sloppy_diffuser
@sloppy_diffuser@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Should I or should I not use/bother with using Linux? (READ THE WHOLE POST) 3 weeks ago:
I’m both experienced and know jack shit because there is just too much to learn. I just started using it (1998ish) to make cool looking UIs. Its been my daily driver for 15 years now.
You will never learn it all. Over time you may become more familiar with the terminal or you may not. Doesn’t matter. You do you.
Its pretty easy to test drive. Grab a distros “Live CD” version, put in on a thumb drive, reboot and play around. This wont be persistent. When you’re ready, install it on an external SSD. Play around some more now that your edits will be persistent. You’ll mess up. Take notes. Start again once you’ve hosed your system.
- Comment on It's a matter of perspective 3 weeks ago:
The original used XI where it was 9 or 11 depending on the side.
- Comment on ‘Captain America: Brave New World' bombs at test screening 5 weeks ago:
I actually liked Falcon/Winter Soldier for the most part. Enjoyed the cast, it explored issues I care about from wealth inequality to racism and immigration.
Wonder how much of it is just bad writing for him? Altered Carbon season 2 was really meh that he led. Then I imagine the original actor in his place and realise I just didn’t like the plot that much compared to season 1.
I can’t think of anything he’s been in though where he’s nailed the role outside of Falcon/Winter Soldier, where I’ll admit there was lots of supporting roles. Man’s either cursed with D-list writers, or, as you mentioned, lacks the charisma to carry it.
- Comment on every damn morning 1 month ago:
I saw that documentary. “The Wolf of Wall Street” or something? Maybe that was actually late 80s-early 90s.
On a daily basis I consume enough drugs to sedate Manhattan, Long Island, and Queens for a month. I take Quaaludes 10-15 times a day for my “back pain”, Adderall to stay focused, Xanax to take the edge off, pot to mellow me out, cocaine to wake me back up again, and morphine… Well, because it’s awesome.
- Comment on every damn morning 1 month ago:
You need downers to ride the uppers and get that perfect drug fueled circadian rhythm going.
Energy drinks during the day and a nice indica bong/dab rip, edible, or blunt in the evening.
Warning: If things have escalated to cocaine/meth/adderall to go up and opiates and a handy from the local masseuse to go down, you’re probably riding the rhythm too hard.
/s please take care of yourself!
- Comment on Preference 1 month ago:
- Comment on Glad I was too dumb to finish college... 5 months ago:
or (pretend to) be female: lemmy.world/comment/10363254
- Comment on Straight to Quantum 5 months ago:
Typical back tracing algorithm when you don’t know which path to take.
- Comment on Meet my new puppy: Ass! 5 months ago:
Waffle
- Comment on Corporate astroturfing is the norm 5 months ago:
When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.
- Goodhart’s law
Advertisers made it a target to have a high review score so now they are just another advertising cost.
SEO did the same to the web.
Bots and now AI are infecting social spaces as users figured out reviews are now shit and would turn to special interest groups.
- Comment on Monopoly 6 months ago:
Yeah seems like it was more capitalist propaganda. Thanks Lemmy for ruining my childhood memory, lol.
- Comment on Monopoly 6 months ago:
There is a Public Assisstence board game from the 80s. We had one when I was younger. I can’t tell if it was a “anti-welfare” game or just making fun of the whole system. I grew up pretty poor, so I always assumed the latter as a kid. Since the welfare track was easier from what I remember, now I’m not so sure, lol.
- Comment on Wall Street has spent billions buying homes. A crackdown is looming. 6 months ago:
I wouldn’t even bail out for COVID. I’m paying out the ass for insurance and still end up thousands in medical debt.
A gray area exists for small businesses, but fuck corporate welfare.
- Comment on Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signs bill that bans children under 14 from having social media accounts 7 months ago:
I understand the protocol. If I have to reveal my identity at any point during a transaction to any party, it is not anonymous. It may maintain some privacy between me and the content owner, but my activities are no longer anonymous.
“I need privacy, not because my actions are questionable, but because your judgement and intentions are.”
This goes for corporate and state level actors. I don’t trust Daddy Government or the age verifier to have my best interest in mind when they can start building a profile on the content I consume they deem not suitable for minors.
There may be a specific flavour of a zero knowledge proofs that works to maintain anonymity. Like, I’d rather pay with monero, and I do so when I can, than stripe for this very reason. My payment activity is decoupled from my real identity used to purchase the monero from a KYC institution.
That is not what this bill is proposing, so its not anonymous.
