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Microsoft is reportedly banning Palestinians in the U.S. for life for calling relatives in Gaza

A BBC investigation reveals that Microsoft is permanently banning Palestinians in the U.S. and other countries who use Skype to call relatives in Gaza.

Reportedly, Microsoft has been banning and wiping the accounts of users who have leveraged Skype to contact relatives in Gaza. In some cases, email accounts over a decade old have been locked, destroying access to banking accounts, OneDrive storage, and beyond.

United States resident Salah Elsadi lost his account of over 15 years in the dragnet. “I’ve had this Hotmail for 15 years. They banned me for no reason, saying I have violated their terms — what terms? Tell me. I’ve filled out about 50 forms and called them many many times.” Eiad Hametto from Saudi Arabia echoed the report, “We are civilians with no political background who just wanted to check on our families. They’ve suspended my email account that I’ve had for nearly 20 years. It was connected to all my work. They killed my life online.”

Many of the users affected by the bans expressed that Microsoft may be falsely labelling them as Hamas

Kyrgizion ,

Remember: today it’s “just” the Palestinians and you may not be affected or care. But tomorrow, it could be you.

BassTurd ,

Yep. If you ever shared a political opinion, that could put you on someone’s naughty list. If that someone gets a position of power and decides they want to attack, well, you could be the next metaphorical Palestinian.

Deebster ,
@Deebster@programming.dev avatar

Voting on Lemmy isn’t private (and is probably for sale on closed platforms) so just upvoting an opinion might be enough to get you on some lists.

brbposting ,

Downvoted your comment just to be safe

Man, messed up innit. & how could it be made private without enabling a whole different set of bad actors (astroturfers, marketers, political axe grinders)

smiletolerantly ,

I have always been pro-privacy, but in a kind of lukewarm, “I wish someone would do something about this” way.

What has finally pushed me to ditch services from large corporations over the past couple of years is not really a concern for privacy, its a drive for self-sufficiency.

As basically the last stepping stone, as of a couple of weeks ago, my email, calendar and contacts are self-hosted, and it’s just… So freeing.

pineapplelover ,

https://lemm.ee/api/v3/image_proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Fexternal-content.duckduckgo.com%2Fiu%2F%3Fu%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.ushmm.org%252Flcmedia%252Fphoto%252Flc%252Fimage%252Falpha%252Fusma0084.jpg%26f%3D1%26nofb%3D1%26ipt%3Deaa9580a0a53552af645b321eeebf63370a33d506ac3b459bb590f191c609a5f%26ipo%3Dimages


<span style="color:#323232;">First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a trade unionist.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.
</span><span style="color:#323232;">
</span><span style="color:#323232;">—Martin Niemöller
</span>
Bezier ,
@Bezier@suppo.fi avatar

This is what I fear the most with these platforms. They have these shitty automated moderation systems that can just decide to delete everything you have there on a whim. Already common on places like youtube and facebook, but it just keeps getting worse. Every site is pushing users into signing in with their google/microsoft/whatever accounts.

Remember the guy who lost access to his smart home when amazon banned him for no reason?

Mrkawfee ,

It isn’t even on a whim. They get pressured to act on “anti semitism” and define that to mean anything that offends Zionists.

UltraMagnus0001 ,

The ADL is usually responsible.

Silverseren ,

Not under their new owner, since he's the one that pushed for the definition change in the first place, among many other blatantly biased changes to the ADL in the past decade.

NoneOfUrBusiness ,

The ADL has always been like this. Remember when they defended Apartheid?

14th_cylon ,

well it wasn’t for no reason, it was for stupid reason, which is different, but i agree with your sentiment.

if you are depending on a platform where you are the goods being sold, not the customer, you shouldn’t be surprised if you are taken of the shelf on a moment’s notice.

everyone has a choice.

Bezier , (edited )
@Bezier@suppo.fi avatar

well it wasn’t for no reason, it was for stupid reason, which is different

Yeah, guess I ovesimplified a bit. For anyone not aware, it was one report of racism towards a delivery driver.

The accusation was completely false, and even if the guy actually were a racist pos, remotely disabling devices he paid for and owns is not a good road to go on.

14th_cylon ,

Yeah, guess I ovesimplified a bit. For anyone not aware, it was one report of racism towards a delivery driver.

ok, that doesn’t even make sense, but it shows how wildly different and random the “reasons” can be.

i was thinking about the case where guy took a photo of some rash on his son’s penis to send it to a doctor and some automated system flagged it as child pornography.

brbposting ,

EFF: Google’s Scans of Private Photos Led to False Accusations of Child Abuse

Based on NYT reporting: A Dad Took Photos of His Naked Toddler for the Doctor. Google Flagged Him as a Criminal.

Wild. Obviously I want treatment for all the sick people abusing kids but that automated flagging was not the way.

Google Photos: showing your son’s penis rash to underpaid randos but calling the cops on you

14th_cylon ,

underpaid randos

while you are technically correct, i would refrain from disrespecting these poor people.


Facebook content moderators in Kenya call the work ‘torture.’ Their lawsuit may ripple worldwide

By EVELYNE MUSAMBI and CARA ANNA Published 9:52 AM GMT+2, June 29, 2023

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — On the verge of tears, Nathan Nkunzimana recalled watching a video of a child being molested and another of a woman being killed.

Eight hours a day, his job as a content moderator for a Facebook contractor required him to look at horrors so the world wouldn’t have to. Some overwhelmed colleagues would scream or cry, he said.

apnews.com/…/kenya-facebook-content-moderation-la…


wired.com/…/meta-kenya-lawsuit-outsourcing-conten…

www.bbc.com/news/technology-57088382

brbposting ,

I remember that story. Thanks for that perspective - certainly, no disrespect is intended. In the context of people who should ever see your child in the nude, social media company employees are strangers which I used a synonym for. Strangers who aren’t paid enough for what they do. “Underpaid randos” sounds OK at the moment but I’ll sleep on it.

14th_cylon ,

no disrespect is intended

i didn’t mean to accuse of anything, it is just morbidly interesting how many layers there are to this modern dystopia we are being lured into right now.

before reading that story, i wouldn’t give content moderators second thought as well.

Modern_medicine_isnt ,

I use Gmail, and am concerned about the same thing. But of the alternatives I don’t know any that have wide support for social logins, which are damn convient.

14th_cylon , (edited )

it doesn’t have to be clean cut.

i have my personal and important mails in my private mailbox, on my own domain. i use gmail as a backup and spam mail, i use it everywhere where i assume the mail can go to some spam database sooner or later.

so if i lost access to it one day, i would lose history of some confirmations from various eshops and shit like that, but nothing that would really cripple me.

i would definitely not put my family photos there and hope they stay there forever.

which are damn convient

and that’s how they get us…

Modern_medicine_isnt ,

Yeah, see that is the issue. The social logins (though not for anything real money related) and the photo backups are so well integrated. Nothing really competes. My personal emails are even less of a concern to me than the rest.

sunzu ,

Look into zero knowledge email providers

dukethorion ,
@dukethorion@lemmy.world avatar

So what you’re saying is, that there is now an easy way to delete your MS account?

smb ,

i am sure that only affects the data YOU can ever access, but never the data already stored for later abuse ;-)

Leate_Wonceslace ,
@Leate_Wonceslace@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

This is the final nail in the coffin for me. My next PC is going to be a Linux machine.

todd_bonzalez ,

Your current PC can become a Linux machine by lunchtime. What are you waiting for?

Jrockwar ,

If only I could install it on the Surface Pro X…

Damn, they worked so hard to gain goodwill in the last few years and it seems they’ve set out to destroy it in record time.

WSL and WSL2, Android Apps, working with Qualcomm to get their ARM computers to a credible state, the new Powershell and the push to open source so many things…

And in the past 12-18 months they’ve been crashing and burning, either backtracking on those things or by starting new initiatives to become scummier and scummier. TPM, Copilot, the ad situation, abusing their position of power with office/teams, the giant safety holes in the Recall feature… But it seems every day there’s something new in the news. It’s never ending.

Gingernate ,
Jrockwar ,

That’s a nice project, but the last update was from 2 years ago and it needs way too much work to be close to usable. Windows 11 might be getting ads but at least audio works…

To be Done:


<span style="color:#323232;">Support for Audio Subsystem #21
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Support for LTE/Modem #22
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Support for Webcams #23
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Support for External Display Ports #27
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Support for Suspend #29
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Support for TrEE Services #37
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Support for Sensors #38
</span><span style="color:#323232;">Support for GNSS/GPS #39
</span><span style="color:#323232;">UEFI ResetSystem() crashes #41
</span>

Various other issues can be expected, see the issue tracker for details.

Gingernate ,

Yeah I kinda figured that, just did a quick Google search and found that.

I’ve got a dell xps15, awesome Linux experience no issues with any hardware. Also think pads are great as well.

Jrockwar ,

The problem I have is that this covers a very niche use case for me. I want it to be a tablet - lightweight etc, but not be constrained by mobile apps. I don’t want iOS’ version of lightroom, I want to have Darktable and Rawtherapee and a full fledged Visual Studio code, and well, you get the picture.

