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 Yes 6 hours ago:
At one point in my life I had the XP VLK for my university memorized. Now all I remember is the end: BGDBB.
- Comment on How many angels can dance on the head of a pin? 3 days ago:
None, because they don’t exist.
- Comment on Why do so many piece of Hardware come with windows only software requiring admin right for installation 3 days ago:
Linux distros have to ship all these drivers because otherwise someone would try that distro and say “nothing works, this sucks” if they had to go hunt for drivers to install. Windows computers really are the same way, but they’re almost always preconfigured.
- Comment on What are your thoughts about AI? 5 days ago:
- I find it useful for work (I am a software developer/tester).
- I think it’s about as good as it’s ever going to get.
- I believe it is not ever going to be profitable and the benefits are not worth reopening nuclear and coal power plants.
- If US courts rule that training AI with copyrighted materials is fair use, then I will probably stop paying for content and start pirating it again.
- Comment on 7 for me 6 days ago:
1, 2, 6, or 7 depending on the season.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
It is not normal. It’s fine that you do it.
- Comment on How would you run a society? 3 weeks ago:
There’s a song about it.
And I wanna conquer the world Give all the idiots a brand new religion Put an end to poverty, uncleanliness, and toil Promote equality in all of my decisions I want to conquer the world Expose the culprits and feed 'em to the children Do away with air pollution, and then I’ll save the whales We’ll have peace on Earth and global communion
- Comment on Choose a number, 1-5! 4 weeks ago:
- Long tines and a big “handle”.
- Comment on The pipeline 4 weeks ago:
I skipped right to boneless wings.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
I’ve been to the USVI and you do go through customs. It’s a separate customs zone.
- Comment on Bros being bros 5 weeks ago:
Do you think he’s using the single loop or double loop method?
- Comment on Caption this. 1 month ago:
Social Distortion releases early demos on vinyl.
- Comment on What would happen if the Supreme Court sent a US Marshall to arrest a member of the executive branch? 2 months ago:
My contention is that the DOJ (who oversees the marshals) would order them to ignore the bench warrant.
Courts have the power to deputize whomever they choose. If they were to deputize, for instance, a state police officer because the marshalls wouldn’t carry out their orders, my belief is that no deputized agent would arrest someone for contempt if some LEO under federal control (FBI, the marshalls, capitol police, etc.) was protecting the person held in contempt. You will not get two sets of cops shooting at each other over this.
- Comment on What would happen if the Supreme Court sent a US Marshall to arrest a member of the executive branch? 2 months ago:
“How many divisions has the Supreme Court?”
Even of a judge deputized someone to arrest an executive branch officer, it’s unlikely to actually happen. It always ends in who has bigger guns and that’s going to be the FBI, the Marshalls, or the secret service. No deputy trying to arrest someone on a bench warrant is going to get into a confrontation with a fellow LEO protecting said arrestee.
- Comment on Americans, How do you pour soda into a cup with ice without the soda going flat? 2 months ago:
Not to mention Rand was an objectivist, not a libertarian.
- Comment on what instances allow you to follow users? 2 months ago:
You can follow users using Mastodon (I follow myself here from Mastodon). Not sure about other Fedi software.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
What a coincidence! I’m the fediverse dude!
- Comment on Realistically, how feasible is it to 100% boycott a massive corporation (such as Amazon) for an extended period of time? 2 months ago:
Good call. The greenest purchase you can make is fixing the thing you already own.
- Comment on Will LibreWolf be affected by Firefox's new Terms of Service? 2 months ago:
You can’t put terms of service on a web page and bind people to it. Otherwise I could put up a site somewhere and say everyone who reads this owes me a dollar.
The terms are only enforceable when they are presented to the user before they use the software. My copy of Librewolf doesn’t present any terms to me so I am not bound by anything other than the redistribution license.
IANAL but all this is pretty common sense. You can’t add terms by posting them where the user wouldn’t see them. And Librewolf explains very clearly that it is not Firefox and is not a Mozilla product.
- Comment on Sooo, where did the blatant Nazism suddenly come from? 2 months ago:
Reminds me of the Rule of Goats:
If you fuck a goat ironically, you’re still fucking a goat. Same goes with ironic Hitler salutes.
- Comment on Could a US state prevent its citizens from paying federal taxes? 2 months ago:
Yes, by law. Of course the business will abide by federal law before state law because federal law is supreme.
- Comment on What happens when I run two VPNs on my computer? 2 months 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] 2 months 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 2 months 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? 3 months ago:
I literally yell “fuck you” at my alarm from time to time.
- Comment on What is a metaphor you like in your language? 3 months ago:
“I have to see a man about a horse.” It means you’re going to the bathroom.
- Comment on 3 months 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 3 months 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! 3 months ago:
Pfft. I have trazodone.
- Comment on Is anyone planning on doing anything about trump creating a concentration camp at guantanamo bay? 3 months 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.