Skankhunt420
@Skankhunt420@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on YSK: Assets in a bank, stock market, 401(k) or pension are not guaranteed 1 week ago:
Yupp this guy is right. I’d also say you should consider that Gold specifically tends to do better when the US dollar is doing bad.
And now that US and Isreal is hellbent on starting a world war I’d say that’s a pretty safe bet to have some gold and silver around.
- Comment on Using a VPN May Subject You to NSA Spying 1 week ago:
He probably means Neuro Divergent
- Comment on GitHub hits CTRL-Z, decides it will train its AI with user data after all 1 week ago:
This is true but I always felt like there was an ulterior motive behind it.
Like wow all of a sudden MicroSoft cares about open source code and contribution? I always felt like they did it to figure out how add backdoors into stuff somehow but then again I am a paranoid person and always assume the worst with companies in the tech field
- Comment on GitHub hits CTRL-Z, decides it will train its AI with user data after all 1 week ago:
Holy shit this is insane!
- Comment on Newly purchased Vizio TVs now require Walmart accounts to use smart features 1 week ago:
I finally got fed up with it last year and blocked the internet access of my TV on the router level becuase upon contacting support I learned that there was no way to turn off the microphone setting. For real. They just didn’t add that feature in to my model. I still can’t believe that.
It is a little incovneient that I have to turn on my PC before I can watch anything but man the freedom of knowing that TV won’t be spying on me 24/7 is freeing.
Next time I buy I will be looking for commercial displays with HDMI and DisplayPort if its even possible by then.
- Comment on The Art of the Deal 1 week ago:
shit, I won’t do it if they call it square on my medical bills.
I’m a cheap date.
- Comment on OpenAI Will Shut Down Sora Video Platform 1 week ago:
I’d be shocked if any other country let’s Americans use their banks and markets but I mean I guess its possible I know there’s forex and stuff like that.
I’ve always heard no one wants Americans to open bank accounts if they aren’t living there
- Comment on All of a sudden he thinks that it's a spectacular plan. 1 week ago:
“The Muslim scholar Yasmin Amin makes an interesting point, however, noting that the report in question is not technically a hadith at all, since it is ultimately attributed to Aisha and not Muhammad. She makes the argument that traditionalist Muslims can and should differentiate between prophetic and non-prophetic reports found in Sahih Bukhari.”
Obviously the article has a lot more content than this but I found this funny. "Don’t listen to the kid he is accused of raping as a child, listen to the prophet instead.
Also this one “The attribution of this young age to Aisha should thus be understood as reflecting not chronological or historical accuracy but, rather, a symbolic concern for her virginity, chastity and purity.”
Lol what bullshit. come on
- Comment on All of a sudden he thinks that it's a spectacular plan. 1 week ago:
Its a meme dawg.
I dislike AI taking jobs and shit but for memes, fuck it send it.
Shit was funny.
- Comment on When you actually pay attention to the lyrics of the song you're listening: 1 week ago:
Semi Charmed Kind of Life by Third Eye Blind.
At first when I really heard the part about snorting crystal meth I thought I must have downloaded some weird cover like the ones you used to sometimes get from Limewire.
- Comment on Someone Forked Systemd to Strip Out Its Age Verification Support 1 week ago:
You are right on that.
I hope that in the end this does end up all working out and I was just one of the crazy guys worried for no reason.
But either way I still think it is disappointing they did this so quickly and that they’re using a US push in law be such a deciding factor in originally pushing for it. It felt like that was the same way when they banned Russian maintainers. The USA and especially specific states shouldn’t have this much pull especially over open source community driven projects in my opinion.
- Comment on Someone Forked Systemd to Strip Out Its Age Verification Support 1 week ago:
I agree on everyone should be using E2E Encryption. Its an absolute disgrace that that was even mentioned in the court case at all as a possible link to terrorism.
I disagree that the state cant enforce this at least in a targeted way but, I really hope you are right in the end though.
I guess we will see.
- Comment on Someone Forked Systemd to Strip Out Its Age Verification Support 1 week ago:
You control what you install on your pc and I’d be willing to bet that whatever open source OS it is, probably uses Systemd. Unless you’re a Unix person.
They have set this up in a way that yes, right now at 11:21pm UTC on March 24th it isn’t being enforced or required.
But because of the replies of some of the maintainers in their github about this very merge they are suggesting that as soon as it becomes hard law, it will be enforced by them.
Particularly the part where one was replying to a system76 developer who mentioned that they are in talks with state legislators right now, that these proposed laws are very possibly going to be overturned, and that open source software might not even be required to do this at all and that we should give it more tim before we do something like this and the reply was:
“It is possible that California law will be changed. But similar ideas are popping up in other contexts and it’s unlikely that they’ll all go away. This implementation is fairly generic and useful for other things besides age verification, so we shouldn’t decide whether to merge it or not based on a single law in any jurisdiction.”
