bit: https://joinloops.org/join-the-beta
- Comment on Movies characters always make it through the craziest plot and somehow not get forever traumatized by it. I wish I could be like that, but instead I stuggle to even make/keep therapy appointments. 2 weeks ago:
I’m not a professional but it’s probably not healthy to compare your experiences to fictional content created for entertainment.
- Comment on X’s Algorithm Pushes Users to Lean More Conservative 2 weeks ago:
This is such a Captain Obvious take. Musk publicly and not at all sneakily modified Grok to do things like give him accolades, be more anti-woke and sycophantic towards Trump and cronies. Of course he’s manipulating the platform to fall in line with his personal views.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
So technological.
- Comment on There's the army, there should be the legy 3 weeks ago:
What kind of monster would downvote a dadjoke?
- Comment on YouTube adds new hurdles for ad blockers, and there's currently no way around it 3 weeks ago:
I’ll be sad when I can no longer watch my subs but as they say, live by the corporate whim, die by the corporate whim.
- Comment on What was your social media path? 3 weeks ago:
local dial-up BBSs sharing gif and wav clips and chatting about anything that you felt like at the moment AOL chatrooms free hosted forums on Anglefire and Geocities Larger forums(SA, Fark, etc) FB/instagram Lemmy/Piefed
I think that would be my path as it relates to communities where I actually ended up having a social community involved. I would say that it also is a direct increase in toxicity as it works downward. I find Lemmy/Piefed just as toxic as any other platform but the lack of a forced algorithm lets me basically mute all of the negative content sources and it’s niche enough that you can actually mute the negative influence, which makes for a pleasant experience.
- Comment on What's stopping youtube from just going full authoritarian and mandate DRM for all their videos in attempt to prevent people from downloading it or block ads? 3 weeks ago:
I imagine the fact that they allow the embedding of videos on other sites make it hard to restrict the playback to that degree. There seems to be a tipping point at which they’ll work on breaking something, more than likely based on it’s popularity When enough 3rd party frontends figured out background playback, they took the time to develop a way to break it. I think the same will happen when they feel too many people are circumventing their data scraping, ads or algorithms. They’ll finally go all in but it’s clear that they don’t want to do that just yet.
- Comment on This past week, Lemmy has gotten really good 3 weeks ago:
I’m sure that’s what he means. I scroll with “New/All” and this is a fantastic way to read new stuff you have never heard about BUT the caveat is: this is an enjoyable scroll ONLY after you’ve developed a good block list of users, instances and communities. Otherwise, you’ll get inundated with the few but very vocal and toxic communities that make Lemmy feel like a clone of Reddit/Twitter/etc.
- Comment on OpenClaw founder Peter Steinberger is joining OpenAI 3 weeks ago:
In the end, they all sell out.
- Comment on UpScrolled crosses 2.5 M users after TikTok's U.S. shakeup 3 weeks ago:
If you love porn and talking about israel/Palestine, its the place to be. Otherwise, its an absolute ghost town.
- Comment on State Department will delete X posts from before Trump returned to office 4 weeks ago:
Are they really not aware of all of the public archiving that occurs constantly?
- Comment on I went back to Linux and it was a mistake 4 weeks ago:
Using an OS is like being at an airport. We don’t need to be made aware of anyone’s departure or arrival.
- Comment on Anthropic Claude Opus 4.6 uncovers 500 zero-day flaws in open-source code 4 weeks ago:
So far, we’ve found and validated more than 500 high-severity vulnerabilities. We’ve begun reporting them and are seeing our initial patches land, and we’re continuing to work with maintainers to patch the others.
If this is true, perhaps a list will be provided soon so communities can vet the effort for themselves.
- Comment on Recreating uncensored Epstein PDFs from raw encoded attachments 4 weeks ago:
I am not intelligent enough to understand any of it but that was a fun read.
TIL the origin of Courier.
- Comment on Emotional Support From Social Media Found to Reduce Anxiety 4 weeks ago:
I believe that the negatives of social media far outweigh this perceived positive.
- Comment on Google begins rolling out Chrome's "Auto Browse" AI agent today 4 weeks ago:
Sucks to be a Chrome user.
- Comment on Mobile carriers can get your GPS location 5 weeks ago:
Apple made a good step in iOS 26.3 to limit at least one vector of mass surveillance, enabled by having full control of the modem silicon and firmware. They must now allow users to disable GNSS location responses to mobile carriers, and notify the user when such attempts are made to their device.
It seems like the vendor can disable this leak. If we ever get a well-rounded linux OS phone, I imagine this will be moot for those on that platform.
- Comment on Nova Launcher gets a new owner and... ads 1 month ago:
Dumped Nova as soon as the sellout was announced. Replaced it with Octopi, which I found to be better anyways.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.otp.octopilauncher&hl=en_US&pli=1
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Yeah, I’m not clicking that link.
- Comment on The more I understand mass shooters, the more I don't what they do. 1 month ago:
Checks out.
- Comment on AI Deepfakes Are Impersonating Pastors to Try to Scam Their Congregations 2 months ago:
It makes sense, it’s a proven pool of gullibility.
- Comment on Quick post about AI-free FireFox Based Browsers (Keep your Adds and avoid the Bloat) 2 months ago:
I use Librewolf everywhere but android where I use Firefox. The sync feature works perfectly between the different brands. Librewolf does not currently offer a mobile browser.
