In religious studies, daemon or daimon is used to refer to pre Christian supernatural beings as I said. There’s a huge difference between beings that may or may not be evil vs demons who are generally regarded as evil by definition. Demons got their name from daimons, but they’re not fully equivalent.
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Technology@lemmy.world•As the U.S. starves it of oil, Cuba is pulling off one of the fastest solar revolutions on the planet — with China’s helpEnglish
1·4 days agoCollective punishment on the homeland to own the libs
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Privacy@lemmy.world•Age Verification is Now Mutating into General IDEnglish
11·4 days agoThank you for being a voice of reason
They were divine beings above humans and below gods, they’re probably the main inspiration for both angels and demons in Christianity
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Linux@programming.dev•Asahi Linux: Initial boot support for M4 PRO/MAX/A18 PRO/M5
3·5 days agoThey’ve been caught in the past slowing down old iPhones claiming it was to preserve battery health. I think claiming they definitely will do it is a bit much, but it seems plausible enough.
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Programmer Humor@programming.dev•Recent conversations between Dawkins and sentient chat-bot Claudia (Claude)
121·5 days agoHe keeps sinking lower and lower
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Linux@programming.dev•If Current Trends Continue, Linux Will be a Dominant OS in ~10 Years
1·6 days agoDo you have a proprietary requirement that you can’t handle on Linux? It works fine for me but also I’m not dependent on local proprietary tools to do my work so we may have a very different experience
If Google wasn’t directly incentivized to screw us over for infinite growth and profits I’d also believe them here, it won’t stop here, they’ll keep making it harder for us to control our own devices