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[โ€“] smb@lemmy.ml 3 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

First contact was on the here-named eta-carinae system, we did a holiday tour there long ago and heared about earth from a scientist that rescued a human instead of just studying and thus could not leave him there with his memories about him. the human was talking about star trek, its similarities and real differences all the time. he already spoke fluently in standard Sjesh/sound w/o any interfaces so we listened directly to his true mind. he even had a very worn out tng tshirt in his personal memory items box. i mean he really had used his memory items before! that made us curious and the rest is history. However he is now back here, as we managed to arrange his behavioral training to hide his experiences well, he passed all the tests and got his transport back, but with his biologic cells clock reset to his 20th to compensate the decades he lost out there a little bit. it is possible he could become an ambassador for earth one day, but it looks unlikely that he would want that given the circumstances here, a task he always compares with the mytholigical boulder of Sisyphus (that really never existed physically) whenever he is asked about his opportunity.

just kidding, first contact with TNG was in school, other kids talked about the first episode. i could not watch it at home and also had other problems to fix at that time so i missed a lot of the start of it :-/

however i am trying to train myself for writing in general as i have ideas for a longer story (but not within the trek universe) and as the above text came to my mind i just wrote it and hope you don't find it too misplaced here or badly written.. however any feedback is welcome.

[โ€“] smb@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 days ago

not the best painting ever, he's partly behind the left car besides the lady, but still clearly vin d.

update: oh damn, looks like i wasn't able to post the pic too, so my answer has to be "no", i obviously can't do that ๐Ÿ˜ฅ

[โ€“] smb@lemmy.ml 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

i plan to get a similar setup (music on homeserver, synced to phone for offline use) but i dont need to sync playlists as i rarely use them, i have a streaming account with one(!) playlist with all the songs i remembered and wanted to listen to but didn't buy as CD back then and use the radio like streaming options a lot.

but for syncing phone with nextcloud i use FolderSync (Pro) and it works as it should. it has lots of possible sync targets and lots of options to sync one or both ways. i have folders with >8000 files that take some time to sync but it works fine in the background with no prob, i let it sync over mobile network too, cz i value a more reliable in-sync status more than bandwidth. however i didn't really try "immediate sync" for new/changed files yet as i don't see the need for this but its one of many options.

however i only use nextcloud sync in one or two-way syncs and once used sftp for a one-way sync, so i cannot judge all the other options, but if your playlists are organized in files, their two-way sync might be as easy as with the songs. i bought the pro version on their website so my license is not bound to a google account.

[โ€“] smb@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 week ago

they can't cure cancer cells in society either, but they do help cancer cells in society from beeing cured by generating them even more income :/

[โ€“] smb@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 weeks ago

I hope I never see you.

i hope you see him.

[โ€“] smb@lemmy.ml -4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

i am from the west and perceive the west as an ever-ongoing aggressor and war driver full of poisonous lies and false promises even against their own people. some of those war driver regimes even have monuments that publicly show-off their inner and outer brutish lawlessness to never give back to their rightful owner a once stolen land.

i perceive countries that took land by force and did't give it back to their rightful owners for decades as invadors, no matter how much they like to see themselves as the "help" against "other" invadors. in fact just wanting to be seen as the good ones for things they do worse in other places actually makes them even worse again.

i don't see russia to 'like' to invade, in fact they have left countries before, something other invaders don't do. in fact russia sometimes even sells countries for cheap amount of money to nations that still lack civilisation and need to develop themselves to become civilised (like to actually abolishing slavery or such), i guess that selling that country to a slavery-liking nation was russia's biggest crime until today.

also if russia really 'like's to invade, they'ld already have done it way earlier in ukraine, and in general way more often, maybe as often as the us does and maybe then finding the same foul excuses like the us always does, but what i perceive instead is a LOT of propaganda in the west, so that i genuinely cannot really tell lots about russia these days but only about the crimes the regime here obviously commits inside as well as outside.

getting their asses handed to them

Are you talking about hawaii? that was not "handing" to the us, that was afaik forced by terror from the US against the hawaiian nation to surrender to the biggest threat to them and since then.

[โ€“] smb@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 weeks ago

unfortunately all historical facts do not help that easily against false narrative imprinted opinions in brainwashed slaves.

