heavyboots

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[–] heavyboots@lemmy.ml 28 points 1 year ago

The fact that they have a "news" channel that just generates what its viewers want to believe in is the major issue for me.

Also, it angers me no end that in every other news org's fight to be seen as "fair and balanced", they tend to run a speech/interview with a conservative talking head and then a speech/interview with a liberal talking head. If what the conservative is saying is largely a fiction, why are they allowed to present it at all??

Take Trump as the biggest example of this. If interviewers just stopped him the first time he lied and wouldn't let him go on until he had corrected that lie, people wouldn't get nearly the amount of random misinformation out of him that they do now. My feeling is whenever someone is being interviewed, that should be the media policy. Just a flat refusal to let you lie on air. Unfortunately in this extremely commercially driven era, they basically want the controversy and the clickbait, so they happily let all the lies go by so they can throw gasoline on the fire and drag in more views.

[–] heavyboots@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

You're absolutely right on that one! Hadn't thought of it from that perspective, but hell yes.

[–] heavyboots@lemmy.ml 78 points 1 year ago (4 children)

To be fair if you’re anything past Boomer, at this point you should be too embarrassed to vote for any GOP candidate. When the party decided to support Trump—a guy with proven sexual assault charges, pending fraud charges, pending classified document charges, a penchant for insurrection that he happily acknowledges, and more and more video surfacing of him unable to be coherent, hopefully most everyone with any connection to reality has realized it’s time to kick him and the GOP to the curb.

[–] heavyboots@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Weird! That's what I'm on too and I'm getting a giant menu through the middle of the article. 🤔

EDIT: And now it works again. Must have been a temporary glitch, although I force-reloaded it a couple of times even…

[–] heavyboots@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

~~That website is completely borked. On Firefox, of all things.~~ Temporary glitch? Working now.

[–] heavyboots@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

You should just be able to go into Focus Status and disable it. That will stop the Mac from being able to trigger Focus no matter what. If you really want to neuter it completely, you can delete any Focus modes you see there too.

As for Do Not Disturb, it is usually mirrored from other devices too, so maybe you turned on DND on your phone or triggered a focus mode from there or something?

[–] heavyboots@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Everything you’ve said aside from the CSAM scan doctor thing has absolutely nothing to back it up so far. (And for the record, I absolutely agree CSAM scanners can be wrong—a human needs to be involved at some level, which they were in the system Apple devised. At any rate, I guess this convo is over as we obviously inhabit very different worlds.

[–] heavyboots@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

*blink blink*

Scan private iCloud images? What part of the E2E did you miss? Also, if this is the plan I think you’re talking about for CSAM, they actually abandoned that, even though it was a pretty decent plan…

[–] heavyboots@lemmy.ml -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

Well, it would most likely show up in the network traffic if they were doing that for starters. And no one doing security analysis on iOS has ever mentioned that AFAIK. And since Apple bases about 90% of their marketing on protecting your privacy, that would be very bad for them as a company.

I mean, what’s stopping someone poisoning a library on open source? That’s actually provably happened.

Which is not to ding open source, which I quite like too. Just saying you are running certain risks no matter what you choose and in a phone OS, if you just want it to work and not think about it, I personally feel like Apple is a decent risk still.

[–] heavyboots@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

OS 9 on macOS did me dirty when I tried to delete it for the final time. The OS X operating system folder is named System. And the OS 9 folder is named System Folder.

So I typed rm -rf System and then tried to type the \ character so I could put in the space between the two words. Which is right above the Return key. Guess what I hit instead of \…

I hit control-C almost immediately but it still got through C inside the System folder. Apparently nothing absolutely vital lives in the A-C folders, btw. I was able to even reboot and it all came up normally. Only thing was I couldn’t run any Carbon apps (which was kind of crucial at the time) so I still had to do a reinstall of the OS.

[–] heavyboots@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Opening weekend for Dune 2 but the 10:45 am showing in a Sunday. Only like 6 people in the theater. Alas, one was coughing up a lung mid-movie but even he was far enough away I didn’t feel like I was getting COVID cooties.

Dune 1 I “streamed” via NZB (since they released it to streaming simultaneously) and then went and bought a ticket at the theater and threw it away without ever going in just to vote with my wallet for Dune 2 to happen.

[–] heavyboots@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago

No offense but I have a 100” projector screen, a decent amp, surround and a subwoofer. Versus going to see Dune 2 in the theater recently (admittedly on a much bigger screen) with some guy in the back possibly coughing up an internal organ or just plain expiring mid-movie as the soundtrack to a lot of it.

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