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You can be completely against slaves for daring to disrespect their master’s property, while also being against the much worse institution of slavery. This definitely isn’t cognitive dissonance

Well yeah, of your ‘two’ pre-approved options. And even then the majority of people will not have voted for the winner.

“Of your choice” isn’t even true.

It’s just strong evidence that 24/7 footage of most streets is clearly widely available. Doorbell cameras have become effective universal surveillance that effectively anyone can view.

Not a popular opinion for Linux shillers, but I love GNOME. It’s quite simplified but does most what a normal person could want. And Gnome extensions can do basically anything a power use could want.

I think its main criticisms largely stem from saying it’s not very "Windows"y.

Then I have no idea what you’re referring to by ‘what google is doing to android and tried to do to web’ because as far as I know, that isn’t relevant.

What I’m describing is definitively not antivirus. Antiviruses use heuristics (and known checksums of bad things) to scan processes/files/network traffic/system calls for dangerous patterns. They’re not doing real-time checksuming to detect system corruption or malfunction, they’re not comparing known system files because that’s complex and hard to do, and seems to be what the company is claiming here.

I have no idea what Google checksuming you’re referring to but as far as I’m aware that’s a not thing they’re doing to android and trying to do web. Everything Linux (including Android) does some amount of checksums at certain points because they’re useful, but not real-time process checksums. I assumed you were surely referring to them requiring that apps get signed by their certificates, making everything subject to their approval. Which is different from realtime checksumming for integrity.

I don’t think this is accurate. What Google is doing is making the whole ecosystem depend on Google’s approval to be allowed to work.

In this case, they seem to be claiming they’re just doing real-time checking of processes as they run (presumably stuff like checksuming loaded libraries, looking for memory overruns, etc.), and so detecting certain signs of malware or system corruption.

To be honest, based on the announcement it sounds completely unnecessary, but I don’t think they’re at all doing what Google is doing.

Every lib ever: But too much owning your own home is bad because…

These are very subjective arguments, and even the objective points are completely subjective depending on your distro.

I mean one of his arguments is that C++ is just inherently insecure. He just takes Microsoft’s claims at face-value that all their pointless shit is the magical security wall that it claims to be. He buys into the same lie that ACE on a Windows, Mac or Android is somehow much much safer than on Linux. Most of his claims that other OSes are more secure are rooted in “well yeah they do exactly the same but at least they knooow they do”.

I’m not even acknowledging ChromeOS - it is Linux, except it only runs a browser.

99% of this stuff also applies to Windows/MacOS/Android/iOS, except moreso and far more universally. And 90% of this stuff is only relevant if you’re being targeted by some state-funded intelligence like the CIA (cold reading your RAM?? minimum 16-character password?? Keystroke fingerprinting???)

So whatever, I think the hardening guide looks fairly accurate, but unless you’re being spied on by world powers, I wouldn’t consider it worth peoples’ time to read, never mind implement. 90% of people are still going to be more secure by cluelessly using Linux instead of cluelessly using the others.

well alright, maybe just a little bit moreso. But it’s not really a new phenomenon. Microsoft have long-demonstrated they could reach out the computer monitor and slap every user around a bit with a large trout, and still keep 95% of their user base.

This is how people start believing the free market makes it moral for poor people to just die instead

Counterpoint: Look at this dope ass bear.

I don’t listen to anything said by the others, but does Hasan actually support that position? I’m not convinced.

Vaush, then Destiny.

Sure is

Boom, installed, cool addon

A blocklist for malware would be safeguarding. But you can’t claim this is “safeguarding” against… completely safe software?

And it’s not exactly easily overridden, otherwise this post wouldn’t exist.

Sadly, there a few annoying things in Firefox which absolutely are not overridable at all. Firefox is heckin’ awesome, but this just ain’t true.

This is exciting. FWIW, ‘young’ is expected to mean 18-45, but we don’t know until they publish in a month.

Accelerate western brain drain

Those graphs are interesting. How does state ownership grow that quickly over that short a time? Are they just pouring money into nationalising industries? Massively growing state ones? Seizing bad 'uns? All of the above?

Given the government has been pretty stable under Xi’s premiership for that whole period, it must be something circumstantial leading to that heel turn. My best guess is just the realisation that state companies are outcompeting global private ones at every turn now. Very welcome whatever the actual cause.

Also, funny article.

The authorities’ stance since 2020, including regulatory tightening and zero-COVID lockdowns, appear to have inflicted long-lasting damage to China’s private economy, the dynamism of which was a defining feature of its economic miracle in the past four decades. Nearly 20 months into China’s COVID reopening, the private sector has yet to bounce back, despite many pro-private business utterances and gestures from China’s leadership. In sum, the findings here corroborate the view that China continues to suffer from “economic long COVID.”

“The fact that China’s economy is significantly growing with unparalleled state ownership despite COVID, while the private sector withers, just shows how the private sector is the cause of China’s ‘economic miracle’ and that continued, consistent massive state-led economic success just shows how bad the economy now is!!”

Again, it’s very hard to see the inner workings of China from our viewpoint, but one could definitely argue that they’re in the process of doing it. I think it was nary a year ago they passed a major law that mandates worker-elected board members for swathes of companies, and many more similar reforms that increase worker control over workplaces. They’ll probably spend years enforcing and setting all that up. If they do continue with changes like that, then they’re undeniably moving away from private sector control and toward a worker-controlled economy.

China is the only country of its kind, it has no peers to meaningfully compare itself to, so I daresay any fast, radical changes would be a foolish high-risk move that risks collapsing the socialist project globally. The west stands ready to maximally exploit the slightest crack at the drop of a hat, so it can’t risk showing any weakness.

But thankfully, it doesn’t live under bourgeois democracy, it actually can make progress through incremental, gradual change, and there’s definitely an argument to be made that it is doing exactly that.