Lasherz12
@Lasherz12@lemmy.world
- Comment on Who will win the elections in Russia 1 week ago:
The person allowed to survive. In other words, the same approach whether Vlad wants to retire or not. The best thing that could theoretically happen to Russia is that some absolute buffoon with Vladimir’s endorsement is propped up and it causes a civil war between the mercenaries and the army.
- Comment on Just to get this straight. If I stand outside a voting center and give each person 500 bucks to vote for me. That is illegal? But if I am a Dipshit In Chief and offer 5k that is 100 percent legal? 2 weeks ago:
They had a failed attempt to pressure congress which generates 600 dollar checks. Then 1400 was later added to that to “complete” the promise, so while 2600 is better than 2000, it wasn’t scummy except to the extent that the Republicans in congress immediately turned on the American people once it was politically advantageous not to deliver.
100% isn’t my standard, but I think saying “elect my guys and get money” when the intention is to actually do it when he has power to (and he did) rather than Trump saying it when he absolutely can do it right now with full control of all branches of government. In other words, “do this so we want to help you.” Vs “do this so we can help you” very different.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
The source for the claim of booksales in the original article are the same sources who can’t be trusted in mine, so it’s a fair bet that influence peddling at the very least played a part. NYT wheels and deals off popular people who are authors, always has.
- Comment on Ambrook using applicants to add to their mailing list which doesn't properly link to their unsubscribe landing pages. 2 weeks ago:
I’ve told users to junk everything, it’s not worth getting struck with a clever unsubscribe link. I think it would be a good cybersecurity test email to see how many people click it, I’d wager it’s more effective than some of the piss poor phishing attempts we get, and we’re pretty heavily targeted.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
It’s a pretty commonly utilized tactic that’s especially employed by grifters who want to lend credence to the grift and political operatives who want to… lend credence to their grift. Occasionally though by people who want to gain notoriety in a field they’re new in, keep up a streak of success if they’re not sure about the book’s quality, or do a book tour and have something to sell the talks talkshows. In all cases it’s employed by people with more money than talent.
- Comment on Just to get this straight. If I stand outside a voting center and give each person 500 bucks to vote for me. That is illegal? But if I am a Dipshit In Chief and offer 5k that is 100 percent legal? 2 weeks ago:
I don’t think you read your own article. Joe was already picked and he was referring to the runoffs. The actual situation was that Trump was promising the checks and then when he lost the Republicans blocked the funds for it as punishment for not electing him again. Biden supporting them and needed a majority to overcome the block. The first part of the checks was released under Trump still in December, but no more disbursement was being allowed by congress.
- Comment on Just to get this straight. If I stand outside a voting center and give each person 500 bucks to vote for me. That is illegal? But if I am a Dipshit In Chief and offer 5k that is 100 percent legal? 2 weeks ago:
Your suposition is that the power of the purse still applies here. Trump has operated the executive as a collective slush fund, many times using horrible arguments that fail in court and then proceeding anyways. Also he’s allocated money from military coup projects like Venezuala to funds not under congressional control illegally.
Bernies plan is to first expand Medicare to all ages. Going off Trump’s logic this would be done by directing CMS by executive order to adjust the rates, the treasury department to allocate the necessary trust fund expenditures, the IRS to apply the necessary taxes, and the justice department to aggressively target every single possible violation in the private health insurance industry. Bernie’s actual plan is to use the bully pulpit as intended to pressure congress to act in accordance with those changes ahead of time, completely different. That’s because Trump moves to erode government into the pockets of the rich and Bernie seeks to build it stronger to benefit everyone. Executive overreach expansion has only been applied to benefit the rich effectively where everywhere else it had failed.
- Comment on That'll be $100k per credit hour, please. 2 weeks ago:
Paying money doesn’t mean you get to harass other students who also paid money… Maybe that’s your first lesson.
- Comment on Deleting posts 3 weeks ago:
This is the nature of a defederated website. There are multiple hosts who all act independently, but have decided to source from each other. Upvotes come in from instances you aren’t on who refuse deletions or process them on a delay.
This means that Lemmy is very difficult to pull information back from, if it’s even possible at all. There are no doubt instances that are almost solely functioning as archives as well that may not even make themselves known except through requests to maybe only one ither instance. It’s great for anticensorship, but not great if you say something goofy you didn’t mean and are now getting downvotes from the instances that don’t believe in edits or whatever it may be.
