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  • Yeah, only idiots think taking dirt (which has been shelled to hell and doesn’t produce anything) is a strategic victory. Dirt doesn’t mean anything. It only matters because it’s a number that can be tracked, and has been in Russia’s favor. Money spent/(GDP + reserves), lives lost/population, and resources lost/production capacity are numbers that dictate your ability to continue fighting. How much dirt you’ve taken hold of doesn’t effect this.










  • the line that somebody draws for themselves is personal

    Exactly my point. Let it be personal. I don’t understand why you would do this without a toggle and without being clear to users.

    I don’t care that you don’t use Piefed. If you’ve seen it before and didn’t know about it, you’re in the same position as most users. This wasn’t advertised.

    Also, you only said Stormfront or Infowars (now a The Onion site). If it was only extreme right stuff that’d be one thing (still bad if it’s not made clear, in my opinion). It isn’t though. It also includes some less radical right stuff, but also some left stuff. If he’s supporting the status quo by hiding Israel genocide information from users, that’s bad, right?

    It’s a piece of software that should be designed to facilitate what the user wants, not what the creator thinks. It should be made in a way that’s easy for users to add or change the block list. It isn’t. The only option is to fork it, which is possible, so he isn’t stopping this, but purposefully chose to make this not clear so people won’t. It’s an attempt at thought control by being hidden and sneaking it in. If he wanted it to be a choice, again, it’d be a toggle. It is a choice through forking, so he hid it.









  • As someone who isn’t scared of the terminal, I don’t get the fear really. What’s the difference from opening a store app or web browser and searching for an application and asking your package manager to search for an application? Either way, you just type the name and it gives you results. I guess the package manager you at least know it’s from a mostly trusted source (usually, unless you do something to allow exceptions), while a web search isn’t always.

    Why you find terminal instructions online is because it works for every system though. It doesn’t matter what distro you have, or what packages; they all have a terminal and the same base. This isn’t true for package manager instructions though, because there are several, and different distros provide different ones.