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RaoulDook ,

And nothing of value was lost. I can't imagine ever wanting to read a tweet from somebody's console game.

RaoulDook ,

Right, that seems obvious. That's what I was talking about being of no value. Nobody needs to watch anyone's console game clips on Twitter.

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Now they can track your account through car tax records since you said that.

Next time say you drive a 1992 Pontiac Fiero

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"Apple refuses to send money to security company inside of embargoed country, to maintain compliance with USA law."

RaoulDook ,

Right, they could be installed in the middle of nowhere as free phone chargers and stuff even if there was no other use for them. Just set them up with a used inverter and some used chargers, whatever etc.

Or maybe a whole lot of them could be put together in the middle of nowhere to make an EV charging station

RaoulDook ,

BRULE

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Cursed Roddy Piper has a disturbing face

EU approval for chat control (www.patrick-breyer.de)

We need to do something against this. The EU plans to apply a law for a chat control in the territory. The approval say that all the chats and the emails would be send to the government to do AI scanning to in fact “find the children abuses”, even when using apps with end-to-end encryption (the EU will ask the services to...

RaoulDook ,

Signal is also great because it is easy to use, and works on all mobile platforms. It's probably the easiest secure chat app to get people onboard with using.

RaoulDook ,

That's a crazy secret code requirement there

RaoulDook ,

Weird dicks only! No sexy huge cocks.

RaoulDook ,

I'm similarly wondering about these changes getting ported to MS Edge. I have Ublock Origin on Edge on my work computer now, but if they move Edge to Manifest v3 then I guess Ublock won't work, then my work browser will be less secure.

RaoulDook ,

Did you not know they're already selling your purchase data? All the card networks do it.

That's why you need to use cash to buy anything you don't want logged to create a data point about you to be sold

RaoulDook ,

The card companies can get data from the Merchant Category Code to infer the nature of purchases, without specifics. The stores also have a record of what items you bought, which could also be sold unless you have a contract with the store that guarantees they won't sell your purchase history (at least in the countries without strong privacy laws)

RaoulDook ,

I've never had a Twitter account and never felt the need for one, also haven't been missing out on that junk. I've read lots of tweets, on occasions when I was offered a twitter link for whatever, but just never felt like I needed to join up at all. Just seems like a waste of time to get on social media where all the posts are just small bits of opinionated content without much depth.

RaoulDook ,

Yes those are the problematic fantasies that corporate social media is brainwashing people towards. Too many of the youth are wasting their time on fantasies of revolution when they could be acting within the scope of reality to achieve something actually meaningful.

RaoulDook ,

Youtube is good as a video hosting website, but bad as anything social-related. I just treat it like a video website and ignore the rest. Private browsing mode, no login used is my preferred way to access youtube videos

‘My whole library is wiped out’: what it means to own movies and TV in the age of streaming services (www.theguardian.com)

*What rights do you have to the digital movies, TV shows and music you buy online? That question was on the minds of Telstra TV Box Office customers this month after the company announced it would shut down the service in June. Customers were told that unless they moved over to another service, Fetch, they would no longer be...

RaoulDook ,

Streaming in general is great. Streaming services are a mixed bag of results, but overall our options are excellent at this point in time. You can have streaming services with no contract, pay for one month and abandon it if you don't like it. There are also numerous FREE streaming services with lots of great content.

It's important to understand the above in the context of how it used to be before Streaming was an option. There was basically only the option to have a cable or satellite TV on contract, or use OTA antenna TV, or watch everything on disc / tape. So yeah I think streaming is great.

Having said all that, I buy anything I want to keep perpetually on disc. 4k Blu-ray for movies and CDs for music (I bought 3 albums on CD over the last couple weeks). Games don't fit on discs anymore so I try to get stuff on GOG when it works out.

RaoulDook ,

Being self-sufficient should be a goal for every human being to strive for. Independence is a potent form of freedom that makes you feel like a magical eagle.

I'm not saying you should be Ted Kazynski or however you spell the Unabomber's last name and live in complete isolation for most of your life, because it's cool to have access to society's benefits and all. But the more you can do for yourself, the more secure you will be in all ways. Basically don't be a helpless or useless person.

RaoulDook ,

Good point, and it sounds like you're doing good work out there

After announcing increased prices, Spotify to Pay Songwriters About $150 Million Less Next Year (www.billboard.com)

When Bloomberg reported that Spotify would be upping the cost of its premium subscription from $9.99 to $10.99, and including 15 hours of audiobooks per month in the U.S., the change sounded like a win for songwriters and publishers. Higher subscription prices typically equate to a bump in U.S. mechanical royalties — but not...

RaoulDook ,

I still buy everything on CD that I can get from good bands. Nothing beats CD quality and durability. My CDs from 30+ years ago still play just fine except for the few that have too many scratches from abuse.

After I get a new CD I rip it to high quality MP3 and add it to my personal streaming library.

RaoulDook ,

Shit I hadn't heard about that sealed transmission thing, that's fucked up. Transmission fluid replacement seemed pretty important on the maintenance schedule of all the cars I've had

RaoulDook ,

That's great, but the question from that OP was "are you able to" and your answer should be yes. I make less than that and I definitely am able to. But I'm waiting on the market to correct first

RaoulDook ,

This meme has no relevance to anything. If it was trying to imply that the USA is cut off from healthcare, it's totally inaccurate. There are thousands of hospitals and doctor's offices all over the USA, and Americans utilize them all the time to obtain the healthcare that they need.

