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phoneymouse, (edited ) in What companies have made your blacklist?

Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Reddit, X, Tesla, Sweet Green, Chick-fil-A, etc.

Google/Facebook: spyware

Microsoft: Windows is spyware and I’m just done with Windows. There are many better options for software.

Reddit: CEO is a prick. Gone the way of Facebook

X/Tesla: CEO is a prick, racist and anti-semite

Sweet Green: CEO blacklisting students for protesting war

Chick-fil-A: Run by far right bigots

Bathtubwalrus,

I always find it interesting when people target Chick-fil-A… Like why them specifically and not all the others? Especially the other companies that go all rainbow in June and have spots in pride parades. www.dataforprogress.org/accountable-allies-pride

finestnothing,

TIL Microsoft is better than I expected, they only donated $2,000 to anti-lgbtq

L4rr,

Wtf… Where can I read up on that?

Fal,
@Fal@yiffit.net avatar

Usually how these things work is that it’s either employees donating and having to list their employer. Or the employer will match any donation to a non profit from any employee up to a certain amount.

So this could be 1 employee donating 3k and Microsoft matching it

Kuvwert, in Edit: (What do you call this dish?)

Nesting eggs!

Or eggy in a basket if you’re talking to Natalie Portman

netchami, in Is CCleaner still people's preferred computer cleaning app?

Stay away from this garbage. Use BleachBit.

Rednax,

I remember CCleaner being good. But that was a long time ago. Looking at the site now, I feel like I wandered into a Tel Sell advertisement.

I was gonna ask you what made CCleaner bad before I took a look at the sites. But CCleaner literally sells you privacy as a pro feature, whereas BleachBit puts privacy in the second sentence as a core aspect of the tool.

netchami,

CCleaner literally sells you privacy as a pro feature, whereas BleachBit puts privacy in the second sentence as a core aspect of the tool.

Exactly

fireweed, in People who post content because it makes you angry : why do you help it spread?

This mostly relates to stuff you disagree with (politically, etc):

It’s really easy on the Internet to live in a bubble, surrounded by others and material you like and agree with. This is especially true when it comes to the political right or left. Posting/viewing material from the “other side” serves three purposes: 1) it’s different from what your Internet crowd posts and therefore novel and interesting, 2) it’s something to gawk at, and 3) it keeps your crowd up to date on what the opposition is doing and thinking, which is important if you want to debate/defeat/win them over.

Example: you’re on the left and a “look what the right is memeing” sub/community starts posting a lot of trad-wife material. You have now been 1) introduced to a new concept (and thereby upgraded your Internet cred with new slang), 2) provided with novel material to yourselves meme about and make fun of (in this example, Ben Shapiro’s sister’s oversized titties), and 3) inoculated to the concept so when your 19-year-old cousin starts whining at Thanksgiving about how all the women at college are sluts and why can’t he find himself a good traditional wife you can give his manosphere-brainwashed ass a thorough smackdown thanks to some sweet rhetoric you picked up from the snarky comments section of aforementioned posts, instead of weakly stammering something about equal partnerships (or worse yet, not understanding the nuance behind wanting a “traditional wife” and thinking this is a perfectly normal expectation for dating in the 21st century that totally won’t lead down the path of inceldom).

There is another, 4th reason: self-reflection. Sometimes, during a blue super-moon lunar eclipse, you see content that’s from the other side that makes you wonder, “are we the baddies?” Or perhaps, “okay maybe they have a point there.” Or at the very least, “yeah I can see where maybe we’re not at our absolute best on this particular aspect of this specific issue.” At least, it would be nice if that ever happened, right?

garbagebagel,

I recently found an interviewer who is clearly more left leaning but he does interviews with very conservative/right wing people (mostly students) and just like, not to argue or anything, he just asks a question and they answer and he goes “okay thanks” then posts it without any added comment on the socials. It really interested me cause like, I can see why they might think the things they think. Doesn’t mean I agree with them, but at least it’s a way to listen and kind of see the humanness in people who you might otherwise instinctively villainize.

