It’s definitively something along the lines of “knows just enough to be dangerous”

Like, sure, I’ve also broken my Linux system, but I’m deliberately running distros like arch and doing things that the average user would never do, like, say, messing with the bootloader.

If you just install something like bazzite or mint, and use it like a normal user would, the risk for something breaking should be really low

Thet tell on themselves so bad

If I learn a “friend” abused a kid… They’re not my friend anymore, and likely never will be again

A friend isn’t a sacred thing, if someone turns out to be a piece of shit, I drop them like a stone. They’re dead to me. I will never excuse someone’s abhorrent behaviour like that. To still stay friends with them and maybe even excuse or hide what they did… is unthinkable to me

We don’t have to take anything. There is no deal. There is no action. Just respond to the situation at hand. We don’t control what they think, otherwise they wouldn’t like trump in the first place

If the act happened, I honestly think it might

For fascists power is king, and exploiting someone innocent and defenceless does not show you as less powerful. To a twisted mind, it might actually be a sign of power and authority, as fucked up as that is

Fascism has never been about logic, consistency, empathy, or anything of that sort. All that matters is power. And not only that, but perceived power. The strongman facade is more important than anything else, and being heartless and authoritarian are prime strongman traits

His fanbase doesn’t care about illegal things he’s doing, however, they might actually care about him being “subservient” and “demeaning” himself to another man like this

Of course, I need not mention the layers upon layers of problems with this sort of thinking, but I feel like the people who love trump definitively fall prey to it

Capitalism is truly the most efficient system. Needing whole teams to control the owner just because he’s the one that owns the workplace due to having money

But it should be kilowatts. There’s no reason not to use the standard metric for power, it’s unnecessary fragmentation of figures

What are you on about

So I went and looked it up, and signal-desktop is listed as a reproducible build, so theoretically you should be able to go and check that it conforms to the source

https://reproducible.archlinux.org/

But this isn’t anything I’ve looked into myself, so feel free to look into it

And you also need to trust your OS not taking screenshots of your apps or recording the text displayed onto your screen

There’s plenty of links in this chain, there’s a lot you need to be aware of if you’re going to those lengths. Pick your battles

It’s also in the official arch repositories, so any arch-derived distro has an easy install. I don’t know about other distros however

Signal has a Linux client though? I literally use it myself

Also known as Harvest now, decrypt later. And it’s a serious security threats that Signal must consider and handle

Two editions, the current one and previous one, I believe

And the space hog is like a few gigabytes. I think that’s well worth it for a beginner when it means that in the worst case you can always roll back when we have like terabytes of space

LLM are good at certain things, especially involving language (unsurprisingly). They’re tools. They’re not the be-all-end-all like a lot of tech bros proselytize them as, but they are useful if you know their limitations

If you use them properly, they can be a valuable addition to one’s search for information. The problem is that I don’t think most users use them properly.

A web browser is already basically a “virtual machine”. You can even run what basically amounts to native code using WebAssembly (yeah it’s closed to JVM but you get what I’m trying to say).

No wonder veritasium has felt “off” for me for a good while as well. A few years ago I deliberately stopped watching that channel, seems there was a deeper reason behind my superficial reasons and gut feelings

To be fair, you definitively can decentralized parts of it using protocols such as torrents, which work great for that purpose. It ensures multiple locations having redundant data, a means of retrieving that data again, and constant checks for corruption

And actually come to think of this, this already does indeed happen, though only for a subset of the data. It’s much more tricky legally when it comes to copyrighted works.

If anyone has some spare terabytes of storage space, I do recommend you to see where you can contribute that space with torrents of this sort. It’s better to use that free space for good than just letting it sit idly by

Yeah, it’s fucked, frankly. But that’s what soldiers always were, pawns in a fight started by people who will never see a single muzzle flash

And for what? Just to leave broken people with no support systems, growing ever more alienated from everyone else. Cruel to everyone involved