This suggests that they are doing this because of laws and ideas like this that are coming into play. And that they didn’t want to wait on the confirmation of whether it was law or not, they did it anyway. Why? That’s not very open. That isn’t really taking a stand to support Linux or its users that is voluntarily getting ahead of the control mechanism that “similar ideas” are going to use.
They shouldn’t have done this. In mine, and many, many other peoples opinions as well.
- Comment on Someone Forked Systemd to Strip Out Its Age Verification Support 1 week ago:
You should read the thread in github.
A system76 developer said he’s in talk with state representatives, that this might even be overturned, and that it might not even affect open source software at all and one of the systemd maintainers said and I quote: “It is possible that California law will be changed. But similar ideas are popping up in other contexts and it’s unlikely that they’ll all go away. This implementation is fairly generic and useful for other things besides age verification, so we shouldn’t decide whether to merge it or not based on a single law in any jurisdiction.” -keszybz
That seems like bending the knee pretty fucking hard man.
What they have done is proven that they can bully and harass open source software into submission. They should have waited until FORCED to do something like this but it seems like they’re beyond eager to lick anyone’s boots USA or otherwise.
Linux distros are not US entities bound to US law the last I checked (of course you have your Redhats and etc. And I guess maybe their Fedora distro might fall under us jurdistiction since its developed by red hat but I’m not sure because of being open sourced licensed.
They’ve bent the knee before with banning Russian and I think Chinese Linux kernal maintainers before which was also fucking bullshit.
The USA shouldn’t be able to swing its dick around and force the whole world into submission but boy it sure seems to get to every single year more and more and more.
And a lot of people here support it its so sad.
Anyway I’m getting off track with this but seriously no, they should have taken a stand not only for all of us but for Linux as a whole because systemd is a part of Linux as a whole.
If forced, I understand. This was not forced. This was suggested, merged welcomed and the thread locked as soon as any pushback happened.
Doesn’t seem very open anymore to be honest.
- Comment on Are Americans Actually Idiots? 1 week ago:
I never said that.
I said, that he almost won and if he had I truly believe that others would have too (meaning third party runners)
I never even said I supported him or any variation of that, simply that a third party almost did win and that if it happened once it could again but of course never will with the type of discourse that guy is using. “Throwing away votes” and shit what a load of nonsense.
People like that are why third party votes dont win and seem to be wasted in that context.
- Comment on Online age checks came first — a VPN crackdown could be next 1 week ago:
Legally banned = electronics seized, fines, and jail time when they catch you circumventing it and decide they want to make an example out of you.
I’m sure that won’t ever be used negatively or to target specific groups like investigative journalists and whistleblowers.
- Comment on Online age checks came first — a VPN crackdown could be next 1 week ago:
I know right? Egypt, Tanzania, China, India, Iran, Iraq, Myanmar, Oman, Pakistan, Turkey, Turkminestan, The UAE, Belarus, and Russia all have laws outright banning or restricting (you know, not business but individuals [yes, they can do that]) VPN usage.
But it won’t happen here! You can take that to the bank.
- Comment on Someone Forked Systemd to Strip Out Its Age Verification Support 1 week ago:
You are right because maybe then they would lose some money and that is the only thing the us government cares about.
So once you start disrupting that, maybe shit will get different. Idk though, I’m not very optimistic about most things tbh.
However its worth noting that, in the actual github commit one of the developers for system 76 said that they are in talks with legislators right now and that this may be overturned, not even apply to open source operating systems, etc.
And one of the maintainers said and I quote, “It is possible that California law will be changed. But similar ideas are popping up in other contexts and it’s unlikely that they’ll all go away. This implementation is fairly generic and useful for other things besides age verification, so we shouldn’t decide whether to merge it or not based on a single law in any jurisdiction.” -keszybz
So, it kind of seems like they have a rock hard erection to lick any pair of boots they can, not just the USA ones.
- Comment on Someone Forked Systemd to Strip Out Its Age Verification Support 1 week ago:
It will be used to target certain individuals and “nail” their proverbial “balls to the wall” when they want to ruin your life for not complying.
A us court just convicted people as terrorists and one of the main reasons they cited is that they were using signal.
“This individual circumvented security measures enacted by the united States to keep people and the children™ safe from online threats both foreign and domestic. The individual conspired with multiple other people some of them from other countries, oops we meant foreign adversaries, to destroy or circumvent this framework we had in place”
Only thing I can mainly compare it to is how weed isn’t legal in a lot of places but they usually don’t care, until they suddenly do and your life is fucked.
Think of people like Ken Klippenstein and your Edward Snowdens (who used tails to leak a lot of their illegal spying shit btw which is us made btw where these laws are starting to gain traction the most [yes I see Brazil too])
It will be used to target individuals and destroy their lives through the process.
