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  • OR they could grow a spine and actually back up the shit they claim to advocate for. You can simply geoblock that area/state/country and state to your users there that you value free speech and you won’t bend the whims of a authoritarian government. Let the people who are now being denied a service complain and get it changed. Other companies have done this most recently Imgur.

    For a company to immediately bend the knee and institute ID checks doesn’t fly right with me. They’re stating that they are more than willing to change their policies at the whim of whatever government body. Also they are more than happy to start collecting MORE data on users to then do god knows what with. How do I know Bluesky isn’t going to sell said data they’ve obtained? how do I know how secure my ID is with them? And I do have to question their motivations when they consistently, immediately, agree to collect data on their users this way. Bluesky is essentially still a start up and they need funding, what better way to get more cash flowing in then harvesting their users data?

    I wouldn’t trust Bluesky as far as I could throw them.


  • yeah I ONLY just recently switched to fish after using zsh and oh my zsh for so long - pretty much since first starting linux cause I once saw someone using it on unixporn and I thought “that’s cool”

    when I switched to NixOS zsh with all the plugins was a total slog. switched to fish and it just HAS everything that zsh/oh my zsh and the various plugins had but baked in.

    so yeah in Fish it’s just starting to type something and hoping it’s still in the history.









  • I use CachyOS (Arch) and NixOS and haven’t had any problems. Modding on NixOS is a bit more of a headache but it’s not a deal breaker. Everything just works. Sure I can’t play League or Valorant or EA multiplayer games but not like I was playing those anyways. IF you do enjoy those games then your linux gaming experience isn’t going to be great.

    As far as distros go? hell you can play on whatever one you want. Like I said I sometimes game on NixOS. I know a guy that even play games on Kali when he’s not doing his pen testing stuff.

    Even for older games with Emulation it’s great. NixOS is my defacto remote emulation machine because it’s so painfully easy to set up retroarch on it. Otherwise I have Ubuntu on my private server and I run RomM on it and it has all my roms on there.


  • I prefer to pay artists I like directly either via merch, patreon, or going to their concerts.

    for my music? soulseek/nicotine+ on my server.

    the problem is Spotify is by far the best streaming platform out there, bar none. I’ve tried the other’s like Tidal and Deezer and what have you and just didn’t like them. Amazon Music was absolutely horrible. The only other alternative would be youtube music with an adblocker. How do I find new artists? youtube shorts believe it or not.

    But yeah I’d rather pay the artists directly.


  • I do freelance/consultation dev work and I’d say most of my clients are having this problem right now. But this is a problem of their own doing. Most got rid of their dev teams and instead leveraged AI and less than a handful of junior devs to essentially just be prompt monkeys. I eventually get called into these places to code review the slop that got churned out and the majority of the time the solution is to start from scratch without heavily utilizing LLM’s that got them into this situation in the first place. The problem is though they now need to hire competent senior level devs again. But they can’t.

    They place ads on linkedin, indeed, etc and then get absolutely hammered with resumes written by AI. The vast majority of which are resumes from people that are either incredibly unqualified or are from like India. They again had to stop using AI to read them because naturally it’s just pulling the bullshit from the pile of bullshit it’s being fed. The ACTUAL devs that are applying get lost in the shuffle. Now they have to manually comb through all the resumes and verify that they’re not AI crap before even attempting to read it.

    So it wouldn’t surprise me if places are just giving up and no one is getting hired. I can speak for myself and other consultants I personally know that we’re having to turn down work because we’re booked solid and don’t have the time. I’ve run out of people to refer jobs to cause we’re all in the same boat.

    The industry axed a metric shit ton of people and now needs them back and they simply can’t find them.