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CW: My first time being interviewed at Inworld Review; CW: long (over 1,400 characters), Fediverse meta
It has finally happened. I was a guest at Inworld Review and interviewed by Thirza Ember and James Atlloud of @HG Safari fame as well as Petlove Petshop today.
Here's the video, redirected to Invidious. (Link instead of embedding so I hopefully don't have to spend months writing a visual description that'll take you days to read or listen to.)
Better yet: Thirza wanted to interview me about the Fediverse. Good thing OpenSim users are already used to things being decentralised because OpenSim itself is. In fact, I could have told her that some of the tropes associated with OpenSim being decentralised apply to the Fediverse as well.
Extra shoutouts to @Elena Rossini for her Fediverse video featured on fediverse.info and to @Dorena Verne as a good example of a grid manager (see Petlove's video in the video) because she has managed to move Dorenas World from a Windows server to a Debian server and considerably speeding it up in the process.
For those who aren't familiar with Inworld Review: It's an OpenSim-themed talkshow on YouTube started by the late Mal Burns many years ago. His whole backlog of almost 400 episodes can be found here. And here is the channel on which Mal's former co-host continue Inworld Review without him with 62 episodes so far.
#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #Fediverse #OpenSim #OpenSimulator #Metaverse #VirtualWorlds #InworldReview -
CW: My first time being interviewed at Inworld Review; CW: long (over 1,400 characters), Fediverse meta
It has finally happened. I was a guest at Inworld Review and interviewed by Thirza Ember and James Atlloud of @HG Safari fame as well as Petlove Petshop today.
Here's the video, redirected to Invidious. (Link instead of embedding so I hopefully don't have to spend months writing a visual description that'll take you days to read or listen to.)
Better yet: Thirza wanted to interview me about the Fediverse. Good thing OpenSim users are already used to things being decentralised because OpenSim itself is. In fact, I could have told her that some of the tropes associated with OpenSim being decentralised apply to the Fediverse as well.
Extra shoutouts to @Elena Rossini for her Fediverse video featured on fediverse.info and to @Dorena Verne as a good example of a grid manager (see Petlove's video in the video) because she has managed to move Dorenas World from a Windows server to a Debian server and considerably speeding it up in the process.
For those who aren't familiar with Inworld Review: It's an OpenSim-themed talkshow on YouTube started by the late Mal Burns many years ago. His whole backlog of almost 400 episodes can be found here. And here is the channel on which Mal's former co-host continue Inworld Review without him with 62 episodes so far.
#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #Fediverse #OpenSim #OpenSimulator #Metaverse #VirtualWorlds #InworldReview -
CW: My first time being interviewed at Inworld Review; CW: long (over 1,400 characters), Fediverse meta
It has finally happened. I was a guest at Inworld Review and interviewed by Thirza Ember and James Atlloud of @HG Safari fame as well as Petlove Petshop today.
Here's the video, redirected to Invidious. (Link instead of embedding so I hopefully don't have to spend months writing a visual description that'll take you days to read or listen to.)
Better yet: Thirza wanted to interview me about the Fediverse. Good thing OpenSim users are already used to things being decentralised because OpenSim itself is. In fact, I could have told her that some of the tropes associated with OpenSim being decentralised apply to the Fediverse as well.
Extra shoutouts to @Elena Rossini for her Fediverse video featured on fediverse.info and to @Dorena Verne as a good example of a grid manager (see Petlove's video in the video) because she has managed to move Dorenas World from a Windows server to a Debian server and considerably speeding it up in the process.
For those who aren't familiar with Inworld Review: It's an OpenSim-themed talkshow on YouTube started by the late Mal Burns many years ago. His whole backlog of almost 400 episodes can be found here. And here is the channel on which Mal's former co-host continue Inworld Review without him with 62 episodes so far.
#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #Fediverse #OpenSim #OpenSimulator #Metaverse #VirtualWorlds #InworldReview -
Frankfurt am Main – Digitaler Wandel ohne qualifiziertes Personal
ManpowerGroup Report warnt: KI Boom durch Mangel an qualifizierten Experten in Gefahr / ManpowerGroup IT World of Work…
#Frankfurt #FrankfurtamMain #Deutschland #Deutsch #DE #Schlagzeilen #Headlines #Nachrichten #News #Europe #Europa #EU #boom #Experten #Gefahr #Germany #Hessen #Mängel #ManpowerGroup #Report #Trendreport #Work #World
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CW: Another influential resident of the Hypergrid has passed away; CW: long (over 650 characters), death mentioned, YouTube link
Sad news from OpenSimWorld: Mal Burns, OpenSim's single most important live stream host, has teleported to the Big Sky Platform.
