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[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (6 children)

Yeah, I'm not sure how to curb the trend of money destroying companies and countries.

It's hard to incentivize not being greedy.

There's plenty of billboards/ads/magazines/etc idealizing rich athletes, celebrities, CEOs, etc. There's no MTV cribs for modest/honest/hard working single parents, community volunteers, small business owners who kept their own pay lower to afford employee's medical benefits, etc.

There's no awards show for most humble (ha), most improved, most selfless, most mentor, etc.

[–] [email protected] 68 points 8 months ago (20 children)

So, with all these negative opinions of reddit and spez, I'm both curious what the business world generally thinks of him, and their plan for the business.

Ultimately, the interesting thing will be if investors will give any money when they IPO.

I personally wouldn't, but because I don't like the leaders. Some people don't care, they just want returns where ever they come.

I'm a bit of a hater for this company, and hope their IPO is a flop. We'll see.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago

Executives used to be stewards of the company. They took care of brand, and people.

Then we switched to a bottom line focus. Now, profit, stock prices are the only thing that matters.

Shortcuts, layoffs, benefit cuts, etc are the only way to offset not making continuous market growth, and still rack ridiculous profits.

Also, great deal of Americans started not giving a shit about where the product comes from or who makes it. We want the cheapest thing, fast. Just has been our personal priorities.

There's not much incentive for a company to consider it's corporate image, contributions to community and public, etc.

I'd say that's when.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

I'm going to be lame here, but I used to just install it as a package on my media computer. It was old school, but super stable and no complaints.

I'm not familiar with that VPN solution, sorry.

I also just created static DNS entry for the media server. Used app on phone. Didn't have to fuss with it. I like Emby now, but used Plex for a while.

For the media server OS, I use Rocky Linux. But it requires you can do Linux, instead of a simple install with gui.

If that's an Intel Mac, you could look at TrueNAS, but that's got caveats you need to learn.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

If you roll over to the self host community, hosting media servers is about all they talk about :)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Yeah, I agree with not liking people having that info, but ISPs do, unless you use VPN, and then the VPN does.

We just usually don't hear of that getting leaked from VPN providers since their reputation is on the line.

Data breach would also be a bummer. If a criminal group takes the time to breach a government database, I think it would be wasted effort to try black mailing people over porn access. Unless you're a priest. Then uh oh.

The way you get positive ID that can't be skirted is with government issues ID card with PKI. All US federal employees have ID cards issued by their department. It has certs that let you sign into computers, sign documents, etc. It's 2FA, card and a PIN.

Every driver in the US is supposed to have a driver's license. They just need to add PKI to them. Then you sign into a website with your DL and PIN. You'd never need a million accounts anymore. Caveats apply.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (3 children)

I enjoy these threads. I have noticed people really hate two themes here: (1) internet censorship, and (2) people screwing with their porn :)

(I'm not a pornhub user, nor advocating for the internet censorship nonsense, just a devils advocate question for fun)

Pretend for a second it was reasonably feasible to enforce this, so I'm asking you to forget how the internet/VPNs/tons of options work :)

  • If a site like pornhub 'PROMISED' to not log any user data under threat of death, but all they did was run a query against some government database that verifies age >= 18, would you do it?

  • Also, the government database 'PROMISES' to not log the source of the age only verification queries, would you do it?

So, if you say no, is it because you believe there's no way each of those organizations would keep their word or something else?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I'm betting you're right. Hopefully they can crack that last inch holding us back from some sweet ass fusion power, or some kind of cancer+everything else miracle cure...

The pictures look cool anyway.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

I feel among friends...

[–] [email protected] 37 points 9 months ago (4 children)

Their idea is that is hides all the user info from advertising companies. Downside is your browser is an ad slot machine.

Which is best?

Tracked or ad machine?

I'm more surprised people aren't talking about the fact that since it's running on the client side, someone would just figure out a way to hack and block all the ads even easier.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

Security Now mentioned this too:

https://infosec.pub/post/8359932

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)
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