lemmyknow @ lemmyknow @lemmy.today

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I'm more of a Jerboa user, not really web. But thanks anyway!

I shall say 'Ni!' again

Unfortunate downside is you will miss other posts from a community, and US is always bound to show up in unrelated communities. I especially remember, albeit in Reddit, a photo of the now-president came out, and was everywhere. The damn gaming community had it posted. Like, wtf? The same one, everywhere. Not Lemmy, of course, but still. If there was a list anywhere of ones I could safely block without much side effects. Not even necessarily politics, but some may be specific to places I do not live in

Seems I have already gotten to that one. Thanks anyway!

The thing about the initialism I find weird is there's plenty of variation, and people can almost sorta pick and choose, build their own initialism. Sure, some are used more than others, but no apparent standard per se. So which ones get included in the initialism, vs. which ones are hidden behind the + or behind the Q, or perhaps neither the + or the Q gets used. Kinda like the flag. You have the classic, popular one. The colours have their meaning, but not specific to certain "letters" (groups of people). But then you have some with black and brown, for people of colour. Some add trans colours. Some have that purple with ring thing I can't remember if it's non-binary or what. Nothing against these variations, though I wonder the need, when the originals were not specific or exclusive. The original colours weren't about identity, far as I know. Now they make updates with identity-based meaning. If I am someone with less knowledge or something, and I'm gonna make use of an initialism or flag, which one would I choose? Would I just say LGBT and use the traditional six-colour flag? Would that be exclusive? Do I add the QIA+? Do I need black, brown, pink, blue on the flag? Shit, I didn't add the Pi symbol. Is that a flag variant? Sure seen a flag with Pi on it

Interesting that Q essntially fills up for every other character in the initialism, incluing the + which essenially acts as an etc. to said initialism. One can pretty much choose and pick which letters to use when crafting their usage of an initialism, and which letters to hide in the +. One could call it the LBT+ community, or the L+, or T+. Or B+. Or just call it + for maximum efficiency. Or you could just call it the Q community, as Q encompasses everything else. What some otherwise call the Queer community

Edit: I am no expert. Let the gays correct me if needed be

Eh, now that I think about it, such a project would either need to take a lot of decisions for the user, or risk becoming too complex for giving the user options. I mean, I see partitioning, and I realise that's something I hadn't thought of. I assumed just an install, but what if the user wants dual boot? What distro to pick? How much space for each "boot"? Do we choose a specific DE or take the distro's main or default? So many variables. I mean, it's one thing to BAM! Ubuntu auto-installer .exe. Now, to allow for user choices… or not to? You either give options, which could be overwhelmimg to someone who might not even understand all that, or become simple and, in the process, heavily "opinionated"

Yo, you're giving me ideas. Maybe I can make use of my old laptop, get Windows on it (if possible), and try to do something like this. Could the average user run something through the terminal? I know PowerShell and some CMD. Or I could figure out how to GUI as well. I'd need to sketch out what such an app would do. Downloading a Linux distro would be step one. Not sure if I could make BIOS changes, though, and install. I guess with my current abilities, it'd end up being an auto ISO downloader and USB flasher at best. But I'd be down to learn and try. I'd need a basic Install Linux 101 guide, to "mimic" through a script. Could be a fun project.

https://endof10.org/

I was mainly mentioning servers outside US in the context of me blocking access to/from US personally. If US blocked it all everywhere, that woudn't be possible. You'd at best have the data up to that point in time, until the block, but no further, unless the companies update their servers physically, with, like, USBs, CDs, Floppy Disks.

As for already connecting to data centers nearby, some of my top US connections, according to NextDNS, are, ironically, from Spotify, which, afaik, is European.

Few hours is a short time Yeah, but remember this also affects everyday people. I was mainly thinking of them, I guess. Akin to a nation-wide power outage. You see just how much you depend on it, and what it'd be like without it. It may already be so ingrained in one's everyday life. To realise to what extent, can be eye-opening. Most people probably wouldn't expect, and could be surprised, by stuff mentioned, such as GPS and payments, not working. Or just something that, in the background, relies on a big US company, like Amazon servers or something

pfsense Will look into that. And also look for the keywords, see what else I can find. Let's see if I go through with such experiment

Depends on how you implement it, innit? If the gob. gives you an official certicate confirming something, for instance, which you then save onto your machine and then upload to the website or service. What could the gob. do? Attach a string on the file to pull it back? Unless a file can call home somehow (assume a non-executable file, with info only). They could change how it works later on, and make it work in their favour maliciously, but they'd have to make quite the big change. Plus people might not have as big of a need later, maybe. Assuming it's a once-and-done thing.

Well, worse than it seems, then.

I'd be willing to experiment, try and block US connections to and from my computer, but I could probably deal with it, seeing as I don't use as much US stuff as the average person. Companies also probably have servers in other places, meaning perhaps they'd connect through elsewhere, and, in such a test scenario, me having control, I could allow the connections whenever I want or need.

To have everyone lose internet connection to/from US, would be real bad, it seems. Worse than I thought (though granted, I did not think much, clearly). Though if it were for a few hours, maybe let people see the consequences of their dependence, and what life would be like without these services. Guve 'em a taste.

All the more reason to not rely solely on the US and maybe adopt / help fund alternatives.

On another topic, if anyone knows how to block connections based on location, feel free to enlighten me. I'd actually enjoy trying out the aforementioned experiment, but NextDNS doesn't have such feature

What does this mean, exactly? Sounds like "Trump could end Europe's internet access", but I'm sure wise Lemmy experts could chime in to clarify this means "Trump could disconnect Europe from the US, internet-wise", which tbh don't sound that bad. Sure hoping it's the latter

Somewhat unrelated but… can anyone define "rich"? How much money before one is deemed rich? Where is the line drawn between rich and non-rich?

Website: 18+? Gob.: Yep ???

The ideia is neither party is aware of the other's info. The website wouldn't have your data, and the gob. wouldn't know what the information is for.

Website knows, e.g. is the user 18+?, which the user agrees to share, but not anything else

Gob. knows, e.g. you wanted to confirm being 18+ (better if it just didn't know at all), but knows not what use you'll make for that

One side asks a yes or no question, the other gets a question (no source), answers it, the answer makes it back to the first side with no further info.

Unless they can know exactly who you are because you proved to be 18+ or something. Granted, if it were your names, for say a social media profile, that'd be different

Hmm… sounds good, other than the amount of work getting and sending stuff everywhere. Though I guess if it were a one-time thing, that'd be fine. I'm used to no cookies and the cookies pop-up always coming back cuz the website never remembers, so my mind just went "too much work" but it could work if the website were to not prompt every time

You'd have to authenticate yourself with the gob., therefore proving your real identity. The gob. would then, for example, provide proof of you being 18+, if that's what is relevant, without knowing what your use case is, and the website, without getting any further information about you, can then confirm you are indeed 18+ (gob. confirmed). Said confirmation would need to be temporary, to ensure fresh information (akin to 2FA TOTP, which changes after some time)

I didn't say "log in to porn via gob."

I was rather proposing a way to privately and securely confirm age without either party (gob. and adult site) knowing each other's info (i.e. porn site doesn't get your info, gob. site doesn't know you're seeking adult content)

And it isn't an idea limited to pornography-related websites, but rather any website that wishes to confirm any information about the user, without directly getting the user's info

It'd be essentially a temporary certificate of sorts that proves a requirement, such as "18+"

tfw when no speak english (can't tell what those are)

Maya Ha-ha