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Please check you kids' Halloween candy, everyone

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Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Masimatutu@lemm.ee⁩ to ⁨[deleted]⁩

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  • Alteon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Remember kids, don’t ever plug something in to your computer that you don’t trust or are unsure about. Picking up flashdrive off the street and plugging them in is one of the easiest ways to get malware installed on your computer.

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    • OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      That’s why I take mine in to work to plug in.

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      • thirdmouse@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        to a coworker’s laptop.

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      • c0mbatbag3l@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Gotta test it on the expendable company network before you take it home.

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      • uranibaba@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Previous work got USB sent to them via post and they had to access the data on this drives. These drives came from end customers, so they had two computers specifically for the purpose of retrieving images from the USB sticks and burning them on CDs.

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    • hoch@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Image

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    • Igloojoe@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Theres also usb drives that are designed to short circuit your computer. Frying the motherboard.

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      • rockSlayer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        USB Killers are expensive though. No one’s intentionally ditching those for randos to find

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    • Pons_Aelius@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      one of the easiest ways to get malware installed on your computer

      Only if you are the child of an Iran nuclear engineer. (cough stuxnet cough. )

      If not, visiting .ru porn sites is much more likely to lead to infection.

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      • ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        visiting .ru porn sites is much more likely to lead to infection.

        I did that once. Now it burns when IP.

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    • ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It’s also the easiest way to distribute malware

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    • user224@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Disconnect storage, disconnect network peripherals, boot live CD, profit?

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    • Steamymoomilk@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      But FREE Robux. LOL don’t plug in stuff

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    • TurdMongler@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Easiest? Whut? Hold my beer 🤣

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  • Engywuck@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Let’s hope these don carry Linux ISOs, which would be a very problematic drug to deal with.

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    • Diplomjodler@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I carried a USB stick with a Linux ISO once and my object in life had been to dethrone God and destroy capitalism ever since.

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      • Engywuck@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I agree with your purposes. Good luck, fellow lemmer.

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      • Everythingispenguins@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        And folks this is what happens when your first disto is Red Star OS

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      • Socsa@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Based and Stallman pilled.

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      • mercury@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I keep my ventoy drive with me at all times (it’s plugged into my laptop). One of these days someone will let me install Linux on their computer. In that case, I have a second drive for the new convert.

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    • comador@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Mint?.. MINT? We’re a RED HAT household Mister! You have some explaining to do!

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    • Socsa@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I always just hand out slips of paper with the BlueRay encryption key 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0

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      • wolfeh@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Isn’t that HD-DVD?

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  • Cicraft@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I might be dumb but how many books would 64gbs mean

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    • Masimatutu@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I’d say roughly 1,000 to 100,000, depending on format.

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      • takeda@szmer.info ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Edit 2: According to Randall Munroe (to lazy to find the source), you could theoretically store one word letter per bit. That would give us up to ten two million books.

        I don’t see how that is possible, I think it is be one letter per byte.

        Bit only represents one state 1 or 0, or true or false. It is too little information to store a letter.

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      • Sotuanduso@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        One letter per bit? You’d need some crazy effective compression algorithm for that, because a bit is 1 or 0. Did you mean byte?

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    • robocall@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Not dumb to ask

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    • feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      More than have been banned, I think.

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    • DancingIsForbidden@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Have a couple old e-textbooks on my PC from uni, they are about 50-60MB. 1GB would maybe hold 30 or so?

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      • thepianistfroggollum@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        PDF is super overkill for ebooks. Mobi or epub are usually <5mb per book (usually around 1mb)

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    • H3wastooshort@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      a shitload. 64000 if it were simple text only stuff with 1MB per book, 640 if it were 100MB chonkers full of images

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      • Mog_fanatic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        yeah i read mostly sci fi books so around like 300-400 pages all text and i’d say the average e-book for them is like 150-200kb’s so if it were books like that you’d be looking at stuffing like 300,000 books on there.

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  • Devouring@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    As long as they’re not books on kinky sex that you share with kids because you’re pure evil, I support you.

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    • Socsa@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      My mother was a women’s studies major and we literally had an entire bookshelf of material about sex and sexuality growing up. It’s weird how I had literally no interest in it prior to a certain biological epoch, at which point it becaame an extremely useful tool for independent learning.

      Weird how now I am a well adjusted adult who has a healthy relationship with my own sexuality as well as my partners’ and I haven’t even raped anyone even a little bit!

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      • kamenlady@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I care - thanks for sharing a snippet about you growing up. I was also indifferent to my father’s porn stash i found in my parents closet. Until, out of nowhere …

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      • Uranium3006@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        That's the right way to do it

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  • OrteilGenou@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Mein Kandy!!

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  • BlackXanthus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I would be very interested in the list of banned books, and how it would be curated.

    For 64gb, you might have to extend the years to be: banned books ever, and then break down that list by reason. Just to fill space you’d end up including dubious books, and you’d need to be clear on where/who/why a book got banned.

    A book being ‘banned’ from a pre-school for being ‘not age appropriate’ by some pointless helicopter parent wouldn’t count unless the book was actually age appropriate.

