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t3rmit3

@t3rmit3@beehaw.org

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t3rmit3 , to Socialism in ACTION ALERT: Friedman’s Vermin Analogies Echo Ugly Pro-Genocide Propaganda

Can you post the text? Most of us don't and won't have NYT subs.

t3rmit3 , to Socialism in The NFL is an Abusive Workplace

Thing is, no one in pro football starts playing after they're adults, so we're asking minors to make the choice about lifelong CTE risk. By the time someone is eligible to play in the NFL, they are already deep into that life path, and have likely already put considerable stress on their bodies, and sacrificed other career options.

t3rmit3 , (edited ) to Technology in A terminal window periodically flashes on my screen every few minutes. It goes away in one second. I have no idea what it is, nor how to stop it.

Hi there! Information security guy here. This is essentially a super quick Incident Response run-through of the basic tools I use for malicious process discovery on Windows hosts. I'm assuming this is your own personal machine, or you have permission to do this.

  1. Grab the Sysinternals suite's installer here and install:

They are all included in the rollup installer, or you can grab them individually at those links. Don't install everything, or at least don't leave it all installed when you're done. It includes a lot of tools for debugging, which you don't want to leave lying around on your system.

  1. Fire up Autoruns, and check under Logon and Scheduled Tasks tabs for any unusual entries. If you don't know what something is, and the Publisher is listed as Microsoft, don't mess with it. Any non-MS stuff in those 2 areas should be safe to disable without hurting your system.

  2. Process Explorer gives you a live view of the processes running on your system, basically a more advanced version of Task Manager. You can scroll through it for unusual processes, and you can even check stuff like rundll.exe processes to see the arguments used to launch it, which is SUPER useful.

  3. Process Monitor is essentially a history/ log view of all processes on your system, starting from when the program is run. Think wireshark, but for processes. You can filter out known-good processes. You can search for strings. If the process is launching, executing, and terminating too quickly to catch in Task Manager or Process Explorer, it will still show up in Process Monitor.

  4. TCPView is sort of like netstat, but with lots more info. You can use that to watch for unknown network connections, in case the thing you're seeing is performing some kind of network beaconing.

  5. Lastly, I would personally check for 3rd party driver software like printer software, Razer or other HID controllers, sound card software, etc. I've seen third party hardware controller software do weird stuff like this, because most of it is so badly written. I'd almost be more surprised if it turns out to be malware, than if it turns out some HP Printer software is doing an ink check every 10 minutes or something.

t3rmit3 , (edited ) to Technology in Paying everyone the same salary, no matter where they work from

I don't wish for other people to be paid differently based on what I'm doing.

Do you think that if a team member who is producing less starts getting paid less, they're going to work more? No, if anything they'll produce even less.

Have you honestly felt resentment towards someone else because you chose to do more work than they did? You're the one who controls how much work you do. How is it fair to them that your labor output level sets the bar for the salary? If they haven't been let go, then it actually seems like they're the ones closer to the actual proper output level for the salary, and you're the one overproducing. Also, studies show that people overestimate their own contributions towards group work and underestimate others'.

That mindset is how you get a bunch of workaholics who are all terrified that someone else is producing more.

Chillax. Find your own groove that you feel is fair to your pay, and live in it.

t3rmit3 , to Socialism in Maine Coalition for Palestine Blocks Traffic, Protests Genocide in Gaza

Hell yeah.

t3rmit3 , to Free and Open Source Software in Initial Impressions of GrapheneOS

Thanks for this writeup! I've been interested in Graphene for a long time, but I don't buy phones very often, and I've never owned a Pixel phone, so I have to enjoy it vicariously.

t3rmit3 , to Socialism in The ICJ Sides With South Africa Over Israel in Scathing Ruling

Fuck me, I thought you were being facetious with that quote. He actually fucking said it...

t3rmit3 , to Technology in Microsoft phases out WordPad (and Cortana) after 28 years of duty

True, OpenOffice and LibreOffice are more direct replacements for a word-like interface. I use markdown for all my rich text editing needs, so in my mind Sublime3 and Notepad++ are the only replacement editors I think of (both support live markdown display with a plugin).

t3rmit3 , to Technology in What's behind the tech industry's mass layoffs in 2024? : NPR

This is a cycle that has existed for decades now. Hell, it's existed ever since Capitalism took hold, and laborers became just another "interchangeable part" to a business.

