lars

@lars@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Redditor when women⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Stuff that doesn’t exist is the stuff of conservative nightmares. This story checks out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dibbs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m down to read your fanfic

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨shitpost⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  My poor doctor

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ruling the tri state area⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Which ones??!?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why, as a male, when emotionally do I only feel accepted by women but not by men?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  “But Daaaaad, I thought you were gonna save Me,” He cried. B&S 4:20:69

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unpaid community work is best!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Whoa! I didn’t even know I could wish for such a future.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Programming Languages as Essays⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah I usually run my backend in Asciidoc too. The level of its performance might surprise you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I block all of Hexbear from All?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Sorry. I meant that the community I want to follow didn’t choose the idiot vandals who joined their instance and which caused my home instance to shut off access to their entire instance.

  An instance-wide block of an entire other instance feels like cutting out your eyes instead of closing the curtains to me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How do I block all of Hexbear from All?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m still not sure I understand the benefits of

  • hating an entire country over hating one of its citizens
  • hating an entire instance instead of hating one of its communities (hating a community or a specific user does make complete sense tho)
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Have you ever felt a imaginary switch click that changed the trajectory of your life?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Only a couple of these. Major. Life. Events. would destroy a lot of people. Pet your dog for me and give yourself some kind of hug. You’re amazing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨For those with larger phones, how do you handle them without grip accessories?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I used to have a president who described their hands like this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which domain name registrar should I use?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  In the olden days, Yahoo shuttered some of the largest digital properties on the internet with too little notice for them to be meaningfully archived (especially Yahoo Groups (easily the Reddit and Fediverse of its day) and Geocities (at a time before social media, a place to make a corner of the internet one’s own, it had mountains of longform geekery that’s now lost forever)).

  Yahoo also used to be one of most widely used free email providers. Not as ubiquitous as Gmail, but definitely very popular. During that time, they had at least two – and almost certainly more than four – instances where bad actors gained access to user accounts and Yahoo failed to immediately notify impacted users.

  This one time, they admitted that all their user email addresses, which then numbered in the billions, had been compromised by a years-old hack whose disclosure they seem to have withheld. The same thing happened a few months later, but affected only some email addresses. For the latter event, they were proven to have withheld discovery of the breach.

  There was this one journalist whose email details they gave to the Chinese government to enable his arrest. Then they lied about it to Congress.

  And while the NSA likely listens to every piece of data available to them, which trivially and almost effortlessly includes emails, and while Yahoo is one of the tech companies whose NSA PRISM membership is documented, Yahoo additionally performed scans for crime-adjacent keywords on all its users’ incoming and outgoing emails for years.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which domain name registrar should I use?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, but not worse than Yahoo[.]

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The compass reacts to... recent events.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Thank you!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The compass reacts to... recent events.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  What does lower left’s background color (purple?) mean

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK that there are a range of medications that can prevent alcoholics and other addicts from relapsing⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  If you don’t mind the magical thinking monotheism and 1930s pseudoscience and sexism that must never be changed, then it may work for you. Plus its success rate is a non-negative number. What’s not to like??

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are there any recurring charges (or other downsides) that come with having a driver's license but not owning a car or regularly driving?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I waited until an emergency before I finally realized I needed a license. Do everyone, including future-you, a favor by not waiting.

  And I had the same fears, but driving is remarkably similar to other skills: you get better through practice.