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archomrade, 1 year ago to piracy in [Louis Rossmann] Piracy is COMPLETELY justified: Louis tries NetFlix and remembers why

It’s not just that it hasn’t gotten better in 20 years like he says, it has actively gotten worse.

Maybe before DRM would fuck with the quality of the media or block you from using it the way your prefer (despite paying for it to do what you want), but now it’s exactly that, PLUS they’re clawing for every scrap of data from their consumer base in order to market it to third party vendors.

I’m ready to buy stock in tin foil and live in the woods off my own urine, this shit has gotten so bad. I just want them to leave me alone and let me live without being constantly servailed and targeted with ads. Is the offer really to be made miserable and unsatisfied about my life and possessions in exchange for another season of a shitty remake of a early 2000s IP?

I fucking hate the anthropocene. Let’s just pack it up and shut it down, there’s nothing left for us here.

archomrade, 1 year ago to asklemmy in I need to survive for 3 days without pooping, and eating as little as possible. I can pee, but not very often. It can't take up too much space. What food do I pack?

Curiosity aside:

Pooping happens when the body needs to eliminate undigested waste. Almost everything that is edible has some amount of indigestible material, but some has far less than others.

The other important factor is the stimulation of bile release. This usually happens in the presence of bitter foods: dark leafy greens, pickles and other fermented foods, ect. Fats are also known to stimulate bile release. Biles primary function actually is to break down fatty acids. Even if youve eaten mostly bio-available nutrients, if your gallbladder gets stimulated you could end up on the toilet anyway.

So if your goal is to avoid pooping for several days, your ideal diet will avoid fibrous and bitter fruits and vegetables, and avoid fatty foods.

If it were me, I would eat lean meats (chicken or venison), possibly dried into jerky, and simple fruits, or juiced vegetables and fruits. The less food you eat generally, the more you’ll avoid building up waste in your intestines.

Just a heads-up: if your succeed in your goal and don’t poop for several days, your first poop after can possibly be, erm, explosive. Your gallbladder will likely continue accumulating bile during your poop-fast, and the first thing you eat that stimulates it’s release may flood your small intestines. So plan your first meal carefully!

God speed.

archomrade, 1 year ago to memes in Gambling is addictive

Mississippi grind is an absolutely incredible depiction of just how sad and devastating gambling addictions are. I can’t recommend that movie enough (as long as you’re ready for some sad storytelling).

Livestream online gambling is another one of those absolutely abysmal modern exposures that is going to completely destroy the lives of young men as they grow up, and I can’t believe it’s still legal

archomrade, 1 year ago to privacy in Why Even Your Local Grocery Store Wants Your Digital Data

We are absolutely sleepwalking into the worst possible tech futures. It’s so ubiquitous now that even if you’re able to explain to someone how bad things are, trying to avoid this type of data collection would almost take Edward Snowden - level planning and obsession, so people just kind of give up before they even start.

The truth is that even the small actions you can take help make your data a little less valuable. They’re collecting so much data from so many people, that they really don’t have any easy way of verifying the data in your profile. So while there’s essentially no way to go back to when you had NO data, the accuracy and relevance of the data can be soured so that their use-cases for it are less successful. Assuming you’re already using an adblock or VPN to do most of your browsing, the biggest things are phone app data collection and purchases through a credit card via online portals as well as in-person. If you can avoid those, most of what they use the data for is a lot less successful. I would also avoid social media apps or sites where login is required, as they can scrape data on how long you look at any given image or ad with a pretty high degree of accuracy.

If you’re dead-set on perfection, you’re bound to feel helpless. But you should feel good about the little steps you take that 80-90% of people aren’t, because you’re that much harder to target via your data footprint.

archomrade, 1 year ago (edited 1 year ago) to linux in An Untold History of Thunderbird

I’m curious about this too.

A lot of self-hosted FOSS people draw the line at hosting their own mail servers. Even if Mozilla created a new domain hosting server for handling, the big three could still reject the traffic like they do for people hosting outside the three now, under the guise of spam filtering.

I’d be ecstatic if they did something here, but I’m not really clear on what a solution would look like. On top of them spreading thin as you mentioned

*edited ‘domain’ service to ‘hosting’ service

archomrade, 1 year ago to piracy in Extensions list removed for Tachiyomi

What an unfortunate (or maybe fortunate?) time to have installed Tachiyomi for offline reading

I guess I should be glad I was able to get what I needed before this happened

archomrade, 1 year ago to asklemmy in What is the most unhelpful advice you have received?

Similar to this: telling someone with ADHD “stop letting yourself get distracted”

archomrade, 1 year ago to piracy in I finally uploaded a whole terabyte in a single session. I'm a super seeder!

OK but wait shouldn’t that emoji be named ‘sickle and vibe’ instead of ‘hammer and vibe’?

archomrade, 1 year ago to memes in Know your enemy

Having to pay more for a shared cost so that someone else can pay less… I don’t think there’s anything wrong with the shorthand “pay for someone else’s tax cuts”.

archomrade, 1 year ago to piracy in Apps that shouldn't be Subscriptions

I bought the app before it went free, so I am grandfathered in to a lifetime Plus plan; but if that hadn’t been the case I would not be paying for a subscription today.

Same, I don’t think I’d be paying for it otherwise

archomrade, 1 year ago to memes in Know your enemy

A reminder that the labour theory of value is not a marxist concept. When people wave their hands around and say “labor theory of value isn’t objectively true!!”, they’re shadowboxing a ghost.

Value != price

archomrade, 1 year ago to lemmyshitpost in Fellow landchads of Lemmy. Don't you hate when this happens?

He took the bait boys, get’im

archomrade, 1 year ago to risa in — Mrs. McMurray

This meme might be what gets me into Star Trek

archomrade, 1 year ago to linux in An Untold History of Thunderbird

I edited the comment, I really meant hosting server, not domain.

Having a custom domain isn’t a big deal, it’s really where that domain is hosted that creates forwarding issues. Since the majority of email is handled by the ‘big three’, anything that’s hosted outside of that is often flagged as spam or is refused to be delivered. That’s allegedly because there are malicious senders also hosted on third party servers (and fair enough, there likely are), but this causes a bit of a potential monopoly that could easily be abused, and there’s obvious motivation to push people into a particular service for data collection.

Even if it doesn’t happen often, occasional failures can be a huge problem if you’re sending critical communication and it isn’t reaching target inboxes because of filtering. It’s enough of a headache that even most avid self-hosters tend to avoid it.

archomrade, 1 year ago to asklemmy in why do & ampersands never display properly in titles?

This was a really informative comment, thanks!