- Comment on Someone Forked Systemd to Strip Out Its Age Verification Support 1 week ago:
I think you underestimate the technology they have now especially in relation to an event that happened in the 1940’s.
Its like the Stasi but ten thousand times more sophisticated and every bit as motivated.
Maybe even more motivated, because it generates money for them when they have businesses do it (Palantir) and provides “value” to the markets. Because money and control is absolutely all they care about (in the USA)
- Comment on Are Americans Actually Idiots? 1 week ago:
Idk man Ross Perot almost won back in the 90s if the cancer thing hadn’t happened he might have actually done it and then I truly believe once it happened it would have continued to happen.
But instead yeah we should keep the system we have bow democrats and republicans have been so good to us wouldn’t you agree?
You’re like the guy that tells people not to vote for the union.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Can someone explain wtf this is about. I mean I get the gist but I haven’t seen this user ever
Is it my instance I wonder?
Wtf happened?
- Comment on Someone Forked Systemd to Strip Out Its Age Verification Support 1 week ago:
The bigger problem being the government with guns that makes you follow their surveillance laws?
Also most people don’t run IT infrastructure. Most people will not be able to escape this when it turns in to full blown surveillance.
- Comment on Someone Forked Systemd to Strip Out Its Age Verification Support 1 week ago:
Yupp 100% optional.
for now
- Comment on Someone Forked Systemd to Strip Out Its Age Verification Support 1 week ago:
You know I remember when age verification was a thing on porn sites.
No big deal, I was like 12 and could easily say “yupp, I was born April 20th, 1969” and there was no problem.
Now, in several states that has escalated to you showing your ID.
Do you think this is the end game? Systemd made it clear with this move that any kind of US law passed will be able to be honored by their architecture. They didn’t take a stand that you would expect from pretty much the entire Linux community as a whole.
And see the funny part is where you talk about “if the government wants age verification they have to do it themselves” they pretty much do in USA its called your social security number. Banks, auto dealerships, landlords etc use it all the time and its very effective.
By not taking a strong stance against what is happening here you are paving the road brick by brick to having to provide full on SSN and very plausibly retina scans or something similar in the not so distant future before you can even login to your computer or phone.
I don’t understand, how people here are missing that. Fuck we are on Lemmy because we see how shit worked with things like reddit and others. Things always escalate when control and greed are the primary motivators.
This will escalate. And when it does I want you to remember that people were rightfully making a HUGE FUCKING DEAL about when systemd started doing this because by then you will be able to see clearly how it led to whatever surveillance wet dream they are absolutely going to force on us. It will be clear, and this will be step 1 .
- Comment on Someone Forked Systemd to Strip Out Its Age Verification Support 1 week ago:
Well yeah, right now it is optional.
What about when the law passes that says it’s required on a federal level (yes I’m talking about USA). They added this one in pretty quick, do you think they would fold and be like “nah we stand for the users!”
Or do you think they will build on what is already being added here?
- Comment on Someone Forked Systemd to Strip Out Its Age Verification Support 1 week ago:
As far as I can tell the Name Email and location are all voluntarily provided by the user.
This is something that will be used whether you want it to or not (that makes it invasive) because of the laws around it (of course depending on where you are).
Having fields I can ignore as a user isn’t the same as this guided attempt by lawmakers to eventually get you to give ID and retina scans just to use a computer.
This is step 1. That is why people are freaking out about it.
And I know systemd isn’t doing this out of spite, but I do wish the scene would stand up for the user more… Just say no California or whatever other shit place decides to enact that and boom problem solved. Not their fault or problem anymore.
- Comment on The FCC Just Banned the Sale of New Wi-Router Models Made Outside US 1 week ago:
m.youtube.com/watch?v=spW0q-g2BxU&pp=ygUZTGF2YWJp…
I’m sorry its a YouTube link I would link invidious or something similar but man I can’t ever seem to get the links to those to reliably work consistently.
- Comment on The FCC Just Banned the Sale of New Wi-Router Models Made Outside US 1 week ago:
Interesting addition to the “free market” system we all just love so, so much.
Its obvious its for spying. Until there is a telescope stuck up every non rich citizens ass the US government will not give up.
People should rewatch that interview with the creator of Lavabit and how the feds forced him into a shutdown because he wouldn’t play their spy games.
He is still not allowed to talk about all the details of it either. “What about my first amendment rights” he said in the interview.
You know, just things in the land of the free™
- Comment on Apple will reportedly start stuffing ads into the Maps app 1 week ago:
Dude someone mentioned this the other day and I pretty mu h went all in on Garmin GPS since then.
I want to use comaps and organic maps and magic earth and all that but they just don’t work well for me but the Garmin is on point.
Plus they say they don’t sell your data. But even if that’s a lie I bought it used off Craigslist so its “Johns” data now.