LemmyKnowsBest, in If many extraterrestrial civilizations were nearby but trying to keep quiet, how would you suggest drawing them out?

Lure them with Reece’s Pieces.

dylanTheDeveloper,
@dylanTheDeveloper@lemmy.world avatar

Your so gnarp gnarp

kakes, in Is CCleaner still people's preferred computer cleaning app?

Honestly I just run WinDirStat and do it manually.

vodkasolution,

It’s treesize for me

BarrierWithAshes,
@BarrierWithAshes@kbin.social avatar

This but wiztree instead.

NoneYa,

I did the same because having it be portable is so much better especially when you’re dealing with a system that has no space available to install.

monsterpiece42,

Spacesniffer for me. Also portable. But I’ll check out wiztree for funzies.

Davel23,

This but SpaceSniffer instead.

lastweakness,

May I ask why?

Davel23,

I suppose it's mostly personal preference, but I find SpaceSniffer's display to be a lot more intuitive.

Paradachshund,

I think that’s also in my future, but I liked ccleaner for cleaning up old bits of uninstalled things that didn’t remove themselves cleanly.

otter,

Revo for that, but in the moment instead of an afterthought 🤓

iAmTheTot,
@iAmTheTot@kbin.social avatar

Wiztree is like a hundred times faster, fyi.

ivanafterall,
@ivanafterall@kbin.social avatar

He's not exaggerating. I didn't believe it was possible but holy shit so much better.

yukichigai,
@yukichigai@kbin.social avatar

Yeah, just grabbed it and gave it a try. Took under 4 seconds to scan the same drive that WinDirStat took a full 3 minutes to scan.

kakes,

Thanks for the heads up, I’ll give it a shot next time!

srecko,

Spacesniffer is my preferred alternative.

bunkyprewster,

Kind of an unsettling name

RagingSnarkasm,

No kink shaming.

humorlessrepost, in Edit: (What do you call this dish?)

Egg in a frame

But the bread needs to be cooked in butter like a grilled cheese.

Usernameblankface, in Edit: (What do you call this dish?)
@Usernameblankface@lemmy.world avatar

I’ve known it as egg-in-the-nest, spoken as one word.

Unless you live with the one who corrected you, just keep calling it what you know it to be.

scytale, (edited ) in Tips on making your data less sellable?

As the other comment said, it doesn’t matter what you post. What matters is that you’re using it. So just have an account for contact reasons as you were told. Don’t use it for anything else. Don’t put info on your bio and don’t browse because the more you scroll and navigate, the more data points they get from you. Also, if it’s really for contact purposes only, you can just use messenger on your phone and never install the main app.

NiaTheCat, (edited ) in Is CCleaner still people's preferred computer cleaning app?
@NiaTheCat@lemmy.world avatar

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  • Paradachshund,

    Awesome thanks! You’re the third vote I’ve seen for bleachbit so I’ll definitely look into that one.

    sirfancy,

    Can you elaborate on how it’s a virus? I hear this a lot but haven’t heard any substantial truth aside from referring to a privacy policy that is identical to 90% of every other website anyone else uses.

    RedEyeFlightControl,
    @RedEyeFlightControl@lemmy.world avatar

    Piriform was a very trustworthy tool developer until it was surreptitiously bought by a chinese company and immediately turned into a virus for the next release. It instantly lost its trust and has been garbage since that day.

    Marsey_Enjoyer,

    Piriform was a very trustworthy tool developer until it was surreptitiously bought by a chinese company and immediately turned into a virus for the next release

    Avast isn’t a Chinese company

    ridethisbike, (edited )

    Article about it for those interested… According to this it does not still contain malware, but it has been the target of multiple attacks through the years that has in turn compromised many PC’s. The attack mentioned in this article was suspected to be a state sponsored attack by China, not sure about the others.

    usa.kaspersky.com/…/ccleaner-malware

    Lemminary,

    Look at that, very different from “it’s a vahrus!!1!”

