You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
ok let me write a virus post and then i will do something else
a "virus" is a harmul computer thing that works by embedding itself in a file that the user than executes. like really old ones it'd literally write over part of MicrosoftWord.exe or w/e. they're not that common nowadays i think.
a "trojan" is something that pretends to be innocuous so that the user runs it. for example let's say you want to play a video game, so you download the video game from the online. you run it and it looks like a game, but without your realizing it's done a bunch of other things like eat your hard drive. this is a really common infectious vector.
"worms" are things that pretty much do their own deal, they don't need the user to run anything. generally they work by exploits in programs. like, say you're running hamachi (a virtual area network program), but the hamachi programmers fucked up, and if you send a specially crafted message to a computer running hamachi you can get it to execute whatever you like, so people came up with messages that trick hamachi into infecting other hamachi computers with themselves, that's a worm.
also if you're running windows without antivirus you're probably infected by something and you haven't noticed. a good disease doesn't kill its host, you know. at least not until it lyses. this might not be the case on modern windows since they come with a bunch of microsoft protection crap now apparently.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
like you'd think that someone would notice "oh hey this "book.pdf.exe" thing i just downloaded very obviously isn't the thing i was meaning to download, let's not install it"
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
like you'd think that someone would notice "oh hey this "book.pdf.exe" thing i just downloaded very obviously isn't the thing i was meaning to download, let's not install it"
You're WAY overestimating the average Windows user.
like you'd think that someone would notice "oh hey this "book.pdf.exe" thing i just downloaded very obviously isn't the thing i was meaning to download, let's not install it"
Gamergate was never about ethics. Lots of people think it's about ethics, but to the mainstream of the movement, the primary ethical problems are either that not all video game reviewers are willing to overlook sexism, or the accusation that Zoe Quinn slept with 5 guys in return for favourable reviews.
The former is obviously not unethical. The latter is demonstrably false, since none of the reviewers she was accused of sleeping with actually reviewed her game. Whether Zoe Quinn is a bad person is beside the point; her game was not unethically promoted.
The gamergate controversy is just a bunch of sexist assholes using a mixture of rhetoric and sockpuppetry to create the illusion that they speak for all gamers. Some people joined the movement with good intentions, but the core of the movement is rotten.
i threadhopped, so i guess the conversation has moved past this, but i'm tired of hearing that it's about ethics, or that gamergate's critics are just as bad as the movement itself. Utter rubbish.
Gamergate is a hate group, simple as that, and if people are coming away with the impression that all gamers are sexist prats, that's because the gamergate movement has tried very hard to create the illusion that they represent all gamers.
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~memories of ocarina of time~
I am not some kind of fish babysitter.
a "virus" is a harmul computer thing that works by embedding itself in a file that the user than executes. like really old ones it'd literally write over part of MicrosoftWord.exe or w/e. they're not that common nowadays i think.
a "trojan" is something that pretends to be innocuous so that the user runs it. for example let's say you want to play a video game, so you download the video game from the online. you run it and it looks like a game, but without your realizing it's done a bunch of other things like eat your hard drive. this is a really common infectious vector.
"worms" are things that pretty much do their own deal, they don't need the user to run anything. generally they work by exploits in programs. like, say you're running hamachi (a virtual area network program), but the hamachi programmers fucked up, and if you send a specially crafted message to a computer running hamachi you can get it to execute whatever you like, so people came up with messages that trick hamachi into infecting other hamachi computers with themselves, that's a worm.
also if you're running windows without antivirus you're probably infected by something and you haven't noticed. a good disease doesn't kill its host, you know. at least not until it lyses. this might not be the case on modern windows since they come with a bunch of microsoft protection crap now apparently.
i'm stuck in her dungeon though
anyway something else
like how exactly would the 50 bajillion fake download links on a mediafire page get malware onto your computer?
(i am running the generic microsoft protection shit, and my computer hasn't been performing noticeably slowly or anything so i assume it's fine)
The former is obviously not unethical. The latter is demonstrably false, since none of the reviewers she was accused of sleeping with actually reviewed her game. Whether Zoe Quinn is a bad person is beside the point; her game was not unethically promoted.
The gamergate controversy is just a bunch of sexist assholes using a mixture of rhetoric and sockpuppetry to create the illusion that they speak for all gamers. Some people joined the movement with good intentions, but the core of the movement is rotten.
Gamergate is a hate group, simple as that, and if people are coming away with the impression that all gamers are sexist prats, that's because the gamergate movement has tried very hard to create the illusion that they represent all gamers.
why was the batmobile cgi so bad?
what is with the people of gotham?
why are the fights so boring?
can we ever know why kids love the taste of cinnamon toast crunch?
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