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Where have I done any of that? Maybe I failed to explain properly what I mean the first time, but that isn't the same as deliberatley moving goalposts. Getting rid of data centers would only make the environmental problems associated with computing worse, which defeats the whole purpose of people wanting to vandalise them. This to me sounds like you picked on someone more knowledgeable than yourself, tried to bamboozle them with tech terms, and when that failed you try this. Be better.

Lots of people deny trans and non-binary people even exist. There are also those who want trans people to stop existing. That's why people go around reminding everybody. How have you not worked this out yet?

I have not seen trans people claiming to be better than cis people. What I have seen is cis people disparaging trans people. I've also seen both men and women disparage the opposite gender. I've even seen the constant (and somewhat sexist) reinforcement and policing of gender norms that happens within society such as girls are better at cleaning and men are better at repairing things and so on that's mostly perpetuated by cis people.

I say all of this as a typically presenting cis man in a male dominated field. Despite that I still have to contend with gender norms. For example I am not athletic, and do things like baking that make me stand out to other men who subscribe to traditional gender roles.

So who again doesn't treat people equally?

Edit: I think you are also confusing feminists and gender abolitionists with trans people. Trans people are not the ones normally arguing that gender doesn't matter, as it's understandably quite important to them specifically. Gender abolitionists want to get rid of gender norms and other things associated with a person's social gender. Feminists need no explanation but surfice to say that the majority of them are cis women.

To be honest it's probably the only program actually doing something at that moment

I actually use Firefox sync. In fact I think all of that is quite unnecessary given what the policies you brought up actually state as was discussed in another comment. Everyone should be using AdBlock at this point, and I am planning to setup network wide AdBlock and malware block at my home in the future.

And I do kind of fit your description, if we exclude being a conspiracy-theorist.

Yeah I thought you could be. Nothing wrong with using a de-googled phone. Lemmy while a great idea is full of extremists. The kinds of people who go to that level of effort to cut out Google and social media tend to be uber paranoid. It's a shame that people are divided into three groups regarding piracy: unknowing sheep, people who know but don't care, and conspiracy nuts. The kind of person who hears something vaguely sketchy from someone and immediately jumps to the conclusion they need to boycott that company. Very rarely do you get reasonable, informed people who actually care with regards to online privacy without thinking every single organisation is out to get them (even non-profit like Mozilla or Wikipedia). It's why things like the legislation the EU comes up with is necessary, to protect those who won't or can't protect themselves.

The whole Vaxxry controversy is largely bullshit from both sides. The original complaint was something said in his Discord server, and that he didn't police it enough. Not something bigoted he himself said. Vaxxry was right to defend himself given their CoC doesn't apply to his Discord server, and talking about how they are trying to improve the moderation there.

Vaxxry from the little I know of him doesn't seem that bigoted. He certainly isn't progressive by any means. He does espouse tolerance for other political viewpoints, which is more than can be said for a lot of projects.

It's on there GitHub. I would have linked earlier but search engines don't seem to pick it up.

https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/pull/6814

https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/pull/8046

I know you can self-host. It's nowhere near as energy efficient as a modern data center with the setups most people have. They were complaining about the power usage of data centers, not realising they are actually the efficient way of doing things. When people talk about sabotaging data centers they are doing it for environmental reasons. Most self-hosters are using shit like old desktops, laptops, or 10 year old Haswell and Broadwell servers businesses don't want anymore. An Epyc Bergamo would give you multiple times the capacity for similar power. Even using new hardware it's normally better to do things at scale as it reduces overhead.

Self-hosting is actually bad for the environment and for your power bill. It's great for privacy, practicing sys admin skills and for breaking the law. If you actually asked people who self-host, like me, they would tell you all this. You can get low energy setups, but you will really struggle to compete against data centers in terms of flops per watt especially if your hardware is running near idle all the time. My electricity is fixed rate anyway, so I don't really care how efficient it is, but I very much know my FX-6300 improvised server is laughable compared to modern server technology.

Though symmetric 1G fiber is quite enough.

How many homes have that? Homes are almost always asymmetric, sometimes to an absurd degree. I have near 1 gig download at my current place, but only 80 Mbps upload. Pretending everyone has 1 gig upload available is dumb, and you know it if you're not an idiot.

Edit: also all ISPs have routers, switches, and servers somewhere in a data center. That's also how the internet backbone works. Large interconnection points, maybe a handful of them in a country like mine (UK).

I've read the one for fakespot. Given what it's designed to do then having your purchase history makes perfect sense. How else are they meant to make recommendations? If you really have a problem just don't use that service. The only real criticism here is the name doesn't imply they also make product recommendations. Nevertheless they explain that on the website.

I have skimmed the pocket one, and as far as I can tell they aren't doing anything dodgy. Keeping information only to provide the service, and some anonymised analytics to see how it's actually being used. The later is needed to direct development effort.

In summary: Not everyone is out to get you. Some information is needed to provide services.

Edit: sorry for there different comments, wanted to come back and do more research before I finished making a statement.

Oh also the devs behind Ladybrid are apparently against anyone who isn't male using their technology. People tried to change masculine pronouns in the documentation to neutral pronouns just to be more grammatically accurate, and it started a whole chain of GitHub arguments arguing the change is "political". Apparently it's political not to imply that every computer user is a man.

other efforts to make an independent web engine such as Ladybird.

