[-] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 25 minutes ago

Well,

A) "Let's dissuade people from participating in radical politics" is only during presidential election season, when's the last time you saw an ad for midterms? The DNC barely participates themselves. Be real.

B) So? The comment you replied to chose to talk about the presidential election which is no less valid of an interpretation. Maybe they didn't want to dox themselves more locally than "US," you are the one who chose to reply to that comment specifically instead of making your own top level comment about midterms.

C) Almost everyone in this thread interpreted it to be directly about Kamala. It doesn't mention her by name, no, and yes, all the rest in the DNC are just as incompetent of candidates, but people get mad when you remind them of that and if you agree with me, we're the outliers here, as sad as that is for a supposed anarchist community. That said, it was likely OP's intent even without naming her (or it's an old meme about Biden or Hillary because tbh they KEEP doing it for presidential elections especially like they want to lose.)

[-] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

I mean when talking about presidential candidates running for a presidential election, it does kinda make sense to use "next" even though there is technically another one before then, because the "true next" one doesn't involve presidential elections. It's called context. That doesn't mean that they're not voting at midterm elections, it just means that they understand that presidents aren't elected until presidential elections and we can disregard midterms when talking about presidential candidates.

It's like saying "I'll see you at the next baseball game" to your friend when leaving the stadium, and him understanding that you mean the next home game not flying to Chicago to see them play at Wrigley on Tuesday.

[-] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 6 hours ago

Also normally in the US for the same reason haha. I don't have IVPN though so I can't say for that one. That was on one of the Salt Lake Mullvad servers.

[-] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

It's blocked by all of Australia, Comcast and other US companies, and more, apparently.

Yeah.

Imgur, OTOH, hates VPNs. You can get to þe main website, but þeir image server will not serve up images to any Mullvad or ivpn exit node.

Nah

7638

7639

Not that I'd use imgur anyway, I prefer catbox. Imgur is blocked in the UK too though iirc.

Also with a VPN it wouldn't matter if your ISP did block catbox, you'd still see it with your VPN unless maybe their ISP blocks it.

[-] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 8 hours ago

Shit even years ago that "open source" part was true. I switched to all open source programs (when possible) even though I was still on windows the second I found out how much better VLC is than everything. That was like '07 lmao. And it indeed was a big reason I stopped being scared of switching to linux, someone told me "dude almost everything you use already runs on linux, you won't even need to find alts."

That's a good point about WSL though too because afaik that wasn't around when I switched and I was indeed still scared of the CLI (until I switched and watched a few "linux CLI basics" and "bash basics" youtube videos.) I'll have to remember to recommend that for those in my old shoes, thanks!

[-] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 8 hours ago

All you motherfuckers are going to pay. You are the ones who are the ball lickers! We're gonna fuck your mothers while you watch and cry like little whiney bitches. Once we get to Hollywood and find those Miramax fucks who are making that movie, we're gonna make them eat our shit, and then shit out our shit, and then eat their shit which is made up of our shit that we made them eat. Then all you motherfucks are next!

[-] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 8 hours ago

No problem, I have GIMP installed.

[-] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 8 hours ago

In this case there is no other dentist. The closest you can get is a thinkpad, and they're still not quite as repairable as a framework from what I hear, and I'm not sure they don't donate to Trump himself for all I know, searching for lenovo controversies gave me this at a first glance

Lenovo has faced multiple controversies, primarily related to security issues, including pre-installed malware and backdoors in their devices, which have raised concerns about user privacy and data security. Additionally, the company has been criticized for its ties to China and alleged espionage risks, leading to bans from certain government networks in various countries.

So no racists maybe (guess we gotta ask them about Uyghurs and other non-Han Chinese people, but) possible security risks, pick your poison I guess.

[-] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 9 hours ago

Well if I can find it I'll look into it, but then again if the study says it doesn't disproportionately affect POC then it agrees with me on that part.

