There’s a subset of the Linux/FOSS/etc. community who are Conservative, misogynistic, racist, and/or otherwise general bigots. Compare the Ventoy-bros against the Elon-bros, and you’ll see a similar pattern of behavior.

I don’t personally understand it, since development is still sometimes seen as “work for weirdo nerds,” so you’d think they would understand what it feels like to be rejected or bullied, but here we are. They manage to stay under the radar, because there’s usually no reason to discuss politics or philosophy when you’re debugging code.

That story was a journey.

True. My point was more that it’s an improvement, not really a broad solution.

It went unnoticed at the time that the plugin was not providing any source code and was only providing binaries for download. Going forward, we will be requiring that all plugins that we link to have an OSI Approved Open Source License and that some level of due diligence has been done to verify that the plugin is safe for users.

Unfortunate that this happened, but at least they are forcing more transparency to try to minimize the ability to hide behind opaque code.

It looks really nice. I like and have paid for Boost, but I would absolutely use something like this if I needed a web client.

I would add a way to send an automated alert to mods if a user gets repeated temporary bans (kind of like a super-strike), so human mods can decide if a permanent ban is warranted or if they need to review how zealous the automod is being.

deleted by creator

I’m willing to learn it, so I’ll see if maybe I’ve just misconstrued the over-complexity for my needs.

Nice! I haven’t heard of that one, but I’m willing to learn something new.

That looks super cool! What a neat find.

Some of his pieces genuinely look like the broken monitor my blind friend had. That’s not a bad thing, just an observation.

I’ll believe it when it happens, but that would be cool. I bought my 3060ti before Linux became the viable option it is, and I would love to have the Wayland integration ironed out.

Have any articles?

Sounds like we’re similar. I own one, and it’s not really like a Gameboy, except that it plays games. Because it’s a Linux computer underneath, and you can install other distros on it, some people use it as a very portable computer to do work and gaming while traveling. One user said they bought one for each kid in their household, and they use it for both gaming and homework.

Think of it more like a gaming-capable netbook laptop rather than a Gameboy.

Also, check what kind of update mechanisms it uses. For mine, you can just plug a USB drive into a specially marked port, and it will flash the BIOS automatically (provided the drive is set up in a particular way), and you can also do it from BIOS.

Some have a button, instead. Just know what you’re getting, in case you need it to rescue the BIOS.

Agreed. Even a few mods on the Deck can cause it to really bog down. It’s not really a good use case for CPU-heavy games like modded MC.

It used to be that AMD was the inferior choice, but it’s now the preferred option, thanks to the driver being fully open source and the rise of the Steam Deck (along with Proton).

Nvidia, on the other hand, still refuses to open source their driver and treats the Linux community like an afterthought. As a result, it doesn’t always play nice with compositors like Wayland. It’s still fine for gaming, but it won’t be as compatible as AMD.

You think the Fediverse is free? You do know it takes labor to develop, right? You know servers aren’t free, right?

And anyway, privacy isn’t the issue. Consent is. Public writings are by default not private.

But since you ignored the very prescient example of the argument used by rapists, here’s another one that shouldn’t make you balk and dismiss out of hand:

First, suspend the legality of this analogy. We’re discussing logic, not law. Next, pretend I take your phone that you left on a coffee shop table. You say, “That’s wrong. Give it back.” I say, “You didn’t expressly say I can’t take it, and it’s sitting there in public, therefore I can take it.” It doesn’t follow that I can take it just because you didn’t explicitly shout out to the other patrons, “Don’t take my phone!”

It’s the same with anything you put out in a public forum. Leaving it there isn’t implicit consent to use for someone else’s gain.

One could argue simply posting something online is consent, especially when in a publicly accessible location.

That’s exactly the argument of the companies slurping up online data. The problem is that not explicitly revoking consent ≠ granting consent. It’s the same argument employed by rapists. “They didn’t say no…” and obviously, we recognize that extreme example as fallacious reasoning (specifically Denying the Antecedent).

• Let C be “denial of consent.”
• Let L be “use by LLMs.”
• C => !L ✅
• !C => L ❌

If I post something online, I’m not defacto granting that I want a machine or a corporation using those words for their gain, and that likewise applies to anyone who does not expressly grant consent to use their online interactions for someone else’s profit.

Yes, because the core problem is that taking somebody else’s entire comment and putting it into a service neither I nor the dev controls is to violate the original author’s consent. The original author has no way to provide consent. Likewise, if I used a live translation service to communicate with somebody in real time, I would want to somehow first verify they were okay with me using it.

“If a product is free that should otherwise cost money, you’re the product.”

Interesting idea, but there’s already some really good Fediverse clients (such as Fedilab). Adding AI translation is unique, but it rubs me the wrong way that it would be potentially submitting people’s toots and comments to a LLM without their consent.