IllNess
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- Comment on Microsoft doesn't understand the Fediverse 1 week ago:
6 . Each username on here should be a person, not a brand or corporation - and that person must be you, no impersonation.
“I’m not a businessman, I’m a business, man!”
-Jay-Z regretting his words
- Comment on Sextortion with a twist: Spyware takes webcam pics of users watching porn 1 week ago:
Also if you are sending my family a copy, send it to my email address too. Thanks.
- Comment on Scientific possibility! 2 weeks ago:
Now I need the Cappy hat.
It’s working already!
- Comment on Scientific possibility! 2 weeks ago:
I figured the dinosaurs in Jurassic Park would have clothes to promote the merch.
Imagine seeing a hat on a trex?!
- Comment on Mastodon says it doesn't 'have the means' to comply with age verification laws 2 weeks ago:
If this really about protecting kids, they could’ve done opt in blocking at the ISP level. Just a few new fields with ISPs and they have products that can take care of this already.
This is really about tracking every little thing you do online.
- Comment on Mississippi's age assurance law puts decentralized social networks to the test 2 weeks ago:
It should fall on the parents and ISPs should have an opt in option to block adult websites.
But we all know this is more about control and data harvesting than anything else.
- Comment on MAGA Puts Wikipedia in Its Crosshairs 3 weeks ago:
Maybe the AI doomers are right.
- Comment on YSK that if U.S. housing and U.S population projections hold, the Electoral College will shift further away from Democrats after the 2030 census. 3 weeks ago:
Also having no state income tax doesn’t mean you take more home, it means companies adjust the salary so you basically take home the same or even less. Sales tax is also high, about the same as NYC and SF.
- Comment on Toyota Is Recycling Old EV Batteries to Help Power Mazda's Production Line 3 weeks ago:
From the article:
In fact, the company has just begun field testing one application at partner Mazda’s Hiroshima plant.
I wanted to see what their partnership was like so I checked on Wikipedia:
In the past and present, Mazda has been engaged in alliances with other automakers. From 1974 until the late 2000s, Ford was a major shareholder of Mazda. Other partnerships include Toyota, Nissan, Isuzu, Suzuki and Kia.
Wow. I didn’t really expect Mazda to be involved with 6 other car manufacturers.
- Comment on AI Experts No Longer Saving for Retirement Because They Assume AI Will Kill Us All by Then 3 weeks ago:
I delete my first comment because I specified what I meant in my reply.
If you don’t think doomers existed after the year 2000 then look up “2000 anxiety” and “2000 paranoia”.
But if I was really going to double down this would by my response:
Many countries invested little to no money in Y2K and they were fine.
Countries such as South Korea, Italy, and Russia invested little to nothing in Y2K remediation,yet had the same negligible Y2K problems as countries that spent enormous sums of money. Western countries anticipated such severe problems in Russia that many issued travel advisories and evacuated non-essential staff.
International Data Corporation estimated that the US might have wasted $40 billion.
Then I would ask you:
Since you are such an expert on Y2K, what would’ve happened if the US took the same approach? What exactly would have happened?
- Comment on 80s Nostalgia AI Slop Is Boomerfying the Masses for a Past That Never Existed 3 weeks ago:
Thank you for the info. The 70’s is what I thought.
- Comment on AI Experts No Longer Saving for Retirement Because They Assume AI Will Kill Us All by Then 3 weeks ago:
I should’ve specified. Even after there were a a ton of work put in, doomers existed to the last second. There were doomers who really thought the world was going to end without mentioning the technology aspect of it. These doomers, even after the date passed kept moving up the date and repeated this process.
- Comment on What I'm up to: August 2025 edition - Elena Rossini 3 weeks ago:
I envision social media where people’s cell phones are the servers so we don’t have to deal with corporate bullshit. If people want updates, request the RSS every 6 hour. No one needs to know what the hell I am doing every moment of my life.
- Comment on 80s Nostalgia AI Slop Is Boomerfying the Masses for a Past That Never Existed 3 weeks ago:
I guess so. This is from the article:
Their political project uses the aesthetic of the past to sell a future where minorities are marginalized, women have no political power, and white guys are in charge. That’s how they think it all worked in the past and they’d love for it to happen again.
What the videos don’t show is how bad racism was before everyone is able to record at anytime. Shows and movies were very streotypical. Actually since cancel culture wasn’t a thing for not famous people, people were really racists in just everyday conversations.
The government’s war on immigrants is very much like the war on drugs with were specifically created to target hippies and black communities while at the same time suppying the communities with the drugs they deemed illegal.
