ianovic69
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- Comment on Lemmy votes ARE public, should they be anonymous? 2 months ago:
currently the votes are public but hidden from Lemmy regular users
Tough. If you think any action you take on a social media platform is private then you shouldn’t be here.
Whether it is private or not isn’t the problem. It’s people assuming any part of is. Behave or suffer. Just like the real world.
- Comment on Lemmy votes ARE public, should they be anonymous? 2 months ago:
I’m not technical and I’m also not young.
I think anyone coming into an online social platform who thinks that any part of it is private, is too naive and/or uneducated to be using that type of platform.
I’m sure there’s parts of platforms which are private, I just don’t think it’s advisable to assume that at any point.
You’re online, interacting with people. If you wanted privacy, don’t be there doing that. Post and behave as if you are publishing everything to a major commercial physical publication. Every post, every comment, every vote, every blocked user. On every one of your accounts.
Otherwise, you’ll get what’s coming to you. And I’m fine with that.
- Comment on Trump campaign reportedly hacked by Iranian government 3 months ago:
Well, that’s conflicting.
- Comment on Britain’s far right enjoys unparalleled impunity on Telegram 3 months ago:
I was living in SW London then, I even joined Twitter hoping to get news on local trouble more quickly. I did see a few very dodgy looking chaps hanging around in twos and threes but nothing happened.
Oh except a shop front glass got smashed over in New Malden high street. It was big news until the reports confirmed it was the owners had an accident.
It’s not like the old days when we could have a proper riot like in Brixton or Toxteth. Ah those were the days…
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Space.com got it wrong? Well that will teach me to triple check my sources!
Thanks for clarifying.
- Comment on Britain’s far right enjoys unparalleled impunity on Telegram 3 months ago:
Pockets, and with the further threatened riots being closed down by anti racism demonstrators. It’s over egging it for views.
Telegram clearly has much less users in the UK, but I don’t think it’s nearly as unknown generally as the article declares.
My issue with these points is not that they’re inaccurate, but that the article uses them in a sensationalist manner.
It’s poor journalism and it removes credibility.
- Comment on Britain’s far right enjoys unparalleled impunity on Telegram 3 months ago:
As riots swept the U.K.
fringe social network Telegram.
Yep, you need not read further.
They did not “sweep” and Telegram is far from “fringe” in the UK.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
It’s a mess. I just used Google Assistant (not even Gemini) to ask the distance in km and got this -
According to the website Space, the distance is 37.8 trillion km.
I know which one I’m going with but finding out assistant is wrong is a big deal. Lots of people will assume like I did that the info is just pulled from relevant websites. Can’t do that now.
- Comment on Britain ignored its far-right threat and demonized Muslims. Now racist mobs have spiraled out of control. 3 months ago:
Your prejudice is showing, mate.
Everything you’ve said is complete nonsense, you should get out more.
- Comment on ‘A huge opportunity’: Quantum leap for UK as tech industry receives £100m boost 3 months ago:
At the University of Birmingham…
Yeah, Seven Trent Water (and Thames Water) could really do with updating their technology, dowsing is a bit old hat these days.
- Comment on ‘Bedlam’ in UK as air and rail travel hit by global IT outage 3 months ago:
First world problems, eh?
- Comment on ‘Bedlam’ in UK as air and rail travel hit by global IT outage 3 months ago:
Discovering how quickly pollution levels dropped was eye opening, I’m sure a lot of people noticed the reporting on that globally.
Sadly it may never happen again, but I hope it does even if it’s after my lifetime.
- Comment on ‘Bedlam’ in UK as air and rail travel hit by global IT outage 3 months ago:
Oh look, a day off for the environment. I’ll take that as a win.
- Comment on ‘Bedlam’ in UK as air and rail travel hit by global IT outage 3 months ago:
And Waitrose is only taking cash FFS!
- Comment on Underground caves do exist on the Moon, radar observations confirm 4 months ago:
Wow, imagine living in a submarine that can’t go up to the surface. Diving suits required to exit into oblivion in order to board the little transit sub, then a long slow return ending with a hot, bumpy fall. Any point of which is very likely to kill you should even the slightest thing go wrong, of which the chances are pretty high to begin with.
Astronauts are mad, but living in a cave on the moon is next level crazy.
