[–] 2 points 3 days ago (1 child)

I'm a huge personal privacy advocate, until my job is IT security and then I'm evil Michel Foucault and your corporate laptop is my personal panopticon. Oftentimes because the job is to protect customer privacy and information first.

I don't normally care what you're doing on your computer, until what you're doing is:

  • installing cracked games with keylogging malware
  • falling for banal and obvious phishing emails
  • installing Russian malware because an OF model told you to
  • looking up celebrities and influencers to see what their health insurance claims are
  • looking up your Ex to spy on them (police love this one weird trick!)
  • gambling and/or playing markets all day
  • storing your personal vacation photos (and pornography...) on shared company servers
  • and this is just the tip of the ridiculous iceberg of shenanigans I've run into. The companies that promise to safe guard your privacy are full to bursting with idiots that don't care about your data and would abuse the slightest amount of power available to them if it would save them 5 seconds or reward them in any way.
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  • [–] -2 points 1 month ago

    "I fear sharing the road with idiots." = carbrained, American, can't separate dangerous activities forced on them by societal structures from normal life

    "I fear sharing society with idiots." = Enlightened, European, definitely not genocidal rhetoric

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  • [–] 24 points 1 month ago

    Because HP is a role model for poor children, and poor children shouldn't have the expectation of getting a feast ever. They should see the bare minimum school lunch and think it looks like a horn of plenty because US schools have been shutting down and reducing school meal programs. Real students don't get anything.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 months ago (5 children)

    You've fallen for the paradox of tolerance, OSS version.

    The author, and you, were mistaken: OS is not for everyone. It's not about whether I or anyone else "likes" them. Nazis and corpos don't come to software communities with honest intent. They lie and mislead to gain power and control. Then they consolidate power and exploit their control for personal gain.

    That isn't "political" it's predatory, and people who treat it like politics are running cover for the exploiters whether they know it or not.

    I don't want to change their shitty opinions. I want them banned from our communities so their corrosive influence can't cause further harm.

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  • [–] 55 points 2 months ago

    Everyday my longstanding hatred of DHH is proven correct. I never liked him or his ideas, and seeing his shitty-but-accepted ideas in full context did a lot to help me understand how fascism is more than just ideology: It's world view, it's practices, it's lifestyle.

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  • Shlorp Beast (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
     

    I had a weird dream last night about this thing. We built it with a meat 3D printer and genetic engineering, to win a scavenger hunt.

    Well, except in my dream it was skinless like a Resident Evil dog, very fleshy and vagina-dentata-esque. Didn't realize until I sketched it how much the face resembles a weepinbell (the Pokémon).

    Day 24 - Rowdy (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
     

    I'm having a catch up day today for the last 3 prompts. Here's the last (for today)! I'm speed sketching today but I opted to use some color.

    I didn't know what to do with this prompt until a searched it and saw the first picture of Roddy Piper and I knew I had to try sketching a scene from the infamous "big fight." This would be another excellent candidate for some serious Jojo posing, but I'm quite a ways away--skills-wise--from that kind of high-creativity reinterpretation.

    Nada (Roddy Piper) prepares to bust out some pro-wrestling moves on Frank (Keith David)
     

    I'm having a catch up day today for the last 3 prompts. Here's the second! I'm speed sketching today but I opted to use some color.

    I've seen one very excellent sketch of the star ship Firefly, which I figured would be a popular interpretation but so far just the one! I wanted to go a bit cartoonier but didn't want to just straight copy like the Princes and the Frog firefly or some other version. So I started with a photo reference of a real firefly and ended up with this slightly messy, uncanny little fellow.

    A firefly flys by with a glowing green butt!
     

    Cross-posted from "Inktober Day 20! Rivals! (Oh? You approach me?!)" by @codexarcanum@lemmy.dbzer0.com in !inktober@sh.itjust.works


    The meme popped into my head when thinking about this one, so that's what I went with! This is also my very first piece of Jojo fan art (maybe my first piece of anime/manga fan art ever too, come to think of it!) It's pretty fun drawing figures so dramatically! I wish I had a better eye for such poses without a reference, maybe someday if I keep up my drawing practice!

    Two men in stylish outfits approach each other in dramatic fashion, their inner power manifesting as light and flaming auras around them. A scene from Jojo's Bizarre adventure popular as a meme.
     

    The meme popped into my head when thinking about this one, so that's what I went with! This is also my very first piece of Jojo fan art (maybe my first piece of anime/manga fan art ever too, come to think of it!) It's pretty fun drawing figures so dramatically! I wish I had a better eye for such poses without a reference, maybe someday if I keep up my drawing practice!

    Two men in stylish outfits approach each other in dramatic fashion, their inner power manifesting as light and flaming auras around them. A scene from Jojo's Bizarre adventure popular as a meme.
    Inktober Day 18: Deal (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
     

    Unfortunately, I gotta say this is a word that has become sadly associated with a certain world leader that I think we all tire of hearing about. (Really ruined a word I loved for the top suit in playing cards as well!)

    Annnnyway, a nice handshake is still a well-recognized symbol for closing a deal, so I decided to get some hand and shading practice in today. Happy drawing!

    A white, feminine hand with a large bangle bracelet shakes the black masculine hand of a person wearing a suit.
     

    Drawing fleur-de-lis is really hard! They seem so simple but all those symmetric curves get away from you so easily! Still, I'd like to better at drawing them since they're so strongly tied to NOLA. I couldn't get it right with my digital tablet though, so I went old school paper, pencil, and ink for this one!

    Inktober Day 17: Ornate. 

A fleur-de-lis drawn in fanciful style and set as the top of a scepter with a large, round purple gem embedded below it.
     

    And my last one for today, Blunder! Portrait of the artist as an anxious piece of shit trying to cross off some todo list items!

    I don't really think it's a mistake to commit to a month of daily doodles, and I really think my sketching is improving with the practice, but forcing myself to sit down today and get caught up did feel daunting up front.

    The bedraggled artist sits before his computer, drawing tablet in hand, working on a stick figure. A speech callout says, "Why did I think this was a good idea?"
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