I still however don't know one single white adult without an ID either, you already need it for more than voting, and I can't see how showing the thing you literally carry in your pocket or purse 24/7 out of necessity already suppresses all votes either. I'm one of the paranoid assholes that hates identifying myself on every website and at every store just so I can get a big mac or an online service, I obscure my identity as much as humanly possible, I hate AI, facial recognition, ALPRs, Flock, 2fa through text, I don't even fly I take trains instead despite the inconvenience just because of all the invasive TSA horse shit (and maybe a little of "flying scary," I'll admit lol), and I STILL wouldn't even give a second thought about having to show ID to vote. Hell, when I do vote and they just ask my name and check me off the list, I'm tempted to drive to my non-voting friend's neighborhood and vote as/for him every time (I never have, but there's literally nothing but my own morality stopping me from acquiescing to temptation), but that also gives me the thought of "I cannot be the first person to think of that, hope nobody does it to me one day lol." Bro my polling place doesn't even have cameras, it'd literally be impossible to catch me, I couldn't do it on a mass scale of course but I could 100% do it and someone could 100% do it to me, all they need is my name and publically listed address.

[-] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 10 hours ago

Unfortunately I'm not in the business of paying Jstor for papers, but the abstract has a lot of "may limit"s and "However, past studies have reported conflicting results"s before coming to the conclusion that it indeed suppresses votes (though not telling me how for free, of course, and doesn't offer any information about those conflicting studies. Were they done wrong or was this one? Only someone willing to pay can know).

And yet still I've never met anyone who didn't have an ID, and I don't even live in a voter ID state btw just one with people who need to live a normal life and to do so they must have an ID post- (and in many cases pre-) 18. Not only that but the POC I know so far (asked two now) all tell me it's racist to assume POC can't get IDs and everyone they know (who can legally get one) has one too. I'm also not in the business of developing racist thought processes because it makes some white guy feel good to help the noble savages, so I'm still gonna listen to the experiences of the POC I know when they tell me they indeed are just as capable of going to the DMV as any white person.

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[-] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

I mean I'm not donating but

based in Lake Forest, serving all of Orange County

That's like saying it's in Italy. Not really narrowing it down...

Well it actually is more narrow than "country." Unless we're admitting "Italy and California" are closer than "Italy and The US," which actually I agree with but people get mad when you remind them that EU countries are as big as individual states.

But that aside: It'd be more like saying it's in Florence, serving all of Tuscany. Actually it's even less than that since Tuscany is 8,900 square miles and OC is 948 sq mi, but I don't know Italy that well so it's the closest I could get. Wiki seems to suggest it may be analogous to the province of Pisa at 945 sq mi.

"Lake Forest, CA" itself (which is a part of OC) is only 16.79 sq mi, that seems fairly narrow to me. To narrow it down further, the Lake Forest resident responsible for this is "Natalia Boiko," seems she is a Ukrainian who went to college in Kharkiv, she has a DV case against someone named Oleksii Boiko. It's not exactly some anonymous thing here I found all this through wiki, linkedin, the 5013c's website, duck duck go, and unicourt.

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Turns out catbox is blocked by like everyone, are there any good private alternatives that are not blocked by the masses that I can use to send files under 2gb with a "delete after X hours" feature?

Before you say Lufi, it refuses to finish requesting the file on the DL end, times out every time, on a 22.15MB file no less.

Any help would be appreciated. Trying to send a relative who "doesn't want to turn off her wifi" on her iPhone lest "it mess something up" a video. No shot I can get her to log into her router and disable the stupid "security" hijack that blocks catbox.

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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/photography@lemmy.world

I want to get a camera that I can use mostly for nature pics and graffiti pics out the window of a moving train, and maybe a butt or two (consensually ofc). Yes I know I'm weird. That said I guess I'll need a "fast" one for the train, if that is the correct terminology (I think for shutter speed, yes?) The only other requirement is I will not download programs or apps beyond FOSS, preferably something I can just take the SD card out of and plug it into my laptop (linux anyway, most programs don't like me).

