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- Comment on The recent Steam censorship debacle actually sort of opened me up to adult games. 3 days ago:
Imagine the debuff that blueballs would inflict because you missed the quicktime event
- Comment on Do farts at least nominally increase the overall temperature of the room in which they are extruded? 4 days ago:
What about liquid particles in the flatulence phase-changing and lowering the temperature? (Like how an evaporative swamp cooler works)
- Comment on Our GPU Black Market Documentary Has Been Taken Down by Bloomberg 4 days ago:
A bunch of other YouTubers are reuploading it in protest.
So, you can watch it on one of the reuploads.
Just make sure you watch it again on Gamers Nexus when it comes back, help them jump re-start it on the algorithm so it gets the views it deserves.Thankfully the Streisand effect will take care of the publicity.
- Comment on 4 days ago:
I’m guessing that - from my experience of the CasualUK community when I used to be on Reddit - they have similar rules of ABSOLUTELY no politics. Even something that might lead to politics.
It’s to keep the place extremely light hearted and not turn into a depressing news/politics community.So immigration/border policy and Palestine Action would both be out.
Even jokes about small boats would likely be too close.It is a fun story, glad you shared it. And good on the mods recommending an alternative community
- Comment on PSA: WASH YOUR HANDS 2 weeks ago:
Ah, the classic “scientists dicover cure ^in vitro^”
- Comment on Google Refuses to Deny UK Encryption Demands 4 weeks ago:
Yeh, good.
Hopefully they will realise what a farce OSA is as well, considering the skyrocketing VPN usage! - Comment on UK households could face VPN 'ban' after use skyrockets following Online Safety Bill 4 weeks ago:
The only other solutions to “VPNs circumvent OSA” are:
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Licence/regulate VPN usage (which is essentially a ban WRT the OSA).
Extremely difficult to do. It’s fairly trivial to just tunnel your connection over SSH to a VPS in another country.
Also fairly trivial to get a VPN that tunnels over a websocket, making the traffic identical to website traffic.
The government is going to play cat&mouse with decades of legitimate infosec. -
Do something progressive, and drop the OSA (which isn’t going to happen).
They’ve literally just implemented these laws. It’s not getting repealed.
They are going to make consumer use of anything that changes the public source address of a packet illegal.
How they enforce that, I dunno.
Like the whole OSA, it seems really poorly thought out. I dunno how they completely overlooked VPN usage -
- Comment on UK households could face VPN 'ban' after use skyrockets following Online Safety Bill 4 weeks ago:
Eh, a back bencher has called for a report on how VPNs interfere with ofcoms ability to enforce/regulate the online safety act within 6 months.
independent.co.uk/…/vpns-online-safety-bill-labou…
"My new clause 54 would require the Secretary of State to publish, within six months of the Bill’s passage, a report on the effect of VPN use on Ofcom’s ability to enforce the requirements under clause 112.
“If VPNs cause significant issues, the Government must identify those issues and find solutions, rather than avoiding difficult problems.”
The likely conclusion of that report is that “VPNs circumvent the age verification requirement, so circumvent the OSA, so VPNs must be banned”
- Comment on Krafton Delays ‘Subnautica 2’ Game Ahead of $250 Million Payout 1 month ago:
One of the best robot chicken scenes.
I was in tears the first time I saw it - Comment on you miss all the shots you don't take 1 month ago:
Google has a “search tools” drop down menu (on mobile it’s at the end of the list of images/shopping/news etc).
It’s default set to “all results”. I believe changing it to “verbatim” is closer to the older (some would say “dumber”, I would say “more predictable”) behaviour - Comment on When does Trump finally start taking accountability? 1 month ago:
If a God were to appear and demonstrate all kinds of supernatural activity and capability, I think I’d have to renounce my atheism.
I would also renounce my atheism and become fully anti-theism.
The god is clearly not benevolent, not kind, not caring. The god can go fuck themselves.Trumps track record over the past decades cannot be forgiven
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Why do we even have that lever?
- Comment on The driver for my mouse occupies over 1 gb 1 month ago:
All the cool kids are running kubernetes
- Comment on Duke University lost NIH grants because they used the prefix "trans" in reference to disease transmission, transgenic genetic material, translational studies and signal transduction 1 month ago:
You really think they know regex?
They probably got grok to generate it and didn’t understand what it does - Comment on Sounds good tho 2 months ago:
Bloody hell is more of a surprise thing, tbh
- Comment on The White House is paving over the Rose Garden with concrete. People are outraged 2 months ago:
He is. But the people around him and controlling/handling him aren’t idiots.