I don’t need a laptop because I also have a MacBook Pro - I went this way because Apple’s processors are too far ahead to ignore. So I can take AMD but my opinion is that intel’s offerings are just not competitive and I’m not buying any of them.

This leaves me with very few options - I’d be keen on buying an AMD-powered Ubuntu tablet but they don’t seem to exist.

And also my surface works perfectly fine, so spending a non-trivial amount of money and ewaste just to change OS seems rather silly. I’m sticking to that one for now.

Gingernate ,

Yep all very good points! I think Linux will catch up with the mobile processors soon.

todd_bonzalez ,

they worked so hard to gain goodwill in the last few years

I have no recollection of this.

FlyingSquid ,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

If only I could install it on the Surface Pro X…

I’m not surprised that you can’t, but I’m still disappointed.

I_Has_A_Hat ,

Installed? Sure, you can do that by lunchtime.

Getting it set up? Making sure all your drivers are working right? Troubleshooting issues? Finding alternatives to programs you need that don’t work on Linux? Especially for someone who has never used Linux before? That will take much longer.

fern ,

By lunchtime? Yes, yes, yes, no, no are your answers.

Leate_Wonceslace , (edited )
@Leate_Wonceslace@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

The last time I used a Linux PC was around 2012 with something called “Egyptian Hax” that my sister set up because she wanted me to play NetHack, so a guide would be a great start. I’m aware that WINE has gone through some vast improvements, but beyond that I don’t really know where to start, what distro would be good for me, or anything else.

Edit: not getting mocked for admitting my ignorance would be a huge encouragement as well, tbh. It’s hard not to be resentful when a community is hostile to new members. Calling someone a slur for not already being a part of the in group is a great way to keep people from joining. 👍

smiletolerantly ,

Start with Linux Mint. It should be a very pleasant and straightforward experience right out of the box, and is just in general very beginner friendly. I recommend to create a live USB (basically, download the ISO from the Mint website, then use something like Balena Etcher to put it on a USB stick). You can then boot off that stick, and try Mint out to your heart’s content, without risking your Windows install or data at all.

Can I ask, what are the programs you wager you’ll have to emulate through wine?

Leate_Wonceslace ,
@Leate_Wonceslace@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

I’m saving this so I can look at it again this weekend.

I’m not one for making bets unless I know something that I suspect someone else doesn’t, but I wouldn’t be surprised if most of the games I have on steam need wine to run on Linux. My understanding is that wine is a compatibility layer, hence the name, correct?

smiletolerantly ,

Ah, good news in regards to gaming, esp. Steam gaming!

Steam invested quite a bit of energy into “Proton”, essentially a new kind of compatibility layer. If you remember tinkering around with wine and winetricks from years ago, that’s basically gone nowadays.

For most games, just go into the Steam settings for that game, and under “Compatibility”, check the box.

Then click download, and play. That’s it for most games 🎉

Also check out protondb.com - it’s basically a community-sourced database cataloging how well Steam games work on Linux.

Good luck on your Linux journey, and feel free to ask questions if something comes up! :)

5too ,

And if you’ve been letting Steam store your save data, you should find that your save files for most games will still be available in Linux! Mileage will vary per game of course, but jumping between OSes has been pretty seamless for me!

dditty , (edited )

I got a steam deck last fall and so far the only game I’ve run into that doesn’t work with my windows cloud save is Dark Souls 2

z00s ,

Don’t let the gatekeepers put you off. The Linux community is quite helpful if you can get past their garbage. Every guru was once a noob 👍

drcobaltjedi , (edited )

I’m also going to recommend Linux Mint, its a really friendly beginner distro. I’ll presonally recommend you do Linux Mint Debian instead of normal linux mint since regular linux mint is Ubuntu based and really loves snaps.

The default user env is cinnimon which is going to look a lot like Windows 10 making the transition easier. If you want to install steam its literally a command line away from installing and then its ready to go. That and Steam personally pushing for Linux as a viable gaming platform there are a lot more games now that work out of the box now on steam.

WhiskyTangoFoxtrot ,

Mint doesn’t use snaps at all by default. It has a regular .deb repository supplemented by Flatpaks.

drcobaltjedi ,

Really? I swore I’ve been told that the regular mint uses snaps since ubuntu loves them. I haven’t used mint since snaps were a thing eitherway.

Leate_Wonceslace ,
@Leate_Wonceslace@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

I’m saving this to note down that the flavor I’m most likely to want is “Cinnamon”. I didn’t really understand the rest, but thank you!

drcobaltjedi ,

Would you like an eli5 for some stuff you’ll see in the linux community/forums/etc?

I’d personally be happy to give you a quick rundown of some stuff.

MehBlah ,

Don’t listen to people who mock you for asking a question. They are never the people whose advice is worth listening too. Start small. Get 8gb or bigger thumb drive. You can even use an external SSD. USB C would be the best. Follow the guide below or find a guide of your own. Start with Ubuntu. It isn’t perfect but it is the most popular distro out there. Be aware this installation is going to be laggy due to it being on a slower thumb drive. This will allow you to see that it just works. Games might be slower loading due to the thumb drive. I use steam daily and only have seen a few games I couldn’t play. Everyone was due to the ham-fisted drm the games had implemented.

itsfoss.com/ubuntu-persistent-live-usb/

Alternatively you can install a second hard drive in a PC and use both safely without fear of problems. I’ve been running linux as my daily driver for over ten years. I still have a windows installation that I can boot into if needed. Usually for firmware updates that only can be performed in windows. Currently I haven’t needed it in over a year.

Leate_Wonceslace ,
@Leate_Wonceslace@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

I may look into Ubuntu if I have time this weekend. How does it differ from mint?

I’ve heard about it, but nothing of substance.

MehBlah ,

I will probably get a lot of hate from this but Ubuntu is simply more mature than mint. I’ve used mint and it works. The main gripe with Ubuntu is its use of snaps for many applications. They are not ideal but they do work. The main problems you may run into with snaps is the same problems you will run into with flatpak, appimage or docker.

Its a little more complicated to get persistence but my current main boot flash drive I carry with me daily is a 128gb thumb drive running ventoy. Ventoy is great because all you need to add a iso to the thumb drive is simply copy the iso over to it. Getting persistence is a little more complicated but the ventoy installer has a web gui that makes it easier. The ventoy installer is available for windows and linux. www.ventoy.net/en/download.html

On my bootable flash drive I have Debian, Ubuntu, Mint , kali, tails and even a arch installation with persistence. I also have several other utility iso’s including hirens_PE. I have installers for windows as well. I mainly use the linux installations for rescue and diagnostics on windows PC’s. I have however ran machines with no hard drive at all for weeks at a time without any problems at all.

So using rufus to make a bootable thumb drive is okay for a single OS with persistence but you can use ventoy and test several distros to find what you prefer.

Leate_Wonceslace ,
@Leate_Wonceslace@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

When it comes to computers I’m an average nerd.

The main problems you may run into with snaps is the same problems you will run into with flatpak, appimage or docker.

This means nothing to me other than “there are some things that are more complicated with Ubuntu compared to Mint”.

MehBlah ,

Snaps, flatpaks, docker etc… are small compressed applications that come with all the dependencies to run in a container. Their advantage is that they can run without installing all the extra dependencies on the host installation. They often suffer from random bugs such as permission errors. Along with many having questionable possibly malicious sources. The Ubuntu devs have went all in on them. Many people enable flatpak on mint to get some application that isn’t included by the package manager. What I was trying to convey is that these differences and the arguments they enable are kinda like watching two old farts at a coffee shop arguing over whether a Ford or a Chevy truck is better. In the end snaps and flatpak have some utility but are often a sore subject for some.

What matters is if you get what you want. For instance on Ubuntu you can install steam as a snap or install the actual application. Both work fairly well. You will be able to play most games by using steam and proton or by using other helper apps to install your games. The names of these are winetricks, lutris or playonlinux. Asking which one is best will often trigger arguments similar to asking what distro is the best.

I personally slowly eliminate snaps from my Ubuntu installations by compiling the applications myself. Not everyone enjoys doing that kind of thing. No matter what you choose you can usually get it working. With Ubuntu you will have quite a bit more support in the form of posted solutions and walk throughs but distros like mint are catching up a bit.

emergencyfood ,

Write down a list of the software you use (e.g. web browser, office suite, notepad, image viewer, video player, … ). Download Linux Mint from here and use Balena Etcher to write it into a pen drive. Switch off your computer, plug in the pen drive and switch on. DON’T INSTALL YET. Run Linux ‘live’ for a couple of hours, see if everything (speaker, printer, webcam, all the software you listed above) is working correctly.

Once you have confirmed that all is well, copy your files into an external hard drive, confirm that everything important has been backed up, and then install Linux from the pen drive. (You can have both Windows and Linux on the same computer, but then Windows should not be given internet access or it will ‘update’ and mess up everything. This can be repaired using, for example, this software, but why bother?)

Leate_Wonceslace ,
@Leate_Wonceslace@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Saved. I’ll look at this Sunday if I have time (I’m making that PCM developed by NightHawkInLight to use for a few planned events).

Ty very much!

ripcord ,
@ripcord@lemmy.world avatar

Will believe it when it happens.

