Here’s an article clarifying the latter half of this comment’s claims: https://www.theregister.com/2021/09/07/protonmail_hands_user_ip_address_police/

Relevant bits from the article:

Encrypted email service ProtonMail has become embroiled in a minor scandal after responding to a legal request to hand over to Swiss police a user’s IP address and details of the devices he used to access his mailbox – resulting in the netizen’s arrest.

Back in January this year, the company’s homepage stated: “No personal information is required to create your secure email account. By default, we do not keep any IP logs which can be linked to your anonymous email account. Your privacy comes first.”

Today that boast has been replaced with a mealy-mouthed version: “ProtonMail is email that respects privacy and puts people (not advertisers) first. Your data belongs to you, and our encryption ensures that. We also provide an anonymous email gateway.”

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Looks like the domain registration expired, according to https://lookup.icann.org/en/lookup

Fortinet marked the website as “malicious”, but it doesn’t seem to give an explanation as to why it’s been given that classification (looked up here: https://www.fortiguard.com/webfilter)

Kasperky wanted an account (and possibly a subscription) to look up the website and I’m not going to give them any of my information so I’m not sure if they gave an explanation as to why the website is flagged.

Visiting https://thisismyip.com/ as of now just redirects to a Namecheap landing page so I doubt there’s any actual malware on the website. I think Fortinet and Kaspersky preemptively marked it for when a malicious actor picks up the name and starts hosting actual viruses.

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The post is from this Threads account: https://www.threads.com/@finance.arman

I couldn’t find the post because I don’t have a Threads account myself and it limits how far back on someone’s timeline you can go, but the UI and username matches. The original post wasn’t in English, so it must have been translated using OCR, resulting in the weird artifacts. You’ve got a good eye to catch that difference.

BoJack Horseman

I had a coworker pulling this bit on me today so it’s a little bit extra frightening coming across this post.

Source is piripun (NSFW)

I’m not a lawyer, and maybe this is just a US-centric understanding, but someone “pressing charges” doesn’t force the police to arrest the accused person, let alone actually charge them with a criminal offense. Pressing charges, at least to my understanding, is notifying police of a crime, pointing out the offender, and tacitly agreeing to cooperate if the police need more information.

Source: https://xcancel.com/yamai_gm/status/1461015534787514386

The artist says there’s no full version available.

Reminds me of blood gnats from The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack.

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/finna-jerk-it

The first person is speaking about students in a class learning Japanese. Apparently in Japanese, the words for “rice” and “food” are very similar. The students make fun of this because it reinforces a stereotype that Asian people enjoy rice a lot, but it’s pointed out that the English word “meal” can mean “the act / time of eating food” or “coarsely ground grain”, making a parallel between the words for “rice” and “food” in Japanese.

The second person is saying “Humans enjoy commonly eaten foods” (being rice and grain here). They say it in a clipped way to be funny, read as “humans be like: ‘staple crop’”

The third person humorously and intentionally misinterprets “staple” as a verb and pretends to assume there should be more to the second person’s sentence.

The last person continues the joke, pretending that person three should staple a crop directly to their forehead. Aside from the absurdity of doing that, there’s an old meme about a product called “HeadOn” that had the tagline “Apply directly to forehead” (it was a bogus homeopathic medicine that did nothing and hoped viewers would assume applying it to their forehead would have some helpful effect). The joke is further enhanced by the account being named “ublock-origin”, a popular ad blocking software, since it would be strange for an ad blocking software account to be making jokes like this.

It’s silly to be so bothered by downvotes in the first place, but even more so on Lemmy where karma isn’t tracked. You being bothered enough by downvotes to make a comment like this is even more childish than people who edit their comments to say “Downvotes? Really?”

For anyone struggling to get it:

I assume you’re referring to this post which was definitely fake. The numbers in the ad are prank numbers.

Maybe I’m missing something, but 3rd degree would be the person is connected with a person you’re 2nd degree connection with, right? That’s why Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon is a thing.

Googling the first number shows that it’s a prank number designed to waste time: https://worldofprankcalls.com/beverly/

Posters like you keep the fediverse & Lemmy alive. I’m not sure why those other 2 are bothered by people being active, they should be encouraging it. Please keep doing what you’re doing, a ton of us appreciate you keeping us entertained.