Do you mind elaborating on "organizing" a bit? I work in software dev and feel like this whole industry is being run by Unity CEOs, so it's possible I'll end up in a similar position to this employee. Are we talking unionizing engineers, etc?
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Unrelated to the blaming of Hexbearians in the linked comment chain, this attack was something I was worried about when I set up my own server. Seeing it happen for real (thankfully, not in a community me or my partner was subscribed to) made my shutter the instance for good. I'm all in on Hexbear now.
I bought the high end nvidia shield last year and just out of warranty both the bluetooth and wifi chips died. It's basically a brick now and I am probably never going to buy another. Even more stupid as I have an old tube-shield that is still running just fine from like 2018. I ended up installing https://libreelec.tv/ on an old pi 4 I had lying around. HDR, multi-language subtitles, using existing TV remote over HDMI-CEC, all work. That being said, I only use it for Jellyfin.
I hope anyone use using a shield does not have the same experience I did.
I know this isn’t what you said but I just imagined you flying all the way to Japan from somewhere in NA for the express purpose of having a knife sharpened and it amused me. Sorry, I’ll get back to lurking.
I have some crazy theories about "why" this is happening, I'm not an expert though.
- I think that enforcing TPM is part of the end-to-end attestation plans for the Internet: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/07/googles-web-integrity-api-sounds-like-drm-for-the-web/ . TPM allows for a full stack, end-to-end, of hardware->operating system->browser trust chain to make sure you're not rooting your own system to get around DRM.
- This sells hardware as "never-linuxers" are forced to upgrade, and people who have been scraping by with old hardware are given an "excuse" to upgrade. I guess that results in profits for partners and also MS?
Maybe I sound crazy. At any rate, I'm really glad for places like Lemmy (and operating systems like Linux) existing, because I don't trust any for-profit tech company not to ban Firefox/Linux users/Ad block/video streaming/etc.
I was using NeoChat for a while, but IIRC it doesn't support encrypted historical messages, so you'd have to get it set up and keep element around for searching history...
NeoChat has the benefit of supporting OIDC which my server uses exclusively, otherwise I would have given Fractal a look as well.
Thanks for the response. I'm only scratching the surface on these ideas, and I'll give your response some thought. I appreciate it.
Thank you for linking this video. A lot of the political compass stuff never really made sense to me but this articulates the feelings I had about it really well, and I learned a lot (esp. the comments about gun control, and how gun freedom serves the ruling class by creating terror in most cases)
Thank you!