I don't see myself making this my living (and if I do then I can always upgrade) just as a hobby and maybe some side hustle if the opportunity knocks, so I don't need the best camera, but I would rather buy nice not twice (unless I leave "hobbyist" and move to "professional"). That said I was thinking maybe a DSLR would be enough for me (if not, I could be persuaded to mirrorless, just trying to keep costs down)? I've heard good things about the Canon Rebel, idk. I'm not really trying to go over $1k (and even cheaper than that would be even better) especially if I have to then buy a lens or two.

Any recommendations are greatly appreciated, I have no idea what I'm doing lol.

10

List is up! Let's see...

Crown A Tale Of Hell #1

Geiger #21

w0rldtr33 #18

Well that's it for me, what're y'all pulling?

9

List is up! Let's see here..

Creepshow Volume 4 #5

Drawing Blood #10

Spirit Of The Shadows #1 - Maybe, looks weird, I like weird

Looks like that's it for me! What're you pulling?

9

List is up! Let's see here..

Minor Arcana #13 - Still loving this series, also loved Fishflies so that's perhaps unsurprising. Something about the artstyle and the spooky small town subject matter just clicks (or should I say Crunch to reference the misprint in Fishflies lol), I hope he keeps it up.

Beneath The Trees Where Nobody Sees Rite Of Spring #5 - My favorite series right now still going strong.

Geiger #20 - I'm so behind but I'm still picking them up, I'll get back to reading Fallout Man soon enough.

That's it for me this week, what're you pulling?

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Best Mastodon App? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

I'm looking for android, but I suppose iOS welcome for those with iPhones.

I've been using Fedilab, but I have a bad habit of not checking super often and so Fedilab reaches a point where it won't say "load more" and leaves gaps in my feed, which I'd like to fix. Also was using it for pixelfed, but since that acct was deleted for inactivity I'm not using the multi-service function anymore, but multi-mastodon-acct support is still needed. Used Tusky previously but don't remember why I switched (like two years ago).

Been a couple years, so I figured I'd see what people like using these days and try out a few.

13

List is up! Let's see...

Hank Howard Pizza Detective The Two Hollywoods #1 - Pizza? I'm in. If I can get it that is.

Archie Vs. Minor Threats #4

Minor Threats The Last Devil Left Alive #3

Hellboy And The B.P.R.D. The Ghost Ships Of Labrador #2

And that's it for me! What're y'all pulling?

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Easiest way to contribute? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
submitted 3 months ago by ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/osm@feddit.uk

Oh neat an OSM community, and I find it organically two days after I decide I need to figure out how to contribute!

Well so my area needs some help, POI data can be spotty but moreso I have a few newly built apartment complexes nearby that (while they're visible on the map,) need their streets named and buildings numbered.

What is the easiest way for me to add this information to OSM? I'm aware of OSMAND+ and Everydoor apps for android through my searching yesterday and I've downloaded both (well I downloaded OSMAND+ when Magic Earth went shitty but just to use as a gps) but that's as far as I've gotten.

5

I'm primarily concerned with privacy and security, thus the interest in Delta Chat to begin with, but it seems to me that all the relays (at least the ones on the delta chat site's list, that is) are hosted in 5 eyes countries or countries that will soon be subject to the EU's chat control bullshit, or are in India or South Africa (two countries which I do not know about their own privacy situation, though the SA server is a ".wang" which is hilarious.)

Is there any relay that I can sign up for that's hosted somewhere like Norway, that cares about privacy at least ostensibly? Any other list of available relays?

I'm sure "it doesn't matter because e2ee," but assuredly some metadata must still exist, like sender/recipient or something. Unfortunately self hosting isn't an option currently as idk how to do that sort of thing just yet (one day) and also I'm in a 5 eyes country, so I'd have to VPS it somewhere.

