icydefiance

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[–] icydefiance@lemm.ee 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Well yeah, they're just blocking known fingerprinting services. If you use a tool that they don't recognize, it'll still work, but their approach will still block the big companies that can do the most harm with that data.

The only alternative is probably to disable WebGL entirely, which isn't a reasonable thing to do by default.

[–] icydefiance@lemm.ee 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The fans of some streamer are not going to kill you.

[–] icydefiance@lemm.ee 20 points 2 months ago (9 children)

Yeah, I manage the infrastructure for almost 150 WordPress sites, and I moved them all to ARM servers a while ago, because they're 10% or 20% cheaper on AWS.

Websites are rarely bottlenecked by the CPU, so that power efficiency is very significant.

[–] icydefiance@lemm.ee 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Don't tell other people to do things that you clearly haven't done yourself.

[–] icydefiance@lemm.ee 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Now do the George Floyd riots.

You mean the ones where cops and white supremacists pretended to be protesters and started smashing windows and setting fires themselves, because the real protestors weren't doing anything that they could be arrested for?

https://www.congress.gov/116/meeting/house/110775/documents/HHRG-116-JU00-20200610-SD019.pdf

https://abcnews.go.com/US/man-helped-ignite-george-floyd-riots-identified-white/story?id=72051536

https://theintercept.com/2020/07/15/george-floyd-protests-police-far-right-antifa/

So when you try to murder people you unarmed into a building filled with armed men?

People who illegally entered Capitol grounds during the insurrection were armed with a wide variety of weapons, including guns, stun guns, knives, batons, baseball bats, axes and chemical sprays. The Department of Justice said in an official update last week that so far “over 75” people charged in connection to the attack “have been charged with entering a restricted area with a dangerous or deadly weapon.”

https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/04/politics/fact-check-capitol-insurrection-january-6-lies/index.html

They also made pipe bombs.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fbi-pipe-bombs-jan-6-dnc-rnc-headquarters/

[–] icydefiance@lemm.ee 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

Lmao no it isn't. It's completely insignificant and barely even qualifies as news.

The US Dollar is strong because we have the largest economy in the world, not because of the good will of some oil exporter.

At least google things before spreading insane misinformation.

[–] icydefiance@lemm.ee 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

Did you miss the part where they were trying to murder most of congress?

Also:

Within 36 hours, five people died: one was shot by Capitol Police, another died of a drug overdose, and three died of natural causes, including a police officer. Many people were injured, including 174 police officers. Four officers who responded to the attack died by suicide within seven months. Damages caused by attackers exceeded $2.7 million.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_6_United_States_Capitol_attack

[–] icydefiance@lemm.ee 23 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (5 children)

What happened was an attempted coup, where a mob of people was only two barricaded doors away from murdering most of congress.

[–] icydefiance@lemm.ee 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

They do, most of the time. For example if you upload an heic file from an iPhone to a file input on a website that doesn't accept heic files, it'll upload a jpeg.

Apple can't see or control all the different ways of transferring files, though, so in practice it still causes problems sometimes.

The strange thing is that some Android phones also save photos as heic files and make no attempt to convert them, so I still had to add logic to my websites to convert them myself.

[–] icydefiance@lemm.ee 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Google is buying your data, not selling it. They use it to make their ad platform more effective, and selling the data would just help their competitors.

The NSA does collect data from third parties like Google, but not just anyone can buy it from them.

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