[โ€“] smb@lemmy.ml 11 points 2 weeks ago

guess the're counting the money they ripped off from you without you noticing anything. counting that much can take hours !! ;-)

[โ€“] smb@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 weeks ago

sound of silence ๐Ÿคช my music player does not pop up, i have popups disabled ๐Ÿ˜

[โ€“] smb@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

ads with install buttons always are traps. and traps are always bad (except snmp traps, those are good but unreliable)

same way ads at download pages stating "proceed to download" are traps.

also ads at search result pages stating " 1 2 3 4 .. next" are traps too.

for the "sponsored" note: there is no boundary here that makes it really clear for what that 'sponsored' is meant for. without any boundary it could be for something above it, below it, on the side or maybe even something that opens when you click on "sponsored" itself (seen it this way once). it could be for an ad that just failed to load (noticed the free space above that "sponsored" text? maybe the ad loads a bit later just to shift the real contents down so you "accidently" click on the ad that loads intentionally late for this very accident to be likely to happen?) if you use adblockers - which you should do for security reasons anyway - then you'll see "sponsored" or "advertising" often even without the ad it was meant for after full load of the page. so a single "sponsored" without a clear boundary showing what would be that sponsored content, does not state anything to be an ad, it is purely meaningless and the lack of such boundary always is intentional to distract the user from what he wanted and trap him somehow.

a clear thumbs-down for 'zoho assist' from me here just for paying for (or trying out for free or such) such an advertising type.

And in most cases ads simply beeing ads are traps too. by the very concept of ads.

around 80 % of all things i actually still wanted after i bought them were recommendations by people i met in person. 15 % are things recommended by real persons i met on the internet. around 5% are things i bought without it beeing recommded by anyone (not even an ad) things i still wanted after i bought it due to an ad are nearly not existant. ok, i have stopped viewing television in 1997, have a sticker at my postbox that forbids to throw ads in (works where i live), use dns entries to remove most ads in my network, use browsers/extension that remove most crapjunkwastelitterrubbishads and skip webpages that still show too many ads or too offensive cookieterrorbanners. i use google search only sometimes for comparison of results, but near to zero for actual searching. i feel safe to say i am not that much distracted by ads. (however open source projects and authors do get money from me on a monthly basis, where i want to support them, either direct lly sent from my bank account or indirect).

for me personally an ad just saying "you might like this" drives me away from that product, if it needs or wants an ad, i don't want it, even more so the more it states how difficult and horrible my life would be without the product or how easy it'll be with it, go away ad-needing products, get recommended personally by those who actually use it, not by those who want to sell it. period. there is no better ad than true recommendation and its also free, no marketing monkey needs to get payed for bs, only an actually good product is needed... and there we go what types of products actually need ads...

once in my life i discovered a product that i first explicitly not bought for a decade because of the awful ad for it, but bought it another decade later by an absentminded accident and found it to be a good product despite its awful ad. then they increased packaging/reduced the product within to cover up a price increase in trade of more waste production, so i abandoned that product again and found something cheaper more eco friendly instead, yes, the cheaper one is really not as good, but i feel better with it and especially less betrayed by the vendor, so the eco one is the better one alltogether. and also i think its better to buy products where you don't see ads for cause this behaviour could actually fix this advertising storm in the long run, so in this way its the better choice to buy products that don't have ads for it.

again:

An ad with an install button is always a trap, even more so when the real install follows a single misclick on it. il'd say it would be quite fair to downvote/zerostars an app for how foulish-sneaky it was positioned in the search results if it is shown like an actual result with a f'ing install button. as its advertising type is always also part of the brand and the product itself. maybe make a sports out of that, klick the clickbait install buttons only to downvote the app for beeing intrusive and deinstall it again without even starting the app once, just to train advertisers to do it right instead of wrong next time. maybe. but for security reasons better don't do that (at least not with a device with sensitive data on it)

please do not blame users to fall for ads. advertising industry now had centuries to learn to trap users and literally thousands or millions of marketing guys, designers, psycologists, neurologists or whatever only to learn and establish new abusive ways to distract and trap users. but a user only has his own lifespan to counteract that and learn to avoid those manipulations, and he also has to do other important stuff in his life too.

please don't blame users for beeing humans. blame the industry where they are intentionally abusive, inhumane and/or counterproductive.

[โ€“] smb@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 weeks ago

maybe there was a mixup of individual datapoints and individual persons.

lets see if that could fit.

as far as i read things in this thread, the whole security is based on exactly these datapoints: Full Name, Date of Birth and SSN (three datapoints) plus username and password for 3 sites (six datapoints) makes 3+6= 9 datapoints per person.

2.9 billion (us) should be 2.900.000.000 (correct me if i'm wrong, but where i live one "billion" is actually "1.000.000.000.000" thus a "bit" more)

divided by 9 those 2.9billion would be ~ 320 million.

on wikipedia they say the us had 331 million people in 2020...

that would fit like an ass on a bucket! lol just to mention that.

have a nice day!

 

looks like:

  • They claimed to be a trustworthy public CA (that can handle security incidents)
  • They made commitments to be included as trustworthy in common Browsers and OS'es
  • They now willfully break those commitments to rely on 2B2F only...
  • They do not even answer valid questions for month in a process that they should have already completed within 5 days as was defined in the commitments they agreed upon.

Maybe Honest Achmed's Used Cars and Certificates should show up again once more !?

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