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After 10 years in tech isolation, I’m now outsider to things I once had mastered

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Re: After 10 years in tech isolation, I’m now outsider to things I once had mastered

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Post by esperent »

an_opabinia wrote: post #252
esperent wrote: post #188

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So probably the only country that has very slight worse numbers in the entire world is North Korea, including all the other dictatorships and otherwise failed states. That's crazy.

Well, you could argue that all of North Korea is functionally an open air prison. If you don’t get to live in a city because you lack the permit, is a rural Chinese citizen jailed in their home town? If you don’t get to do stuff like drive without your male guardian present, is that Saudi woman watched over by a prison guard? If you’re a German kid and you’re just tracked into trade school, did society put you to wor…

No. You're trying to use whataboutism to make the crazy incarceration rates in the US seem less bad. Don't do that.

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Post by ta17711771 »

facorreia wrote: post #324
fsloth wrote: post #308

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Yes. The direct analogue is trying to pick your own lock, versus picking a lock in someone else's property just for kicks.

Not even picking locks. More like smashing people's windows, grabbing food from their fridges while enjoying the satisfaction of being a l33t hax0r.

A better analogy might be using the same encryption key Volkswagen and Audi were shipping as security to every car to steal a car...

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Post by zamadatix »

jandrese wrote: post #304
seb314 wrote: post #32

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as far as I remember, Ubuntu works with secureboot, doesn't it? Ubuntu wiki seems to say so too https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UEFI/SecureBoot

If you install to the HDD and don't use any binary drivers it works fine. If you're trying to boot from USB you usually have to disable SecureBoot in the BIOS. I usually disable SecureBoot when I install a machine. The extra protections aren't worth losing the ability to run VirtualBox.

As of some time last year VB on Ubuntu now signs its modules automatically FWIW.

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Post by tagh »

gorgoiler wrote: post #42

My constitution gets weaker as the years go by. I had to stop reading after the description of solitary confinement brought on a panic attack.

Maybe it's not your constitution weakening, but your empathy strengthening? If more people felt injustices like this in their gut, the world would be a much better place.

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Post by Izkata »

VLM wrote: post #292
Jabbles wrote: post #262

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> in much of Europe, you'd get less than that for murder Citation needed.

Colloquially Americans like to call "murder" any time someone kills someone else. In Germany the translation of murder has VERY specific legal requirements, like detailed planning beforhand, and evil action (cannibalism, sexual intent, terrorism, type stuff). You pretty much have to be a stereotypical serial killer or terrorist in Germany to commit the legal definition of murder. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_…

> In the USA, colloquially speaking, not legally speaking, George Floyd was murdered.

It occurred in Minnesota, which is one of the handful of states with "third-degree murder", which this does appear to fall under.

One of the things that separates third-degree murder from manslaughter is the use of inherently dangerous acts, such as kneeling on his neck.

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Post by Izkata »

Nursie wrote: post #93
john-radio wrote: post #57

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> I don't understand what he's saying here. I dual boot Ubuntu on my Windows 10 PC all the time (as well as using Virtualbox). I think you have to disable UEFI before you can do this.

No, just the secure boot flag. Linux can EFI boot, and most UEFI bioses are perfectly happy to boot 'legacy' BIOS OS images as well. You just have to figure out how to disable windows-only mode.

If it's even enabled in the first place. I don't think my Thinkpad was, but I do remember my previous Asus did have it enabled.

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Post by coffeecat »

Kye wrote: post #100
lliilliillii wrote: post #50

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The more involved you are with anything to do with data, the less likely you are to use it. I don't like social media very much because it's created a culture of bullying people into conformity. It's not so much my opinion that data trends predict individuals, as some may argue, but that people are pressured to conform to trends, rewarded when they do, and punished when they do not. This philosophy is deeply entrench…

Social media didn't create the culture. It just gave more people a chance to be part of it. Before, marginalized voices were almost universally bullied and abused into conformity. Some of those marginalized people handle having a voice now poorly, but it doesn't mean the culture they participate in is new.

I partially disagree. Verbal communication requires people to do at least some degree of thinking if they want to respond to a view that they disagree with. Whereas social media allows people to "participate" in a discussion (in the sense that they produce feedback which influences the course of the discussion) using a mode of thought that can be summarized as "does this make me feel like pressing the upvote or the downvote button?"

I believe that this latter mode of participant-community interaction is especially conducive to echo chambers, because it reduces any kind of content to a one-dimensional axis: does the community like this, or does the community dislike this?

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Post by coffeecat »

cl3misch wrote: post #309
nihil75 wrote: post #111

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It's both SecureBoot and UEFI. He's probably preparing the thumbdrive the old-fashion way, jusr dd'ing the iso into it. You need a modern prep tool that's UEFI-compatible for it to boot on new hardware.

Maybe I'm missing something, but (apart from Secure Boot) I used dd to create bootable Linux USBs and booted into UEFI just fine. At least on recent Ubuntu images.

Yes, I've done Linux installations on UEFI hardware using dd'ed iso images. What are these modern prep tools, and what could they possibly be doing that dd can't do?
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