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 What happens when I run two VPNs on my computer? 1 day ago:
It’s a VPN within a VPN. So all your traffic over the Mullvad VPN connection has a VPN within it going to Proton (but only for Firefox).
To answer the questions directly:
- Yes, but not exactly. Everything goes through Mullvad, but Firefox goes through Proton going through Mullvad.
- No, they’ll just see the Proton information.
- It slows down your connection! That’s a lot more extra hops. Practically…I suppose if the “inner VPN” was necessary to connect to a specific host (like a work VPN) then it could be useful. For example you use Mullvad on your router, but your work laptop uses a VPN to connect to resources needed to do your work. Other than that I can’t see why you’d need to use 2 at the same time.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 day ago:
Not sure if you’re asking for advice, but if appeals to reason doesn’t work “I’m your fucking parent and you’re going to do it or you’re grounded until you do” should work nicely.
- Comment on Apparently Bluesky lets you require a sign in to view a post 3 days ago:
Not the OP, but I don’t think there’s anything wrong with it. I do think it’s a little odd given that the security is at the client and not in the protocol. As others have mentioned already, if you use skyview.social, you can see the posts anyway.
- Comment on How dare the alarm I set betray me like this? 1 week ago:
I literally yell “fuck you” at my alarm from time to time.
- Comment on What is a metaphor you like in your language? 2 weeks ago:
“I have to see a man about a horse.” It means you’re going to the bathroom.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
It doesn’t. Might have been New Brunswick. Or I just made it up somehow. I can’t remember where I saw it.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
My understanding is that some province is charging double on US commercial trucks that cross the border. Nova Scotia?
- Comment on I can quit anytime I want! 2 weeks ago:
Pfft. I have trazodone.
- Comment on Is anyone planning on doing anything about trump creating a concentration camp at guantanamo bay? 3 weeks ago:
It’s a great idea, I agree. But people have to realize that a good 40% of the country thinks that holding undocumented immigrants in a military prison indefinitely is hella balls-to-the-fucking-wall awesome. These people are not interested in striking and most of the 60% left over are worried they’ll get fired tomorrow if they don’t show up to work.
- Comment on Is anyone planning on doing anything about trump creating a concentration camp at guantanamo bay? 3 weeks ago:
I invite you to imagine a state or local prosecutor indicting a member of the armed forces for carrying out an order given by a superior.
- Comment on Why do people indoors at public places always listen to their phone at full volume? 3 weeks ago:
It’s mostly because “fuck you, I do what I want.”
- Comment on You have got to be kidding me... 3 weeks ago:
Always Be Closing
- Comment on I haven't been home in a while. But when did Arkansas and other states have their governors pop up saying you can't view this porn site? With a guilt trip? No offense but not looking for sanders porn 4 weeks ago:
Pornhub is the only one that I know of that is doing the blocks by state. They are a big enough target that the laws could cause them a lot of trouble, and they’ve said they aren’t interesting in checking IDs.
The sum total of the laws is that people will either get their porn on sites that don’t care about the various state laws and/or they will learn about using VPNs to get around blocks.
- Comment on I mean, that's literally the opposite of what I want 4 weeks ago:
This is top level enshittification. You’re showing the user an ad that is, as OP says, the opposite of what they want, and then charging Truth Social for the impression. Magnificent!
- Comment on I mean, that's literally the opposite of what I want 4 weeks ago:
Pretty much. They’ve made some changes but it’s unclear if has changed enough to not be able to federate.
- Comment on moms rule 4 weeks ago:
I knew two of my great grandmothers (yay for really young parents!). I know I met two others but didn’t really know them.
I was told that I met my great great grandmother once when I was a toddler but I don’t remember it. She died at age 99.
- Comment on Transmen who have had bottom surgery, have you ever sat on your scrotum by accident? 4 weeks ago:
I’ve only heard of Mr. Belvedere doing this.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Being a harder worker isn’t something to be proud of, friend.
- Comment on May not be the right place but here it goes. One of my brothers passes or get extremely tired if he sees porn. Even a sex scene in a movie he has to go lay down. Is there something wrong with him? 4 weeks ago:
I take it he would like to watch porn but can’t? Then yes, that’s a problem and he should see his primary care doc first. It’s a quality of life issue.
- Comment on What advice would you give to your younger self? 1 month ago:
This comes up a lot. The fact is that almost everyone who mined a few dozen BTC back then would have sold it when it reached $100. No one ever thought back in 2009 that it’d be worth what it is now.
- Comment on What advice would you give to your younger self? 1 month ago:
You know how you think George W. Bush is the worst president we’ve ever had or ever will have? Well in 2017 you’re going to wish he was in office. Also, go to school in a foreign country so you can be a permanent resident there.
- Comment on If me and a bunch of my lemmy friends got on a yacht. Went into international waters what could we get away with legally and what would still be illegal? 1 month ago:
Rebroadcast Major League Baseball with implied oral consent.
- Comment on How does interoperability work between different fediverse services? 1 month ago:
So I replied to this comment as well as the original post via Mastodon. Apparently this doesn’t work anymore (or I was wrong and never did or it’s very slow).
- Comment on How does interoperability work between different fediverse services? 1 month ago:
Possibly! I have replied to this post from my Mastodon account. People on Mastodon can see these posts and interact with them, but it’s kinda clunky. The posts and comments are implemented as boosts. So you post here and I see this on Mastodon: Image
Every reply will also show as a boost from nostupidquestions@lemmy.world.
I don’t think it works the other way around. I don’t believe you can follow specific AP accounts from here (like you can’t follow my Mastodon account from your Lemmy account). I think they have to be groups/communities. Someone please correct me if I’m wrong.
- Comment on I have to go back to work in 32 hours, what's the point? 1 month ago:
In 40, but I feel “I have to go back to work in 32 hours, what’s the point?” in my bones.
- Comment on Tired of hearing about “The offshore team” 1 month ago:
I work with plenty of people from India. They’re pretty good at their jobs. They should be paid the same as us in the USA.
I don’t mind that they work on the other side of the world. I don’t mind them at all. I mind that the main reason why they’re hired is that they can pay them peanuts. They deserve better.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
This is a private school so they don’t get much in the way of direct government funding. State-funded schools are considerably cheaper. I went to Wright State University in Ohio. Right now it’s about $13k/yr in tuition. This is still rather expensive on a global scale.
Why do private schools charge that much? Because people (like you) will pay that much. What about the University of Chicago makes it so that you are willing pay for it? What do you or your son hope to get out of it that a school in your home country (I’m assuming Canada) can’t give him? To compare to Wright State, even for out-of-country students the tuition is less than half of Chicago’s tuition. Is the benefit of going to Chicago worth that much more? If it is, then that is exactly what you’re paying for.
- Comment on Lemmy on Mastadon 2 months ago:
My understanding is that if I follow @dadjokes@lemmy.world from Mastodon what happens is:
- I will see all posts on that community
- I will also see all replies to that post
- The replies are listed in Mastodon as boosts from @dadjokes@lemmy.world
For example:
That’s what I see if I go to @dadjokes@lemmy.world from Mastodon.
Is that what you are talking about regarding boosts?
- Comment on Woohoo! Just in time for the holidays! 2 months ago:
Don’t forget to multiply that value!
- Comment on Selfish or not 2 months ago:
The people who are taking up extra space are trying to tell you that they’d rather sit alone than talk to a stranger on the bus/train/etc.
They will move their stuff so that you can sit down if you ask. There is no trouble in asking and you don’t need to “pick the biggest guy.” Just ask someone “may I sit here, please?” That works 99% of the time.
