It’s probably far more common than most people realize. Open source software doesn’t automatically make it secure, and in many cases can be less secure than closed source as it’s just one or two people doing it for free.

Much easier to be tempted to do something wrong or to get others to help in and take the weight off.

And someone recently told me the Xz exploit doesn’t matter because no developer is stupid enough to install beta releases to prod systems lol.

Laziness and/or low skills leads to a lot of IT failures.

Immediately noticed even though the packages have been out for over a month?

Easily could have stolen a ton of information in that month.

He was very much the Elon Musk of his times, and it’s very possible he would have gone down the same route of extremist views and decisions that completely failed because of his egoism.

Some interesting points, and some things I disagree with.

Firstly it’s annoying he keeps calling it his idea and trying to enforce this concept that the current internet needs to align with his original goals. That’s stupid and ignores that things will go where they go, he can’t control them.

So his first point about centralisation being an issue isn’t that big a grievance. But his second point rings true - the issues around our data and advertising have grown significantly and the Web is getting much worse as a result.

I actually think the solution is just government needs to step in and regulate it, along the lines of what the EU is doing. Realistically I think that’s the only solution that’ll help. Doing some grassroots movement and hoping it picks up steam is just unrealistic. Like looking at Lemmy and Mastadon - they’re great but at this pace they’ll never take over the other giants in the space. You need someone to step in and force the change.

It’s an ok experience. Realistically Reddit was much better before a bunch of changes and Lemmy hasn’t filled that/not sure it will catch up.

I don’t care if it succeeds or not. We’ll all just move on to the next thing if it doesn’t.

Yes of course it costs money - but it’s not my business to run and it’s the business’s problem. I’m not a charity or an investor so I don’t need to worry about whether the business succeeds or not.

So basically, no reason to donate.

Why would I donate?

So what do you want exactly? Do you want the fediverse to remain small and irrelevant forever? Or do you want it to grow and become the dominant space with more bad actors but more useful actors as well?

Because you can’t have both, and you will always have more extremists and shitty views with larger groups. I for one think the fediverse is a better implementation of the social tech for pack of a better word, and would prefer its implementation over the closed wall implementation of non fediverse applications.

But the fediverse already has that lol. I’ve had arguments here with extremists many times.

You won’t just magically cure it by stopping FB from federating. Putting your fingers in your ears and closing your eyes doesn’t make it go away.

Yeah I don’t understand the issue.

People want the fediverse to grow, so FB entering it is a good thing no? Otherwise realistically the fediverse will likely stagnate and always just take up a tiny bit of space.

The more people involved the better. Sometimes I feel this group just wants to shoot themselves in the foot.

Use Windows on the daily and still have never seen these at all, on multiple computers as well.

Generally I’d agree it’s shitty behaviour though.

This has been the case for ages so it’s not anything new.

My reading of chip wars and similar chip fabrication places is this stuff takes decades to develop and is insanely expensive. Is that not the case here?

This makes no sense. He himself was a billionaire who fucked over both rich and non rich people. Just because he failed and took other rich people down a peg doesn’t make him some sort of martyr.

Welcome to 5 years ago? This has been around for years…

Your comment is equally guilty of assigning blame to something without any strong evidence or similar.

Without actual studies looking into it it’s all conjecture.

Yep. I have no idea what people complain about with Windows update. Unless you just haven’t used it for 20 or so years.

Wireless sucks. Wired is always better.

It’s a hard call on Reddit.

This article seems to leave out the reality that Reddit’s big win is data and an in built machine learning capability in what is good quality. For future AI and LLMs it’s actually a treasure trove of information that will only rise in value.

Realistically it’s had massively bad PR and issues but people still use it over Lemmy and many others, and Lemmy/others aren’t going to overcome it any time soon (if ever). So it doesn’t seem like it’s going to go away at end of day, and it’s still one of the best sources of information on the internet available.

At end of day it’s stocks so it’s coin flips all the way. No one beats the market consistently over time that doesn’t also utilise insider information.

Yeah I’ve tried them but for my purposes they suck. Just adding some colour to tabs or similar doesn’t do much. Or bookmarking them all in some weird thing is also weird.

Chrome is shit but it definitely does do grouping the best.