Yeah, I think they’re banning/blocking using AI right now. Either that, or they literally have the moderators fully on board with their Right-wing campaign.

If you really want to see what things like banning/suspension do, check out your Contributor Quality Score (CQS) here when you can: https://old.reddit.com/r/cqs/

I went from ‘Highest’ to ‘Lowest’ with one ban, and as far as I can tell, your CQS has an impact on the visibility of your posts.

Also making giant rebar craps all over

Shit, I remember degaussing monitors. I also remember picking up a power supply I was working on before lunch, not remembering that I had powered it on earlier to test it, and the shock throwing me against the wall.

Ah, the good old days.

I don’t think things like greed are endemic to our species, and particularly not like the greed that is so all-consuming that you take necessary things for life from less powerful people.

I do think, however, that without a massive change in mindset, that this capitalist viewpoint, the viewpoint that says I can take whatever I want from whomever I want, will persist. We might not be hardwired for greed, but we are hardwired for hierarchy.

And, if that hierarchy is one that valorizes this poisonous type of greed, that the lower primates will mimic it to rise in the hierarchy.

But, we have so many other available hierarchies. The capitalist one is dominant now, but we can change that.

Yep. A Linux build + Firefox (with Privacy Badger and ublock origin plugins)

Yes. But, we are conscious beings and we can choose our spoonness.

Are you trying to accomplish something? Some work you need to do? Be like spoon. You have one purpose—to accomplish that objective.

Choose to be like spoon, and have a blessed day.

Yeah, I have an older Motorola phone that I’ve used to try and get Android alternatives, and none of those three systems will work on my phone. It doesn’t look like any of them will work on my new phone either, but that might just mean I have to try it.

Google/Android also seems to make it as difficult as possible to install any alternative system. The easiest I saw was /e/OS because it was all automated, but after about 10 minutes it informed me that my Motorola phone just wasn’t supported.

There’s such a long ways to go with this sort of thing, but I think it’s pretty clear that the world desperately needs a user-friendly, non-corporate alternative to Android/iOS.

It’s really a bummer that we’re all carrying around powerful little computers with us but the corporate operating systems for them use much of that processing power for their own data collection/profits/purposes and tries to prevent us, those of us who own the phones, from using that power for our own purposes.

There’s a lot of good stuff on F-Droid, and it’s nice to see a university doing a project like this.

I’m still waiting on a solid, consistent alternative to Android. It seems we might be getting there with tiny steps.

Leon dying would help.

The world is toxic because of people like Leon.

It’s not ‘someone’ I’m talking about. It’s a very specific person, and Leon barely qualifies as a person. He’s like a disease of culture/society that needs to be eradicated before culture/society dies.

oh no Linux don’t say it again

Digital piracy can get you at least one of those happy things.

I read this thread to find out what I should know but I still don’t know it.

uBlock Origin and Privacy Badger plugins in the Firefox browser have me feeling relatively secure with most regular internet traffic.

Thanks for the clarification because that headline sure is worrisome.

Is this a free trial followed by a monthly subscription?

…and Spotify doesn’t pay artists shit.

I’ve become a strong proponent of the joys of piracy.

Yes! I’m right there with you.