My laptop also runs a 3rd party OS that doesn’t connect to the manufacturer.
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Duamerthrax@lemmy.worldto
World News@lemmy.world•Pakistanis who gang-raped French tourist in front of her children after her car ran out of fuel will be executedEnglish
191·2 days agoI’ve seen commentary about the rape culture in India in their media and media personalities. The movie Robot had a pretty heavy bus scene and the whole movie seems like it’s skirting around the India censorship board. Indian actresses will sometimes comment on the topic, but get told it’s embarrassing to bring it up.
https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2014/7/10/indias-bollywood-speaks-out-against-rape
Off screen, its stars have usually avoided commenting on sensitive social and political issues. However, the anti-rape protests following the 2012 Delhi gang-rape have led to a noticeable change.
A handful of stars, like Shabana Azmi and Nandita Das, were known for their social activism, but in the year-and-a-half since the Delhi gang-rape, others have spoken out. Actress Kareena Kapoor Khan has thrown her weight behind an emergency cellphone app for women’s safety; others have taken to the streets in demonstrations; and some like Abraham have used other media platforms to air their protest against rape.
Duamerthrax@lemmy.worldtoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.world•I’m shocked at how much more affordable castles are than I expectedEnglish
3·5 days agoIf you can afford 1.6million for a NYC apartment, you can afford 1.3million and upkeep for a castle. People don’t buy luxury NYC apartments to live in. They buy them to peacock to other rich people. At least if you have a castle, you’re creative with your peacocking.
My mind was preoccupied with other things in my 20s and 30s. Still is really.
Duamerthrax@lemmy.worldto
RetroGaming@lemmy.world•Lenovo G02 retro handheld allegedly comes preloaded with thousands of copyrighted games, including Nintendo ROMsEnglish
1·10 days agoThe Superfish malware from 2015 was the one I was actually thinking of, but I couldn’t find it quickly because the more recent examples were flooding the search results.
Here’s a few more examples of Lenovo thinking they still own the laptop you paid for. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenovo#Security_and_privacy_incidents
Duamerthrax@lemmy.worldto
RetroGaming@lemmy.world•Lenovo G02 retro handheld allegedly comes preloaded with thousands of copyrighted games, including Nintendo ROMsEnglish
4·10 days agoFuck them both. Lenovo is the company that keeps shipping their laptops with spyware in the firmware.
Duamerthrax@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•Zuck defends monitoring employees to win AI race in purported leaked audioEnglish
19·14 days agoZuckerberg: People just submitted it.
Zuckerberg: I don’t know why.
Zuckerberg: They “trust me”.
Zuckerberg: Dumb fucks.
Duamerthrax@lemmy.worldto
World News@lemmy.world•Christian charity says ‘it’s a problem boys don’t rape girls anymore – they rape boys’English
473·15 days agoAccording to the Bible, Men raping Women isn’t wrong. At least not as long as the father of the victim gets compensated and the two get married.
https://www.biblica.com/bible/?osis=niv%3Adeu.22.28-deu.22.29
Duamerthrax@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak got cheers, not boos, after telling students they 'all have AI — actual intelligence'English
26·15 days agoJohn Carmack is another one. For all he’s done, his net worth is only 50 million, but he spends his time developing new tech. I wouldn’t say Carmack is well adjusted, but he doesn’t seem to think making the lives of other people worse will make his life better.
Duamerthrax@lemmy.worldto
Games@lemmy.world•Destiny 2 is dead: "active development" ends next month after one final update, but Bungie says the MMO will still be "playable"English
3·15 days agoIf I could play the two games from start to finish right now, I probably would. As it stands, I don’t regret sitting this out.
Duamerthrax@lemmy.worldto
Games@lemmy.world•Destiny 2 is dead: "active development" ends next month after one final update, but Bungie says the MMO will still be "playable"English
18·15 days agoI miss when video game companies made video games and not “not live service models.”
Duamerthrax@lemmy.worldto
Games@lemmy.world•82-year-old YouTuber grandma was raided by police and SWATs during her live stream last night where she plays Minecraft to raise money for her grandsons cancer. Authorities brought 20 police carsEnglish
6·17 days agoThey need to respond, but they need to end the whole “Killology” mindset that American cops are trained into.
Duamerthrax@lemmy.worldto
Games@lemmy.world•PlayStation boss says single-player games won’t come to PC going forward | VGCEnglish
15·18 days agoIt’s Sony. The various divisions never know what each other is doing and the moment a new executive comes in, they charge everything to make it seem like they’re important.
On the up side, everyone rich enough to have been hording their wealth in gold would also be poor.
Duamerthrax@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•Reddit Starts Blocking Mobile Website, Pushing Users to App InsteadEnglish
6·26 days agoAdvertisers and investors are drinking the same coolaid. It’s the customers of those advertisers that need to be questioning their ad space purchases.
Duamerthrax@lemmy.worldto
Not The Onion@lemmy.world•Matt Damon, Ben Affleck sued by Miami police for depicting them as ‘dirty’ in The RipEnglish
1·26 days agoidk, I’ve never seen it.
Duamerthrax@lemmy.worldto
Not The Onion@lemmy.world•Matt Damon, Ben Affleck sued by Miami police for depicting them as ‘dirty’ in The RipEnglish
16·26 days agoIt would be more realistic if a group of bad cops tried finding the one good cop leaking their crimes.
edit: Look up what happened to LAPD Officer Houston Tipping if you want to know what happens to good cops.
Duamerthrax@lemmy.worldto
Technology@lemmy.world•MAGAs Are Fuming After Email Confirms They Will Never Get Their $500 Trump Phones or Deposits BackEnglish
3·27 days agoI could imagine it if they were filled with spyware and rf sniffers. Not the regular spyware that google and apple have, but shit that spies on everyone around you. They just aren’t that competent.
Duamerthrax@lemmy.worldto
Anime@ani.social•Anime director Tatsuo Sato (Martian Sucessor Nadesico, Helck) has passed away at the age of 61 due to liver failureEnglish
2·28 days ago13 or 26 episodes? There were only 26 episodes made.



Everything has a fuse connecting it to power. The problem is, what else shuts off if the spyware is disconnected?