Wow, what a cunt.

I have mixed feelings about measuring their wealth based on share prices because they couldn't sell their shares without tanking the price, right? Elon didn't actually increase his wealth; just the value of something that he has a shitton of went up.

We could also tank the value of his stocks by not buying or using his stupid shit!. For example, anyone angry that he is rich should definitely not be using Twitter.

"Eat the rich"... blah blah blah. Much easier to just protest the rich and take our money back by not giving it or our time to the rich in the first place.

This is correct. I pay for the unlimited plan with Verizon, but it only has 5GB of hotspot data. I use an iptables rule to increment the TTL by one, giving me unlimited data on my laptop.

T-Mobile used to work the same way when I used it back in 2016.

China reporting that China is doing great... Call me Mr. Skeptical.

He was talking to Meta before they announced Threads and he signed an NDA. I strongly agree with @CCL@links.hackliberty.org's opinion that the recent popularity Mastodon has enjoyed has gone to his head.

Put plainly, I don't trust him at all.

How do you know it isn't now? (see: Dead-Internet Theory)

This would be so easily bypassed that the whole concept, while technologically cool, is completely useless. Someone could apply a very subtle smoothing filter and then do whatever they wanted with it after via stable diffusion (or use the myriad of alternative methods to remove the "protection").

Who said anything about America? Fuck America. You know, most countries don't brainwash their citizens with China-level nationalism.

Pro-tip: you can block communities that annoy you.

If you're completely new, familiarizing yourself with any guide would be beneficial. A basic search resulted in this and this, which are better than nothing, I suppose. I'd appreciate someone skilled adding their two cents, however, especially concerning common pitfalls and anonymous payment for Usenet providers.

"Twitter... [is] a goddamn blight."

Ohhh!! That makes sense. Goddamn the wealthy, lol

Don't talk to this asshole. They don't argue in good faith and love to shit on the west with their whataboutism. This isn't the first post I've seen this joker in.

I used to use my Blackberry to read Digg every morning in college while waiting for classes to start. It was great in its heyday, but maybe that's just nostalgia or that I'd not experienced anything quite like it prior.

Surely there is some way to configure this on Windows. I'm so unfamiliar with Windows software anymore, but I'm sure that any firewall worth it's salt would be able to increase the TTL on outbound packets.

"Why are they attacking us??!" Well, Israel, it's because, like Russia, you're a fucking terrorist state.

I'd say "they" might try? But no western country's government has an iron grip on what news is reported/propagated in their respective countries like China does.

For those that do have a bad sense of direction: I'm positive that you'd slowly get a better sense if you continued to play the games that trouble you and work through being lost. Most people aren't great at something they don't do often (or ever).

Thanks! I've just asked, so here's hoping.

You should check out the book "Daemon" by Daniel Suarez (if you haven't already). Based on your post, you'd probably like it a lot. There's a sequel, too: "Freedom".

This is the way.

iptables on my laptop (not tethered, but using the phone's wifi hotspot). I don't even have a jailbroken android phone anymore because my banking app stopped working on custom ROMs and fighting with it wasn't a good use of my time.

Apologies, didn't check before and thought you were the OP.

I'm well aware, but, hey, we don't get thrown in prison for questioning our leaders or the reported stories.

Oh wow, this is great! Thanks.

I've had android phones since the G1. The Nexus One was pretty freaking sweet, but my favorite phone of all time was either the Nexus S or the Nexus 5x. The curved screen on the S was great and it fit into the back pocket of my pants "like a glove".

Are you willing to share the source for said bot?

Yeah, someone else mentioned that. That's bullshit.

I can't clear it; the button does nothing.

Came to say this and glad I didn't have to.

CLI is king ;-)

I wouldn't be trying to use or adapt it; it was more of an intellectual curiosity. I haven't written scrapers or used Tcl, so, yeah, I would be interested to take a peek :-)

I'd like to write something similar, but I'd probably use Lisp or Python.

Out of curiosity, what sort of issues were/are you having with it?

I've never heard of this dude before now. I don't normally like this kind of music, but I really like this a lot! Thanks for posting it!

I'm going to be pedantic: lessor?

Coming up with ideas for programs to code is the part I struggle with the most, so I like to use codewars.com when I'm trying out a new language. Really, the only way to learn is to practice, practice, practice.

A community has a handle—like !nostupidquestions@lemmy.world—that is unique. The nostupidquestions community belongs to the lemmy.world server, but anyone from any other server can subscribe to the community, and users from any federated server can follow and comment. The comments are global and shared between all federated servers.

Same. I'm not a conspiracy theorist. However, most top Google results are those garbage sites that are definitely not written by humans. I wonder if search will die soon as bots begin to dominate SEO (more than they already do). The search paradigm will definitely have to change.

I keep texting her

There's your problem. Women can smell desperation.

You can think, period. You only know what you're shown, and you're shown a bunch of bullshit.