It does sometimes feel like every American goes on an angry and unconciliatory political rant at the slightest hint of a diverging opinion. Not that elsewhere is perfect. “May you live in interesting times” is said to be a curse, not a blessing.

for a time

Somebody commented they will adapt, given time.

you have to scroll so much further down a thread before the good info is found.

I feel Lemmy’s algorithm does a nice job of pushing newer comments to the top, but of course one needs to search longer for the good stuff the more comments there are.

in other words: welcome redditors, pls leave the reddit bs at the door on your way in.

Somebody else here commented that they will adapt. I like that, I hope it’s true, and possibly my biggest takeaway from this post because it is something we can all actively contribute to.

I would say I’m seeing perhaps a small wave of new users from Reddit though not nearly as big as the wave from the API changes.

Thanks for putting some perspectve on it!

time on Lemmy tends to shift people’s perspective to “fit in” more.

That sounds good; maybe my post sounded a bit pessimistic.

Tagging is an app-only feature. Would like to see that in the browser too, though.

Yep. Tagging is an app-only feature. Would like to see that in the browser too, though.

Elon left the White House an utter failure.

Socially, yes. And he hates it. He’s a narcissist, I doubt he will think of it as a success. OTOH, that’s exactly what he’s been doing for decades: failing yet still coming out richer afterwards.

Honestly it baffles me that this is enough to become the richest person in the world.
When will we learn that he actively influences these statistics to stroke his ego?

Ugh, no. I’ve known Brian Eno and his music and the influence he had on other musicians* for decades before I learnt about this little factoid, just a few years ago.

* (U2, Devo, Talking Heads, Paul Simon, Grace Jones, Sinéad O’Connor, Robert Wyatt, Ultravox, Coldplay…)

the more people continue to ditch windows, the more scammers are going to focus their energy on linux

Sorry, I missed this in my first reply.

It is true.

A few simple rules:

• keep your system up-to-date within the constraints of their repositories
• install only from trusted repositories, i.e. the official ones for your distro. This excludes any package of any app straight from their website.
• same precautions for web browsers as for any other OS. Don’t click any old link, don’t execute mail attachments, that sort of stuff.
• don’t execute arbitrary code esp. from the internet
• don’t just sudo if you want to make something work. Despite the famous xkcd, that’s not how this works. Least privilege at all times.
• Antivirus software still isn’t required

Unless you have some extraordinary usage scenarios, that’s it really.

What the fuck is going on? Are they just bored now?

Intent on alienating each and every country in the world, except Russia? Surely somebody must have explained to him that that is Not A Good Idea?

Or will it have something to do with the tech bros in the end? Some artless deal?

Windows 95 chime composer Brian Eno

I cringe hard at this characterisation. Brian Eno is known for many, many things. Amongst other inventing the term Ambient Music and, of course, making such music. But not only. Playing in so many bands and producing so many more. That chime really is the tiniest of all his contributions to musical history.

But yes. Call out all companies and politicians that are complicit. It needs to end yesterday.

First of all there isn’t One Linux.

In simple terms for an end user, yes, you are definitely better off with any of the major distros.

Non-commerciality is probably the most important aspect. Or as someone put it a long time ago: “Suddenly I realized that the software is on my side.”

What surprised me the most with this announcement is how it was met with surprise and harsh reactions. People felt betrayed.

I would just call that naivety. Of the (average) consumer.

Not sure why they chose “geek” here, maybe we just have different definitions of that.

Thank you for your service.

I use keepassxc and although I’m unlikely to ever install it any other way than through my distro’s package manager without 3rd party repos, this is good to know and hits a personal note.

Fuck all nefarious hackes and scammers. I just re-installed my server and installed crowdsec on it not 24h hours ago, and already got 20 000 bans. Twenty thousand! It’s getting worse and worse and worse and worse.

I think you have to abandon the idea of stability, relative wealth and wellbeing, forget the present status quo and see yourself as inhabitants of an economically disadvantaged country with an unstable government.

So motivation is higher and the threshold to start doing something about it is lower, because nobody wants to give up (the illusion of) stability.

Oh and all forms of racism, which really creates huge division in your society. Together we stand, divided we fall.

And of course I mean “you all” - and therein lies the problem. Not an individual, but a critical mass. Go out and find them. See who is motivated to do more than just talking behind closed doors or walled gardens.

But hey, it IS happening already. Maybe not as much as necessary but otoh it goes through all strata of society. Seems not all people are shit-for-brains egomaniacs and even the established remnants of democracy are fighting back.

Careful what you wish for…

We have a warning example right in front of us. Not saying Putin is a genius but he’s certainly evil and certainly way more intelligent than most of the current US administration. And he’s got a pretty good grip on his country and people.

Seen this way, what happens in the USA right now is way better.

I just wanted to acknowledge how fitting the term ICE Barbie is.

Oh he finally figured out that Born In The USA is not the song he thought it is?