cynetri (he/any)

Ah yes, New York south of Texas

no but trans people get death threats from “anti-tankies”

It’s never really about identifying anything, recaptcha cares way more about data it has on you to determine if you’re a human or not. If you’ve ever tried to google search with a VPN or Tor it makes it really fuckin annoying

are these “tankies” in the room with us right now?

Lemmy isn’t known for using bots to fill in gaps in user engegement, mostly

I never understood this either. “Why are users of an aggressively open-source service so adamant about using open-source software?” Especially when Lemmy’s been around for years, so yeah it’s cultivated a majority Linux userbase.

They’re dating

Tesla is not close to bigger than GM. They only make consumer vehicles and maybe a model of semi truck but I don’t think that’s being produced yet, while GM has been making consumer cars in addition to commercial and military vehicles for decades. They might be valued as more but that doesn’t really say anything in practical terms.

What’s IPFS in layman’s terms? The Wikipedia is hard for me to follow lol

I don’t mind just filters, but reporting it to the parent doesn’t sit right with me. It probably depends on the parent though

At the end of the day I think peoples’ systems should be made with open-source components, like firmware and OS, and then they can choose whether to put closed-source apps on it or not.

That being said, I personally moved away from proprietary social media (except youtube) mostly because they’re proprietary, plus ad tracking, so I don’t like the idea of throwing it all away just to put another closed-source app on my phone. But that’s just me

Ubuntu, either version 12.04 or 12.10 when I got my first computer, a Chromebook, in Christmas 2013 when I was 10. I hated how Chrome OS didn’t support anything so I found a way to put Ubuntu on it and messed around with Blender and Minecraft. Despite this early start, I proceeded to do nothing productive with it, broke it out of frustration, and now I’m 20 and struggling with Arch lmao