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- Comment on 'I'll believe it when I see it': Windows 11 users are cynical about Microsoft's promises to fix the OS and stop pushing AI 1 hour ago:
Remember: Companies don’t learn lessons, they react to profits. They’re 100% gonna boil the frog here.
- Comment on It would be a crazy marketing stunt for any of the privacy focused email service companies stated that Jeffery Epstein and others could have kept their secrets if they had used their service. 1 hour ago:
Oh, absolutely, it’s just the sheer amount of data they do use on people is wild when compared to the fact that they basically ignore the contents of emails xD
- Comment on Firefox's AI Kill Switch Lands in Firefox Nightly, Slated for Firefox 148 8 hours ago:
I mean, Mozilla themselves are calling it that, or at least were
- Comment on Firefox's AI Kill Switch Lands in Firefox Nightly, Slated for Firefox 148 9 hours ago:
Waterfox if you want something that still feels like a modern browser, LibreWolf if you don’t mind having stricter defaults. If you want the nuclear option, Mullvad browser is good, it is very inconvenient thoygh. At least for desktop. On mobile I use Vivaldi/Fennec/Vanadium depending on need
- Comment on It would be a crazy marketing stunt for any of the privacy focused email service companies stated that Jeffery Epstein and others could have kept their secrets if they had used their service. 9 hours ago:
Yeah, those are bigger issues. It’s still easier to find people who’re using PGP than your specific email provider, though. Your friend using gmail can use pgp via a client.
I’ve heard of the exploits, but the ones I’ve heard of do typically require the hackers/whatever to have the emails (either via intercepting them as they’re traveling, or getting them from the server), then injecting some HTML, then emailing the emails back to you to trick the server/client to sending the unencrypted emails back? While I don’t use email for much, and my threat model involves much more “Google” than “The government”, I’m not sure how much of a concern this would be for people who’s threat model isn’t that high?
(Admittedly this is also the first I’m hearing of the exploits. I don’t tend to use PGP for my emails, since I don’t send that many emails anyway)
- Comment on It would be a crazy marketing stunt for any of the privacy focused email service companies stated that Jeffery Epstein and others could have kept their secrets if they had used their service. 9 hours ago:
Yep! The other side benefits are that if your info gets sold online/leaked/what have you, and you start getting emails from your “bank” at the email you used to sign up for a random browser game in 2018, it’s easier to tell that it’s a scam. Not even that expensive either, I think I pay a total of $56/yr for the domain and the email?
- Comment on The upgrade argument for desktops doesn't stand up anymore 10 hours ago:
This post, to my reading, is about how desktop PCs are disposable, and my comment is providing evidence to the contrary
- Comment on The upgrade argument for desktops doesn't stand up anymore 18 hours ago:
I wasn’t talking about a new build at any point in my comment.
- Comment on AI controls is coming to Firefox 18 hours ago:
These are faults for most people. They’re benefits to some! Myself included! I use an even more strict browser for most websites. I am not most people, neither are you. Most of the people I know, and most of the people I interact with, would uninstall that within 5 days because it’s missing features that have been standard in web browsers for at least a decade.
- Comment on AI controls is coming to Firefox 18 hours ago:
Most people will see that as an extreme annoyance the first time it happens, close the browser, uninstall it, and never try another Firefox fork again.
I need FOSS people to understand that most people will not do that.
- Comment on Some rich person could cause a lot of chaos by bailing everyone out of jail that they can 19 hours ago:
It’d cost about $36 billion, assuming roughly 665,000 people are on bail nationwide in the US, and the average Pennsylvania (couldn’t find anywhere else) bail amount of $55,400. There are ~902 billionaires in the US according to Forbes, though some of them are likely under $36 billion.
- Comment on It would be a crazy marketing stunt for any of the privacy focused email service companies stated that Jeffery Epstein and others could have kept their secrets if they had used their service. 20 hours ago:
The only real selling point of any of these is “Not gmail.”
Like. Sure. If you email your friend from your $redacted e2ee military-grade encryption account, and your friend also has the same provider of their e2ee military-grade encrypted email account, then yes. They’re encrypted, and $redacted can’t really provide much if they get subpoenaed. If your friend is using gmail? Your emails are being read by gmail.
They often have other features, like I have a catch-all mailbox set up for my domain because I’d rather give lemmy$date@example.com than my actual email for various reasons. But their privacy ends where gmail begins.
