schwim
@schwim@piefed.zip
- Comment on "Indian American" and "American Indian" are terms that will probably gonna confuse a lot of people. 3 days ago:
It’s also not called the Bureau of American Indian Affairs.
- Comment on "Indian American" and "American Indian" are terms that will probably gonna confuse a lot of people. 3 days ago:
Isn’t it supposed to be “native American” now?
- Comment on Using a VPN May Subject You to NSA Spying 4 days ago:
…Americans may be inadvertently waiving the privacy protections they’re entitled to under the law.
We have no protections and no privacy, laws or no.
- Comment on Is school cafeteria food in America trash? 6 days ago:
When the government allowed corporations into the schools with soda and snack machines in exchange for a kickback in the 80s, any hope of a bureaucrat looking out for the kids’ health was dead. Once they could use the excuse that most kids weren’t making use of a subsidized nutritious lunch(very loosely using the phrase) because they were bringing their own or eating their lunch from the machines, they didn’t even need to try any longer.
https://www.nuvending.co.uk/news/history-of-vending-machines-in-schools/ (Ironically, a post from a corporation installing the vending machines points but it makes the necessary points)
- Comment on eYou promises to change social media. But the alternatives already exist 1 week ago:
In this case, I think it’s target user isn’t looking to get out from under the billionaires and corpos, just the American billionaires and corpos. That’s who eyou is designed to appeal to.
The tiny number of people who are anti billionaire and corpos-run social media regardless of nationality already have our very tiny corner carved out.
- Comment on US man pleads guilty to defrauding music streamers out of millions using AI 1 week ago:
The ONLY reason the industry cares is because of the fake streamers part of this. They not only welcome ai music, platforms like Spotify are creating ai music of their own so they can cut out the pittance they pay the artists.
This is not a goodguys-win story.
- Comment on It's not federated, but I stumbled upon a potential Pinterest alternative on Reddit 1 week ago:
- Comment on It's not federated, but I stumbled upon a potential Pinterest alternative on Reddit 1 week ago:
Thank you for that. I tried registering but got a “not_in_beta” error response so I’ll keep an eye on when they open it up to the unwashed masses. Thanks for sharing it!
- Comment on It's not federated, but I stumbled upon a potential Pinterest alternative on Reddit 1 week ago:
Have you got a non-reddit link?
- Comment on If I buy a domain not from my own country, will it effect the useage at all? 1 week ago:
There are very few instances of geo TLD’s requiring proof that you live in the redion the TLD represents but if you can buy a geo TLD, no it will not impact usage of any website using that domain.
As a us-based operator, I’ve used an Isle of Mann domain for my website for years without issue and have set them up for many clients that wanted something particular.
- Comment on Gacha Game Apologizes For Giving Players Malware With Some Free Loot Boxes 1 week ago:
Well, as long as they’re sorry.
- Comment on If I were to go out steal 34 cars. And charged with 34 felonies. One per each car. Could I not use the presidents case in defense of my own? Why or why not? 1 week ago:
No, because you’re not valuable enough to the billionaires running the country to stay out of prison.
- Comment on Firefox 149 adds built-in free VPN with 50GB monthly data 1 week ago:
If anyone missed them removing the “we will never sell your data” from their promise to their users, thus is clearly their next step in monetizing their users.
- Comment on I am an American. I used to be proud of my country. Now it feels like a turd circling the drain. Is there anything going on behind the scene that America is actually doing good in? 1 week ago:
We’ve always excelled at terrorism.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
No one should take you seriously. Log off.
Shocker that you actually handle online discussion with the desire to simply remove the people that you don’t agree with.
Much like a Nazi.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
It seems that every social influencer Nazi has his bootlickers, I guess.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
I love to get the important self-hosting and ad-blocking info from my favorite anti-semite.
- Comment on Why are people so rude on Reddit compared to the Fediverse? 1 week ago:
It depends on your communities. There are plenty of proudly toxic people on the fediverse.
- Comment on He has become a felon 34 times over, impeached twice, is there anything else anyone can do to get Trump out of office besides a storming the gates? 1 week ago:
Now that the corpos and billionaires know that they can be openly and brazenly corrupt and greatly accelerate their schemes, we will never see a return to the politics of old where hiding it minimized profit regardless of who the next puppet figurehead is. You cannot un-ring the bell.
- Comment on Is it weird for parents to keep saying "I love you", then asks "Do you love me?" 1 week ago:
I’m not intimately familiar with the culture but as an American, it would be something that would make me uncomfortable.
- Comment on Is it actually healthy for people to have a place to confess things anonymously? 2 weeks ago:
Others carry thoughts they would never attach to their name anywhere.
As do I, I guess the difference being that sharing that thought without self-attribution would serve me no better than keeping it safe inside.
- Comment on Theoretically speaking, if one wanted to sail the seas while being not very tech savvy – is using a VPN (Mullvad) enough? I would never, of course… but theoretically? 2 weeks ago:
I can see an argument that the exit node is someone else’s computer. An an example of this risk, honeypot Tor exit nodes.
In this context, however, I would trust Mullvad’s exit nodes, I think. Well, do trust them, since I use them, just not for anything that would get me in hot water.
- Comment on Is it actually healthy for people to have a place to confess things anonymously? 2 weeks ago:
Well, as they say, it takes all kinds but I wouldn’t want to be on either end of an anonymous confession of any magnitude.
I neither benefit from yelling my secrets into the void or reading someone else’s.
- Comment on Why does this website feel like the end of FOSS? 2 weeks ago:
It strikes me as a joke/sarcastic jab at the industry.
Tired of putting “Portions of this software…” in your documentation? Those maintainers worked for free—why should they get credit?
…and suddenly your entire proprietary codebase must be open sourced. The horror!
Through our offshore subsidiary in a jurisdiction that doesn’t recognize software copyright
I’m surprised anyone could take the site seriously.
- Comment on Ford, Take Note: Classic Pickup Becomes The EV We Want 2 weeks ago:
Ford already knows you want expensive but cool.
- Comment on Digg Shut Down 2 weeks ago:
I’ve never used the site but I can respect the letter of notice.
- Comment on Is there any reason we were taught in school that blood is blue in the body until it reaches oxygen and then it turns red other than our veins look blue? 2 weeks ago:
I think most people that think they were taught this in school actually just heard it a lot from random friends and acquaintances, as I did. I heard this all the time but never from a scholarly authority.
YMMV, of course.
- 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? 2 weeks 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 3 weeks ago:
Who’s dumb enough to believe it was ever for child safety?
- Comment on I recommended The Fediverse over on Upscrolled 3 weeks 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.
