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  • Not all conspiracy theories are alike and deserved to be placed into the same bubble. As we’ve seen over the decades as documents get declassified, a good handful of conspiracy theories have turned out to have truthful elements, such as MK Ultra or the US governments’ secret actions against African Americans or the CIA flooding American streets with crack cocaine to fund South American rebel groups.

    To label them all as equally dangerous is disingenuous and harmful.

    And some simply are curiosity. The conspiracy theory that aliens exist is nothing more than innocent curiosity we as humans have. We have no tangible proof that extraterrestrial beings exist at the moment so this remains nothing more than a conspiracy theory. But what danger does it pose to society?

    Additionally, what’s the solution? Who decides what is truth and what is simply nonsense conspiracy theory? Do we give the power to the government such that someone like Trump could invalidate free speech among his opposition because he deems their ideas to be “conspiracy theories”? Do we entrust agencies like the CIA to never gaslight us and always tell the truth and anyone questioning their motives should face discipline for holding a conspiracy theory belief?



  • I was just about to post this.

    Along with this, there are double postings because people are crossposting a second after posting and it is clunking up my feed with duplicates.

    Yeah, they have different comment threads, but I don’t care. I don’t want to see all these duplicates everywhere.

    And then there’s like you say, where I’ve blocked the community and it shows up on my feed anyway because someone is crossposting to a community I haven’t blocked. But if it comes from that community, I don’t want to see it at all.

    I’d like a feature to just block all crossposts. I don’t want to see any of them.


  • I place little value on someone’s educational experience anymore since a lot of this can and is usually learned from nearly any place on the web or dark web.

    It seems that for an evil maid attack to occur, someone would need to leave the device unattended, specifically with their admin/sudo account logged in so they can create the access they want later. That is, unless they discovered an exploit in the system that enabled them to gain that access by some other means.

    The three best ways someone would be proactive against this attack are:

    • never leave your device logged in and unattended without some sort of passcode system being necessary to get in and execute commands/programs.
    • never leave “guest” accounts active on your device, even if they don’t have admin permissions. This can make it easier for someone to find other exploits to gain admin access.
    • always separate your accounts. Have a dedicated account for admin level escalations and use it only for that purpose and nothing else. If an attacker is to somehow get your attention away and leave your device unattended, at least this leaves them with no admin access on your main account

    If you suspect your device has been compromised, the best thing to do is to shut down and disconnect from the network (unplug Ethernet cable and consider removing the WiFi card; even with the device powered off) and have a professional inspect it. I say that because even if you reinstall the OS or even get another OS, there’s no way to tell if something hardware was added to allow intrusion if we’re worried about physical access being compromised to the device.




  • NutinButNettoAutism@lemmy.worldDAE do this?
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    6 days ago

    This is me always. Would it be okay to ask them to repeat their name? Definitely. Will I? Nope. Too much social anxiety on that one.

    Though I am trying more and more to do just that when I am in this situation. Also try to blame it on something else “hey I’m sorry but the music was so loud I couldn’t hear. What did you say your name was again??”