- Comment on It would be a crazy marketing stunt for any of the privacy focused email service companies stated that Jeffery Epstein and others could have kept their secrets if they had used their service. 20 hours ago:
I remember reading some of the files, and seeing a whoooooool lot of gmail addresses.
Track everything we do, but let this all fly under the radar…
- Comment on It would be a crazy marketing stunt for any of the privacy focused email service companies stated that Jeffery Epstein and others could have kept their secrets if they had used their service. 20 hours ago:
Taking a moment to mention that it’s not hard to set up PGP for your emails, and most desktop clients that I’ve randomly looked at support it
- Comment on The data windows collect about you goes to a company founded by someone who is in the epstein files 21 hours ago:
Yeah, this was saying how it was back when I first started using Ubuntu back in the Lucid Lynx days. We’ve come a long way, and I couldn’t be happier
- Comment on The world is trying to log off U.S. tech 1 day ago:
I mean, privacy had been getting worse for decades before Trump got in office. Mainstream tech has been on a steady decline for years, if not longer, and the privacy invasions being baked into most software have always been horrifying.
Was it all functional? Yeah. Were there a lot of horrifying things under the hood? Also yeah.
- Comment on AI controls is coming to Firefox 1 day ago:
Let’s pull some obvious ones from the feature list!
- Include only privacy respecting search engines like DuckDuckGo and Searx.
- Always force user interaction when deciding the download location of a file
- Disable autoplay of media.
- Disable search suggestions and ads in the urlbar.
- Disable Firefox Sync, unless explicitly enabled by the user.
For some other ones:
- Logs you out of everything every time you close the browser.
- If memory serves, it letterboxes by default. If it doesn’t, ignore this line, I haven’t used it in a while.
I’m not saying I don’t like these features. I do. I only accept login cookies from services I host myself.
Most people will see that as an extreme annoyance the first time it happens, close the browser, uninstall it, and never try another Firefox fork again.
Most people care enough about privacy to want convenient ways to increase it. Most people do not care enough about privacy to have to log into Facebook every single time they restart their browser.
All of these are disableable, very few people will even bother looking into how to disable them. They will stop using the browser.
- Comment on AI controls is coming to Firefox 1 day ago:
I’d say Mullvad’s browser is more like browsing the net via TOR, but Librewolf is only about 2 steps behind it.
But yeah there are so many others that will still feel usable to someone who doesn’t think the everyone isn’t part of their threat model
- Comment on The upgrade argument for desktops doesn't stand up anymore 1 day ago:
Yes, desktop PCs challenge that trend. If you’re not chasing the newest of the new, you can keep using your old stuff till it dies. I’ve done one CPU upgrade, and a GPU upgrade, to my desktop in the eight years I’ve owned it, and it handles all of my games fine.
If you’re changing the motherboard, you’ll usually need a new CPU, and sometimes RAM. As long as your MOBO has a PCI/PCIE slot you can shove your old graphics card in there. Unless there’s a new RAM version, you don’t need to replace the RAM, and SATA’s been the standard storage connector for how long now?
Unless you’re going above your current PSU’s rating that thing’s good until it’s dead.
I just don’t see how this argument holds up. If your motherboard is old enough that they no longer make your CPU/RAM socket, and you’re looking to upgrade, chances are very good that thing’s lived far longer than most laptops would be expected to. But like. When I built my current desktop 8 years ago, it had 8gb of RAM and a… I don’t remember the graphics card, I know the processor was a pentium G something, and like 1tb of storage. It has an i7 (don’t remember the generation off hand), and an R9 290, and 32gb of RAM, and 7tb of storage now. Same motherboard. If I replace it I will need a new processor, and new RAM (the RAM is actively dying, so I haven’t been using it much), but these parts are all nearly a decade old, with the exception of the RAM. Well. One RAM stick is 8 years old, but that’s beside the point.
This just doesn’t line up with my own personal experience?
- Comment on Our understanding of reality might be a result of the way cousciousness works 1 day ago:
No, no. I think your showers need to be longer. You might be onto something.
- Comment on The data windows collect about you goes to a company founded by someone who is in the epstein files 1 day ago:
It really depended on what you were doing, and how comfortable you were in the terminal. Even using Ubuntu you still had some terminal use required, and for gaming it just was not there yet at all. It’s definitely been a viable alternative for standard users for at least 7 years, and gaming got good about 5 years ago.
