Arthur Besse
cultural reviewer and dabbler in stylistic premonitions
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2·2 days agothis’ll be second one based on Miami
GTA VI will actually be the third; before the 2002 game Vice City, “Vice City” was also a location in the original 1997 game.
8·2 days ago
the margin between leave and remain being a bit higher among voters who have since died than it was during the referendum a decade ago isn’t really surprising at all, it just reflects the fact that leave voters skewed older.
also “excluding don’t know” for both sides of the graph makes no sense; there should be a “didn’t vote” category on the left and a “not sure” category on the right.
6·2 days agothe
pirate-jamminemoji indicates OP is referring to piracy (of the copyright infringement variety)
42·4 days agoWhat? Is there some explanation missing here?
explanation (click to expand)
this post links to the wikipedia article “stream capture” (which the article says is also called stream piracy).
the article is about fluvial geomorphology.
the title i chose for it (“Stream capture, also known as stream piracy, is not a good alternative to bittorrent”) is a joke, premised on the fact that the terms “stream capture” and “stream piracy” can also refer to ripping (aka capture, a technique which can be used for piracy) of streaming media.
BitTorrent is a popular protocol often used for pirating media. In truth, capturing (video) streams is an alternative to using BitTorrent for piracy, but the quality of media one can find on BitTorrent is often much higher than what one can find on streaming sites. So, many discerning pirates would agree with the statement in the post title. However (in my opinion, at least) the incongruous subject of the linked article makes this funny.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theories_of_humor#Incongruity_theory for more information.
10·4 days agogetting into the territory of Sony’s famous patent “System for converting television commercials into interactive networked video games”
11·5 days agobtw OP’s image is a screenshot of (a small excerpt of) this tweet https://xcancel.com/mcafeenew/status/2068794859251441912 and also, fyi:
11·5 days agoThis is offtopic here, but here is an answer 🙄 (click to expand)
why do you stand against Telegram as a secure and optimal solution for the majority
Because it isn’t secure. It is marketed as being secure, and it is not. It is snake oil.
Just to clarify, are you aware Telegram is blocked in Russia by the government
yes, i am aware that they are (again) currently blocked. i’m curious your theory for why they were unblocked after the previous blocks? (note: please don’t actually reply to this question here; see end of this comment first)
mostly because the former does not want to share data with the government standing for the privacy, if I am not mistaken?
yes, you are mistaken.
Russia has strengthened and later weakened their restrictions on Telegram various times over the years for reasons which are probably unknowable without insider information. What is clear is that Telegram is absolutely sharing data (which they’ve chosen to design their service such that they can have access to) with various governments at various times; assuming that they never would share any with Russia is nonsensical. The extent to which they willingly share which data with which governments, versus which governments access data without their cooperation (by compromising their servers or coercing their engineers, which gives access to message contents due to their lack of e2ee) is not particularly interesting.
Beyond that, I recommend that you post on !nostupidquestions@lemmy.world or somewhere similar if you need people to explain why telegram is offtopic in communities about privacy technology. (This discussion is very offtopic in this thread so I won’t reply further here. If you really feel the need to argue about the above I recommend you do it in a new thread somewhere it isn’t offtopic; if you tag me maybe i’ll reply there.)
And I never got the actual reason
imo the reason is pretty clear in the modlog you’re linking to. i agree that ban duration was disproportionate though so i just lifted it. please do not advocate for the use of telegram in !privacy@lemmy.ml though, lmao
This led to a few larger instances blocking it (.world I think is the kargst to have done so) blocking it, so their users cannot access *.ml communities.
Huh? Lemmy.world has not blocked lemmy.ml, nor have (correct me if i’m wrong?) any other large instances.
Here is this very comment from me (on lemmy.ml) viewable on lemmy.world, btw.
The existing chess community on lemmy.ml/c/chess seems to be dead
it looks like !chess@lemmy.ml is averaging a few posts per month this year and has 2.4k subscribers; not very active but i wouldn’t call it dead.
moderators are not reachable
the mods do seem inactive; i and other lemmy.ml admins remove spam if/when it gets reported (which has happened four times this year). if someone (with some posting history) wants to be added as a mod of it just let me know and i’ll add you.
and is hosted on .ml which is defederated by many instances
huh? which instances have defederated lemmy.ml?
31·5 days agoThe retreat is scheduled for August 12–16 at a venue near Dublin, Ireland.
The original version of the source article identified the location as the Powerscourt Hotel; in an act of journalistic cowardice (to be expected from a Condé Nast Publication) Wired later edited their article to remove that detail “to address a security concern raised by a Dialog representative”.
Esquire is unsurprisingly sticking with Wired’s “near Dublin” description of the location, but fortunately it looks like some Irish media outlets (eg this and this) are reporting where it actually is so hopefully there will be some local opposition present.
see also previous thread in this community on this topic from a month ago
Yeah, but at least it has the OG Zealand.
in the nether region
16·7 days agoima keep it real with u chief
last july trump did actually say coca-cola would be switching to real sugar; after initially declining to confirm anything coca-cola said they would make coke with real sugar available alongside HFCS coke… which apparently happened in october in “select U.S. markets”: