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You don’t understand! Someone doing that on some other social media platform is bad and insane! Him doing that on this social media platform is good and based! Jesus Christ, it’s a simple concept!

Don’t worry about it. You can’t see it anymore so it’s surely fine!

You’re saying they’re going “the wrong way”, but from the standpoint of a publicly traded company it’s literally the best way possible.

You promise to give $1million to Nvidia, Nvidia promises to give $1million to you - wam, bam, suddenly your stock market valuation’s up, people are throwing their money at you, and you didn’t even have to call your bank to make any transfers.

They’re literally printing money out of thin air.

That it will all crash and burn at some point? Who cares? If everyone goes down, you can blame the market. If you’re not in on the bandwagon while everyone else is printing money, you get sacked by the board of directors.

That’s all there is to it.

The statement is stupid because it is already well known across the board that Microsoft is, by all intents and purposes, a malware developer

Hahahahahaha, and you call my comments “stupid”? XD

OK, I’m not even reading the rest, mate. I get it! I really do - “Microsoft bad!”, that’s all there is to it for you. There’s no discussion to be had here, unless someone is also a member of the cult, and then everyone can chant “Microsoft bad! Microsoft bad!”.

Weak sauce, mate. Cheers!

I think you’re planted here to throw dirt on open source software

You have no idea how hilarious this sounds aimed at a Linux user. :D

But I learned to expect nothing else from this community! :D

Like my fellow Lemmy smart users here

XD

Microsoft develops Windows with the intention of making it vulnerable, so it is effectively commercial malware

The intention is currently suggested by a disgruntled ex-employee. I’d say that warrants caution before making such broad statements.

Dude, enjoy your Windows then.

Well, I’m a Linux user so I can’t.

This is not Twitter (or X or whatever) where you can go do your master’s bidding of creating noise to try and control the normies

Of course you can! Just like on every other social media! What are you even talking about? :D

Here most of us know how to do research and have the ability to differentiate bots (human or otherwise) from actual thinking individuals with a modicum of common sense and more than 2 functioning brain cells.

You’d think that, but if you actually know a bit about tech, this community is hilariously ignorant most of the time - on all the matters you mentioned. :D

Look at your down-votes and take a hint. That bullshit has no effect here.

The hint is that this community is extremely aggressive towards language that goes against the hive-mind. The bullshit has no effect because people can’t differentiate what’s bullshit and what isn’t, so they just automatically assume any statement that isn’t violently anti-MS is bullshit spewed by bots at their master’s bidding.

Take your comment as example…

Right, because it’s impossible to get a person’s credentials in this day and age.

And yet you replied again…

I mean, if you have nothing of value to say, why even make a comment? Just block me and move on, mate.

Or, I don’t know, engage and tell say why you think this comment was stupid?

They will be patched. There is also no indication that they 'be been known and exploited till recently.

Two of the three are being used in the wild, with Copy Fail being retroactively found at least 9 days before the disclosure.

What are the indications that the BitLocker vulnerability is already being utilised?

This was allegedly deliberately non patched to be exploited.

Alleged by a guy who was fired from Microsoft. I’d take that with a pinch of salt.

Getting a system without bugs and security issues is impossible, you can at least avoid intentional compromise.

I agree! But other than one angry dude, not much else is pointing towards this being intentional - so far! Let’s see how things go.

That being said, open source repos are being attacked constantly with attempts at intentional malicious code injection - I’m sure you’ve heard of XZ Utils? How many others went through and are being exploited without anyone noticing?

Those are potential vulnerabilities that can be patched

“Potential”? They are actively being exploited. And they don’t require physical access to the device.

Copy Fail, Dirty Frag and Fragnesia exist. What are you going to switch to now?

Correct. Now, why would you downvote me for saying that?

I think that it creates a false image in people’s eyes.

For context: I’m all for taxing the rich. At the very least the should have all their methods of “avoiding” tax removed, but I honestly hope they get taxed something like 90% for their insane wealth.

At the same time I know a bit about how the world works and I have friends who work in AML, so I know that “taxing the rich” will never bring as much money as people think it would.

Back when Musk pretended to be the “cool leftist millionaire” he would sometimes boast about the taxes he paid, trying to be “the shining example” for other top 1%. He was still paying a tax rate of between 0.4% and 0.1% - thanks to his accountants being creative.

On top of that, people completely do not understand what progressive taxes mean. They think that if you have a tax level of 10% for $0-1000 and 20% for $1001-10000, then it means that if you’re earning $2000, you would pay $400 in taxes. Which is not true, you would pay (100010%)+(100020%) = $300.

But this fundamental misunderstanding makes them think that a billionaire should be paying some massive amounts of money from ALL their total net worth (which is also confusing “wealth” with “worth”, btw). Even if we somehow someday got a fair and honourable billionaire, their tax payments would feel like they’re avoiding taxes because of those misconceptions.

This meme reinforces a false reality where these taxes are significant enough to change things - they’re not and they most probably won’t be.

Yeah, I also called it a good start and I’m getting downvoted for it.

Did I say anything remotely like that?

Or, maybe, did I say “it’s a great start, but let’s not overreact”?

The tax in its entirety is supposed to bring around 500 million. The NYC budget was 12 billion in the red.

It’s a great start, but suggesting that they managed to balance out the budget thanks to something that handled 1/24th of that deficit is just silly.

Cool, shame it’s off-topic.

Nobody here is talking about the sources of the state’s budget. We’re talking about the fact that “taxing the rich” gave NYC 1/24th of the needed money.

Cool, shame it’s off-topic.

Nobody here is talking about the sources of the state’s budget. We’re talking about the fact that “taxing the rich” gave NYC 1/24th of the needed money.