• HouseWolf@lemm.eeEnglish
    68·
    20 days ago

    Shout out to my buddy who has been using an un-activated copy of Win10 for over 5 years despite being called out anytime he shares his screen.

    And yes we told him how to but “It doesn’t bother him”

    • boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net
      27·
      20 days ago

      Without RedHat, we wouldnt have Linux in the US governments, no SELinux, no Android security.

      I think there is worse than companies selling Linux

      • BarbecueCowboy@lemmy.worldEnglish
        42·
        19 days ago

        I’ll thank them when they stop remaking perfectly fine utilities over minor issues then doing a shitty job with compatibility.

        • boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net
          3·
          19 days ago

          Example?

          Podman, virt-manager, toolbx, tuned are the software I know. I could agree on a few that redoing some is bad

        • Empricorn@feddit.nlEnglish
          21·
          19 days ago

          Yeah, that’s definitely worse than all the benefits they mentioned. 🙄

      • toynbee@lemmy.world
        1·
        18 days ago

        I generally agree with you, but wasn’t SELinux primarily the NSA and Tresys? I know it’s a primarily Red Hat thing now, but I think it would have existed in some form without them.

        It is entirely possible I’m misinformed.

  • ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world
    37·
    19 days ago

    Where can I get the privacy nightmare AI application for Linux? I want it to take screenshots of my computer (in case I want to search it), never really use it, but store the data on my PC unencrypted, thus able to be hacked.

      • ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world
        41·
        18 days ago

        The security nightmare is reduced by a lot, thanks to Linux being a lot more safe system. Of course the occasional very old security issues get found, but those are only old if some swifty hacker found out and didn’t disclose it publicly, or had to wait for years to be solved.

      • fossilesque@mander.xyzEnglish
        3·
        19 days ago

        I tried it to do some research recalls, like set it up for doing very specific things and I found it filled my hard drive pretty fast with screenshots. It’s probably a good idea if you can turn it on and off like this one and be careful, but it likely still needs polishing. That was when it was first out.

    • michaelmrose@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      19 days ago

      If this was actually an open source app with strong privacy settings that you could opt into it might be useful.

      • Buddahriffic@lemmy.world
        3·
        19 days ago

        When I first heard of the MS feature, my first thought was that there’s gotta be a more efficient way to do this than taking screen shots and analyzing the image. The window manager has all of that information plus more context (like knowing that these pixels are part of a non-standard window that uses transparency to act like a non-rectangular shape, while this thing that looks like a window is actually an image because the user was looking at someone else’s screenshot).

        Even better would be integration with the applications themselves; they have even more contextual information than the window manager has.

        • michaelmrose@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          19 days ago

          If it required waiting for apps to provide this integration you would be waiting 10 years for it to mature. There would logically be some benefit to looking at the window before compositing + saving text from none visible windows and avoiding recapturing content which hadn’t changed.

      • Dicska@lemmy.world
        10·
        19 days ago

        The good old 2000s when you could host and successfully distribute any virus disguised as something popular by slapping a _full, _HD or .rar/zip (or any combination) at the end of the file name.

        I used to look up lard bread and there was a hit for lard bread_full.rar on the first page.

        • toynbee@lemmy.world
          1·
          18 days ago

          I didn’t know what lard bread is, so I looked it up.

          I discovered it was bread with prosciutto baked in. I thought it sounded unappealing.

          Then I thought of “making bacon pancakes” and thought I should open my mind.

          edit: added a missing word.

      • Shady_Shiroe@lemmy.world
        6·
        19 days ago

        Root account unavailable, you have not activated the premium account for this Linux installation, please activate by purchasing it for a $5 monthly subscription

        • Baalial@lemm.eeEnglish
          2·
          18 days ago

          Oh it’s subscription based, ok. I have a flash drive for that. Helps me erase the OS and put a whole new one in.

          • Shady_Shiroe@lemmy.world
            0·
            17 days ago

            The installation media you’re attempting to install on this hardware is not supported and does not follow our privacy protection policy, please contact our support team for further assistance

            EDIT: damn I feel like I should get hired by Microsoft or some other sh#t company because I’m getting good at this anti consumer crap

            • Baalial@lemm.eeEnglish
              1·
              17 days ago

              Bro this notification popped up, and for a couple of seconds I didn’t see that it was lemmy, I didn’t remember this convo, I just saw the anti-consumer corpo speak and I almost lost my shit. I was straight up furious and I hit the notification to come in here and verbally crap in your mouth.

              So yeah, you should look into a career with Micockssoft 🤣