Thanks!

I’m not sure if this qualifies, but I have a friend who way back when, like decades ago, probably before the extensive surveillance we have now, would do something rather ingenious and devious to get major discounts on whatever expensive things he wanted at stores: he would print out a sheet of barcode stickers for a product that was similar but much cheaper than the one he wanted and plaster it on a bunch of the items like the one he wanted. Take it to the cashier and get a super discount.

For example, if he wanted some fancy model of an electronics gadget, he would print barcodes of a much cheaper but similar model from the same manufacturer. According to him, he had even done this for fancy cuts of meat. The reason for applying it to a bunch of them and not just the single one he planned to buy was for plausible deniability. If someone questioned him, he could say, I don’t know, I just picked one off the shelf - they could go check and see that there were many labeled as the cheaper item.

What is 4011? Like potatoes or something?

I see, you must not have heard the Kars 4 Kids commercials before. 10x more annoying than the little Living Spaces jingle. :)

Thanks, curious about this too.

Hmmm, it looks like you forgot the /s at the end of your post?

Yeah, it looks like they misread what the “17” and “30” in the OP title were referring to.

The government has become like the early internet, too dependent on general good will and honorable behavior.

Yes, I’ve seen this called the “norms fairy” before, since a lot of people seem to be believe that “norms” can actually stop people in power from doing bad things.

Thanks for your answer.

Holy moly, all that’s left to do is to add a picture of Hegseth and of the exploded boat to illustrate this paragraph. SMH.

I would be interested to know what definition of fascism you are using that includes the USSR and North Korea. Fascism is not the same thing as authoritarianism, if that’s the definition you’re going by.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Definitions_of_fascism

A significant number of scholars agree that a “fascist regime” is foremost an authoritarian form of government; however, the general academic consensus also holds that not all authoritarian regimes are fascist, and more distinguishing traits are required for a regime to be characterized as such.[2][3]

Glad to hear! You’re welcome!

I also use an email alias service and have dealt with this a handful of times. Here’s how I’ve been able to address most of them, in order of what I tried which worked, meaning that items lower on the list were more rarely required but also more likely to work than items higher on the list:

1. Instead of using the free-tier alias domain names (like freealiasservice.com), I used the paid-tier ones (like paidaliasservice.com).
2. Instead of the common domain names shared by everyone (like aliasservice.com), I used a custom subdomain, (like cricket.aliasservice.com).
3. Instead of either of the above, I used a custom domain name.

So the above is the answer to your first question. The answer to your second is that in my experience the majority of sites that block certain email domains are using a deny-list instead of an allow-list. The answer to your third is that custom domains should work for the vast majority of sites. I think it would be silly for sites to use allow-lists for this, but I’ve heard of some doing it.

One other thing to keep in mind about my list is that it’s also more or less in order of most private/anonymous to least private/anonymous. Item 1 hides you in the crowd, while 2 and 3 can be more easy to associate with you if you have enough of them for someone interested in finding this out to do some matching to determine if you use services a, b, and c, for example.

I hope this helps.

I said it the other day that Mamdani was gonna finesse trump into a reverse mortgage and buying two of the same mixtape.

You did, I remember that!

I didn’t remember that or hadn’t heard of it, but someone in the comments of OP link provided this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashley_Todd_mugging_hoax

It sounds like they were saying the opposite, that they would quit their (illegal) income if they had a job.

Haha, no problem!

For the cameras themselves, if you would be interested in DIY solutions and have some old spare Raspberry Pis around, you can turn them into streaming IP cameras and have some control over what camera specs and lenses you use. I can’t tell you how they compare to purpose-built cameras though.

Huh? There’s a post about exactly that pinned at the tops of !linux@lemmy.ml for quite a while. Maybe I’m misunderstanding what you’re saying.

I’m anxious for those features too. I still have to get started in VR, but I’ve been following the scene relatively closely for the last few years after trying it out.

Thanks for the link, that’s too bad to hear. I hear you that you don’t need this one if you already have other headsets. I’m in the opposite position. I have yet to get my first. I had been considering the Meta Quest 3, but Meta. The Valve Frame will very likely be my first. For someone like me, it’s nearly perfect.