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Yeah, the post said it right at the end. America.

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What a great way to dismiss an entire problems based that affects our society. It’s easier to just hand wave it away as someone else’s problem than to actually consider it…

When a problem becomes systematic it’s now a societal and cultural problem and not an individual responsibility problem. Individual responsibility isn’t working so it’s now down to the society this is occurring in to solve the systematic problem in a systematic way.

That’s how almost everything works

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Literally nothing to actually help the nation or solve problems.

Just culture war, and only culture war.

And unfortunately by the looks of this comment section, it works. It forces people to focus on the culture war aspect of it and not the lack of actual progress, or the changes behind the scenes while we all fight over the culture problems and the real dismantling happens out of view.

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I mean you essentially just highlighted a primary user experience problem with Linux…

Information & advice is fragmented, spread around, highly opinionated, poorly digestible, out of date, and often dangerous.

And then the other part of it is that a large part the Linux community will shit on you for not knowing what you don’t know because of some weird cultural elitism…

When you finally ask for help once you realize you don’t know what you’re doing, you’re usually met with derisive comments and criticism instead of help.


Do you want Linux to be customizable so that users can control it however they want. Or do you want it to be safe so that users don’t mess it up? You can’t have it both ways, and when you tell users to “go figure it out” and then :suprise_pikachu: that they found the wrong information because they have literally no idea what’s good or bad, instead of helping, they get shit on.

It’s the biggest thing holding Linux desktop back.

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Too bad this doesn’t affect them because they managed to get themselves an exception to the rule…

Anything powered by a combustion engine is an exception.

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Remember that archive team is unaffiliated with archive.org.

You should still donate to support the storage & maintenance costs of archive.org

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Nation state cybersecurity threats are a big deal, and heavily targeting Microsoft is definitely part of a larger game plan by Russia.

If Microsoft is struggling, imagine how helpless “smaller” corporations (Even 10/100’s of billion $ corps) would be.

I’m interested in how this plays out, and the kinds of postmortems we’ll get from this. Will we see any shift in security culture and best practices?

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Just like others with a missed , obvious, opportunity.

I had a girl take me to a room, take her clothes off, and then just look at me and and ask “Well?”

I had no fucking clue what she meant or what to do so I just did nothing. She then changed into different clothes and left.

Unity bans VLC from Unity Store. (mfkl.github.io)

Everyone can agree on VLC being the best video player, right? Game developers can agree on it too, since it is a great utility for playing multimedia in games, and/or have a video player included. However, disaster struck; Unity has now banned VLC from the Unity Store, seemingly due to it being under the LGPL license which is a...

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Imagine not using FFmpeg or anything that uses FFmpeg 🤣🤣🤣🤣

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Honestly couldn’t tell if you were being sarcastic or not because Poes law until I saw your note.

If all the wealth created by these sorts of things didn’t funnel up to the 0.01% then yeah. It could usher in economic changes that help bring about greater prosperity in the same way mechanical automation should have.

Unfortunately it’s just going to be another vector for more wealth to be removed from your average American and transferred to a corporation

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Probably because brave is kind of the king of advertising in the space.

They managed to sell tracking activity for monetary gain as a privacy centric product.

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OP spreading disinformation.

Users used bad passwords. Their accounts where accessed using their legitimate, bad, passwords.

Users cry about the consequences of their bad passwords.

Yeah, 23AndMe has some culpability here, but the lions share is still in the users themselves

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I calles this ages ago. The federated nature is counter to community growth and discoverability.

Lemmy as a platform needs support built in for this problem.

It’s also painful that servers upgrade lemmy versions and suddenly they are unavailable on apps. Or old versions similarly break.

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Because shitting on other people, belittling them, attacking them personally, and being verbally abusive isn’t?

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I think that community guidelines/ code or conduct should still exist at a top level, in a digestible form, and not nested within a legal document.

They can still be part of the legal document, but should be made more accessible if said guidelines are cared about.

Otherwise you’ll find that it’s a set of expectations that no one reads (And likely cannot find even if they where looking for them), when those expectations are critically important to community health.

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Many many hours is a massive understatement.

Thousands and thousands of hours is more appropriate

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To be fair, the content quality on Lemmy has been about the same from what I’ve seen.

Bots all over the place, low-effort quips instead of discussions bubbling up, lots and LOTS of low-quality armchairing, personal attacks and flaming instead of actual discussion…etc

It was good for a month or so during the reddit 3rd party app purge, but quickly went downhill.

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ITT: Everyone conflating sex for gender…

It’s actually quite important. Your sex are what your chromosomes are, your gender is what you identify as.

Your sex doesn’t change, your gender does.

That’s literally the definition of it.

This is important especially for medical purposes, medication, surgery, emergency care…etc all has variations based on your sex, because different sexes are predisposed to different classes of problems and interactions. This also applies to REPORTING, reporting that a medication affects someone born female different than someone born male is an extremely important distinction.

Incorrect reporting literally costs lives.

It should to be standardized, just like everything else that has significant consequences on well being.

Politics are ruining what should be completed apolitical…


And it looks like lemmy is just Reddit again, except at least on Reddit you can find an informed opinion before the bottom of the thread. This thread is completely devoid of critical thinking…

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So, essentially, really poorly written malware? Given the number of assumptions it makes without any sort of robustness around system configuration it’s about as good as any first-pass bash script.

It’d be a stretch to call it malware, it’s probably an outright fabrication to call it a virus.

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