How about China tracking where a dissenting Chinese ex-patriate is?

Also, did you read your own fucking comment? You asked why my government needs help from corporations to sway public opinion - my response simply clarified that foreign governments do.

Just look at what Russia did in 2016 as an example.

I’m not talking about my government, I’m talking about foreign ones.

Edit: also, where do you think your government gets all this information from?

So you’re not gonna respond to any other part of my comment?

I understand you might not care about my last point, not many people do, but the first three are much more important.

Kinda?

https://www.vice.com/en/article/y3g97x/location-data-apps-drone-strikes-iowa-national-guard

I’m also afraid of corporations teaming up with governments and using their extremely comprehensive data sets to influence public opinion.

I’m also afraid of the fact that many people no longer care about privacy, and might not care if the government tries to implement dystopian systems like those seen in China, as long as it “keeps them safe”.

Do you tell every person you meet on the street where you live and what your phone number is?

If not, why tell Mark Zuckerberg?

Letting corporations brain wash you because you like using their app lol

I used FreeBSD on a laptop for a few months and then OpenBSD for a over a year (on the same laptop).

FreeBSD had various small issues:

• Plugged in headphones didn’t automatically output audio (and I never figured out how to do this in a non-hacky way).
• Locking on suspend would sometimes fail.
• My trackpad wasn’t recognized, and I had to use the console mouse driver under X to enable it IIRC (this also made the pointer freeze until X was restarted sometimes).
• More stuff I can’t remember.

It was nice in a lot of ways too - I really like the ports system, the OS is very customizable and very well documented.

On OpenBSD almost everything just worked out of the box. It comes with a privilege separated version of X11 (Xenocara) and 3 wms (FVWM (old), cwm and twm). I did have to setup lock on suspend but it never failed.

OpenBSD also got better all the time - I used the snapshots for a while and meaningful improvements and great new ports were constantly being added.

They just recently built a whole new set of networking daemons specifically to make it easier to hop between networks on a laptop, all while keeping things simple and well documented.

I currently use OpenBSD on a server from openbsd.amsterdam, and honestly it’s amazing.

Service management is dead simple and yet works very well.

It includes a bunch of useful daemons built by the project, which have a sane configuration format and a nice set of features (httpd, relayd, smtpd, etc.)

Downsides are the package manager (although they made it way faster recently), no support for Bluetooth, recent WiFi versions (with sone exceptions) and Nvidia GPUs, and IMO overly aggressive attitude of some developers on the mailing list.

I know you just switched, but you should try OpenBSD - way better desktop experience IMO.

SX OS has anti-piracy measures in place which literally brick your switch.

dconf can also be configured with text files (with a format similar to ‘.ini’ files), although enabling this support isn’t trivial, and it’s not the most well documented feature.

I also used to run a ”lobotomized” Gnome, but TBH I found it easier in the long run to start from a minimal base.

Fuck Gary Bowser and Team Xecuter in general, he doesn’t deserve the punishment he got but I feel no sympathy for him.

Read up on how they stole GPL’d code from other Switch hackers for their closed source SX OS, and then had the fucking nerve to charge for it.

Piracy is one thing, but what they did hurt the Switch hacking scene, for their own profit.

Man I hate when people share that video.

How would you feel if a video of you doing something weird was viewed by over half a million prople?

The fast inverse square root algorithm was known from the 80’s, and was used in at least one game I’m aware of before Quake 3. Also, it wasn’t important in the long run - the same year Quake 3 was released, the rsqrtss instruction was introduced by Intel, which made this algorithm obsolete (as it was faster and more accurate).

It is really cool though.

I didn’t mean “dictate” literally, but whatever, I agree with everything you wrote pretty much.

I mostly went into this discussion in the first place because I was annoyed that like half the replies were about the name and not the software - when the name really isn’t that extreme. But at this point I’m part of the problem, so I’ll stop now.

I’m actually not European (I mentioned it because others did in this thread, I think the developers are?).

In any case, I do “get the gist” but I disagree with it - why should the mainstream culture of a foreign country dictate what I can or can’t say (or name my project)?

And even if I did agree with you on that point, I would disagree with applying that logic to a term like “crackpipe” which isn’t considered a slur at all.

If you think the name is offensive, don’t use it. Once again, this project is a server for hosting pirated games, it’s not like they need to be advertiser friendly or whatever.

“Amateurish”? This is literally a server for hosting pirated games, who gives a fuck.

Also, if your first thought after reading the word crackpipe is black people, maybe you’re the racist one.

And even if in the US it does have this connotation (IDK I’m not American), why should Europeans care?

Email became mostly centralized without any company buying thousands of independent email servers.

The same could (and probably will) happen with other federated services.

Yeah good luck meaningfully using a Lemmy instance with barely any users.

There’s a reason both Lemmy and Mastodon only really started taking off when the equivalent proprietary platforms drove users away - a service like this needs users to create content.

Also the guy you’re replying to is right, stuff like this already happened in the past; look at the centralization of email (which is also federated) for example.