r00ty

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[–] r00ty@kbin.life 12 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Yeah I stopped at three when I realised I could be there all day when it comes to regulations that private companies need to adhere to. But I would agree those should have been on my abridged list too.

[–] r00ty@kbin.life 143 points 2 weeks ago (8 children)

From my point of view from the other side of the Atlantic, you guys in the US don't have enough regulation as it is. There's only one class of people that benefit from removal of the regulations you do have, and that's the top 1%. It's just going to allow them to do all of the following to make more money, at everyone else's expense.

1: Treat their employees worse than they already do, AND put them into dangerous situations legally. 2: Cut corners to save money at the expense of safety. Think airlines, airliner manufacturers, car makers, construction. The list here could be endless. 3: Well, finance/banking regulations. That will be a field day for the finance sector I'm sure.

I mean the list is potentially endless. But the three points above will keep you busy for long enough I reckon.

No, I don't really feel safe even this far away. We're not immune to all of this anywhere in the world.

[–] r00ty@kbin.life 4 points 2 weeks ago

I think the top one might be the culprit. But it might be the guy's account was hacked?

On his repo he has a fork of WSL and the repo is called "free-palestine", he tried to merge the branch "freedom". So that PR seems likely to be linked to this. Other than this, activity seems normal for a terminal githubber with 444 repos...

[–] r00ty@kbin.life 29 points 3 weeks ago

Oh, good. Maybe they will stop trying to scrape my websites at some ridiculous rate using faked real browser UAs. I just blocked their whole ASN (AS45102) in the end.

[–] r00ty@kbin.life 3 points 3 weeks ago

It's strategically placed right next to the ESP so that the car gives you a 15.000 volt shock anytime you turn it off.

Just like that poor guy at the start of Ghostbusters.

[–] r00ty@kbin.life 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm pretty sure he called them hostages on Monday.

[–] r00ty@kbin.life 26 points 1 month ago (4 children)

I feel like the only even remotely acceptable way to do this is to show the ad, prompt for the answer for 10 seconds. They can log the right/wrong answer or if the time expires the lack of one and must move on.

I can imagine metrics knowing if your advertising is actually reaching people is valid. But to make people answer and especially make them watch more if they answer wrong is about as dystopian as it gets.

If (and I say if, I really don't want to believe it is) that is the case, the only correct response is to uninstall Hulu immediately and put on your pirate hat.

[–] r00ty@kbin.life 5 points 1 month ago

For threadiverse (lemmy/mbin et al) there's not much in it. It's fairly easy for an operator to curate their instance by pre subscribing to a whole bunch of communities. I run my own instance, barely any users and I'm constantly banning and deleting them for advertising. But I have plenty of content.

I made my own mastodon instance and connected to a bunch of groups. Only two or three are active. There's not really an easy way to get content without following a lot of people. So anyone visiting my instance will see virtually nothing. If they go to social they will see plenty.

So it's a bit of a no brainer for most I think.

[–] r00ty@kbin.life 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Don't forget, take your ivermectin, consume bleach and find some way of getting sunlight into your body. 😛

[–] r00ty@kbin.life 19 points 1 month ago

Why? Because you can. But in terms of useful reasons?

Cellphones, Internet they need infrastructure to work, and that can be disabled either during a natural disaster or war situation. Even by your own government in some cases.

But if I want to communicate, I just need a piece of wire, somewhere to hang it, and a 12v battery and I can communicate for thousands of miles.

Personally I just think that's cool.

[–] r00ty@kbin.life 4 points 1 month ago

Good news everyone! Several years ago I tried to logon to AOL. And it just went through!

[–] r00ty@kbin.life 18 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Yeah, it shouldn't happen in a release. But, if I had a penny for every time I've seen the last minute development that wasn't tested yet and not even due for the current release squeezed in. I'd literally have a pound, or dollar or whatever else has 100 pennies in.

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