Even Americans with no money have options for free healthcare, and here is a link that can be used to access it:

https://www.hhs.gov/answers/health-insurance-reform/where-can-i-find-free-or-low-cost-health-care/index.html

RaoulDook ,

I'm just here to spread some facts to fight back against this ridiculous doomerism. It is a straight-up fact that Americans do have access to healthcare, and this meme is making a joke to imply that we do not. It's fucking stupid and being a doomer is worse than useless.

RaoulDook ,

Yes I have had all sorts of medical issues, numerous emergency room visits, and car accidents. I am quite well versed with the healthcare system in the USA and its costs. Everything that I wrote was based on real-life experience and facts. I've paid for the births of multiple children and surgeries for myself and family.

Every one of you that thinks healthcare is not accessible is wrong. We have options, and being a doomer who thinks that you don't only hurts yourself and the others who you infect with your mental delusion.

RaoulDook ,

Nowhere did I ever say anything like that. Not once did I say "the American healthcare system is perfect" or great or even good.

What I said already is still there where I said it before. Please do not make up your own interpretations of my words, because you cannot speak for me.

RaoulDook ,

Well fuck you too, you sick bastard.

RaoulDook ,

So if they are changing routes by using DHCP options, perhaps this could be exploited by telecom insiders when you are using mobile data, because your mobile data IP could be assigned by a DHCP server on the telecom network. If you're at home on wifi, then you can control your own DHCP server to prevent that.

RaoulDook ,

It really isn't, you're probably just not aware of all the "proper" games that are out there for VR. Browse the Steam store and look at all the VR games sometime.

I have about 40 VR games in my Steam library, for example. I admit I haven't played them all yet but I've played a lot of them and most of them are great. There are tons more that I could buy if I had the time to play all that shit.

RaoulDook ,

Sodium Ion batteries are nonflammable. They are safer than most of what we already use.

RaoulDook ,

I've probably read more books than you've ever smelled. So why don't you take a big whiff of farts and think on that?

RaoulDook ,

What, did you expect a nice response after you replied with an attempt to insult my ability to read? You get what you pay for, dude.

RaoulDook ,

That kind of irrational fear of implementing good security is a big part of how bad security happens which leads to breaches.

Doing your work securely should be the norm. Each person should have the least privileged access they need to do what they need.

RaoulDook ,

Praise the Founders for our glorious Constitution. I continually celebrate the fact that none of the morons who hate freedom have the ability to take our gun rights from us. Our gun rights will outlive you all, thanks to the strong protections the Supreme Court have bolstered that amendment with in the past 2 decades.

RaoulDook ,

Absolute bullshit. Go ahead and prove what you said, I'll wait here. Find any comments on Lemmy that are pro-Facebook or pro-Meta.

RaoulDook ,

Yeah none of those kids should have cell phones. They should be about old enough to drive before they get one even.

RaoulDook ,

Mine tried to get me to plug in a monitoring device into our cars' OBD-II ports after we signed up. I said Hell Naw and returned them shits to the sender. They said my rates would go up if I didn't use it and they didn't really change.

Next car I get will have to be neutered of such spyware, since they're apparently building it all in now. Current car just had a box I unplugged to disable the 3G cellular network connectivity and the car works just fine without it.

RaoulDook ,

VR is already great today, and lots of us are enjoying it. I know several people with VR systems.

RaoulDook ,

Wheee doggies!

RaoulDook ,

None of my local ISPs have data caps on regular home internet plans. Y'all just need better ISPs.

100Mb symmetrical fiber is about $40-50 and Gigabit is about $80/mo from ours

RaoulDook ,

I'd recommend a medium-sized rifle with detachable magazines, personally. Pitchforks are limited to melee range only.

RaoulDook ,

^^ This is big "irrelevant comment" energy.

RaoulDook ,

I'm quite aware of the ISP situation in the USA and it has been worse at each home I've lived in before. I've had shitty AT&T connections at 4 homes with no other options there. Things have gotten much better in the last 5 years overall. Fiber is rolling out all across the country from local utilities like phone and power. Look for your local options, and avoid the big companies.

RaoulDook ,

Damn that sucks. I live about 100 miles from the closest major city and have 2 options for fiber, plus those other options

RaoulDook ,

That's kind of a word salad there. In 2012 things may have been generally better for women in the USA due to Roe v. Wade standing, and there were more Confederate monuments than there are standing now, and trans people were generally not accepted by society as well as they are now. So I'm not sure what your point was.

RaoulDook ,

There's no need for an alternative. Twitter is simply not a necessity of any kind in reality.

But use whatever you want, freedom is yours to exercise as you see fit.

Personally I've never wanted to use Twitter, it just made me go "Yuck!" from day 1 of its existence.

RaoulDook ,

Nope

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Google Ads on the webpages of all the webpages on the Internet, similar to their status quo.

I don't think any of us should be concerned about Google's cash flow. It's their job.

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