Normies have become so accustomed to their data being stolen that when my housemate had to modify a sensitive pdf file he asked me for a PDF editor that doesn't make a cloud connection as if that should be a normal thing that you should need to ask.
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
This story by @josephcox to kick off 404Media is a barn-burner.
Bad actors are using false identities or compromised credentials to maintain persistent access to credit reporting data and automating its sale with bots to the tune of $15 per.
Address history, cellphone details, driver's license details, relatives and other sensitive data.
I'm a bit sad. I've tried to bring people over to #Mastodon with what are good arguments to ME: #NSFW content creators will eventually be shadowbanned or booted off a platform as soon as there is advertisers or payment processors demanding it. For marginalised people, Mastodon has powerful tools to stay safe.
But most people I talk to do acknowledge that and then go on to stay on #Twitter or sign up for #Bluesky.
But I understand the discoverability issues, it's Mastodon's greatest weakness IMO.
@AimeeMaroux The issue is that #federatedNetworks appear "hard" and are inscrutable to people used to clicking OK on a #EULA without reading it. People who don't understand that they are saying "please take my #privacy and my #rights." People who think that #appStores are great rather than voracious organizations with predatory commission structures.
Average users don't want to think why things are #free and easy. They will also be the ones to complain when a for profit corporation changes their rules in a way that affects them, the user who believes the internet is somehow "free".
The #fediverse is fantastic because no one organization can take it down, and you can change servers if you don't like your current server's new rules. But explaining that to #normies will get you a blank gaze of I comprehension.
Wie sieht's momentan so mit trans Rechten aus? Warum dauert #TSGabschaffen so lange?
Tja ... bringt halt Kohle transfeindlich zu sein.
Hier ein neues Video von RobBubble dazu. Achtung! enthält Videoausschnitte von Extremist*innen. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Mpe5_gBUtI
(Böhmermann hat ja neulich auch mal ein Video "Trend Transfeindlichkeit" gemacht.)
Ich lese ja via nitter.net bei einigen ausgewählten Accounts immer noch beim X vorbei, und inzwischen bin ich regelmäßig irritiert über so selbstverständliche Dinge, die sie dort nicht haben, wie z.B. >400 Zeichen und einen Edit-Button.
Diese Selbst-Antworten, die nötig sind, um ein Wort oder einen einzigen Buchstaben zu korrigieren, ganz, ganz furchtbar.
Und dann weißt du, dass die nichtmal die Beiträge von Leuten sehen, denen sie folgen, wenn der Algorithmus das anders entscheidet.
@viel_zu_negativ ...die größten Painpoints ist eher die #Glibc und andere #GNU-Schrott welcher konsequent mit minimalsten Updates nativss bricked, weshalb ich hoffe dass auf #musl oder andere #c-libs umgdstellt wird.
Ansonsten funzt #Wine ganz gut - es bräuchte natürlich Feinschliff vgl. #Proton / #DXVK-Integration in #Steam.
the state of left wing discourse is just dismal around here
haven't encountered even a single guy yet who earnestly thinks suburban trump voting petite bourgeoisie are the group with the greatest revolutionary potential
@waitworry Maybe because these people would rather lick boots and burn the rest of the world whilst "consuming themselves happy" like some #Boomers?
Sorry if I sound cynically jaded, but these "#Normies" need to kinda first be taught to "#TouchGrass" and get radicalized in the sense that they realize they won't get the "social mobility" upwards, but only get downgraded over time...
And that takes a lot of time and effort to politically educate them...
Can people please stop using the word #normies, it's one of those words that just grates whenever I read it. It doesn't make one look cool, just envious of "normal" people, whatever normal means.
#FUD von #rechtsextrem|em sollte konsequent deplatformed werden, denn die.labern evidenziert eh nur Lügen!
Schließlich hat soch #Zensursula bis heute weder bei #MOGIS noch allen #TechLiterates entschuldigt, die deren #Cyberfaschismus als wirkungslos outcallten und infolgedessen als "[…] [z.T.] schwer pädokriminell […]" diffamiert wurden!