Leate_Wonceslace ,
@Leate_Wonceslace@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Have you considered that you don’t know me?

ripcord ,
@ripcord@lemmy.world avatar

It’s not personal. I’ve just seen hundreds of people claim “that’s it, I’m installing Linux on my system tonight/this weekend!” In response to one of these articles. Very rarely do people seem to actually follow through.

If you do, great! Although already putting it off until your next system isn’t a good sign.

Leate_Wonceslace ,
@Leate_Wonceslace@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

I’ve been vassilating on it for a couple years, actually. I was going to do it when I built a PC (I just had a laptop for college) but then my parents bought one for me while I was in the middle of figuring out what parts to get with my sister’s help. It’s probably my fault for telling them about it around my b.day, tbf. 😂 I used a partitioned system that she helped set up for me 10 years ago or something like that, but I wanted to make one that was just a Linux PC, and for the past few years the idea of installing Linux on my current computer just never occurred to me because my plan became obsolete. The brain is a funny thing.

ripcord ,
@ripcord@lemmy.world avatar

Nice!

i_have_some_enemies ,

“I will stop smoking next year”

soloner ,

Not even remotely comparable situations

i_have_some_enemies ,

Stop smoking you weak ass woke turd

i_have_some_enemies ,

You tried to be funny but you are actually disabled, even unable to install linux. Lol

z00s ,

Why wait? Install it now. I would recommend Mint as a beginner distro.

Leate_Wonceslace ,
@Leate_Wonceslace@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Noted, thank you!

WhiskyTangoFoxtrot ,

The next version of Mint is in beta right now and will likely release within a few weeks. Might want to hold off until then.

uis ,

Or OpenSUSE Thumbleweed. Or OpenSUSE Slowroll.

Leate_Wonceslace ,
@Leate_Wonceslace@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

How does that compare to mint?

uis ,

I did not use mint, so it is hard to compare for me. But people say that it is easier to use than mint.

To be honest I used Tumbleweed long time ago(around 6 years), I’m using Gentoo for last 6 years.

djsaskdja ,

Why do people keep recommending Mint as a starter distro? Maybe if your computer is a toaster, but it lacks tons of modern features. Seems like a one way track to people thinking Linux sucks. Fedora KDE edition is a way better beginner distro for a halfway decent PC.

Krzd ,
@Krzd@lemmy.world avatar

Because the UI is similar to windows, so it will feel more familiar to (ex-)windows users

todd_bonzalez ,

The UI is similar to Windows.

Which UI? Linux Mint comes in three flavors: Cinnamon, XFCE, and MATE.

Nobody has suggested a specific flavor, and those desktop environments vary quite a bit.

Krzd ,
@Krzd@lemmy.world avatar

True, I meant cinnamon, which (IIRC) was the default/suggested to you when you went to the website.

todd_bonzalez ,

It isn’t default or suggested. It says that it is the “most popular”, but my point is that if you’re making a beginner choose a desktop environment before they even install Linux, you’re setting them up to be overwhelmed.

oo1 ,

who are these adult humans who can’t face choices? I don’t really understand how or why they even chose their PC in the first place.

It sounds like such people will be a lot better off with android or mac, or windows or chromebook. If they want to do games get a console.

It’s sort of like if a person has no enthusiasm for or interest in cars, they might be better off with a rental.

if you really want to make another version of something like chromeos for this audience, there is nothing stopping you. But the free/foss open source world is always going to have choices that bamboozle these people who can’t look at the mint website and pick one, or just resolve to test all three.

todd_bonzalez ,

It’s not about being unable to face choices, it’s that if you make beginners make choices about things they don’t yet understand, they won’t be able to make an informed decision, and they will feel overwhelmed.

I don’t understand why people don’t just recommend vanilla Ubuntu. It’s popular, it’s easy, pretty much every Linux Desktop troubleshooting article is written in the Context of Ubuntu. There’s only one flavor of it, so you don’t even have to learn what a Desktop Environment is until you’re ready to get there.

If you want more Linux users, you need to lower the barriers to entry. If you gatekeep Linux by demanding that people already understand things like the differences between different DEs before they’ve even installed the OS for the first time, you can expect that people will keep using Windows.

Microsoft spends billions of marketing dollars pushing Windows. Linux doesn’t have a marketing department, that’s up to the community. We can’t be marketing Linux as harder to use while Microsoft markets Windows as easier to use, not unless our goal is to boost Microsoft’s profits.

djsaskdja ,

KDE is closer to the modern Windows UI than Cinnamon. Cinnamon looks like Windows XP which nobody has used in like a decade. It’s not a familiar UI anymore​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​.

FlyingSquid ,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

I use Mint and I like it. It does everything I need it to do.

What keeps people away from Linux, or at least it helped keep me away, were people arguing with each other about distros like a mini-OS war within the OS wars and it makes the whole thing sound like it’s a lot more trouble than it’s worth.

Most people’s computers are “toasters” because most people’s computers are used for things like web browsing, word processing and maybe a few games. They don’t need the modern features, they need something that works better than a Chromebook and isn’t super bloated.

todd_bonzalez ,

Do you know what also keeps people away from Linux? Being told that Linux Mint is a good distro for beginners, and then going to the Linux Mint website and finding that there are three different flavors, Cinnamon, XFCE, and MATE, and not knowing what any of that means because you’re a beginner. Beginners don’t benefit from incomplete information that requires prior knowledge, and every time I see “use Linux Mint” without any clarification on Desktop Environments, I see a jerk who doesn’t know what “beginner” means.

dukethorion ,
@dukethorion@lemmy.world avatar

As someone who did exactly this, the differences are spelled out pretty clearly for “Linux beginners”. System reqs and included features all there to read…

PepperoniNipple ,

The average person does not read or understands instructions of any kind related to PCs. This is something tech-savy people suck so hard at: having patience for those people. You expect them to be like you or a certain way that is not possible for them or simply won’t ever happen, and you get mad or blame them for it, instead of offering the solution they need, which is a more intuitive software design, be more direct with the information, explain things like they are beginners, not like they have used Linux before and know what even sudo is, stuff like that

Excrubulent , (edited )
@Excrubulent@slrpnk.net avatar

I remember when I was first learning linux, I found this super evangelistic website explaining how totally easy it is to use linux nowadays (this was about 15 years ago, so that was a fucking lie).

They gave some basic task as the first example of something you might need to do, and they said, no shit, “It’s easy! Just open up the terminal and type…” and I closed the website.

Not because I couldn’t do that instruction, I was working in IT and I already maintained multiple linux servers, but because of how utterly unhinged that instruction was. I didn’t know if their information would be useful, but I did know that I couldn’t trust their judgement anymore. You cannot tell people an OS is “easy” and “for everyone” then transition straight into “open up the terminal” in the same goddamn breath. They didn’t even explain how to open up the terminal, because of course it’s different everywhere and they wanted universal instructions.

I really, really want to make linux work for me. I have four linux machines in my home, although three of them are raspberry pis, and i have tried it in laptops and on my main machine many times over the years, always finding it more trouble than it’s worth. But I have never seen any indication that the community has ever moved on from, “It’s easy! Just open up the terminal…”

Statements dreamed up by the utterly deranged.

PepperoniNipple , (edited )

You nailed it. We love to repeat that sentence, “it’s easy”, myself, wrongfully included. I do believe that lying to your brain that whatever you have to do is easy kind of makes you try harder and for longer, you break problems down and stuff, but not everyone is like this at all.

Whenever my dad calls me to ask about a problem in his PC, I always start energetic and happy to help him, with a good tone in my voice and everything. But I start losing my shit the longer the call lasts, because he doesn’t know anything, how to stop a process from the task manager, how to disable unnecessary startup programs, how to use a translator quickly in any website, etc. I become condescending because he likes to read me everything he sees on the screen first before clicking on the button I just told him to click on, everything, from top to bottom, every popup and warning. In windows. I always tell him that it’s easy, that it’d just take him maximum 1 week to learn, but still, he is always reluctant of it, he just wants to do his job, not learn about Windows or Linux at all

I’d lose my entire head if he tried Linux, because instead of buttons and intuitive icons it’d be a bunch of commands that even for me still look mayan most of the time. He’d easily fall for the sufo rm -r command if he followed a tutorial online, and that bothers me a lot. Linux is really not user-friendly as they think they are or claim to be yet, it seems like it’s getting closer, but the fact that a lot of it relies on using a terminal is already an instant-loss. I am sorry, but nobody wants to use the terminal, as cool as it might look while doing so or how gratifying it is to learn about it; the majority of people want speed without having to learn anything about how to achieve that speed

And before one of those deranged fools come here just to say “lol dude, your dad is just dumb” as a counter to all this, I’d say no dude, he is not, he is a goddamn fine architect, he just doesn’t need to learn the same crap that you and I have learned, we are a literal minority in this. He knows shit you don’t know, just as we know shit he doesn’t, and this applies to anyone of any age in this world, isn’t about age or whatever, it’s just about being interested in the topic, and not many are interested on a black box with weird-looking commands written in it, or how an OS works at all

Excrubulent ,
@Excrubulent@slrpnk.net avatar

Yeah, I think one of the issues is that a knowledge gap is a very hard thing to bridge. Part of that is the classic thing that “we don’t know how much we don’t know”. But there’s a similar thing with knowledge, where people don’t know how much they know.

