renzev
@renzev@lemmy.world
- Comment on The internet kind of sucks right now 3 weeks ago:
Sounds like a very elegant way to fuck over screenreader users
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- Comment on The internet kind of sucks right now 3 weeks ago:
IDK what you mean by “domain host” but the thing about cloudflare ('s most prominent service) is that it’s essentially a voluntary MITM between you and your clients. They see ALL traffic going between your server and your clients. This is not normal. Normally traffic between server and client is encrypted with HTTPS. By using cloudflare’s proxy your are adding a backdoor to that encryption. Your registrar cannot normally see this traffic. Your certificate authority cannot normally see this traffic without issuing a malicious cert. But cloudflare can. And, if they wanted to, they could even inject malware to deanonymize users, spy on journalists, steal data, etc. As a matter of fact, they already do, but instead of calling it “malware” they call it “analytics”, so it’s okay 👍
- Comment on The internet kind of sucks right now 3 weeks ago:
Cloudflare is harmful. Sure, maybe they’re doing a Good Thing™ today, but who stops them from turning around and selling all of the data they proxy to AI companies tomorrow? There is rarely a good reason to use cloudflare. If you care about blocking bots, there are self-hostable tools like Anubis. If you care about hiding your server’s IP, you can use a VPN that allows port forwarding or rent a VPS. Do not use cloudflare. Cloudflare should not be used. By using cloudflare, you surrender your digital sovereignty for a mirage of convenience and safety.
(Yes, I understand the irony of posting this from a instance that uses cloudflare)
- Comment on The internet kind of sucks right now 3 weeks ago:
Yes indeed. It seems so far that the best defence is to join utterly unhinged communities and participate in degeneracy so severe that no publicly traded company would want to scrape you. Something something become ungovernable.
- Comment on The internet kind of sucks right now 3 weeks ago:
which I sometimes need because sometimes I do feel real bad
I kinda get what you mean. Sense of belonging and communication with people who understand you is important, never sacrifice your community in favor of some ideological quirk! Sure, there are good reasons to avoid reddit and discord, but they’re not good enough to cut yourself loose from people who make you feel like you belong!!
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- Comment on I genuinely can't wait for Mobile Linux to become a thing 3 weeks ago:
I have fairphone, it comes with unlockable bootloader. Don’t get the new ones tho, they suck. 3+ was the last good model before they drank the koolaid and removed the headphone jack.
- Comment on I genuinely can't wait for Mobile Linux to become a thing 4 weeks ago:
I’m an /e/os user and all I can say is even though it sucks the least among its competition, it STILL SUCKS! Not to downplay the immense effort put in by the devs and maintainers of course. Providing a privacy-respecting phone OS to ordinary people isn’t just a good deed, it’s necessary for a vibrant and diverse digital society. But still, we can all strive for better.
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- Comment on What a shocker! 5 weeks ago:
Unpopular opinion but games with community-driven multiplier (i.e. people hosting their own servers) is infinitely better than matchmaking multiplayer running on the dev/publisher’s servers if only for the sole reason that players have a choice of what kinds of communities they want to build and what things other players should be allowed to do instead of being forced into a sterilized commercial monoculture. I should be able to say “KYS KYS” in game if the people I’m playing with are okay with it.
- Comment on Planet of the apes: Beginning 1 month ago:
based thailand has toy guns that actually look like guns. None of that rainbow vomit laser blaster nonsense.
- Comment on Cutting sucks 1 month ago:
Food is fuel and construction material.
I live in the netherlands rn and basically at some point in history there was a guy called Calvin who convinced almost everybody to see food this way. To this day traditional dutch food is the blandest, saddest assortment of dishes imaginable. Thank god for immigrants bringing in some flavour.
- Comment on Genius 2 months ago:
I guess if he’s getting paid to do the interviews then it’s technically passive… wait no, then the whole interviewer thing would just count as advertising for his vending machine business
- Comment on US Politicians praying inside the House of Representatives 2 months ago:
They don’t actually believe any of this shit.
