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Well, fundamentally capitalism involves the deprivation of the means of subsistence and production from one class so that they are forced to sell their labour-power to the capitalist class in order to obtain the means of subsistence. You could define that as "mistreatment" or not I guess, but whether or not you do, personal treatment by your capitalist does not change the form capitalism takes. Workers' power comes from combining. Capitalists are already combined—they work together to keep wages low and prices high. Unionising only levels the playing field in that regard.

I'm not saying that you should always focus on unionisation in every situation—sometimes there is more important political work to be done. But if you have nothing else to do, it's often the most accessible starting point.

I would disagree, and I personally know people who have unionised IT workers. I also personally know people who have unionised workers at small companies. I don't understand why you would say unionisation is not relevant to you? If you're a worker then it is relevant.

Linux distro shouldn't really matter here. Given what you've said, I would recommend using Debian just because it's the most popular server distro and a lot of server guides will either assume you're on Debian, or have instructions for Debian. For instance, if you see suggestions to install software using sudo apt install software-name-here, that's for Debian.

You would probably want to use Docker for this. There are instructions on how to install Jellyfin with Docker here.

Join an organisation agitating for proletarian revolution. If there aren't any near you, you can start with trade union work to build a mass of militant workers that can form the base of a political organisation.

I don't upload photos anywhere public for this reason. For screenshots I just strip the exif data, and if it's a screenshot that goes from edge to edge of a screen, I resize it so as to not give away info on the size of my screen. I also don't share the same image in multiple places. If I have any kind of custom theming (fonts or colours) in a screenshot I also usually change it to something more generic, unless the point of the screenshot itself is to showcase the theming.

I just use my note taking app

When the workplace is assisting the genocide of the people the vigil is for.

Hosted by someone else: Codeberg or Sourcehut.

Self-hosted: Forgejo

None? I've never felt the need to. I'm not categorically opposed to it, but it's never occurred to me that I should block a particular user.

Not really, open source projects don't necessarily have to be open to all contributors and I was aware of this already. They have to be open to anyone doing what they want with the code, by definition, which is good, but they don't have to allow everyone to contribute to upstream. I'm not sure if there's any particular defence against this being used in a discriminatory manner, but I do think this effect is significantly mitigated by the decentralised nature of open source and the fact that it's not too uncommon for forks to become preferred over the original, the fact that open source projects rise and fall in popularity, etc.

I wonder if there's some way to manage an open source project so that it's not subject to particular national laws in this way.

Yes, but less so than with gay men. A lot of lesbians won't identify as either, since penetrative sex is not super common with lesbians, but there are also some lesbians with a strong preference to either penetrate or be penetrated and not the other way round.

Well "AI" is a broad category. Usually used to refer to GenAI, so:

• Creating quick stand-in art for a game before I've got proper sprites for it (not because "muh art theft", just because the AI art I've generated does not look very good to me)
• Summarising articles, like you said so I can decide if I want to read them in full
• Formatting text I've copied from pdfs
• More complex searches that require comprehension of grammar and natural language syntax. Any answer I get to these I then fact check using search terms a classical search engine can understand.

I read a paper a while back that found that people who used AI assistants for coding, who only used the assistants to generate small functions where the prompt already included the function declaration and the programmer already knew how the function should be written but just wanted to save time, in these cases the use of an AI assistant did not negatively impact the "correctness" of the produced code. So I guess I might one day use an AI coding assistant like that, but thus far I've never felt the need to use AI-generated code.

Article link not requiring you to sign up: https://archive.ph/Th1Sq

Everyone who disagrees with me is a paid russian troll of course. Nobody would oppose blacklisting people based on nothing but their nationality unless they were getting paid for it.

I like doing tech stuff as a hobby yeah. Don't remember why I signed up for Lemmy but I have been aware of it for years before I signed up. I think I wanted to have a place to talk about FOSS but also in a community that was generally aligned with my political views (hence my decision to sign up for lemmy.ml)

Aside from the fact that it's pretty insane to suggest to kick someone off a project for no reason other than their nationality (the article doesn't say any of these maintainers supported the invasion or had any ties with the government), even if these people actively supported the government, as far as kernel development is concerned... I don't really care? If their contributions are good then I want their patches to be merged. Tor was made by the US government, which I in no way condone, but I still use Tor.

If there's anything sensitive I'm communicating with someone digitally, I make sure that the person in question has basic tech security skills and knowledge about privacy, including telling them to stop using Windows. Including taking the time to teach them basic stuff (like full disk encryption, VPN and Tor usage, explaining E2EE, etc) myself. If you have a high threat model but are talking to non-techy people, you should be taking the time out of your day to do this.

If you're thinking "wow I can't be bothered to do all that", your messaging is probably not sensitive enough for this to be a significant concern. Not that "if you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear", but just "the amount of time you put into security and privacy should be proportionate to your threat model and the cost of compromise".

Most folks on the planet are Indian, Chinese, or in an Islamic country of some sort. Now do tell, dear blakeus12. How do all of those cultures treat LGBTQ+ people :|

I've lived in at least one of the countries you've mentioned. LGBTQ+ people exist and live in the same capacity they do in western Europe and North America. It seems ridiculous for a westerner to try to implicate global majority countries for queerphobia when the US and UK are currently on a trans exterminatory cultural rampage. Stones in glass houses shit.

I think you shouldn't assume everyone on the internet to be a man. It is misogynistic. I don't think there would be anything wrong with e.g. referring gender neutrally to someone who turns out to be a woman because you didn't check her profile which says she's a woman, but it is annoying to see people assume everyone on the internet to be male. I've especially experienced this in more techy communities which definitely seems like sexist stereotyping to me.

Damn. That's really sad. I hope Syncthing-Fork doesn't get discontinued. I'll have to change how I do my password management if I can't use syncthing on Android