https://www.threads.net/@mosseri/post/C051TLnud8U
There's your playing nice. They want to feed on ActivityPub data, while only contributing in a per-user opt-in selection. It's a joke, and both their motivation and what they are doing is absolutely fucked. It's another cog in their data ingestion machine that they can keep fucking around with, again.
I really can not comprehend why anyone would give this advance of trust to Meta, when all signs are showing you to bail.
Meta has React, RocksDB and pytorch, and a few other "niche" frameworks and tools. "Half of the internet [...] run[ning] on open source code and infrastructure that Meta built and maintains" is a big, big exaggeration. Also maintainance is done by the OSS community for big parts, and I'm really curious what open source infrastructure Meta is running.
I'm not saying Meta has no relevance in OSS, but I can hardly think of an open source org that does open source purely for its own benefit. React helps them shape the web in the way Meta wants it, their ML stuff is important for their own internal needs (ads, BI, and the whole social networking, etc.), their AR/VR/XR contributions are for the Quest, and KI/LLM since they need it themselves instead of relying/partnering with OpenAI. Meta (the company) absolutely does not stand by the principles of open source, no matter how much you want to sugarcoat it.
It's not a hate train, it's being cautious. And do you really think that Meta is open sourcing because of their passion for FOSS and standing by those values? They've taken an internal framework they've build, open source it so that they can advertise how open and great they are on the page you linked, and after it gains traction (which it will, since it's used by Meta it must be good /s) they can reduce their own internal efforts to a minimum, since the community will contribute. Open source may be a passion for the developers of Meta, but the company Meta does not give a single flying fuck about FOSS or the Fediverse.
You're right, containers are not VMs, and I've never claimed that. For the matter of basic unix access control for a beginner they are similar enough to treat them as such. It's enough of a baseline for basic security for a beginners workload imo. For advanced use cases - absolutely do not treat containers as you would VMs.
Imagine your containers as very lightweight mini-VMs. Would you run everything as root in your virtual machines? Containers aren't really that different to classical VMs from an operations point of view. You have a different attack surface, but it is still there, and running as a non-root user inside the container reduces this attack surface, and should IMHO be the default. Privileged containers and users may be required for specific purposes, but should not be the norm, if possible.
Yeah, that's literally the same as 12ft or any other anti paywall tool. I mean hey, it's just two lines, that's even 8 less than the original smoothbrain, absolutely easy to use for any end user. Thanks. /s
Kein Anwalt oder ähnliches, persönliche Meinung aus meiner Erfahrung.
Zu Punkt 1. Wenn du kein ALG beziehen möchtest, und dir dir nicht sicher bist ob du bis dahin einen neuen Job findest, solltest du unterschreiben. Selbst wenn sich die Kündigungsfrist verlängert, kannst du in der Regel ja mit deinem neuen Arbeitgeber ein Eintrittsdatum bestimmen, welches dann eben nach den X Monaten deiner Kündigungsfrist liegt.
Zu Punkt 2. Du wirst nicht befördert. Wenn Dein Personalchef das einmal wegen Bullshit abgelehnt hat, wird er das wieder tun. Lass deine Beschreibung aktualisieren, und fordere ggfs. am Ende auch ein Arbeitszeugnis ein. Denk an dich, und nehme alles was dich weiterbringt mit.
And who's gonna maintain the fork? Even less developers from a split community? You have absolutely no idea what you're talking about.
Well, guess how the comfy OK Google or hey siri works, hearing you while you say it all across the room. Or that noise cancelation for your calls. Admittably, the way he's put it sounds really tinfoil hat weird, but he's got a point there.
Any current mobile phone is so very crammed with sensors of any kind, which do make a lot of features possible/usable/comfortable and the same sensors may be used to track a good lot of your behavior, if used for malicious purposes. And we know that for a fact with targeted ads, where several people I've talked to noticed the same, where that even talking about a topic may be enough for ads to be show up. Check https://adssettings.google.com/ for example, it's actually scary what Google "assumes" about you, and even scarier how on point those assumptions are. A lot of this information is sourced from your devices sensors, and the argument of "there's just not that much computing power to process this data" is simply not valid anymore.
The difference is, that Netflix (or Spotify, or whatever) does bring value on its own. I am paying money to comfortably and legally stream content, which itself is paid for and licensed by the streaming provider. From the perspective of a lazy end user, it's worth it, because you do not need to care about downloading, finding releases, opsec and whatnot. I don't want to protect Netflix, fuck corporations and subscription services, but password sharing was always only tolerated at most. From the same end user perspective, reddit is just an empty platform. The content is brought in free of charge by the community. And now not only they want the same community to pay, but also for an objectively worse experience? I don't think that you can compare that.
The problem is not them reading data, but that Threads will take Fediverse content, and display it on Threads. In the opposite direction, Fediverse will only see the select few user content that do actually opt-in, and let's be honest here, most users won't know what the Fediverse is, except for again the few people that are on both platforms. This is absolutely not "playing nice" as you've put it before, and purely parasitic and, again, purely a greed decision by Meta. I don't really know why you are shilling so hard trying to excuse absolutely unexcusable behavior.