Shdwdrgn

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[–] Shdwdrgn@mander.xyz 10 points 1 month ago (6 children)

It's weird to see T-mobile taking this stance. I switched to them years ago because they were one of the few that supported unlocked phones, and even offered them for sale. Their policies might have changed on this, but I just bought an unlocked phone off Ebay this Summer and all I needed to do was pop my sim card into the new device. Hell I had to specifically install the visual voicemail app because there wasn't any bloatware on the phone when I got it. So I guess I'm not following what their complaint is about?

[–] Shdwdrgn@mander.xyz -2 points 1 month ago

"For only $1000 in bitcoin we will decrypt your files until the next time we fsck you over."

[–] Shdwdrgn@mander.xyz 8 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Most of us can't afford the sort of disk capacity they use, but it would be really cool if there were a project to give volunteers pieces of the archive so that information was spread out. Then volunteers could specify if they want to contribute a few gigabytes to multiple terabytes of drive space towards the project and the software could send out packets any time the content changes. Hmm this description sounds familiar but I can't think of what else might be doing something similar -- anyone know of anything like that that could be applied to the archive?

[–] Shdwdrgn@mander.xyz 26 points 1 month ago (10 children)

Discrediting someone usually has a goal of pushing customers to another source though. There is no other source of this information, so what would be the point?

[–] Shdwdrgn@mander.xyz 7 points 1 month ago

Just... wow. I don't even enable notifications that I've opened an email.

[–] Shdwdrgn@mander.xyz 31 points 1 month ago

That's rich coming from the guy whose entire platform is one big political bias against free speech. Seems like Musk's whole outlook is "I'm going to move people to a colder planet where nothing grows and we can't even breathe, so why should I worry about trashing this one?"

Also, when is his daddy going to teach him how to shave?

[–] Shdwdrgn@mander.xyz 12 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Did you know that, by default, your email sends information to mailing list platforms about your reading activity? The platform gets to know if you opened the message, and often how far along you've read in it.

What is this shitty email program they're talking about? Sure, they can embed a 1-pixel tracking image to see when you opened the email (if you allow auto-loading images), but how would they know how much you've read unless some incredibly horrible email program actively sends out that data?

[–] Shdwdrgn@mander.xyz 11 points 1 month ago (5 children)

What's wrong with Thunderbird? Surely you don't use Outlook by choice?

[–] Shdwdrgn@mander.xyz 48 points 1 month ago

This always cracks me up. He's mad about big tech censoring political information, but wants HIS political information censored. Probably not even bright enough to realize how pathetic he sounds.

[–] Shdwdrgn@mander.xyz 2 points 1 month ago

Nice, I hadn't heard of this one!

[–] Shdwdrgn@mander.xyz 11 points 1 month ago (2 children)

If you want to do it right, try to get a static IP (you may need to get a business account). If your provider doesn't provide IPv6 to static IPs, go to some place like Hurricane Electric and get a free IPv6 range pointed to your IPv4 static address.

Alternatively, you might do a search for any DDNS services that provide IPv6 (I'm not sure if any do?), then that service will fllow your residential address when it changes. Either way I think you'll have some additional costs you need to weigh against your current hosting provider.

[–] Shdwdrgn@mander.xyz 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Seems like that would be an easy problem to solve... require all edits to have a peer review by someone with a minimum credibility before they go live. I can understand when Wikipedia was new, allowing anyone to post edits or new content helped them get going. But now? Why do they still allow any random person to post edits without a minimal amount of verification? Sure it self-corrects given enough time, but meanwhile what happens to all the people looking for factual information and finding trash?

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