wonderingwanderer

“Venezuela and Iran have 31 percent of the world’s oil reserves. We’re going to have a partnership with 31 percent of the known reserves."

Kinda saying the quiet part loud there, aren’t you, Lindsey? In prior decades the government at least pretended its wars were about anything other than oil…

“This is China’s nightmare.”

No it’s not. China has been ambracing the future by investing in renewables. It’s not stuck in the past, and it doesn’t give a shit if you are. The oil economy is dead and dying. It will be replaced, and at this rate the US won’t be ready for it. China is laughing.

"This is a good investment”

War isn’t a fucking investment! Are dollar signs all you see?

Oh man, I always thought if your drive was already encrypted that a hostile actor couldn’t encrypt it for ransomware. I don’t know where I read that but it was a long time ago and I guess someone lied to me, but it’s whatever.

So what’s the vulnerability that would be exploited, something about using the swap space to get into the encrypted drive? Or does the attack apply to the outside of the container? I’m curious cause I’m working on hardening my own system currently and I want to make sure I’m not leaving any gaps in my blind spots

That’s hilarious. Big corporation apparently can’t afford basic cybersecurity. Always pinching pennies.

Anyway, any big organization should encrypt their core systems to prevent ransomware attacks. Individuals should too. It’s just good practice.

The web version is even worse! It’s all cloud-based, and you need a subscription unless your University pays for a license.

The only reason to use it would be to write things in Libre and then copy/paste them into MS and manually fix all the formatting.

I hated it, because all the professors could just smugly say “You know you have free access to Office 365 with your student email, right?”

That’s not the fucking point! I don’t give a shit if it’s free, I don’t want to use a fucking microsoft product, especially one that’s cloud-based, when there’s a perfectly good open-source alternative that I can run locally on my own hardware.

Just one of the many problems with the corporatization, commodification, and enshittification of education. If the focus was on learning and academic freedom, FOSS solutions would be encouraged. But no, you’re forced to use proprietary software, because “reasons” capitalism…

I don’t know enough to understand the connection. Can you please explain?

That’s great and all, but anyone in the Middle-class or above tend to be complacent with capitalist systems even when most of the value they produce by their labor gets syphoned and hoarded by the owner-class, and doled out to the c-suite in huge bonuses, while your pay and benefits packages stagnate.

Also ignoring constantly rising prices and enshittification due to corporate greed and “infinite growth” mentality, constantly trying to maximize profits and never accepting a stable system as “good enough.”

There are a lot of problems with capitalism when you really dig into it, and not all of its problems are limited to only effecting the poor.

But if you live in a nation with public healthcare and education funded by taxpayer dollars, congratulations! You’re benefiting from elements of socialism.

Under a purely capitalist system, those things would be privatized and commodified like they are in the US. You know, that renowned american healthcare and education… that’s capitalism in a nutshell.

Every implementation of “communism” back to lenin, stalin, and mao has been “communism in name only.”

Lenin literally instructed the bolsheviks to kill all the soviets after he lost an election to them, so that he could seize power and install puppets in their positions.

If you actually read marx, communism was supposed to be a democratic system governed by what are essentially workers unions. Lenin and trotsky are where it veered off course.

And I’m not just blowing smoke up your ass. When I argue with tankies they call me a capitalist simply because I reject their bolshevism. Believe it or not, nuanced and well-informed takes are allowed on the internet.

You don’t like butter block?

Avocados aren’t really supposed to be sweet. More like savory, with that buttery texture. They’re really good on toast, no matter what the boomers say.

Others have made some good suggestions. Salt, pepper, chili sauce or sriracha. A fried egg if you want it. Top notch.

You had me at the first half

In college my professor wouldn’t accept pdfs for assignments because I guess he couldn’t check the metadata or make comments or something.

So I literally had to download MS office just to submit assignments in their format…

None of those states surprise me though.

Also, isn’t it ironic that the “live free or die state” is banning “dialectical worldviews”? Ooooh, Marx used that word; it must be communist propaganda. Meanwhile, the defining feature of dialecticism: “discussion of two or more opposing ideas in dialogue with each other”. I wonder if therapists in New Hampshire are still allowed to practice DBT…

Oh, and I guess if “anti-constitutional indoctrination” is being banned then that makes maga illegal. Oh wait, it’s going to be interpreted exclusively by magas…

If they were communist in more than name, their proletariat wouldn’t be starving to death while their rulers get fat.

I wasn’t trying to say you in particular are choosing a side. Just venting about how on lemmy in general, a lot of people overreact if I say anything even slightly critical of the Iranian regime.

Even before this US/Israeli invasion, on a post about iranian student protesters, people were accusing me of being a zionist because it expressed support for the Iranian students who were protesting…

Yes, the current regime in the US is deplorable. The regime in the Knesset is also deplorable. But the Iranian regime is deplorable too. Like, it’s entirely possible for all those things to be true, and they are…

Communist in name only

Sure, but that doesn’t mean we have to choose one to support. Saying the IRGC is evil doesn’t imply support for the US invasion, and saying the US invasion is evil doesn’t imply support for the IRGC.

It’s like sanity has gone out there window. Let’s not forget that not supporting either side is always an option.

Not really.

If you have the agent installed, it’s like having your gun assembled.

If you have your agent enabled, it’s like having your gun loaded.

If you give your agent permissions, it’s like taking your gun off safety.

If you don’t have your agent properly sandboxed, it’s like having bad muzzle control.

And if your agent is actively running, it’s like having your finger on the trigger.

This breaks every weapon safety rule. That’s how you get a negligent discharge.

Hence, it’s like scratching your back with a loaded weapon.

Unless you’re managing app permissions on android 🙄

“unexpectedly”

That depends on the molecular composition of the sand at Mar-a-lago

No, that would be the square root of a negative number plus or minus a real number