Goo Truther @thufie@pixie.town

Where do people go for technical recs these days?

Like, today I want an overview of current Linux distros, but other days it's RSS readers or hardware or whatever. In the past there were reputable forums and review sites. If I didn't know them I could search, skip the obvious ad bait, and next would be the good ones. But now either I can't tell the good from the slop, or it's all slop.

What's the methodology now? Where do you start for high-level tech recs?

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You ain’t gone win, babe. Don’t try to win cause the game is rigged and ain’t no way you gone win. Your job ain’t ta win, your job is to make the work a bit better for those who come after. And you ain’t gone do that crawlin into no hole.

Be out, be seen, be seen happy, and make it home alive. You ain’t gotta start no fight, you ain’t gotta win the war.

You gotta let that little kid see you, so they know their fire is worth burning for.

Always forward babe. Never back.

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So…. Does this mean in two weeks, if a non-Mastodon instance federating with an instance running Mastoson does not not want their users’ content to be saved and used for potential future AI training even if they explicitly revoke consent and delete their data…….. that the instance needs to defederate from ALL MASTODON INSTANCES IN EXISTENCE???

Please tell me if i’m being hyperbolic but this does NOT look good.

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/35086

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