- Comment on Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signs bill that bans children under 14 from having social media accounts 7 months ago:
Same conclusion in my research. All these bullshit bills are erosions of privacy and/or a poor tax. CISPA, SOPA, PIPA, CASE, KOSA, etc…
- Comment on Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signs bill that bans children under 14 from having social media accounts 7 months ago:
theverge.com/…/florida-desantis-social-media-age-…
[It] does require websites to give users the option of “anonymous age verification,” which is defined as verification by a third party that cannot retain identifying information after the task is complete.
Its not anonymous if you have to give up anonymity to complete the process.
Also seems ripe to use as a poor tax. How many Lemmy instances could survive a 10-50k fine per offense? The NetChoice gang can afford to fight, and if they lose, implement this.
Just to be clear, I’m not arguing for children on social media. This is just not the way. If the authors of this bill actually gave a shit, they would be fighting for living wages and less work so families can actually spend time together.
- Comment on FearNoPeer is open for singups 7 months ago:
Worked for me just now using Proton Pass (@passmail.net).
- Comment on Please Stop 8 months ago:
Company A submits a new device for certification signed by their private key.
Company B certifies the device signed by their private key.
Company C on boards a device for an end-user and is confident it came from Company A and has been verified by Company B since the device has a certificate that can be verified from Companies A and B.
Yes it prevents home brew (though you can do home brew by replacing Company C with your own controller), but it also prevents knock offs.
When this information is distributed (like Lemmy federation), between instances, one has a degree of assurances all these records originated from the signer.
While the ledger part is not required, it provides a nice audit trail for the companies who do not trust each other enough without the transparency. Sure a central authority like the ESRB could do the same, but we could also all be on Reddit and not Lemmy…
- Comment on Please Stop 8 months ago:
I’m not, it was just an example data broker. You are 100% sure that data is not getting sold?
I picked Google because back in my days of ignorance, their rewards app would ask if I made X purchase at Y store down to the penny. I wasn’t using GPay/GWallet, just my a debit or credit card. The Y I get with location services. Them having the transaction amount leads me to assume credit card companies/payment processors/etc are sharing this data in near real time. Probably anonymously but with enough data points to trace it back to an individual with a degree of confidence.
So I use XMR when I can. Locations services are also off.
- Comment on Please Stop 8 months ago:
Privacy is a crime? I pay for several online services with XMR (or BTC swapped from XMR): Jmp.chat (mobile service), EteSync (E2EE contact sync), Proton Mail, Mullvad VPN, Usenet (might have an argument there).
Why can’t I access Google’s individual transactions but they should have access to mine?
- Comment on Please Stop 8 months ago:
csa-iot.org/…/distributed-compliance-ledger/
Matter Distributed Client Ledger. In use by Apple, Amazon, Google, Samsung, and many more.
Contains all the attestation information for on boarding Matter devices. Where once it was Google Home vs Apple HomeKit vs Amazon Echo / Alexa, supporting devices can now work cross ecosystem.
Since many of these companies are competitors working together. A distributed ledger makes sense to keep everyone honest and provide a level of tech supported governance.
- Comment on Same?... Yes, Same 11 months ago:
You haven’t been married to crazy I see. Even if you manage to get away, the scars are forever.
- Comment on I'm not asking to be rich. 1 year ago:
Money maximizes the opportunity for happiness.
- Comment on Never start vaping, says 12-year-old girl with lung damage 1 year ago:
I always see the dude that is just two eye emojis for a username.
- Comment on How do I get informed on Joe Rogan without watching his videos. 1 year ago:
Only segment of his show I ever saw was Bill Burr calling him a Knuckle Scrapper when masks were brought up, lol.
- Comment on What are the connotations of Joe Rogan? 1 year ago:
Bill Burr said it best: knuckle scrapper.
- Comment on Would the internet be significantly faster if there wasn't so much farming of metadata / cookies? 1 year ago:
- Comment on What foods would be best to give to someone living on the streets in a very hot/humid country? 1 year ago:
“Trail Mix” if they have that in your area. Usually a mix of dried foods (fruit, nuts, seeds). Some are healthier than others with the less healthy ones adding candy.
Canned/jarred foods that do not require a tool to open.
- Comment on Is the blockchain an interesting innovation, aside from cryptocurrencies ? 1 year ago:
So Google, Amazon, Apple, and many other large companies in the IoT space are using a blockchain as a federated data store: github.com/…/distributed-compliance-ledger
It stores the data needed for Matter [ en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matter_(standard) ] device attestation.
I think its an interesting use case on how entities that don’t particularly trust each other can operate a federated system. Accounts are linked to an identity out-of-band in order to have write permissions to the chain. When an account writes, all the readers of the chain have reasonable assurances of the author of that write. No company can inject false state as another company without that company’s guarded private key. All transactions are also auditable as an additional assurance the data isn’t undergoing a malicious act.
tl;dr; interesting use cases for tamper proof federated ledgers.
