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Jack_Burton

@ Jack_Burton @lemmy.ca

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  • A list of privacy tips

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  • I've never heard of infrared glasses, this is probably the most interesting/useful thing on this list for me. Too bad Reflectacles is an American company though. Anyone have any experience with them? I'm willing to give money to US companies under certain circumstances if they do good things, like Signal. If Reflectacles does good work, I'm not opposed to placing an order.

  • Anyone else not watch movies or TV shows?

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  • Don't you worry about blank, let me worry about blank.

  • Is there any way the average American can insulate themselves from the AI bubble bursting?

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  • This entire conversation is based on what the op asked. Would the 99% take what the 1% has. You suggested they couldn't take it, I suggested they wouldn't have to they could just cut them off. The entire premise is based on the 99% standing up and uniting. It was an interesting question dude, no need to be insulting.

  • Is there any way the average American can insulate themselves from the AI bubble bursting?

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  • Wen you're accustomed to privilege equality feels like oppression. And that's just for us regular folk. These people live a life of luxury we'll never understand, and they never get told 'no'. So yeah, as dumb as it sounds, when you've lived a life getting everything you ever want finding out you can't have that smoothie can have an effect.

    I'm not saying that first smoothie would be the trigger point, but the idea is lack of access. Cut off the new sewage drainage from billionaire island. Cut off deliveries of any kind. They're used to lobster and caviar at the snap of a finger. Kraft Dinner will be unacceptable. Lock them in their utopias and see how long they last.

    How long until their smart homes break down and they can't bring in IT to fix it? These things can absolutely have an effect.

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  • I don't know where you got your definition of capitalism "results in economic singularities and infinite wealth for everyone", but it's wrong. The West is currently in late-stage capitalism, which is always the outcome of a capitalist system: wealth and power gets consolidated into the hands of the few, while the many suffer.

    The term "leftist" can best be described politically, as supporting the political left. The problem with that term currently is that it's used to define non-political ideology as well, like social aspects such as empathy/sympathy. I'm unsure where you stand when you call yourself "leftist" so it's hard to say if your definition can mix with capitalism.

    Fundamentally, in my opinion no, enjoying capitalsim is supporting a system that inherently causes inequality, wealth gaps, and the concept of profits over people, which are the opposite of a standard definition of "leftist" beliefs no matter how you define it.

    My question to you is, would you still blindly support capitalism if you were one of the many who didn't benefit from it?

  • Is there any way the average American can insulate themselves from the AI bubble bursting?

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  • When you have 10000 people to 1, a lot can be accomplished with some organization. You don't have to get to them on their islands if you take back the mainland. Cut them off. Eventually they'll run out of supplies, and since they're used to getting whatever they want whenever they want, they'll run out of something they're accustomed to getting within days.

  • What's a subject you (think) you know more about than the average Lemmy user?

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  • Haha appreciate the kind words thank you. I'm Canadian so it didn't affect any understanding, just sounded funny. Sean Connery made the sh lisp work for him but I don't imagine he could have with a th lisp.

    English speaking actors/characters with a th lisp tend to be stereotypically nerdy/child like/adorable kid types, characters that are meant to be cute or sympathetic, but not to be taken very seriously.

    As far as mirroring, I'm an artist as well so I learn visually the best. Seeing my mum make the correct sound and then how I made my incorrect sound made me understand completely.

    It's not something I often think about, but I am proud to have corrected it myself. My parents were looking into speech therapists after I brought it up but I wanted to see if I could do it myself first. I still make a sharp whistle at times which I suspect stems from maybe "overcorrecting" my teeth/tongue placement early on.

  • What's a subject you (think) you know more about than the average Lemmy user?

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  • My tongue protruded between upper and lower creating the "classic" lisp, not the "cool" Sean Connery sh lisp haha. Didn't even know I had it until some new kid in school made fun of me in grade 6.

    I remember I came home and asked my mum if I talked funny and she reluctantly told me I had a lisp. I asked her to hold her mouth open with her fingers to see her teeth when she made an 's', then show me how I did it. Once I saw the difference I understood to keep my tongue behind my teeth and just made a conscious effort to correct it every time I spoke for months.

