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[–] aes@lemm.ee -2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (12 children)

no one's fucking downloading Arch to have a quick and easy OOTB experience, and no one's touching Fedora workstation for a lightweight and super tailored OS.

This is a strawman at best, and OP is full of shit.

[–] aes@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

I went on a trawl on email security and privacy.

It doesn't fucking exist.

Regular mails w/e sure

But I'm never talking to someone via email again.

[–] aes@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Fair, although explaining a potential vector for a hypothetical XSS attack and its implications to someone who doesn't know what Javascript is sounds like information overload

[–] aes@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago
[–] aes@lemm.ee 25 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

You download a copy of a photo I took to your computer.

I have a website that lets people see the photo, it's a popular website

Except that photo on my website doesn't point to a copy of that photo on one of my computers, it points to the copy on yours.

Millions of people visit my website, and each time they do, they download your copy of my photo.

Uploading that photo to millions of computers across the world fucks up your internet service. You could also switch out my photo for another one, maybe even an offensive one,, but my website would still point visitors to it.

In the original post, this is what a multibillion dollar corporation, a bank, did to a not-for-profit service that keeps a historical record of the internet.

I hinted at the security implications of what happened, but explaining that would make the analogy too complex.

[–] aes@lemm.ee 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It is a selfish and short view of the world.

Empathy, cognitive, emotional, compassionate, comes more naturally to some individuals than to others.

What you see here is someone who may not understand the situation and its consequences, or has trouble forming a connection with the people impacted by the situation. But the compassion does show, they're reaching out, asking questions, trying to understand.

I don't think that's a sign of a selfish or short-sighted person.

[–] aes@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm thinking of leaving lemmy, too.

Information is worthless without context, but that's all that content aggregators seem to like.

Community is worthless without connection, anonymous text isn't much to connect over.

All Reddit had going for it was a wealth of diverse experiences for people to draw from. For Lemmy, this is at best a side dish, a sprinkle of gold over a pile of shit.

[–] aes@lemm.ee 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

If you don't get it, it's ok.

the way you follow up the psychopathic sense of humour by trying to gaslight people who think something fucked up is fucked up is almost artful

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