I agree with everything else that you’re saying, but I wouldn’t be so sure about this. Have you ever noticed how it’s much easier to start only flame wars when you actually believe in the batshit stance that you’re arguing as opposed to pretending to believe it for the sake of trolling? I think it’s a similar thing here. I don’t think humans are that good at compartmentalising, so in order to do something performatively so often and so well you have to trick your mind into actually believing it in a sort of corrupt way. I know this makes me sound like a middleschooler, but I think George Orwell’s concept of doublethink is very much real in cases like these.
- Comment on The only way to be 4 months ago:
No that’s not capitalism, that’s corporatism which is totally a different thing trust me bro! ^/j^
- Comment on Pictures of Animals Getting CT Scans Against their Will: A Thread 4 months ago:
I can’t believe nobody has posted this edit yet
- Comment on Moar garlic 4 months ago:
I refuse to measure garlic by any unit smaller than a whole head. Recipe says three cloves? Pretty sure you mean one head of garlic there buddy.
- Comment on I can't believe it let me do that 4 months ago:
yeah that’s exactly what I’m trying to get at with my lil meme. I used to get into a bunch of flame wars on the side of android because I would hear the apple people complain about fake made-up issues that I never experienced being a long-time android user. But seeing posts like OP’s makes me realize that those issues aren’t actually made up, they’re completely real and I just wasn’t seeing them because I am running a custom ROM. Like, in another thread some guy was concern-trolling about Google Services crashes being a “well-known issue” and everyone was upvoting him. Of course I would have no clue what he’s talking about, I don’t even have Google Services installed! So yeah, what I’m trying to say is that if you’ve never used an AOSP-based ROM and your entire experience of “android” are the slow buggy bloated ROMs that come installed by default on most phones, I’d understand why you’d choose to go with Apple instead.
- Comment on I can't believe it let me do that 4 months ago:
I’m not even playing dumb lol, I really am just dumb. If you scroll down a bit you can see that I didn’t even think that apple intelligence was a real product before someone corrected me
- Comment on I can't believe it let me do that 4 months ago:
Wow, this is a very insightful remark! Although I’m a little confused by your second point, would you mind expanding on that?
- Comment on I can't believe it let me do that 4 months ago:
My pet peeve is m$ changing “My computer” to “This computer”. It’s no longer yours lol.
- Comment on I can't believe it let me do that 4 months ago:
Ah I see, makes sense. Thanks!
- Comment on I can't believe it let me do that 4 months ago:
Is Apple Intelligence even real? I don’t have any apple product myself but my parents have iphones and sometimes I use their ipad and I’ve never seen it or heard anyone talk about it IRL. Pretty sure it was just a prank/marketing trick
- Comment on I'm so vegan I could eat a burger and still be a vegan 4 months ago:
This is basically the plot of The Vegetarian by Han Kang
- Comment on I can't believe it let me do that 4 months ago:
Is this really what the non-FOSS android experience has become nowadays!? AI chatbots in your messages app? This seems absolutely miserable. I think I finally understand why there are so many iOS users out there.
- Comment on Solid voting advice 5 months ago:
That’s brilliant haha
- Comment on He's just eccentric 5 months ago:
I once dragged one of those ceramic powerline insulators across two international borders because I found it lying around and liked how it looked. It took up the majority of the space in my backpack, so I had to buy a second backpack and carry it on the front of my chest lol. Apparently the reason they have that odd shape is so that when it’s raining, water can’t make a continuous trickle between the wire and the pylon
- Comment on Thinkpad for the win 6 months ago:
The “best” would be some kind of DC to DC converter
No sense in going dc->ac->dc if it can be helped.
Modern laptop chargers can actually run on DC current, and with as little as 48 volts. Here is a german guy demonstrating it. So if your battery bank runs on 48 volts, I think you might be able to just connect it directly to the input of a laptop charger and it will work.
- Comment on No means no 6 months ago:
Strange. I use windows 11 occasionally, and it’s never even as much as mentioned onedrive to me. Could it be that it’s a cracked install? Or that I never connected the local account to a microsoft account? Or that I’m in the EU?
