just me being pessimistc and building off my experience with Germans in general

OpenSUSE is a German company which makes the probability of them supporting Israel very high.

blue hat linux

city pigeons are descended from rock pigeons which in nature breed on the ground on tall cliffs and stuff, they don’t really build proper nests. This is part of why they thrive in cities, since tall buildings are a perfect nesting opportunity.

ur out of the loop on the cuckstoel memes, and you replied to the wrong comment

Most likely sodium, maybe potassium

bcrypt… with how many iterations? seems like an important detail

people who don’t do drugs got it easy

finally somebody explains the joke, thank you :D

gulag for everybody who thinks this is news. The guy is literally a fascist and we are supposed to be angry about how his humanoid robots look kinda human? who tf cares

The ad revenue part is true but what do you mean by not harvesting data? Mastodon definitely stores your boosts and likes, it just doesn’t use that data to recommend more content. And the big difference is of course that it is stored on your instance’s server, not a centralized location.

That’s fair! Although I fear big money will always come up with some way to make a “better” UX, either simply because they can afford more/better devs, and often by compromising privacy, accessibility, etc.

embrace extend extinguish has worked in the past and it can work again

So it should be Plato not Socrates in the meme?

It’s centralized. They allow federation using their own protocol.

But all you need to know is that it’s a capitalist, for-profit undertaking.

it’s quite different in the sense that you don’t see any recommended content, just your follows and their boosts.

That mindset is the problem. A slightly better UX at the cost of freedom is a bad deal.

It’s the dilemma of any alternative space. People seeking alternatives don’t like the mainstream.

And with a bit of generalization, there’s two reasons not to like the mainstream:

1. The mainstream is too oppressive
2. The mainstream is not oppressive enough

I don’t think he had them all to begin with, but he lost the rest of his marbles. To be honest I think if he was a critical thinker and a bit more open-minded, he would have become an anarchist. But sadly he’s a Christian conservative.

Also as I’ve learned more about linux, I realize he’s wrong about most things there too 😂

It’s true I was there. I was the racism

Firefox + uBlock Origin already does it too. No ads, and I can listen even when my phone is locked.