It’s overselling it, but the move towards digital sovereignty isn’t a passing fad.

The various revelations over the years about the US spying on allies and Microsoft famously telling the EU(?) that they could not guarantee that their data would not be turned over to the US government has all but ensured that this is going to happen as a matter of national security.

They can’t have their government dependent on systems that could be disabled at any time for political reasons, like the sanctions applied to the ICC judge on the genocide case against Israel.

It was one thing when the US was an ally, but now we are not a dependable ally and these countries are reorganizing their security posture in recognition of that fact.

Linux is the only viable operating system that is not vulnerable to US government sponsored supply chain attacks. While it may not be deployed everywhere immediately, the directive to agencies to start planning for the transition is the first step in the process and critical services will transition much sooner.

This will happen regardless of what happens in the election, Trump has exposed the weaknesses in our system of government and the attitude of US elites towards other countries. No sane country would trust US tech given the direction of things.

And this, for the readers in the future reading this post from their flying cars on Mars (or Roko’s Basilisk), is what we call trolling in the ancient times.

Let’s leave it unsettled so future nerd historians, 100 years from now, can hate us for not asking and write books speculating about it.

If you wear programmer socks you get a pass

I think we’re passed the statute of limitations now, but I clicked the “I am over 18” button when I was not over 18.

Please don’t tell the Interney Police

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Good job, you caught the one person who failed to read the TOS before making their account, which we all do always every time.

That hypothetical doesn’t seem to have happened in reality, because these terms have been standard in almost all TOSs for decades and yet age verification is not suddenly an easy sell.

Do you not read the terms of service before creating an account on social media?!?!

I’m sure exactly zero kids have read the TOS and left the site. There isn’t so much as a pop-up that attempts to enforce it.

As others have already mentioned, most Lemmy instances have this exact term in their TOS (which you read, right?)

Now the question is, did he put the x as a variable i.e. they couldn’t agree how to write it so he used x as a stand-in, or was he using x phonetically.

Probably the latter, and yet…

we need sl for ncmpcppc

Can’t accidentality start blasting music if I never stop

My goto is:

nc CTRL+R

Well, I’ll give it one thing. It’s easier to spell than my current terminal music player: ncmpcpp

The fix that they applied wouldn’t work as a general solution, it would break other things.

This commit implements their solution in a ‘If Steam Deck then <alternate code>’ kind of way so it will resolve the Steam Deck issue on mainline without breaking other things.

I also find it the height of irony that we are all told by dbzer0 admins that we should strive hard to understand, since those mods must surely have their reasons for doing what they did

That would be a fair argument except for the fact that the ‘communities’ that they ‘moderate’ have zero actual activity. Some have posts by draconic, some have exactly zero posts (and the community is locked). They’re just squatting communities with popular Reddit counterparts.

Though do facts matter anymore - i.e. have these two mods been kicked off of dbzer0 for their false accusations, sent preemptively out to half the Threadiverse?

Their dbzer0 account is still active, with comments 3 days ago.

Like what was the point?

They were bumping the bans to the top of your mod history so their nonsense is the first thing anyone reads.

I will say, I’ve argued with db0 a few times and they’ve kept it professional.

We may disagree on things, but you’re not even close to being on the level of the petty people with the zero-activity communities which only exist for spamming mod logs.

They are using your instance to host these fake communities though.

You were targeted by draconic_neo and mystic mushroom.

They have created a bunch of different communities across the fediverse so they can spam people’s modlogs with bullshit harassment.

See my mod history, it’s exactly the same pattern.

A huge amount of bans all within a few seconds of each other, all from communities modded by draconic_neo or mystic mushroom, if you examine the individual communities you find that they have no activity.

They only exist to spam people’s mod log with nonsense because they can’t press the downvote button hard enough.

Many admins/mod use alts to actually participate in the community because people get weird about a M or A next to your username.