This is part of the reason why casual accusations of pedophilia have always disturbed me. Because it can lead even people who in most other circumstances would be considered pro-justice and pro-human rights into mini-Mengeles.

And I’ve seen people just throw out the accusation without even prompt or justification, just because they hate somebody (maybe for other good reasons) and want to see if it sticks. It’s fucked up.

Then there’s other cases like that one where that 18-year-old got jumped for being baited into going on a date with another 18-year-old, while under the impression that she was… at least 18. A couple of people posted about that already.

Come on in, the water is fine. The latest version of Ubuntu is like 24, so things have changed a lot, and for the better.

Get yourself a Kubuntu image, and give it a try.

Mostly true, but…

Replacing clip art, generic filler from Getty images, and other hand-crafted slop with machine-made slop for things like slideshows, YouTube thumbnails, and other applications where the image isn’t meant to convey something actually existing from the primary content, that I think is fine.

Of course it should be based on free software (such as AGPL) and use only freely provided or public domain inputs.

Of course it shouldn’t be used to misrepresent its outputs as produced by, authorized, or of people that it is not.

But what we have right now is an another sort of enclosure of the cultural commons, blended with plagerism-by-another-name. If there are already terms for this sort of misappropriation, I can’t think of them right now.

See this is the (well, one major) problem with copyright.

Imaginary property for me (“AI” goons), not for thee (actual artists).

Well I’m sure they’ll get another one.

You know I never thought of it like that…

Shit.

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I appreciate your perspective, and I agree that we should probably be more concerned with how the company functions than the personal character of the CEO .

Sam Walton was a hardworking, amiable, humble man by all accounts. And even when he was alive Walmart the company was cutting throats.

At the same time, if a CEO deeply ingrains himself in the political process, I can probably take a pass on his products even if they are marginally better. So these days Musk is doing so much damage to the functioning of the US government that even if Teslas were good I wouldn’t buy one.

The Chikfila guy on the other hand was just donating to a few discriminatory “Christian” charities last I checked but stopped trying to change policy, so…as fast food shops go it’s actually not too bad even if I don’t prefer to eat there.

Starbucks…evil CEO, but preemptively boycotting before the organized shops strike doesn’t help the workers.

Brave…has had too many fuckups for my taste. On the rare occasion that I need a privacy focused Chromium-based browser I just use Chromium with uBlock Origin for the one website I need to visit.

I don’t like the either/or, but I think Elon is an easier target in the Anglosphere. But the US government, of which Elon is a part, has been enabling authoritarian douchebags, and even if this act is consistent with the company’s pragmatic compliance choices, it also aligns with the US administration’s general tendency. And Elon has in other cases shown that his commitment to free speech is pretty weak if it’s speech that he doesn’t like.

I mean, he’s free to say it, but we’re free to call him a liar until he uses his immense resources to shut us up like he always does.

A testament to the shot development standards at MS. An OS literally should not in a million years be this resource inefficient, especially out of the box.

Why PPAs instead of repos? Why…

Open Source&

Self-Hosted&

Federated&

Free-as-in-Freedom

Sounds like interpersonal conflict. Always sucks to see a productive dev quit though.

If your printer is working fine, and is not on the network, leave the firmware alone.

Save us Abobo!

Yeah, let’s have the blackbox next word guessing machine making decisions, why not?

Devs using Discord instead of forums perplexes me as much as it annoys me. It’s just the wrong tool for the job.

Keep it off the Internet and don’t update the firmware

Co-ops and collectives can help bridge the gap between management interest and worker interest.