stinerman
@stinerman@midwest.social
I am Stine. Comfort the afflicted. Afflict the comfortable. High School Wrestler™. Can usually correctly use the past tense in French. Suffers from clinical depression.
- Comment on 5 days ago:
OBO
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Also late 90s Midwest here and I got similar information. We also got completely untrue info like if you jizz in a hot tub and a girl gets in she can get pregnant because the sperm will swim into her vagina and from long distances away.
- Comment on Regulations restricting pay disclosure? 1 week ago:
IANAL, but employment law is generally “it’s allowed unless explicitly forbidden”.
There is no right to be hired so they’re allowed to include any limitations on who they might hire except for those that are illegal. For instance they can say “we refuse to hire people who live in Illinois” but they can’t say “we refuse to hire Muslims.” - Comment on Is it weird that i talk to my pets more articulately than i sometimes talk to actual people? 2 weeks ago:
Yes this is weird, but it’s OK to be weird. Keep doing it if you enjoy it. Anyone who tells you to stop can fuck themselves.
- Comment on Are physical mail generally not under surveillance? If everyone suddently ditched electronic communications and start writing letters, would governments be able to practically surveil everyone? 2 weeks ago:
If you’re just a rando, yeah you’re not going to have much to worry about. They also can’t track everyone. But it is certainly possible for high value targets.
- Comment on Are physical mail generally not under surveillance? If everyone suddently ditched electronic communications and start writing letters, would governments be able to practically surveil everyone? 2 weeks ago:
My understanding is that there is an expectation of privacy in the USA in the contents of a sealed envelope. I don’t believe that the government can legally open one without a warrant. According to the case Ex Parte Jackson they can’t. However…
You have to trust that they wouldn’t break that law or someone else wouldn’t open it. Depends on your threat model. And as others have said, the government would know who you are communicating with, just not what you’re saying.
- Comment on Why have so many services started using single-factor passwordless authentication in the last little while? 4 weeks ago:
It is coding for the lowest common denominator of user – those who use the same easily-guessable password for everything. Making them click a link to login is honestly better security.
Of course there should be an option for those of us who have a TOTP app and use a password manager.
- Comment on how do you deal with those characters fully convinced a job is something you have to enjoy? 4 weeks ago:
Even if you love your job, you’re going to grow to hate it, to a certain extent.
Yes, I got a job in a line of work I like and now I don’t like the line of work because it’s my job. I associate it with bad things now.
- Comment on Why are some many people role playing as animals? 5 weeks ago:
I think it is interesting that relatively recently it became possible for furries to wear suits that allow them to express themselves in this matter. How many people throughout human history wished to be able to do this, but couldn’t because the “technology” simply wasn’t there.
- Comment on Someone needs to time travel and stuff a brief case with 3m dollars 1 month ago:
It’s also a very different world if the copyright status of BSD was known in the early 90s.
- Comment on If a girl asks you if you're big, are you supposed to lie or not? 1 month ago:
I am not a good person to ask because I’ve never been asked that question. My only suggestion is to try to discern the tone of her voice when she asks.
You are allowed to ask “are you serious?”
- Comment on If a girl asks you if you're big, are you supposed to lie or not? 1 month ago:
It depends on the context. Does she expect a serious answer? Do you feel comfortable telling her? If so you may want to use quantitative measurements (ie., an accurate length in cm/in) rather than vague adjectives like “big”. One person’s “big” is another person’s “average.”
- Comment on Im just a tiny puppy in a big money world. 1 month ago:
No, I felt that I couldn’t have any fun because I had too many adulting things to do. Also I grew up with a father who was constantly miserable and hated life, so I thought that’s how you were supposed to be when you grew up.
- Comment on Im just a tiny puppy in a big money world. 1 month ago:
My psychiatrist literally prescribed me video games. She told me I had to play some for a few hours per week.
- Comment on Wear your seatbelt 1 month ago:
Antiques too.
- Comment on Did they stop throwing dildos at the WNBA? 1 month ago:
Well the WNBA season is nearly over so that might be some of the reason you’re not hearing anything.
- Comment on I can't say I am going to kill the president. But can the president specify me a civ saying he is going to kill me? And it be legal? 1 month ago:
You can say it. It’s legal as long as it’s not deemed a legitimate threat. If you disclose specific plans about how you might do so, expect a visit from the FBI.
- Comment on I can't say I am going to kill the president. But can the president specify me a civ saying he is going to kill me? And it be legal? 1 month ago:
“Carl’s Jr…fuck you! I’m eating.”
- Comment on Are Street Racers "bad people"? 1 month ago:
Yes.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
No. People even in the beginning of civilization lived for much longer than 38 years.
- Comment on Imperial Wastes So Much Time 2 months ago:
I was in Canada and ordered a 20oz beer. The waitress said “ok the pint” and I said “uhh…the 20 oz one” and she said “yeah…ok.”
Didn’t realize that we had smaller pints (16 oz) than they do everywhere else.
- Comment on Do all American stores have greeters? 2 months ago:
This is kind of why I like going to Microcenter. They do the “hey, how’s it going” thing, but it’s in a really professional way. And if you tell them you’re just looking they back off and let you stand there for 20 minutes. And if you ask for advice on something, they’ll give you suggestions and detailed explanations about why they think that way.
- Comment on winter fans 2 months ago:
Winter fan here. This is a problem, which is why the sun shouldn’t rise until about 9:45 in the winter.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
How the application is started is a separate question. I don’t know enough about Wine to know if it would install a Windows Service as a user service in systemd or init.d or something like that. But if the app is started it can do anything it wants subject to that user’s permissions.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Yes. There’s no sandboxing in Wine/Proton. It’s just another application running with the privileges of the user running it. So it can do anything any other process could do with that user’s credentials. This is one reason why Wine recommends that you never run it as root.
- Comment on Does the AGPL license allows not disclosing the source of third party scripts indirectly interacting with the main software? 3 months ago:
This is a question about what constitutes a derivative work. IANAL and that’s a difficult question most of the time. I’m not going to try to answer it. I’m reasonably sure that the last 3 are not derivative works, but again, IANAL.
If something is a derivative work of an AGPL-licensed product, that work must also be AGPL. This basically means you must provide source to anyone who has a copy of the binary or any user of the software. If only you are using the script, it’s a pretty trivial case. You’re the only author/user of the software and you have the source so you’re in compliance.
- Comment on Why is "mythology" in the public domain in the first place? 3 months ago:
Yes. OP could make up a new story based on mythology and it’s not in the public domain.
The Church of Scientology is well-known to aggressively assert their copyright interest in some of their religious texts. At some point these will lapse into the public domain and anyone who has a copy can publish them.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
They may be using CGNAT. If you check your local IP and it starts with 10, 172, or 192 when on mobile data that is the case.
- Comment on For some reason suicide is illegal. If someone is going or trying to commit suicide and get talked down are they still in trouble or get locked up or sent to a medical facility? 3 months ago:
I was in a combined depression and substance abuse unit. It was mostly boring. We had privacy when in the shower or the can. Doors had to be open when we were sleeping. Law enforcement wasn’t involved at all. It was a private hospital, not state-run. I wouldn’t ever want to go back but AFAICT it was pretty good as far as mental hospitals go.
- Comment on Priority seating indeed. 3 months ago:
A story in 4 acts.