merlin

I don’t believe it is about getting their userbase for the benefit of this instance but rather that defederating from a large amount of users not participating in any malicious activity on the basis of someone affiliated with that instance posting malicious works on another instance is (at least in my opinion) antithetical to the idea of the fediverse.
Doing so would step into the fallacy of collective punishment

Wow I thought all of the crying about “tankies” was blown way out of proportion but lemmygrad sure is a special place 😖

I can see it embedded on kbin if that’s what you mean.

My router actually has 4 brightness options for the LEDs with one of them being “off”. I wish more manufacturers would think about stuff like this.

It showed let’s say 12 o’clock when they arrived at 11 o’clock meaning they must have been there for 23 hours.
The tickets are not written up by robots but by someone checking the time on the parking disc.

Sometimes people manually set their parking discs a bit forward so that they have a bit more time but if they get checked in that time frame the ticket is even more expensive than if they overstayed an hour.

Certainly you can’t be safe from this, you can just try to minimize the possibility of it happening by reducing the data you share to a minimum.

Yeah I guess the analogy is not entirely fitting. Thinking about how corporations use my data still creeps me out though haha.

As someone who has used openSUSE Tumbleweed the experience was great and I really liked the OBS and easy BTRFS snapshots.
But I think BTRFS was what made gaming performance tank (but I didn’t try openSUSE with ext4) and I also missed the AUR alot so back to Arch it was.

But Linux actually is easy and a lot of fun!

It’s just that choosing a distro like Arch that requires you to decide what software you want to install might be a bad idea for someone who doesn’t know yet what software they need.

Installing a distro like openSUSE is straight forward and easy through their graphical installer, albeit not exactly quick (at least not compared to Arch) and allows you to explore Linux at your own pace.

Using the SteamDeck was also very easy but maybe that was just because I daily drive Arch? At least getting EmuDeck to run is just point and click.

They don’t need to sell that information to be untrustworthy, they just need to lose it.

This is how people steal your identity or buy stuff with your credit card even though you only gave that information to big corporations. It has happened a lot and is still happening.

As someone who has worked on large databases I can confidently say that every single piece of information the company had on all of it’s customers was available at my fingertips in clear text except for the passwords which I could have cracked in the thousands per second if they had less than 9 characters, which a lot of passwords did because the requirement was at least 8.

The only way the company can prevent me from doing malicious things with your data is if they only hire people with a moral compass and paying them enough. And the first one isn’t exactly easy.

There is not a lot you can do as a consumer to not get taken advantage of except minimizing the amount of data a company has on you because they don’t care enough and you will care once the police comes knocking on your door because of a crime someone did with your identity.

I love everything about this!