Schadrach

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[–] Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 4 hours ago

Right, but because most of humanity has been mostly reproductively isolated from each other for most of history there is a correlation between expressed phenotype in the handful of things that we think of as "race" and a boatload of other assorted genetically linked things.

Like how dogs with certain eye colors are more likely to go deaf.

[–] Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 22 hours ago

How ks the drill baby drill crowd going to compete against mini stars in a can?

Nu-Cu-Lar Bad? That's...about as far as they'll make it. To be fair, that might be as far as they need to. It's all the oil companies will approve of them learning, at least.

Of course, it sounds like the big problem of how to remove more power from it than you spend keeping it reacting remains an issue, presuming they can continue to extend reaction lifetimes to be functionally unlimited.

[–] Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 day ago

How do those food stamps work anyways? Can you use them like money? I’m not American so it’s a foreign concept yo me.

You get an EBT debit card with an amount of money based on some calculations that can only be spent on certain things (in the case of SNAP aka food stamps, you can only spend that balance on food). WIC is another subsidized food program that sometimes gets included when talking about "food stamps" targeting people with small children, which has a more restrictive list on what you can buy with it.

Some of the guidelines have been painfully dumb, even if there was an intended logic to them - like "no hot food" where the goal was to disallow restaurant purchases and purchasing pre-cooked meals because they are generally a less efficient use of the funds, but led to dumb shit like Subway noting that they sell subs cold and so could hypothetically still sell, then just offer to toast the sub post-sale so that the division was meaningless.

Then you have the abuses of the program that really do need fixed, like stores that are well known to be willing to buy certain stock from just anyone, at a stupidly low price. The idea being that you go to Walmart or wherever and buy up a bunch of product that you can buy on SNAP, take it to the store and resell it at a massive loss to launder your SNAP funds into regular cash. In my area it was certain convenience stores that were known to buy certain brands of soda in cases of cans for much less than they could be bought through legitimate channels as a way of laundering SNAP funds.

[–] Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

biologically no

Biologically still kinda yes in that most of the world was mostly reproductively isolated from each other for most of history, and as such something as hypothetically meaningless as skin color correlates with likelihood of a whole array of other genetic things.

For example, the bigger a threat malaria was in your ancestors' part of the world the more likely you are to inherit sickle cell (which has a bunch of downsides but also makes you resistant to malaria). It's the reason frequency of lactose tolerance varies based on where your ancestors are from. It also impacts organ transplant availability, because the organ compatibility markers are not uniformly distributed across all racial/ethnic groups.

[–] Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 day ago

...which is amusing because my first thought was At the Mountains of Madness, which apparently was an inspiration for The Thing.

[–] Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org 23 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Sorry, got my racist propaganda films that still show up in film school because they used revolutionary techniques in film making and are thus important pieces of cinematic history mixed up. The Birth of a Nation is the US one, Triumph of the Will is the Nazi one I was thinking of.

[–] Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org 20 points 1 day ago (4 children)

(and no I am not glorifying those monsters)

You don't have to glorify their beliefs to admit they were fantastic at propaganda and aesthetics. Birth of a Nation was used in film schools for decades afterward for a reason and that reason wasn't that film schools were all secretly run by Nazis.

[–] Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Take the upvote. You beat me to it.

[–] Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You support the message that attacking a group people are born into and a group people choose to identify with are equally bad?

Q: Are Not All Proud Boys Like That? Or does it only extend to groups you support?

[–] Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 2 days ago

They are bad because their website is literally godhatesfags.com.

Always found it weird that there are people who believe that the immortal and all powerful creator of the universe is for some reason deeply, deeply concerned with what ~10% of a particular branch of weird hairless apes decides to do with their genitals enough to do things like call down plagues and natural disasters over it. Like that's just....such an extreme level of being a gooner that it's even more absurd than the whole monotheistic God of everything idea to begin with.

Clearly the universe was created by committee - that's how you end up with things like the platypus when the bird team and the mammal team are forced to compromise on a design to get the product shipped on time.

[–] Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I wasn't suggesting it as "font list and you're done". I was using it as an example because it's one where I'm apparently really unusual.

I would think you'd basically want to spoof all known fingerprinting metrics to be whatever is the most common and doesn't break compatibility with the actual setup too much. Randomizing them seems way more likely to break a ton of sites, but inconsistently, which seems like a bad solution.

I mean hypothetically you could also set up exceptions for specific sites that need different answers for specific fields, essentially telling the site whatever it wants to hear to work but that's going to be a lot of ongoing work.

[–] Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 3 days ago (3 children)

The crazy part about fingerprinting is that if you block the fingerprint data, they use that block to fingerprint you. That’s why the main strategy is to “blend in”.

So, essentially the best way to actually resist fingerprinting would be to spoof the results to look more common - for example when I checked amiunique.org one of the most unique elements was my font list. But for 99% of sites you could spoof a font list that has the most common fonts (which you have) and no others and that would make you "blend in" without harming functionality. Barring a handful of specific sites that rely on having a special font, that might need to be set as exceptions.

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