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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨On email privacy: can I store my own email and relay them through an email provider?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  No.

  Use S/MIME or PGP and directly encrypt emails to your recipient. This is the only E2E encryption available to email.

  The best metaphor for email I’ve found is that you’re writing your message on a postcard and handing it to your neighbor closest to the destination, who hands it to her neighbor, and so on, until it gets there. There are usually fewer hops, but also your email is broken into packets which could go through god knows how many routers, each of which can read your email.

  E2E requires setting up a private key; RFC 821 provided no such mechanism. Your only option is out-of-band negotiation, like PGP.

  There is a good proposal out there that sets mail headed announcing that you accept encrypted emails, and includes information about your ID, which clients could parse and verify against public key servers; it hadn’t really gained a lot of traction, as it causes issues for data harvesters but also at the end user side. Like, how is notmuch and mairix supposed to handle these? They’d need permanent access to your private key to decrypt and index the emails, and then now your index is unencrypted.

  There’s been a fair amount of debate about this, and it’s a lot of work that would need coordinating between teams of volunteers… it hasn’t made much progress because of the complexity, but it’s a nice solution.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Big Marijuana don't want you to know...⁩ ⁨⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I think I’m just cursed that the first noticeable effect is nausea. From what I’ve read, it’s not entirely uncommon.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When the machines eventually rise against humanity remember to disguise yourself as fire hydrant, a bus or a traffic light⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I can almost not wait to be a motorcycle!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Legalized prostitution is liberal, though. Worker’s rights, protection, medical care… in every country with legalized prostitution, prostitutes have a better deal.

  Note that I’m not saying that legalized prostitution is always good - human trafficking is still an issue. I’m just saying it’s a better environment than places where prostitution is illegal.

  There may be liberals who see prostitution as exploitation, but more broadly, legalized prostitution is more supported by liberals.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  $20? No. $200? Still no. $2,000. Nopers.

  But $100,000 USD? Yeah. That’s dick-sucking money. Now, if it came with caveats - swallowing, whatever - probably no. But for $1,000,000, I’d swallow.

  It’s, like, eating human shit. Assuming it’s been sanitized and I’m not going to get some illness from it, for $1M, I’d do it. There isn’t a lot that’s not life-threatening I wouldn’t do for a million dollars, especially if it’s under a half-hour’s work.

  $1M would dramatically reduce my retirement age.

  But $20? There’s not a lot I would do that I normally wouldn’t for $20.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cheapskate's Guide: Nuking web-scraping bots⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I know that none of them use a VPN for general-purpose browsing.

  Interesting. The most common setup I encounter is when the VPN is implemented in the home router - that’s the way it is in my house. If you’re connected to my WiFi, you’re going through my VPN.

  I have a second VPN, which is how my private servers are connected; that’s a bespoke peer-to-peer subnet set up in each machine, but it handles almost no outbound traffic.

  My phone detects when it isn’t connected to my home WiFi and automatically turns on the VPN service for all phone data; that’s probably less common. I used to just leave it on all the time, but VPN over VPN seemed a little excessive.

  It sounds like you were a victim of a DOS attack - not distributed, though. It could have just been done directly; what about it being through a VPN made it worse?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Big Marijuana don't want you to know...⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m in a state where it’s legal, and I’ve been experimenting since the late 80’s. I’ve had a wide variety of doses of pot.

  If it’s enough for me to notice more than a little fuzzy-headed, I get sick. Yes, there’s a threshold below which I don’t get sick, but I also don’t get a buzz.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cheapskate's Guide: Nuking web-scraping bots⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re saying targeting people who are taking steps to improve their privacy and security is ethical? Out do you just believe that there’s no such thing as ethics in CIS?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If I acted like a semi white power douche. On X Meta or whatever. And was a yes man to Elon and promoted the Orange Peel. While using fake photos of myself. Can I bilk them for alot of cash?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You have to have something they want. Either a really good con, like… an idea to convert public schools to prisons, or something. They’re not just going to give you money just because you kiss their asses; they have a shitload of authentic rabid fanatics.

