Fungah @ Fungah @lemmy.world

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This is all good advice, but even if you don't follow it at least part of the issue isn't that you're alone, but what you're doing while you're alone..

Like. Years ago I decided to build a nine foot tall statue in the living room of my one bedroom apartment. It took me months, and it's actually terrifying,, but it also interests people. Like. No one responds to "I have an eight and a half foot tall statue in my living room" with "okay".

Having hobbies isn't just a way to meet people, it's a way to learn new skills, grow as a person, and have something you can look back on and say "I did that".

If you spent all your time alone building or making things you'd probably feel a lot better about the time you spent alone, and doubtlessly people would pick up on that

The thing in this post about curiosity isn't just a lemmy/online thing.

The vast majority of people are mainly interested in themselves. Like - if you have trouble on dates, making friends, getting along at work, anything to do with people in general - approaching them with a sense of sincere curiosity will completely change things overnight.

Get people to talk about themselves, be supportive in your discussions with them, and shut the fuck up wherever possible and suddenly you're interesting, a good person, kind, whatever - traits you've done exactly fuck all to demonstrate, but that people will swear are true because you seem interested in them.

It's fucking bonkers but it's true. Curiosity can change your world.

I love porn. Like. I've watched porn for 30+ years.

At no point have I ever thought: "let's talk to people online about porn" or "let's share porn I enjoy with other people" or "wow, it would be great if I could find porn of younger people".

Everything this article talks about is fucking unfathomable to me.

If you are looking at CSAM it's probably because YOU'RE A FUCKING PEDO. I'm sure there are varying degrees of that but I just don't. Fucking. Get it.

It isn't porns fault you're a twisted fuck..And not once, ever, in 30 odd years of watching porn (ive definitely seen some out there shit but never anything illegal) have I randomly stumbled across CSAM.

This isn't a fucking conspiracy. Porn isn't a fucking gateway drug to CSAM. No one is going on pornhub and accidentally viewing images of eight year olds.

People access this shit because they fucking want to.

So. I have had some recent experiences that have been....... Very educational about a lot of the less thought aspects of technology that most people take for granted. H Most faraday bags you can buy are fucking garbage. None of them hurt in the grand scheme of things but they more involved this but I can't do calculus so feel free to do the math). At around the 5 and 6 ghz range (guess what frequency wifi 6 and 5g operate at?) the gap size in a faraday cage needs to be something like 1-2mm.

Of course you're not talking about a farDy cage, but a shielded bag. So buy one, close it with the Velcro clasp, and ask yourself: how snug is sealed Velcro? How much can I roll this up? And all the other myrad questions that lead to the same fucking conclusion: this is not the radio blocking solution you thought it was.

This isn't to say you can't buy a faraday bag that works (even if it does you may need more than one) it's that as the frequency it gets increasingly difficult to block the signals coming in and out.

And I don't understand the math, at all, but I'm not sure how the power of a signal would effect a faraday bag. Like.im assuming it would but.

Anyway..my point is: if you're bringing a faraday make very, very, very,VERY fucking sure it actually works.

How do you do that? I'm not 100% be t I'm pretty sure the equipment needed is complicated and expwnaive.

Someone more knowledgeable can expand on any of this, . Since everything I've learned on the subject has been severely limited by the fact that the Internet is a fucking wasteland.

I haven't read any of this research because, like, the only feelings I have about pedophiles are outright contempt and a small amount of pity for the whole fucking destructive evilness of it all, but I've been told having access to drawings and images and whatnot makes people more likely to act on their impulses.

And like. I don't think images of CSAM in any form, no matter how far removed they are from real people, actually contribute anything worthwhile st all yo the world, so like. I dunno.

Really couldn't give two squirts of piss of about anything that makes a pedophiles life harder. Human garbage.

Didn't use the spp.

It would definitely make sense that they'd ban accounts based n IMEI or something but that isn't what happened with Mr.

Happy to share google drive link to you priv1ately if you'd like.

Great point - PBS Spacetime is actually great.

I don't watch YouTube very much at all so you may be right about kurzgezagt.

I opened my smart TV and removed the Bluetooth/WiFi PCI card that was inside it.

Good fucking luck connecting to something you privacy invading piece of shit.

We already do.

Its stupid easy, in fact.

Like. Total time of actual configuration for replacing all the faces and voices in the Empire Strikes back with my face and my voice was like 3 hours.

I think that some people are just assholes. And other people are too sensitive.

Sometimes its a bit of both. Sometimes its one or the other.

I enjoy mercilessly shit talking people who mercilessly shit talk me back. But I have the social awareness to recognize when this isn't appropriate, and to treat people the way they want to be treated, not how I want to be treated.

Not to detract from the discussion but I just want to highlight that once upon a time virtually every reddit post was like this.

An article or video claiming something, someone in the comments providing a counterpoint, and then further rational counterpoints to those being made.

People rationally discussing two sides of an issue that arguably has two sides. Go figure.

Don't use it. Never have.

The issue that where you could once go and see people that did it just because they wanted to its now mixed in with / overpowered by by people that want to make money.

No one is arguing anyone is entitled to anyone else's naked body. But I don't think there is anything wrong with having a preference for wanting to see people who are naked because they want to be, and not because they want to earn money.

Not to mention all the evil / sexual exploitation that comes up once money is in the equation.

YouTube is and has always been shit.

Except for let's game it out and kurzgesagt. In all the years of YouTube they're literally the only fucking things I've ever found worth watching at all.

Hood news. The afterlife is the same thing as the before life. Remember that? The 4 biillion odd years or so before you existed? Exactly.

I think they're either using google data to link email accounts to phone numbers or using an NLP model to identify users by how they write in the vans.

I hot banned on accounts tied to email addresses I haven't used in years, logged in from a vpn. Like. 5 email addresses. Many accounts on the email addresses hadn't been used in years. The only things linking them were a phone number I used for 2fa on google.

I pirate everything. Because fuck you that's why.

You're not from America are you?

I ask this because you seem to actually grasp what's happening.

Stop enabling this shit.

They can intentionally take space or they can talk it out but this shit is infantile and no one with any self respect should tolerate it.