Fi 🏳️⚧️Hey so,
This windows recall thing?
Enables domestic abuse.
Like, flat-out.
This 'feature' means that someone in an abusive relationship now has a canonized part of the OS monitoring their activities that can be then invoked and studied by the abuser.
Ain't no amount of -group policy- bullshit gonna fix this,
because Microsoft -doesn't allow- the granularity of administration required to defuse this for non-corporate users.
"Use Linux" is not an appropriate response.
People do not always have the agency to choose their operational environment and you cannot fix structural unsafety with individual choice.
This is not a jape nor a joke, and I am not willing to countenance this as an argument.
Do not perpetuate abusive situations by blaming a victim for the environment they are in.
Tim Lavoie@munin The structural unsafety is indeed terrible, and absolutely needs to be called out.
On the other hand, I think relatively few people even have awareness that there *might* be a choice that they can make. Maybe they ask, and the answer is still no. Maybe, just maybe, the awareness leads to being able to make a constructive choice.
Pointing out possible alternatives is still useful.
No.
Knowledge that alternatives theoretically exist is not helpful when a victim does not have the agency to apply that change.
Systemic unsafety -cannot- be addressed by individual choice, because individual choice can be coerced or prevented.
Unsafe infrastructure is not fit for purpose.
Roberto von Archimboldi@munin @tim_lavoie I can't disagree that unsafe infrastructure is the issue but
1. Microsoft doesn't care and I don't see how naming the problem will be sufficient to get the OS changed
2. The abuse victim in the mooted scenario still needs the technical know how to use third party tools to prevent her technically savvy abuser doing the same thing via his own third party program
Given that, I'm not convinced there is any practical difference between advocating Microsoft roll back their system choices and abuse victims learn how to do whatever they would have to do to protect themselves from third party tools (being a total computer ignoramus I can't even describe it) and learning to install some user friendly version of Linux
I do agree that the problem is a systemic one and so needs Microsoft to change course. I just don't get the hostility to people willing to help others embrace alternatives.