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  • circuscritic@lemmy.catoTechnology@lemmy.worldSteam and Mastodon.
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    2 months ago

    … gladiator pit?

    First off, no, this isn’t combat and I don’t suffer from that delusion…

    Secondly, I’m talking about crazy vs. crazy. I want QANON nuts, antivax moms, liberals that accuse everyone they don’t like of being a Russian bot, etc.

    Finally… I’m having a hard time moving past you calling this a gladiator pit, and implying that I’m a gladiator… Actually, what’s your Twitter handle. You sound like someone I should follow.


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    2 months ago

    I said cultural clashes, not pedo and MAGA circlejerks.

    Wait, do you not realize what an echo chamber is…?

    Because that’s exactly what I don’t want in my Twitter-like experience.

    I want to watch the opposing groups of internet brained waterheads, who view posting as combat, flail, whine, and throw hissy fits at each other, while on the same platform.




  • I disagree on the private sector aspect of this, but I agree on the democracy part. Although, I don’t really view America as true democracy at this moment in history, but that’s besides the point here.

    Fusion technology is at a point in its life cycle where it needs to be a public sector project. There is no path to profitability in the near-term, that would justify private sector involvement, except as a means to extract profit from the very expensive research process of even making this technology feasible.

    Not that I’m against the private sector within the nuclear power industry. I’m very excited to see what they can do with SMR technology. I’m just extremely skeptical of most private-public partnerships, especially in cases like this.


  • This answer is very different depending upon your life circumstances.

    A single person with fixed income, is different than a two income household with children. I’m not saying they can’t both reach the same conclusion, just at their circumstances justify different choices being valid.

    There’s also your technical proficiency, and pain tolerance for saving money.

    For example, you could eliminate all external services, self-host everything, and then configure an S3 object storage provider for critical cold storage backups. That might also require you spending a bit more upfront to expand your NAS storage capacity.

    While that may save you a bunch of money in the long term, it will definitely cost you a lot of time and effort.

    What’s convenient for you? What can you not afford to lose access to? What’s your budget? How much time do you have to manage different solutions?

    Those aren’t questions for you to provide me answers for, just some of the considerations that will impact different people’s answer to this question.


  • Fusion reactors are incredibly complicated… This is a research reactor, with the goal of figuring out how to create sustainable fusion for real world uses by 2050.

    This is not a performative action for a determinative outcome, this is aspirational and has no guarantee of achieving its goals, which is good. This type of research and science needs to be funded, even when it may fail.

    Maybe this will spurn competition between powers to accelerate their own fusion reactor research, and create a virtuous cycle that accelerates this technology becoming a major source of green energy in the near, or medium-term, future.



  • I unintentionally fibbed, because one thing I do have a bit of experience with is aftermarket car stereos, including double-DIN android units.

    Granted, I haven’t tried to install one in a 2024 car, but a lot of modern infotainment systems can’t just be ripped out and replaced with aftermarket unit and retain the car’s original functionality, if it can be removed at all without breaking, or removing your access to core functions, like climate control, etc.

    Here’s a picture of the interior of one of the cars in question, a 2024 Mazda CX-90

    You’re not popping a double DIN in there, and even if you did remove the screen, I’m betting the actual infotainment system boards are inside the dash somewhere installed in a mounted panel box, and they aren’t just going to pop out and be replaceable like your standard head unit.

    Another photo, this one from the linked article:


  • I might regret not searching about this before running my mouth here, but I would assume most automotive manufacturers, in 2024, are soldering the wwan modules onto the main board of the infotainment system for cost, and to prevent user removal of their subscription vector.

    I would also assume most manufacturers who are converting standard automotive features into paid subscription services that dubiously rely on SaaS backends, are NOT also designing isolated architectures that separate the IoT infotainment system from the car’s critical systems like drive control, transmission, brakes, etc. I’m guessing most at least have CAN bus connections linking them together.

    But I don’t know enough about cars and automotive systems to even pretend being knowledgeable. So, if anyone here is actually well versed on this subject (and not just searching forums before replying to me), please tell me I’m wrong, and how so.

    Seriously, I want to be wrong about this.




  • circuscritic@lemmy.catoAndroid@lemmy.worldChromium shift
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    2 months ago

    Regardless, most of those VPN-based ad blockers are just using their own flavor and combination of block lists. I’m sure some get a little fancier, but that’s gist of it. Which is something, that ProtonVPN also offers I think they call it netshield or something like that.


  • circuscritic@lemmy.catoAndroid@lemmy.worldChromium shift
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    The paid brave VPN service? If so, I can’t speak to it because I have never used it, but I assume it functions much like a normal VPN provider where they’re running their own ad block lists on the exit node, but I have no idea what those lists are or their effectiveness. And yes, that would prevent your from concurrently running another systemwide VPN tunnel.

    Firefox with uBo is good and not trying to convince you to abandon Firefox on Android, certainly not for your desktop OS.

    The issue that thought is OP is referring to is about security, and while privacy and security aren’t mutually exclusive, sometimes you trade off one for the other.

    Personally, I prefer Chromium forks because I already take other privacy measures that I’m content with, and I would prefer the security advantages those browsers provide on Android.

    But sometimes, if there’s a website that I trust is not malicious, but there is an extension I prefer to view it with, I use Mull or Ice Raven. Both being Firefox on android forks, the former being a security/privacy hardened variant.

    I want to reiterate, that this is only in regards to Android browsers and I’m definitely not saying to install Google Chrome, or even Google’s own Chromium. I’m talking about hardened forks of their open source chromium project, such as Mulch and Cromite.



  • What if I told you I work in information security, and your not impressing me, or tripping me up, by using terms like defense in depth and attack chains, nor am I confused and unable see through your misrepresenting Graphene’s threat model to imply it only matters for high threat risk individuals.

    Just because I said I don’t have enough low level understanding of Android development to refute those devs write-ups on Android browser security, doesn’t mean I’m coming here without a professionally informed understanding of security, and all the terms you keep throwing out to muddy the issue.

    So, I’ll leave it there. I will take my professional knowledge and experiences, along with my judgment on which sources I incorporate into my broader understanding of this situation, and agree to disagree with your analysis and conclusions.