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NateNate60

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NateNate60 ,

Microsoft's solution will be to remove the feature from Enterprise versions of Windows while keeping it around for the plebs using Pro and Home

NateNate60 ,

I always recommend Windows Defender and a good sense of Internet security to anyone who uses a computer.

If you're dumb, no antivirus can protect you. If you're reasonably intelligent, any antivirus will protect you.

NateNate60 ,

There are consequences for X. Advertisers are pulling out and it's becoming increasingly unpalatable for companies and people to use, and so its user base is not exactly growing rapidly (although I have no evidence to say it is shrinking).

NateNate60 ,

Would you rather have Manchin, who agrees with you on 10-20% of issues, or a Republican who agrees with you on 1% of issues and thinks you're the Devil incarnate?

"Neither" is not an option.

NateNate60 ,

Feel free to criticise but understand that criticism is not free of consequences. Making public criticism of a political candidate makes it less likely that they will be elected. You can consider that reality and act accordingly and rationally.

You do not need to respond to this comment with "Cool, I'm going to keep doing what I'm doing," because I don't care. I respect your intelligence and I'm not here to start an argument. If you feel the need to get the last word in with a "clever" reply, feel free to do so.

NateNate60 ,

Google isn't just a search engine any more and hasn't been for nearly a decade. Over the years it has slowly become humanity's general-purpose information indexer. That includes the Web but it's restricted to it. Add in some advertising and that's Google.

ajsadauskas , to Fuck Cars
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The toll road scam: A government-made monopoly you pay for.

Here's a funny-because-it's-true take on Transurban and the poor tax it imposes, from Punter's Politics:

https://youtu.be/FlKBakPAtiw?si=G39_0GcJzSB0SSA8

@fuck_cars

NateNate60 ,

I'm a big fan of putting speed cameras everywhere. Let the bad drivers pay for the road.

NateNate60 ,

A referendum will be held alongside the general election in Oregon, USA to switch to ranked-choice voting.

To any fellow Oregonians reading this, vote yes and tell all your friends to vote yes as well!

Register to vote:

NateNate60 ,

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/9d375559-608e-45b5-a3e6-c2dc28c6f1d2.jpeg

NateNate60 ,

The Russian military is known to employ "disinformation officers" to spread discord or undermine trust in Western democracies online. A very common talking point they use is how the US (or whatever other country's citizens they are targeting) is a fascist state and your vote doesn't count, so you should not vote. Other common tactics include deliberately bringing up obscure conspiracy theories to lend them more credibility, spreading fake news, and posting lots of comments that sound right at a first glance but are complete BS once you think about them/research them. They are known to target both left and right-leaning people.

Generally, the most vulnerable are those who are not aware of their presence (and thus absorb the ideas like a sponge) or already hold the extreme political views they spread. These people are likely to propagate the content in question, increasing the damage. Remember, their goal is not to convince you to agree with them—it's to get you to distrust your government and your country's institutions.

Disinformation officers aren't an idea unique to Russia. China has also been accused of hiring people to do the same thing ("wumaos"), and the Israeli army openly brags about their disinformation officers, although they don't call them that, obviously.

The picture depicts one such (alleged) Russian disinformation officer. I am using it to accuse the parent commenter of being a disinformation officer or someone who repeats the ideas spread by a disinformation officer.

NateNate60 ,

Not necessarily. They might just be some mug repeating the talking points of one.

NateNate60 ,

School shooters have the ability to shoot back. Unarmed protestors don't. It's easy to act tough when you have $10,000 worth of tactical gear against a random group of university students.

NateNate60 ,

That there is a mental heath crisis is completely correct and it needs to be addressed.

The problem lies not in calling it a mental health crisis, which it is, but in failing to recognise the cause of the crisis (deteriorating living standards and the collapse of middle and working class wealth) That is what this comic is trying to say.

NateNate60 ,

Well, it's many things. I just happened to pick the economy because that came to mind first, but the general idea of people being depressed because the ultra-wealthy and large corporations are fucking up the planet is still the same.

NateNate60 ,

The Linux infiltration of PC gaming communities has been one of the most successful covert operations in the history of espionage. So successful that the agents don't even need to hide their identities.

NateNate60 ,

To get someone to explain the joke, you have to spell it "Petah".

NateNate60 ,

I really would like to quit Reddit but I have to admit that Reddit has a lot more variety in terms of content, so I'll keep using it until Boost for Reddit finally breaks for good.

50% of the content on Lemmy falls into four categories:

  • Posts complaining about Reddit
  • Linux memes
  • Commieposting
  • Porn
NateNate60 ,

No offence but this is the same shit that Nazis post with a caption complaining about how Jews control the Government.

NateNate60 ,

There is no "content" at all. No context on which to dispel my assumptions.

Humans make generalisations from incomplete data, and the generalisation I make is that OP doesn't realise that the point they are trying to make is (1) extremely poorly made and (2) conducive to being confused for a Nazi.

NateNate60 ,

I agree with that statement. I also never claimed they were a Nazi. Surely your reading comprehension is not that poor, right?

NateNate60 ,

Well, it's Mental Outlaw. He's a contender for one of the most paranoid tech YouTubers out there.

