In a defamation lawsuit, it would not be X that had to prove it was a lie. It would be CCDH that had to prove it had evidence for their claims (notice that it does not need to be true, only has to be reasonable for CCDH to believe it is true based on evidence they had).

I decided to just go with a randomly generated name. Privacy and all :P Also, don’t have to stress over it being bad

The will federate, try their best to suck as many users from fediverse as possible into threads, then defederate and become a walled garden again.

As for how they will suck users away:

• Make their algorithms prefer posts from threads, so anyone wanting to reach a wider audience needs to move to threads
• Add twitter like checkmarks that are only available for users of threads (they will say it is for security since they need to verify the idwntity of checkmarked people)
• Add features that are not exposed on activity pub, so that you have to be on threads to use them (twitter did the same by for example not making polls available over API)
• Intentionally make their activity pub slow and unreliable to make it look like other instances are broken and threads is fast and reliable.
• Probably much more

This is mostly because when used properly, you often may not even realize you are using blockchain. For example, your browser is using a technology similar to blockchain to detect counterfeit https certificates. You probably don’t even know about it yet it helps to keep you safe. That is how it should be used.

You say it as if not allowing people to send large files at all is somehow better than only allowing it sometimes.

Hmmm, I had mint for a little bit once. I don’t remember having any issues with it which probably means it is good. Paradoxically it also made me forget about it somewhat.

But I really have an urge to try NixOS for myself… And I don’t really want to mess with my parents setup now.

Most people tend to dismiss things tey don’t experience themselves. They don’t really see the impact of data harvesting could have. Its kind of same with climate change.

ISO-8601. The only correct format!

Good to know. I would apreciate any sources for GDPR breaking to show to our IT.

No, I also wouldn’t compare them if the post and the comment above did not mention Signal. Anyway, I can still make the point that worse ease of use is more difficult to sell.

I thought I was a filthy windows user lyrking in better lands. But I use GrapheneOS which is Android minus Google Surveillance, which is Linux plus Google Surveillance minus Google Surveillance. Isn’t that just Linux? Am I a proper member now?

Never calling it PR :D

Doesn’t work since the woman in his home has higher priveleges than him. ;)

I unfortunatelly have to use outlook and teams at work. If this really becomes the case, I will both write to EU regulators and try to petition our IT to move away from microsoft teams and potentially outlook.

I do as well

Honestly, I still have more hope for Signal compared to Lemmy/fediverse. As much as I like it here, Signal is just so much more user-friendly and explainable. I am also slowly making people around me set it up.

Well, its between allowing that and not using Linux at all so that is that. If I could get them to remeber a strong password, it would not be for PC login.

What distro would you recommend? I was under the impression Ubuntu was furthest with UIs.

Never had one in the first place… I really hope people wisen up and abandon both once they see it.

I tried to install I think Ubuntu for my parents. I failed to find a way to properly allow short/simple passwords after like 2 hours of fiddling with configs. Gave up on it after that.

I mean, good for you. I kinda need my sandboxed google play services, despite wishing I did not.