Yes. I’m happy it’s a FlatPak, but I’m still not 100% sure I understand and trust flatpak’s sandbox to put Epic Games Launcher on my PC.

I’m way more likely to trust it as a FlatPak than any other way.

But I think I’m still at no, because it’s Epic.

That was my first thought, as well.

The data may not lie, but it can still be dead wrong.

Nice!

Lemmy is open source. You could start an instance and run it this way, as a trial.

I’m not sure it would work. It’s very hard to effectively replace volunteer effort with an algorithm.

The headline, “Local man gets living shit beat out of him”, is a hilarious detail.

But would they though?

Their terms of service tend to say “fuck you, talk to our lawyers”.

Shareholders should be pleased, right? Providing a service is a cost. Innovating by “not doing it” should really help their bottom line?

I’m waiting for Google to get refreshingly direct, and simplify their terms of service to:

“1. Fuck the law. and 2. You agree to take personal responsibility when the law eventually notices Google’s bullshit.”

I’ll just point to the sign:

“Sometimes rich assholes reveal themselves to have (once again) done exactly the kind of shitty behavior we suspected them of.”

Not very catchy. Maybe I should workshop it.

This is so cool.

Also, I find the Windows compatibility funny, like modifying a compact car to add a flat bed just for hauling chicken droppings.

It is so technically impressive, but would make me question all of my life choices.

We can go to a fancy restaurant, like Taco Bell!

He knew the blue shell was some bullshit before he used it.

Thank you for your service.

I…uh…think I met your brother. He looked just like you, before… well…nevermind.

Yes. I think we just need a cultural norm where indie instances proudly proclaim their indie credentials and the associated risks, while large reliable servers share how they are backed up and managed, as well.

Yes. Filter lists to subscribe to would be a big help to new users.

Especially if we could generate a default one that just includes some kind of median block/filter set generated from previous choices across users on the current instance.

Then a new user could just make one early choice: “Automatically filter unpopular content” or “see everything”.

Oh! Thanks!

No. Put the Genie back in the bottle. We need air traffic control for this shit. Or we just have to shut down all the PHP and NodeJs servers. (This is sarcasm…mostly.)

Allowing private corporations to have the ability to block what is seen on the internet seems to us to be a dangerous and infinitely deep problem.

Is a great quote, and gets to the heart of the issue.

But the French authorities are idiots. So there’s no win to be had, here.

Maybe deep packet inspection to drop any traffic that happens to be in the French langauge.