I no longer view gatekeeping necessarily as a bad thing. In fact, it can be sometimes be necessary to preserve communities.

I’ve also learned over the years that the only people who succeed in migrating to linux are those who both considerably desire to do so while also having a level of technical competency somewhere north of average. Anyone else is just being strung along by a “helpful” linux evangelist in their family or friends group, and will ultimately drop the solution at the first sign of trouble and frustration.

What’s wrong with /proc/*info and dmidecode?

I really enjoy there being a natural filter through this process. I’d rather people who lack the willpower or cognitive capacity to complete an install be kept within the confines of Windows.

I would have omitted the last panel.

I have to constantly remind myself that the average user today cannot tell the difference between a search engine and a web browser.

And we have the URL bar pulling double duty as a search engine entry form to thank for that.

I get where 0x0 was going with that, but I also don’t expect lemmings (ex-redditors) to understand it either.

stop using the internet outside of what is required to function in society.

I agree with the sentiment. But also consider the threshold for “what is required to function in society” is experiencing endlessly expanding feature creep. The great mass hysteria of 2020 dealt the heaviest blow.

I don’t really see the problem here. So people dumb enough to use Meta or Tiktok etc become anxious, depressed and suicidal. That is actually awesome. All of the right people are getting hit with consequences of their poor decisions.

wiby.me to help explore non-corporate web

psst

Hey, kid, don’t tell anyone I told you about this

*Lifts coat

iodine
https://code.kryo.se/iodine
Description: tool for tunneling IPv4 data through a DNS server
This is a piece of software that lets you tunnel IPv4 data through a DNS
server. This can be usable in different situations where internet access is
firewalled, but DNS queries are allowed.

leading to significant manipulation of public discourse

Pretending that this wasn’t already a massive issue on places like reddit since years ago, with or without bots, is a little bit disingenuous.

WEF digital IDs by another name

Advertising and advertisers are the reverse midas touch of the internet. Everything they touch turns to shit.

Case in point, just look at reddit.

Price your goods right up to what the market can bear. Business sense.

graphviz

What’s a better analogy then, sensei?

Just allowing sites to deliver and execute js by default is insane. This is why every pirate should have a javascript blocking tool in their tool set.

I find it much easier to start with a minimal canvas, and then to add only the things I want or need. Than to try to tear down aggressive features until something sane begins to appear from beneath.

“reject isms/be your own ism”

Autism

Why is there not more ire, anger, and vitriol online?

As a more general answer, the web has been neutered with overmoderation and safe space mentality. Ire, anger, vitriol, which are all normal and valid emotions, systematically get hidden away.

Bringing it back to $NEWS_TOPIC, why are people using a software whose changes can bring them to ire, anger and vitriol? It sounds similar to growing angry with an abusive lover. “Why does he hit me?”.