Oil executives to congress: “My mom is kind of homeless so you should let us drill more.”

DDG for everyday use, Yandex for media.

What I’m saying is that it sounds like lying. If you say “Hey, is KelvarCherry legit?” And they say “no” they’re lying, but if they say “you’re not allowed to verify users” that seems fine.

The whole way Mojang “bans” servers is by marking certain IPs to always be told the connecting account is invalid.

Do they do that or just return an error? Because as described that sounds illegal.

What you’re making is a slippery slope argument that doesn’t really hold water.

Is it though? Like, really, is it? In the US the government is possibly doing shit like labeling transgender people as nihilistic violent extremists. The Project 2025 shit is coming fast. I really don’t like people using racial slurs either. But the idea that it could be very soon that things like speaking about some LGBTQ topics gets policed more and corporations go along with it is not as far fetched as it seems. A year ago I’d probably have a different opinion.

And I wanna be clear, I’m not defending people using slurs. I think it’s fine for Microsoft to not host that server on a public list of servers, I guess. I’m really just saying the slope is more slippery than previously thanks to the MAGA crowd. I’m not really sure how I feel about it all, I’m still in the cognitive dissonance phase as my mind works out where I really stand. I’ve been lucky enough that speech I consider acceptable has been what speech others considered acceptable for my whole life, but the idea that queer topics come under fire isn’t crazy.

Please, won’t somebody think of the drones? 🥺

Yucky 🤮

Kling has promoted the nonsense white replacement conspiracy theory

This is news to me. I’ll look into them saying that and change how I talk about this event. Because before knowing this I would’ve described it similarly as the other person. But yeah, any grace I was willing to extend goes away if they’re parroting white replacement.

I asked it this out of curiosity since something like a strict filter (not AI) on the n-word wouldn’t be surprising. Nope, it answered correctly. Which tbh is the right thing to do, it’s a legitimate question. I don’t think things like encyclopedias should censor that.

I still use ES File Explorer on my old phone because I’m too lazy to download anything else and I only use my old phone like once a year if even.

I think people get too defensive about security by obscurity not being security. It’s still better for things to be obscure, it’s just not sufficient. A hidden lock to open a door is marginally better than a lock on the door. A hidden button to open a door isn’t secure though, of course.

But at the same time, I fully understand why it’s stressed so much. People tend to make analogies in their mind to the physical world. The digital world is so different though. An example I use often is you can’t jiggle every doorknob in the world to see if it’s unlocked, but it’s (relatively) easy to check every IPv4 address for an open port to some database with default credentials.

If there’s any hostility it was initiated by yourself my friend.

Bullshit.

Come on now think for a second here.

I feel like there’s some hostility or defensiveness and we keep talking past each other when trying to resolve it, so I’m going to drop the topic because I don’t think there are actually any disagreements between us.

Nothing I was said was about “independent studies” versus “studies”. I get your point, I’m just saying that wasn’t part of what I found odd. I only used the phrase independent studies instead of studies because you did.

The following is just a really odd way to convince someone of something in my opinion.

1. “China is one of the countries with the highest approval of their government by independent studies.”
2. Government approval is inversely correlated with poverty and terrible living conditions.
3. Therefore it is unlikely that “they def aren’t living like this”

It’s also especially odd if you’re mentioning independent studies. Are there not independent studies about the living conditions?

And to be clear, I don’t even disagree with you. I think a lot of westerners are affected by racist/orientalist views (or whatever you wanna call them) without realizing it. It just felt like a strange way to counter the thought process.

Yeah I would have thought hotel TV meant things like beach TV.

As long as you have a TV made after the digital conversion in like 2008, stick a paperclip into the antenna connector and get free channels. Seriously. You’ll be surprised how well it works. A real antenna is better and they’re cheap too. I do this and watch Telemundo for background noise and a little bit of Spanish learning.

Their comment wasn’t about government approval.

How so? I feel like if we’re making jokes based on the language itself it would be more like the “straightest” language because of how strict it’s type system is. It seems like a sort of “there are two genders” sort of thing. Rust seems like the homophobic language.

(And to be clear, this is just a joke based on the language, not a commentary on the Rust community.)

Imagine if we referred to the recent UN walkout as “Drama at the UN.” It trivializes the topic.