- Comment on Firefox CTO Responds On Collecting User Advertisement Data 4 months ago:
I’m a bit worried about where Mozilla is heading with this, but not really for my own sake.
I got into this whole thing because of my hatred of being advertised at. The privacy aspect is less of a concern for me, although I do appreciate it.
I threw my lot in with BigG around Gingerbread and it’s too late now. I’ve turned off a much as I can in the last year or so, but G has everything I need and use.
This would concern me more if I was younger. My teenage children are very savvy with it all. We talked last weekend about setting up Proton mail and using temporary emails for everything. I can see a Linux future for them and that’s very reassuring. They are beginning to understand the nature of online privacy and how it relates to humanity.
But as long as I’m able to block ads, that’s good enough for me. I’ll move to Librewolf etc if I have to, but if Firefox keeps working I’m not going worry too much.
Those of you young enough and/or that it makes a difference to, I wholeheartedly encourage to be as privacy orientated as possible. The world is going to need you.
- Comment on The NSA Has a Long-Lost Lecture by Adm. Grace Hopper 4 months ago:
Yeah that’s my point really, saying they can’t easily watch it is a cop out because it’s easy to find ways to make it possible. Which includes facilities and equipment such as in my example, but there’s plenty in the US and I’d be surprised if they don’t have their own facility they can hire the equipment into.
The thing that got my interest is the terms used themselves. Why say it’s an old format, rather than or as well as what the format actually is?
The media used, which I quoted, is not unusual itself but it is unusual to be used for a video format. Cinema film is usually 35 or 70mm gauge, and stereo audio is usually half or quarter inch. One inch is more commonly used for multi-track audio recording.
Maybe that’s all there is to it, there being no playback device, but its all rather intriguing, and it feels like there’s more they aren’t saying.
I demand details, goddamn it!
- Comment on The NSA Has a Long-Lost Lecture by Adm. Grace Hopper 4 months ago:
I had to check -
AMPEX 1-inch open reel tapes
This is a terrible excuse, as can be found by a simple web search that shows sites like this, which is a fantastic site btw.
- Comment on Water bills set to rise by between X and X 4 months ago:
ways of improving the sector’s performance.
Hmmm, I’m sure there’s a simple solution to this but…no, it’s eluding me.
- Comment on Growing Old 4 months ago:
Now realise that when you reach 75, on average, you will have been asleep for 25 years.
I have tried to reduce that average but it takes it toll.
- Comment on Announcing the Ladybird Browser Initiative 4 months ago:
Try Antenna.
- Comment on Farage urges Zelenskiy to seek Ukraine peace deal with Russia 4 months ago:
I don’t know about anyone else here, but I don’t want to hear about his latest stunts and I particularly don’t want to have to see his mug.
Can we keep anything to do with him away from here and leave it in the political communities please?
- Comment on BBC News - Stonehenge covered in powder paint by Just Stop Oil 5 months ago:
No publicity is bad publicity, especially when you are trying to remind people what the world is being destroyed by.
Sites of human history have no significance if there are no humans.
- Comment on BBC News - Stonehenge covered in powder paint by Just Stop Oil 5 months ago:
And that response right there, that’s why we are all fucked.
I read today that major banks are starting to move investments away from fossil fuels. Your mentality has about as much foresight.
“Self-centred,” the fucking irony.
- Comment on Spotify’s HiFi add-on could cost an extra $5 per month 5 months ago:
Code spotted within the Spotify app last year also suggests that the tier could come with 24-bit lossless audio
At 44.1k, 16bit is CD quality which is perfectly good enough. But no, dupe people into paying more for something they can’t use. Typical.
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- Comment on Sainsbury's staff beat up shoplifter after dragging him into the back room 5 months ago:
It absolutely amazes me that grown adults willingly put themselves in danger for the sake of a company that specifically instructs them not to, and therefore obviously does not care about them.
HR can and will hang them out to dry without any comebacks.
It’s disgusting and I tell staff this when they join and I repeat it often.
And they still do it. Which can end up with having an investigation and dismissal. You can’t help some people.
- Comment on Breaking: Samsung Pulls Out of Israel Amid Moral and Economic Decline 6 months ago:
If this is what it looks like, then it’s about fucking time. Hopefully others will follow and it won’t be too late.
- Comment on Google Search is getting even worse for independent sites 6 months ago:
SearX