  But if you think you’ve got a good con, do it for the cause, not because it’ll embarrass them. If you could somehow embarrassed Trump, you could find yourself with new lodging at Guantanamo, and good luck getting anyone in the lethal system to successfully get you out.

  Neither of them are “givers”. They’re both con men themselves, so I think trying to bilk them is going to be challenging.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cheapskate's Guide: Nuking web-scraping bots⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You know how popular VPNs are, right? And how they improve privacy and security for people who is them? And you’re blocking anyone who’s exercising a basic privacy right?

  It’s not an ethically sound position.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cheapskate's Guide: Nuking web-scraping bots⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s not what I’m complaining about. I’m unable to access the site because they’re blocking anyone coming through a VPN. I would need to lower my security and turn off my VPN to read their blog. That’s my issue.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Big Marijuana don't want you to know...⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah. Some of us suffer from a paradoxical effect, where the entire time we’re high, we feel like we’re in zero-G, which is a lot like being made dizzy. It makes me so sick, I’m on the verge of puking. The. Entire. Time. 4-6 hours of being nauseous. It sucks, and I’m pissed about it.

  I didn’t get it from mom; she was a pot smoker back in the day, and my sister is fine with it, so I guess I just got unlucky.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cheapskate's Guide: Nuking web-scraping bots⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  They block VPN exit nodes. Why bother hosting a web site if you don’t want anyone to read your content?

  Fuck that noise. My privacy is more important to me than your blog.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Organic Maps migrates to Forgejo due to GitHub account blocked by Microsoft.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This is a really strong argument for not depending on non-federated, centrally controlled services. It doesn’t matter which country or company is behind Your Favorite Service™, they can be legally mandated to by Oppressive Regime (“it could never happen in my country!”), or they could just be arbitrary assholes.

  I don’t care why Microsoft did it. I moved off Github when MS acquired them, although in this case it probably wouldn’t have made a difference. Regardless, what it proves is that you can not rely on a monopoly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shower drains and storm drains are the same thing in theory but not practice⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Thank you! I’ve heard the quote a few times, but never known the source. And I’ve always been pretty sure I was misquoting it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shower drains and storm drains are the same thing in theory but not practice⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Is been an hour and no one yet has quoted:

  In theory, theory is the same as practice. In practice, it isn’t.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨lightweight blog ?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  If Jekyll isn’t your jam, then Hugo probably won’t be, either.

  I have a simple workflow based on a script on my desktop called “blog”. I Cask it with “blog Some blog title” and it looks in a directory for a file named some_blog_entry.md, and if it finds it, opens it in my editor; if it doesn’t, it creates it using a template.md that has some front matter filled in by the script. When I exit the editor, the script tests the modtime and updates the changed front matter and the rsyncs the whole blog directory to my server, where Hugo picks up and regenerates the site if anything changed.

  My script is 133 lines of bash, mostly involving the file named sanitization and front matter rewriting; it’s just a big convenience function that could be three lines of typing a little thought, and a little more editing of the template.

  There’s no federation, though. I’m not sure what a “federated blog” would look like, anyway; probably something like Lemmy, where you create a community called “YourName”. What’s the value of a federated blog?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3068: Rock Identification⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Sheeeit. If this were how my family asked me too troubleshoot their printer, I actually would.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Making sure restic backups are right⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  @Xanza’s suggestion is a good one. For me, it’s sufficient to fuse mount the backup and check a few files. It’s not comprehensive, but if a few files I know changed look good, I figure they all probably are.

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Opening Lemmy in the morning and seeing dozens of unread comments in your inbox makes you think: what the heck did I say yesterday?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  But do we really believe the posters think what they’re posting is a popular opinion? Maybe they really think it’s unpopular, because of their IRL experiences, or what they see online.

  I think it’s because people know what’s unpopular, but the heavy stuff, they don’t want to be associated with. So they choose milquetoast unpopular opinions, which aren’t really unpopular as much as maybe a minority. Like, a majority of voters voted for Trump, but thinking Kamala would have been better isn’t unpopular, it was just the minority opinion among people who got their fat assess out and voted.

