technology Technology FTC bans antivirus giant Avast from selling its users' browsing data to advertisers
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    7 months ago 90%

    Yeah people act like it’s so easy to get a virus but if you’re even remotely competent it’s pretty easy to avoid

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  • greentext Greentext Anon wants parenting advice
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    pensivepangolin
    7 months ago 100%

    Growing up, a neighborhood kid did this. All the other kids were scared of him and we all used to hide when he came outside to play. No one knows what ever happened to him…he dropped off the face of the earth after leaving home during high school, and his family moved out of the country a year later. Sometimes I wonder what he ever wound up doing….

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  • insanepeoplefacebook InsanePeopleFacebook Sovereign citizen got a ticket.
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    pensivepangolin
    7 months ago 100%

    I hate these people. It’s one thing to be dumb and obstructionist. It’s another to think that being dumb and obstructionist by spewing pure nonsense makes you clever. The fact they think they’re clever damn near gives me a stroke.

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  • news News Measles erupts in Florida school where 11% of kids are unvaccinated
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    pensivepangolin
    7 months ago 96%

    “The system accurately reflects what people vote for.” …Boy I have this fun American institution called the electoral college that begs to differ. Trump lost the popular vote but he sure did become president. Further examples? Majority support for the right to abortion in poll after poll but guess what? SCOTIS repudiated decades of precedent and decided it doesn’t exist as a constitutional right, at which point multiple states severely limited the right, often against clearly expressed public sentiment. America is not a democracy and it’s national politics so not serve its people.

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    pensivepangolin
    7 months ago 95%

    Wow, who could’ve ever precicted not vaccinating your kids because you saw your neighborhood drunk stay at home mom who believes in healing crystals “explain” why scientists are wrong was a dumb decision that would lead to this ?

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  • worldnews World News Argentinian President calls for destruction of Al-Aqsa Mosque
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    technology Technology Raspberry Pi is planning a London IPO, but its CEO expects “no change” in focus
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    pensivepangolin
    8 months ago 100%

    Genuine question: what alternative would you recommend? I was planning on buying a few for various projects next month with my next paycheck but now I’m not too keen on funding them.

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  • technology Technology Raspberry Pi is planning a London IPO, but its CEO expects “no change” in focus
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    firefox Firefox Mozilla says Apple’s new browser rules are ‘as painful as possible’ for Firefox - The Verge
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    linuxmemes linuxmemes Quick, write that down!
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    pensivepangolin
    8 months ago 95%

    “You will love the cloud and we will sell everything you upload to it. You won’t own your data, OS or hardware when we are done.”

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  • insanepeoplefacebook InsanePeopleFacebook Sovereign citizen receives mail, has opinions.
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    pensivepangolin
    8 months ago 100%

    Sovereign citizens are some of the stupidest dregs of society. It doesn’t even take proper legal training to realize how wrong and how stupid their statements are when they do this kind of garbage.

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  • news News Tax our wealth, super-rich tell politicians at Davos
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    pensivepangolin
    8 months ago 91%

    This is basically trying to save face. They may as well say “no really, all you plebs shouldn’t hate us! It’s not our fault we’re rich and don’t pay taces!” Because they can feel now how bad things are getting and how much worse they’re likely going to get as the decade unfurls

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  • metal Metal Can anyone recommend some new bands to listen to? I think my posts are getting repetitive
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    pensivepangolin
    8 months ago 100%

    I’m gonna third AMG! It’s one of the few review sites that I think has consistently good reviews of a decently wide array of metal. And I’m not just saying that because I agree with them…I’m saying that because they introduced me to Blood Incantation. Which anyone unfamiliar should absolutely give a listen!

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    pensivepangolin
    8 months ago 100%

    That’s what everyone I know who sees them live says! I’ve never managed to get into them, but maybe I need to give them another try. Any recommendations on where to start?

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    pensivepangolin
    8 months ago 100%

    Mastodon managed to just confuse the hell out of me before boring me. Take that with a grain of salt, though, because I was never on Twitter. It may be me, not the platform/concept.

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  • news News US verges on vaccination tipping point, faces thousands of needless deaths as more people decline vaccinations: FDA
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    pensivepangolin
    8 months ago 100%

    Thank you very much for the best diagnosis of this country I’ve yet to read on here! I could agree more, and it’s frankly rather heartbreaking to see people exploited by right wing psychopaths simply because they’re too uneducated to know any better.

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  • news News The rich now own a record share of stocks, about 93% of U.S. households' stock market wealth is held by the top 10%
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    pensivepangolin
    8 months ago 76%

    No no you guys all don’t understand that this is a good thing because… (let me check my notes…) ….uh…hm…derrr…communism.

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  • worldnews World News Gaza Is Set To Torpedo Joe Biden's Claim To A Human Rights Legacy
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    pensivepangolin
    9 months ago 88%

    …that has no bearing on the fact that they’re both bad policy as measured by their impact on this country.

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    pensivepangolin
    9 months ago 88%

    I believe he ruined any such claim with his work on criminal justice legislation long before he endorsed genocide of a captive population.