Deletions not be honored is also pretty common generally, because there are accounts who create posts and then delete their accounts. On reddit it’s throwaway accounts, but on lemmy.world at least it destroys the posts permanently and then all of the engagement is locked under the nonexistent post which will be purged.
I think the best balance is instances allow deletions by admins/mods/the user, but do not allow deletions for account purging by the user. I don’t know how many flags there are in the data transmissions between instances to know the origin of the action or what button the user clicked.
- Comment on Why do we assume paper towels are sterile, or at least clean? 3 weeks ago:
They’re pretty clean so long as it’s indoors and ideally not in a bathroom. There’s a massive difference of a new paper towel and a reused towel. I wear contacts and it doesn’t take much to notice residue on my hands/eyelid area.
- Comment on Next to a church in Missouri 3 weeks ago:
Many churches and especially political action committees based on Christianity function as death cults. I’d say they definitionally don’t care at all about earth or the people on it. Not wanting people to go to hell stands in juxtaposition to their desire to themselves be raptured.
It also begs the question of why we allow people who yearn for the end times to be the preferred leaders of what used to be the most powerful nation, but a little out of scope for a dumb church sign.
- Comment on Next to a church in Missouri 3 weeks ago:
They’re mostly German. Not sure whether to interpret that as zionist = nazis and we’ve got a liberalism problem, zionist =/= nazi and we’ve got a nazi problem, both, or the scratch a liberal and a nazi bleeds thing is real in more cases than I thought.
- Comment on Next to a church in Missouri 3 weeks ago:
Schools < city < state < nation < a foreign nation.
Just as our forefathers intended. /s
This nation needs re-education camps.
- Comment on Is ASHDOL a good company for an external cd/dvd drive? 4 weeks ago:
Uh, no. Generics are fine though. It’s no longer difficult to make these for cheap
- Comment on What should I do about my family? 4 weeks ago:
You’re obviously going to have doubts about the validity of your feelings under a roof with that much ignorance. People can be dismissive for many reasons, but I think language can sometimes be important. If you don’t exude confidence it tends to be treated as affirmation of your views not mattering.
If you state plainly that you’re upset, you’d like some of their time, advice, and attention, and you still receive this type of response, it’s reasonable to write them off and lean on friends instead. Highly recommend therapy.
- Comment on Can your ISP see a spike in your internet usage even if you are using a VPN? 4 weeks ago:
Yes. VPN still uses your data, more of it in fact because encrypted secure tunnel files are generally larger than the original data and also cached data on the ISP network are no longer called, so more goes to the greater internet.
- Comment on The Walmart in my town didn’t clearly don’t care lol 4 weeks ago:
Rule 8 explicitly permits reposts from Reddit. Please block instead of brigading other users.
- Comment on Hiccups just fucking suck 4 weeks ago:
Holding my breath works for me, or maybe it just passes the time. Usually goes away in about 2 full breaths.
- Comment on This FedEx driver has never won a round of Tetris in his life 5 weeks ago:
That’s how my wife packs the freezer.
- Comment on How would you safely and privately child-proof a PC? 5 weeks ago:
I disagree that pihole can’t be used in the instance of a laptop since you can still use it as a dns remotely, but an opendns account was effectively made for this purpose.
Use commonly available white lists and blacklists for kids only content.
Pihole also has built in monitoring for dns requests. I’ve never paid for opendns but it does too.
Arris routers allow smtp data logs to also show direct IP interactions. I imagine lots of routers do. Using solarwinds software demos you can easily parse through them. You cannot control these requests non-locally, but I’d ask what you’re trying to look for if these requests are consistently made out of the house and are limited to IP only requests without dns. An app you don’t want them using? In that case reroute the apps known IPs to 127.0.0.1 locally and remove admin rights from the user. This will also lock them to opendns.