Mal was active in the Fediverse under @Mal Burns Main, @Mal Burns and, specifically for OpenSim, @Metaworld Opensim Social. He ran a weekly series of live streams on YouTube named Inworld Review, co-hosted by Thirza Ember (@HG Safari) and James Atlloud and with guests from all over the Hypergrid. He also regularly participated in Thirza's HG Safari itself, and it's through these events that I got to know him.
#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #OpenSim #OpenSimulator #Metaverse #VirtualWorlds #HGSafari #InworldReview #RIP -
Happy Database Administrator Appreciation Day! DBAs are among the unsung heroes of the IT world; they keep everything ticking behind the sites that let you watch films, listen to music, buy stuff or move money 👏
Oh, and happy July 4th to US friends 🇺🇸
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Happy Database Administrator Appreciation Day! DBAs are among the unsung heroes of the IT world; they keep everything ticking behind the sites that let you watch films, listen to music, buy stuff or move money 👏
Oh, and happy July 4th to US friends 🇺🇸
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Happy Database Administrator Appreciation Day! DBAs are among the unsung heroes of the IT world; they keep everything ticking behind the sites that let you watch films, listen to music, buy stuff or move money 👏
Oh, and happy July 4th to US friends 🇺🇸
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Happy Database Administrator Appreciation Day! DBAs are among the unsung heroes of the IT world; they keep everything ticking behind the sites that let you watch films, listen to music, buy stuff or move money 👏
Oh, and happy July 4th to US friends 🇺🇸
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Happy Database Administrator Appreciation Day! DBAs are among the unsung heroes of the IT world; they keep everything ticking behind the sites that let you watch films, listen to music, buy stuff or move money 👏
Oh, and happy July 4th to US friends 🇺🇸
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The #murderbot fan community over on #reddit all pushed for a sticky PSA on this bc it's such a valid point of vexation for new readers just getting into it
Hope it helps. Good luck! (#NetworkEffect was the crowning jewel of the series for me. If you missed a novella before it with ART in it, consider going back and reading those! 🤖💛)
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My favourite simply-typed #functional #programming language was, is, and will always be, #ML—#StandardML '97, nowadays.
To my knowledge, SML is the only modern #FP language that has a defined standard with a mathematically sound semantics, due to Milner et al.
In the 1980s and the 1990s, when the #CS and the #IT world were dizzy with #OO, the stewards of SML exercised their judgement with considerable vigour and valour to shun all pretences of OO. This makes the language simpler and lighter, compared to FP-OO hybrid languages like OCaml, F#, and the like.
While SML is by no means a simple language compared to say, C or Python or JavaScript, it is arguably the simplest among the descendants of ML, especially compared to modern Haskell. By "simple" I mean not only to use the language but also to teach it to the undergrad #CS students. ML's immense collection of textbooks and academic papers dating back to the early 1970s unburdens the teacher.
Yet, I usually recommend #OCaml to my clients who want to transition to FP, especially those clients whose "business" is creating large, robust, adaptable, maintainable software in science and engineering. My reasons are manifold, but the main one is that SML'97 is "dated", whereas OCaml is "modern" in all the venerable senses of that word.
Programming language #standardisation is a double-edge blade with a stiletto point. Without standardisation, the semantics of the language is squishy. After standardisation, the language is dead, unless the standard is kept up-to-date, like C, C++, JavaScript, etc. With or without standardisation, language longevity is hazardous, like the piercing point of a stiletto.
In any case, I feel like a traitor to my bloodline.🤦♂️
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#BetterSoftware is back, the most eclectic conference in the IT world!
