@haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com

haui_lemmy

@haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com

Gifted Autistic Sysadmin, Anti-Corporate activist

I help people and build things that help people.

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haui_lemmy,

NC seems to either work completely or it doesnt, barely an inbetween there.

Its fine for me for two years and going. But I only have two users and maybe 200 GB of data. My 16 gigs of ram barely goes above 20%, my 4 thread oldschool xeon usually stays at <5% usage.

Doing sysadmin stuff for 20 yrs probably helps though.

haui_lemmy,

20 yrs of experience rarely makes things worse I guess.

Professor sues Meta to allow release of feed-killing tool for Facebook (arstechnica.com)

The tool is nearly ready to be released, Zuckerman told Ars, but the University of Massachusetts Amherst associate professor is afraid that Facebook owner Meta might threaten legal action if he goes ahead. And his fears appear well-founded. In 2021, Meta sent a cease-and-desist letter to the creator of the original Unfollow...

haui_lemmy,

Probably but thats not the issue. The issue is mass influx of badly moderated and likely, eventually ad ridden content. They can totally read all my stuff. I dont want them to push their shit on my server and I dont want them to gain power over my feed. What would happen if I defederated lemmy.world tomorrow? Exactly, my feed would be 75% shorter because most stuff is on there. With meta, world is suddenly 10% of the feed and meta is 90.

haui_lemmy,

You could always start suing the US government for allowing shareholder primacy in the first place. Stakeholder primacy is the way to go and everyone knows that. Everyone besides corporate knuckleheads.

haui_lemmy,

I use pop for my nvidia laptop and it works great. System76 seems to be on the right track and I‘m curious what they have in store for the future.

haui_lemmy,

I dont understand why they didnt. Debian with gnome is essentially the same imo.

haui_lemmy,

And tuxedo. Depending on your country.

haui_lemmy,

Funny. I‘m using it on an asus a15 and its rocksolid so far. Sorry you made that experience though.

haui_lemmy,

Thanks for elaborating. Learn something new every day. :)

I use pop os extensively so I knew about that but the government/security stuff was interesting. The main reason I went away from ubuntu was snap and pop is very useful.

Microsoft says it needs games like Hi-Fi Rush the day after killing its studio (www.theverge.com)

Today, one day after Microsoft announced that it would shut down four of its games studios, Matt Booty, head of Xbox Game Studios, held a town hall to discuss the division’s future goals. “We need smaller games that give us prestige and awards,” Booty told employees, according to internal remarks shared with The Verge....

haui_lemmy,

The reason these companies are successful is anti competitive behavior and money, not genius. Granted, gates did good when he invented a universally adopted OS but since then, they’re just using their power to bully themselves to more money.

They desperately need to be broken up and I wonder when the rest of the world will come to that conclusion. I hope it happens before we get „privatized government“.

People defending megacorporations of any kind should be ashamed of themselves.

haui_lemmy,

OOF

I didnt know that. So from „young inventor in a garage“ to „privileged child gets everything in life because money“. Thats sad man.

haui_lemmy,

I‘m sure you mean well but your link does not work to substantiate your claim. Can you cite or link to a specific part of the document? Assuming its not my phone thats making trouble. In that case I apologize.

haui_lemmy,

All because his mother was on the board of directors? Now I understand why he wont give away his fortune. He isnt the saint everybody thinks he is. Its all marketing.

haui_lemmy,

Yeah. Try to tell that to anyone who is in that TV-watching-bubble. I have problems even conveying that musk is not a saint.

haui_lemmy,

People will bully and right out assault you for it but yes, thats pretty much my life motto.

Improving things starts with seeing and speaking no matter how many folks really dont want to hear it.

haui_lemmy,

Same for the self checkout.

haui_lemmy,

I can imagine.

haui_lemmy,

PostmarketOS has come a long way. In opposition to proprietary stuff they depend on people contributing which most people dont bother doing (translations, documentation, code).

That said, if you look here the majority of community supported devices lists calls as working.

To give this more perspective, I‘m working on a OnePlus6 with PostmarketOS at the moment and trying to make it userfriendly. Its a lot of work and in my case far too advanced for a regular user but contributing in general isnt ans the phones are developing.

The important part about postmarketOS is that you can finally own your device, unlike with android and ios and even after support ends unlike grapheneOS afaik. Obviously you still have proprietary blobs for modems and such but YOU can be the person that changes this.

So yes, I‘m a fan. Have a good one. :)

haui_lemmy,

Great to hear it. Imo, they have no incentive of doing so. If a country decided that sale of open source hard and software was tax free or at least reduced, we would be seeing it multiply like rabbits.

haui_lemmy,

Interesting article. About matches my experience with forking mastodon.

haui_lemmy,

Simple answer: people vs corporations. A dev or homelabber getting help from you is very different from a company making billions just by mass shoveling your knowledge to the highest bidder.

The reason we need this as a fediverse service is that everyone can take in this knowledge and one corp doesnt have the ability to sell it. Thats what the worth comes from. Someone holding they key to it.

haui_lemmy,

Maybe similar to Reddit they restricted access to the data so they could sell it to AI companies.

Which would be a way to circumvent cc by sa.

haui_lemmy,

If we only were allowed to do anything else than prepare for work (school), work and prepare for death (retirement for normal people).

But obviously the people need cheap toys that break asap so they can buy new cheap toys and we need to produce, sell, transport and plan them.

I don't know anything about Linux and the idea of installing it frightens me. Where do I start?

I bought a laptop yesterday, it came pre-installed with Windows 11. I hate win 11 so I switched it down to Windows 10, but then started considering using Linux for total control over the laptop, but here’s the thing: I keep seeing memes about how complicated or fucky wucky Linux is to install and run. I love the idea of open...

haui_lemmy,

I highly appreciate you asking for feedback and acknowledge a possible opportunity for growth. Very rare, doubly so on the internet imo.

The intention you use something with - sadly - does not communicate over written text well. If you use common derogatory language in a „funny“ way doesnt change that it is derogatory. Think calling a black person the n word or a woman the b word but „meaning it funny“.

The word turbo nerd is exceptionally derogatory and akin to making fun of disabled people.

screaming at themselves or cursing can be a sign of tourette, the IT world has a very high rate of autistic people and hearing them scream can be a sign of a meltdown. Thats not something to make fun about.

In any case it never is your business to make fun of someone except the person gives consent (ie is a friend who is cool with being treated that way or does the same with you). Taking away people‘s agency that way is indeed what can lead to horrible outcomes. Just dont do it. You can be funny in a different way.

haui_lemmy,

Listen mate, please read before you assume. I cited a source because thats what you do when you claim stuff so I did.

Using degrading language isnt okay and neither is trying to dismiss someone explaining it because its „not representative of the common view“. I never said it was.

I was explaining how I made the conclusion. No reason for you to jump to their defence. I was explaining. Have a good one.

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