Thank you.

Anime source?

Edit: nvm, found it.

Actual edit: Apparently I’m slow with the joke. K-On! Manga about high school music club.

True. Though remarkable is still remarkable.

Notably, the timeline post-discovery is still stellar, regardless of Microsoft/GitHub cock-blocking analysis.

Take it at face value. The comment is a historical correction and gentle reminder that we only have one chance to prevent data from walking out the door, regardless of how friendly the platform is. Once your data is out, it’s out. Guard it well.

Is FaceBook detrimental now? Yes it is, unquestionably.

Was it always? No, it wasn’t.

Should we de-federate? Absolutely. Yesterday and retroactively, if possible.

Which of those are open source projects that anyone can fork and/or run their own instance of at any time, providing a place for people to seamlessly transition from Reddit, Google, or Apple if they don’t like what those companies do with their platform?

Reddit. Once upon a time.

I lived through using 8" floppies, so yes, I remember.

Ah, 8" floppies. Good memories. And bad. “Please read that… Why aren’t you reading it? If you’re not going to read it, spit it out… Let go. Now try again. Why is it blank? It wasn’t blank after I wrote to it. Why did you wipe it? Damn.” It was the best of times.

I was so excited when 3 1/2" introduced attached switchable write protection. The peak of convenience.

Imagine finding a backdoor within 45 day of it’s release into a supply chain instead of months after infection. This is a most astoundingly rapid discovery.

Fedora 41 and rawhide, Arch, a few testing and unstable debian distributions and some apps like HomeBrew were affected. Not including Microsoft and other corporations who don’t disclose their stack.

What a time to be alive.

the worst example of an awful tech company for their entire existence

Not to stir the pot, but at one point Zuck was an idealist. Circa 2008? When interviewed by a news corporation about privacy concerns he said, and I quote, “It’s your data. You own your data.” At the time, he hadn’t monetized with anything more than ads, and I think he truly believed it.

A short few years later he saw the opportunity to become a multi-billionaire and probably decided ethics and idealism is for poor people. Much the same as Reddit, Google, Apple, etc. Do you remember? Those of us who lived through it remember.

One day, the largest Lemmy instances may be no different. Time will tell.

Verifiable algorithms. Algorithms meant to make using the platform enjoyable, rather than meant to entrap users for profit.

Unless you happen to have a friend that wants to get in on it, you’re basically always picking a stranger.

At risk of sounding tone deaf to the situation that caused this: that’s what community is all about. The likelihood you know the neighbors you’ve talked to for years is practically nil. Your boss, your co-workers, your best friend and everyone you know, has some facet to them you have never seen. The unknown is the heart of what makes something strange.

We must all trust someone, or we are alone.

Finding strangers to collaborate with, who share your passions, is what makes society work. The internet allows you ever greater access to people you would otherwise never have met, both good and bad.

Everyone you’ve ever met was once a stranger. To make them known, extend blind trust, then quietly verify.

https://www.itpro.com/software/linux/fedora-workstation-devs-face-community-backlash-over-plans-to-collect-telemetry-data

Anonymous data is useless. Most any data can be de-anonymized. And tracking data is always to “improve services” until the companies are offered significant sums for it…

It’s all in good fun. No need to spoil the joke.

4 Macaronis in a bit of an ounce.

8 Macaronis in a full ounce.

On the contrary.

KB = 1,000 bytes and MB = 1,000,000 is empirical.

KiB = 1024 bytes or 2¹⁰ and MiB = 1,048,576 or 2²⁰ is Metric.

Remember, empirical is the miserable system the rest of the world abandoned because it made math and science difficult. KB makes storage miserable, never being clear whether your have the exact space your box claims it does. Please continue to Free^TM yourself from British “nonsense”, while the rest of the world evolves.

I’m still furious they intentionally broke CentOS. And then had the audacity to emulate SmallFloppy Glasspane and bake some spyware into Fedora.

Back Track 5. Now Kali Linux.

I had not suitably prepared. I was a Windows Vista power user who heard how I could crack some Wi-Fi and gave it a whirl.

My chips went into one basket and me, oh my, was the transition ever so uncomfortable. What was dual booting? Who knows. Long story short, I made a mess for myself. I went through a significantly steeper learning curve than most, though it introduced me to script kiddie tools, programming, and eventually exploits.

Now a decade or so later, I’ve settled away from Arch to Debian. Though I miss the bleeding edge, my update frequency has lost much of it’s zealous edge.

No. I’ll use it when it’s stable enough for Debian to merge it.

Possibly in 5 years?

I very much agree with, “don’t break userspace”, and this was a wise choice.

On the other hand, if capital becomes the developers’ core objective and they would not have made the same action for plebeian users, this would be an outrage.

Lol. My mistake.

I think you mean tailor. As in, clothes fitted to you.

Very. Just have a good enough internet connection and hardware to download and run models. Interrupted downloads must start over. 4-41 GB. Otherwise find the source, use wget, and download to the correct folder.

Free as in freedom, not free as in beer.

GPLv3 allows you to sell your work for money, but you still have to hand over the code your customers purchased. You buy our product, you own it, as is. Do whatever you like with it, but if you sell a derivative, you better cough up the new code to whoever bought it.