Changing the state of privacy starts with changing how we talk about things. Stop using anti-privacy language, here's a guide 👇

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umbrella@lemmy.ml · 49 pts · 119d (4 replies)
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Dyskolos@lemmy.zip · 7 pts · 119d
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Agent641@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 119d (2 replies)

Using snap or Flatpack?

umbrella@lemmy.ml · 17 pts · 119d
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ferric_carcinization@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 118d

make install

thagoat@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 42 pts · 119d (7 replies)

Gotta go home and crack a few linuxes

TIN@feddit.uk · 11 pts · 119d (5 replies)

Linuces

illi@piefed.social · 7 pts · 119d (2 replies)

Not Linuxi?

lulungomeena_burbclave@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 119d (1 reply)

Linuxen.

thagoat@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 119d

Apparently Linuces is Latin for multiple Torvalds's

mech@feddit.org · 5 pts · 119d

Linopodes

thagoat@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 119d

Silly me, I forgot the grammatical plural of Linux. Damn it.

Modest_Toxic@feddit.uk · 4 pts · 119d

Hello fellow linuxahoic

RodgeGrabTheCat@sh.itjust.works · 33 pts · 119d (2 replies)

What the fuck is wrong with just saying email? It's been around for decades.

If someone said to me "Could you crack a Linux" I would walk away slowly and avoid eye contact.

Fmstrat@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 113d (1 reply)

Because this is a Proton Ad.

RodgeGrabTheCat@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 113d

Could be.

HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml · 24 pts · 119d

Picking another corporation to base your language around isn't better. Why not refer to the general privacy concepts that corporation claims to have?

jokeyrhyme@lemmy.ml · 18 pts · 119d (1 reply)

hehe, yikes

between Proton moving operations and its CEO being a MAGA (or at least a Trump sycophant), the advice to adopt Proton has really curdled recently

Doomsider@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 119d

Yes, all his musings about Trump cracking down on Google aged like fine milk. Everyone who paid attention knew this though. He should keep his mouth shut about politics and do his company a favor

No1@aussie.zone · 14 pts · 119d (3 replies)

It would be safer if we discussed.this using encryption:

1jdBaPK9ULsvBDnzbtGgE9ksCtpfJJFq/rB346x5jehKHY5tfrzdvycYhbLEmABF1jdBaPK9ULsvBDnzbtGgE9ksCtpfJJFq/rB346x5jehKHY5tfrzdvycYhbLEmABF1jdBaPK9ULsvBDnzbtGgE9ksCtpfJJFq/rB346x5jehKHY5tfrzdvycYhbLEmABF

OK?

nutbutter@discuss.tchncs.de · 6 pts · 119d (1 reply)

Please provide your public key.

No1@aussie.zone · 10 pts · 119d

Oh, sorry, I lost that with my bitcoin wallet in 2011 when my hard drive crashed â˜šī¸

racoon@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 119d
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thermogel@lemmy.ml · 11 pts · 119d

Instead, lets simplify: Search, Message, Email, Video Call... wtf is the last one

IratePirate@feddit.org · 11 pts · 119d (3 replies)

This is a joke... right? Right?

illi@piefed.social · 14 pts · 119d

Judging by the last part... yeah. But also, there is something to it.

Dyskolos@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 119d (1 reply)
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OldChicoAle@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 119d

I mean if you're not serious enough, sure /jk

pomegranatefern@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 119d

Had me going until "Could you crack a Linux?"

Tangentism@lemmy.ml · 9 pts · 119d

This reeks of adults trying to explain to other adults about 'internet speak' and should have stayed in whichever marketing fools addled brain it came from

atopi@piefed.blahaj.zone · 7 pts · 119d

but if enough people use google as a general verb, the word will stop being owned by alphabet (from my understanding)

Modest_Toxic@feddit.uk · 6 pts · 119d

What the fuck is this?

merc@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 119d

Do people not know how to say "this is my email address" anymore?

Dsklnsadog@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 119d

Yeah, language doesn't work like that.

anothermember@feddit.uk · 5 pts · 119d

Would be better if this had serious suggestions. But to add a serious one, please say something like "content blocker" instead of "adblocker"; you're not freeloading by blocking ads, you're choosing to not connect to unwanted privacy-hostile content with your computer and internet connection, as you should.

LLMhater1312@piefed.social · 4 pts · 119d (7 replies)

Its been so hard to stop saying google it but im getting there, they really got us good with their branding brain worm

zikzak025@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 119d (1 reply)

At the same time, Google hates people using their name generically for web searching because it risks them losing the trademark.

So I guess I am conflicted, because I hate to acknowledge Google more than I need to, but would love to see the term become meaningless.

Manalith@midwest.social · 4 pts · 119d

I use DuckDuckGo but say Google for this exact reason. If I'm talking to someone I actually like I usually elaborate to say "Google isn't the search engine I actually use because it's sus, but you know what I mean"

comfy@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 119d

Luckily I find it pretty easy to avoid using brand names and just use the plain old verb.

Search it for me. Look it up. Message me. Send it to me, I'll send this back to you. Set up a call, a meeting, a video call.

eodur@piefed.social · 4 pts · 119d

Pretty sure "to google" means to search for something and get nothing but ads, bad answers, and frustration now. Dunno why anyone would want that.

Or maybe it means "to create a cool product then kill it while it's still popular."

mech@feddit.org · 2 pts · 119d (2 replies)

"Could you DuckDuckGo that for me?" just doesn't work the same.

pomegranatefern@sh.itjust.works · 12 pts · 119d (1 reply)

"Hey, can you Duck around and find out?"

zikzak025@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 119d

That really needs to be their next PR campaign.

imjustmsk@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 118d

egg break when put all in one basket. 

HubertManne@piefed.social · 2 pts · 119d (2 replies)

as som have mentioned. I call email, email. And I call video conferencing video conferencing and would say hop on a conference call or just call. I mean many people dial in. Video is just standard now but they used to be done with just phones. I usually say the message app used as at a workplace its whatever they use. Open some windows is talking about gui windows not ms windows. I don't get the alternative thing at all. Its like that thing with ms not being able to trademark windows because windows is a common word. you say windows don't let ms own that trump. I do say google sometimes for search and that is bad but I often say search or look it up. I just need to stop saying google sometimes.

pomegranatefern@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 118d (1 reply)

Open some windows is talking about gui windows not ms windows. I don't get the alternative thing at all. Its like that thing with ms not being able to trademark windows because windows is a common word.

I'm pretty sure that in this specific context, it's actually referring to the physical windows that you would crack to let in some fresh air. I'm also pretty sure that this post was a joke, LOL.

HubertManne@piefed.social · 3 pts · 118d

ah, getting the last bit was likely key to realizing it.

comfy@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 119d

The linux is already open

Moltz@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 117d
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Grass@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 119d

If I actually cpuld be bothered to go hang out with people I would totally try to make crack a linux a thing

whosepoopisonmybuttocks@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 119d (2 replies)

Do we trust proton mail? Is tutamail a better alternative?

Hakuso@scribe.disroot.org · 1 pts · 119d

Tuta is much better than proton, but I'm finding Germany to be more than a bit sus lately, too.

I need to find a provider in Iceland or something, where there's still a bit of respect for actual people.

comfy@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 119d

My issue with Protonmail is that, last I checked years ago, I couldn't set up email forwarding or a local client without paying for an upgrade. So there's a soft form of lock-in to prevent changing providers.

BigTurkeyLove@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 119d

I could really go for some ice cold Linux right now.