Wow just two days ago I see a post about how Lemmy is dominated by men and how that could become a problem, and today I see a comment section where all the incels come out of the woodwork.

“waaa somebody wants to solve a problem that has never affected me I’m the victim”

“omg what if people talk behind my back they might find out I’m an asshole? literally 1984”

“wadabout if this app was racist?!? checkmate”

I’m not saying this app is good or bad (I can definitely see the problems) but if an article about cybersecurity gets posted and this is our first reaction, makes me lose hope in Lemmy.

Edit: Responses have made very good points and I think I was off, thanks guys. I still think some of the early comments I encountered were rather reactionary

Is this some sort of bash/zsh joke that I’m too fish to understand?

Okay I can see how curating could work. But if you’re lazy like me, I recommend this:

https://github.com/PatrickF1/fzf.fish

don’t most distros use networkmamager anyway?

What are you studying? Windows VM should be able to handle any programs linux can’t run.

IMO if it works for you then there’s nothing wrong with using AI this way. I wouldn’t recommend it myself but you do you. No need to feel guilty.

Well the one thing that kinda wrong about it is the immense energy usage of most LLMs. But you aren’t putting an artist out of a job or anything like that.

What exactly is Bonfire? They themselves just call it “social networking” which is so vague. Is it microblogging?

nano doesn’t look like that afaik. It could be vi ? maybe emacs?

The CEO of Windscribe is an Elon stan so you didn’t switch to a more left-leaning provider than Proton.

anybody using COSMIC and know if it’s ready for use as a daily driver yet?

No not unencrypted traffic. Any traffic. If a subpoena comes in like “hey this IP did a piracy pls tell us who it was” there is no way for us to answer that. Any VPN that doesn’t have that is a scam. Sadly, a lot of them are.

no we don’t lol. There’s no way for us to connect an account to any of the traffic on our nodes.

I applaud your mistrust though.

I’m not sure. When in doubt, use protection right? I know at least a couple where it is illegal

Ohhh okay that’s awesome actually

In most jurisdictions, piracy is illegal no?

Whether you really need a VPN depends on where you live. When in doubt, use one

I work for a VPN company. There may be many shitty VPN companies that do keep logs, but not all of them.

You just need to pick the right ones, ideally audited ones.

Also, VPNs are absolutely required in some countries if you’re using public torrents. Even if they’re not required in your country right now, you’re still advertising that you’re doing illegal stuff if you don’t use one.

I’m a big fan of fedora atomic and derivatives, but haven’t played around with nix or nixos yet. What’s your goal with the impermanence module?

I thought we all agreed that “immutable” is a confusing term and that we should call it “atomic”

edit: I was wrong

Good for Nix! Horrible article though lmao

if you want a paid version similar to pihole with a bit more control and insights I recommend a smart DNS service like Control D.