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  • technology Technology It's Time to Ditch Evernote for One of These Alternatives
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    pensivepangolin
    9 months ago 97%

    I boost Joplin on here every chance I get, so please allow me to do so again now! I run it with my own sync server and a small userbase of about 6 people on a cheap VPS. I could not be happier; between the webclipper, sharing, encryption, embedding of pdfs, photos, even mp4s, ease of selfhosting, it’s an amazing project! It’s been (knock on wood) rock solid!

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  • asklemmy Asklemmy Resources for moving out of state or country.
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    pensivepangolin
    9 months ago 95%

    No offense, but is this move motivated by a true need to move ASAP? Because this doesn’t really read like it was written by someone in their thirties. Frankly, if it’s not a true need, it doesn’t seem from this post that you’re in a financial position to do this on anything close to a safe manner. And thus: if this is just a desire, no matter how strong the impulse is, it sounds like you need to wait.

    I am not trying to be patronizing or condescending: I would just hate to see someone put themselves at the mercy of the world like it seems you may be about to.

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  • news News Tesla removes Disney+ from vehicles amid Elon Musk's Twitter beef with Bob Iger
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    9 months ago 99%

    Banning driving on the phone while allowing iPads to be put im dashboards shows how fucking stupid our legislators really are.

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    pensivepangolin
    9 months ago 96%

    Like VPNs. Pretty simple.

    Downside is it will push teens to free VPNs and those are almost always malicious.

    Absolutely assinine regulatory decision brewed by people that do not understand how the world or people work at all.

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  • news News US supreme court refuses to overturn Illinois assault weapons ban
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    mildlyinfuriating Mildly Infuriating I'm locked out of my 6 year old Chipotle account because they now say my email address is invalid when I login. Here is me asking for their help:
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    pics pics [OC] Catalina Camp
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    pensivepangolin
    9 months ago 100%

    That writing on the wall is actually the reason I asked. Thank you for the follow-up; that link makes it sound like a very nice hike!

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    pensivepangolin
    9 months ago 100%

    Hey OP, do you have any details on this, as in, is there a backstory? Is this just open to any camper that wants to use it? Is it just abandoned and you set up camp?

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  • news News Race played role in sentencing of Black child, 10, for urinating in public, lawyer says
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    9 months ago 100%

    I mean I think every little boy that’s been on a long car ride ever has done this. How is this worth of any criminal sanction? Insane.

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  • politicalmemes Political Memes What's your dream job?
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    9 months ago 85%

    As a side note: blows my mind there are people over the age of 9 that persist in actually believing in tarot cards or astrology.

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    Hello, and forgive me for throwing in a text post. I was wondering what you guys would recommend for a newcomer! I just got into black metal about 6 months ago, and I’m digging it, mostly Mayhem and Darkthrone and Bathory, so nothing super out-there or unknown. I’d love some recommendations for good bands!

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    Poetry pensivepangolin 1 year ago 100%
    a modest proposal: reading club!

    Hello, all, it’s Pangolin again. I was thinking we here could start out own reading club! My thoughts for how this could work: 1. Once a month, we decide what to read—whether we choose an epic poem, a collection, or something else—by creating a post, making suggestions, and deciding via upvote. (Obtuse, but I can’t figure out how to make polls/if doing so is possible in Lemmy right now.) 2. We create a separate post on which we can discuss our chosen work(s) until the end of the month. 3. We do this for as long as people are interested. So: if you’re interested, please comment your suggested reading for August! Also feel free to criticize this idea/suggest ways to improve it!

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    Poetry pensivepangolin 1 year ago 100%
    Who are your favorite poets?

    Hello, fellow fediverse poetry lovers! Like the title suggests, who are your favorite poets? I figured a post like this could be fun and could help us all discover new poets! To start things off, I’ll list my top three at the moment: 1. William Carlos Williams 2. Pablo Neruda 3. T.S. Elliot Happy to elaborate on why I chose any of them or share my recommendations for poems by any of them. More importantly, though, I’d love to hear what you guys think!

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    New Communities pensivepangolin 1 year ago 93%
    RimJob Steve: Good intentions from the badly-named

    # What do we have here? Greetings, fellow carbon-based life forms. I’ve gon ahead and created [Rimjob Steve](lemmy.world/c/rimjob_steve): a place for wholesome posts/comments by those with inappropriate/rude usernames! If you’re familiar with the original subreddit, you get the idea. If not, I have posted an example in the new Lemmy community! # Why did I make this? I really enjoyed the subreddit! # Who is Pensivepangolin? I’m literally just some person. Right now I’m the only mod, and I’m not affiliated with the subreddit in anyway, other than as someone that enjoyed it when they still used Reddit. I’m more than willing to bring people on to moderate it if the community gets an real volume of users! I’m also more than happy to answer any questions! Also if any mod of that sub ever winds up seeing this and wants to contact me, please feel free to hit me up on here. I’m going to be setting up a mastodon account shortly, and I’ll edit the post to include it when that’s done!

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