enshitification of everything intensifies

How come? I don’t have a stake in it, I’m just curious any time someone has a strong opinion on an instance, especially since I just joined .world and never looked back/around.

Ubuntu but with an Arch wallpaper? You madman

What? I’m American and everyone I know owns one.

Yep! And their short-sighted greed is going to drive us right to the brink of annihilation. We’re staring down the barrel of environmental collapse and our leaders are generally either old enough they assume they’ll die before it gets “that bad,” and the others stupidly think money makes them immune to the destruction of the biosphere. Anyone under 50 right now is going to live through some incredibly dark times. We are all dogs in a car with the windows closed and the heater on in a Texas parking lot. Business as usual is going to get really ugly, really quickly, really soon.

Without even getting to the technical issues….if you build a “fully operation” social platform, shouldn’t you host your blog on your shiny wonderful service that you’re promoting, instead of Medium?

That should raise an alarm without even knowing what the word encryption means.

ArchiveBox. Free and selfhosted.

Everything’s a wiretap!

Well TIL; thank you for that!

I’ve seen footage!

Yeah that’s the real summary.

Propaganda!

Oh nice! I just like to warn people because I saw bridges get popular with Beeper and people don’t always catch that security-for-ease compromise

I’m not trying rip on Beeper, by the way. I don’t use them and never have. They could be totally legitimate and good-faith actors, but the reencryption issue with bridges sets my tinfoil hat off!

Also worth noting that communication between signal and matrix through most bridges requires the message to be decrypted and reencrypted, thereby breaking E2EE which kinda defeats the point.

Unless you’re running a bridge on a locked down home server on your own network, not sure it’s the most secure.

People that post personally identifying information on accounts used to discuss illegal things or view porn blow my mind.

America: doing the morally and logically wrong thing in the world stage since 1953! Now with more drone strikes!

The number of times W11 menu has tried to convince me to install TikTok immediately destroys the OS’ legitimacy in my eyes.

And then there’s the lack of customization; the shovelware and bloat; the random crashes and hangs with only a blue screen with an emoticon frowny face; the constant advertising; and the tracking of everything you do with the OS to feed advertising; the forced integration of cloud services like OneDrive…

Fuck windows. I’m not a programmer but I’ve been running Manjaro (I know, I know) as a daily driver on three different devices for 7 years now. The only true problem I’ve ever had was theming grub2 and fucking up the config, which was entirely my own fault.

Exactly! This isn’t about monetization, so raw numbers don’t matter. As long as a given community has enough active members to promote continued use and provide its members with interesting material, that’s enough.

Real OGs peer beyond the *nix veil and graduate to TempleOS

I’ve never seen this before but it looks excellent! I’ll have to spin an instance up to tinker with this weekend!