Lettuce eat lettuce

Very true, but that may make things worse down the line. Once they realize that kids are circumventing their restrictions, they won’t think, “Hmm, maybe a blanket ban of social media for minors wasn’t a great idea.” They’re just going to double down and say that there needs to be more hardcore restrictions on all internet/computer activity. More sensorship, more data harvesting, mandatory governement spyware in all devices.

Essentially the Great Firewall in China. Many governments have already expressed interest in modeling national internet access after China.

To a large degree, yes, but blanket bans on social media use for minors will fail for multiple reasons.

1. This has already been the case in Australia, and the latest numbers indicate that a vast majority of youth still access social media via black/grey market account purchasing, VPNs, and other methods.
2. The ban doesn’t include some popular platforms like Telegram, which arguably provide a more risky experience, due to it being a popular platform for criminal activities.
3. Taking away a huge swath of social platforms from kids without providing any constructive or healthy alternatives will mainly encourage destructive behaviors.

Find what and where you can fight best, and throw your weight behind it. Don’t fall into dispair, that’s what they are counting on.

Some fight for better laws, some fight for better politicians, some hack, some donate, some build, some propagandize, some host and archive, some preach and philosophize.

The best often do several of these things. Find what you’re inclined towards and do it. We need every last drop of effort to defeat the corpos and their corrupt political allies.

You can’t stop the signal.

Ryzen 7 5800 X3D Radeon RX 9070XT 32GB of DDR4 system memory.

What local models have you been using? And what hardware are you running them on? I’ve been playing with local LLMs a bit for exactly your use case.

I have zero interest in vibe coding or full agentic workflows. But having a local LLM generate a Bash script to help me automate parts of my home lab infrastructure would be nice.

Awesome!

Oh great, they’re already preparing the next industry grift mania…

The CEO apparently is a big private equity guy, and those bloodsucking ticks only know how to do one thing: Suck every last drop of money and goodwill from the company and its customers as quickly as possible.

Breaks my heart, I’ve been a massive Bitwarden advocate for years. Been happily paying for the individual paid plan. I’m now working on setting up KeyPassXC with syncthing.

Wait!!! You mean the multi-trillion dollar mega-corp that promised that Manifest 3 would actually make adblockers more effective, lied to us???

He sniffed a baboon’s ass, then got mad that he got shit on his nose.

Nice, I’ll have to give it a try.

Thanks for the feedback!

I’ve been super happy with Bitwarden for years now. But with their new CEO being a big Private Equity guy, I am wary of the enshitification risk.

I’ve been looking for an alternative that works on both Android and other platforms. I use my phone for a lot of random stuff, so my password manager working on my phone is essential.

Has KeyPassDX been good? Does it work with the same password database as KeyPassXC?

I’ve seen more compelling writing on the back of a gum wrapper.

Absolutely pathetic, BBC.

Classic enshitification arc. They were a fast growing startup that engineered really good printers and software. People, especially newbies flocked to them because their software was easy to use and their initial print quality was very good without any tweaking or tuning.

But they were backed by private equity, and had to start showing higher and higher returns, they started locking in users with their proprietary cloud services.

They’ve been locking users in more and more recently, and just a few weeks ago, threatened a user with legal action for posting AGPL code up on their own repo. The code enabled users to use their Bambu printers without needing to sign into Bambu’s cloud.

Now there is a big community backlash and Bambu is having to do PR damage control.

My Jellyfin server goes, “Burrrrrrr!”

Never been so happy to sail the seven seas! 🏴‍☠️🥰🏴‍☠️ Jellyfin FTW

I can’t speak for other fields, but I’ve worked in IT as a sysadmin for about a decade at a bunch of different companies, big and small.

I’ve never worked at a place that was close to “overstaffed” nearly every place I’ve worked we’ve needed at least 2-4 additional people.

Everybody was overworked, overwhelmed with tickets and projects, working 50+ hours a week constantly.

But upper management and executives love claiming that staffing is maxed out and needs to get more lean. Like, dude, our IT team is handling dozens of tickets a day, running 5-10 different infrastructure projects simultaneously, and keeping near-decade old equipment alive because we were denied our third budget request in a row.

Aaaaaand example #99999… Of why tech sovereignty is so important. The moment you start outsourcing your control, you become vulnerable to this exact kind of action by a company.

Everybody got sucked into the cloud “magic” for years, but now we are seeing the monster emerge more and more as proprietary technology enshitifies.

Luckily, there is a boom happening across the FOSS world, more and more people are finally waking up to the principles of software freedom and actual ownership.

May it continue to grow, as the corpos struggle and wither.

As opposed to now, where companies copyright and patent their medications and sell them ultimately to…taxpayers who pay them billions of dollars a year in just out of pocket costs, let alone the scheme that is the American private insurance/healthcare system.

If taxpayers had to fund drug companies or research institutions for R&D without the insane middleman that is the private healthcare/insurance system, it would cost a fraction of what it does now.

On top of that, this assumes that people won’t do research for the good of society vs becoming filthy rich, which is a false assumption driven by Capitalist propaganda. Remember that the ultra wealthy CEOs and executives of these drug companies aren’t the ones doing any of the actual work or research. That is all done by scientists and engineers, who make a decent living, but none of them are incredibly rich from it, classic Capitalist exploitation at work.

Often times these drug companies (and the private equity firms that own them) don’t even primarily do R&D, they just purchase the patents and IP rights to drugs that are already on the market, and once they do that, they jack up the price often by hundreds of percent to increase their cashflow.

That cost gets sent to the insurance companies, which of course, they pass on to consumers, raising our healthcare prices year after year.

I want medical researchers, scientists, and engineers to make a good living, a very good living, their work literally saves and improves hundreds of millions of people’s lives worldwide. But you don’t need a CEO or executives, or private equity firms owning that space and making insane amounts of money, you just literally don’t.

There are millions of very smart and passionate people around the world who want to do this kind of work because they enjoy it, and they want to make a difference. Providing an open and rigorous academic and scientific structure to study and practice this is all you need. That already exists today, many medical breakthroughs came from publicially funded research institutes, which is the way it should be.