Pfft come on. I watched ISIS beheading videos when I was a kid and I turned out just f-… Hm.

Computer silicon and transformer models

Modern magic. We tricked crystals into thinking by drugging them and zapping them with electricity. Then we used those crystals to trick matricies into hallucinating by forcing them to guess the answer to math questions and smacking them when they get it wrong and kept doing that until they get it right. Ethics and hype aside, it’s pretty fucking wild.

AFAIK, nope. There are several personal projects which modify Signal to work on private infrastructure rather than use signal’s centralized service, but nothing intended for public consumption or at least not that I’ve heard of. Maybe search it.

Signal is good enough and has been pushing for more mainstream appeal and polish (e.g. gif search) Its Achilles heel and main drawbacks stem from it’s centralization: needing a phone number and routing thru Signal’s infra. But that can also benefits them in some ways. Most devs who would be tempted to change that would rather spend their time elsewhere: tox, matrix, i2p, tor, xmpp and irc shenanigans, etc. Signal is just hydrated, in its lane, unbothered; chugging along as its LLC dictates. No alarms, no fires, no compelling reason to do a hard fork.

Edit: it completely slipped my mind that Molly exists. So yeah there’s that. But they still use signal’s infra.

AGPL iirc. it can be forked and run independently or modified into a decentralized federation model. So doesn’t really matter if they cave.

cries in 200 NixOS generations

Could it be because they’re a zealous ethnostate in the midst waging a genocide? Or perhaps there’s some other minute nuance being overlooked… I guess we’ll never know. A mystery for the ages.

Ain’t that just a prerequisite for the “grab em by the pussy” administration?

To be fair, “that I ever met” is doing some lifting there. Kinky trans&nb programmers are a minority of a minority of a minority. But a few of the best programmers I’ve met over my years while doing low-level C and C++ systems work just happened to be in that demographic… And wow: they were REALLY good at what they did. One was the kind of person who earned the right to wear a clip-on fluffy tail to the office, and no one would talk shit about. Different times, different places, but they were all the kind of people who would make competent management sweat about the low bus factor.

The company I keep tends to be quite private, but there’s no shortage of “it” pronouned puppygirls doing significant work in Linux spaces; god bless them. Nix has a lot for some reason… Also cybersec communities.

What a timeline…

I made aliases because I’m lazy.

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Funny that the pride flag is on the left when the most impressive Linux devs I’ve ever met all did their best work while caged and plugged in thigh highs but… Whatever

“Wow these demographics are wild… My social media platform OnlyFeds is completely flooded with preteen girls and violent anarchists… wtf?”

“Government is bad” *governs badly “SEE?”

…yeah. Every time.

Are there real concerns? Yes, some. Are there tons of misinformation campaigns actively trying to push anti-immigrant narratives and fake statistics to fearmonger and activate conservatives? Absolutely.

WASM and cry because you can’t directly modify the DOM without JS.

Be happy and grow a supportive, active, and independent community network of helpers

The problem is that any strikes put an account at risk. There have been instances of accounts being knocked off overnight by frivolous strikes from one claimant, or multiple claimants just happening to coincide. The title was intentionally alarming, or sensational, but not really clickbait.

Not socially acceptable (/s? It depends)