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davel , 6 months ago to piracy in Will I get a virus from movie-web.app?

Videos don’t contain malware because videos aren’t software.

It’s theoretically possible that a video will take advantage of a security flaw in a video player, including a browser video player, but I’m not aware of such cases having occurred. As long as you keep your software up to date, it’s probably not worth worrying about.

davel , 6 months ago to worldnews in How Neoliberalism Weakens Economies and Fuels Alternative Systems

Radhika Desai and Michael Hudson are my favorite geopolitical economists.
They do a great YouTube show together, Geopolitical Economy Hour.

davel , 6 months ago to memes in Just sayin

This is one of the most destructive things we’ve done as a society: making our homes into investment vehicles. It is the root cause of people no longer being able to afford housing.

davel , 6 months ago to memes in Different systems, different solutions

Apropos of nothing: posting LIB memes to !memes is risky business,
because meow-tankie might choose to engage with the meme in earnest.

davel , 6 months ago to asklemmy in Similar fables to King Arthur and Robin Hood in other cultures?

I got nothin’ but this tangent: J.R.R. Tolkien did his world building and the novels they’re set in because he was jelly of the rich mythology of the neighboring northern European countries, and wanted England to have its own. I guess King Arthur and Robin Hood wasn’t good enough for him.

davel , 6 months ago to memes in Scrub good. Don't ask questions

On the one hand the super straights don’t wash their asses because that’s gay, but on the other hand the super straights are bootlickers for following orders.

davel , 6 months ago to asklemmy in What was the most unexpected or surprising thing of yours on Lemmy to have been deleted by someone else?

Here’s the other 70%.

davel , 6 months ago to asklemmy in What was the most unexpected or surprising thing of yours on Lemmy to have been deleted by someone else?

Removed by mod

davel , 6 months ago to memes in Happy MLK day!

I’m sorry but only pre-approved, whitewashed, milquetoast quotes from radicals our government assassinated are allowed.

During the lifetime of great revolutionaries, the oppressing classes constantly hounded them, received their theories with the most savage malice, the most furious hatred and the most unscrupulous campaigns of lies and slander. After their death, attempts are made to convert them into harmless icons, to canonize them, so to say, and to hallow their names to a certain extent for the “consolation” of the oppressed classes and with the object of duping the latter, while at the same time robbing the revolutionary theory of its substance, blunting its revolutionary edge and vulgarizing it.

— Lenin

davel OP , 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago) to fediverse in Another “governance” think tank has its eye on the fediverse

Because it’s corporate & tech oligarch “philanthropic” money and military industrial complex money.

davel OP , 6 months ago to fediverse in Another “governance” think tank has its eye on the fediverse

RemindMe! 4 years “federation is going great”

davel OP , 6 months ago to fediverse in Another “governance” think tank has its eye on the fediverse

The ones that don’t choose to may eventually find themselves defederated from the ones that do. We’ll get walled off from the large instances that “play ball”.

davel OP , 6 months ago (edited 6 months ago) to fediverse in Another “governance” think tank has its eye on the fediverse

Your rebuttal to engineer’s disease is to quote Ken Thompson chefs-kiss

From Michael Parenti’s Dirty Truths:

Those who suffer from conspiracy phobia are fond of saying: “Do you actually think there’s a group of people sitting around in a room plotting things?” For some reason that image is assumed to be so patently absurd as to invite only disclaimers. But where else would people of power get together – on park benches or carousels? Indeed, they meet in rooms: corporate boardrooms, Pentagon command rooms, at the Bohemian Grove, in the choice dining rooms at the best restaurants, resorts, hotels, and estates, in the many conference rooms at the White House, the NSA, the CIA, or wherever. And, yes, they consciously plot – though they call it “planning” and “strategizing” – and they do so in great secrecy, often resisting all efforts at public disclosure. No one confabulates and plans more than political and corporate elites and their hired specialists. To make the world safe for those who own it, politically active elements of the owning class have created a national security state that expends billions of dollars and enlists the efforts of vast numbers of people.

As for email, you say that as if Edward Snowden revealed nothing, or that the US doesn’t have a history of injecting backdoors into encryption standards.

davel OP , 6 months ago to fediverse in Another “governance” think tank has its eye on the fediverse

I think that is engineer’s disease thinking.

Running instances costs money & labor, and I predict that many instance admins will be happy to accept various forms of assistance, and the CIA/FBI/etc-backed organizations will be happy to help. The assistance might be just money, which comes with strings attached such as simply having the ear of the admins. The assistance might be “moderation tools,” to save labor efforts.

I think the instances that choose to federate with corporate social media (which are already captured by feds) will probably be the easiest to gain control of. If you’ve been following the corpo federation discourse, you might have noticed that the instances with the largest user bases tend to be the most interested in federating with the corpo social media.

davel , 6 months ago to worldnews in Russia Regains Upper Hand in Ukraine’s East as Kyiv’s Troops Flag

MSNBC is a brainworms firehose. Go fuck yourself, Maddow.