Source: Gamer who started dual-booting Linux 15 years ago, and stopped dual-booting Windows about 4 years ago.
- Comment on The data windows collect about you goes to a company founded by someone who is in the epstein files 1 day ago:
Last I checked mine was at almost 80%. For a while there I was getting a shitton of traffic from outside that was getting blocked, which lead to a 99% reject rate, though.
Not sure what’s going on with my new room mate’s internet, but yeah that was a wild month of trying to get that all under control
- Comment on Opinions are like teeth; we should have two sets of them 1 day ago:
Oh I’d likely have thought it was neat, I did find Linux a year later (or maybe I was 14, can’t remember exactly, I know I didn’t start using it until I was 15), but I’ve definitely gotten more, and less extreme on it xD
- Comment on Opinions are like teeth; we should have two sets of them 1 day ago:
Ehh, personally I like thinking over things and forming opinions. I don’t frequently share opinions I don’t deem important, but I have 'em! Plus realizations in one area that seems small can have impacts on the opinions that are more important to you.
I feel like I should have majored in philosophy.
- Comment on Opinions are like teeth; we should have two sets of them 1 day ago:
Maybe. I could be an edge case, but I don’t even think current me and 14 year old me could have a civilized discussion about anything we care about xD
- Comment on Opinions are like teeth; we should have two sets of them 1 day ago:
I once had someone tell me “Ahh, everyone’s political opinions are all based on who they grew up listening to anyway!” and I did just have to ask them “Does that mean you’ve thought about none of your opinions since childhood???”
Like. No. I have a handful of opinions that haven’t changed since childhood/teenhood, and that’s just because I haven’t thought of them. Almost all of the rest of them are very different to when I was a kid.
- Comment on Surgeons have to have *really* strong stomachs 1 day ago:
2G1C, c2010: haha poop, ewww 2G1C, c2020: poop. Ew. Why are they doing this?
For me it was “I get that this is a sex thing, but I don’t get how anyone could get off to this. I also don’t see why people are getting so grossed out by it, though”
Now it’s more “Ehh, not enough plot for me to care.” At least from a media side. From thinking of the workers, I doubt they were paid enough, but also there was an interview with the producer who did say that it was both a trailer for a larger film, and not actually real. Certainly convincing! But not actually real.
I forget if Hands was the jar or the horse
Hands is the horse, 1 guy 1 jar was the jar.
it was a deeply misfortunate series of events that led him to injury/death
Another interview: He’s alive (as of 2013, anyway, but he’s from Ukraine), and he did it just because he wanted to be able to fist himself. Granted, the interview was just posted on a forum, so take it with a grain of salt. Even if it wasn’t it’s not like his face was in the video, and we’d be able to verify it.
The one that I think started to change me
Yeah I never finished those. By that point I’d spent enough time on LiveLeak to know what was coming, and knew I’d hate it. Extreme fear of death related to OCD, and even knowing it was coming was enough to throw me off for the rest of the day.
And then I think about the posters, too. I assume they’re evil, but I of course know no one is born evil. What went wrong?
Loooootta things can. I never posted them, but I know people who did. There’s a video by Innuendo Studios, the whole channel’s political, and this video is no exception, but if you look up “Innuendo Studios how to radicalize a normie” on YouTube that’s the video. You often only need a handful of very small things going wrong, or even going right, and the wrong support structure. It can literally just be graduating highschool while not having a super supportive family. With me it was my grandmother (who raised me up until that point) dying, and making a friend who was on /b/. That was it.
- Comment on Surgeons have to have *really* strong stomachs 1 day ago:
I still don’t actually have a notable disgust response to most gross things. Gore makes me uncomfortable because of a quite severe fear of death, but that only applies to real people, so I can watch animated media with it, and be fine? I would blame /b/, and rotten for that, but I don’t even think I had one back then? Even smells don’t get to me.
Not sure if gore in a surgeon’s context would get to me. I’ve definitely watched some surgery videos out of curiosity, and been fine?
Could be frontal lobe, could just be partial dissociation to get through it in your teenage years, who knows. We were on /b/ for a reason, after all, and it wasn’t because we were happy with our situation
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- Comment on We could build a solar lazer with a ton of mirrors 2 days ago:
There’s a solar farm type that is literally that. Thousands of mirrors focussed onto one photovoltaic cell.