• tory@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    Using the term “normies” paints you as having a superiority complex, which isn’t the best look.

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      2 years ago

      I appreciate you calling out the use of the term “normie”. Communities that frequently use such terms always end up with an unhealthy “us vs them” mentality.

      Like I’m not surprised people don’t react well to someone bringing up privacy issues if said person starts the conversation with the mentality of “how do I enlighten this normie?”

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      2 years ago

      Being a normie isn’t the best look either.

      Misanthropy in current times is an indicator of a functioning brain.

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          2 years ago

          There’s quite a leap from “absolutely everything is completely fine” to “I hate all humans”. Both are idiotic sentiments.

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      2 years ago

      You’re not wrong. That said sometimes it can be self-deprecating.

      In any case, one substitute is “non-nerds”, but I’m sure someone can think of a term that fits even better in the meme.

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          2 years ago

          e2ee is almost meaningless on a closed source app or system… whats stopping them from sending a copy of your files unencrypted?

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            2 years ago

            Well, it would most likely show up in the network traffic if they were doing that for starters. And no one doing security analysis on iOS has ever mentioned that AFAIK. And since Apple bases about 90% of their marketing on protecting your privacy, that would be very bad for them as a company.

            I mean, what’s stopping someone poisoning a library on open source? That’s actually provably happened.

            Which is not to ding open source, which I quite like too. Just saying you are running certain risks no matter what you choose and in a phone OS, if you just want it to work and not think about it, I personally feel like Apple is a decent risk still.