While I don't entirely agree with your opinions on this, I think that this particular governance post has a drastically different and far more emotionally charged tone compared to even the last one, where the decision was made to explicitly make this horrid ideology against the rules. It's concerning, and I hope it is not a sign of things to come.
The many examples also don't show full context (especially what our users were responding to with such vitriol), and all of them feature harsh language from our users being removed. There's not a single one I saw there where someone was talking calmly and it was removed. (Edit: With the exception of cryptagion's one)
I grew up in the cesspool of 4chan. Conversation does not require calm and kind language to occur. I'm also not trying to police tone on topics like this... but it significantly undermines things if this is our best evidence.
I've been thinking long and hard on my feelings and response to this, and I'll be making my own top level comment in a day or two.
Got no issue throwing out the trash. Have no in-depth experience with feddit.org to go off of. But I have concerns with how this was brought to the community and what feels like a small but significant shift in administration approach lately, or at least the communication of it (not flatworm being the messenger, to be clear).
To be a bit more direct, you shouldn't download "pre-cracked" isos. Just download the real install media and use mas-grave to spoof activation/licensing.
Does anyone know of any place to keep up with what people are doing with the XP leak? I vaguely remember some 4chan threads where people worked to get it compiling properly, and I think someone ported USB 3.0 support, but I lost track after that.
OT: Anybody up for making convincing fake book cover/jacket art for "Don't Build the Torment Nexus"?
It just occured to me that having that as a fake book that's actually just a container for shit would make for a great addition to my desk at work, and I'm not finding any suitable pre-existing fake covers myself, surprisingly.
Y Combinator CEO is launching a "dark money group" (not super familiar with the term, I guess they mean political lobbying group) becuase completely fucking over the entire tech startup space through VC shenanigans and manipulation of tech sphere opinions through controlled social media with HackerNews wasn't enough.
Nope. Ring cameras are part of Amazon Sidewalk which is effectively an automatic, invisible, and not end-user-controllable wireless mesh network "meant to keep devices working during wifi outages" or in other words to ensure the data makes it back to the cloud at any cost.
Their are more and more device manufacturers starting to use techniques like this to ensure connection regardless of owner intent.
That's one of the things I like about yt-dlp-nis on android. You can select all the options you want through the UI and grab the resulting yt-dlp cli command.
Yeah, pipes was awesome. The LTT shop has a button up with it as the pattern, but I can't justify $50 + shipping for a single button up shirt. And the drama from years ago as reported by GamersNexus etc makes me hesitate to give them money anyway.
Another one I love is the old 3d maze from Windows 95 or 98. I swear I remember details about it that it doesn't actually have though.
What were your favorites? I feel like we lost an entire genre of art now that nobody uses screensavers anymore.
Edit: And music visualizers too, but a good chunk of those have been saved by (I think it's called) Milkdrop, so you can still use them in modrrn FOSS music programs.
You can't seriously be saying that in the comments of a post linking to leaked internal documents showing that one of these companies is aware of the dangers they pose and damage they are doing. Did nazis falsify internal documents and this leak?
Did you somehow miss the Cambridge Analytica scandal with Facebook, where they manipulated the emotional content of users' feeds and gathered scientifically significant measurable responses in the emotions of the manipulated users?
Have you missed where each of these companies has had many public job postings for positions requiring applicants have psychology degrees?
People like to think of 4chan as the website that drove people to suicide, but every single one of the major social media sites has a fucking body count at this point, and almost every one is in the double digits.
Beyond all that, lemmy's userbase trends older. I saw the tail end of the satanic panic into the moral grandstanding about the dangers of violent video games. I'd wager most of the users here lived through it.
I know firsthand what a moral panic looks like. They didn't have the amount of research papers (that hold up to peer review) and leaked internal documents we can point at. They didn't have body counts even remotely similar.
Keep on fighting for opressed teens to have more ways to get away from opressive parents. To have access to factual information that their parents don't want them to have. It's a good cause with not many people fighting for it.
That doesn't mean though that anything you think challenges or opposes it is a nazi plot.
Teens are resilient and have astounding amounts of time on their hands. They'll find a way to communicate, ways to make their own underground social platforms if they need to. The cat's out of the bag. It's the fucking internet. Corpos, government boots, no one can truly stop the signal. They couldn't back in the days of dial up BBS. Good fucking luck now that you can get a device orders of magnitude more powerful for $50.
Don't bother replying for my sake. I'm blocking you so I don't get increasingly shitty towards you. Your mind's made up on this, and so is mine. No point going back and forth if we're just going to get more frustrated and exasperated at each other. Best of luck in your endeavours.
Some important context on this user before anyone else gets dragged into a discussion: check their post history, multiple to a "Youth Liberation" community.
No shade meant by calling it out, but I think that makes it much more clear how strong your opinions are on this. There's nothing to be gained in trying to talk to you about this when your opinions are set so strongly. You aren't going to see the dangers that the rest of us see because your focus is on allowing freedom from oppresive parental figures.
Teens and children, and the pushback you're seeing is because a lot of people, even terminally online people, believe that limiting or preventing children (and teens) from accessing social media as they currently exist is part of making that happen.
You have to slow the bleeding first. You can't just ignore the broken leg and start physical therapy.
Teens vary wildly in maturity and are likely to be unfortunately caught up in rules for children. There's no easy cutoff age before 18 for when one can be trusted to be online without guard rails. I can speak from experience that teens will find a way whether its legal or not, so I'm not really super concerned about the ones who need access. They'll find a way.
And for every person like you that says they are still alive because of unrestricted internet, there's another one who is dead because of it. 4chan, tumblr, reddit even (remember when they "totally figured out the boston bomber"?), and more direct cyberbullying all claim lives. There were 3 suicides in my highschool growing up, two determined to be cyberbullying caused and the third just rumored. I almost lost one of my younger cousins to cyberbullying as well.
Decade and a half ago I torrented all the time and didn't get caught until I stupidly downloaded something from the top 100 torrents on pirate bay.
Not sure how safe torrents are now.
Never have had any issues with direct downloads and streaming. Just use your head, adblock, and virus scan your downloads (knowing that keygens or cracked exes may show as viruses).
For safest option and free: Use an up to date web browser with a good adblocker (ublock origin is the current best), stick to direct downloads using a download manager to manage the 12+ parts, and virus scan everything that you download. Download from trusted sites from the megathread. Direct download is generally safe, unless you live in one of the few countries cracking down on fitgirl repacks specifically. Then that site is off limits for you.
You can use torrents without a VPN, it's just not safe. You could be caught and the penalty will vary based off of what you're downloading, where you live, and who you use for an ISP.
You need to try some Gorilla Glue! Take a gulp of the wild side!