Who said 100% was the goal? We don’t ever have 100% guaranteed exploit free code, or 100% guaranteed spyware free code, etc. The point is you send a message and try your best if you think those are worthwhile goals to attain.

The people saying “but we can’t possibly stop all usage, so why try” aren’t being pragmatic; imo they’re giving up. My assumption is because they don’t want to confront the nasty externalities of their own ai use.

The same could be said of a lot of technologies that enable greater corporate capture at the expense of the environment and overall human wellbeing—and we should be doing something about those as well.

They Ubuntud themselves )_)

Rip Debian

No it’s simple see 16oz is 1.2 flasks which is easy to remember because it’s based on King Ralph’s favourite cup and Ralph famously died tripping over a cocksnake (unfortunate name but I won’t censor history) and what do you trip with? That’s right, your feet. And how many feet do you have? Exactly, 2. Hence 1.2 flasks to 1 16oz can.

Dark Ages is meh. 2016 was legitimately fresh, and Eternal went a kind of interesting direction, but they legitimately need to take some time and go in a brand brand new direction if they want to make more than four of these games, because the “push forward” formula + lofi sf&f aesthetic alone is not going to cut it on its own.

It’s one of my fondest memories on that console

They say every million in Microsoft ad spend is a quarter point in Linux desktop share.

Yeah I’m having conversations with the most broie business school types and finding out they’re running mint. I grew up not knowing anyone who used Linux except maybe at school.

Welcome, to City 17. It’s safer here.

You mean Firefox? Or is Mozilla the actual core or something? I thought they were just a company or a foundation or whatever

Yeah that is not hard to do at all. This is not an unreasonable standard.

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It’s all javascript baby

For half a year I’ve been using it as a daily driver at home and at work for productivity and game on tiling and floating WMs, and so far the only thing that doesn’t work is the screen sharing on my offbrand Teams package I gotta trot out once in a while.

But then I just switch from Sway to Gnome on Wayland, so I can’t even blame Wayland then.

You just need to be aware when packages are expecting X and find alternatives.

Found an Ubuntu CD on the ground and took it home. It resurrected a dead laptop and since then I’ve only known the kiss of Linus

I think I kind of identify with this perspective. I used to view agender as the obvious goal and anyone trying to emphasise binary gender as being kind of backwards. I just assumed that every cool person secretly just wanted to abolish gender and then we could just do whatever we wanted without having to label it one way or another.

And so for a split second I thought the terfs had a point. I even defended the perspective on reddit I think 🤦 anyway, you know the rest. If you read enough terf shit they tell in themselves and it’s not a feminist movement at all, but only about guarding access to their role as afabs (in the patriarchy).

I’m not going to waste to many more bytes on a transphobe, but if he’s been doing some work and coming to his senses then I’m happy for him. I can imagine how his particular life path fucked him up (solo Java developer to probably richest indie dev in the world).

It does make wonder if we would be better off now if the silicon valley monetizers had just gone with a subscription model.

Hell even a donation model works, as we see from countless FOSS projects.

In their defence they were born into it, and their parents and all their peers do too.

Most people aren’t exposed to the content of people who “got out” because it doesn’t show up on commercial platforms or get discussed at company barbeques.

I’m not saying it’s 100% the fault of algorithms. Sure, they work because they prey on very real human nature.

But lemmy isn’t apart from the rest of the internet or the overculture. The “algorithm” (to torture the term) that guides the news cycles, manufactures bikeshedding style outrage over meaningless diversions like the colour of a government swimming pool, etc… that does seep into our timelines and conversions.

Like you and I are at slightly different perspectives on what an algorithm is and how much of it can be said to affect people against their will, and some people will see us as arguing for two “sides” of a political spectrum.

I believe in personal responsibility sure, but I also believe all this other stuff affects us, and that I can’t even totally blame people who might be more susceptible to it.

At a certain point I blame the companies that keep putting out those hooks they know are harmful knowing that someone will always bite (millions of people will “bite” to greater or lesser degrees).

At that scale I think the excuse of saying people have personal responsibility (not your words) gets diluted because we all have different innate capacities and weaknesses.

It can only be called predatory.

Really without major social or political change all commercial technology will serve incumbent power.