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I actually remembered this week! But I'm rushing at work and posting this during my morning constitutional so I'm gonna have to do this one quick-style! And I haven't picked up in a while my shop must be so mad lol. Let's see..

Exquisite Corpses #8

Sacrificers #18

w0rldtr33 #17

Looks like that's it for me! What're you pulling?

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submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/monero@monero.town

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/58363954

Hey Monero people, I hope it's ok if I ask a few questions (and ok that I'm gonna crosspost this to monero.town even though you're phasing it out because the subbed number is higher), I trust you more than the LLM and ad filled search results.

What's the safest way to get monero from fiat anon in Current Year?

  • Buy, say, ETH kyc, and transfer?
  • Hodl Hodl or localmonero or something? (recs welcome)
  • other? Please share preferred

I'd rather burn a few bucks to not get ripped off, if it's reasonable, but I'm open to (I've heard you can somewhere) buy a gift card and do a transfer with escrow.

With Cake Wallet, I rolled a random name for my xmr wallet, would I lose anon if I named it a pre-used screen name(+xmr, btc, etc) and used subkeys? Who all can see the wallet name?

If I do end up with some kyc monero, what exactly does that mean to me? I still use it anon but have to pay taxes or something, or is it like, "now we know who is associated with this acct and you paid your weedman in XMR so now we send you to prison?" Should I have one wallet, kyc that one, and then send it to a second I keep clean, is that reasonable? Can I only accept non-kyc monero to my acct if I intend to stay anon? I'm so very new to this.

I'm really not planning on dodging taxes or buying/selling weed, actually mostly planning on using it as an inconvenient but private cashapp-type replacement (prob have like, btc, xmr, and eth wallets for variety just in case and store the funds as btc and xmr), but I'm privacy minded which is what attracts me to XMR to begin with, I'd like to plan for buying a gun that shoots fentanyl bullets on the darkweb and then in reality I'm paying my friend for watching my cat, or being paid for watching their dogs.

Lastly, is there anything else you think I'm too inexperienced to know to ask, but should be told? I mean consider me dumb, I don't know shit, I'm new to crypto entirely not just xmr or cake.

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submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/monero@lemmy.cafe

Hey Monero people, I hope it's ok if I ask a few questions (and ok that I'm gonna crosspost this to monero.town even though you're phasing it out because the subbed number is higher), I trust you more than the LLM and ad filled search results.

What's the safest way to get monero from fiat anon in Current Year?

  • Buy, say, ETH kyc, and transfer?
  • Hodl Hodl or localmonero or something? (recs welcome)
  • other? Please share preferred

I'd rather burn a few bucks to not get ripped off, if it's reasonable, but I'm open to (I've heard you can somewhere) buy a gift card and do a transfer with escrow.

With Cake Wallet, I rolled a random name for my xmr wallet, would I lose anon if I named it a pre-used screen name(+xmr, btc, etc) and used subkeys? Who all can see the wallet name?

If I do end up with some kyc monero, what exactly does that mean to me? I still use it anon but have to pay taxes or something, or is it like, "now we know who is associated with this acct and you paid your weedman in XMR so now we send you to prison?" Should I have one wallet, kyc that one, and then send it to a second I keep clean, is that reasonable? Can I only accept non-kyc monero to my acct if I intend to stay anon? I'm so very new to this.

I'm really not planning on dodging taxes or buying/selling weed, actually mostly planning on using it as an inconvenient but private cashapp-type replacement (prob have like, btc, xmr, and eth wallets for variety just in case and store the funds as btc and xmr), but I'm privacy minded which is what attracts me to XMR to begin with, I'd like to plan for buying a gun that shoots fentanyl bullets on the darkweb and then in reality I'm paying my friend for watching my cat, or being paid for watching their dogs.

Lastly, is there anything else you think I'm too inexperienced to know to ask, but should be told? I mean consider me dumb, I don't know shit, I'm new to crypto entirely not just xmr or cake.

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