Like with the terminal, once you get comfortable with it, it is really easy to get things done, but you really have to have a certain kind of disposition to get to that point, even with the right kind of help - like with your dad, if he’s not interested to learn you can’t make him. You have to already be deep into the ecosystem before you can say “it’s easy”, and by that point you are so far removed from the average user’s experience that you can’t understand why they can’t just do what you do. And unfortunately, the people most expert at using linux and therefore developing it are also the people deepest in the ecosystem.

There’s an empathy gap that’s hard to bridge, but it’s not impossible. Like if you’ve ever finished The Outer Wilds, it’s an incredible game that is only gated by your knowledge. It’s a unique experience that you can’t repeat. The only way to attempt to experience it again is to sit down and watch another person’s playthrough of it. I’ve done it multiple times, and each time is a unique and difficult experience, because you already know the answers, and they are so painfully simple once you know them. It’s a real struggle of empathy to actually be able to enjoy it.

You can do a similar thing with other freeform puzzle games like The Witness. It’s just that The Outer Wilds is unique in that it shows you in stark contrast how vast the gap is between knowing and not knowing, and you have to bridge that gap constantly in order to engage.

So that’s my ramble on that subject, but that’s what I think is happening. I think apart from people willing and able to bridge that gap, the solutions to this issue involve more resources dedicated to improving the ecosystem and making it friendlier, and also just more uptake making the system stronger and exposing its weak points as people learn it, making the empathy gap less of a problem. As we are, proprietary systems have sucked up all those resources and market share, which has starved open source. It’s a slow climb out of that hole but I have to believe that eventually there will be a critical tipping point.

zippythezigzag ,

I just switched one of my PCs to Linux mint. I am not that smart with computers. I have never used Linux before. I have no experience in changing operating systems. All I did was buy a flash drive stick and used my phone to go to Mints website and follow their directions. That was a month ago. It was a great decision. Mint is amazing and im glad I did it. I am currently getting ready to switch both my wife and my gaming computers over to Mint as well.

maxenmajs ,
@maxenmajs@lemmy.world avatar

I don’t understand why it’s so mainstream to equate Palestine with Hamas. It’s as if there is an actual conspiracy going on to to support this genocide. Is it because it’s so easy to say you’re antiemetic if you oppose “the Jews”?

Linkerbaan OP ,
@Linkerbaan@lemmy.world avatar

It’s completely normalized racism. America has been institutionalizing Islamophobia for years to justify their invasions of the Middle East where we kill millions of innocent civilians “terorrists”

Before the 2000’s a lot of that manufactured hate was directed towards Asians because we needed to justify war crimes in Japan, Korea, Vietnam, Laos etc.

Snowflake ,

Without America the Palestine people would have starved to death years ago. Their own Arabian brothers won’t even help them. America doesn’t need to institionalize islamaphobia when they do it themselves. You can look into any Islam media and you would find they actively burn u.s. flags on state media and call for our destruction. Nothing was needed to justify your made up war crimes in any of those countries because they all started the wars. Japan bombed pearl harbor. North Korea invaded South Korea. Vietnam Gulf of tonkin. Etc etc.

bamboo ,

Without America, Palestine would be united and free by now. A single multicultural country from the river to the sea that can recognize and celebrate its diverse people and history. Instead though we have a genocidal European colony.

BigLgame ,

Lol fuck off with that hard angle, also the Gulf of Tonkin was a false flag.

Maggoty ,

The fun thing with Tonkin is it doesn’t even need to be a false flag, it can credibly be explained by a bad radar return. I don’t know which is is a worse basis to get 400,000 Americans Killed? (Including Agent Orange and Suicide numbers)

ashar ,
@ashar@infosec.pub avatar

Haha that was funny. Mentioning the Gulf of Tonkin incident as justification for war and really meaning it

UnderpantsWeevil ,
@UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world avatar

Without America the Palestine people would have starved to death years ago. Their own Arabian brothers won’t even help them.

Iran won’t help Palestine, but also Iran is the shadowy hand behind Hamas.

Egypt won’t help Palestine, but the CIA/MI5 need to coup the elected government every decade or three when it gets to Muslim Brotherhood-y.

Lebanon won’t help Palestine, but Israel says there are tunnels into Gaza from Lebanon so they need to start bombing again.

Turkyie won’t help Palestine, but the IDF had to murder Turkish aid workers in 2010 to prevent their aid flotilla from reaching the shore.

Snowflake ,

Iran won’t help Palestine, but also Iran is the shadowy hand behind Hamas.

Your point being what? That they fund Hamas so they’re helping?

Egypt won’t help Palestine, but the CIA/MI5 need to coup the elected government every decade or three when it gets to Muslim Brotherhood-y.

Somehow Egypt helps them by having secret govt backed coups? Instead they could have just taken in refugees but why would they do that? They’ll just have a coup instead.

Lebanon won’t help Palestine, but Israel says there are tunnels into Gaza from Lebanon so they need to start bombing again.

So Lebanon helps the Palestine people by building tunnels where Hamas stored weapons and hostages?

Turkyie

I recall the Turkish police raiding those same charity offices accusing them of being linked to Islamic terrorists.

NoneOfUrBusiness ,

Your point being what? That they fund Hamas so they're helping?

Uh... Literally yes. Palestinian Islamist resistance is the only notable resistance movement in Palestine.

Somehow Egypt helps them by having secret govt backed coups? Instead they could have just taken in refugees but why would they do that? They'll just have a coup instead.

My man the Egyptian government is an American puppet what are you talking about?

So Lebanon helps the Palestine people by building tunnels where Hamas stored weapons and hostages?

Literally yes. See above.

Billy , (edited )

So Palestinians are Hamas?
Why is Iran not helping Fatah?
Their support of Hamas is on ideological grounds. Israel is holy waqf land that belongs to Muslims and should be cleansed from Jews.

Even when Egypt had sovereignty over Gaza they made sure to prevent Palestinians from going to Egypt.

Tunnels from Lebanon… to Gaza…? Where’d you read that?
Hezbollah begun bombing Israel in support of Hamas. They’re also funded by Iran (much more than Hamas though).
Meanwhile Palestinians live in camps in Lebanon. Some of those walled and surrounded by watchtowers.
They have less rights there than anyone else (including refugees and migrant workers), despite living there for 3 generations at this point.

Turkey under Erdogan has been mostly hosting Hamas leaders while bombing Kurds in Syria.

I don’t think much needs to be said about Assad.

The only country in the area which actually helped Palestinians was Jordan. Although that also changed for a while after Black September.

Most of UNRWA’s funding over the years has come from the EU and USA.

Maggoty ,

He’s really bad at sarcasm. He’s trying to point out the inconsistencies.

UnderpantsWeevil ,
@UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world avatar

Israel is holy waqf land that belongs to Muslims and should be cleansed from Jews.

That’s crazy because I’ve heard Israelis assert the exact opposite.

Most of UNRWA’s funding over the years has come from the EU and USA.

There’s a certain dramatic irony in funding UNRWA, paying Israel to bomb UNRWA, and then claiming you’re the only folks providing aid to Palestinians.

Billy ,

That’s crazy because I’ve heard Israelis assert the exact opposite.

Yes, religious extremists exist also in Israel.

There’s a certain dramatic irony in funding UNRWA, paying Israel to bomb UNRWA, and then claiming you’re the only folks providing aid to Palestinians.

I’m not the one who wrote USA is the only one providing aid.
What you quoted is the reality. The bulk of the funding over the years has been from the USA and the EU.

prole ,

LO-fuckin-L at using Gulf of Tonkin, a well known false flag operation meant solely to draw the US into a protracted conflict we had no business being in. 🤡

Snowflake ,

I mean sure maybe the August 4th incident was overblown but the August 2nd 1964 incident did happen where our ship was attacked by Vietnam torpedo boats. Maybe you get attacked and don’t do shit at all about it who is the real clown there?

ShepherdPie ,

Right?! Could you imagine if some country attacked one of our naval ships and we didn’t do anything about it?

Maggoty ,

Hold on, I need my popcorn for this!

Snowflake ,

The 6 day Israel-Arab war. A casualty was encourred and Israel pleaded it was an accidental casualty of war. They made concessions.

The gulf of tonkin. Not a casualty but a calculated attack.

Maggoty ,

Yep complete accident. Have you read any of the reports? The ship was broadcasting it’s nationality in every way possible. The only way it was a mistake was if the Israelis turned off all of their communications and fired with their eyes closed.

Snowflake ,

Yes indeed I did. It’s completely false the ship was broadcasting nationality in every way possible. The ship wasn’t even suppose to be as close as it was because they were experiencing multiple communication failures. Nice bullshit comment though.

Maggoty ,

The ship was in international waters and clearly not a warship. That orders to move away given in an abundance of caution didn’t arrive in time has no bearing on the situation. It should not have been attacked for that reason alone. Pilots were clearly able to identify the ship as there are several recorded exchanges in Israeli headquarters about it being an American ship before it was attacked and visual contact with pilots was their only contact with Israeli forces until they were attacked. So even the attacking pilots should have known. The only reason they would attack anyways is if they had direct orders to fire, with that knowledge. In fact in one of the recordings they bring up the American ship and are ordered to fire anyways.

