I actually have some accidentally poisoned data out there. Many years ago I had a job that entailed doing red carpets. There were a lot of photos of me at small to mid-sized events with two of my business partners.

Then for two years in a row my partners went to the MTV VMAs with someone else. The VMAs are MUCH bigger in terms of media footprint. That guy got tagged as me in the photos. So now a Google image search for me will at least be mixed, and often the other guy comes up first.

So the idea is sound.

It is a terrible headline. It can be debated whether it’s intentionally misleading, but if the debate is even possible then the writing is awful.

As someone with a factory job, I agree. Admittedly I have a degree, and I’m doing supply chain work in an office, but a 75k setup machinist or CNC programmer job is pretty good compared to spending 100 grand in student loans to make 75K as an office drone.

I wouldn’t advise anyone drop out of medical school to run a packaging line in a factory, but there are a lot of people who do pretty well. You land in a union shop or an ESOP and you can make real money.

There is, but there is a difference between not admitting you’ve broken a law and impeding an investigation into whether you broke the law or destroying evidence.

The particulars are going to be very important in this case. It’s also possible they have no case and they’ll just use the legal system to torture him, ruin his life, and waste his money then drop the charges before it ever sees a judge.

I didn’t realize it was back in active development. It seemed to be abandonware for years.

That’s awesome. I’ll have to test drive it. Thanks.

Writing screenplays. Movie scripts. At it’s most basic, you can write it in any text editor, and you can format it in markup.

But, because the formatting is very specific and there are a lot of ways a screenplay gets analyzed and parsed they’re mostly done in a dedicated software. The biggest and most industry standard is called Final Draft.

That’s a great suggestion. I’ll check it out. Thanks.

I would love a good WYIWYG desktop screenwriting software.

Writing fountain markup just doesn’t work for me. it’s hard to explain, and sounds precious, but if my brain is in markup mode it’s not in creative mode and vice versa.

Some of the ok ones from the past have been abandoned.

I bought a pro license of fade in which is supposed to be available for Linux but it won’t install and support didn’t solve it. So I have to work exclusively from my Windows machine… Which I don’t love doing.

Linux is still a difficult environment for creative work.

Or the feral cats? Does humanity deciding to cull a species not perfectly fit that model as you imagine it?

The Venn diagram of privacy focused and paranoid has a good bit of overlap.

But anything private enough for the most paranoid dev is private enough for me.

There will always be some percentage of users that Linux just isn’t for, and some users that fall in love.

In my opinion the motivations that convince them to try Linux are irrelevant. What’s important is that the general trend is more users sticking with it.

IMO I couldn’t care less if people dual boot, we’re still have a use case for Windows. I have a Windows machine myself.

Well that’s kind of what I’m getting at. How many times does that happen before everybody just goes back to using GPL, MIT, etc…

I’m all for ethical licensing, and defensive licensing, but we’ll likely end up with an unmanageable soup of various licenses that everyone is nervous about misinterpreting. We lose efficacy and everyone will just default back to the same handful of licenses we’re currently using.

I think unless it was a small number of crystal clear alternative licenses with broadly agreeable terms, we’d get chaos, followed by complacency.

Maybe in the case of windows 11 that will be true, but in the past that has not been the case. When Windows 8 came out regular users were “upgrading” new machines to windows 7.

I’m rabidly pro-consumer about most things but I struggle with how we define a market when we talk about steam. In order for steam to be a monopoly you have to drill down through super categories of software sales and then video game sales, to the platform level.

If you look at all digital delivery video game sales they still don’t have a monopoly. You don’t have to deal with steam to play a video game. It’s only PC video game sales where they are close to a controlling market share.

But Steam has far less power over PC gaming than Apple, Sony, or Nintendo do over their respective platforms. Gamers and Devs basically HAVE to deal with those companies to have access to their markets.

My experience is that runtipi turned docker into an app store. The technical barriers to entry have never been lower. There are so many helpful voices out there that I’ve never really had to ask anyone a unique question because someone else has typically asked whatever I need to know and been answered.

I do think there are very reasonable arguments to be made that when you are opening a server containing your personal data, to outside access, you probably should be cautioned about your technical limitations. Even if it’s not pleasant to hear.

I honestly don’t think it’s a great idea for most people (myself included) to casually dabble in server administration. There’s a pretty big margin for error. Unfortunately it’s the only private solution for the time being. I don’t trust anyone else.

“x country has GOOD state surveillance of its people. Not BAD surveillance of its people like Y country” can only ever be propaganda.

its silly to pretend otherwise and we’re not having a serious conversation at this point.

But I do imagine that every single post which promotes, as a positive, the oppression of a people’s freedom and dignity by their own government, is either propaganda or the product of a loathing so deep it manifests in an illogical rose tinted view of any perceived competitor.

It’s hard to tell if a post like this is intentional propaganda, or just “the enemy of my enemy must be my friend” brainwashed babbling.

All 3rd party data collection of identifiable information on users, IPs, domains, and devices (anything that can tie back to a consumer) requires line item affirmative consent from the user with a disclosure of what is being collected and all known current and future uses. That should put an end to websites with 4,000 trackers.

Sale of identifiable consumer data (including device information, etc…) to a 3rd party requires the affirmative consent of the consumer.

Targeted advertisements must include a link to information about why this advertisement targeted the user, and the source of the data that informed that decision.

Government agencies, political parties, PACs, and religious organizations are barred from collecting consumer data from 3rd parties. They are barred from commissioning others to collect 3rd party consumer data on their behalf for opposition research purposes. The single exception being narrowly targeted data for criminal investigations with a warrant.

A user’s microphone may not be engaged without affirmative user consent or a warrant. A ban on transmitting data for the purposes of mapping a residence or the movement of parties within a residence without user consent or a warrant.

Absolute consumer freedom to install whatever software and firmware they so choose on any consumer grade computer hardware they have paid for and are in physical possession of. So you may be prohibited from dumping malware on a server you rented, but you can hack your car, video game console, exercise bike, PC, etc… to your heart’s content.

A codified “right to be forgotten” upon request for all concluded commercial transactions, disused online profiles, and online media not pertaining to public figures, ongoing litigation, criminal matters, or matters of otherwise significant public concern after X length of time.

A government registry to be formed for the purpose of identifying which companies are storing personally identifiable information about you (not actually containing any of that info itself). Simply requiring companies to register who’s data they’re storing and what type of data, and providing a means of demanding that information be removed.

You don’t need a high level of technical skill. You can learn everything you need to get started in a few minutes of tutorials or walk throughs. The rest you learn as you go.

Bear in mind no every linux user has memorized every terminal command and the whole file structure. Lots of people are just casual users who learn what they need.

One of the things I wish someone had told me at the start of using linux is that initially your desktop environment will effect how you feel about linux more than the distribution or specific architecture of the OS.

The good news is they’re all free. Try a few things and see what you like. IMO Fedora is a great, beginner friendly Gnome or KDE experience. Mint has an excellent Cinnamon and XFCE desktop either of which will feel somewhat familiar to a windows user. Mint will also run on just about anything.

Also, it’s not binary. You can dual boot. If there’s something you need windows for you can use it. Over time you’ll eventually find that you don’t really need windows anymore.