    DeadOfMind, (edited ) in If many extraterrestrial civilizations were nearby but trying to keep quiet, how would you suggest drawing them out?

    I wouldn’t. If you determine that other life is intentionally staying quiet, why would you not also theorize on why they stay* silent?

    ALostInquirer,

    I like to imagine a sort of awkward strangers reasoning for it, personally, where it’s not a matter of anything untoward involved, so much as nobody able to decide how to break the ice. Supposing that, I wonder what the cosmic icebreaker might be?

    FunkyMonk, in Edit: (What do you call this dish?)

    It's Showtime, Fried in the name of Bread ye not too runny.

    FaceDeer, in If many extraterrestrial civilizations were nearby but trying to keep quiet, how would you suggest drawing them out?
    @FaceDeer@kbin.social avatar

    It depends on why they're being quiet. In this scenario I think it'd be likely that they're being quiet for some reason that's literally incomprehensible to human-level minds, since they're likely millions or billions of years more advanced than we are. So it's impossible to predict what, if anything, might provoke them to break that silence.

    I guess sending a probe there and having it physically poke them might get some kind of reaction, at least.

    ALostInquirer,

    In this scenario I think it’d be likely that they’re being quiet for some reason that’s literally incomprehensible to human-level minds, since they’re likely millions or billions of years more advanced than we are.

    Why’s that? It’s not an imposition on my part, especially given that unlike the usual scenarios where the reason one might imagine them to be more advanced is that they aren’t nearby and are capable of reaching us from afar somehow.

    Scenario I’ve posed is pretty basic, say some extraterrestrial civilizations were nearby (say, we’re both able to travel & communicate in a more timely fashion than waiting decades for each trip/exchange), but they’re not talking to us because ??? and so…How might ya get’em to meet & talk?

    sanataseva, in Is CCleaner still people's preferred computer cleaning app?

    Absolutely not. It was sold to a third party with nebulous privacy policy among other annoyances. Get you some Bleachbit.

    Paradachshund,

    Awesome I’ll look into that one. Thanks!

    penquin,

    Be very careful with Bleachbit, it’s very powerful and can ruin your system if you go too far cleaning. Ask me how I know 😂

    AlolanYoda, (edited )

    How do you know?

    More specificly, how did you break your system? What did you do? Did you “clean” your partition table or something?

    CorrodedCranium,
    @CorrodedCranium@leminal.space avatar

    Not that person but I tried to do the secure cleaning mode where it zeros empty space but I think I was also downloading something at the same time. This was several years ago but I vaguely recall my system being unable to boot.

    penquin,

    Let’s say, I checked too many boxes and messed with the root directory. Anything that shows as “slow” is dangerous

    Swedneck,
    @Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

    root directory? why are you running bleachbit on linux??

    LostXOR,

    Probably for the same reason someone would run it on Windows. It has both a Windows and Linux version.

    penquin,

    Why? To clean up left overs? You think Linux doesn’t have that and is just all pink and unicorns? lol

    Paradachshund,

    Is there a way to turn on dummy mode?

    penquin,

    I haven’t used it in a long time, but I know that it has two versions, one root and the other is regular (that’s on Linux, not sure about Windows). Also don’t check those boxes that say something like “slow” or something like that. That’s just my experience. I’m pretty sure if you read up on it or watch a couple of YouTube videos you’ll figure it out.

    QuikxSpec,

    Make a backup instance on an external drive

    SharkAttak,
    @SharkAttak@kbin.social avatar

    Oh joy. Must also be why they don't have portable versions anymore.

    qooqie, (edited ) in Tips on making your data less sellable?

    That sort of data doesn’t make you less desirable. They will have algorithms that can put together what you’d still most likely want to buy just from those pics. The best way is to generate no data. Keep it blank, post nothing, connect as little as possible, use a VPN, stuff like that.

    Also posting those pics on your Facebook isn’t a great idea if you’re using it for charity and work purposes lol

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