    I have an overbite so it was challenging to land the bottom of my top teeth on the top of my bottom teeth, but after a few months it became habit. I'm a freelance voice actor now haha.

  • [USA] Is "there are ICE agents roaming the streets" a good reason/excuse to avoid going outside? Or is it just a part of reality that you have to learn to accept?

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  • ICE has already detained and assaulted over 170 citizens, let alone all the people in the US who are there legally. You're a fool if you still believe the US gov't is only going after "the bad ones and the criminals". This is systematic escalation and normalization of detainment. I mean, even Joe fucking Rogan sees it for what it is, and that's really saying something.

  • What's a subject you (think) you know more about than the average Lemmy user?

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  • Could be, but it was a lot of conscious work too haha

  • What's a subject you (think) you know more about than the average Lemmy user?

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  • I'm not a speech therapist but I did train myself out of a lisp in grade 6. Does that count?

  • What are some bare minimum concepts beginner Linux users should understand?

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  • Haha same thing for me. -R was a game changer

  • What are some bare minimum concepts beginner Linux users should understand?

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  • i came here to say this. I was really frustrated for a while figuring this out and understanding how it really makes things more secure, even if you're the only one using the computer. At first it drove me nuts when my server would auto create a folder for media and I'd attempt to change some files within and not have permission, like, my account should have access to everything.

    Changing access permissions without understanding how/why completely borked my first install by setting a user without sudo privileges as primary (or something, I still don't know what I did haha) but I couldn't sudo anything and was locked on that profile.

    I started by just using Nautilus but this is not good practice so I learned the basics and it finally started making sense.

  • What will you do after Android starts restricting FOSS apps?

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  • I use Feeder, no issues.

  • I just found out my fiancee wants to switch to linux, lets start a distro war, what should be her first? + other questions

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  • Oh ok, I didn't know that. I thought it was just Ubuntu with pre installed programs and a low latency kernel. I've been enjoying the learning curve, even though it's been frustrating at times I've learned so much in the last 2 months and love it haha

  • I just found out my fiancee wants to switch to linux, lets start a distro war, what should be her first? + other questions

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  • Damn, I'm 2 months into my first Linux experience and went with Ubuntu Studio since I use my PC for freelance audio/music/art and it's promoted as great for creatives. It took a lot of work to get my audio working without ALSA and more work to get smaller things working right. I'm concerned if I switch distros I'll have to do it all again and I barely remember what I did to fix things haha. Think I'm stuck with Ubuntu. Didn't realize it was so looked down on.

  • You wake up as a random 10-year-old in 2002 with your memories intact. In your hand is a USB drive with a backup of Wikipedia as of Jan 1 2025. You must keep your identity secret. What do you do?

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  • The years of buildup to you getting 300B before 2016 would alter the course of history though, making all your knowledge useless after you've amassed whatever amount changes history. You'd be hard pressed to make financial gains before you're 18, so you'd amass 300B between 2010 and 2016. At some point early on you'd draw too much attention and change history enough to have no idea what's coming.

  • You wake up as a random 10-year-old in 2002 with your memories intact. In your hand is a USB drive with a backup of Wikipedia as of Jan 1 2025. You must keep your identity secret. What do you do?

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  • Just spend 8 years planning. By the time you'd be 18 you'd still have 15 years of events before your knowledge caught up. I'd expect the trickiest part of it all would be making sure whatever you do doesn't alter the timeline. One mistake and it won't matter what you know if the course of history changes.

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    If it ask for your phone number its not private.

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  • What data breach could there possibly be? Phone numbers are already public information and that's literally the only info Signal has. Oh no! My phone number that's publicly available already has been released in a "breach"!

    It's already been mentioned numerous times but you're confusing privacy and anonymity.

    Per Cambridge Dictionary:

    Privacy: someone's right to keep their personal matters and relationships secret

    Anonymity: the situation in which someone's name is not given or known:

    Using Signal, even after giving them your phone number, fits the definition of privacy in that matters discussed through the app are secret to anyone outside of the sender and recipient. Even if Signal is told to hand over messages, they can't, there's nothing to access on their end. Private? Yes. Anonymous? No.