EmperorHenry

EmperorHenry , 1 day ago

"We're going to lead with our values and come together as one nation! We're for good things and against bad things!"

EmperorHenry , 2 days ago

Ironically it feels like they’re focusing too much on consumers (on extorting them) and shooting themselves in the foot for their business clientele.

It's like they saw all the shittiest things about apple products and said "game on motherfuckers!"

imagine how many people are going to get doxxed by this feature.

EmperorHenry , 2 days ago

literally every cybersecurity expert is saying this would be a bad idea that could be used maliciously by anyone. I really hope the executives listen to them.

yeah, sure, it's supposedly encrypted and supposedly stored locally exclusively and supposedly not turned on by default, but even if that does turn out to be true, scammers can use it with remote desktop to snoop, anyone who plants a RAT on your system could look through that shit too.

EmperorHenry , 2 days ago

malware on linux is surprisingly common, more common than most people realize.

in fact, for every variety of malware for windows, there's a version of it for many linux distros too

EmperorHenry , 2 days ago

And not just that, but each distro of linux has its own quirks and each one is compatible with a different list of brands of hardware. you could brick your system if you install the wrong distro on the wrong hardware, like down to the bios

And contrary to popular belief, LINUX CAN GET MALWARE JUST AS EASILY AS WINDOWS CAN.

With windows, there's a 30 year history of malware infections and there's several good choices for windows based antivirus programs, and three amazing ones. The people who work at those antivirus companies know how vulnerable windows is and so they're always working on improving their software...at least the good ones are, but those same antivirus programs on linux don't have nearly as much stuff in them to fight against APTs most linux versions of great antivirus programs like comodo and kaspersky are gutted down to just a regular antivirus with heuristics, no zero-day threat protection at all, you're completely dependent on how fast the new malware can get added to the blacklist.

But on windows, if you use comodo and know how to configure it and understand that it will never pop up unless something might be wrong, you're always prepared for zero-day threats and even zero-hour threats.

Linux used to be super secure, simply because there were so few people using it or even aware of it, but with every linux distro being open source, malware-makers can make all kinds of exploit kits for it in record time, because there's no trial an error like there is on windows, at this point in time, no antivirus company is really prepared to deal with zero-day linux malware.

But windows users, even stupid ones know that you need an antivirus program on windows. So the malware-makers have to play a cat-and-mouse game with windows malware if they hit a decent number of systems with their malware, that malware isn't going to be unknown for very long. And antivirus companies like bitdefender and avira, the former of which is great at adding new samples to the blacklist at super speed, and avira which isn't as good at that anymore because they got bought by...norton? If I remember correctly, they rent their database out to other antivirus companies, Eset, another really good detector of new malware also rents their database out to other antivirus companies.

ClamAV is good at detecting linux based malware...as far as I've heard, but it's useless against anything unknown to it.

windows is a pain in the ass to detail with...but that's only if you don't know how to work with it. Linux can be that way too. If there's a bug in some software that fucks up parts of your OS, there's not much support you can get from local techs, but if something like that happens with windows, there's loads of freelance independent computer techs out there that know how to fix it.

Linux is cool, if you can make it work for you, great! But don't act like windows is worthless. There's ways to deal with the bloat, and there's endless amounts of free advice on countless forums across the entire internet on how to deal with problems that come up

EmperorHenry , 3 days ago

doesn't matter, I don't have any friends anyway.

EmperorHenry , 3 days ago

the internet archive is a very useful tool for countering the "official story" whenever the powers that be are lying.

If you're able, I hope you donate to the internet archive. There's a lot of horrible people from all over youtube that like to erase their old videos to help control their own narrative.

EmperorHenry , 2 days ago

just like there's no solution for not punishing youtubers who follow the rules while allowing doxxers and pedos to use youtube to dox people and lure little girls into their houses.

EmperorHenry , 5 days ago

good luck with that.

One of the problems with a giant platform like that is that billions of people are always using it.

Keep poisoning the AI. It's working.

EmperorHenry , 5 days ago

disinformation

the people who scream that word the most are the biggest liars of all.

EmperorHenry , 5 days ago

a lot of shit at corporations works like that.

The worst of it happens in the video game industry. Microtransactions and invasive monetization? Started in the video game industry. Locking pre-installed features behind a paywall? Started in the video game industry. Releasing shit before it's ready to run as intended? Started in the video game industry.

EmperorHenry , 6 days ago (edited 4 days ago)

regulate billion dollar corporations and then over 99% of all pollution will stop.

I'm not getting rid of my car, make billionaires and millionaires get rid of their private jets and make them stop dumping garbage into waterways

EmperorHenry , 5 days ago

I can't use public transit. So I guess if there's no cars, I'll be stuck at my house forever.

EmperorHenry , 5 days ago

I don’t know why these discussion are often met with “if you’re not ready to lose your car you’re the problem” narrative.

I hate that argument. I can't use public transit and most cities are too big to be walkable.

I also hate the idea of walkable cities, which is a dog-whistle-word for 15-minute cities, full of surveillance and all kinds of other bullshit, like not being able to go back the way you came and having to walk all around the entire town to go back home.

EmperorHenry , 5 days ago

I can't use public transit. And I don't want to live in a 15-minute city either. I like my big rural town with tons of free space between every home. 1000 regular people driving cars isn't even 10% of one billionaire flying in a private jet once.

Have you ever noticed how all these environmental regulations only affect us? Or how we're the only ones looked at as being the ones who need to "cut back" on things WE like?

But billionaires and millionaires are never expected to change anything THEY do to help the environment.

