• 25 Posts
  • 292 Comments
Joined 2 years ago
Cake day: February 17th, 2024
  • ZkhqrD5o@lemmy.worldtoLinux@lemmy.ml•Grub and the Microsoft Ransomware
    2·
    3 days ago

    IMO, this does nothing because it only gives Microsoft full access to your device. And if you’re special enough to get the attention of someone capable and willing to physically steal your laptop, install a bootkit on it and give it back to you without you even noticing, then it’s just easier to just download the decryption keys from Microsoft at this point. It could have made all of this local like storing it in the TPM, a secure area of the CPU.

    Full disk encryption is cool, but not when tethered to Microsoft. With that, they brought themselves into a nasty position even if they didn’t want to. Just like when Apple made themselves the sole source of installing programmes on the iPhone devices. China gladly used that and is gladly using that.

  • ZkhqrD5o@lemmy.worldtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•U.S. consumers are so fucked up, that they put more than $1 billion on buy-now, pay later services during Cyber Monday
    14·
    6 days ago

    Funnily enough, there is a case as to why the word consumer so often pops up, especially in capitalist context. The first documented case of consumer was in the Middle Ages, in a French dictionary. It derives its meaning from Consumare, Latin for “use” but in a destructive manner. For example, you’d consume a candle or an apple because you’ll use them and then they’re gone, they’re broken/destroyed. Being a consumer back then was a bad thing because people were so ridiculously poor and naturally could not waste. Now contrast that with the same French dictionary which defines customer as a person who routinely buys from the same merchant.

    There’s a reason why this is being used so prevalently today. Customer implies agency, a process of thinking and making a choice, while a consumer just consumes. Let me give an example. “We need to check how the consumers will receive it.” it implies zero agency on the “consumers” part. Like feeding a toddler. But if I just say “We need to check how the customers will receive it”, it again implies agency that we have to do well to satisfy the needs of the customer and not just try feeding a toddler by using dirty tricks.

  • ZkhqrD5o@lemmy.worldtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•Pedo planet
    292·
    8 days ago

    I just want to say that our language use has now been so poisoned by a child predator being called “pedophiles” because “pedo” is greek for child that we attribute just the word to a child predator. IMO pedofile is a bad word because there is zero love involved, they are child predators.