There’s only like, one viable instance though: inv.nadeko.net.

A RISC-V equivalent might be better in terms of hardware openness.

Influencer, because that term has pretty much become synonymous with ‘grifter’ at this point as most ‘influencers’ are trying to run a grift of some kind.

Last time I thought Matrix ran on ActivityPub like the rest of the Fediverse, though.

I think that we need more hybrid online/irl communities.

• There’s actually been some recent attempts to do exactly that, eg. zine communities have been getting big on ATproto recently, as well as art/craft communities in general.

Google’s the main contributor to closing the web off, they even straight-up admitted to that a few months ago and tried to DRM the web with WEI, but that failed with massive backlash.

Boohoo, the open web is broken…

• You caused it, MF’ers…

But yeah, walled gardens like Discord, Google, Meta, and Twitter certainly aren’t helping matters, and even some of the alternatives got some controversy of their own, eg. Bsky recently censoring people on their main PDS, although given ATproto is an open protocol, there’s no one and nothing stopping you from setting up an account on a third-party PDS like Blacksky or Northsky, or hosting your own, for example.

Apart from that, more open and decentralized/self-hostable alternatives need to crop up and fast, and we already have ATProto, ActivityPub/the Fediverse, PeerSuite, XMPP, and even LBRY/Odysee.

Assuming mirroring isn’t borked by that aforementioned DRM.

At least Meta straight-up admitted to grifting people, Google has yet to do so.

I laughed way harder than I should’ve at that.

Age-gated vids have been login-walled for a while now, non-age-gated stuff is still viewable while logged out and through alt front-ends, for now.

I won’t put it past Google to fully login-wall YT at some point in the future though, or even worse, put DRM on it so that it’s only watchable through Chrome on Android, or Chrome or Edge on Windows, and non-Android and non-Windows OSes, and non-Chrome/Edge browsers are blocked, as well as alt front-ends and downloaders, and even mirroring to competing platforms.

Invidious mainly, and that doesn’t use any YT accounts, it’s the equivalent of watching YT logged out.

Also, Grayjay lets you log in through it but that probably doesn’t bypass the age check if you’re KYC’d.

If you’re an active creator yourself though or even if you only have a few vids you made years ago that are still up, I’d set up PeerTube, Odysee, or both, and post those there while you still can, though.

One more reason to use an alt front-end, and clear/disable your watch/view history and not log into YT directly anymore, at least while you still can.

Linux of course, it’s been headlining lately in terms of improvements particularly on the gaming front, but also FreeBSD based on how quickly it’s been moving in terms of improvements on the general desktop front, FreeBSD is at the point where it’s a viable third option on the desktop if you’re not gaming, although that’s assuming you’re running its CURRENT branch since that’s where the latest development happens.

You know things are getting bad when two governments are on your case about your patent trolling, Nintendo.

Whatever OS they want or need, be it Ubuntu or Mint or whatever, or even Windows for that matter; it ain’t my system so it ain’t my decision at the end of the day.

I could recommend things for my hypothetical client to look into on their own at a later date, but whatever OS I install on that system is ultimately up to the person I’m hypothetically building it for, I can’t just randomly install something without the client’s permission, assuming I’m getting paid to build them a PC in this hypothetical.

Granted I’m speaking in terms of that person being a client in a business relationship more than a casual ‘I’m getting sick of Windows, what should I run instead’ setting-it-up-for-a-friend scenario, but still.

I absolutely do, within reason and within legal limits, school kids should be able to wear whatever they want as it’s a big part of their self expression.

Also, for things like art class, which can and will get very messy, very fast, especially with younger kids, school uniforms are just flat-out impractical vs. wearing old clothes you don’t care about, eg. for clay day or for paper mache day or anything else like that.

If there was ever a better reason to set up Home Assistant if you want a smart home…

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Unlike Linux, whose recent embrace of AI in the codebase is worrying to say the least, you flat-out cannot submit AI-generated code to NetBSD.

NetBSD even explicitly banned AI from their codebase to boot, as quoted from their Commit Guidelines:

Code generated by a large language model or similar technology, such as GitHub/Microsoft’s Copilot, OpenAI’s ChatGPT, or Facebook/Meta’s Code Llama, is presumed to be tainted code, and must not be committed without prior written approval by core.

Unlike Linux, whose recent embrace of AI in the codebase is worrying to say the least, you flat-out cannot submit AI-generated code to NetBSD unless it’s approved in writing*.

*originally in another reply, but deleted that and moved it here.