splendoruranium

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Australia Begins New Ransomware Payment Disclosure Rules⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  These requirements do not apply to public sector organizations.

  That’s a bit of a head-scratcher.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does anyone use a phone without a protective case?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure, for a basic machine that allows for better than 20mph, or 35kph.

  What makes you say that? Wearing a helmet is always recommended, since it provides protection against debilitating injuries whether the cyclist moves at 35km/h or is at a standstill. The basic risk of injury stems from being a mere participant in traffic, after all. Just like the basic risk of a debilitating defect in a piece of electronics that gets used every day stems from it getting used every day.

  Trying to compare that to my phone is a false equivalency. Try trolling someone that hasn’t had both university level ethics courses, and university level debate courses that I fucking hated. The debate ones, not the ethics. Ethics I breezed through. Debate is some absolute bullshit because you have to entertain the viewpoint of liars, like you.

  While I don’t understand how ethics figure into this, I’m glad that you understand how a debate works! I’ll graciously ignore the no doubt involuntary ad hominem (which you as an expert will know has no place in any kind of discussion) and will ask you to now employ the most useful technique you’ve likely learned in that course and rephrase the original point I made in a way that makes me go “Yep, that’s what I said!”, because from my point of view there must be some kind of misunderstanding. What (did you think) was I equating with what?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does anyone use a phone without a protective case?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I wish there were aftermarket components available for that thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does anyone use a phone without a protective case?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  TIL I’m a savage with a crack-less Samsung Galaxy S10 e

  Riding without a bicycle helmet is just never a good idea, whether you’ve ever hit your head or not doesn’t factor into it :P

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do some people say "I wouldn't want a government to dictate what I eat"? This would mean they'd be against food safety regulations, would it not?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  yes, however as far as I am aware there are no laws in the us against any private vehicle usage on private land. Unlike the FDA which criminalizes owning or consuming certain chemicals.

  You may have reached the limit of that car-metaphor there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do some people say "I wouldn't want a government to dictate what I eat"? This would mean they'd be against food safety regulations, would it not?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Exaclty … certain types in certain areas with a reason. That’s regulation.

  Which is just what I wrote, yes. Excising every unmaintained or outdated vehicle from traffic everywhere for example is just as valid a regulation as excising a certain type of food - any food - from general consumption. There’d simply have to be a good reason. And once there is, yep, what can and can be eaten gets dictated.
  Again, that’s already how it works, in traffic and in cuisine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do some people say "I wouldn't want a government to dictate what I eat"? This would mean they'd be against food safety regulations, would it not?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This would mean they’d be against food safety regulations, would it not?
  

  It would not.

  Having traffic laws isn’t the same as banning cars, either.

  Of course it is. Part of traffic legislation literally involves banning certain types of vehicles, either in certain areas or on any kind of public road in general.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, right. A conventional public library can’t just pirate all of their content, I suppose.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  How so?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Selling BTC or not..?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This might be a bit of a bad question, but I don’t know where to ask to get the least biased responses.
  So, I have about $1.000 in Bitcoin that used to be $300 (I’ve put in about $1.500 in various shitcoins before getting those BTC)
  I fly drones as a hobby and I was thinking of getting a new system for that amount of money.

  It’s not really a complex equation. If you need liquidity, liqudate assets. If you don’t need liquidity, don’t liquidate assets.
  How badly you want your new hobby system is something only you can answer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ubisoft Accused of 'Secret Data Collection' in Single-Player Games⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d say it’s more like your hairdresser tracking how long you are in their store and what haircut you get- but you do you!

  I’m not married to the analogy, just totally flabbergasted that “Using your own software on your own computer when and how you see fit without being watched” appears to be a slightly controversial take for no apparent reason. Evidently I’m missing something, not explaining myself very clearly or both.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ubisoft Accused of 'Secret Data Collection' in Single-Player Games⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I run all my games in Linux and everything but Steam goes via Lutris which I configured to, by default, launch them inside a Firejail sandbox with no network access (plus a bunch of other security related limitations) something which I can override for specific games if needed.

  That sounds like a neat setup! And no messing around with firewall rules either. I’ll have to look into it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ubisoft Accused of 'Secret Data Collection' in Single-Player Games⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s the thing, though. I respect the analogy, but the equivalent here would be if the game was also checking your drive for other games, for financial apps, scanning your browser’s cookies to see which sites you visit, etc.

  If, while playing a singleplayer game, they’re recording what actions you take within that singleplayer game, it’s understandable some people wouldn’t even want that - but I also don’t see that as nearly so invasive as other data travesties. Worse, highlighting it here feels like a “cry wolf” situation where you’d desensitize people to the most harmful privacy breaches.