I've also noticed that climate change isn't nearly as bad as authoritarian, anti-free-speech assholes like Al Gore says it is. Al Gore said there wouldn't be any ice in the polar regions by 2013, we're 11 years past that and there's still ice there.

I honestly don't know if climate change is real, because half the studies are funded by oil companies and the other half of studies are funded by evil groups that want us to live in pods and eat bugs, the olde "you will own nothing and be happy" types.

I keep hearing from the latter that we're all going to die because of climate change at whatever date they say, then we pass that time and we're still here.

EmperorHenry , 4 days ago

You said you can’t use public transit twice but neither time did you specify why.

I'm disabled in several ways, I don't want to talk about it.

EmperorHenry , 4 days ago

That’s exactly the problem, you should be able to

I'm disabled in several ways, I don't want to talk about it.

EmperorHenry , 4 days ago

the big truck

It's a motorcycle actually.

EmperorHenry , 6 days ago

the first trials for this resulted in men becoming sterile and then killing themselves.

And then a bunch of female comedians made fun of them for "being a little moody"

EmperorHenry , 5 days ago

Women’s birth control hasn’t exactly been side-effect-free,

I never said otherwise.

EmperorHenry , 5 days ago

birth control for women doesn't make a woman permanently sterile like the drug trials for male birth control did for men

EmperorHenry , 6 days ago

Good luck explaining that nuance to the average shit-lib.

EmperorHenry , 7 days ago

sharks aren't actually as vicious toward humans as most people believe.

If you want this to be a little more realistic, have a whole bunch of box jellies in that tank.

EmperorHenry , 9 days ago

I was never going to buy one of those, but now I have a second good reason to not want my conversations eavesdropped on

EmperorHenry , 10 days ago

the oldest millennials are 44 actually

EmperorHenry , 9 days ago

I see no problem here

EmperorHenry , 10 days ago

look at the plug and look at the hole. Square peg square hole

EmperorHenry , 12 days ago

Team skeet moment

EmperorHenry , 12 days ago

who the hell would ever use the Netflix windows app? And for that matter, at this late date, who the hell is still paying for Netflix to actually watch what little is still on there?

EmperorHenry , 13 days ago

brave browser with aggressive adblocking still works.

EmperorHenry , 15 days ago

fuck yeah!

EmperorHenry , 13 days ago

I guess it depends on what you're shoplifting and who you're stealing from.

Like, stealing a gaming rig from a mom-and-pop style PC building/repair shop wouldn't be okay

EmperorHenry , 15 days ago

god damn right

EmperorHenry , 20 days ago

why the fuck should I pay for them then?

EmperorHenry , 21 days ago

"but if we pirate things the singers won't get anything!"

yeah, fuck the music companies and fuck the movie companies. The moral thing to do is to pirate everything you want to watch, read and listen to.

the actors, writers and singers and everyone working behind the scenes are already getting next to nothing for their hard work compared to what the executives at all those corporations are getting for just sitting on their asses.

....sorry I blacked out, what were we talking about?

You should never pirate anything! that would be bad!

EmperorHenry , 23 days ago

Oh no! Our poor sensitive little eyes might be offended by something we see! I need a nanny-state to go through everything I have access to so I don't get confused!

EmperorHenry , 24 days ago

If I got offered a free vacation? somewhere in Alaska and I'd never post pictures that could potentially lead to revealing my real identity online anyway

EmperorHenry , 26 days ago

good to know they killed a second one too...allegedly

EmperorHenry , 1 month ago

O&O shutup 10, oo-software

Also Adguard for windows, adguard home, adguard DNS, NextDNS

EmperorHenry , 1 month ago

I don't really listen to music. So no, no music on the way there.

EmperorHenry , 1 month ago

and the pedestrian-emergency-break on tesla cars, and many other cars with that feature will malfunction sometimes causing people behind you to rear-end you.

EmperorHenry , 1 month ago

And the floodgates are opened, washing us down the slippery slope of all kinds of new censorship

EmperorHenry , 1 month ago

Return-free filing. It's really hard to find it, but it's an option.

EmperorHenry , 1 month ago

Use Mullvad, iVPN or Proton and they really won't see what you're doing

with Mullvad and iVPN, be sure to use the quantum encryption. And to help obscure your traffic with proton, be sure to use a proxy that has around 50% to 60% usage. That way anyone who tries to use a quantum computer to break the encryption on a proton VPN proxy is going to see everyone else's traffic using that proxy as well as you. There would be a lot of shit to go through even if they use a quantum computer.

EmperorHenry , 1 month ago

filtering by IP address how?

the IP address of your modem? Well your ISP will easily be able to tell whether or not you're using a VPN. And I guess at that level if someone used a quantum computer on your modem's connection from the modem to the proxy, then yeah, they'd probably be able to evesdrop as long as they have access to the lines from your house to the hub of your local ISP and the VPN you're using doesn't have quantum-safe encryption.

If you're in a position where you'd need to worry about a corporation or government using a quantum computer to get into your shit you've got bigger problems.

From what I understand, it requires a fuck-ton of electricity to run a quantum PC and they'd need to use even more electricity on top of that to keep it cool in a refrigerated room at sub-zero temperatures.

But that's only what all the tech-companies making them are currently saying. There's probably more advanced stuff that they're keeping secret. We'll never know until another whistleblower sacrifices their entire life to tell the world about it.

EmperorHenry , 1 month ago

Why even have words in the power point if you're just going to read them aloud word for word?

EmperorHenry , 1 month ago

Isn't there stuff you can get for lots of different phones, tablets and laptops for that?

EmperorHenry , 1 month ago

But who's to say that the image of themselves in the computer will actually be them and not only a copy of them?