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ExLisper

@ ExLisper @lemmy.curiana.net

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  • The Internet Is Kind of a Predatory Cesspit Now

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  • The modern internet is now a highly optimised machine for detecting human vulnerability, amplifying it, and placing a payment link beside it. Any insecurity can become a commercial niche, including the desire to escape commercial life itself. There is always a course, a newsletter, a private community, or a referral code waiting at the end of the funnel.

    Just avoid social media. Social media is not the whole Internet.

  • Hey Canada, just wanted to let you know there's alternatives.

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  • It's pure deceit because the map is accurate? What should they do instead? Hide Siberia and Greenland? Use Gall-Peters projection and let Africa do a lot of work instead? What difference does it make which yellow part is bigger when it's pretty much all yellow?

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  • The worst enemy of a leftist is another leftist that he disagrees with on a single topic.

  • Trump Suggests Renaming the Atlantic or Pacific Ocean Next After Changing Lake Ontario and Gulf of Mexico on U.S. Maps

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  • Soon he will rename the whole continent to just "America".

  • roger roger

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  • Why the fuck does it have to have a robot body?

    So it can sit in those reserved places on public transport. It would be wasted space otherwise.

  • Mamdani favorability rating climbs to 69%

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  • Some people actually like exploiting poor people and dislike politicians that make it difficult for them.

  • Trump Team Refuses to Explain Imported Beef Origin as Backlash Grows

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  • People coming up with all those crazy theories while the most likely explanation is that that there is no beef. It's not the first time Trump promised something without ever planning on delivering it.

  • “Voters are sick of the 2-party system. A new poll shows they’re open to big changes”

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  • You're technically right but the real issue is electoral college. For ranked choice to work on national level you would have to get rid of if. Which would require constitutional reform. Without it ranked choice and winner-take-all electoral college would result in a big mess. The most likely scenario would be for Republicans to organize and vote for one candidate while Democrats would split the vote between establishment Dem and some DSA candidate. To actually end 2-party system without giving the presidency to Republicans forever you would need ranked choice popular vote or 2-turn elections.

  • Why is it always the left one?

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  • I had some simple Huaiway earbuds and they charged without issues. Then I got the Pixel Buds free with my phone and my god they suck. The charging/discharging seems to be completely random (not to mention issues with pairing and terrible fit).

  • Open-source stealth USB hides an encrypted partition behind an 8GB decoy drive Phantom Drive appears as a regular USB stick until you create a text file to unlock the hidden data

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  • The "war zone" was referring to difficult internet access. Iran recently cut off entire country from internet. If you're going to USA you may be inspected but you will most likely get internet access once you crossed the border.

  • You're welcome

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  • I never saw a strip of paper like that that was narrower than me so it could depend on size of the person.

  • Recommendations for opensource Jetbrains equivalents?

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  • I think Jetbrains is still fine as an editor but yes, the tooling is getting worse and worse. I recently stopped using the DB tool because it simply wasn't able to reliably connect to my databases. Dbeaver is working great with same databases. For a easy fix that would be my recommendation: community editor Jetbrain tolls for editing code, external tools for git/db/docker and so on.

    For personal projects I use neovim and while is a great editor with all the features I need it is a constant struggle. Maintaining configuration is really difficult. If you're using nvim already turning it into IDE can be a fun project. If you're not familiar with it I wouldn't recommend it for development. There's just too much work.

  • “Voters are sick of the 2-party system. A new poll shows they’re open to big changes”

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  • This can be done on local level but on national level you would need constitutional reform which is extremely unlikely.

  • Open-source stealth USB hides an encrypted partition behind an 8GB decoy drive Phantom Drive appears as a regular USB stick until you create a text file to unlock the hidden data

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  • Yes, but you can just carry encrypted hard drive with you. Hiding encrypted data is useful pretty much only for legal reasons. You want to take it across border and are worried TSA agent will force you to decrypt it or something. What is safer in that case? Carrying a USB stick with hidden encrypted partition or not carrying anything at all and downloading the data later? I would say the latter. Smuggling encrypted data through custom checks into a war zone with limited internet access is the cool but unlikely spy games scenario I was talking about. Encrypted microSD card would be even more secure in that case.

  • Open-source stealth USB hides an encrypted partition behind an 8GB decoy drive Phantom Drive appears as a regular USB stick until you create a text file to unlock the hidden data

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  • I would upload encrypt file somewhere and download it when needed. If you're worried someone will actually access your USB stick looking for encrypted data, why carry it at all? It's cool if you want to pretend you're a spy or something but it's not very practical.

  • Spotify threatens industry with ad-skipping tool: "Skip Ahead" is available for Premium users in selected markets, and enables them to skip entire ad breaks, intros, sponsorship messages.

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  • I understand the app is great

    It's not even that great anymore. In the recent years the app got bigger and bigger, the UI more confusing, it got intrusive features that are impossible to disable while not adding anything of value.

    For example, it started playing distracting, ugly. looped videos by default with no clear way to disable this. At the same time it became impossible to say "don't play this song even again".

  • Rumored, Never-to-Be-Released Apple Feature May Have Been Too Much Truth for Most Consumers

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  • I think the idea is that the data is encrypted on the phone and password is needed to decrypt it. If Apple can load (decrypt) data without your password then they can decrypt it anytime they want, even you don't want them to.

  • Billionaires profiting because the customers are erratic

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  • It's actually interesting topic. I think Spotify worked fine and now that they are starting to behave like every evil corporation out there we're getting alternatives like Qobuz. Music is different because you have many publishers and platforms like Spotify are just another distribution channel. You can still buy discs or use iTunes or whatever but you also get streaming. Spotify doesn't make music themselves but artists are getting pennies from them. They make more money from other channels.

    With TV it's different because IP is so incredibly valuable here. Everyone is trying to control their content. Netflix used to be kind of the default streaming distribution channel like Spotify but then Disney decided that since they have Star Wars they can just split and monetize it themselves (Disney probably wasn't first but you get my point). So now all the streaming platform produce their own content and since it's the thing that gives them value they don't want to share it.

    So the real solution here would be to follow the music industry model: separate content producers from streaming platforms. The streaming platform would compete on features (remember when Netflix had perfectly functioning 'skip intro' and 'next episode' features but Amazon didn't?) and producers would compete on content. Mixing those two jobs is what's killing the experience. No idea if it's economically viable but I think that would be the model that would give us best user experience.

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    Zuckerberg faces questions over why superyacht reportedly declined to help stranded boat

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  • Yes, answering some questions is the punishment he deserves here. Hurray for justice!