  Again, I don’t doubt that you do not see it as an incredibly invasive thing. I’m lamenting that you (and many) don’t.
  You’re doing something on your computer. Locally. In your own time. With a thing that is - ostensibly - yours. Why is it even remotely acceptible that some corporate entity is watching you over your shoulder while you do it? I’m running out of words to express how nuts this seems to me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ubisoft Accused of 'Secret Data Collection' in Single-Player Games⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m sorry, but that’s a terrible analogy. In the gaming scenario, Ubisoft is collecting the data on their own product usage

  Well, in the corporate software-as-a-service insane troll logic hellscape in which we live that could indeed make sense. Mind you, that’s not meant to be a rant against you but against the fact that this train of thought has indeed been completely normalized.
  In the fantasy world of the past into which I’d like to go back to live happily it is precisely not Ubisoft’s product. It’s mine. I bought it - none of what I do with it is any of Ubisoft’s business. The business transaction has been concluded. If they want to know what I do with my game then they can ask me nicely about it. I’ll certainly not allow them to install a proverbial camera over the executable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ubisoft Accused of 'Secret Data Collection' in Single-Player Games⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Based on the article text, it’s only citing things like how long you play. I thought most games collected telemetry like this?

  A commonplace travesty is still a travesty and metadata is still data. If my hairdresser asked me “Hey, in addition to me cutting your hair and you giving me money I’d also like you to constantly keep me updated on your sleep schedule, your vacation plans, marital status changes and the myriad of other things that can be directly gleaned from aggregate timeline data - all the other hairdressers have started doing it as well!”, I’d likely look at them incredulously for a few seconds while silently imagining stabbing them with their own scissors.

  Calling it “telemetry” has somehow normalized it over the past decades, I suppose? I just don’t understand how anyone could ever accept this as normal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How are the blatant anti-competitive practices of Apple just…allowed? How is this even possible?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Global anti-trust efforts are simply not very strong and never have been. They make for boring political platforms and are constantly under attack by corporate actors.

  Ideally no business should ever be allowed to grow to the point of being able to exert political influence at all let alone rival the power of small nations, but here we are.

  Any rational business will employ all and any anti-competitive practices that they can come up with if they can get away with them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are Nintendo's $80 online game prices a result of tariffs or is Nintendo just using them as an excuse to price gouge as corporations do?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Okay, here’s a slightly hot take.

  I’d rather the price go up and the games remain ad free and high quality (not you, pokemon, you can get fucked) than become enshittified with micro transactions, ads, etc

  I don’t like it. But it’s much more acceptable to me

  That’s absolutely a false dichotomy. In a world where games exist that are ad-free, high-quality and affordable, there’s absolutely no reason to believe any notion of high prices or in-game ads being a requirement for development. It’s just not true. Don’t fall for it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm looking for a no frills, physical key EV. Am I looking for something that no longer exists?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Are there instructions/hobbiest forums for just that?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm looking for a no frills, physical key EV. Am I looking for something that no longer exists?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The profit margins on cheap cars isn’t high enough yet to introduce EVs at that price.

  What price? OP does not talk about cost at any point, they only require specific features.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it better to leave a country, or stay behind to fight for it? And what about the ethics of fleeing instead of staying behind?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Never take any risks to improve the world, that’s how things are gonna get better!

  No, I don’t think I’d agree with that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is it better to leave a country, or stay behind to fight for it? And what about the ethics of fleeing instead of staying behind?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Whether to flee or fight isn’t a very useful distinction, I think. It’s a false dichotomy.

  Fighting someone or fighting for something in a way that risks your life just isn’t a very smart way to fight. Obviously run when your life is at stake. When you’re safe, fight.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  that it’s an artificially engineered “crisis” by the medical industrial complex to justify modern day discrimination and refuse to provide healthcare to fat people, Black people, etc
  podcast episode on this

  Thanks! I’m slightly confused by the sources linked in the podcast description though. While it’s pretty US-centric they universally seem to confirm that yes, obesity rates are rising and that yes, medical consensus is that obesity is a bad thing. Does the podcast then come to some kind of different conclusion?
  I don’t have a hard time believing that American companies are profiteering off of sick people, but I feel like there might be some accidental shuffling of cause and effect here. You can fleece and discriminate against a fat person, but in order for that to happen you first need a fat person, don’t you?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  there’s no obesity epidemic. it’s all eugenics to the core

  I’m almost afraid to ask, but what do you mean by that?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  These are the people who then say that if you gain weight it is because you are lazy or weak willed.

  Whether someone perceives it as hard to lose or not gain weight doesn’t really factor into it, does it? For adults the ultimate decision to eat more than one needs lies with exactly one person.

  Really it is 99% hormones and only 1% strength of character.

  I’m not sure I understand correctly, are you suggesting that obesity epidemics have some kind of shared underlying physiological reason?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s pretty amazing that it’s as cohesive as it is.

  That’s a very good point. I’ve often wondered that myself. We may have reached peak Linux already - it’s so hard to scale up massive FOSS projects without somehow sacrificing ideals on the way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Many things in a FOSS ecosystem will sooner or later confront you with one hard truth: The program you’re using was not developed for you. It was developed because the creator saw a problem and wanted to fix it. Then they made a program to fix it and stopped refining the program the moment they were content with it. Little to no consideration for other users or mass-adoption. Which is fine, they developed it, it’s their time.
  But it also means that you will frequently be confronted with things that are objectively unintuitive and unreasonable from a new user’s perspective because they make sense from a developer’s perspective. The former will always be outranked by the latter, even though there will always be more users than developers. That’s just how it is. There are some few exceptions, but they are just that, exceptions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So, is the USA screwed?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I know you’re trying to sound optimistix, but that particular example required significant (worldwide, in fact) external intervention…