Once there was an attempt at communication, the response was ignored and they were torpedoed anyways.

There’s no way to interpret this as anything other than a brazen and willing war crime to neutralize an American ship.

Snowflake ,

Pilots were clearly able to identify the ship as there are several recorded exchanges in Israeli headquarters about it being an American ship before it was attacked

I’ve read the unclassified investigation reports. A lot of what you say is simply made up. In fact pilots initially thought it was an Egyptian vessel through efforts to identify the ship which was clouded in smoke after failing to signal the ship to identify themselves. It wasn’t until after the attack launched and one torpedo boat approached an opposite side of the liberty did they see the ships hull number therefore realizing they falsely identified the ship and called off the attack.

Once there was an attempt at communication, the response was ignored and they were torpedoed anyways.

Yea because their shoreline was being shelled for hours at that point and the ship was heading towards one of their ports. You may not realize but every minute matters in war. The Liberty ignored the request to identify which was one of a few mistakes made.

Maggoty ,

You read the Israeli propaganda then. Because this is all a matter of public record, even the Israeli pilots doing the attack have admitted they were able to read the ships identification off the hull after they bombed the flag away.

The IDF has shown itself to be completely incapable of telling the truth and American presidents just accepted that during the cold war. But that time is gone and over. Public sentiment is finally turning against the apartheid regime. So the second your last silent generation defender is gone the sanctions are going to come. Your F-35s are going to be like Iran’s F-14s.

Snowflake ,

Yea that’s a pure lie. Israeli pilots didn’t identify a hull number. The only pilot to identify the ship was a helicopter pilot who was able to see the small flag it was flying after getting closer to provide assistance. You realize the ship was clouded in smoke while pilots tried to identify it like a smokescreen. And you say a pilot hundreds of feet away seen through the smoke a hull number.

I will say Israeli Navy not air force did identify the ship earlier that morning but I’m done here. Don’t care to break this down further to you you’ll just counter with some lala land bullshit.

Your F-35s are going to be like Iran’s F-14s.

See like this one. Lmfao. Keep dreaming.

prole ,

Ohhhh got it, only one false flag attack was committed by the US. That means the war in Vietnam was justified.

To be clear regarding “false flag” operations for anyone unaware: this entails attacking our own military in order to provide spurious cassus belli to enter a conflict we had no valid reason to enter. In this case, a civil war on the other side of the planet, in a bay we should never have been in to begin with.

How stupid does a person need to be to think that, not only was the war in Vietnam justified, but that the Gulf of Tonkin false flag incident is that justification?

Snowflake ,

Vietnam torpedo boats attacked our ship on August 2 1964. Deny that fact as much as you want. Our ship was in international waters when attacked. There were multiple justifications to get in that war I don’t really care to get into them. Tldr: We help our allies and protect democracy in the region.

pop ,

We help our allies and protect democracy in the region.

LMAO. Your military protects interests of the billionaires and their economy. It has fuck all to do about democracy.

But keep guzzling whatever you already are, those braincells aren’t going to repeat propaganda by itself.

Snowflake ,

South Vietnam allied. Democracy in the region couldn’t fall because it creates a domino effect where democracy looks week.

Wtf are you talking about billionaires. Our military protects the interests of all our allies especially European and Asian.

prole ,

🤡 👟👟

Snowflake ,

You use re-vanced lmfao. Fuck outta here brokie. Just a sad propagandized loser who despises their own country.

prole ,

Lol nothing says confidence like going through someone’s comment history to try to find things to hurt them… Good think I’m not ashamed of either of those things.

And just to clarify the latter: criticizing your own country because of the awful things it is doing ≠ hate. Usually it’s literally the opposite. If I despised my country, I wouldn’t be so distraught as I watch it being sold for parts for next to nothing.

🤡 👟👟

Maggoty ,

You heard it here first folks, war crimes don’t exist if they burn your flag!

NoneOfUrBusiness ,

You can look into any Islam media and you would find they actively burn u.s. flags on state media and call for our destruction.

Well yes. Do you have any idea how much US neo-colonialism has harmed the Middle East over the past 70 years? Your country supports ISIS for fuck's sake go touch some grass.

Also why do you think their Muslim brothers won't help them? Surely not because most of the Arab world is run by American puppets.

UnderpantsWeevil ,
@UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world avatar

www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/…/7644/

Early in 2001, the commission presented a report to the incoming G.W. Bush administration warning that terrorism would be the nation’s greatest national security problem, and saying that unless the United States took proper protective measures a terrorist attack was likely within its borders. Neither the president nor the vice president nor any other senior official from the new administration took time to meet with the commission members or hear about their findings.

The commission had 14 members, split 7-7, Republican and Democrat, as is de rigeur for bodies of this type. Today Hart told me that in the first few meetings, commission members would go around the room and volunteer their ideas about the nation’s greatest vulnerabilities, most urgent needs, and so on.

At the first meeting, one Republican woman on the commission said that the overwhelming threat was from China. Sooner or later the U.S. would end up in a military showdown with the Chinese Communists. There was no avoiding it, and we would only make ourselves weaker by waiting. No one else spoke up in support.

The same thing happened at the second meeting – discussion from other commissioners about terrorism, nuclear proliferation, anarchy of failed states, etc, and then this one woman warning about the looming Chinese menace. And the third meeting too. Perhaps more.

Finally, in frustration, this woman left the commission.

“Her name was Lynne Cheney,” Hart said. “I am convinced that if it had not been for 9/11, we would be in a military showdown with China today.” Not because of what China was doing, threatening, or intending, he made clear, but because of the assumptions the Administration brought with it when taking office. (My impression is that Chinese leaders know this too, which is why there are relatively few complaints from China about the Iraq war. They know that it got the U.S. off China’s back!)

HomerianSymphony ,

So what you’re saying is: Lynne Cheney has been wrong for 23 years so far.

UnderpantsWeevil ,
@UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world avatar

Plenty of folks on here have bought into the China Boogeyman narrative. Her family’s propaganda has been devastatingly effective. We likely will be at war with China in another generation, given our current trajectory.

Maggoty ,

China isn’t blameless. Factory and camp narratives aside, their naval actions are bellicose.

UnderpantsWeevil ,
@UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world avatar

their naval actions are bellicose

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/14d7b478-8569-416a-9d50-ee506bdbf54b.jpeg

The atrocities that western nations have had to commit to keep a foothold in places like Osaka, the Philippines, Indonesia, Pakistan, and India really disqualify any of these folks from claiming another country is “bellicose”. We’re still out in Oceania committing genocides of native peoples, to this day.

That’s before you get into some belly-aching about a Chinese warship sailing through the Straight of Taiwan, as though its not American property.

Maggoty ,

Hahaha. First of all this is old, there’s not any bases in Afghanistan anymore. Second, this is the same propaganda Russia runs with about NATO. They do belligerent stuff and then complain when their neighbors ask the country with a bigger stick for protection. Also, did someone include HK in this graphic? I know there’s lots of US bases in the Pacific, but I think someone is gilding the lily.

But also no, it’s not just about sailing a ship through Taiwanese waters. We do the same thing to China all the time, just to remind them that under international law that’s okay.

It’s conducting war games that completely surround Taiwan.

It’s claiming a ridiculous area for it’s EEZ, far larger than international law allows and completely disregarding any potential EEZ for other countries in the area.

It’s sinking fishing vessels in international water

It’s hacking the government systems of it’s neighbors

The list goes on…

UnderpantsWeevil ,
@UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world avatar

there’s not any bases in Afghanistan anymore

There actually are several NATO installations still in and around Kabul to secure the international airport and the US Embassy.

It’s conducting war games that completely surround Taiwan.

The US also conducts war games across the South China Sea, including between China and Japan and through the Chinese territorial waters in and around the Korean peninsula. These have become tit-for-tat exercises, and would stop if the US was no longer in the region.

It’s claiming a ridiculous area for it’s EEZ

Glances at the US base map Yes. Ridiculous.

It’s sinking fishing vessels in international water

Show your work. When did China conduct a military operation to sink a fishing vessel?

It’s hacking the government systems of it’s neighbors

I’m sure they’ll quit right after the NSA does.

Maggoty ,

Buddy. There are no more NATO forces in Afghanistan. The Embassy was evacuated. Bagram was evacuated. Years ago now.

And why is China punishing Taiwan for American war games? They have plenty of ocean to use. And are you now claiming Jeju Island for China?

Our bases are not an Exclusionary Economic Zone. The Nine Dashed Line is indefensible.

Oh, now I need to prove stuff after you show up with a gilded lily of a meme masquerading as a map?

And I don’t dispute that the CIA hacks governments. I also don’t pretend it’s going to make them our friend or blame those countries for seeking protection from the CIA.

SSJMarx ,

It’s conducting war games that completely surround Taiwan.

This is not a one sided provocation. We do war games with South Korea and Japan every year where we pretend to invade China and North Korea.

It’s claiming a ridiculous area for it’s EEZ, far larger than international law allows and completely disregarding any potential EEZ for other countries in the area.

