“Neofetch is dead” is also “uninstall neofetch” before some clever bad actor uses the repo to distribute bad things you don’t want on your machines. Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but soon (cit).
@aral Yes it should be. But I prefer to err on the safest side because I never know what clever nasty people can do months from now. It’s my personal zero trust style of life.
Can someone pull me out of this deep hole? Thanks to @Gargron cuddling around with his Silicon Valley friends, I'm itching to close the instance here. Mastodon somehow feels dirty atm.
@revengeday There is one already: Totentanz. It's less immediate but it's our first-level safety net. But huh, I think finding a mastodon-ish alternative still based on activitypub will be easy.
Hi all. I've got an older #computer running #Windows10, and I'm thinking about putting #Linux on it since I've always wanted to try it out and think this computer might run better with Linux. I read a topic on audiogames.net about Linux #accessibility, and I saw a few recommendations for #distros to try out. To any #blind Linux users, is #NixOS a good one for a beginner, or should I try #LinuxMint or #Ubuntu? Also, what's the best way to install Linux and replace #Windows? Thanks. #technology#tech@mastoblind@accessibility@main
I remember folks in the web community shunning me when I first started speaking out against Big Tech – because I was criticising their friends who worked at Google, Facebook, etc. – saying I was exaggerating things.
I wonder what the same folks think now given what we know about these very same corporations; given a number of them are actively enabling a genocide.
Am I still an alarmist?
(I understand if some of you are too busy working at one or debating the minutiae of CSS syntax to reply.)
@aral
There are still many people working at IT corporations who don't want to see what their employer is doing. They still think that they're doing positive stuff, that their work matters, that they will be "seen" and appreciated.
I guess it's very very hard to accept that you're just a replaceable cog, a nobody with little worth from your management's point of view. Someone to be sacrificed, easily, to please billionaire investors who want more money.
And it's also very very hard to accept that your work - the job you were so proud of, that actually defined you - simply helped corpos to make the world worse.
How hard can be to realize that you, in your minuscule little way, helped exploitation, misinformation, abuse, genocide?
You just wanted to make nice presentations from your little podium, to feel validated by your peers, to write on linkedin that you're "thrilled" or "humbled" or "excited" for some corpo nano-achievement.
Poor, poor fool. What did you let them do to yourself.
@archydragon I have no strong opinion on roguelike games because I've not enough experience with them. I really like this one for the atmosphere, the story and the minimal style.
Bonus point: you don't have to use Steam to buy it. I know this is not an issue for almost anyone, but still...
@aral Today "antisemitic!" is just a trigger to activate a collective global guilt sense that should make all of us blind in front of zionist (not jewish: zionist) politics and above all actions.
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