It’s hurtful because my handicapped homies aren’t dumb enough to do something like this. This takes a special kind of stupid.

The enemy of my enemy is not my friend, but I will always high five someone when they’re doing the right thing. Even a broken clock is right twice a day. Trust however… trust is earned.

Valve could easily enter the OS space. They have hardware and a dedicated user-base. They’ve built some good will with the Linux community. They’re already doing the work to make other stuff work well with Linux. I’m not always a fan of walking too close to the corporate edge with paid software and DRM and proprietary blobs and whatever, but at this point we have to figure out how to get everyone out of Windows, even 100 year old Grandma Geraldine who plays bejeweled on Facebook all day. I probably won’t run SteamOS as a primary OS, but if I could dual boot it instead of Win10 on my gaming PC that would lesson the pain of MS’s betrayal and the loss of some Windows-only games a little bit.

It’s hard to find an ethical player in the media space, especially the streaming space. It’s hard to even agree on what that would look like and how it would work.

Having said that, it’s clear that Spotify isn’t it. From the first time the client paused an ad when I muted my laptop volume I knew the enshittification was coming. I’ve been Spotify free for a few years now, but decline to recommend my current solution because it’s not much better. When I have time again, I’ll be sorting my local music library and physical media.

ICE ads would have sent me over the top. That would be a FAST cancel from me.

Sad. There was a time when Reddit, despite all its flaws, was great for connecting with obscure interests and getting inside knowledge on niche topics. It made small communities feel big. I find myself on Reddit occasionally, usually just the "you’ve been blocked by network security ;-) page, but I don’t feel the same way on Reddit anymore. The more I hear about their behavior in the background, the less I want to read or contribute in the foreground. Lemmy captures some of the vibes of reddit, but the in-depth, obscure communites, were kind of shattered. I’m slowly discovering some cool forums and stuff that have weathered the web centralization era.

I’m skeptical of how they King Soloman’ed it by also ejecting the dude for swearing. What kind of bullshit is that. If anyone had a reason to swear at that game…

Did I read that right?

Pretty sure it was “Backwerk”. I would also be surprised if it wasn’t in the small print on the sign or something. The point for me was that I should have made that choice consciously, but due to the “meaty” language and my hurried state, I was misled into thinking it was meat. Consumers should know what they are getting based on how it is described and I found the description lacking in specificity. Apparently this is not enough for me to complain until I saw an article on Lemmy about the EU addressing it. :-)

I sat down in a high volume bakery in a German pedestrian zone recently only to find that the chicken sandwich I had picked out was really some kind of fake cardboard plant meat. I have nothing against that sort of thing and I’m open to trying new things, but they used some misleading terminology to make it sound like meat. I remember being irritated at the time and I’m glad the politicians have this issue in their sights. Having said that, I’m baffled this is important enough in contrast to the rest of world events to actually warrant attention and action.

I hear you. I used to teach classes in a particular field and most people followed our updates and events on Facebook. I tried for years to change that and pry people loose from the Zuck. Mostly unsuccessfully. I agree with the other user who suggested bridging protocols. Bridge them then incentivise use of the good one and/or disincentivise use of the evil one to naturally encourage people to migrate.

I’ve been seeing exactly that. Reading through these job descriptions is a bit depressing. I can’t virtue signal my lack of morality and unthinking subservience to my potential employer hard enough to make cutoff to become “Director of AI Shilling” or a “Dark Pattern Consent Violation Engineer”.

I know the kind of environments that won’t work for me. This will always limit the jobs I can and can’t work and I’m generally okay with that. I would love some of that bountiful defence contractor money, but I can’t ethically justify doing work that harms others or limits their freedom. Advertising tech would have been a good fit for me… if I had no sense of ethics.

It’s a tough realization that my gaming consoles, GPS Smart Watch, and fancy modern over-engineered car only became possible because tons of money was poured into building out related tech for defence and surveillance.

I imagine the cognitive dissonance must be really strong in someone working for some of these companies that have monetized governmentally sanctioned or corporately opportunistic civil rights abuses. Then again, we’re often kept apart, working in our own little areas where we’re safe from having to see the whole horrifying machine.

Seriously, why fragment the ecosystem when we already have auditable FOSS OSs that can be a drop in EU OS with no need for development. Many of the big companies that made their own Linux distros basically just cloned and tweaked a mainstream distro anyway, why not just latch onto something existing and make a custom install image?

Sounds like another one of those “gentle nudges” that has been pushing Europe’s digital sovereignty roadmap forward. Not exactly a catastrophe. Apple needs to learn that they’re not in charge. The citizens should be in charge.

I feel like every step governments, leaders, and even many citizen initiatives take is always a step in the wrong direction now. No matter how much we watch them, they’re just up to more shit. We could donate half our salaries to the EFF, FSF, and ACLU and we would still be playing defense. How do we put a stop to this shit?

Yup, I just namedrop Lemmy and don’t explain unless people ask. Usually then the explanation is simple and about how I’ve chosen not to use Reddit for ethical reasons.

I don’t have he data to back this up, so take it with a shaker full of salt:

The Psychopathic Owners: People with the individual net worth of small countries who have already assembled ownership or at least control over of the majority of everything under themselves. Have enough power to choke out everyone else if anyone steps too far out of line. The law does not apply to them and they break it with impunity. No empathy, often self-deleduded and think they’re Gods gift to the world.

The Big Boy on the Playground: This person has accumulated enough wealth to feel superior to the average poor person. They may think they’re rich and can do whatever they want, so they make good fall-guys for the truly rich. They often have outward signifiers of wealth, but are blinded by the ego trip of being daddy’s favorite.

The Poor Ignorant PoS: Most people, this category is broad and blends smoothly into the one above it with no one delineation to separate the two.

" the pro-Putin posters known as CopyCop, aka Storm-1516, use self-hosted, uncensored LLMs based on Meta’s Llama 3 open-source models to generate at least some of these fictional news stories" - the Article

So what? This quote is written in a way that makes it seem like that is the problem and the solution is that we need censored LLM’s hosted by massive corps (who definitely have our best interest at heart) using closed-source models and that’s how we end up with Real News™

The issue is that we’d surrounded by morons who never learned critical thinking. To be fair, we all have our own blind spots. How about instead of trying to top-down legislate truth, we focus on teaching research skills, vetting processes, and learn to better identify and label misinformation and common misinformation sources.

Maybe in 2025 all news articles should be voluntarily citing public and detailed source material so that people can better substantiate what is real?

The enemy of my enemy is not my friend.

Got my MILs ancient range/washer/dryer,all obviously from the 80s. Never gonna sell them; never gonna toss them. Parts are cheap and a YouTube video can show you how to install them. They’re old enough that all the anti right-to-repair garbage hadn’t really reached it’s peak yet.

Yep, the more money/power/influence you have the more you deserve to be scrutinized and the more public your life should be. Once you hit $1B you shouldn’t be allowed to scratch your ass or pick at a nail without it being noted on your public record.

The wildest part of this to me is the politicians exempting themselves. It may be different in Europe, but in the US, the politicians are often the child predators this legislation claims to protect against.

The politicians claim “professional secrecy”, but shouldn’t you be increasingly auditable the more power you are given. Private individuals should have an expectation of privacy. Politicians, and those with power and influence should live in the open to protect from abuses of that power.

I thought Diaspora was a decent sounding name. If it had more traction and actually pulled a sizeable diaspora away from Facebook it would have fit better than Facebook, Twitter/X, or Instagram’s names.