We were really bad about protecting workers from it, until it the combination of anti-labor actions by businesses disrupting WWI war manufacturing (resulting in the National War Labor Board), as well as the Great Depression-era judicial (and physical) fights over striking, resulted in actual labor protections under Hoover and Roosevelt.

Now we're seeing the effect of decades of corporate lobbying (as well as brain-dead "Libertarian" mindsets among Centrists and Republicans) to weaken employee protections. Businesses have realized that they can, without consequence, use cycles of firing and hiring to manipulate their financials to have more favorable short-term outcomes.

t3rmit3 , to Technology in Microsoft phases out WordPad (and Cortana) after 28 years of duty

This definitely sucks for the average, non-technical user. We can all use Sublime3 or Notepad++ or whatever other replacement tool we prefer, but the average user has no clue about those and will be tricked into thinking that paid-for Word is the only real easy and good option.

t3rmit3 , to Technology in Microsoft phases out WordPad (and Cortana) after 28 years of duty

I mean, I think they literally provided the preferred, truthful version of the statement?

“We never invested in this because we want you to buy the paid version. Now that the paid version has completely eclipsed the free version we will be deprecating it”

t3rmit3 , to Socialism in March Against Genocide Isn’t News to New York Times

NYT has always been biased trash ever since I was old enough to start following news. They've been called out on it for years, and occasionally they run a piece defending themselves and pretending to be totally-absolutely-definitely unbiased... or they just blame the readers.

It got so bad, that last year a bunch of contributors publicly called out the editors for their anti-trans bias.

t3rmit3 , (edited ) to Socialism in Conservatives Are Finally Admitting That They Hate MLK

Conservative policy proposals pretend that no one discriminates, which is not what MLK said, he was talking about the actual end of discrimination.

Conservatives want the law to be blind to discrimination, so they can do it without consequence, and claim that it was merit-based.

Affirmative action, which affirms the discrimination that is present in our culture and takes action to correct for it, does not judge anyone, it explicitly removes a judgement call as to who is most deserving of something, in cases where it has been shown that leaving that choice up to people will result in discriminatory outcomes, by allocating some percentage of a given resource to account for those unequal outcomes.

The conservative perception that affirmative action is discrimination is based on the false premise that everyone has equal opportunity extended to them, and thus allocating some fixed amount of resources for a group is making the outcome inequitable for another.

In reality, the outcomes are inequitable if left alone.

Your use of that quote is in-line with conservative distortion of MLK's beliefs.

Here's a quote from MLK, explicitly about this topic:

Why is equality so assiduously avoided? Why does white America delude itself, and how does it rationalize the evil it retains?

The majority of white Americans consider themselves sincerely committed to justice for the Negro. They believe that American society is essentially hospitable to fair play and to steady growth toward a middle-class Utopia embodying racial harmony. But unfortunately this is a fantasy of self-deception and comfortable vanity.

And from the article:

In reality, King was a proponent of affirmative action, writing in 1965 that “a society that has done something special against the Negro for hundreds of years must now do something special for the Negro.”

For a view into his less mainstream-publicized side, that you won't hear quoted by the Fox News or CNN crowd:

The problems of racial injustice and economic injustice cannot be solved without a radical redistribution of political and economic power.”

t3rmit3 , to Technology in Microsoft lays off 1,900 Activision Blizzard and Xbox employees

all isms need governance always or they cant be stable

Where did I say anything about not having guardrails/ regulation/ governance? I said that if the guardrails run counter to the underlying system's core tenets, that is indicative the tenets are bad, to wit:

to fuck everyone over [to extract value] at all costs

That is Capitalism in a nutshell. Nothing within Capitalism as a doctrine calls for limits to be placed upon value-generation in favor of protecting people.

Contrast this to other systems, (even free market ones like Mutualism where regulation is not present) where an asymmetrical concentration of power is considered inimical or even contradictory to the system's tenets. Asymmetrical wealth and influence structures will always emerge even in those systems, but those systems are intended, from the ground up, to counter that, as opposed to Capitalism which intrinsically encourages and rewards that imbalance.

t3rmit3 , (edited ) to Technology in Microsoft lays off 1,900 Activision Blizzard and Xbox employees

Sadly, Citizens United is just one of the most obvious manifestations of the Capitalist mindset that equates wealth to meritoriousness.

People will unironically say things like, "if you want healthcare, get a job", as though a lack of money negates your right to life. No surprise people think entities with wealth deserve more rights.

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