+1. Lots of people are also likely to not have any idea about the situation and just think their PC crashes or acts up more. More of these issues can pop up over time.

A recall forces them to notify customers of the issue so the customer can act on it.

If the product has issues it should be legally required to either have a warranty extension, recall, or both. Heck they shouldn’t be selling more units until it’s figured out and patched.

It’s absurd to say: “it might have problems but we’ll keep selling it as is”.

We have safety recalls. There should be product degregation recalls.

Sometimes I wonder: for a PC sitting behind a consumer router with no extra ports forwarded: How important are OS updates?

I mean if everything works for you on this version, why rock the boat? The idea is supposed to be security, fixes, and new features. We can throw out new features and fixes if you’re happy with everything as is.

Security is very buzzy and kind of vague to this type of user, but they also probably don’t tread far off from popular (likely … hopefully … safe) websites.

So hmm, if not accessing unsafe websites, and hidden behind a router NAT, and with physical safety of home, I wonder if the benefit of rocking the boat (and getting more ads and crap) is worth it.

Like definitely risks are there for any internet connected device but weighing it would be interesting. Someone in infosec should do a real analysis of this situation.

I use jiffies to refer to clock speed.

Why not just build a wikipedia mirror?

All the data is available for free via download, torrent, etc.

Idk I have no complaints about wikipedia to lead me to look for a federated alternative.

Normally I would say view the man page (as a command). Though for some reason when making the thinnest distro possible, the OS team at my job got rid of man.

Wtf man.

Yeah, I’d just rather share my credentials with the same instance if that makes sense.

They don’t have the space to archive it all. No one does. It’s the reason it has grown so big without real competition.

No one can do it… or at least make money doing it.

We’re seemingly talking about different things. I don’t think they can put ads next to my content if they scraped it… Then again isn’t this how Google works? They even have caches of a lot of the content so you don’t need to hit the original one… So we know they store the pages.

I see how if federated it’s more of a gray area since it’s federated: so maybe they can put ads? Idk seems like another gray area. I wonder how a ToS can be applied from a legal perspective if the content was federated instead of directly posted. Then again Google just looks at a robots.txt file to figure out what/how to scrape. Maybe that should apply here somehow? Idk.

I’m guessing it’ll take many years for laws to catch up… And they’ll be written by whoever has more money at the time.

You’re completely right.

Defederation is silly here in my opinion. I’d personally prefer more content and more mainstream stuff. We’re basically isolating ourselves. If it’s so great, it’ll flourish; instead we won’t allow it. So much for an open community. :shrug:

We also collectively downvote people who think this which is also silly. Heck even this post is more/less to bully these instances into doing what this group wants.

Reminds me of the bad side of Reddit.

I highly doubt it. The laws haven’t caught up to what you’re saying. Basically what you are saying would make scraping illegal.

As far as I know it isn’t. If it is: please cite a published law article or something similar discussing it.

It only takes looking at your data to figure out your trends, save the trend, and serve you ads.

Think about it: public posts are public. It’s the same as you putting a note in the town square. Anyone can look at it and see the username of who wrote it.

Defederation doesn’t stop that, it just inconveniences people who want to use/see both sides from one login.

Then when you’re done, you find out one of the core modules you use is considered a ‘security risk’ by your infosec team. So you have to start over.

Don’t forget that GPT4 was getting dumber the more it learned from people.

Give me some love for adding an indent level either showing nothing changed or you rewrote everything too.

See y’all when it gets rolled back if/when the Republicans take office again.

… why? All of this is more / less public information about you? Even if you defederate, they could crawl and get all of this info (except maybe ip).

It would be an awesome open source project to make a git repo with a graph that emulates a song in guitar hero.

This person is a scammer and not the real @thedude.

Do not send money!

Does this take into reference accounts that are marked as bots? … I mean i have my friend: @csm10495_bot@sh.itjust.works … he’s a nice guy.