We buy milk every fortnight and the date ranges vary wildly, which results in expired milk if we’re not careful.

So, how are the creators paid? I’m asking because I think that everyone should be paid for their efforts and at the moment the only available path, crap as it is, appears to be through streaming services, or buying DVD and Blu-ray, neither of which is cost effective or convenient.

My experience with this is Scroll, Scroll, Scroll, Scroll, Scroll, Watch. Disgust, Repeat.

The only exception is if someone recommends something that never appeared in all the scrolling, in which case the Disgust becomes Dismay when it’s invariably cancelled.

I stopped paying for Netflix some time ago as a result.

Now we pay for a streaming service for a few months and change to the next one. The local free to air channels are now obnoxious and the only palatable one left is the Australian Broadcasting Corporation which has a love hate relationship with closed captioning.

SBS is now actively blocking people with DNS filters, before that, they decided that closed captioning was linked to advertising.

Do you have a credible source that’s not YouTube?

Welcome to the community!

Apparently the petition went up in November 2025 and has a year to get enough signatures. Last I saw it was near to the halfway point of acceptance.

I came across it because I saw a post announcing that Inkscape was supporting it.

https://inkscape.org/news/2026/05/13/inkscape-supports-german-petition-to-recognize-ope/

No doubt the threat of a Stripe ban on Kickstarter is predicated on the expected ban on Stripe by MasterCard and or Visa.

In other words, online censorship is being controlled by two credit card companies.

We really need more payment processors, preferably not based in the USA.

Basically two choices:

1. Find a project you’re interested in and make a contribution. Many projects tag certain issues with something like “Good First Issue” as a way of lowering barriers to entry. Other things are updating documentation, fixing typos, then you can branch out into patches and pull requests.
2. Make your own FOSS project.

I love that in the middle of that story is a piece of software I’m learning to use, GNU Radio.

I faced pretty much the exact same choice, except I was given four of them, each with 8 GB of RAM.

Unfortunately they were two different hardware revisions, so the most I could achieve was two servers with 16 GB each.

They sound like a Jet taking off when powered up and the BIOS doesn’t support lower fan speeds.

Instead after months of deliberation I decided to go with a SFF Lenovo, 32 GB, 2 x 1 TB NVME, Ryzen 7, and bought this:

https://www.officeworks.com.au/shop/officeworks/p/lenovo-ideacentre-ryzen-7-32gb-2tb-desktop-lenic00aau

It’s whisper quiet and running Proxmox.

To get VM video passthrough to work I installed an extra video card, though, you could install a desktop on the host OS instead if you prefer.

The video card I used to fit inside is this:

https://www.msy.com.au/product/msi-geforce-gt-1030-4gd4-low-profile-oc-graphics-card-geforce-gt-1030-4gd4-lp-oc-73092

That’s a whole lot better than your cat gagging whilst looking you in the eye.

No idea. I have two accounts, one on Lemmy, one on Mastodon. Presumably somebody is mirroring this community to Mastodon, or perhaps the other way around, I’m not sure.

I’m typing this on Lemmy, not Mastodon.

The issue is not packaging, it’s users circumventing security out of ignorance, willful or not, still ignorance.

As Linux gains popularity, the users will need to learn, often the hard way, how to go about installing stuff. Running a random script off the internet is not how it’s done.

Uhm … no.

Linux had permissions from day one, neither Windows nor Apple did until much more recently.

I use Apple, since there’s many versions of its OS and only¹ the one based on BSD has permissions.

The entire Linux ecosystem is permissions based, it’s baked into the kernel and while bugs continue to be discovered and patched, they’re visible to everyone, where that’s not the case with either Windows nor Apple.

Permissions aren’t new. Unix has had them from the early days, as have operating systems like VMS, BSD and OS/400 to name a few.

As for exploits, the level of user social engineering exploits is exploding with the growth of Linux, since most new users come from operating systems with poor security.

In my opinion Mac OS is hurting itself by making inexplicable security choices, causing pain where none is required, resulting in people actively disabling security to their own detriment.

As for actual exploits, they’re getting more and more ubiquitous since more and more operating systems are running the same code, think python, nginx, bash, etc.

Finally, I’d point out that your attempt at dispelling what you call a myth does not appear to be backed up by facts or sources.

I’ve been in this industry for over 40 years and while it’s far from perfect, I am comfortable stating that Linux is more secure than many operating systems and I suspect that it will continue to be the case for the foreseeable future.

I also note that it has a significantly larger user base than any other OS. Don’t believe me? Heard of Android, same Linux kernel.

¹ There was a brief A/UX hybrid OS that had permissions, based on Unix System V and BSD. It was discontinued in 1995.

If every jurisdiction fined them like that … they’d cease to be a going concern … seems like a win win proposition.

https://xkcd.com/927/

Not sure what you mean. When I click the link on my post, it goes to where I intended. Note that I removed an errant period at the end of the URL about an hour ago.

Edit: Well this is getting weird. I tested it three times, now it goes to a redirect page that does require the period.

Edit: I think I nailed it third time around.

Thank you, fixed.

I think that it’s going to take societal change to stop this from being the norm. In Australia there was a road safety campaign with the slogan:

“Speeding. No one thinks big of you.”

It essentially compared speeding with having a small penis, by using the metaphor of a wiggling pinkie, and thus embarrassing perpetrators.

In other words, it needs to become uncool to drive such a massive vehicle. Perhaps “The bigger the trick, the smaller the …”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speeding._No_one_thinks_big_of_you.

Edit: Removed stray period.

Edit: Added non stray period back and changed how I entered the URL. Fingers crossed this works. Remind me again why I work in IT.