In terms of the environment, lead was banned in gasoline in 1996. I thought it was way earlier than that when I looked it up. Shame really. I am no a scientists and the results of microplastics in our system is still being researched but lead poisoning effects are very well documented and I believe the pernament mental effects of it can be seen in a large portion of the boomer population.
- Comment on Americans’ junk-filled garages are hurting EV adoption, study says 3 weeks ago:
Imagine Senate passes law to put cameras in all toilet mention sensor. People still go, “If you have nothing to hide, then you have nothing to worry about. Genital recognition technology is used to identify criminals! Do you want criminals to get away?!”
- Comment on Americans’ junk-filled garages are hurting EV adoption, study says 3 weeks ago:
Privacy matters.
The government and corporations abused this information by stopping protestors getting to their destination.
Protestors can atleast use faraday bags or just leave their phones at home. Now they can’t even get to important events.
Now this information is being used by ICE to arrest immigrants.
Considering how conservative views and Nazis are coming back in to fashion, this is very scary for anyone not white and male.
- Comment on Microsoft workers occupy HQ in protest against company’s ties to Israeli military 4 weeks ago:
I also admire these people.
They will get fired. Same thing happened at Google. But I hope that isn’t the case.
Microsoft has invested a ton of money in Israel. If in the unlikely event that they are able to be convinced to leave Israel, that would be huge.
- Comment on 96,000 UK Police Bodycam Videos Lost After Data Transfer Mishap 4 weeks ago:
I wonder what big trial was coming up that involved one of those videos? 🤔
- Comment on Microsoft breaks Windows reset and recovery 4 weeks ago:
I should really keep up with Windows news even if I don’t use it.
Thank you for the info and thank you for posting.
- Comment on Microsoft breaks Windows reset and recovery 4 weeks ago:
That’s a good point. Beta users save a lot, I mean a lot, of headaches for stable users. I am not sure if Windows even does beta and alpha versions anymore.
- Comment on UK Official Calls for Age Verification on VPNs to Prevent Porn Loophole 4 weeks ago:
It’s scarier. They will track everything you are doing not and not have to guess what device you are using behind a shared IP address.
- Comment on UK Official Calls for Age Verification on VPNs to Prevent Porn Loophole 4 weeks ago:
21 states have laws for age verification on porn sites. 4 more states are in the process of passing laws for age verification. That’s nearly half the states…
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
This site is getting their feed from these news sources’ RSS feed. If you’d like to get the same feed, just follow each individual news source
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Google Play too. Maybe this is some kind.
apps.apple.com/app/your-app-id
play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=your.app.pa…
Looking at the links, this might be some kind of template and they forgot to hide the links. I don’t see their app in the Google Play store.
I think this is just a web app. Please correct me if I am wrong.
- Comment on Microsoft breaks Windows reset and recovery 4 weeks ago:
Apple’s base is big enough where if a problem like this happens, it’s a big deal. Apple has the benefit of controlling both hardware and software.
With Linux, being open source helps it out since so many people can test and chime in.
- Comment on I made a Firefox fork with Fediverse integration 4 weeks ago:
Always look in the README.md file first for instructions for downloading and installing.
Prerequisites
Bridge requires a full Firefox build environment:
- Linux: GCC/Clang 13+, Python 3.8+, Node.js 16+, Rust 1.70+
- Windows: Visual Studio 2022, Python 3.8+, Node.js 16+, Rust 1.70+
- macOS: Xcode 14+, Python 3.8+, Node.js 16+, Rust 1.70+
So there is no Android version.
If you do want to install for one of OSes mentioned, the next section gives instructions on how to build by source. This means you have to follow in instructions. This might mean it is too technical for users not used to CLI (command line interface).
- Comment on SpaceX Gets Billions From the Government. It Gives Little to Nothing Back in Taxes 4 weeks ago:
We should get rid of this one illegal immigrant stealing from us.
- Comment on Anyone else guilty of this? 4 weeks ago:
I’ll take a look. Thanks.
My favorite is Metropolis (1927).
- Comment on Meta’s AI rules have let bots hold ‘sensual’ chats with kids, offer false medical info 4 weeks ago:
That’s the plan.
It starts with adult sites then it moves on to everything else.
This would allow tech companies to get more data and stop guessing who is behind a shared IP address.
- Comment on Billionaire Elon Musk is threatening to sue Apple and escalating his feud with Sam Altman 5 weeks ago:
We still do the first part but it’ll be easier when they are consolidated together.