gravitas
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Rouge sysadmin and supreme overlord of GravityWell.xYz.
- Comment on A “QuitGPT” campaign is urging people to cancel their ChatGPT subscriptions— Backlash against ICE is fueling a broader movement against AI companies’ ties to President Trump. 21 minutes ago:
Or better yet Unsubscribe but dont stop using ths service, if enough go from paying customer to wasteful freeloader they will lose even more.
- Comment on If the government raided your house and found a bunch of .mkv files but you insist its all legally obtained, how do they ascertain if they are actually pirated or not? 1 week ago:
It doesnt matter if you just store them for private use, it only becomes a crime if you share them, if someone else has the same file (hash) then that means you shared it, otherwise no way to prove anything illegal happened
- Comment on Why do you need a launcher? (asking older gamers actually) 2 weeks ago:
I dont really need it but good launchers make things easier, especially on linux where sometimes a specific patch or version of something like proton is needed and i dont want to spend hours figuring it out by trial and error.
Im not a fan of launchers being required though, thats just DRM. But projects like Heroic launcher and Lutris are incredibly nice to have. Steam is alright, its hard to hate on a company that has done as much for linux gaming as valve has.
- Comment on If you have one, how much do you pay for a domain name? Any cheap registrar recommendations? 2 weeks ago:
I Just transfered over to porkbun after namecheap decided to raise renewal cost again, wish id done it sooner.
- Comment on How to turn off Gemini in Gmail — and why you should | Proton 2 weeks ago:
Besides the fact that Proton is based in Switzerland where government warrants aren’t issued willy-nilly, please learn how the mathematics behind encryption works – or, if not, at least trust that it does. For emails that are sent E2EE, Proton can only have garbled data that requires a key they don’t have.
Email is not end to end encrypted and this is the first of protons many misleading claims. Best case the contents is encrypted but not info like recipents or senderz IP. Leading to less knowledgeable activists not understanding that using protons vpn and their email together can actually lead to users giving proton more then enough info for law enforcement to track someo e down.
Proton doesnt even hide this if you look at their reports they comply with court orders regularly. In theory proton could also back door any of their users keys since everything is done on the fly in the browser and proton controls all of the code. (But im sure we can trust that proton will only comply if the targeted user is a criminal)
People who actually care about encryption already had a solution long before proton, called PGP and thats yet to be broken. Why other then vendor lock in would you encourage people to use anything else? (this is a criticism i have of tuta also)
Also just fyi proton moved out of Switzerland last year for guess what… Legal reasons!
Glad to hear you agree with me and dont want to debate because literally none of what ive said is speculative.
- Comment on How to turn off Gemini in Gmail — and why you should | Proton 2 weeks ago:
The post is just an ad disguised as a guide and absolutely pointless. You know what else will show people how to disable gemini, googles own ai based search.
ImageSorry if my aversion to advertising comes off as smarmy, im tired of seeing companies go from focusing on providing one good service like email and trying to become the next one service fits all replacement for google. Instead of doing one thing extremely well it becomes a race to do as many things as they can and get people to replace one monolith with their own.
Proton is the most recent to make this shift and its obvious they want to be like google but with “privacy” as a gimmic because its only private until they get a government order telling them to do something to unmask a user or monitor an email.
- Comment on How to turn off Gemini in Gmail — and why you should | Proton 2 weeks ago:
How to turn off Gemini in one step:
1) Stop using google’s services.
If i was actually running my own competing service I’d probably suggest switching to it instead of writing a blog post to help people use my competition, but i guess thats why I don’t work in marketing, this must be some big brained 4-d chess move.
Why does it matter if its googles “AI’ slurping up your emails, or just their massive advertising and tracking network? Do the ads seem less intrusive if they’re just coming from adsense instead of gemini? Are people actually foolish enough to think “disabling” a feature like this actually stops google from constantly scanning every single one of their emails?
- Comment on Dunno if this fits here, but... 2 weeks ago:
Well if its android based:
https://smarttubeapp.github.io/
If your device is not android based, ONN has android tv sticks for $15 at walmart or on ebay.
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- Comment on My apartment building gives me free water but I pay for electricity. What if I run the faucet nonstop and rig up a hydro turbine in my bathtub to generate my power from it? 5 weeks ago:
Well I can say from experience that your landlord won’t be happy, but as long as it doesnt say a limit in your lease there’s nothing they can do about it.
- Comment on Anybody out there self hosting Searxing? 1 month ago:
Pretty easy to maintain, ive switched over to using my instance as a default search provider and works great.
- Comment on you're doing ReSeArCh rong!! 1 month ago:
I always found science and history interesting even though i hated school.
Maths though, i always resented “you wont always have a calculator” … but now as im older i imagine kids today having a similar idea about “AI” and i can see that not ending well for anyone.
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