The waters that China (both the PRC and ROC btw) claims were promised to them under an international treaty that predates the League of Nations China never agreed to cede those waters, other countries started sailing in them during the Chinese Civil War when neither side could enforce their claim, and the modern UN’s position is that China lost their claim through lack of enforcement.

It’s sinking fishing vessels in international water

You mean the one fishing vessel that sank in an accident? The Chinese crew was grossly negligent, sure, but you make it sound the PLAN is sailing around shooting at fisherman.

It’s hacking the government systems of it’s neighbors

We all do that. I agree it’s bad but there would need to be a mutual stand down agreement.

Maggoty ,

We do not pretend to invade China. There is no plan to invade a country of a billion people with a Normandy style landing across the entire ocean. That’s a ridiculous claim. And as for planning to fight NK, you think maybe their constant nuclear threats against the US West Coast have anything to do with that?

South Korea has been an ally for 70 years, we aren’t just going to leave them. Trying to make defending allies and aggressively going after the vessels of other countries in an insane claim of an economic zone equivalent is just ridiculous.

According to China, the claims predate modern civilization entirely. That doesn’t make them true or consistent with international law.

It wouldn’t matter if it was just one vessel, but no it’s not. And the Chinese Coast Guard didn’t play it off as an accident. They said the Vietnamese fisherman had refused to leave the area China was claiming. For more fuckery let’s look at them stealing military supplies from the Philippine Navy.

Like I said above, the list goes on. And if all we ever do is conduct a war game to remind NK they aren’t shit we could never be as aggressive as China.

pop ,

Hahaha. First of all this is old

wow what an attitude. everything will get old, so you’re fine with your sides atrocities cuz they’re “old” but it’s just not acceptable with others. Hahaha, suddenly a saint of peace, eh?

It more seems like you’ll be fine by no matter what your side does, and will have deflections lined up with propaganda but are gonna have a meltdown when it’s the other side doing what you fuckers do without consequences.

Attitude like yours is why there’ll never be peace.

Maggoty ,

No it’s also wrong. The US has never had a base in Hong Kong. And most of the bases in the area pre-date China’s rise to being a regional power, much less their modern stance.

This is just straight up main character syndrome in national form.

Also we aren’t out there sinking or seizing Chinese vessels and threatening invasions. Our entire stance is, “leave our allies alone”.

But leave it to someone from .ml to ride in and try to twist the truth in China’s favor.

HomerianSymphony ,

Why would China engage in military conflict with the USA when they can just sit back and watch the USA collapse on its own?

Maggoty ,

Because a good solid shove can always make a collapse happen earlier.

ShepherdPie ,

I don’t understand the overarching point of this comment.

Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In ,

Military Industrial Complex needs to be fed.

ShepherdPie ,

In reply to a conment about racism and Islamophobia, mentioning that “Liz Cheney thought we’d be going to war with China” doesn’t really track.

Snowflake ,

Do you ignore the majority of Palestinians support Hamas? It’s factual reality the majority of Palestinians democratically voted and elected Hamas which ran on a destroy Israel agenda. In reality they asked and started this war due to that election. It’s not because it’s so easy to say they are antisemitic it’s because it is factually correct to say it.

Linkerbaan OP ,
@Linkerbaan@lemmy.world avatar

Every sentence in your comment is another israeli propaganda lie. None of them are factually correct. Congrats on a new Hasbara record.

Snowflake ,

From river to sea, right? They can’t even make it past the river though.

Linkerbaan OP ,
@Linkerbaan@lemmy.world avatar
ZeroHora ,
@ZeroHora@lemmy.ml avatar

So all Americans are dickheads because Trump won democratically in 2016?

atrielienz ,

What if you changed that statement to all conservatives instead of all Americans? Because not all conservatives support Trump or voted for him in 2016. But he is now representative of them.

Like. Hamas wouldn’t exist without the actions of Israel. And that is exactly why so many Palestinians have thrown their support behind Hamas. But that doesn’t mean Palestinians, Hamas, or even conservative Americans are a monolith.

The point is rather that the group is being labeled in such a way to discredit efforts to give Palestinians the human rights everyone should have. It’s the same thing that happened with the Black Community in the US and the black Panthers. This has been a thing for centuries with just about every grass roots or guerilla militia in existence. At some point if you buck the ruling classes power, you become a target and the propaganda follows.

ZeroHora ,
@ZeroHora@lemmy.ml avatar

I don’t know why you replied to me.

I agree with you is impossible to say ALL people from a country is something based on who wins a election. Sometimes the winning candidate doesn’t have the majority if you count the opposition + people who do not vote.

My original comment is sarcastic, it seems that I need to add /s to be clear.

bamboo ,

This guy answered “what would you do?” with “enthusiastically support the Nazis”

Maggoty ,

They didn’t actually support Hamas in 2023, until Israel bombed them into the stone age and supported shifted. Which is the same phenomenon we’ve seen in every war with a massive bombing campaign since 1936. They did vote democratically, and that vote was blocked by Israel and the US. The platform though was a moderate one in which they drew a line between Israel and people. They very much want to destroy the country but they believe they can live with the people as long as there’s not an apartheid power structure. A line they still have in their doctrine today, a line people like you blithely ignore. Also that election was nearly 20 years ago. Are you admitting that Hamas and Israel were already at war? Usually the party line is there was peace and doves and olive trees until the barbarous Hamas blew it all up. And the people in Hamas are also semites. They are literally semites.

NoneOfUrBusiness ,

Do you ignore the majority of Palestinians support Hamas?

Imagine supporting the only viable resistance organization when you're subjected to a slow-burn genocide. The humanity!

UnderpantsWeevil ,
@UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world avatar

I don’t understand why it’s so mainstream to equate Palestine with Hamas

Decades of Islamophobic propaganda combined with a strong American economic interest in Israel might have played a role.

TankovayaDiviziya ,

I don’t understand why it’s so mainstream to equate Palestine with Hamas.

Because the mainstream is unironically ignorant of the true political and social state of Palestinian society. They don’t realise that Hamas is an extremist Palestinian political party, while the actual moderate Palestinian faction worthy of support is the Palestinian Liberation Organisation. Show them this Wikipedia page of the ongoing civil war among Palestinians and you’d get cricket noises from the average perpetually online mainstream.

Gaza is controlled by the Hamas, while the West Bank is controlled by PLO/Fatah. But no one in the mainstream in the Twiterrati, Facebook and other social media will know that, because they get junk food information from fake news and propaganda or their own bubble in those social platforms.

Maggoty ,

The PLO was voted out in Gaza because they were nothing but Israeli puppets. They actually lost the entire election, but Israel and the US blocked Hamas from taking control of the government in West Bank too. And now there’s this narrative that Hamas violently seized power without acknowledging that there was an election and the result was not honored without that seizure.

NoneOfUrBusiness ,

The PLO isn't worth supporting at all. It's worth tearing down and starting over.

Maggoty ,

Basically we spent 20 years fighting “terrorists”. So now it’s really easy to paint one side or the other as the “terrorists”. And thanks to Islamophobia pushed by mainstream TV shows and Movies, if you get painted as a “terrorist” then everyone in your country is also a “terrorist”.

The word is in quotes because very few of the groups fought by regular forces (regular infantry as opposed to special operations) were actually international militant NGOs like Al Qaeda. Mostly they were local militias mad at the coalition forces for their own reasons, like “Why did you kill my kid in an airstrike!?!”, or “I like the Taliban because they pay me really good for the poppy you torched. Also, you torched my livelihood in a country that has no safeguards against starving to death.” And even the Taliban, ridiculously evil bastards that they are, were never an AQ like group. They were concerned solely with taking back Afghanistan.

All of this nuance was lost on anyone who didn’t read the actual reports coming out of these countries though and many of those reports were classified. So all most people got was their favorite action and/or police drama shoveling the idea that all muslims are terrorists. With a side of Fox News villifying any brown people they could find.

So now, Israel walks in, sees all this, screams “terrorist!” and shoots the nearest Gazan kid. Predictable results were predicted many times by academic scholars.

SpaceCowboy ,
@SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca avatar

Many Palestinian protests have people cosplaying Hamas and waving Hamas flags.

Hanging out with people that like to dress up as a member of a group that wants to kill Jews makes someone a little antisemitic I think.

Denying that there’s an antisemitism problem in the Palestinian movement doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist. In fact that’s the sort of attitude that allows it to persist.

NoneOfUrBusiness , (edited )

Denying that there's an antisemitism problem in the Palestinian movement doesn't mean it doesn't exist.

Uh... Did you expect them to not be antisemitic? I mean it's not a good thing but what other outcome did you expect from 75 years of Apartheid and genocide?

That aside, Hamas is the only viable resistance group in Palestine, other than maybe PIJ (which is more extremist). What do you expect them to do?

Edit: Oh I misread and thought they were talking about the resistance movement in Palestine. Nevermind this guy is just making shit up.

Maggoty ,

Please point to where the anti Israeli movement hates All Arab and Hebrew speakers?

Jews are not the only semites and yes everything I’ve seen in the US is directed at the country, not the people.

NoneOfUrBusiness ,

Jews are not the only semites

Okay this only really works as a gotcha. It doesn't do anything to address the point being made. That aside,

Please point to where the anti Israeli movement hates All Arab and Hebrew speakers?