Set rules for yourself about what constitutes a problem ahead of time. Snooping can lead to the bending of rules in search of something that’s not there. Internet traffic is rife with advertisers sideloading all sorts of dubious shit. The context of other IPs or hostnames connected to before and after is important when looking at log data.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
It’s either worth involving journalists or It’s not. Wouldn’t be caught dead trusting the anonymity of 4chan. If I did I’d expect I’d be caught and dead with that sort of information.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Think about who else has access, who else flags as not part of the mission, where is evidence of this download stored (it’s probably in more places than you’d expect from a digital forensics perspective). Keep in mind tools that delete also leave voids where there should be data, which is highly suspicious. Even something like removing a drive, deleting stuff on another computer, and placing it back could be a bread crumb if the original computer logs write or read cycle counts. Copiers keep records of their documents and users who print them, this can be traced back to the documents themselves.
Also who else in your life is vulnerable to the culprits, how will media spin this against you, how will the culprits lie about your actions and documents? Is what you’re exposing against a shared enemy publicly or a relatively positive entity? Think Bill Clinton and the fawning that made Monica to take the brunt of the scrutiny off of him? Would other governments or companies highly benefit from this information being released to the point that you’d be labeled a spy?
How legal was your access? Coincidental, open door, closed door opened, locked door opened, safe opened (metaphorically for digital). Can your information alone be used to prove its own validity? How much trail have you left in your interactions with other people, especially in text form, to raise you as a suspicious entity? I’d argue if it’s you then already too much is on the internet and you’d be better served passing the concern to someone else in the know if you don’t plan on moving to Russia like Snowden. Speaking of Snowden, make sure that your redactions cover both the copier hardware signature as well as fully remove the things you’re trying to redact. There are journalists who accept tips as well as nonprofits that may take a look without ratting you out. The journalists that Snowden chose were Glenn Greenwald, Laura Poitras, Barton Gellman, and Ewen MacAskill.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Just FYI, underage accounts cannot post on .world communities, if that is the case.
- Comment on Saw this at the store this morning, took a double take 1 month ago:
Yeah, I know in restaurants alcohol free requires no ID. It’d be nice if those terms were a little more clear.
- Comment on Saw this at the store this morning, took a double take 1 month ago:
Seems fake. It’s also not legal AFAIK to sell non alcoholic beer since it’s still got some alcohol in it. Then again I guess vanilla extract and mouth wash does too.
- Comment on Why put data centers in space? 1 month ago:
It’s a shameless attempt to loop in their own assets to a free for all money spree. There is literally nothing about it that makes any sense. It would be more efficient to beam laser light back to earth to power a dc than this, and that’s a stupid idea too.
- Comment on Just got arrested for a supposed DWI even though I blew a 0.0000000. Don't cops need to read your Miranda rights to you? I asked for a blood or hair follicle test and I was denied. WTH is happening? 2 months ago:
There was a supreme court ruling on this during Trump 1 I believe. They do not need to read rights any more.
- Comment on What happened to "Sanctuary Cities" where they bussed so called "immigrants" there? Was there a long term effect or anything? Or did cities may had a hiccup or two and that's about it? 2 months ago:
Well the busing did succeed at one thing, which is demonstrating that Adams was a shitty human with no actual values and showed that democratic governors and mayors often view migrants as a net negative even though they’re not. It was a great example of the problem with liberal politics, more obsessed with playing a game than caring for people and standing up for them. Even though they said stuff like they’re using them as pawns (true), the real response should have been thank you for sending us statistically better law abiders and hard workers. We will make sure they want to stay because them leaving yiur shithole state makes yours worse and ours better.
- Comment on what's the deal with Data centers and why do we all of a sudden need massive ones built all over everywhere? 2 months ago:
- Surveillance, reverse data anonymization, behaviour analysis, and autogenerated prosecutions.
- Make middle managers and CEOs feel special.
- Make stock numbers go up.
- Tax incentives on processing power upgrades while environmental laws are at a low and entrenching will allow negligence to continue.
- Moore’s law is staggered so much, it’s likely today’s hardware will not be replaced soon. Also they’re all invested in Nvidia anyways.
- The perception of positive change during a time when stagnation is nearly absolute in the west.
- Comment on What is the hate against Pit Bulls? Everyone I've met are super friendly like my BC. Or are they the new Doberman for this cycle? 2 months ago:
It’s pretty well known they were bred to be fighting dogs for blood sports. It doesn’t mean they end up that way, but intervention is needed in places other breeds do not require it.