ultranaut
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- Comment on The Trotskyists Were Right About One Thing - Start a Bunch of Newspapers 5 days ago:
In addition to their long and ongoing history of being shit, NYT does a lot of good reporting and is also useful for understanding a specific kind of perspective. I think if you’re reading diverse sources you will inevitably have to read the NYT if for no other reason than they are breaking news regularly and occasionally covering things that aren’t really being covered elsewhere.
- Comment on iPhone guy wondering how you guys manage your gallery! 1 week ago:
I use Ente to manage my images.
- Comment on If the protests in Iran win/topple the government what will it look like immediately afterwards? Also what would be the good or bad about installing a monarchy again? 1 week ago:
Reinstalling the monarchy is almost certainly not happening. If it did I wouldn’t expect the new gov to last, the monarchy lacks the popularity and infrastructure necessary for that to be successful. It’s tough to say what things will look like if the current government falls but some kind of civil war is very likely I think.
- Comment on Cloudflare defies Italy’s Piracy Shield, won’t block websites on 1.1.1.1 DNS 1 week ago:
I like to think so. You?
- Comment on Cloudflare defies Italy’s Piracy Shield, won’t block websites on 1.1.1.1 DNS 1 week ago:
It seems like you are misunderstanding the situation. I’m asking you to explain why you support Italian media executives having the power to censor the Internet.
- Comment on Cloudflare defies Italy’s Piracy Shield, won’t block websites on 1.1.1.1 DNS 1 week ago:
Can you explain more? It sounds like you think it’s acceptable for the owners of an Italian sports league to have this power over the Internet?
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Bring a fake checkbook, fraud was a lot easier back in the '80s.
- Comment on Is there an endgame to Trump he is trying to obtain? Or is he making it up along the way at the cost of Americans? 3 weeks ago:
Both, and there’s more than one end game because there’s multiple factions behind Trump who have slightly different end games in mind. There is a shared purpose and common cause built up around Trump but also some fundamental tensions within the party about what the post-Constitutional order will look like once they’ve fully consolidated power.
- Comment on PSA syncthing-fork has changed owners 2 months ago:
Yes, I only use it via syncthing-fork so this is a distinction without a difference to me.
- Comment on PSA syncthing-fork has changed owners 2 months ago:
Not sure if I qualify as extra paranoid but this whole situation feels very sketchy and has me reconsidering my use of syncthing. Making significant changes like this without any explanation is extremely bad practice.
- Comment on Steam Hardware [new Steam Controller, Steam Machine, and VR headset Steam Frame, coming in 2026] 2 months ago:
I’m disappointed in the screens they used but it unfortunately makes sense that 4k microOLED isn’t feasible. I wish the new controllers supported Lighthouse tracking too. If the new controllers really are proprietary to just this single HMD that’s a big failure in my opinion.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Nonce
- Comment on Why have so many services started using single-factor passwordless authentication in the last little while? 2 months ago:
This shit drives me nuts. I’ve put in a lot of effort to secure my accounts but a number of them require SMS without any opt out. We have known about the risks of SMS plenty long enough at this point.
- Comment on US | Pentagon Admits It Has No Idea Who’s on “Drug Boats” Being Bombed 2 months ago:
I’m not following. Whether or not drugs are onboard is irrelevant. Even if they can definitively prove drugs are onboard, it is still a crime for the US military to kill these people. This is categorically an illegitimate use of force. The only possible justification for this is if these boats were armed and posed an imminent threat, which obviously is not applicable.
- Comment on US | Pentagon Admits It Has No Idea Who’s on “Drug Boats” Being Bombed 2 months ago:
At least some of them may have drugs. It doesn’t matter though because even with illegal drugs aboard these boats are still not legitimate military targets. These attacks by the US military are inherently criminal.
- Comment on Revealed: Israel demanded Google and Amazon use secret ‘wink’ to sidestep legal orders 2 months ago:
Subverting legal orders is obviously illegal and you can’t have a valid legal contract which obligates one party to engage in illegal actions. Whatever is going on here is very odd, it’s surprising only Microsoft’s lawyers were willing to veto a deal over this. Pre-agreeing to send secret signals hidden from law enforcement like this is exactly the kind of thing that should be raising major red flags that you are entering into a criminal conspiracy rather than a legitimate contract.
- Comment on 18650 battery pack 16s2p design 2 months ago:
Looks awesome. How much space is between the batteries? Could you push air through the gaps to cool them?
- Comment on Jesus hates American "Christians" 2 months ago:
Israel is integral to their eschatology. They can’t have Armageddon without certain conditions being met. Supporting Israel is intended to facilitate the the creation of those conditions.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Vanilla flavoring not from a vanilla orchid is more likely to be made from wood than beaver. Lignin in wood pulp can be used as a precursor and is much cheaper than beaver butts.
- Comment on Ludonarrative Harmony: what makes games unique as a medium 3 months ago:
I recently received the Ludonarrative Dissonance achievement in Uncharted 4 for killing everyone instead of sneaking around. I found it a funny way to get scolded.
- Comment on Found my people 3 months ago:
Are the pink things jelly beans?
- Comment on [Video] Nobel "Peace Prize" winner professes her love for Israel and promises to move the embassy to Jerusalem. 3 months ago:
They gave one to Kissinger. Having love for Israel is fairly tame relative to the mass murder and multiple wars that monster facilitated. I don’t think anyone serious about peace can take this award seriously. It’s nice when they pick someone decent but I wouldn’t count on it.
- Comment on NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE NIGHTMARE 3 months ago:
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- Comment on Ibuprofen 3 months ago:
When you spice up your life for so long it starts to hurt.
- Comment on How do you introduce the Fediverse to other people? 3 months ago:
It’s like existing social media they are familiar with except there’s multiple versions run independently which are connected together using a shared protocol.
- Comment on 3 months ago:
Literally, read the news: news.google.com/search?for=free+speech&hl=en-US&g…
You are debasing yourself for a tyrant.
- Comment on 3 months ago:
Do you think you are scoring points in a debate? We can all see what is happening in the news, we can read the threats from the President. Playing these games here isn’t going to work. You know what you are doing is wrong. If it were the party you oppose wielding the state against businesses in this manner, your tune would be completely different. It is obvious what you are and why you are here. I’m not interested.
- Comment on 3 months ago:
Not interested in feeding sealions, you seem capable enough to use the internet on your own. It’s obvious now that you are a partisan who will defend Trumpism regardless of what is going on right in front of your face and I find that boring. I hope some day you do value freedom enough to advocate for it.
- Comment on 3 months ago:
Yes, pay attention to what is happening? Go look at the words of Carr. Go look at what Trump has been saying. It is completely transparent that critics must be silenced or the power of the state will be used to interfere in your business.
- Comment on 3 months ago:
You seem to either be uninformed or not commenting in good faith. The FCC explicitly coerced Disney, Trump in his own words says they are going after these companies for being critical of him. Using the power of the state in this way is categorically different than social movements trying to “cancel” people.