[-] kbal@fedia.io 13 points 9 hours ago

What was the problem again?

[-] kbal@fedia.io 7 points 10 hours ago

Except it wasn't just a notification that there's been a complaint. It was "no more unwanted messages, please."

Aside from that it could be somewhat reasonable if there really is sufficient evidence to suggest that a criminal complaint is warranted. That seems unlikely, but I suppose we should keep an open mind. In the absence of someone digging up some really damning stuff from social media it looks a whole lot more like a lawyerly — and presumably therefore less illegal — attempt at something like "swatting", albeit a less violent version. The police should know better than to let themselves be used like that, but a lifetime of experience leads me to suspect that maybe they do not.

[-] kbal@fedia.io 13 points 11 hours ago

Thing is, they didn't seem to have brought anything to inform her of. If they want to come out of it looking like anything but witless fascist goons trying to intimidate someone, they're going to need to be a lot more specific than "unwanted messages" to unspecified persons.

She seems to think it was someone she replied to on twitter. I reply to random people on here all the time, just like I'm doing now. If it's unwanted, by all means send the netiquette cops to my house I guess, we'll see if I'm able to suppress my derisive laughter long enough to get a video half as good as this one out of it.

[-] kbal@fedia.io 13 points 15 hours ago

That's generous of you. If I'd mistakenly bought one that wouldn't work without ever having a network connection, I'd be returning it and demanding my money back. Hasn't happened yet, though.

[-] kbal@fedia.io 38 points 20 hours ago

They are presumably referring to SimpleX. Although I don't actually see anyone blaming it for the existence of Nazis.

[-] kbal@fedia.io 9 points 2 days ago

That seems like too fast for night driving. At that speed you'd want perfect conditions including maximum visibility.

[-] kbal@fedia.io 13 points 3 days ago

You'd be correct to point out that not all of them waste energy like Ethereum did until later in 2022 and Bitcoin still does, but wrong to pick Monero as an example of one that doesn't.

[-] kbal@fedia.io 163 points 3 days ago

The discourse about Mozilla is ridiculous, here and most everywhere. You've got people taking every perceived opportunity to attack them for things they do, things they didn't do, and things it's imagined they might've done. And then another crowd of equally determined people doggedly defending them for every idiotic blunder they make, such as this one.

Meanwhile Mozilla itself has nothing substantial to say. This is not the first time a prominent extension has mysteriously gone missing from amo with Mozilla telling us nothing about its role in the incident. @mozilla@mozilla.social needs to be in the discussion giving us a real explanation of what happened, why they got it wrong, and what they're doing to improve things.

[-] kbal@fedia.io 2 points 4 days ago

The agency said that Evil Corp's ability to translate their criminal proceeds into real spending money was as important to their success as their technical exploits.

May their example serve to remind us all that the surveillance state must forever continue to expand until we finally attain the ideal financial system where criminals are no longer able to transform money into money.

[-] kbal@fedia.io 1 points 4 days ago

He warned everyone that if he kept on sabotaging the team and trying to sow dissent that it might be bad for the team, but they just wouldn't do everything his way.

[-] kbal@fedia.io 4 points 5 days ago

AI seems like a possibility. I find it slightly easier to believe that someone in management was stupid enough to replace human reviewers with bots than that someone in a position to decide what gets accepted had never heard of UBO and didn't realize that it's an important one.

Either way they really ought to explain themselves.

[-] kbal@fedia.io 11 points 5 days ago

It's not "handy." It's badly-written arrant clickbaity tendentious anti-Firefox garbage. Mozilla does plenty of stupid things. I do not understand this desire some people have to invent more. It appears that many of them have simply decided based on Mozilla's now-discontinued efforts to improve social media that Mozilla is too "woke" and therefore the enemy, or something like that.

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submitted 2 weeks ago by kbal@fedia.io to c/canadapolitics@lemmy.ca

As opposed to Bill C-63, which pushes [age verification bullshit] far into the future and behind closed doors through an opaque regulatory process, our new Conservative legislation will directly legislate [age verification bullshit] that online operators must adhere to.

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submitted 2 weeks ago by kbal@fedia.io to c/linux_gaming@lemmy.ml

If you routinely start #steam in offline mode and it suddenly stopped working in the past few days (first time I ever saw such a thing), you may be able to fix it by temporarily taking it out of offline mode as described on github.

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submitted 4 months ago by kbal@fedia.io to c/technology@beehaw.org

Under the slogan ‘Think of the children’, the European Commission tried to introduce total surveillance of all EU citizens. When the scandal was revealed, it turned out that American tech companies and security services had been involved in the bill, generally known as ‘Chat Control’ – and that the whole thing had been directed by completely different interests. Now comes the next attempt.

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submitted 4 months ago by kbal@fedia.io to c/canadapolitics@lemmy.ca

This legislative triad would grant the government sweeping new powers to censor and censure, undermining privacy rights.

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submitted 7 months ago by kbal@fedia.io to c/reddit@lemmy.world

you’re invited to a special program that lets redditors purchase stock

I loaded a page on reddit due to a search result and found out that I'm among the chosen few. Message sent yesterday. They must've gotten fewer takers than expected on the first round of invites if they're now offering shares to people who haven't posted, commented, voted, or done anything else on the site for the past 8 months.

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submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by kbal@fedia.io to c/canada@lemmy.ca

The bill, which is the brainchild of Senator Julie Miville-Duchêne, was supported by the Conservatives, Bloc and NDP with a smattering of votes from backbench Liberal MPs (the cabinet voted against, signalling it is not supported by the government). The bill raises significant concerns with the prospect of government-backed censorship, mandated age verification to use search engines or social media, and a framework for court-ordered website blocking

This bill passed second reading in the House of Commons. It is a serious threat. The age verification lobby is making its push, trying to bring this arrant nonsense to Canada before we and the rest of the world realise how little good and how much harm it can do.

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submitted 9 months ago by kbal@fedia.io to c/canada@lemmy.ca

I agree with Pierre Poilievre: The next election should be about the carbon tax.

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