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  • That’s actually a common misconception. Gnome is just as customizable as Plasma (I like both for different reasons, so this is not a “reeee gnome best” critique). It all comes as extensions, which can be off-putting to people, but it has the benefit of having more consistency than Plasma, in my experience. It also works better for atomic distros, generally.

    If ricing is your jam, you really can’t go wrong with either one. Plasma is much easier to grasp for theming, though, and I think that’s a pretty big benefit when it comes to helping people get over the different learning curves.







  • “Just trust me, bro. AI is going to fix everything, bro. It’s smarter than any human, bro. It can never lie, bro. It has a huge database and knows practically everything, bro.”

    Little did anyone know that it wasn’t Skynet that did humanity in. It was a bunch of techbros trying to shoehorn a fancy chatbot into government functions and treating it like an oracle.


  • Fitting that the techbro fascists who have more money than god are yet again trying to rob everyone in plain sight. The sort of AI these grifters are pushing is rarely providing benefit to humanity, is still a solution in search of a problem, and it’s propped up almost entirely by venture capital.

    They want weaker copyright, because they’re trying to tread water in the hope that this grift will pan out, if only they can hold out long enough; they need a reason to tell their investors that True Innovation™ is just around the corner, if only they had unrestricted access to everything.

    They already steal everything and ignore copyright without exception, so if anyone falls for this line of reasoning, I have a bridge with a great view to sell them.





  • No, I understand just fine. You’re ignoring the part where I said rights aren’t actually fundamental or intrinsic. They’re privileges society treats that way, and like other privileges, they can be taken away.

    In any case, if you go to a well-known Nazi bar on purpose, what does that make you? People who go to 4chan on purpose aren’t innocent victims, and their potential loss of privacy is justifiable considering how much harm has come just from there.

    If you use your rights (i.e. social privileges) to purposely cause harm, or to support platforms or causes that are well-known to cause harm, there should be consequences.



  • let’s work toward making these institutions not rely on or be beholden to governments.

    I don’t see how that’s possible unless you use a system that’s resistant to governments (or moneyed interests). And the only systems like that are effectively outside their government’s power or jurisdiction. Otherwise, the right mix of ambitious or greedy people could eventually cause it to crumble.

    Did you have some other kind of system or plan in mind?




  • All rights are privileges, if we’re going to be pedantic. This is evidenced by the fact that they can be taken away. Society tends to operate on an unspoken, collective agreement that certain rights should never be violated, but if they were actually intrinsic, we wouldn’t have to fight tooth and nail for them.

    I’m a moral relativist, so if someone is happy to abuse their right to privacy to harm others or otherwise take their rights away, especially the right to privacy, I don’t feel any compunction to draw a hard line and say that the harmful person deserves to keep those rights in spite of their actions.



  • We need a single source of truth for this.

    So distribute it, like DNS. Have the CVE Foundation be the final authority, but relying solely upon them makes me uneasy.

    The CVE Foundation might currently be independent from the US government, but that doesn’t mean they’re not still subject to its whims. I think people underestimate just how awful things are or could get here, and “why is the government doing that stupid/heinous/bizarre thing” has become a daily mantra for many.

    CVE needs better protection from hostile governments, and distributing the system seems like the only way to achieve that


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    That’s good, I guess, but decentralize it. It’s a tool used globally with global ramifications, so other countries should be able to run their own instance of it. That way, if an instance goes down, nobody else is left without it.

    Over the coming days, the Foundation will release more information about its structure, transition planning, and opportunities for involvement from the broader community.

    Hopefully that includes decentralization on the roadmap.