Notice the word efforts here. No one has actually succeeded yet despite multiple attempts, some even by Mozilla themselves like Servo. Ladybird is not a fully functioning browser yet. Are they anywhere even close yet? Even if they are close it also has to be fast. Google and Mozilla have spent quite a bit of time, money, and effort making their JavaScript engines as fast as possible.

I will have a look at some of the links you have given, but honestly I think most criticism thrown at Mozilla isn't anything close to what the alternatives are guilty of, and is mostly done by conspiracy nuts. The kind of people were Mastodon and Lemmy is their only social media, and refuse to own a modern smartphone that isn't running custom firmware.

Lemmy isn't P2P though. If it was our clients would connect directly to each other instead of to an instance like how bittorrent works. The Usenet analogy is a lot better, but you are forgetting that modern Usenet is still hosted on large server networks inside data farms. It being decentralised doesn't actually reduce the computer power needed at all. If anything it actually makes things more complicated. Sure individual instance servers can be smaller, but once you add together all instances it will add up to the same. Some instances like mine require multiple servers working together to host them, and it's not even the largest instance out there on a relatively niche platform.

Yeah exactly. Chances are it would have worked provided they installed CUPS - which isn't hard or slow on arch after all it's not Gentoo. But if it didn't at least you have defused expectations while showing you are still willing to try. Something like: I don't have it setup on this laptop but I will try and get it working quickly, but no promises.

You have zero idea how much engineering it takes to create a standards compliant engine and then maintain it. "And you don't need half a fucking billion just to develop a web browser". Technically this is true if you are willing to use someone else's web engine. Firefox aren't doing that, and it requires huge investment to maintain their own engine. There is a reason only large companies these days (Apple, Google, Mozilla) have their own engines. The actual browser part is tiny compared to the engine. We are talking about something the size of the Linux kernel or bigger, that gets far less contributions from outside sources. It actually makes perfect sense they are looking at starting other projects when you think that all other companies that do this kind of work need those other projects to remain profitable. Web engine development from my understanding does not pay. You get almost the same amount of money using somebody else's engine as you do developing your own, yet one costs way more.

The fact Mozilla manages to maintain a better web engine than Apple's WebKit only from Google's advertising money is actually incredible. Did I mention Apple didn't even start that engine themselves? It's based on KHTML. Chrome is in turn a WebKit derivative. Firefox on the other hand actually comes from Netscape, and was first developed under the name Mozilla based on Netscape's code. So Mozilla has put in more work than Google in modernising their engine.

I actually think it's a good thing they are seeking other income sources. After all Google is both their competitor and main income source while being under investigation by the government. Firefox barely manages to keep up with Chrome as-is. Nevermind if they had a team a fraction of its current size. It's just not really practical for a project this size and scope to have a small plucky team. It needs a big organisation of some kind behind it. Ideally one like Google or Microsoft who can pull income from more profitable projects to pay for better browser engineering. It's also needed so they can have a say in web standards. An organisation like that also has more ways to make money from their browser like with ChromeOS and Android. Firefox actually tried to make their own smartphone OS, to be honest I am annoyed they didn't succeed. It would have given us a real alternative to Android while giving them needed income.

You are posting this on a website. How do you think that works? The internet relies on data centres around the world. Unless you actually know what's being hosted on that data center, this is an unfathomably stupid move.

You rely on data centres to post this message.

I have legit had people arguing that because it's decentralised that it doesn't need a data centre. Not realising that many lemmy instances are hosted on public cloud, and that all of them need network infrastructure housed in data centers.

I would have tried anyway. Sometimes Linux works better with printing than Windows, some times the other way round. It just depends what the printer is and how you have your system setup.

You know there is almost more stuff advising how to switch to Linux than there is stuff for existing users or people with their feet in both worlds. There are plenty of people who used Linux but only for server, or as a dual boot, or on one machine but not another. I think they would benefit from advice on how to fully switch over or how to use both systems to full effectiveness together. Like I only fully switched to Linux maybe 6 months ago after going back and forth for years.

We also need to be thinking about how to get people from beginner level to intermediate, and then on to advanced levels. There isn't a clear progression path forward. It could be something like: Linux Mint -> Arch -> Nix. I believe projects like Arco Linux are striving to fulfill this gap from beginner to advanced.

I can't see them saying this at all. The only person treating people as not being people here is the way you treat men. If you discriminate against a group of people as is clearly happening here towards men, then of course that group is going to turn against you. You don't remove sexual assault by pretending men are the only perpetrators and never a victim. You don't remove sexism by adding discrimination against men.

You don't get it at all. Creating this kind of system for only one gender is discrimination. It's exactly the same kind of thing you see white supremacists doing because they only want to be sat next to other white people. It's this kind of behavior that drives men to sexism in the first place. How you don't see this after it's been explained to you is shocking. It's also hilarious that people only talk about men assaulting women and never about women assaulting women, women assaulting men, or men assaulting men. Not only does it not reflect the reality of sexual violence, it's also heteronormative and sexist. Pretending that only men have the power to be abusive, and that women are always the innocent part is sexist thinking.

Bruh they are making at least one good point here. Meanwhile you are trying to do a character assassination and make baseless accusations. Fucking stop it.