It just clicked in my brain. What I haven't been able to articulate about why I'm so anxious about #Windows Recall. I'm sure others have already gotten to where I am.
It's worse than "a system that tracks everything you do" and stores that info in a basic database that could be easily compromised.
It's worse than a nanny surveillance tool for companies to spy on their employees.
It's inescapable.
It doesn't matter if I make a dozen "how to disable recall" tutorials. The second YOUR data shows up on someone ELSE'S screen, it's in THEIR recall database.
It won't matter if you're a master #security expert specialist. You can't account for EVERY other computer you've ever interacted with. If a family member looks up an old email with your personal data in it, your data is now at risk.
If THEIR system is compromised YOUR data is at risk.
I just went from "vague feeling of unease" to "actively writing templates to canvas elected officials, regulators, and attorneys general."
What Democrats don't seem to want to accept is, "Once you participate in a genocide, you have lost. You have utterly failed as a democratic institution. You are the Bad Guys."
@angiebaby
The ones calling for students to be arrested for attempted freefom of speech appear to be fully aware they are the bad guys. They just need to get rid of as much of democracy as possible in preparation for handing the white house over to King Trump.
Having a private VPN is cool, on the train in Italy, but connected to my home network! On the not-cool other hand I just got fined 50EUR for not validating a bus ticket after getting off the plane.
I don't have 'controversial' opinions - like weak right wingnuts like to say about me.
I have strong personal, disabled POC woman opinions. They developed via my own life experiences & witnessing injustices as 3rd party.
I don't consider it controversial to stand up/speak up for injustices. I find it controversial, when people don't do that. I find people who don't do that to be cowards in several areas of life too.
People who refuse to live true to their own core values are all cowards.
Results on my #survey about trackpad tap to click.
114 responded.
65% enable tap to click and love it!
29% disable tap to click.
6% had tap to click enabled and hate it!
So about two thirds prefer tap to click.
Personally I would argue that it should be off by default, but I belong to the last group. I was finding that I was having a lot of issues with my trackpad and most went away when I changed the setting. I still have an issue at times that clicking sometimes leads to right clicking.
I have been using trackpoints for years, so I guess I am rather used to an experience with clear button clicks.
@jon@kly
I'm sure the quality of the trackpad makes a difference (how good it is at figuring out what the user intended) as well as what people grew up with.
Personally, I find it works perfectly fine on my Macbook, but needed to turn it off on every PC I've ever used - but the one on my Mac is more like a hidden button under the trackpad. I can feel the difference between touching and clicking.
@jon@kly
Like I said, it's a combination of quality and what you grew up with. The one on my Mac works fo me. Doesn't mean it has to work for you.
However, your description also makes me suspect we are talking about different generations. Mine only has two levels - move and click. There is no clicking harder.
I'm going to ramble a bit, but it will hopefully come around to something. When I was growing up, I read a lot of older historical book series, a big one would be the Little House On The Prairie series. While I really enjoyed it, there are some very obviously negative portrayals of Native Americans and African Americans. I remember being angry about it as a kid, and my Dad telling me, that part of learning about history is that we have to acknowledge the people we were, and still are. But because Little House on the Prairie is only semi-autobiographical, I still have mixed feelings about this. I do think they are well written books by a female author, an interesting perspective on early American life, and as an adult I can see and acknowledge the issues with the text. If we try to get rid of every author with racist ideas there wouldn't be much left to read from the 20th Century, and it also feels like being dishonest about who we are. So, I'm very mixed, how do you all feel about it? Do you think children can handle books with racial issues like this if it's explained to them? What is our responsibility here?
If you #bike in #Baltimore, you might be interested to know that Margo Bruner-Settles's anti-bike-lane billboard truck ran a red light in front of me today.
@Tevis@WhyNotZoidberg
That may be because many places in the US do it backwards. The parking lane should be between the road and the cycle lane. Not the other way around.
Negative reviews on #Steam that begin with "this game is too expensive" drive me crazy. Seriously, I'll be the judge of that. If you feel like penalizing an independent game because you think it's too expensive you're an asshole.
@gabrielesvelto
On the other hand, if I get three hours of gameplay for $3, a $50 game better have 50 hours of gameplay, otherwise it IS too expensive - or too short, depending on how you look at it.
Windows: We have miraculously slammed AI into your operating system, against your will, because we are technical wizards and amazing and you will love our new guessing game software being always sitting there on the toolbar
Also Windows: oh, gee, your operating system is out of date and useless, pay up to upgrade to something that works better than this dogshit
@Paxxi@textfiles
Wsl and sandboxing aren't things regular users care - or even know about. And they sure aren't going to convince me to give Windows another try either.
WEEK 31: Students outside Columbia university passing food and water through the gates to the protesters. Collective punishment going on in the middle of New York City.
The US has two major parties, the far right and the further right. When I was a child, adults compared them to our two right wing minority parties, and both US parties have been sliding further right since then.