Evil_Shrubbery

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[–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee -2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

That's is not what the problem is, lol, not by far. Nothing is a problem if you look at it in a short enough timeframe.

I'm not complaining about the few more people that discover Linux, I'm complaining that we are systemically introducing the same problems we want to get away from ("that the price is high/threatening", especially now that desktop Linux is on a steady rise & we need such """endorsements""" the least).

But "Linux" isn't giving him any money either, surely. This argument breaks down because of that.

What? With influencers it's what is monetisable in any current situation, what gets more views (and more money with that via various channels - atm "Linux" gives him revenue via selling ads etc to more people, if you offer him more money than that, he will sell whatever you say, that's his profession). If a megacorp wants to get in on it they freely can. At any point. But it would be a lot harder to do that if we don't/didn't have professional ad-people (no background, just as the money winds go) intertwined from the "start".
Financial power of a/any megacorps dictating foss just leads to monopoly again (eg how Google took over & is now closing more and more the "Android Linux"). And it makes it harder for projects to get support from "the people" vs "what is the most monetisable for some private entity".

Overlooking that is akin to saying scalpers help redistribute the product. Technically, sure, so "what are you complaining abut, so cyclical."

Talking about foss has literally become marketable. That's the only reason professional influencers are talking about it now. And people listening to them will listen to whatever they say next too. And that ("money talks, bullshit walks") is a bad future for foss which should be by it's nature free of such incentives bcs it just becomes another megacorps monopoly.

Going into foss & financially rewarding corps that aren't dedicated to open principles is just the current market situation (MS & Google) but with sparkles. It inevitably leads to more inequalities.

[–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 60 points 4 days ago (8 children)

Not the way he eats it.

[–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee -3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

Monetisation & financial motivations.
That dude is no foss champion, at best just some user. Is MS gives him money Windows & Edge will be the best

[–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 7 points 5 days ago

... and some of them have social anxiety ...

[–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 36 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

... have the Feds not bombed a private residence for a long time?

I know of 1985 but I'm sure this is a more regular occurrence.

There must be a list, but I can't find it on Wiki.

(To clarify if unclear, the explosives used in this case was to damage the door, not to bring down the building.)

[–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 4 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

It's prob necessary to do something, even new ICE vehicles & new fuels are not the cleanest in India, but old ones prob really need to go, especially in a country with such pollution problems.

How to achieve that & why not boost public (city) transport instead, etc & why they decided to go this way can def be questioned - but that's in all nations & at the end something still gets done.

[–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

A woman in a black coat is then led away from the group and falls to the ground with a police officer.

Police can be heard saying "get up now", and the woman can be heard replying: "I'm trying".

A photo from after the incident appears to show Ms Thomas standing beside an officer with a swollen eye.

The witness said they saw Ms Thomas being tripped to the ground, and that she was struck in the face when officers attempted to get her to her feet.

"Several officers came over and in an attempt to help carry the individual away … that is when the strike occurred," the attendee said.

"It was very clearly a strike to the eye."

[–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 0 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

I'm not driving in baseball sized hail. in my book that IS an emergency.

Never said anything against that.
Just pointing out that if that was true, you would stop by the side of the road anywhere, not seek an overpass & drive to there in 'emergency conditions'.

Bcs this is what this post is all about.
Ppl stopping where they shouldn't & in conditions they would just drive on if there was no overpass.

You wrote:

is full fuck off to another overpass

Why would you fuck off to another overpass if the conditions are dangerous?
If it was an emergency you would stop asap.

[–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 2 points 5 days ago

I thought the exact same thing!!

[–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 31 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (4 children)

No.

Anyone with a platform can do that.

(And from the little bits I've seen, mostly over memes & various news bits, the quality is questionable. Just don't follow the whims of influencers, it's not the correct way forward imho, it just inevitability leads to or spreads enshitification.)

 

... someone linked this in a Discord server and it's just too horrible not to repost.

Would have turned the switches the other way around tho.

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