It's Never too Late
Anything supposedly said by "Anonymous" as a hacker group should always be treated with immense skepticism.
There do exist somewhat legitimate sub-factions that actually take serious actions and do serious ops, and also semi-legitimate "outlets" for their statements... but there's also an overwhelming amount of smokescreen bullshit "anon news outlets" and little script kiddies running around. It's important/intentional that those continue existing as smoke screen for the more "serious" factions.
Beyond that, being an anonymous group with no real methods of confirming membership to outsiders (insiders can just check if you're in the private IRCs and etc) it means that just about anyone and everyone can make some big declaration like this. The proof will be in the results, not some announcement that could be made by a rando.
No matter who is really making these threats/warnings, I think things are going to get pretty dire in the US government IT space. It's been well known for decades that most government orgs have absolutely abysmal cyber security, and now you have a bunch of young adult tech-bros with no true accountability running roughshod over all of it. Then there's the fact that more than one of them have "serious black hat hacker" backgrounds.
Going to be one wild ride.
My wife nearly tripped over me when I got down on one knee, lol. It was the height of Pokemon Go, and it was a little too good of a distraction from me being suspicious in the park where we first met.
Holy shit, I thought Unicyclopedia had died ages ago.
Just like on reddit or any other site: you are in complete control of blocking users and communities. Just block the linux ones and move on.
Also, this isn't an airport. You don't need to announce your departure.
Despite your valid counterpoints, those are all still hurdles that will drive away general adoption, especially when there are people surviving digitally entirely off of a smart phone and tablet. We see similar complaints from people about simply picking a lemmy instance. How can we expect them to navigate the more complex landscape of distros?
I don't mind it, it's not a big hurdle for me, but it is undeniably a hurdle for the average person. They aren't tech literate.
I also can't remember the last time I had to use cmd or PowerShell to troubleshoot or configure stuff on my home Windows box (my primary desktop still). When I first customized the install media, and when I configured it post install. I was tearing out core components like Cortana search, and preinstalling updates to the iso. Not anything critical to actual usability.
The key settings are almost all available through the UI. All of the ads that make headlines are controlled by a single switch in the settings menu, which hasn't been reset by updates like people keep saying it does.
You really only have to get into the guts for stuff like disabling web search, killing preinstalled apps, and the like.
I automate shit through PowerShell for a living (effectively). Cmd and PoSh are good for automating stuff, working on batches of stuff at once, and for interacting with certain stuff in Azure that you usually would never touch.
Oh no, I can't interact with deleted mailboxes that are aging off behind the scenes without using PowerShell! That's totally the same as Linux's reliance on the terminal.
My only real counter to that is Project Zomboid. It's a complete game. It's in EA due to them wanting to add many more gameplay systems to the existing complete sandbox. They have a roadmap somewhere. They don't release major updates without multiple ones being added.
Last major update (41, a few years ago) was drivable cars (and all the spawning systems, loot, and map changes to make them fully fleshed out) and multiplayer. I'm sure there was more, but those were the standout things.
The new major update (42, available through a public opt-in beta branch right now) is a complete overhaul to gunplay, liquid management/mixing, crafting systems, lighting engine, and the addition of NPC animals with a full husbandry system. And that's only the highlights. It will stay in beta as they get better data for balancing the new features and the absurdly increased player count surfaces bugs they didn't find through internal testing. Once it's balanced and stable (maybe a year), they'll push this update to the main branch where it will continue to get minor bug fixes as things crop up (usually bugs surfaced by the modding community by the time it hits stable).
Then they'll keep crunching away on work on human NPCs and simulating story stuff with loot generation, which I believe will be the next major update in a few years.
Each intermediate release is a complete game, it just doesn't have the full set of features on the roadmap. It still is the best zombie survival sim on the market as is.
But it is absolutely a unicorn of early access.
Everyone keeps labelling GabeN as the only one holding VALVe to standards, but by his own admission he's more of the equivalent of a board member now, not deeply involved in the day to day anymore. I think the only ones that truly know his level of involvement would be people at VALVe.
What I'm getting at is that I have the same concerns about what will happen after he passes, but I don't think he's the only person standing in the way of VALVe going full corporate.
The examples I've seen are a year+ with no updates. Not definitive, but I highly doubt they're doing this for the cases you're talking about.
Man, I hope lemmynsfw is ready, lol
I think this is an extreme reaction to (as far as I'm aware) the first instance of a serious issue with the sdf lemmy instance.
Another poster has brought up that the admins are possibly busy with taking over another pubnix system at the moment. That's quite a big project.
Lemmy is still a niche thing, run by a small group of volunteers. It is not anywhere close to reddit or other sites in terms of resiliency against admin life events. As far as I'm aware, Lemmy is not a primary thing for the sdf group, but instead just one of many projects amd servers they run. As a sysadmin, these things tend to be cattle more than pets.