NateNate60 ,

That's true. But paranoid people often mistake how much of a shit others give about being spied upon

NateNate60 ,

A person who uploads videos discussing technology to YouTube is a tech YouTuber, notwithstanding the originality of those videos.

X automatically changed 'Twitter' to 'X' in domain names, breaking legit URLs (mashable.com)

On Monday, it appears X attempted to encourage users to cease referring to it as Twitter and instead adopt the name X. Some users began noticing that posts viewed via X for iOS were changing any references of "Twitter.com" to "X.com" automatically....

NateNate60 ,

It is usually spelt "xitter"

NateNate60 ,

I can smell this image

NateNate60 ,

Are any of these accounts legitimate?

NateNate60 ,

I don't think private landlords are really that bad. Renting out your dead nan's house or buying a duplex to letting the other half is fine as long as you charge appropriate rent and treat your tenants well. In an ideal world, houses would not be investments but rather something that everyone can own and live in, but we're not going to get that by going cold turkey as some people are suggesting. Reform is slow and boring but usually works out better than trying to tear everything down at once.

The real problem is companies buying up an absurd number of units and hoarding the available housing stock while squeezing tenants and generally just being miserable landlords.

NateNate60 ,

There is probably a person with the power to inject the GPL into the license agreement, and if it does, it would destroy Microsoft as they'd now be legally required to cough up the source code for Windows

Take one for the team!

NateNate60 ,

It doesn't. It's been borked for most people for several months now and will be dead for good once Riot pushes out Vanguard, which is a kernel anti-cheat.

Truly the end of an era.

NateNate60 ,

The numbers could either be an American complaining about it being too cold or a non-American complaining about it being too hot

NateNate60 ,

Yes, which is why I said "the numbers"

NateNate60 ,

I think it is generally okay to bundle the root domain certificate and the wildcard for its subdomains into a single renewal.

So for example:

example.com
*.example.com
NateNate60 ,

If it's not already the law, it needs to be. It should be required that paid advertising be disclosed in all contexts.

NateNate60 ,

I think what YouTube does would be sufficient. There's a noticeably different video progress bar colour (yellow instead of red) and a large "Skip Ad in __" in the corner, plus the advertiser information on the side.

Reddit could do this by putting a "Paid advertisement" watermark in the corner or putting "Advert" where the upvote/downvote buttons are and colouring it some noticeable colour, like yellow, and I would be satisfied with that.

NateNate60 ,

To be fair, 40% of Lemmy is cross posts from Reddit, 20% is spam posts by one user across multiple communities, and the remaining 40% is divided evenly between actual content and posts complaining about Reddit

All social media is trash, just different in what aspects they are trash in

NateNate60 ,

I said it before on Reddit and I will say it again here—

If Reddit has asked me for a premium subscription to use my favourite third-party app, I would have fucking paid.

Just bad business all around

NateNate60 ,

Well, at least one person thought it was a good idea to acquire a Mastodon competitor, and they paid a pretty penny for it

NateNate60 ,

You can patch old third-party apps with ReVanced. That being said, they are unmaintained and will still eventually break.

NateNate60 ,

Yes, you have pointed out the subtext that was there all along and pretended like it's some new argument.

It is about the data sharing. The US doesn't like companies sharing data with countries that it views as its geopolitical rivals. Big surprise, am I right?

NateNate60 ,

Ah yes, the US, where no foreign company is allowed to be successful.

Such unsuccessful or banned foreign companies include Samsung, LG, Sony, Toyota, Nissan, Honda, Aldi, Shell, Siemens...

NateNate60 ,

Every operating system sucks. It's just that they differ in what aspects they suck in.

NateNate60 ,

Yes because developers don't call tech support when they've accidentally deleted the Outlook icon from their desktop.

NateNate60 ,

I'm going to be honest with you, as often as this has been memed and for as long as I have been using Windows on my work computer, I have never once been forced to restart on the spot by an automatic update.

I'm sure those who have will be quick to reply but at this point I'm 90% confident it's a loud minority.

NateNate60 ,

I'm saying it's never happened to me. Not once. Zero times. Zero is less than one.

Normal Windows updates don't take an hour long. Give me a break. The ones that do are the version upgrades. That's like the equivalent of a distro upgrade.

NateNate60 ,

Well, running Windows 10, a consumer user-oriented operating system, to control mission-critical machines is mistake number 1.

This wouldn't have happened if they had used Windows Server or something actually designed for that task (like Linux!).

NateNate60 ,

Windows Server is an option.

The operating system is called "Windows Server". It doesn't necessarily have to run on a mainframe. It has the regular Windows GUI (with a few differences, the first you'll notice is "Cntr+Alt+Del to log in") and can run regular Windows programs.

Roku TV bricked until agreeing to new terms of service

See title - very frustrating. There is no way to continue to use the TV without agreeing to the terms. I couldn't use different inputs, or even go to settings from the home screen and disconnect from the internet to disable their services. If I don't agree to their terms, then I don't get access to their new products. That...

NateNate60 ,

Again, this does not seem to be getting through to you.

You can click the "agree" button to get back full functionality.

A court would just rule that your clicking of that button does not bind you into a contract.

NateNate60 ,

It's not coercive at all under that definition. It's not an attempt to be coercive. Think about it more before replying.

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