It’s all about friction. As long as the user has to pick an instance they will always hesitate to pick any federated service. The average user will always choose the path of least resistance.

Proprietary services spend a lot of time trying to reduce friction, and it works.

The only solution I can think of would be a three part one:

1. The main app of a federated service automatically rotates between a pool or reliable, reputable, non-extremist instances where the user can log in with an email and password.
2. The federated service makes it trivial to migrate accounts amongst instances.
3. the user can log into their instance threw any other instance perhaps threw oauth.

This would of course require some federated account login system. Hard but not impossible. It could be some sort of Casandra style ring based account service where nodes are part of the ring.

This eliminates the new user friction.

1. Download app
2. Sign up
3. Login

It works anywhere any time with corpo style low friction. You don’t need to think about instances at all till you are ready to.

Look at the Jellyfin one. Why is there something breaking the logo from the right? Lots of little things.

Fair. It’s not just that one though. I notice a lot of weird things there.

But I responded to a comment cursing out systemd on a post about system V being dropped?

The comparison is as made because the comment brought up systemd on a post about system V.

Why post this ai generated content? Since when does the docker logo have the Cassandra eye in it?

Yah! Screw them 20 line unit files. We roll with 500 line bash scripts.

/sarcasm

I mean yah? That’s obviously true. That’s why I said it was close to actual anti semitism. Not bona fide antisemitism.

This is weirdly close to actual anti semitism. Israel is a genocidal state, reasonable people can agree, but there being a secret plan to control the world reaks of something more dog whistle-ish.

Small clarification. Apple Pay is not really paying with your phone bill. I think you can but most users just have their credit card or debit card linked.

That’s where choosing a community driven operating system comes in. If the provider of the security patches abuses their position the answer is not to drop security. Rather switching providers is the solution.

For anyone reading this, this is terrible advice. The most important that you can do to keep your windows (if you insist on windows) computer secure is to keep it up to date.

This applies for any operating system. Security flaws are constantly being discovered and the security updates are those flaws being fixed.

It’s an older study but the thing security experts said was most important was installing security updates in a prompt manner.

The thing non experts said was important was having an antivirus.

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/security-experts-vs-non-experts,29665.html

For property software you would be right. Yah.

But it’s open source AGPL stuff. Full time devs improving AGPL code is good even with pointy haired managers.

This all being said I don’t think even the managers aim to become more evil and more terrible as their goal.

I agree that taiga shouldn’t feature Haliburton.

This all bearing said do you really think the people working on Taiga seek to be more evil and more terrible?

I mean, technically they could have hyper agile teams that use taiga there?

When they say agile they don’t mean that the company is flexible and adjusts to new situations quickly.

They mean that those companies are some of the most proficient in Agile software development methodology.

To be fair I see how people can get them confused. But in the context of work tracking they clearly mean the latter. They even use the capital “A” in “Agile”.

You can learn more here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agile_software_development

And I hope it never does. I don’t want more capitalism in my hobbies than there is already.

You need to reach out to the scientists to let them know! You could save lives with your insight!

Idk. I think using ai to learn Linux as you switch to it is fair ground. In the end they’re free from Microsoft. It’s a win. Just make sure they have data backups.

Because the AI companies will just offer to buy at a higher price.

If you refuse to sell to AI companies you will make a small fortune yes. If you sell to the highest bidder you’ll make a larger fortune.

What are you talking about? Linux has virtually no backwards compatibility at all. Maybe one or two years max. The kernel is fine. The weak point is glibc.

You literally need to recompile applications constantly to stay compatible with glibc. Otherwise they just don’t work.

The good news is that distros are constantly providing freshly compiled versions of open source applications.

The bad news is that actual binary backwards compatibility is non existent. Try running a binary compiled in 2005 on modern Linux. You’ll just get a ton of glibc errors.

Windows lets you run applications compiled in 1995 on modern desktops.

Linux is great and it’s what I use. But we can’t claim backwards compatibility as a strength. Maybe a binary compiled today with musl might run in 2036 but musl targeting is quite rare.

It’s a major hacker community centric event. The biggest in Europe. It could be that the community just likes it. 🤷‍♀️