I misread their comment and thought they were talking about Palestinian resistance in Palestine, not the worldwide Anti-Zionist movement so nevermind anything I said up there.

Maggoty ,

It is a gotcha, but it’s also important to understanding Israel’s victim propaganda. They’re not being truthful. They’re trying to paint any opposition as racist.

A_Random_Idiot ,

Damn, thats some google level behavior.

What the fuck, MIcrosoft.

archchan ,

No, it’s standard corp level behavior that’s beholden to government censorship and propaganda when it doesn’t fit the narrative. You can substitute any big tech company in the US for Google. They all do this. It’s why the government is not a fan of TikTok, they don’t have that same level of control over the flow of information.

DeVaolleysAdVocate ,

that and it is quite literally spyware that sends all the consumer data to the CCP where they can adjust their own algorithms to show things that can sway the minds of people too young to think critically

Amir ,
@Amir@lemmy.ml avatar

it is quite literally spyware

So are Facebook and Instagram, which are apparently not a problem. Remember Cambridge Analytica?

where they can adjust their own algorithms to show things that can sway the minds of people too young to think critically

Every social media platform does this for maximum retention

to the CCP

What’s the CCP gonna do with it that’s worse than what Western companies do with it?

SSJMarx ,

the cpc adjusts the American version of an app operated in Singapore to propagandize Zoomers

This only happens in the minds of the paranoid. China has their own version of TikTok, Douyin, which operates under their media restrictions.

generichate1546 ,

The hell do you think the data from American companies goes‽ Snowden literally told us the US govt is doing the same thing…not saying they should, just asking where is the outrage that we’re being spied on by our own government… It’s plenty there when we’re being spied on by China… And quite frankly I feel like China can do a lot less to me than home can.

pop ,

they can adjust their own algorithms to show things that can sway the minds of people too young to think critically

Ironic. You’re literally commenting on companies adjusting their algorithm to create a narrative and censor something your government doesn’t like.

Think critically next time. You’re not smart as you think you are.

AWittyUsername ,

Yeah what are people going to do when Google starts banning accounts for using ad blockers?

explodicle ,

That’s probably when I’ll finish de-Googling entirely.

dinckelman ,

All of these are a shit stain from the same asshole of corporate USA

CeeBee_Eh ,

What the fuck, MIcrosoft.

Ok, honest question. Are you surprised?

If it was any other company I would be. But it’s Microsoft.

A_Random_Idiot ,

Yes.

I’m no microsoft fanboy, but I am shocked that they would do this. Everyone should be shocked. To be anything but shocked is to be complacent.

This is the kind of shit google does on the regular, Never heard of Microsoft doing anything like this before.

And as I’ve said in response to instances of google doing this, I’ll say it again here. This continues to highlight the dangers of having all your eggs in one companies basket, by choosing comfort and convenience you’ve given your entire digital life over to a company that has no compunctions against metaphorically guillotining it for any reason they want.

CeeBee_Eh ,

This continues to highlight the dangers of having all your eggs in one companies basket, by choosing comfort and convenience you’ve given your entire digital life over to a company that has no compunctions against metaphorically guillotining it for any reason they want.

I agree. Which is why I don’t use anything Microsoft. Even in software projects I go out of my way to not use a single Microsoft dependency or library.

I self-host my own photo auto-upload with Nextcloud. I don’t use Windows. I’m forced to use MS stuff at my work but I managed to get the company-wide policy changed to allow anyone to use Linux or Mac, so I’m running Ubuntu.

I’ve also been working up the effort to ditch stock Android and go with GrapheneOS.

anticurrent , (edited )

They don’t want the stories of the Israeli atrocities commited in Gaza to be leaked to the world.

dan , (edited )
@dan@upvote.au avatar

Friendly reminder to not use freemail accounts (Hotmail, Gmail, Yahoo, etc) for anything important. It’s very hard to get any sort of support as your account is seen as low-priority. Also, always use your own domain so that it’s easy to move to a different provider in the future, without having to change your email address.

FastMail and MXRoute are good options. MXRoute has good Black Friday sales and all their plans include unlimited email address and domains (you’re just limited by total disk space).

Microsoft’s paid plan is decent too. $70/year for a personal account or $100/year for a family account (up to 6 people) and it includes the Office suite, 1TB cloud storage, and email.

LoreleiSankTheShip ,

Some sites and services won’t accept accounts with e-mails outside of the mainstream ones though.

dan ,
@dan@upvote.au avatar

Do you have an example? That’d block pretty much every business customer, including paid Google and Microsoft users (as the paid accounts use a custom domain). I’m not sure which sites and services would want to block all business users like that.

Also, FastMail is definitely mainstream. It’s pretty popular and has been around for 25 years.

AnyOldName3 ,
@AnyOldName3@lemmy.world avatar

It’s at least common on forums as bots love making accounts with non-megacorp email addresses on PhpBB and MyBB forums. Typically, there aren’t people signing up the same services with business emails as personal ones, so if ones expecting not to be used by businesses want to fight spam, it’s generally pretty effective and consequence-free to block email providers not known to have effective anti-bot measures built in.

LoreleiSankTheShip ,

There were 2 online game stores that wouldn’t allow me to register with a protonmail account, AllYouPlay and another one that I can’t recall, which was weird to me

foofiepie ,

Doubt. Which sites?

LoreleiSankTheShip ,

AllYouPlay and another online game store wouldn’t let me register with a protonmail address

foofiepie ,

Apologies for doubt. That’s absolutely bizarre.

ben_dover ,

i’m using my own domain for mails for 15 years now and never had any problems. and i sign up on a bunch of sites

experbia ,
@experbia@lemmy.world avatar

same. I see outrage-obsessed people constantly talk about how using a custom domain or (gasp) running your own mail server is internet suicide and literally impossible because your addresses won’t be seen as real or your mail will never get delivered by anyone. I’ve been doing both for over a decade with no trouble whatsoever, so I wonder how badly these folks are botching their mail setup to be getting that treatment.

dan ,
@dan@upvote.au avatar

I run my own email server, but I use an outbound SMTP relay so that my email get delivered. It’s very very difficult to get emails from ‘new’ self-hosted mail servers into the inbox of Outlook/Hotmail users, unless you own the whole /24 IPv4 range used to send the emails, and can guarantee it won’t become anywhere close to spammy.

Since you’ve been hosting yours for a while, Microsoft might have it marked as ‘trusted’. It takes a while to get to that point though - you need to send them quite a few emails, and users need to not mark them as spam.

PM_Your_Nudes_Please , (edited )

This is largely an issue with top level domains. Things outside of .com/.org/.net tend to get flagged as non-viable email addresses, because it doesn’t fit the specific “@.com” format that the site has programmed their scripts to look for.

Also, spammers and scammers often tend to use TLDs outside of the big three, because the domains tend to be cheaper when they don’t end with “.com”. So the spammer is able to buy and cycle through their domains much faster, because they’re saving money with every single domain registration.

dan ,
@dan@upvote.au avatar

I use [email protected] and usually don’t have issues 😛

Avatar_of_Self ,

Nah not for the big providers. The biggest problem is not having RUA for DMARC set up at all, set to None for the action or having an email in the RUA that will give a bounce message back to a sender (or not having DMARC at all in your DNS). The safe thing to do is set up SPF, DKIM and DMARC (correctly).

You cant always control getting into a spam box from time to time if someone in your IPs /24 makes it onto popular spam databases but that’s very temporary but it is also very possible someone in your /24 is always on the lists. You can check yourself and there are both scripts and sites that will check most of the popular ones for you.

/24 is a very popular CIDR to use for stuff like spam filtering or internet facing IPS.

smb ,

because the domains tend to be cheaper when they don’t end with “.com”.

did a quick check with a weird domain name to not hit reserved ones etc,.

on one domain hoster .com was the second cheapest, only one other offered was cheaper all others offered were more expensive than .com looking at name.com it showed some bit cheaper ones like .pro or .life but majority seems definitively more expensive than .com also most spam i got (as long as i got spam) was genuinely (spf) from .com domains that days. however i do not really get much spam any more 😁

smb ,

really i’ve had that problem once (and only once in > 20years of self-hosted emailling), and guess what? competitors are available, problem quickly solved.

SulaymanF ,

Why would I give Microsoft money if they’re behaving like this?

dan ,
@dan@upvote.au avatar

That’s a reasonable question.

A lot of people are already paying Microsoft, either for OneDrive space or for Office. In that case, you may as well use what you’re already paying for. They’re also much more likely to provide support if you’re a paying customer.

I wasn’t saying to give Microsoft money, I was just saying that their paid plans are good value, particularly in the case where you need Office.

jdnewmil ,

Having used the web version of Office at my job, I know I would not pay for it. It is compatible-ish, but severely lacking in features, enough so that I don’t trust it to render properly or maintain the formatting entered using the desktop app. If that is good enough then there are lots of alternatives.

dan ,
@dan@upvote.au avatar

The plan I mentioned includes the desktop apps, not just the web apps.

The web version of Excel is way better than Google Sheets IMO.

