refalo @ refalo @programming.dev

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because someone's political opinion doesn't (usually) define who they are or even affect the rest of your family in any way.

this is like kicking your son out because they put pineapple on their pizza.

to be fair, democrats think voting for trump is a mental illness too.

not on anyone's side here, just pointing out the hypocrisy

what would you call trump voters?

all of this is true with literally any company.

never the concern

It is when you're responding to people who think 5G is turning the frogs gay and activating hidden vaccine microchips.

yes and some of that data is already in other comments here

real linux-libre distros do not offer microcode packages because they are non-free

And never open your front door for any reason. If the cops or anyone else really needed you that bad, they'd be busting the door down anyway and you're already fucked six ways to Sunday.

Also cameras. Lots of them. Different brands. Offline recording. INSIDE AND OUT. Ask me how I know.

https://stopthemingmy.app/

I would argue they're not safe to use because they block security updates like CPU microcode in the name of absolute freedom.

F-Droid not being trusted. They build and sign a developer's code on their behalf, so there is a chance for injection there.

There are reproducible builds, but I would argue it's not taken seriously enough. Like right now nobody is publicly verifying Signal's supposed reproducible Android builds and they've historically had problems keeping it working.

Also how most (or all?) Play Store apps (including FOSS) contain proprietary code.

I assumed the topic was more about online privacy.

You can use your own builds of Signal (or preferably Molly-FOSS) including a self-hosted server. You can bring your own push notification as well.

Like life in general, there has to be a balance.

You can be not a helicopter while also teaching your kids not to go into the street.

The people who don't want to see openers aren't going to buy their music anyway

https://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?t=53998

To be fair there's lots of power-tripping mods on lemmy as well, often using their colorful interpretations of subjective rules/terms to suppress opinions they don't like.

I will go one step further and say 1. most strong opinions are not based on deep knowledge, and 2. a lot of this drama is legitimate mental illness... a niche of a niche that by design is run by extremely paranoid people, often aren't all there in the head, or you could say they have simply crossed over the fine line of genius.

better direction for what?

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