irotsoma

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[–] irotsoma@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

There are tons of these Christian cults around all over the world. People just ignore them because they think Christianity is "one of the good ones". But they ignore the fact that it has all the same bad things they complain about from other religions and it just takes a leader to emphasize those bad things to convince people those things are "good" because everything in a "good book" from a "good god" must be right and good. It would really help if the people who keep pushing for Bible classes in schools would actually read the whole thing.

[–] irotsoma@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Good news in furthering Postgres adoption I guess. I mean most stuff was going that way anyway, but this will likely speed things up.

[–] irotsoma@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Many artists don't own their songs and the corporations that do generally like Trump.

[–] irotsoma@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

If you're using a recent version of Chrome, Google has stunted the capabilities of many ad blockers. Suggest using another browser and/or using something that catches this stuff before it gets to your browser like a properly configured pihole. Otherwise, configure your ad blockers more aggressively, especially for sites that are less likely to screen their ads.

[–] irotsoma@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago

Lower taxes is good for home owners, too. It's only those wanting to profit from housing prices in the short term who are hurt. The prices will go back up and as long as you are selling and then buying if you move, and the prices are going down across the board, you won't lose anything.

The only negative really other than for investors is for retirees who need to sell to have money to survive.

And I say this as someone who purchased a home in an overpriced area a couple of years ago. The value has slightly declined and I'd love to see it further decline so I could pay less in taxes. In 15 or 20 years when I'm ready to sell it will be plenty valuable.

[–] irotsoma@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

I think most devs even only have worked in software companies that sell software where devops isn't as critical and complex since there's not "production" environments. When you work for a company who makes software for themselves and/or hosts software from other companies themselves, devops is a much bigger deal. Even moreso if it's a heavily regulated industry like healthcare. Most other companies don't spend much on devops or even often make the developers do that work themselves.

[–] irotsoma@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Because we have such a large number of people convinced that love is "obscene" and that love and sex are for procreation only and shouldn't be talked about except to congratulate people who are making babies. But mostly because the people pushing those ideas are people have never truly loved anyone other than themselves and/or want to rape without consequence.

[–] irotsoma@lemmy.world 61 points 3 days ago (9 children)

The pant is illegal because it's cheap to grow yourself, but if you let some drug companies make money off of processing it, then it's perfectly fine to use...

[–] irotsoma@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

The overhead and performance hit aren't worth it for me in general since these browsers are set up to enforce secure connections as long as you don't override it. And I don't have to worry about government level website filtering. I do see the value in tunnels for stopping the ISPs from tracking and selling the list of sites you connect to, but I'd rather set up my own proxy for that if I felt it was worth it. It's easy enough to set up a web proxy on a small, cheap, remote VPS or pay for a trustworthy service with no logging so the ISP would just see that connection and it would be way faster. I don't see much value in using a Tor browser otherwise anymore now that HTTPS is ubiquitous and secure DNS exists, unless you want to access things not on the public web.

[–] irotsoma@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago

Or you realize it's not "intelligent" like the marketing suggests and realize it is eating tons of resources at almost all companies by being incapable of accurately doing the things it's being used for (mostly to replace employees). So you are waiting, impatiently, for the buzz to fade so that executives wasting time and money on it will allow that money to be spent on more substantial needs, like hiring people.

[–] irotsoma@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago (2 children)

LibreWolf on desktop and Mull on Android. Basically Firefox with a little more privacy.

[–] irotsoma@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

Be autistic and you probably won't get used to accents...lol. One of my traits is the inability to form habits or "get used to" things in general.

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