Welcome to Incremental Social! Learn more about this project here!
Check out lemmyverse to find more communities to join from here!

@drwho@beehaw.org avatar

drwho

@drwho@beehaw.org

Living 20 minutes into the future. Eccentric weirdo. Virtual Adept. Time traveler. Thelemite. Technomage. Hacker on main. APT 3319. Not human. 30% software and implants. H+ - 0.4 on the Berram-7 scale. Furry adjacent. Pan/poly. Burnout.

I try to post as sincerely as possible.

This profile is from a federated server and may be incomplete. Browse more on the original instance.

drwho , to Technology in "No, seriously. All those things Google couldn't find anymore? Top of the search pile. Queries that generated pages of spam in Google results? Fucking pristine on Kagi – the right answers, over and over again."
@drwho@beehaw.org avatar

Parasocial relationships are weird.

drwho , to Technology in "No, seriously. All those things Google couldn't find anymore? Top of the search pile. Queries that generated pages of spam in Google results? Fucking pristine on Kagi – the right answers, over and over again."
@drwho@beehaw.org avatar

We don't know what Cory does all day. We know he has a family, I think he has a kid, that means that he has responsibilities that don't involve blogging. For all we know, at the end of the day he curls up with a dead tree book and unplugs to relax. He might not be as online as his overall style might make him appear and we don't know what all circles of people he runs with, so it's entirely possible that he just heard about it.

drwho , to Technology in "No, seriously. All those things Google couldn't find anymore? Top of the search pile. Queries that generated pages of spam in Google results? Fucking pristine on Kagi – the right answers, over and over again."
@drwho@beehaw.org avatar

I think it's because people are taking their frustrations out on whatever seems to make people think something might be on the upswing. Even better, because you can't necessarily see who upvoted nobody can call them on it.

It's like the folks who go to see a movie and gush about how awesome it was when you're sitting around shooting the shit, but the moment they get on the Net they trash it in as many ways as possible.

drwho , to Technology in "No, seriously. All those things Google couldn't find anymore? Top of the search pile. Queries that generated pages of spam in Google results? Fucking pristine on Kagi – the right answers, over and over again."
@drwho@beehaw.org avatar

That's pretty much the entire Internet these days.

drwho , to Technology in "No, seriously. All those things Google couldn't find anymore? Top of the search pile. Queries that generated pages of spam in Google results? Fucking pristine on Kagi – the right answers, over and over again."
@drwho@beehaw.org avatar

Maybe it's taken him this long to kick the tires and develop an opinion from daily use. There's nothing wrong with that.

drwho , to Technology in Cable lobby vows “years of litigation” to avoid bans on blocking and throttling
@drwho@beehaw.org avatar

Exactly so.

drwho , to Technology in Cable lobby vows “years of litigation” to avoid bans on blocking and throttling
@drwho@beehaw.org avatar

It's not like we can do anything about it. Customers can't control what a business does with the money they pay.
Writing and calling don't work. The best any one person can do is cancel their service, but they're in the minority.

drwho , to Technology in Cable lobby vows “years of litigation” to avoid bans on blocking and throttling
@drwho@beehaw.org avatar

Of course they are.

drwho , to Technology in U.S. government blasts Microsoft for lax security measures in report on Chinese hacks
@drwho@beehaw.org avatar

Nope. The publication date aside (2 April), DHS is not known for its sense of humor in any context.

drwho , to Technology in Amazon Ditches 'Just Walk Out' Checkouts at Its Grocery Stores
@drwho@beehaw.org avatar

If folks haven't yet, what's it going to take?

drwho , to Privacy in What are the risks of sharing DNA?
@drwho@beehaw.org avatar

They're spending a lot of money lobbying inside the Beltway to change that. So far it hasn't worked but it's only a matter of time.

drwho , to Privacy in What are the risks of sharing DNA?
@drwho@beehaw.org avatar

Deer season in Pennsylvania has entered the chat. :/

drwho , to Privacy in Scary AT&T breach leaks up to 70 million Social Security numbers to the dark web
@drwho@beehaw.org avatar

I have so much "free credit monitoring" from data breaches, I could leave it to my grandkids and they'd be set for life.

drwho , to Privacy in I'm deGoogling. What's my new Podcast app?
@drwho@beehaw.org avatar

Check out Antennapod.

drwho , to Privacy in How private and secure is Backblaze B2?
@drwho@beehaw.org avatar

If you encrypt your data before uploading it to B2 you should be fine. Unless you run it yourself on your own server, you can't be sure that your data will be unreadable by anyone poking around unless it's encrypted.

I've been using B2 for my offsite backups for a couple of years now (since 2018), and both Duplicity and Restic encrypt data before shipping it over. I wrote about it here.

  • All
  • Subscribed
  • Moderated
  • Favorites
  • •
  • random
  • incremental_games
  • meta
  • All magazines
    •