Kalcifer

Kalcifer , 7 days ago to Privacy in To those of you with nothing to hide: One day you might have. Because you don’t make the rules.

Ah, right. I forgot that they're based in Sweden. That's understandable if it's simply a lack of familiarity with the language, but, still, I would expect a company like Mullvad to at least have one native-equivalent English speaker to look over their public facing English stuff. None of this is the end of the world, ofc — I'm just mildly surprised.

Kalcifer , 8 days ago to Privacy in To those of you with nothing to hide: One day you might have. Because you don’t make the rules.

There are a surprising number of grammatical errors in that blog post. Did anyone proof read it, I wonder?

Kalcifer OP , 11 days ago to Selfhosted in [SOLVED] Podman won't start Pihole with an error saying that it can't bind to port 53, as it is already in use, but nothing is using port 53.

Yeah, take a look at the solution at the top of the post.

Kalcifer , 13 days ago (edited 13 days ago) to Lefty Memes in Education

That not how science works. You don’t get to posit a theory without falsification and declare it as true until someone else comes up with a falsification for it and tests it.

You have no evidence you just have wild theories based on “perfectly spherical cows in a vacuum” .

Did you not read my previous message? Or did you, perhaps, misinterpret it? My original thesis was "under capitalism, a properly regulated, and competitive free market is not zero sum.", which you claimed was impossible. I then provided a simple example for why it was not impossible. You seem to perhaps take issue with the example's idealistic nature, but the original thesis was idealistic, so I'm not sure why there would be an issue with that. This is purely a conceptual discussion — my statement wasn't making a claim about how effective regulation is at ensuring adequate competition. So I'm not really sure where the issue lies.

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And monopolies don’t prove the non existence of Capitalism. They’re it’s natural end result.

Monopolies appear to be the natural end result of a true free market — that is, a market with no regulation. Capitalism simply describes a competitive market. To that end, note that a monopolistic market — ie an anticompetitive market — is, by definition, not capitalist. In practice, to ensure fair competition, a central governing body is required.

Kalcifer , 27 days ago to 196 in rule

While topically interesting, a lot of those graphs are either saying the same thing or are misinterpreting an exponential.

Kalcifer , 1 month ago to Lefty Memes in Education

What is your argument to support this statement?

You got it wrong. What's your empirical evidence to support your statement?

I don't really understand this. You claimed that it is impossible. Saying something is impossible is different than saying that it hasn't happened. To claim that something is impossible is a final statement where certain rules can never be satisfied. As such, you certainly can provide an argument for your claim. That being said, my counterargument would be a simple example: Person 1 wants an apple, and Person 2 wants money. Person 1 and Person 2 agree that 1$ is a fair price for an apple. Person 2 gives the apple to Person 1 in exchange for Person 1 giving 1$ to Person 2. Person 1 is happy because they have an apple, which they wanted, and Person 2 is happier because they received money, which they wanted. The net satisfaction is greater than zero — both sides received something that they wanted.

If the current system is intended to be capitalist, then it is not working as intended, as was described above.

Not at all. This is capitalism.

I can use one simple example to counter that: If one can find an example of a monopoly then the market in which that monopoly exists is not capitalist — one example to prove that point is private utilities.

Kalcifer OP , 1 month ago to Privacy in Mullvad Blog: Hiding account numbers

Nearly 90% of their servers are blocked to do common internet tasks .

Perhaps your browsing habits are severely impacted by Mullvad being blocked, but that doesn't seem to be the universal case. I've had the occasional hiccup with a few sites that block VPNs (Mullvad's IPs), but "90%" is quite an exaggeration when compared to my personal experience.

Kalcifer , 1 month ago to Lefty Memes in Education

Such a thing is impossible.

What is your argument to support this statement?

The current system is working exactly as intended

If the current system is intended to be capitalist, then it is not working as intended, as was described above.

Kalcifer , 1 month ago to Lefty Memes in Another classic

Classic intrinsic monopolies.

Kalcifer , 1 month ago to Lefty Memes in Education

Under capitalism, a properly regulated, and competitive free market is not zero sum.

Kalcifer , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to Technology in FBI Arrests Man For Generating AI Child Sexual Abuse Imagery

But it’s icky so many people still think it should be illegal.

Imo, not the best framework for creating laws. Essentially, it's an appeal to emotion.

Kalcifer OP , 1 month ago to Mildly Infuriating in Seriously, Wikibooks?

It’s a nigligible inconvenience

This community is called Mildly Infruating, after all 😜

Kalcifer OP , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to Mildly Infuriating in Seriously, Wikibooks?

Ha, that username is apparently not allowed. They require that a username contain at least one letter.
https://sh.itjust.works/pictrs/image/c5531a9d-67f1-46d7-8c4f-9547343514ed.png

Kalcifer OP , 1 month ago to Mildly Infuriating in Seriously, Wikibooks?

Just the environment where the impersonations are theorized to take place — given the type of people who likely use the service, the ways people interract on the site, what the site is used for... imo, it seems unlikely that changing an "a" to a "4" is going to result in a damaging impersonation.

Kalcifer OP , 1 month ago to Mildly Infuriating in Seriously, Wikibooks?

That certainly does seem to be their goal, but, imo, it's a bit extreme — especially given the context.