It’s either in project 2025, or some other republican playbook. Scattershot out a bunch of crazy news to swamp the news cycle and overwhelm everyone, then get to work doing the dirty stuff - Comment on The White House is paving over the Rose Garden with concrete. People are outraged 2 months ago:
It’s part of the strategy.
Overwhelm the news cycle, see what the news picks up and push that more, let the actual bad stuff go under-reported. - Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Your threat assessment is way off.
So, you import a phone. What sim do you use? Where do you use it? When do you use it? Who do you contact with it?
All of that is more valuable and easier to get for the police than some sort of modification of firmware or platform as it passes through customs.
If in doubt, flash your own firmware.If this is actually a threat assessment to you, asking on Lemmy is the wrong place. You need people with the same experience that an entire country has at their disposal.
If it’s a concern as opposed to an actual threat, buy some 2nd hand phones from random places and buy some prepaid sims (ideally via smurfs or black market means). And be aware of how you use them
- Comment on just beat it 2 months ago:
The whole “well, it’s already broken: what’s the worst I can do?” is such a liberating position to be in.
- Comment on Stop Trusting VPN Companies. Host Your Own (WireGuard getting started guide) 37:29 2 months ago:
Stop trusting VPS providers! Run your own servers at home!
Unless you infiltrate someone else’s network, the endpoint your basic VPN connects to can always be traced back to you.
So, either you trust a VPN company doesn’t hold logs and try to hide within all the other traffic.
Or you host your own VPN on a VPS knowing you haven’t set up any logging (and hope that your VPS hasn’t been tampered with), but then have a static IP that comes back to your identity. - Comment on [XKCD]#3101 Good Science 2 months ago:
XKCD alt text is always worth!
And it’s not always available (like, the well known ones being circulated around social media).Props to the OP for linking to the image from XKCD (as opposed to rehosting it) and further props for linking the source!
Just missing the delicious alt text (at least for me using jerboa, Firefox and a pixel phone)
- Comment on [XKCD]#3101 Good Science 2 months ago:
If you think curiosity without rigor is bad, you should see rigor without curiosity
I hope I typed that right. I couldn’t copy the alt text from the source on mobile.
And I was annoyed that XKCD alt text wasn’t included with the post, so I thought I would include it to the best of my ability - Comment on Are standing seats on airliners actually going to be a thing? 2 months ago:
That’s a great rundown with decent logic & examples behind each point.
I think the biggest point is the takeoff weight.
If the impact/evac/safety aspects can be addressed, the only way I can see it working is to add a “cattle class” that’s like $10 cheaper than current economy and has something like 40 “seats”.
Then increase the price of what is currently economy class by $10-20.
You lose $400 because of the new cheaper class, but gain $1,200 to $2,400 by increasing the price of economy (considering a 160 seat plane, and convert 40 seats to standing). So, net gain $800-2000. Let’s you advertise new cheaper fares, and the price increase isn’t hugely egregious when the 40 seats sell out instantly.
I guess it doesn’t work on less busy flights if only the 40 cheap seats sell - Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Outlook (formerly Outlook New) for Live (formerly Outlook Cloud)
- Comment on That's it. That's the joke. 3 months ago:
If it was real pain, the body has ways of rejecting it
- Comment on New Reform UK Council Leader Calls Ukraine War 'A Distraction' 3 months ago:
Is that an insult?
Nature normally smells lovely - Comment on My doctor's office now has ads when checking in online 3 months ago:
It’s pretty much just does it.
Default settings are good.
I think you can dial in stricter block lists, but might have issues with some websites.
But you can pause PiHole for 5 minutes, allowing you to do what you need to. I think there is even browser plugins to give you an easy toggle button - Comment on My doctor's office now has ads when checking in online 3 months ago:
If there is ever a way to continue any process without agreeing to terms, services, data processing etc: that’s my default action.
I’m not going to check a checkbox unless the form forbids me from continuing without checking it - at which point, I figure out what the checkbox wants - Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
I have no idea, but that website is a bit of a red flag to me.
It sounds like it’s some sort of file sharing service. So you can upload, share and download files from the RealDebrid servers.
A quick Google suggests it’s primarily used for downloading/streaming movies, TV series etc. Essentially piracy. - Comment on Microsoft Allows Bethesda To Continue To Be Cool Regarding Fan-Made Remake Projects 3 months ago:
Now they need to stop interfering with windows