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graymess

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graymess , to Technology in Windows feature that screenshots everything labeled a security “disaster”

Doesn't matter. If your PC is ever compromised, that feature is a one stop shop for stealing everything you have ever done on your computer.

graymess , to Technology in Google Chrome’s plan to limit ad blocking extensions kicks off next week

How long until the majority of the Internet is inaccessible to non-Chromium browsers because the pages "don't support them"?

graymess , to Interesting Global News in First Jewish Biden Appointee to Publicly Resign Is “So Angry at the President”

If Biden and his remaining cabinet had any self awareness, they'd be utterly humiliated. Like how do you not feel even a little shame when the entire world watches you try to defend a fucking monster?

graymess , to Technology in New Windows AI feature records everything you’ve done on your PC

This is Microsoft, an American corporation, actively developing the things the Internet spazzes out about China probably doing. How happy this makes China? Buddy, imagine how happy this makes every marketing company in the world, your local police department, and your own government, all of which have a much more vested interest in everything you do on your computer and are considerably more of a threat to you than the ruling party of a country on the other side of the planet. Seriously, y'all need to get your fucking priorities in order. It's borderline satire how fast your average Lemmy user slaps the China Panic button as soon as a privacy-related issue hits their front page.

graymess , to Comic Strips in It's about the vitality, I swear!

Could absolutely swap in Calvin and Hobbes and this would be a believable Watterson comic. That's a compliment, not at all claiming plagiarism.

graymess , to Privacy in Scary AT&T breach leaks up to 70 million Social Security numbers to the dark web

This is one of those ideas I'd love to agree with, but I know the reality of the situation would mean negative consequences for the most vulnerable and disadvantaged, just like how current ID systems are now.

graymess , to Technology in Amazon Ditches 'Just Walk Out' Checkouts at Its Grocery Stores

Incredible. Their "AI" is just a bunch of people watching cameras in India.

graymess , to linuxmemes in How we look at the world as a superior species

Standing up for another's lived experience is what an ally does. When a queer friend shares their experiences with me, I listen. I don't dismiss them as paranoid. Whether or not I get Internet points for it doesn't matter. All the more reason to hear them out, actually, because queer people are not the majority and their perspectives are easy to ignore if what you care about is which side the bigger number is on.

graymess , to linuxmemes in How we look at the world as a superior species

Getting tired of engaging with this. The point is at least two people who saw the meme interpreted it as harmful representation and felt strongly enough about it to respond. You don't have to agree or even take action. Nobody requested the post be deleted or censored.

You could acknowledge the perspective of someone with a different lived experience, consider it or don't, and move on. Or you could do what you've chosen to do and deny that perspective and try to shut it up.

graymess , to linuxmemes in How we look at the world as a superior species

Damn. I guess you're right.

Except the meme we're talking about is depicting a literal butt fucking, so I don't know what you're arguing. Clearly any of the alternate meanings of "fuck" are not so detached from what I've been saying this whole time or the meme wouldn't make sense.

graymess , to linuxmemes in How we look at the world as a superior species

Yeah, it's all from the same origin. The implication being that the one penetrating is "the man" and the one being penetrated is "the woman." The other part of the implication being to fuck someone is good and powerful and dominating and being fucked is bad and immaculating and submissive.

If that sounds like I'm adding my own words and meaning to a simple phrase, think about what is actually being said when you say "you're getting fucked by Microsoft." What, you don't want to get fucked? Why? Sex is supposed to be a positive thing two people can do together. Unless the one "getting fucked" doesn't want to and now we're not talking about fucking, we're talking about using violent rape as an analogy for what a software company is doing to its userbase and that's just...kind of fucked up. I shouldn't have to explain why, right?

Anyway, no, I don't get mad whenever I hear a phrase that stems from heteronormative ideas of sex. I don't assume the person saying it is homophobic or an idiot, they probably just don't know. But a friend once educated me on the subject, I thought about it, and I agree. So now I avoid using phrases like that, and when someone openly questions it like you have, cool, I'll stop and talk about it.

graymess , to linuxmemes in How we look at the world as a superior species

It is literally the meaning behind the meme. There's a silhouette of two men labeled "you" and "Microsoft" with the Microsoft man depicted as the top, the one doing the fucking, the one in the stereotypical position of power in the act. The message is, "Microsoft fucks you like this man fucks this other man in the ass." I don't have to spell this out, it's what's in the picture.

graymess , to linuxmemes in How we look at the world as a superior species

Associating the concepts of "tops" and "bottoms" to gay couples having sex is at least kind of ignorant if not homophobic.

graymess , to linuxmemes in How we look at the world as a superior species

Macs are used in a lot of "creative" industries and professionals tend to benefit from multiple monitors. Every editor I've known cuts on a Mac with at least two monitors.

graymess , to Privacy in 'Facial recognition' error message on vending machine sparks concern at University of Waterloo

Vending machines used to get vandalized at my school. How much tech are they putting in these things now?

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