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10/10 on the mental gymnastics there bud.

I’ve gone the other way with it. I feel galvanised to try and help the laymen break free from our digital prisons; attempting to migrate people to decentralisation as a concept; as in my eyes it’s the only way we’ll ever move out from under this technocratic structure we find ourselves stuck in.

It’s one hell of an uphill battle, but the hardest part (convincing others to try something new) is becoming easier just thanks to the rampant enshittification in every product. My driving force for most of it has been the desire to see my country break free from reliance on American tech; which if you know anything about the UK; it’s an incredibly pie in the sky ambition… But I remain hopeful.

My advice would be to learn (if you’re not already familiar ofc) containerisation as a concept and spin up services that offer real alternatives to what people rely so heavily upon.

The only way the world can escape the likes of Zuckerberg and Musk, is if people like me and you show them how to implement an alternative.

Laughing my arse…

Using a volla Quintus with Ubuntu touch. It does all I need a phone to do, but I wouldn’t say it’s at the stage ready for mass adoption yet. Usually I’ll need to create web apps for certain services (there are no native fediverse clients for example, so I’m using a web app of blorp), so it’s manageable if you’re a power user (and being able to ssh to your phones terminal is pretty cool if you’re into Linux in general).

Waydroid comes as standard, and UT uses containers to run most desktop apps; known as libertine containers. For UT native apps (which there isn’t a great deal of, hence the reliance on web apps/containers) you can browse here (Webber is your best friend on UT; as it simplifies creation of web apps).

You don’t have the same freedom with environments on UT as you do desktop OS’… I couldn’t even tell you what the env is called off the top of my head, but if you’re asking about my pc; I’m currently running Garuda with KDE (though considering a switch to something like bazzite, as I’m not home enough to keep up to date with the rolling distros, and just want something that runs games when I am back). My laptop is currently running mint with KDE, which I switch to cinnamon when trying to convert someone from windows.

Haha Oops.

Volla Quintus running Ubuntu touch; it’s european made too.

Appreciate the sentiment, but my preference for linux is born from the desire to move away from proprietary American software more than anything else; It’s a subject I feel strongly about (To the point where I’m using a Linux phone over android/iOS, self hosted matrix server instead of WhatsApp etc).

I know I do; because I refuse to use windows.

Badum tss. (Yes, I use arch btw.)

You didn’t answer my question. Rule for me and not for thee eh.

“What a great question! You’ve clearly considered the security implications of putting development tools in the hands of an end user, you are a pioneer in the field of cyber security!..”

Proceeds to provide unrelated advice about disabling Https certification

I didn’t answer your question because I refute the very premise of it. You ask why killing everyone isn’t considered genocide, when that isn’t what happened. 54 people died in an (unacceptable) act of terror. Not a genocide.

Now, why do you feel a single day justifies a sustained 2 year genocide?

Just wait until they create artificial people and autonomous robots.

No accounting acronym is safe from their tyranny.

My favourite ‘will one day be pub trivia’ snippet from this whole LLM mess, is that society had to create a new term for AI (AGI), because LLMs muddied the once accurate term.

Yes… Like the one I just described to you?

Dude, the mental gymnastics you’re having to do to justify a two year genocide is insane, I seriously think you should get some fresh air or something. Seriously…

The bridge for revolt/stoat has been around for some time now. You might still need to search for matrix-protocol-revolt (or something like that) rather than stoat; as the name change is fairly recent, and may not have been implemented by the team responsible for matrix.

That being said, native federation support is always better. The bridge will require you to run a matrix backend like synapse alongside stoat chat, (so two different chat services rather than just one running) at which point you might as well just look at a discord designed frontend for matrix instead.

Matrix is an interoperability protocol (like activityPub, which mastodon, friendica, Lemmy, pixelfed etc… all use to communicate with one another) rather than the actual application being used.

The UI you’re describing is probably Element, which is the most common matrix implementation used, though others do exist. A good example is probably rocket.chat; they’ve leaned harder into the discord like feel, whilst making use of the matrix protocol.

As for Stoat chat; It’s a rebrand of revolt chat, who have previously resisted calls for federation due to the perceived complexity of implementing (or creating their own i guess) protocol. That’s not to say it doesn’t have it’s uses; but it would be silly to assume people won’t try to steer you towards  federated services on the fediverse 😉 and stoat don’t seem to have changed their stance on the matter.

I’m aware that Canadians have done some absolutely deplorable stuff; so much so that they were considered savages in world war 2 for their brutality towards POWs; the whole Canadian nice guy routine is fairly new to the world stage. Of course us Brits have a bloodied and nasty history too, I’m not attempting to throw stones or anything like that, just highlighting the fact that I’m aware of Canada’s brutality in the name of peacekeeping rather than blinded by the ‘west is best’ rhetoric we’ve all been spoonfed growing up.

Does any of that mean that I think Hamas are the ones committing genocide, and that Israel are justified in their now 2 year genocide of Palestinians? Ofcourse not. My thoughts on the subject remain the same. Hamas are the only ones standing up for a people who have faced oppression from Israel long before they faced an active genocidal campaign. I don’t think they were justified in killing 54 people 2 years ago; I also don’t think killing 54 people justifies the systemic extermination of an entire country.

E2A: most Western media is owned by Zionists or allies of Zionists; if anything, we hear nothing but how justified Israel’s continued genocide is. It’s also why we see things like people protesting Israel in the west being silenced. Its laughable to suggest Iran have any sway in Western media, and are somehow rewriting the narrative, when the opposite is clearly true.