@eljefedsecurit@governa and to me switching to @ubuntu and forcibly migrating everyone who wants me to maintain their shit as a #BenevolentDictator was the best thing I did in my life to the point that I only regret not having done so over 5 years earlier.
The Associated Press just served me an ad for fake anti-virus. The entire page was taken over, and forwarded to the malicious site, within seconds of opening the news article, every time.
An ad blocker isn't just something to hide some annoying eyesores, it's a vital layer of security.
If you have friends or family who might fall for fake AV or "windows technical the department" scams, they need an ad blocker. No site they visit can be considered "safe" unless it simply doesn't have ads.
Otherwise the only valid option is to become a #BenevolentDictator and forcibly.migrate them to @ubuntu / #Ubuntu LTS #Linux and never gibe them #sudo privilegues and instead forcibly update their shit per SystemD service.
There is apparently a democratic layer to this #FOSS and #grassroots governance in general that still needs to be coded as part of #OGB. So if you are a skill programmer, take a look.
We wonder if the (#)fediverseIcon project is worth bringing up at OGB?
@witchescauldron Yes, there is a #dictatorForLife element in FOSS but it is, around moreso the branding of a piece of software. The great thing with FOSS is people get to democratically choose their #benevolentDictator.
We saw this recently with the jump from Audacity to #Tenacity, from Gitea to #Forgejo.
When the community senses that the benevolentDictator has gone, they tend to move like starlings away from it.
i really don't think #linux users recognize: we are weird for using linux. and that's okay! but we are like literally less than 5% of the desktop computing userbase. nobody knows what the fuck a compiler is or how to debug a package manager. they just want to browse reddit or whatever
The entire city of #Yellowknife is being evacuated. This is unprecedented and terrifying.
And thousands of citizens aren’t aware because Meta continues to block news in the country.
This is what happens when citizens are convinced to use an American multinational corporation as their community’s primary communications channel — a corporation that couldn’t give two shits about anything except its “fiduciary duty” to shareholders.
I hate how children get to have absolutely no privacy or autonomy (bodily or otherwise) in the name of "parental rights" and protecting them. Discord recently introduced a feature that would allow parents to have a dashboard that lets them see who their kids are talking to and when and like — that would have actually made my life horribly worse when I was a teenager and my only friends were kids from a writing server online and I had to keep it secret from my mom because she didn't think online friends were real and that it was unhealthy to have them (despite her homeschooling me in the middle of a retirement suburb so I couldn't really make friends elsewhere). It would have actually probably led to the death or homelessness of one of my friends, who found me, and supportive people, and that she was trans, through that writer's discord. Fuck parental controls.
#Cyberfacism being welded as a weapon doesn't make it less bad and inacceptable.
In fact the problem are literally #TechIlliterate#parents to the point that I've told people 20 years ago to not give their parents any admin rights because they'll fuck up everything and activate or install some "Youth Protection" BS and fuck up everything!
Even I who acts as #BenevolentDictator in IT will go out of my way to never breach a users' privacy, minor nor adult!
Mein Bruder hat auf seinem PC beim Spielen neuerdings häufig Abstürze des Grafiktreibers mit nichtssagender Fehlermeldung (AMD Vega 56), gelegentlich Bootscreens des Win10 mit "Page Fault in Nonpaged Area" oder "System Thread Exception not handled".
Ich würde aufs RAM schließen, aber das ist neu und wurde von mir erst vor einigen Monaten mit Memtest getestet. Woran könnte es noch liegen?
Das Einzige, was er in letzter Zeit getaucht hatte, war sein Netzteil. Auf ein höherwertigeres.
Idee?
Pondering how democratic tools & rules are only as good as they can reflect a group's consensus.
The #benevolentdictator model in open systems, ie FOSS & now fedi instances, despite problems (centralisation, burnout), remains compelling. It could also be a Team with control (as with post-BDFL projects like CiviCRM) – the key is decision-makers have to reflect consensus. Because it's all open, they know the community can depart/fork with relatively low cost (unlike the Zuskian/techbro dictator).