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[–] masterspace@lemmy.ca 15 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Lol did it solve anything though?

If you actually watch the full episode, the timeline of events is:

  • Someone rents a new house and finds a skeleton in the marsh behind it. It's a ~30 year old woman who died in the winter and was bludgeoned and stabbed repeatedly.
  • They send away for DNA sequencing but the lab doesn't get back to them for like a year and half.
  • In the meantime they look at missing persons cases (over 100 in North Carolina they state, though presumably ~half that once you filter for skeletal women)
  • They determine that this woman's case seems most likely based on all the other details about her case. The forensic tech who's oddly interested in how much pain people feel as they die is interested in using "impose an image of a skull on a face technique" to see if it matches.
  • She reaches out to a skateboarding computer science professor who uses gimp to paste a semi transparent layer of the skull on top of a picture of that victim's face and thinks it probably maybe matches.
  • They get fed up with the DNA lab and send it to a second one that responds in three weeks confirming it was who they thought.
  • They talk to the victim's friends who point out what party she was at the night she disappeared.
  • The people at the party say that she was hanging out with this one big truck driver after everyone else. His story has been that she walked home after everyone else left, in January, for 7 miles.
  • They interview him a few times and he eventually says that they had sex that night and she belittled him for not getting it up and he pushed her and she he hit her head on the nightstand and he left and she was fine when he left.
  • He's convicted of murder and dumping her body because that's an obvious crock of shit.

Kinda feels like the whole GIMP escapade was just a waste of everyone's time and all it took to solve the case was basic police work in terms of interviewing people who saw her last. By the time they tried GIMP they already had a prime missing person that they thought it was, and they wouldn't have had to try gimp if they just went to a second / competent DNA lab immediately. The way they present it is a little unclear, but it sounds like they didn't even pull the suspect in for further interviewing until they finally got the DNA confirmation for who it was.

[–] masterspace@lemmy.ca 12 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

I mean, these are nice changes but the real customization we want is to hide the four double sized ads, not our recently played games.

[–] masterspace@lemmy.ca 20 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

To talk with human words requires a bump in intelligence which would end up in severe depression once it realises the dynamics of ifs existence.

A bump up in intelligence that allows for speech, doesn't mean it inherently becomes aware of all the existential dread in the universe or becomes unhappy with its station.

See: children.

[–] masterspace@lemmy.ca -1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Uh, yes there is, by the inherent nature of how addresses (i.e. public identifiers) work.

An IP address, email address, physical address, etc, is a mechanism to have a string of text, become a unique identifier for something, so that you can just share that piece of text to refer to it.

Once you give out that piece of text, you no longer have control of it. I can give it to someone and then someone else could ask them about it, and they pass it on, and now I have no idea who has this unique identifier that represents me anywhere out there in the world. I can ask the first person to update their records but I have no guarantee that they'll do it successfully or that they'll remember every single person who they gave it out to you update.

By the very nature of being an identity provider, you are inherently offering your users something that they should be able to fully own in perpetuity. In those circumstances, it's problematic if an identity provider insists that you always have to pay for its services, just to have communication from your old identity forwarded.

[–] masterspace@lemmy.ca 14 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

I think OP is overblowing things, and is especially misguided in recommending gmail, but at the same time, they do have a valid point and I think you're somewhat misrepresenting what they said.

For one, they specifically said that the proton domain email addresses are problematic (protonmail.com, pm.me), and weren't talking about custom domains that sit in front of Proton mail.

For two, their point is valid. Auto-forwarding being paid, does create vendor lock-in and make it hard to switch away from Protonmail if you use the OOTB addresses. It's something worth considering.

As you said, the recommendation should be to use a custom domain that sits in front of Protonmail rather than switching to Gmail, but paid auto-forwarding is a valid criticism.

[–] masterspace@lemmy.ca 11 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

*Making sure their food is ~~good enough~~ food

[–] masterspace@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

It's still just as crazy.

Israel only does what it does because the US lets it and arms it. That doesn't happen because of a pro Israel lobby, that happens because the US military likes having an extremely armed, and intelligence gathering ally right in the middle of an otherwise volatile and hostile region.

[–] masterspace@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 weeks ago

Precisely, flirting signals to someone else that you're potentially attracted to them.

If they've written you off as a potential romantic partner for whatever reason (they assume you'd never be interested, they thought you had a partner, they thought you were only ever going to be just friends, etc), then that signal can cause them to start considering you as a romantic option.

[–] masterspace@lemmy.ca 10 points 2 weeks ago

Finally reversing that brain drain.

[–] masterspace@lemmy.ca 0 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

No, literally no goal posts have ever been moved.

The point was and always has been, that widespread availability of guns does not effectively resist tyranny in the modern era, but does kill numerous people needlessly.

All you have shown, is a couple random examples of guns being used to take ineffective pot shots at governments that ultimately crush them.

You have provided literally not a single example of people successfully using personal firearms to resist government oppression, let alone at a scale that would justify the thousands and thousands and thousands of needless deaths.

You're just a gun lover blindly trying to justify a reason for owning them when one doesn't exist.

[–] masterspace@lemmy.ca -3 points 3 weeks ago

Old man yells at cloud isn't an age, it's a bitter mindset.

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