📍 Bologna | 📆 11.10.24
Sustainability pillars at the heart of software development.🎋 Environmental Impact
🗣 Social Responsibility
🚦 Governance and Ethical ConsiderationsMore info 👓 https://bit.ly/4c1YIxh
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🇦🇺 H2
Gold energy second Ramsey drill results:
-Helium concentrations at 6.8%, making it world class
-Helium found outside oil drilings is very unusual
-H2 concentration data next weekhttps://www.goldhydrogen.com.au/asx-releases/very-high-helium-concentrations-at-ramsay-2/
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Microsoft запропонує розробникам використовувати штучний інтелект у розробці ігор для Xbox — сценарії, діалоги, NPC, квести https://itc.ua/ua/novini/microsoft-zaproponuye-rozrobnykam-vykorystovuvaty-shtuchnyj-intelekt-u-rozrobtsi-igor-dlya-xbox-stsenariyi-dialogy-npc-kvesty/ #Інструментирозробки #Штучнийінтелект #InworldAI #Microsoft #Новини #Ігри #Софт
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Microsoft запропонує розробникам використовувати штучний інтелект у розробці ігор для Xbox — сценарії, діалоги, NPC, квести https://itc.ua/ua/novini/microsoft-zaproponuye-rozrobnykam-vykorystovuvaty-shtuchnyj-intelekt-u-rozrobtsi-igor-dlya-xbox-stsenariyi-dialogy-npc-kvesty/ #Інструментирозробки #Штучнийінтелект #InworldAI #Microsoft #Новини #Ігри #Софт
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Want to learn more about Bellisseria Linden Homes in Second Life? Join the "Bellisseria Help Group" inworld! https://www.flickr.com/photos/secondlifeofficial/53116946145
#SecondLife #Bellisseria #LindenHomes #metaverse #virtualworld #LindenLab #VirtualPhotography
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Want to learn more about Bellisseria Linden Homes in Second Life? Join the "Bellisseria Help Group" inworld! https://www.flickr.com/photos/secondlifeofficial/53116946145
#SecondLife #Bellisseria #LindenHomes #metaverse #virtualworld #LindenLab #VirtualPhotography
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Want to learn more about Bellisseria Linden Homes in Second Life? Join the "Bellisseria Help Group" inworld! https://www.flickr.com/photos/secondlifeofficial/53116946145
#SecondLife #Bellisseria #LindenHomes #metaverse #virtualworld #LindenLab #VirtualPhotography
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Want to learn more about Bellisseria Linden Homes in Second Life? Join the "Bellisseria Help Group" inworld! https://www.flickr.com/photos/secondlifeofficial/53116946145
#SecondLife #Bellisseria #LindenHomes #metaverse #virtualworld #LindenLab #VirtualPhotography
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Want to learn more about Bellisseria Linden Homes in Second Life? Join the "Bellisseria Help Group" inworld! https://www.flickr.com/photos/secondlifeofficial/53116946145
#SecondLife #Bellisseria #LindenHomes #metaverse #virtualworld #LindenLab #VirtualPhotography
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Bit of a hectic Superpole but… it’s a front-row start for @[email protected] in Race 1 at @[email protected]! 🤩 P3, sealed with a kiss! #ITAWorldSBK
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This sound! Hey, @[email protected]! It’s been a while! 😍 We can’t wait to hit the track tomorrow. 😎 #ITAWorldSBK 🇮🇹
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CW: In which someone's plans involving me were shattered on short notice by blindly expecting me to "do as everyone does anyway". Caution, LONG. You've been warned.
Okay, so I've been invited as a guest on the next episode of @Mal Burns' Inworld Review. I got the invitation in late 2022 already.
The episode was scheduled to be recorded this Sunday with myself or rather my avatar showing up in-world and talking to the hosts and other guests. I was actually looking forward to it. It would have given me the opportunity to talk about legal avatar accessories on the #Hypergrid, ranging from mesh bodies to clothes. Something which most #OpenSimulator users are absolutely certain that it doesn't exist because they've never seen any of it, and because they're being told again and again that it doesn't exist.
So far, so good.
It was just today that Mal sent me an invite to the #Discord channel which would be used for voice.
Instead of asking me early on whether I use Discord or nor or whether I'm okay with using it, both he and Thirza expected me to use it like it's the most normal thing in the world. Because literally everyone uses it.
Because everyone uses this piece of #proprietary, #commercial, #ProfitOriented, #centralised, #NonFree, #ClosedSource #spyware #BinaryBlob created from #VentureCapital. The desktop app. On #Windows, of course. Because literally everyone also uses Windows. Only Windows. Everyone. Okay, except for those who use it on their smartphones.
I've mentioned Windows because the official Discord #Flatpak app for #Linux tends to malfunction. And Discord itself seems to fight tooth and claw against any and all attempts at sandboxing. It does, however, run perfectly well on Windows where it can scan the entire machine for any information of value about the user (and anything can be of value) and phones everything home. And the user gives consent buy installing it, consent that can only be revoked by uninstalling Discord and never using it again.