Also, I hate to say it, but a single user posting hateful shit is not a true emergency. Even if it has been 48 hours. From a purely sysadmin perspective, it would need to be heinously illegal content being posted or an actual infrastructure failure to reach emergency level in my eyes at least.
Unless I'm missing something, the sysadmins have been reached out to through their admin accounts on this lemmy instance, and the membership@ email address. There has also (according to this thread) been one single person who posted in the IRC asking for an emergency method to contact the admins, and that only happened after this thread was posted.
Has anyone tried contact through the instance mastodon account? Looks like there was activity there a few hours ago.
Has anyone checked the whois records for the webmaster email listed and tried that?
All of that said, this does highlight a major issue on this instance that needs resolution: there needs to be enough active lemmy instance admins that an issue like this cannot sit with no acknowledgement for anywhere even close to 48 hours, and it should probably be someone separate from the sysadmin(s) since they seem to have a schedule busy with other things.
There also needs to be a clear list of contacts, contact methods, and escalation chain procedures.
Until then, 48 hours is not some absurd amount of time with no response for a place as small as the sdf lemmy instance. Hell, at least in the east coast US right now there is a nasty nasty Flu variant going around that is laying some people out for well over a week. I've heard of some people still having symptoms 3 weeks in. Not covid, just the fucking flu.
I'm not trying to say that the asshole isn't a problem, just that in the context I think that calling for defederation after 48 hours with no ack is silly.
Looks to me like a downspout that carries the "water" under the concrete and probably lets out somewhere else.
Salad? Look at this dude and his bougie workplace. Due to budget cuts I only see coffee, tea, and depression as "fucking around accessories" at my workplace.
Might be because nearly my whole floor is tech workers though.
So it's not even a prototype, if it's legit then at best it's a design mockup.
This really comes across as if you just keep shifting so that you can continue finding something to complain about. It's ok to just not like having your camera on man. Not everything has to be the kicking off point for a sociological or anthropological study.
Backgrounds visible? It forces you to have your space display worthy!
Backgrounds blurred? Everyone knows your place isn't display worthy and thinks you're a disgusting pig!
Company provided background images? Corporate endorsed removal of individualism!
What you've touched on here is part of the intent. Not that they want to erase individuals, but that in general a more controlled corporate image is seen as more professional.
If you want to talk about how/why that's a thing, be my guest, but that has nothing to do with video conferencing. Work dress code and even work uniforms have existed for generations.
We've never used it through Outlook. Only through Teams as a desktop app, as Planner directly in the Office 365 web portal, and by embedding the task board view into our Team group's SharePoint site.
I was just commenting on your conjecture about it potentially not working with Teams. It still does work with Teams.
Yeah, you can actually run C# code "inline" in it without having to compile to an exe, which is simulataneously really cool, kinda janky in practice, a bad idea, and pretty cursed.
There's definitely some weirdness with the syntax, and some odd footguns, but I've found those in most languages I've used for any considerable amount of time.
I work in an almost exclusively Windows environment, and the base version of PowerShell is preinstalled on all Windows stuff since I think Windows 7, with some really good integration with the Windows sysadmin tools. Not sure I'd reccomend it outside of that sort of environment.
Hahaha, I'll do whatever you want boss, but you're sorely mistaken if you think you're getting away without a written record of you signing off on telling me to do stupid shit.
Lol, welcome to the party. I'm not in a programming position, I'm on a systems engineering team. Most of my team mates can do some PowerShell scripting, but I have some programming classes under my belt.
I have a PowerShell script that is complex enough that I'm confortable calling it a program instead. Roughly half of the code is comments or logging the program flow. Every run generates a step by step log of all actions taken. I have 2 Word documents that summarize the process to different levels of detail, and a fucking flowchart for the visual peeps.
I'm still treated as the only person who could possibly flip the clearly labelled read only and route email to our team only switches and troubleshoot it.
To be fair, I recently learned during a vendor meet and greet that the vendor's tech guy in the meeting had previously made a consulting firm to sell exactly what I built this program to do. Probably means I'm in the wrong line of work.
I'm not going to try and justify the people who think it's ok to be bigoted towards white males. It's not ok. I'm also not going to pull the "those people don't exist" bullshit, because it's bullshit.
But no one of that particular flavor of asshat is here in this post or comment thread. So get out of your own head and get over yourself. For your own sake.
Complaining about misandrists and/or people racist against white people is not acceptable behavior publicly. At best it makes you look socially incompetent, and at worst it makes you look like someone who wouldn't mind being lumped in with nazis.
On top of that, the amount of people publicly anti-"every white male ever" is pretty damn low lately. Low enough that you can generally get through life as if they don't exist.
It's been over a decade since I've seen any news orgs worth mentioning run anything along the lines of "Young white men need to be taught not to rape".
If you can't escape it, change the spaces you're spending time online, and the people you are spending time around in real life. I haven't heard that sort of shit to any significant amount for a very long time.