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.
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
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.
no! that would be immoral! I just stay in silence all the time and never listen to music!
Piracy is bad! How are billionaires supposed to afford their diamond/ruby/emerald encrusted platinum toilets or their gold plated hummers and gold plated lambos or their 20 top of the line, no expenses spared luxury private jets if we pirate things?!
WON’T SOMEONE THINK OF HOW LAZY AND SHITTY BILLIONAIRES ARE?! THEY CUT SO MANY CORNERS AND STEPPED ON SO MANY PEOPLE TO COLLECT MONEY FROM OTHER PEOPLE’S WORK! THEY DESERVE ALL THE MONEY MADE BY OTHER PEOPLE!
This is why autism is so hard to define and why objective information about it is so hard to find.
groups like “autism speaks” are full of bullshitters that constantly talk about how horrible autism is and how it destroys families.
Narcissism destroys families, not autism.
Wanna know something else that pisses me off? Most autism specialists don’t listen. They’ll sit there looking at you talk, but they’ll only take in about 10% of what you say and then they’ll respond to something you never said.
side note! Don’t fuck with people’s lawns, or any other part of their property. Respect other people’s spaces stay on the god damn sidewalk or the road.
You know how Google’s new feature called AI Overviews is prone to spitting out wildly incorrect answers to search queries? In one instance, AI Overviews told a user to use glue on pizza to make sure the cheese won’t slide off (pssst…please don’t do this.)...
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.
Old movies didn’t have nearly as much political virtue signaling that new movies have.
New movies have a “diversity quota” where they literally put a numbers on the cast members and production crew members based on their race, gender and so on. They try to quantify how diverse things are.
freedom to express views contrary to community, government, etc without retaliation
Actually…forcing everyone to dox themselves will prevent that, which is why all of the worst candidates want to do it.
Anyone who’s gay or trans, or even if they just have left wing political views…everyone who hates them will know exactly who they are and where they are.
That’s unsafe in ALL circumstances. The only one who should get to decide who reveals your real location should be you and you should have full control over who you reveal it to.
The Internet Archive is under a DDoS attack (bsky.app)
Brought to you by the Department of Erasing History.
$1 grilled cheese (Does anyone else here like their food super simple and plain?) (mander.xyz)
Who said that? (lemmy.world)
I’ve done this a lot…even though I’m not confirmed to have ADHD, I’m autistic though
Ant smell (mander.xyz)
A snapshot of heaven? (lemmy.world)
Valve confirms your Steam account cannot be transferred to anyone after you die | Your Steam games will go to the grave with you (www.techspot.com)
Giving Windows total recall is a privacy minefield (www.theregister.com)
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Every time I hear news from the tech industry lately (lemmy.world)
Autism rule (midwest.social)
the people I know don’t listen and often hear the opposite of what I say. That’s why I have to repeat myself a lot.
I really like this song! but screw the rest of the album! (lemmy.world)
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It’s a work in progress (i.redd.it)
I’ve been like this ever since I quit school.
How Google RUINED the Internet (youtu.be)
CEO of Google Says It Has No Solution for Its AI Providing Wildly Incorrect Information (futurism.com)
You know how Google’s new feature called AI Overviews is prone to spitting out wildly incorrect answers to search queries? In one instance, AI Overviews told a user to use glue on pizza to make sure the cheese won’t slide off (pssst…please don’t do this.)...
Become my copy (lemmy.world)
What If: No Social Media Anonymity (Edit)
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