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Should You Cover Your Laptop Camera When It’s Not in Use? (www.consumerreports.org)

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 days ago (1 children)

unless you coded it entirely yourself on an air gapped machine with your own hand crafted compiler

That implies you can trust yourself to even code a compiler in the first place.

Can you?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Not even sure why your mind decided to turn this into a personal attack, but it's a good sign you just want to be blocked

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

I didn't; I just followed the line of logic you have established that the only way to be sure is if you do every step of the chain by yourself, ignoring, ya know, the entire point of society making progress.

But sure, you do you.