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"If man chooses oblivion, he can go right on leaving his fate to his political leaders. If he chooses Utopia, he must initiate an enormous education program - immediately, if not sooner."
-R B Fuiler
- Submitted 2 days ago to aboringdystopia@lemmy.world | 5 comments
- Comment on US employment by sector since 1850 4 days ago:
See the Agriculture line go towards zero? Yet we now produce way more and more nutritious food than ever before. Thanks to agri technology.
Same exact thing will happen for “IT/Software” as a class of employment. Thanks to AI technology.
You may downvote me now, for I am full of love
- Comment on SBA #REDACTED 4 days ago:
Also kids in RFKJr’s America
- Comment on Full Mental Pedo 6 days ago:
Yeah, it really needs to be in the US Bible Belt…
- Comment on Google Search referrals to the web have plummeted, AI links are 'less than 1%' of traffic 1 week ago:
if that’s working, it means your browser search bar is configured to route thru DDG
- Comment on Infinity vape gauntlet 1 week ago:
Extra kudos to the friend who convinced the others that she is trustworthy enough to hold the
ringCart with Magic Juice inside - Comment on Infinity vape gauntlet 1 week ago:
I was thinking Science Ninja Team Gatchaman , but Voltron or Captain Planet work too
- Comment on covid.gov redirects to lab leak conspiracy insanity 1 week ago:
Serves to remind us of our shared humanity.
Pre-2020 my social circle consisted almost entirely of libertarians and small-government republicans. After Gulf War II ("they have WMD!"), then Snowden ("we’re not spying on you!"), we came to take it as a given that the government always lies. After all, did you not see the lying to Congress about mass surveillance?
Those same people – many of whom self-identified as “skeptics” – were easy prey for Russian bots
All they had to be told was that the government was lying to them about COVID. It matched the pattern of everything else. 95% of them disappeared into disinfo bubbles and became ring-wraith Trump-enablers. Perhaps 5% kept our eye on objective scientific sources and realized in this case actually the government isn’t lying
- Comment on Google Search referrals to the web have plummeted, AI links are 'less than 1%' of traffic 1 week ago:
Only if you are a good netizen and using DDG ;)
- Comment on Google Search referrals to the web have plummeted, AI links are 'less than 1%' of traffic 1 week ago:
Use the DDG bang :
- Go to https://duchduckgo.com
- Enter
!w <your-search-here> - It searches Wikipedia specifically for <your-search>
There are bangs for “image search” (!im), “github search” (!gh), “search PubMed” (!pm)
You cannot live without this
- Comment on It turns out that Juggalo makeup blocks facial recognition technology 1 week ago:
It was.
And I have bad news: it’s largely no longer true. Modern models, gait recognition, 3d face maps, all can de-anonymize juggalo/clown makeup
- Comment on Firefox 149 adds built-in free VPN with 50GB monthly data 1 week ago:
They don’t know the URL but they know the IP address so … yes, they also can get the URL
- Comment on France bids to suspend Shein over childlike sex dolls 1 week ago:
in support of childlike sex dollsin opposition to making feel-good legislation without evidence-based policies - Comment on France bids to suspend Shein over childlike sex dolls 1 week ago:
It’ll never be normalized
Woody Allen, Sleeper, 1973, dinner party scene
Note: Woody Allen is Jewish. The film was released 25 years after the Holocaust.
- Comment on Firefox 149 adds built-in free VPN with 50GB monthly data 1 week ago:
Then why are then not offering at least a low cost subscription? Why are they spending money on infrastructure and support but getting no revenue in return?
Either they are okay with losing even more money, OR they plan to enshittify.
For this and many many other reasons, it’s time to switch to a privacy fork like LibreWolf or WaterFox
- Comment on Firefox 149 adds built-in free VPN with 50GB monthly data 1 week ago:
assume the VPN provider is adversarial
now re-run your analysis
- Comment on Firefox 149 adds built-in free VPN with 50GB monthly data 1 week ago:
If you have to install any closed-source software to use the VPN, the answer is oh hell yes, they can install a root cert. If they are clever they can remove it when you disconnect, so it will not be noticed by most people.
Even if they require no proprietary install, by definition the VPN knows every IP address you connect to. Even if you use DoH. Even if you use Quad9 DNS. The VPN knows you visited midwestsluts.com
If you want privacy, either spin up your own selfhost OpenVPN, or use the Tor nodes myself and volunteers like pay to make free for you to use. Tor node operators can’t tell what site you are visiting (if they run an exit node they can see the site – but don’t know your IP; if they run a Guard/proxy node they can see your IP, but can’t tell anything about what sites you visit or what data you get)
- Comment on Manjaro Linux Team Goes on Strike, Threatens to Fork the Project 1 week ago:
and the certs lapsed again after volunteers built tooling to Prevent That
but somebody never set up the cron job to run it
- Comment on Spotify playing ads for paid subscribers 1 week ago:
A music collection on your harddive is a joy for you personally for ever
A music collection on a VPS hosting a Jellyfin with accounts for your family and friends is a joy forever for all your family and friends (as long as you pay the hosting fees)
- Comment on Spotify playing ads for paid subscribers 1 week ago:
Or self hosting their own Jellyfin
- Comment on covid.gov redirects to lab leak conspiracy insanity 1 week ago:
For the honesty interested, This Week in Virology did some very thorough episodes deep diving with legit experts.
Exec summary: Definitely from a bushmeat market, not from a lab.
https://www.microbe.tv/twiv/tag/lab-leak/
Most recent:
- Comment on War 1 week ago:
actually no, “we” (the collective rest of the world) came into conflict with Iran less than 100 years ago.
Iran had been a monarchy for thousands of years .
Then: - the last Shah just sucked, people hated him, only unlike in antiquity, democracies existed as a popular option, and - because he was nationalizing the oil, the CIA helped the theocratic Iranian Islamic Revolution depose him
- Comment on Can't wait for summer roadtrips <3 1 week ago:
This summer? Who the fuck is going to be able to afford gad for roadtripping?
- Comment on It is time to dispel all of the disinformation surrounding the life & death of Charlie Kirk. 1 week ago:
heads of state
and necks of civilians
- Comment on Retro yet? 1 week ago:
Parachute was dope
Big Game & Watch energy
- Comment on Too bad his trans, black girlfriend wasn't able to save his life following his fentanyl overdose. RIP ♥️ 1 week ago:
Thanks, I was wondering if the anniversary was coming up!
- Comment on so many want the body they dont have 1 week ago:
- Comment on Antiwoke Straight of Hormwin 1 week ago:
TBF we was a professor. He probably has a good ability to form complex sentences and manipulate concepts.
He is also a Conservative, Christian ideologue who has been steeped in both those Faith-based cultures for decades.
The Faith-based community tends to ultimately drift away from the Reality-based one.
- Comment on Antiwoke Straight of Hormwin 1 week ago:
Fuck. No, not yet
- Comment on CNN: Republicans release AI deepfake of James Talarico as phony videos proliferate in midterm races 1 week ago:
Why would these work only on the post-truth, anti-science, pro-religion party?
Oh… right
