JovialSodium
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- Comment on Discord Begins Testing Facial Scans for Age Verification 1 day ago:
They could just deny access without verification. But thinking more broadly there’ll certainly be ways to fool the system. But, shouldn’t have to in the first place.
- Comment on Discord Begins Testing Facial Scans for Age Verification 1 day ago:
There are a few qualifiers here. It’s for some users in UK and Australia trying to access sensitive content. And it sounds like it’s reaction to laws against youth under 16 accessing social media. In Australia, anyway. So the scope is currently fairly limited.
Should we be worried that this will pave the road for larger privacy abuses? Yes, of course we should. That scenario feels likely, in my opinion.
Is this enough to convince my friends to use a different platform? Not yet.
- Comment on Why do people insist on not answering ALL the questions in an email or text message? 1 week ago:
Conciseness and directness help.
As an example, there was someone I worked with that tended to ask around a question.
“What do you know about x? What do you know about y? What do you know about z?”
Instead of “How do I get from x to z?”
I think they just want to understand the underlying process. And I can understand that. But I wasn’t their mentor and it was at times frustrating.
Not suggesting OP is doing this. Just a general thought I had in regards to the question.
- Comment on X’s dominance ‘over’ as Bluesky becomes new hub for research 1 week ago:
My tenuous understanding from an article I read about the AT protocol but barely remember is that it can’t be fully decentralized. I think you have to use bluesky for user authentication. And I think it said the hosting hardware requirements would be significant to the point where it’s not very feisable. I welcome corrections/clarifications.
Point is, assuming that’s reasonably correct, true decentralization isn’t possible. And by it’s nature as a big corporate owned site, enshittification is inevitable.
- Comment on Dogma, a 25th Anniversary Celebration (1999, dir Kevin Smith) 2 weeks ago:
I’ve had that same sense of Kevin Smith movies not holding up. But still loved Dogma last I saw it which was… maybe a few years ago. Maybe I should again. But then maybe doing so will ruin it.
- Comment on Anon experiences freedom 1 month ago:
Great explanation! That makes a lot of sense. No real value for them to rock the boat.
- Comment on Anon experiences freedom 1 month ago:
I like this
- Comment on Anon experiences freedom 1 month ago:
I wonder if that’ll end up being true. I’d guess the constituents this represent voters that watch porn at least as much on average as anyone else. I’m going to go ahead and guess above average. They might get tired of this and push for change. But I’m also admittedly less educated on how our political system works than I should be and might be overestimating how much influence Florida Man has because he’s disgruntled at having to jump through hurdles to fap.
- Comment on Anon experiences freedom 1 month ago:
Yes, you’re right. But that doesn’t fit with their “think of the children” moral compass. Which isn’t even pointing the correct direction, but good luck convincing them of that.
I feel like my compass analogy isn’t the best, but eh.
- Comment on only 100% dry cotton cleaning 2 months ago:
I was curious if you could actually buy this which sent me down a small rabbit hole.
Turns it it was, according to checkyourfact.com, was a quote falsely attributed to Joe Biden. Looks like that was a few years ago. I hadn’t seen it back then. checkyourfact.com/…/fact-check-joe-biden-buy-man-…
To the original thing I was looking at of can you buy it, yes you can. checkyourfact.com/…/fact-check-joe-biden-buy-man-… But now having context, it’s a political shirt.
- Comment on It shows you love them 3 months ago:
This answer is completely untested and something I came up with while poking through my phone’s options. But it should work as long as the app in question uses your phone’s DNS settings.
My Samsung phone a private DNS setting. Settings > Connections > More Connection Settings > Private DNS. This doesn’t seem to be bound to a specific connection on my device so I assume this value is used for any. I don’t know if this is available on all modernish android devices or iOS.
One can set up a dns-over-https server such as github.com/m13253/dns-over-https/ and configure it to use a DNS server which is sinkholing those domains. Which it sounds like you already have setup.
You’d have to have that public facing with a reverse proxy and a valid cert so they could reach it while on mobile data, so I don’t know that the juice is worth the squeeze.
- Comment on I'm tired of every game being live service 6 months ago:
Almost everything on my store page is AAA or liveservice trash.
Very little on my Steam page is. This is just one data point but still it suggests their suggestion algorithm somewhat works for this.
Just an observation on that specific thing not a disagreement with the problem. Live service is trash and needs to go away if it’s not an exclusively multiplayer game.
- Comment on Praystation 5 6 months ago:
I’m just throwing shade for fun.
Feels like the right choice for a shitposting community!
- Comment on Praystation 5 6 months ago:
Are ps5’s not useful?
I haven’t bothered with the last generation of consoles, but I haven’t heard anything bad about them.
But maybe my “haven’t bothered” comment is a common sentiment and the answer to my own question?
- Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 11 months ago:
Speaking as an aethist, can confirm.
- Comment on Most obscure movies you've ever seen? 11 months ago:
One at random that I enjoyed that I don’t think is well known is “God Bless America (2012)”.
The title might be misleading, so I’ll say that it is not a religious or patriotic film.
- Comment on Stop Killing Games — An initiative to stop publishers & developers killing games 1 year ago:
Apology not needed.
I agree with you. The ozone layer is a great example of this being successful. And there are other examples of this kind of issue elsewhere. Like the we have to push for user repair rights or against planned obsolescence (which one could argue this is planned obsolescence, in thinking about it).
A small number of informed users won’t disincentiveize companies from abusing the masses. Because most companies are garbage so of course they will if they can. And regulations are the solution. I’m not suggesting we ignore that. But those of us who are informed can still incentiveize those companies that do treat their customers well in the interim.
I concede to the point though. I said, in effect, that supporting businesses that treat us well will help. But I suppose it’s more accurate to say that will, at best, stop things from getting worse.
- Comment on Stop Killing Games — An initiative to stop publishers & developers killing games 1 year ago:
Setting legal precidents and regulating the industry are musts to curb this behavior. But we also have power as consumers. The ol’ “vote with money” if you will. There are too many uninformed consumers for this to have a huge impact, but keeping our money away from bad publishers and giving it to good ones will help.