SerotoninSwells

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[–] SerotoninSwells@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Phone books were useful at one point, though less so for individuals.

Not saying you're wrong but it reminded me of a moment when I was a kid. I was all of five years old when I got lost in rural Arizona. I was visiting my grandparents and my cousin and I went out looking for turtles after a monsoon the night before. I got separated from my older cousin and then lost. I wandered around for hours until I found the main road that led through a nearby small town. I managed to hitchhike to the local trading post where the clerk managed to find my grandparents phone number to let them know they had found me.

They were sometimes useful. Also, they were great for prank calls.

[–] SerotoninSwells@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

I hear the headless body of Spiro Agnew is on the shortlist.

[–] SerotoninSwells@lemmy.world 55 points 1 month ago

“Look, Laura Loomer is not affiliated with the Trump campaign. She said something about curry in the White House that I first read about this morning actually, because I knew that you would ask me about it...” [emphasis my own]

These guys are terrible liars. Between him and Trump, they sound like they have no idea what is going on.

[–] SerotoninSwells@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

This is correct. I work in bot detections. There are baseline checks for various browser automation used as bot frameworks like Puppeteer or Playwright. Then there is basic analysis of server side and client side fingerprints; meaning, do the fingerprints you claim make sense. There are other heuristics too and I imagine Cloudflare is monitoring movements that point to automation. All of this happens after you click. I personally prefer this over Google's captcha which frequently doesn't recognize me as a human but is easily bypassed by bots.

[–] SerotoninSwells@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Thank you for the response. This isn't my field of study but my Astronomy professor back in college pointed to Venus as a possible outcome for Earth if we continued with our current emissions. I know atmospheric CO2 levels in the past were much higher on Earth but I'm truthfully not sure I understand what mechanisms Earth has that Venus lacked. I'm not trying to argue the point; really, I just want to learn.

Lastly, I love your username. It sounds delightful.

[–] SerotoninSwells@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago (5 children)

Yes, absolutely, you are right. The comments in this thread and elsewhere are that Earth will be fine. Our current trajectory doesn't bode well for that assertion.

[–] SerotoninSwells@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (16 children)

Venus would also like a word.

Edit: For anyone curious, I'm referring to Venus as a potential model for runaway greenhouse effect.

[–] SerotoninSwells@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

I hear you and admit that I did misunderstand your point. Thanks for chiming in and clarifying. For the record, I didn't downvote you and I'm sorry you're being misunderstood overall.

[–] SerotoninSwells@lemmy.world 43 points 5 months ago (2 children)

You can't blame kids for trying to get away from camps if they're abusive.

For anyone not aware of what goes on in some of these camps, give this a read: https://elan.school/

Trigger warning.

[–] SerotoninSwells@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Well then, good news. It's a suppository!

[–] SerotoninSwells@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

Late reply here too. I'm sorry about that.

You can read my comment that I made here in regards to what I think could be causing you problems.

I do take this seriously and will try to find some time to put together a configuration like this for testing, so thanks for sharing.

[–] SerotoninSwells@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

Apologies for the late response!

I'll echo similar thoughts to what I said in another comment. Librewolf, Mullvad, and other privacy based browsers are going to be a double-edged sword. You can take me with a grain of salt but these types of browsers actually do make you stand out in terms of fingerprinting. They have their own unique signatures, and the more you tweak the more you stand out too. Does it protect your privacy? It's really hard to tell, there's no data to suggest one way or another that I'm aware of. But, these changes are going to make you more likely to be challenged by captcha and blocked by sites in general.

I wish we didn't have to try and solve this type of problem. Privacy should be a right.

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