Oh hell no, why?

Which is why they’re the first to be blocked 😄

It’s easy. First implement the usual blacklists. Then you block all servers with “mastodon” in the domain name.

You will be left with a bunch of neurodivergent queer people talking about nerdy shit in your timeline. Last, embrace your new reality.

The answer is literally a search query away.

The irony is, of course, that Nazis will spread their inbred BS for free. So Meta are the suckers for giving them a platform and a paycheck.

Hey, Nazis have to eat, too. No, wait.

I know, but still, “oopsie, our magic eightball did a crime” is a bit of a reach from counting gigaflops or whatever.

It was a weird flex from the beginning, and the bigger the companies that follow suit, the weirder it gets 🤷

“Should”? That’s really only for you to determine. I get why you want to try them out one by one, like using Piefed and Lemmy in parallel. It gives you a chance to weigh pros and cons of different services, or different ways to interact with them.

Vutuv… again, it’s your choice, but for me, LinkedIn turned me completely off professional networking. I’m going to wait that one out to be sure it isn’t flooded with the same icky performance measuring jargon before I even consider joining. Also, Vutuv looks vibe coded, so another big nope for me.

I think you’re being generous counting Matrix in the Fediverse, though. It may be decentralised, but unless there are some bridges I’m not aware of, it doesn’t really communicate with any fediverse services?

Quite agree, but there is the other POV that “AI” has emerged just at the right time to distract us from doing anything about climate change and rampant late stage capitalism… That is of course the perspective of capitalist entities that really need to wrench another few decades of profit out of us before we die in sundry environmental disasters.

See also, “why it would be really convenient if we could upload our minds to a metaverse while the world burns and billionaires escape to Mars”.

I think we’re basically in agreement. The energy expenditure is real, but it adds no real value to the product. In a very real way, it is make believe — even more so than real money.

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Ecosia has their dubiously “green AI”, and do union busting. Source

This reads like someone asking whether it’s safe to leave your front door unlocked again

Fair, and not wrong 🙂 Appreciate the reminder!

Thanks for all the replies! In a nutshell,

1. “Safe” is a relative concept with AUR.
2. Most of the affected packages were unmaintained, and probably shouldn’t be installed anyway.
3. Read the diff’s before updating 👍

The concept of AUR is that you run other persons scripts on your device. That is by definition a very insecure thing to do.

This boils it down fairly well, I think 🙂

Probably just a dial-up connection that you access entirely from the command line.

Still better than Crypto BS

built on openness, transparency, and user control instead of central control.

Also, cryptocurrency. Actually, it’s all cryptocurrency, please invest in the pretend money we’re wizarding out of the void.

Sometimes you need to own that you went ahead and replied before bothering to read others’ comments. Thanks 🙂

Obligatory reference because you’re on startrek.website:

Why would you want one small, multi-purpose device when you can have a PADD for each book/instruction manual/hourly report? 🙂