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Why would I choose that over my requirements? C'mon, just throwing names isn't enough.

What templating language does it use?

The search is nice, certainly a good thing to have in a blog. It has interesting features, most of which I'll probably never use. No theming afaics but I'm sure that can be remedied. Your end result certainly looks nice enough.

Why would I otherwise sway from my hard requirements to use this? It is not in Debian's repositories. However, a simulated install suggests that it has all dependencies bundled. What's it really based on? Python I guess?

Ugh, no. I've known Brian Eno and his music and the influence he had on other musicians* for decades before I learnt about this little factoid, just a few years ago.

(U2, Devo, Talking Heads, Paul Simon, Grace Jones, Sinéad O'Connor, Robert Wyatt, Ultravox, Coldplay...)

wrt With regard to all I specified, why?

the more people continue to ditch windows, the more scammers are going to focus their energy on linux

Sorry, I missed this in my first reply.

It is true.

A few simple rules:

• keep your system up-to-date within the constraints of their repositories
• install only from trusted repositories, i.e. the official ones for your distro. This excludes any package of any app straight from their website.
• same precautions for web browsers as for any other OS. Don't click any old link, don't execute mail attachments, that sort of stuff.
• don't execute arbitrary code esp. from the internet
• don't just sudo if you want to make something work. Despite the famous xkcd, that's not how this works. Least privilege at all times.
• Antivirus software still isn't required

Unless you have some extraordinary usage scenarios, that's it really.

What the fuck is going on? Are they just bored now?

Intent on alienating each and every country in the world, except Russia? Surely somebody must have explained to him that that is Not A Good Idea?

Or will it have something to do with the tech bros in the end? Some artless deal?

Windows 95 chime composer Brian Eno

I cringe hard at this characterisation. Brian Eno is known for many, many things. Amongst other inventing the term Ambient Music and, of course, making such music. But not only. Playing in so many bands and producing so many more. That chime really is the tiniest of all his contributions to musical history.

But yes. Call out all companies and politicians that are complicit. It needs to end yesterday.

He gets impatient and just grabs a baby from the nursery

You don't want to know how often that really happened!

I didn't consider that. BF's behavior actually makes sense in that case. I guess I never eat at restaurants that are that full. But seeing OOP's picture, neither do they.

As overly pessimistic as it sounds, this is really it.

Unlearn the notion that you can live part of your private life on large platforms (in the widest sense).

First of all there isn't One Linux.

In simple terms for an end user, yes, you are definitely better off with any of the major distros.

Non-commerciality is probably the most important aspect. Or as someone put it a long time ago: "Suddenly I realized that the software is on my side."

What surprised me the most with this announcement is how it was met with surprise and harsh reactions. People felt betrayed.

I would just call that naivety. Of the (average) consumer.

Not sure why they chose "geek" here, maybe we just have different definitions of that.

Thank you for your service.

I use keepassxc and although I'm unlikely to ever install it any other way than through my distro's package manager without 3rd party repos, this is good to know and hits a personal note.

Fuck all nefarious hackes and scammers. I just re-installed my server and installed crowdsec on it not 24h hours ago, and already got 20 000 bans. Twenty thousand! It's getting worse and worse and worse and worse.

I think you have to abandon the idea of stability, relative wealth and wellbeing, forget the present status quo and see yourself as inhabitants of an economically disadvantaged country with an unstable government.

So motivation is higher and the threshold to start doing something about it is lower, because nobody wants to give up (the illusion of) stability.

Oh and all forms of racism, which really creates huge division in your society. Together we stand, divided we fall.

And of course I mean "you all" - and therein lies the problem. Not an individual, but a critical mass. Go out and find them. See who is motivated to do more than just talking behind closed doors or walled gardens.

But hey, it IS happening already. Maybe not as much as necessary but otoh it goes through all strata of society. Seems not all people are shit-for-brains egomaniacs and even the established remnants of democracy are fighting back.

Careful what you wish for...

We have a warning example right in front of us. Not saying Putin is a genius but he's certainly evil and certainly way more intelligent than most of the current US administration. And he's got a pretty good grip on his country and people.

Seen this way, what happens in the USA right now is way better.

All this is already happening and has been for a while before the whole AI hype even started.

I will take your question as a more general "What can happen", not focusing too much on LLMs. Although arguably it was their precursors who started the more nefarious ways of aquiring & perusing ever more esp. behavioral data.

So the question is: what are the real-life harms of private online data collection everybody warns about? The answer is as long winded as explaining the mechanism of the aquisition itself.

It's pervasive. "They" can tweak almost every manner of interaction with their customers/subjects. It affects younger people (and I mean younger than me, and I still remember the time when there was no internet for the people) constantly and in ways they aren't even aware of. It allows the creation of data sets that are being sold on - now including DNA thanks to millions of useful idiots who went to 23andme -

out of breath. maybe somebody else can continue this

The whole ritual of being served at a restaurant makes me queasy. But I'd never dare interfere in it. Never!

Also, when the food takes long to arrive it's a good sign: they took time to prepare it.

I just wanted to acknowledge how fitting the term ICE Barbie is.

Oh he finally figured out that Born In The USA is not the song he thought it is?