eskimofry

@eskimofry@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Internet Archive’s Fight to Save Itself⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Immoral and unjust laws are meant to be broken. When Exxon Mobil writes the law jailing activists for blocking traffic and airplanes and that is equivalent to 4-5 years… same as for brutal violence, that should make your blood boil if you’re someone who cares about our planet and our future.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It’s not worth paying to be removed from people-finder sites, study says⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Wait, these people finder sites need a subscription? That’s the opposite of what they’re trying to do.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨First “Miss AI” contest sparks ire for pushing unrealistic beauty standards⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  controversial take:

  Objectification has been happening ever since women and men existed. Perfection is something humans have idolized and admired for a long time. Gods and godesses were drawn to be attractive and charismatic.

  If the universe rewards intelligence over stupidity, why is rewarding beauty over ugliness a problem?

  There is also this argument that… let people have their circus. Extreme beauty and intelligence are something people can look at and admire for a weekend as a form of escape. But this doesn’t mean people leave their partners or talk shit to their sisters “why don’t you look like her”, etc.

  I guess my take is missing the problem which is that young adults set false expectation of their partners and this causes problem for them later in their life. But this feels like arguing we should shut down all forms of adult entertainment because the kids will get corrupted.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US sanctions operators of “free VPN” that routed crime traffic through user PCs⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Missed the most pertinent info in your title and post body:

  In 2022, researchers at the University of Sherbrooke profiled 911[.]re, a service that appears to be an earlier version of 911 S5. At the time, its infrastructure comprised 120,000 residential IP addresses. This pool was created using one of two free VPNs—MaskVPN and DewVPN—marketed to end users. Besides acting as a legitimate VPN, the software also operated as a botnet that covertly turned users’ devices into a proxy server. The complex structure was designed with the intent of making the botnet hard to reverse engineer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spotify just hid song lyrics behind its subscription⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Be happy you even get to breathe. Yall are greedy

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is it apparently cool and fine for insurance companies to spend countless billions, trillions of our money constantly buying ad time?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly I think the downvotes are not because people missed your joke… but it was incensing to read that and realize the execs of those companies probably think like that unironically.