As if hiding your SSID does anything beyond making you stick out as having something to hide, or that wardrivers would respect the suffix to your SSID
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deranger@sh.itjust.worksto
Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•Is it true that letting your phone charge to 100% is bad?
10·18 days agoThis is what I do. I allow it to go to 100% for traveling. I don’t need 100% charge when I’m around the house or at work with access to a charger.
deranger@sh.itjust.worksto
Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What are some common things people buy that you would never buy?
18·21 days agoEasily one of my favorite appliances, up there with dishwasher and washing machine. My floors are always insanely clean because that thing drives around every day.
deranger@sh.itjust.worksto
Privacy@lemmy.ml•Republican plan would make deanonymization of census data trivial
1·27 days agoI’m not saying that they’re changing the census for the purposes of propaganda, but if the data happens to suit the narrative they’re pushing, they’re not just going to ignore the data they’ve already collected from their poorly run census.
The first thing you said is “This makes census data useless”
I don’t think that it does, even if it’s garbage data. If it fits their narrative, they will use it to support their propaganda. It’s already paid for, thus it’s basically free.
“See, we’ve got the data” means nothing to propagandists.
Absolutely not. The best propaganda is true (or at least, appears to be true and supported by data). If there’s data to support their position, it will absolutely be used to strengthen their position. Ergo, if the census data says America is now skewing towards white, hetero, etc, because of their stupid changes, it will absolutely be used to further their agenda. They’re not going to waste it.
The data being incorrect doesn’t make it useless.
deranger@sh.itjust.worksto
Privacy@lemmy.ml•Republican plan would make deanonymization of census data trivial
21·27 days agoCorrect, it doesn’t need it, but that doesn’t mean they won’t use it. They will use any data of spurious quality if it supports their agenda. Ergo, it’s not useless - it has a use for a rather evil purpose.
You keep inserting the word “need” when I never said that. It’s optional, but it enhances the effectiveness if they can point to a number and say “see, we’ve got data.”
deranger@sh.itjust.worksto
Privacy@lemmy.ml•Republican plan would make deanonymization of census data trivial
22·28 days agoNo, but the falsified data isn’t useless just because it isn’t aligning with reality. It’ll absolutely be suitable for propaganda purposes.
deranger@sh.itjust.worksto
Privacy@lemmy.ml•Republican plan would make deanonymization of census data trivial
122·28 days agoThat’s hardly useless. If everyone is blonde haired and blue eyed hetero etc. they have even more justification to cut programs that benefit anyone outside this demographic.
deranger@sh.itjust.worksto
Privacy@lemmy.ml•Zenni’s Anti-Facial Recognition Glasses are Eyewear for Our Paranoid Age
2·1 month agoProve what? I’m merely relaying the info from the article you didn’t read.
deranger@sh.itjust.worksto
Privacy@lemmy.ml•Zenni’s Anti-Facial Recognition Glasses are Eyewear for Our Paranoid Age
5·1 month agoI’m just pointing out that it’s not IR blocking, it’s IR reflecting.
deranger@sh.itjust.worksto
Privacy@lemmy.ml•Zenni’s Anti-Facial Recognition Glasses are Eyewear for Our Paranoid Age
8·1 month agoThe idea is it reflects IR and blows out the exposure.
deranger@sh.itjust.worksto
Privacy@lemmy.ml•Zenni’s Anti-Facial Recognition Glasses are Eyewear for Our Paranoid Age
41·1 month agoYeah, you might as well turn off your antivirus and firewall seeing as those can be bypassed by a skilled actor anyways.
deranger@sh.itjust.worksto
Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•how did you make the switch from reddit to lemmy.. i'm trying to myself but struggling to ngl
10·2 months agoWow, has it really been that long?
deranger@sh.itjust.worksto
Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•Crossed hammer patch: Pink Floyd fan, or fash signaling?
14·2 months agoAfter Pink Floyd used it, the Hammerskins adopted the symbol. They’re a pretty big white power skinhead group. They even hold little neo Nazi music festivals.
Remember that shooting of the Sikh temple in Wisconsin? That guy was associated with the Hammerskins.
deranger@sh.itjust.worksto
Privacy@lemmy.ml•Ted Cruz blocks bill that would extend privacy protections to all Americans | TechCrunch
954·2 months agoCruz was the sole objecting senator, who claimed without evidence that Wyden’s bill could disrupt law enforcement, “such as knowing where sexual predators are living.”
1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
deranger@sh.itjust.worksto
PC Gaming@lemmy.ca•ASRock's new motherboard comes bristling with 25 USB ports for connectivity aficionados — AMD X870 LiveMixer WiFi hits the market at $229English
33·3 months agoThat’s because two of the C ports are 40Gbps USB4. I bet there’s a PCI-E lane limitation they’re hitting.
deranger@sh.itjust.worksto
Memes@lemmy.ml•Don't Even Get Me Started On The Usefulness Of Learning How To Find The Area Of A Trapezoid
25·4 months agoAll of these people who don’t apply the things they learn in school just don’t really think that much in my opinion.
When I was in the military in a leadership class, we had to use a protractor to calculate angles and distances on the map given a bunch of coordinates. I realized these were all right triangles, said fuck the protractor, and used trigonometry to get exact answers. I earned distinguished honor graduate, ie top of the class, despite my lab nerd POG ass being mixed in with a ton of infantry and ranger battalion guys.
I use dimensional analysis on a near daily basis because it’s just so damn handy. You can convert anything to nearly anything else as long as you have some numbers with the appropriate units in between.
deranger@sh.itjust.worksto
Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•Is it normal feeling tired 2 days in a row, possibly 3, after catching a cold?
3·4 months agoThat’s not how your immune system works. Your immune reserves are not “spent” nor do they need to replace ones “lost”. It’s not like a military battle. Most pathogens are either destroyed or they avoid destruction through some mechanism - they’re not often fighting back against the WBCs.
Your immune system produces chemicals that make you feel like shit / tired, because it’s evolutionarily advantageous to feel like shit. This keeps you resting and away from others. This is also how medicines like NSAIDS or steroids can make you feel better, by inhibiting the processes instigated by WBCs. It’s not the disease that makes you feel bad, it’s your immune system (unless you’re deathly ill, we’re talking common cold/flu/COVID type stuff here).
It would be impossible for me to go in depth in immunology but your explanation is not at all in line with the evidence we have currently.
deranger@sh.itjust.worksto
Privacy@lemmy.ml•A power utility is reporting suspected pot growers to cops. EFF says that’s illegal.
81·4 months agoIt’s definitely the patterns. What I’m saying is the patterns are not any different for cannabis versus any other photoperiod plant. Cannabis isn’t the only thing you veg under 18/6 and flower under 12/12 light cycles. It’s not illegal to grow plants indoors and if I spend 5kW doing it every day that’s nobody’s business but my own. I’ll use my joules however I feel.
That said, it seems like the way to defeat this type of analysis would be to invest in batteries so you can always have a constant 24h drain rather than 5kW turning on every day at the same time for 18 or 12 hours.
Yeah, I did. Did ya consider there’s more than just Apple who are collecting this data?
PS: each company has a different suffix, so you’re going to need to add a few more suffixes for them to even consider voluntarily not collecting that data.