IndustryStandard ,

In this article Microsoft is locking out paid customers. Which does make a good case for them.

dan ,
@dan@upvote.au avatar

Ah, I didn’t realise it affected paid custokers Thanks for the info.

Wilzax ,

Or if you have a little more money, there’s the Proton pass which comes with VPN, Email, Drive, Calendar, and Password Manager. All protected under swiss privacy laws. They have a free tier of their drive with 5GB storage so you can collaborate on other people’s documents without needing to pay yourself, and they have a $120/yr US Tier for 500GB for 1 person, and a $288/year US Tier for 3TB for up to 6 people. If you don’t need that much storage and don’t care about anything other than the email, they have a 15GB plan with just email and calendar for only $48/yr US.

This is not an ad, I am a real person with no connection to Proton except a deep respect for their business, and an even deeper hatred for Microsoft

dan ,
@dan@upvote.au avatar

I think Proton is a good choice. I’ve heard good things about them.

For me personally, I’d be worried about putting all my eggs in one basket. For example, I like having my password manager (Bitwarden) entirely separate from everything else. I know that’s not how the general population thinks though, so I think all-in-one solutions like Proton (and also Microsoft’s and Google’s paid suites) definitely have their place.

Do Proton have a larger plan with just email and calendar?

0000011110110111i ,
Wilzax ,

I think I’d rather have proton be my password manager than anyone else out there, and then take advantage of the other services they offer with it. Unless I wanted to keep my password manager entirely offline, which is far more secure but far less convenient

Petter1 ,

If you use a keepass file, you can just have it on a trustworthy cloud (like private nextcloud server) and sync to the keepass apps via webDav. Works perfekt!

lambalicious ,

I think Proton is a good choice. I’ve heard good things about them.

Well they have been behaving just as Microsoft has been doing if we’re complaining about these kinds of behaviours. Handing over information about environmentalists and freedom fighters to repressive governments, etc.

bitwolf ,

MXRoute looks awesome! I just switch one domain to them to try.They have a lifetime plan right now that looks nice.

I was eager to replace the email bundled with my registrar. Speaking of, could you recommend a registrar that has a similar experience to these?

dan ,
@dan@upvote.au avatar

I have most of my domains at Porkbun.

capital ,

Fastmail is the shit. I feel it’s really underrated. Everyone on Lemmy just knows about Proton.

autonomoususer ,

Meanwhile we get banned here for saying war crimes bad.

UnderpantsWeevil ,
@UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world avatar

You can’t say war crimes are bad, because that helps Trump win. Trump will do more war crimes. Ergo, saying war crimes are bad means you’re in favor of war crimes.

uis ,

You can’t say war crimes are bad, because that helps Trump win.

So am I supposed to root for Putin now?

UnderpantsWeevil ,
@UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world avatar

You need to root for Joe Biden, because he is the only man who has ever beaten Donald Drumpf.

If you are not rooting for Joe Biden, you are anti-American.

Tja ,

Everything in this comment is true.

sugar_in_your_tea ,

Just missing something about Nazis and voting for blue colors.

FordBeeblebrox ,

Can I root for Bernie and begrudgingly vote for Biden at least? This lesser of two old white evils shit is exhausting

UnderpantsWeevil ,
@UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world avatar

Nobody is stopping you.

Dkarma ,

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  • UnderpantsWeevil ,
    @UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world avatar

    Just eat more pineapple.

    ZombiFrancis ,

    That phrase reminds me of a book worth a read: goodreads.com/…/21935933-keep-rootin-for-putin

    prole ,

    Here? On Lemmy? Where did you get banned for saying that?

    irreticent ,
    @irreticent@lemmy.world avatar

    Imaginationland.

    Honytawk ,

    Hexbear and Lemmy.ml

    cro_magnon_gilf ,

    I’ve mostly seen comment removals. Mods seem to use the option to remove comments instead of the downvote button… I tried to make a forum for mod abuse and discussions about how forums are moderated, but so far nobody is using it.

    Post to !mods if you notice patterns of that sort of thing, maybe we can get it going.

    todd_bonzalez ,

    I have some notes:

    None of what you’ve posted in that community includes enough context for me to make an informed opinion about the mod actions themselves.

    The first post you made 7 months ago includes a screenshot, but it doesn’t include the OP, so I have no idea what the Mod is even reacting to. For all I know I might agree with them. You also say it is on the “main meme sub”, but I have no idea what that means, you really need to indicate the exact community you are talking about.

    The next two posts don’t include anything tangible. No screenshots, no permalinks, not even usernames for the allegedly misbehaving mods. Only one of them actually says what community you’re talking about.

    None of what you’ve posted so far constitutes a “pattern” either. You’re mostly just complaining about one-off disagreements that you’ve had with Mods. This isn’t really doing anything to help hold mods accountable.

    And in your posts so far, you make a lot of extremely suspect complaints:

    In your first post you claim that a mod removed a meme for being “not funny to feminists”, which kinda sounds like code for “sexist meme”. You then go on to say that the mod “is surprisingly tolerant for a feminist”.

    In your second post you say that a mod “removed comments that weren’t feminist”, and sarcastically bemoan “so much for politics”.

    In your third post claim that a mod removed a comment for “not voting left”, but then go on to complain that others in the thread (not mods) called this person a Nazi. I don’t see what any of the other users comments have to do with anything if your goal is to hold mods responsible, but it’s also fairly telling that you think being called a Nazi is disagreeable, but won’t provide the context…

    Quite frankly you come across as a anti-feminist shitlord who has decided to be a busybody and make a whole community for you to be butthurt about feminist and anti-fascists mods. The reason nobody else contributes to the community you started is because you’ve set the bar so miserably low.

    irreticent ,
    @irreticent@lemmy.world avatar
    cro_magnon_gilf ,

    Those are great notes, thank you! It’s kind of a low-effort community though, I must confess. I figured if more people wanted to be part of it, it could become more serious with better formatting. Since that hasn’t happened, I just threw in some stuff now and then to have any content at all.

    Quite frankly you come across as a anti-feminist shitlord who has decided to be a busybody and make a whole community for you to be butthurt about feminist and anti-fascists mods. The reason nobody else contributes to the community you started is because you’ve set the bar so miserably low.

    But yeah, you’re right that might have meant I set the bar low. I was never much of a content creator. As for anti-feminism, yeah I am anti feminist. Not because I don’t support and respect womens rights, but because under the guise of feminism, men become second-class citizens, due to the unfaultering belief that women always deserve more, and that being a man is a sin that should be punished. But that’s not what the community is about. Anybody is free to post there.

    Woht24 ,

    How dare you speak ill of Daddy War Crimes

    SeattleRain ,

    Stallman was right again.

    lambalicious ,

    Always has been.

    paf0 ,

    Probably the first time they have paid attention to Skype.

    StaySquared ,

    Guess that officially adds Microsoft to the BDS list? Unless it’s already on the list.

    ADTJ ,

    BDS?

    StaySquared ,

    Boycott Divest Sanction

    Maggoty ,

    Good luck? They effectively have a monopoly on large portions of the market.

    StaySquared ,

    Have to start somewhere, for example, instead of throwing a Microsoft based PC at your kids to do their school work, have them use Linux. Phase Microsoft products out of your homes/lives.

    autonomoususer ,

    Microsoft are terrorists.

    Tja ,

    Microsoft is a private company and they can ask you to leave, no reason given, anytime.

    And they have a history of over 30 years of being evil, manipulative and anticonsumer. If you base your online life on the good will of Microsoft you will be very disappointed sooner or later.

    KillerWhale ,

    Why do people sprout this bullshit. You can’t discriminate against a protected class that includes race, gender, age, disability, national origin, religion,

    rottingleaf ,

    What’s the funniest (and saddest) is when people who are supposedly against private discrimination repeat this when it fits them.

    autonomoususer ,

    They already do.

    Tja ,

    They aren’t. The are discriminating “for no reason at all”. Feel free to sue them. Godspeed.

    sugar_in_your_tea ,

    Unfortunately, I don’t have standing as I’m not a Microsoft customer or Palestinian, nor do I have relatives or any contacts for that matter in Gaza.

    Tja ,

    Having relatives anywhere is not a protected class, to begin with.

    sugar_in_your_tea ,

    Surely if I have relatives that are a protected class, I’d also likely be a protected class as well, no? Especially if I was kicked from their platform specifically because of the protected class…

    But that’s irrelevant because I’m nowhere close to having standing to sue. The closest thing is that my SO is an naturalized citizen from another country, but that country is only marginally closer to Gaza than where I am.

    Maggoty ,

    Uh so where do we go for email that’s not a private company and not something that requires tech knowledge to setup your own email server?

    Tja ,

    Where do i buy a car that’s not a private company? Where do I get internet service?

    You can’t. Choose a reputable one. And pay for it, so you are a customer, not the product. Aaaaand I lost 95% of lemmy.

    AWittyUsername ,

    Nowadays we are the customer and the product. Paying doesn’t guarantee you anything.

    Tja ,

    Of course it doesn’t, I said that just above. Gets you a better chance tho.

    masquenox ,

    Just capitalism playing along with genocide - no different than they did seven decades ago.

    Spacehooks ,

    It’s all to stop terrorism!

    So much bs in the name of justice is just laziness

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