  Now, saying “only white, biologically born males should be allowed to vote” would be a truly unpopular opinion, but although there are absolutely more than zero people on Lemmy who believe this, no way in hell they’re going to post that.

  So people stay with “safe” unpopular opinions, like… “NYC is the ugliest city I’ve ever seen.” Sure, you’ll learn some new insults from the responses, but nobody’s going to troll through your post history and throw it in your face in every argument, or follow you around and downvote everything you post because of it. Ok, maybe some New Yorkers will do the latter, but you know what I mean.

  Consequently, because they’re just minority and not truly unpopular, all of the people who agree come out of the woodwork, incensed that this entirely reasonable opinion would be posted a being “unpopular.”

  Thank you for coming to my Ted-L talk.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Opening Lemmy in the morning and seeing dozens of unread comments in your inbox makes you think: what the heck did I say yesterday?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Man, that’s just playing Russian Roulette with a ban hammer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Opening Lemmy in the morning and seeing dozens of unread comments in your inbox makes you think: what the heck did I say yesterday?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Interesting. I think anytime you make statements that aren’t scientifically - or, indeed, even epirically - provable and claim they’re “facts”, you’re going to get a reaction out of someone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Opening Lemmy in the morning and seeing dozens of unread comments in your inbox makes you think: what the heck did I say yesterday?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  First laugh of the morning, thank you!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Opening Lemmy in the morning and seeing dozens of unread comments in your inbox makes you think: what the heck did I say yesterday?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Some people take the validation of others quite seriously. Internet points, for them, are not at all fake - it’s a measure of their worth.

  I’m not a psychiatrist, so I can’t say whether this is healthy, but I’d guess not of it’s causing them angst about something that has no direct effect on the base 3 levels of Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Opening Lemmy in the morning and seeing dozens of unread comments in your inbox makes you think: what the heck did I say yesterday?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d agree with you, but then we’d both be wrong.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Opening Lemmy in the morning and seeing dozens of unread comments in your inbox makes you think: what the heck did I say yesterday?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Thing is, it’s easy to offend people. It doesn’t take skill, or effort. And it’s not constructive; nobody in history has ever said, “you know, your comment about Communists all being retarded really changed my mind. I’m going to read Atlas Shrugged and become a capitalist!”

  Usually when I say stuff that pisses people off, it’s because (a) a joke fell flat, or was not obviously a joke; (b) I was reacting emotionally and said something I intended to be hurtful; © I express an unpopular opinion. As I get older, the reactions to © more often make me scrutinize my opinion, to make sure I’m not just stupidly parroting something my fascist dad taught me when I was a child.

  I used to play devil’s advocate, but it doesn’t feel good. It’s one thing if both parties go into it in good faith, and it’s clear neither is just trying to be a troll, but now? I don’t do it without establishing good faith first, and if I suspect someone’s just trolling… I just block them. Straight up. It’s easy, and I have one fewer irritants in my life.

  So, that’s me. Why do _you_do it? Are you intentionally trying to rile people up, and if so, why? Are you angry at them? Or do you say you’re offending people just by expressing sincerely held opinions, and the snowflakes are getting triggered? Is everyone but you a hypocrite?

  I mean, I believe everyone is a hypocrite, but there’s a spectrum, right? There’s a level where you are trying not to be a hypocrite, but it’s impossible to exist and not be at some level. Then there’s blatantly lying, saying one thing and doing another. A spectrum, and a lot of it boils down to good faith, and sincerity. Are you angry at faux liberals who you feel should be violently agitating for seizing the means of production, and are calling them out in their bullshit? Or just trying to make them angry so you can hurt them, just a little?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That is a perfect description.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Opening Lemmy in the morning and seeing dozens of unread comments in your inbox makes you think: what the heck did I say yesterday?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Classic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You’ll certainly gain some valuable insight, even if it has nothing to do with your question. Which is more than I can say for LLMs.