    Then you would need a category of ‘banned by author banned’(or similar). Books that were considered age appropriate at the time, but now definitely aren’t. I’m thinking here of the recent removal/editing of Dr Seuss books to remove problematic racial stereotype. Not necessarily banned in their original form, perhaps, but still censored (perhaps, rightly so for the target age).

    64GB is a lot of books. You would end up even including ‘The tale of (Darth) Pelagius’

    (Pelagius was considered a heretic in the early years of the church, and his writings were banned)

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    • havokdj@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Darth Pelagius the Wise?

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  • Furedadmins@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Is each page a bitmap

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    • PM_ME_FEET_PICS@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Maybe they include audio books as well for the blind.

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  • I_Clean_Here@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Bomb the publishers! War on books now!

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  • RIP_Cheems@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    What counts as banned? Mien kalf?

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    • rockSlayer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      for some reason, that book is not typically targeted by right wing book bans.

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      • havokdj@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Because they directly reference it for their politics

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      • Uranium3006@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Moms for liberty needs it to pull quotes from for the newsletter

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    • Diplomjodler@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I guess you mean “Mein Kampf”? And no, the people who are into banning books are very much OK with that one.

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      • PM_ME_FEET_PICS@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        That one and the far right book “The Turner Diaries” are banned in serial forms.

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    • ThatFembyWho@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Either censored by the government or self-censored by the library/institution as the case may be. It’s truly a process as old as writing itself.

      In the case of kids specifically I would probably limit it to age appropriate reading material, which Hitler’s angry prison manifesto really isn’t…

      That being said there are a few hard hitting children’s books about the holocaust, and those actually are on banned books lists.

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    • Akasazh@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Mien Kalf can only be read as ‘my calf’ or a woman with the first name Mien and last name Kalf in Dutch. Mien being pronounced like ‘mean’.

      Mein is pronounced to rhyme with nine. The ‘ei’ only being correctly pronounced in American when saying Einstein, other -steins get mispronounced to rhyme with ‘lean’ (Weiner as Weener instead of whiner fi).

      So we’ve got ‘mein’, to rhyme with nine, and Kampf, which might look like it’s out of your comfort zone, but it’s pronounced like comfort without the -ort.

      Didn’t intend for this to become a German pronunciation lesson using dictatorial literature, but there we are…

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      • MossyFeathers@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        If Kampf is pronounced “comf” does that mean the English words, “comfy” or “comfortable” come from the German word for “struggle”?

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  • doctorn@r.nf ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Must be bad books? Usually banned books are a good thing. Learn what nobody wants you to know! 😅

    Or am I missing some kind of sarcasm here? 😅

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    • Rolando@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Fwiw, here’s a list of frequently banned books in the USA: www.ala.org/advocacy/bbooks/…/decade2019

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    • AdrianTheFrog@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I think a lot of the downvotes are from people misinterpreting your comment as saying that banning books is good.

      The joke is making fun of conservatives banning books and paranoia around blades and poison hidden in Halloween candy.

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      • doctorn@r.nf ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Oh, I see it now, editing it for clarification… 😅

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    • Blamemeta@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Most banned books aren’t age appropriate or contain some issue. Like Gender Queer, the “Most banned book in America”, freely available to order, contains pictures of sex, blowjobs, and a blood soaked tampon left until the blood curdled. It’s not exactly appropriate for kids, so it got banned.

      The issue is that most of lemmy has never looked at a banned book, and they’re just circlejerking thinking that only super important books get banned or some shit like that.

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      • gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        No, most banned books are sex-education or contain something that the conservative parents that don’t actually read these books won’t like because of some mistaken idea that teaching kids about the world is a bad thing

        As someone who has perused multiple of the books on the ban list: not a single one I’ve seen is something that you’d legit keep out of a kids hands unless you were some weird prude who hated sex. Eg, a conservative with little sex education themselves

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      • PoopMonster@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        You wanna hear something mind-blowing? When I go to a library and don’t like a book I just don’t read it…

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      • Uranium3006@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Fuck off book burner

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      • DancingIsForbidden@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        blood soaked tampon left until the blood curdled. It’s not exactly appropriate for kids

        Well shit, I’m in my early 30s and it’s definitely sounding like it’s not appropriate for me either

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      • doctorn@r.nf ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Oh, these kinds of “banbedbook for children”… 😅

        Thank you so much for not just downvoting me, but at least enlightening me of what I didn’t get! I appreciate that! Many just downvote without making me any wiser, even when I ask for clarification… 😅

        Either way, those kinds of books are ibdeed not fpr children and are bad to be getting in candy, hands down agreed on that! I just saw “banned books” and assumed books with information that make you question the powers that be or the preset values taught… It’s ok to think differently and to critic information that only comes from one side of the story. But it of course is a bad thing to give any sexual or gorey content to children, I just didn’t think about that kind of bad when it is put in front of “books”, tbh, if it’s sexual content I’d more expect it to be ‘pictures’ then instead of ‘books’,…

        Anyway, again, thanks for clarifying!

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  • user1234@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I always thought it would be funny if someone were to get some individually packaged Gillette Mach 3 razors and put them in the buckets of kids who look old enough to shave.

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