triplenadir @ triplenadir @lemmygrad.ml

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"pet theory" = my angriest Lemmy upvote yet

they could have made their shitty DM system end-to-end encrypt messages by default, instead of burying that feature[0] in chat settings

or, they could have used their MASSIVE wealth and lobbying power to directly fight the warrant in court (if there even was one, they have a long history of just requiring a form ostensibly signed by any cop to turn over private data)

or they could have just lied and said they couldn't find the data

I don't disagree that people shouldn't trust Facebook but saying "they don't have a choice" is absurd

[0] https://www.facebook.com/help/messenger-app/786613221989782

correction: it was both! fedbook chat also supported xmpp at first, they never federated but you could at least use it with a jabber client. then when they had enough market share they killed it.

fun semi related fact is that whatsapp, at least a couple of years ago, was using modified ejabberd (ie an xmpp server) as the backend - so arguably they helped with EEE too.

this is a total tangent but historically the pedal that's not your gas or clutch is a "brake" and if drivers are causing you or your car to "break" then you should definitely get their insurance details and they should go back to driving school 🙃

try a gel seat cover. you can also get drop-front seats so it's more just under your butt

90-and-counting downvoters just can't get enough of the taste of boot

Hey what's a good response to "can't we just 'silence' threads.net instead"?

"unlike reddit" mm I'm sure they have RIGOROUS controls over which creepy staff / disgruntled plutocrats / repressive regimes get access to their voting database..

best I can think of is internet search for the exact filename in quotes. AFAIK the hash is based on properties like torrent name which would he hard to guess maybe?

To be clear, I hope places just cut straight to Linux, I'm saying it seems likely there'll be a transition period. It still takes time to retrain on a different word processor or spreadsheet software, especially if you've been using Microsoft's 20+ hours a week.

I think you're right that government departments would use Linux in the long term… seems to me it could take months, if not years, for workers to learn all the new ways of doing things, virtualise / wrap / port any Windows-only software they're using, replace or write drivers for any non-Linux-supporting hardware they use, and fill any holes in accessibility tech – I've heard that JAWS is a long way ahead of Linux equivalents.

Setting up a fake license server, or rolling out something like MAS using Group Policy might make a lot of sense in the meantime...

I don’t see any option to either pirate every copy of Windows

https://github.com/massgravel/Microsoft-Activation-Scripts 🏴‍☠️