Yep. I almost feel like I live in the USA. When in reality of course, the USA doesn’t exist

I visited the founder’s Bluesky account. It’s terrible. The guy is extremely confused

Confidential Lake

Reddit does

Perhaps if you ran Linux you’d be less crankyyyyy

later edit : I hope this message was interpreted for the tongue in cheek that it was

Of course they fucking grab it. They have 45 backdoors with golden handles otherwise they’re show the fucking source

No, I have never seen that anywhere. That being said I have not visited the US nor most of the other countries. I am a french citizen and although I have witnessed the odd little french flag hung up in gardens (very uncommon, but I’ve seen it) the prevailing sentiment in France seems to be a certain pride in gastronomy, sports and sometimes sciences, and a general tendency to criticize most governments. Rightly so, I think.

I don’t think hivemind is a bullshit concept. It’s another word for gregarian behavior. The observed dominance of a single point of view, amplified by the underlying system of upvotes that brings a visibility bias to already popular points of view.

Isn’t that what we call the hivemind ?

Yes, as much as I dislike the increasingly moralist culture on there, it still has a bunch of great contributions, if you care to sift through the awful interface. Sadly it’s got achievements now, which in my experience were so far confined to games. It’s not something I want popping in a corner of my monitor completely unprompted while I am trying to focus on an insightful comment. Not the kind of thing you get with free software… my last experience with Linux was Fedora 20-something, one which I aim to reiterate now, fifteen years later, that Wayland has improved to the point of letting me use my hardware to its full potential (drawing tablet, multiple monitors, etc). I’ve already installed Mint on my wife’s laptop, which she enjoys very much (because it gets out of her way), and I think I might go for Fedora again for my workstation later this year, or maybe Manjaro, who knows.

Classic liberal or social liberal ? (=american or european ?)

Ah, yes, the supergrown chicken… Pollos Hormonos.

poll roquest

yea, I’m hoping to find something that really ties the room together, you know

I’d like to see that

oooooohhh, I get it. Indeed

I think that would be antithetical, or paradoxical. Redundant means superfluous (=more than is necessary)

Thank you !

I tried to talk to my wife about data ownership, opensource, etc. but it’s difficult to convey how important it is. She uses Flow. I’m trying to get her to at least try alternatives such as Drip

We have our own homegrown bigots, thank you