Homo Homini Lupus Est
I partially agree. Though there is less and less we could do with each coming year :(
To me personally though, you either do care for privacy or you don’t. Why even bother doing it a lil? Boycotting WhatsApp but installing some Alexas at home? Would feel like defeat to me. Giving up.
Certainly am not. I predate both actually.
“Identify as insane”…is a sentence i gotta re-use :-) Well, what actually is “politically mad” though. Everything not in the usual two corners fighting “the others”?
lol, i actually started this conversation on the assumption that you are either a troll or totally gone. And yup, it’s indeed easier if the other one already knows you’re insane in the mainframe. Saves a lot of time :-)
Interesting fun fact. But hey, have you ever tried putting your powers of imagination into art? like creating some?
Oh I wouldn’t say “fantasy” is negatively connotated. “Delusion”, unless used in a medical diagnosis, surely is, yes. Apologies btw for using that term on you. I tend to come across harsher than I often intend to :)
What we’re doing here is using our culture as the raw materials to engineer new social constructs to serve our needs[…]
How eloquently put. Makes total sense now. Definitely nothing I regularly come across, but you explained it very well. Thanks for that insight. If everyone is happy and no harm is done, no harm is done :) Circling back to the initial use of the word “sanity”, you came across as being high as a kite, but you’re just…differently wired. Nothing insane here. I wish you guys the best!
Got that fart sparkled? :-)
It surely just isn’t this one deamon. Despite “mediaanalysisd” sounds highly threatening to me. Especially if you aren’t allowed to disable it. How i would hate that on MY computer. Surely better than windows, where 5198231 services do that of which you can only disable 99%.
If you use ANY service in the apple cloud though, your data is, by definition, unsafe. If you don’t, you’re probably not the run-of-the-mill-apple-user that knows which service does what.
but if your threat model includes American software companies & oligarchs
Mine surely does. Especially US-american.
On purely semantics, yeah sure. it’s no spyware by definition. But neither is windows or android.
BUT everything closed-source, especially the OSs, send data back home. Basically they all do it openly, if you would bother to read the TOS. So unless you tinker, data gets send home. And be it only for updates, or “malware detection” or whatever else. And you have no idea WHAT exactly those data contain. Or where exactly it goes, or what is done with it henceforth.
So yes, someone could choke on the word “spyware”, as this is done secretly and in the shadow. Usually. And maybe I came across provocative, but…well. Why not, it’s a topic so often just ignored. I don’t care for the votes, I just would wish people would say WHY they seemingly disagree instead of just leaving a worthless vote. As you said, more a point of discussion.
No irony was meant. Sorry it that might’ve come across as such. I’m a very cynical person. Didn’t mean any disrespect. I would TRY my best to treat it however it wants to be treated. But lacking information, i could only approximate very little. I would maybe have trouble wrapping my head around that fact and try to see if it would require “help” or if everything is fine as it is. Or maybe misanthropy went weird or…
But if you just changed your belief that sharks can talk. It’s also no shark anymore, is it? We have language and words to convey certain things and meanings. If you just change it, what use does it have? A speaking shark is no shark, a human being sharky isn’t a human. So do you more see something NEW? Like sharkman? humark? A speaking shark that can travel on land and use the internet to meet humans like you. But neither shark nor human.
Why is it important to you to call this “antirealist magick” instead of e.g. “highly vivid fantasy born by the desire to treat everyone as they see themselves, no matter what”? It’s an admirable treat, don’t get me wrong. Maybe I’m just nitpicky on labels, but “antirealist” sounds dumb (no offense meant) in a world where objective reality needs to exist or else this conversation wouldn’t exist.
Anyhow, you seem like a very lovely colorful being, so i just repeat myself: no offense meant, just call it scientific curiosity to everything not “normal” and boring.
If I would be in there for upvotes, I would’ve said how great MacOS is, and how much i love the apple :-) But thanks, have one back to outweigh the maclovers.
True that. But it was to be expected that my statement pissed of many mac-lovers :-)
I wouldn’t say it’s more private or transparent than android or winblows. But even if there’d be zero evidence, which walled garden is private? And especially transparent? Which Apple-service could you use totally 100% anonymous?
Sure, you CAN restrict mac better and kinda minimize data-harvesting. As long as you also not use all their oh-so-comfortable-services…But who does? The same that use a highly modified winblows that firewall the rest of harvesting off. What about Siri, spotlight, safari, analytics, malware updates, crash reports, and especially: icloud. Or the newer AI-crap?
And honestly, I’ve never heard a mac-user be concerned for privacy. They prefer simplicity and “it just works!”.
Oh, i thought it was all around the US of A. Obviously not :)
Couldn’t remember one either, but i also don’t KNOW. So far, from every other european i heard, it’s more common. I might be wrong :)
MacOS already is one big spyware, why would anyone care of another one 😁
Humans are the worst. But even worse than that are humans gone shopping. Sadly we (Krauts) have no 24/7 shopping or else I’d go at night too, and also I’m a fucking cheapskate. Otherwise I would just shop online.
But then I’d miss all the sweet discounts 😭
You’re evidently on the far right end of open-mindedness. That’s cool. In a stupid world like this even more so.
Of course I wouldn’t want it to be sad. Yet I would have tons of questions that only the “objective reality”-ivy could answer. I mean, it’s pretty obvious it’s no shark but a human that sees itself as a shark. But also as a human, or else it would’ve drowned already trying to get to its kin. And not found their way to you. Or even you online.
Don’t get me wrong, I have absolutely no problem with whatever someone identifies as. Due to my voluntary work, I got some friends with DIS, so i, too, had my encounters with “subjective reality”, even in the form of a protective wolf.
But, I also see the underlying issue. Dysphoria is not a healthy thing and rarely leads to a fulfilled and happy life. (Not saying DIS is the same, but symptoms overlap). A body-dyphoria where you can’t stand the existence of your left leg can be “cured” by just removing it. Gender-dysphoria can be helped with hormones. But species? That sure can only end up highly depressed.
Doesn’t mean I wouldn’t treat that person with respect or not take her otherkin not serious. But there are limits. How do I respectfully treat a shark? Put it in a watery cage to be safe and throw it into the ocean? Probably not. The moment I talk with it, I already don’t take it serious, do I?
BTW, I would prefer to not be human too. This species is the worst. And I also would prefer to be a Disney princess where birds land on my arms and talk to me. But I am human and no princess, and birds fly away. What good would it do me if I just started to believe I am what I would prefer to be? (Supposing I could)
USA, Europe…except Germany. We close the world when sun goes down. Or weekend hits.
Only if you have the latest PLS-protection!
Didn’t know, thought it was all-over. Low min-wage surely is a factor. Here it would probably be absolutely killing. more pay for nightshifts where only a few people actually shop at those times? no way…