Could be? Soon? People they’re already doing it! Do people really not think so?

Yeah when the company is looking to cut as much cost as possible, if it’s not an indefinite strike then you’re just telling them ahead of time that they should probably just let you all go

At this point a year is generous

While boomer CEO criticizes they also pushed for this level of surveillance at the same time

I am zero surprised about this, and honestly expected it earlier. Sentiment analysis is incredibly simple. They get to claim “Oh we don’t read your messages, they’re private” but, AI isn’t reading your messages, no one reads them, but it does summarize into a nice, easy to search set of tags so they can easily hand up what you’re talking about to anyone who asks.

The I learned the hard way years ago that that the one thing the company doesn’t want is a loud employee. It doesn’t matter what the issue is, who it’s about, if I can get the company in trouble or put some in an awkward position they don’t want you.

That’s why HR is such a dangerous place to go, they’re not looking out for you, they’re looking out for the company. By going to HR at all. You just prove that you are someone who can and will speak out, which is bad for the company. Whether that’s complaining about a co-worker or something the company is doing, it doesn’t matter, it shades you in a negative light because you are willing to speak out

Summarizing:

• it will now be impossible to unblur graphic imagery or adjust the content filter settings for your account until age verification is complete
• Age-restricted channels and servers will be inaccessible
• DMs from unknown users will be rerouted to a separate inbox
• No speaking on server stages

Which, all sounds fine. However, who defines all of these things? Who defines graphic imagery? Is it straight up porn? Is it a meme that has a naughty word in it? Is it anime? We have no idea.

Also as a server owner (who has moved everyone to Matrix now), I pretty much had to set my private server to age restricted, otherwise the server gets penalized if one of my users uploads something that is “graphic imagery” which again, is defined by them. The only safe way previously ways to say “Hey, you should be over 18 to join this” and then I’m not liable. I worry about a lot of servers taking the easy way and saying the same.

Neither do I, but from other platforms it’s only a matter of time until you’re prompted for it. You join a server where someone has posted something NSFW before, or the server admin “to be safe” set it to adults only, or they just clamp down on the definition of adults only. At some point I fully expect it’ll force me to.

Best I’ve done is try to minimize the hassle by hosting myself, and giving a how-to guide. My group is small, I’ve been sitting down individually with them showing them how to migrate

Revolt (now Stoat) is an option, personally I don’t like it because there is no federation and it’s text-only.

I’m using Matrix, with Element, which does have encrypted voice chat if you set it up. I want federation because I don’t want my users to be locked into only my server. However, the bar for entry is higher.

If we don’t warn them about it they’ll obviously be unhappy they should knowww!

(In reality they get confused, they leave, and then they keep using the corpo controlled version)

Please remember as people are looking for places to go to be kind. The reason Linux took so long to “take off” is because us linux folks (myself included) were proud of the high bar to entry. Encourage people to be curious, help them learn the ropes, don’t bog them down with technical details or the battles that have been taking place on X technology over Y technology. Offer an open easy place for them to come talk.

Once they get the foot in the door for a few months we can show them how awesome Linux is!

nah don’t regret, we’re all good, I should have been less flippant too.

After all of this, I am going to watch it. As a rule anything that’s minimized or shamed or generally “they” don’t want me to watch usually means I should go watch it. Although, as someone who is fully aware of what is happening right now, opening me up to that much anxiety makes me worry too, and I won’t lie after having several family dinners like that clip, I’m nervous… but I’ll trust you.

While I admit my first comment was a bit flippant, I was annoyed at the commenter’s… I’ll say it… conceited remarks. That they don’t need such paltry details see a film, that a mere wisp of a note of intrigue is enough, and that I, a lowly commoner, am wrong for even thinking such things as plot, or setting, or characters.

Honestly your comment below: “In this gripping thriller…”, is what I think the post needed to show what the movie was about. Posting the clip is probably very meaningful if you’ve seen the movie, but for me who is deciding if I should see it, I have no context of what it is about. I shouldn’t have been flippant in my comment, my intention was more “if people are scrolling through and see this for a split second, we won’t know what the movie is about”, slightly encouraging OP to add some context - but it was the wrong way to do that.

Sorry, yeah I must be just downright nuts looking for the underlying story, the background, or literally anything about what might be happening. Usually I do watch films for vague ideas and concepts, I don’t know what I was doing asking about a well-crafted story which conveys those ideas and concepts.

Haw haw haw oh man you sure gotcha’d them. They’re all so STUPID and you n me we’re the SMART ones!

I got that, is that the plot? What’s the plot? You know, the overarching story. Moms mad, daughter is pregnant, it’s a tense scene but I have no idea what the movie is about.

From both the video and your description I have absolutely no idea what this movie is about

They’ve been spamming this a few times now, fully respect your decision, but I know I commented on this exact post about 2 weeks ago the same as everyone else here, just FYI if you didn’t know they’ve been repeating it. (Maybe it was an alt acct, not sure, but I know I said the same thing before)