who cares, it’s better than the engineers going to the military

I LOVE MY PUTER

ENTHUSIASTS SOMEHOW KEEP IT WORKING

software standards can be implemented on whatever hardware

it’s a quad core?? damn, the decadence is unimaginable

how about things like ffmpeg? lots of that stuff is written in assembly

they both use decentralizable tech, but in practice only mastodon is decentralized

virtual tuba

how many ports do you need? if it’s below 1000 I’d just permanently open an unused port range and make the applications use those ports

if nothing is listening on those ports then it wouldn’t be a security problem at all

you can outsource the verification to sketchy third parties, like we did in Australia

vaporware companies don’t release open hardware

I think you can use AT in a decentralized way, it’s just that Bluesky as a network doesn’t practically achieve that

what’s the alternative? you make a phone with riscv that has even less software support?

I think KDE does it well? “simple by default, powerful when needed” works a charm on their applications

you’re trying to start a flame war on your first post? are you engagement farming? nice attempt ig

tbf linux does have more sensible security defaults so having to enter more passwords is kinda true

on windows, the default user is passwordless admin by default so they just click one button to “authorise” whatever needs admin privileges (e.g. installing programs to windows equivalent of /usr/bin )

most Linux distributions I’ve used (except maybe raspbian) requires the user’s password for running shit as superuser

you CAN change the behaviour in /etc/sudoers if you really care though

security you don’t understand is security you don’t have. people really need to stop trusting horseshit from megacorps

spam account

cat could be photoshopped in but the image is probably not ai

please stop using the word “PC”, it makes no sense. Any computer can be personal, and I’d argue some windows computers are less “personal” than macs in terms of moddability and ownership

what I’ve started doing is questioning the circumstances under which media like this would be made in the real world. this affects:

• budget
• style
• artefacts (e.g. digitisation, raster, compression)

The image in the post gives off a “old, high budget” vibe, imo. It’d probably have been made as a poster by some company that existed lots of decades ago and then digitised through scanning.

So, it’s weird that:

• There is no logo that links the company to the poster
• There are no signs of the poster medium (e.g. creases, smudges, print artefacts)
• Bottles aren’t properly aligned
• White is not perfectly white (white paper scans white)