And now I've mentioned Linux because I'm not typing this on Windows. I'm not typing it on an iOS device either. I'm typing it on #Debian. Which is my main desktop system.
Let me count this up for you: I'm using Linux. I'm using #Firefox, secured and walled-up. I'm running all my machines behind a WRT router with custom firmware. I'm using free, #OpenSource, #decentralised #Hubzilla for social networking. (Yeah, rub your eyes in disbelief, everyone, this didn't come from Mastodon.) My smartphone is devoid of any traces of #GAFAM. It doesn't even run de-Googled Android, it doesn't run iOS or Android or Windows at all. Chat services? #XMPP and #Matrix only, thank you very much, end of discussion. No #WhatsApp, no #Telegram, no #Threema, no #Signal. (I have a dedicated Matrix account for this identity, by the way.)
Oh, and I have never been and will never be in Second Life either. (All those of you who follow me through the #SecondLife hashtag, believing I'm one of you, I wouldn't blame you if you unfollowed me in disappointment upon learning this.) I vastly prefer #OpenSim, and there I try my best at outfitting my avatars only in legal things, preferably under a free license. I'm one of the few who want OpenSim to be free as in freedom. Free as in #CreativeCommons. Not just free as in free beer. And especially not free as in pirated commercial payware unlike, again, "literally everyone."
Okay, few people know this, and few who don't would expect this. Or any of this, for that matter. But for those who do, it shouldn't come as a surprise that I boycott Discord HARD.
Seriously, Discord unites almost everything I hate in a communications service and piles even more to hate on top. "Almost" because it isn't only available for commercial operating systems. There's an official Linux client, even though it only works ever so barely. And it probably only exists so that Discord can also spy on those few who prefer security, privacy and data protection over convenience and "it's what everyone uses." Also, accessing Discord via other means than the official clients will only get your account blocked; it won't have you persecuted by the FBI like a criminal ([laughs in Germany]). Otherwise, it ticks the whole list, and it even manages to expand the list and tick the new points.
Even trying it wouldn't be worth it. Of course, I wouldn't be dumb enough to run the Flatpak on any existing machine.
Imagine I'd set up a Linux VM on one of my machines. Linux VM on Linux host. A VM only for Discord. Which I'd run as Flatpak.
I can see two possibilities which might even intersect.
One, the client won't work anyway because Discord treats the Linux desktop like dirt, plus I'd have walled it up too well. I would have registered a Discord account for nothing, and I'm not sure if you can have it deleted. Not worth it. Who knows what Discord would do with my mail address?
Two, the client breaks out of its Flatpak sandbox, scans the system, discovers that it's running in a VM, breaks out of the VM and scans the host machine. Remember it's closed-source. Unless proven otherwise by thorough source code auditing, this thing could theoretically do anything, and there actually is malware known to break out of Linux virtual machines and target Linux host systems.
Yes, I actually expect the Discord client (remember, the source code is treated as highly classified military intel) to try and access all other computers on my network once it discovers them and scan them, too, regardless of counter-measures ranging from not mounting my network shares to blocking access from the VM to anything else on the network. It could probably do this with ease and unnoticed if its root suid managed to break out of the Flatpak sandbox, then out of the VM, assumed root control over the host system, clandestinely mounted all network drives and #WebDAV, #CalDAV and #CardDAV shares it could possibly find, scanned the hell out of them and phoned everything home to be sold to some advertising company (and given to the #NSA free-of-charge).
Now, if someone suggested I could use the Web client instead, I'd still need an account. And I don't even have a #Google account, nor shall I ever get me one. Remember that my go-to browser is a very walled-up and secured Firefox. I'm pretty sure that it's too secured and too walled-up for the Discord Web app to work. And seriously, Discord is the last thing for which I'd let the guards in Firefox down. No way, no how. That'd be privacy and data protection suicide.
A different browser would make things even worse. Or do you really, seriously, unironically expect me to install #GoogleChrome?! And then run it on default settings with no privacy/security add-ons? Not gonna happen. Ever.
And if you should suggest I could use Windows instead and save me all the trouble, you haven't understood a word.
Seriously, demanding I use Discord is like giving @Juno Rowland something that was clearly stolen from Second Life and demanding she wear it. In public no less. #NotGonnaHappen.
As for my appearance at Inworld Review, I can't see it happen anymore. -
CW: In which someone's plans involving me were shattered on short notice by blindly expecting me to "do as everyone does anyway". Caution, LONG. You've been warned.
Okay, so I've been invited as a guest on the next episode of @Mal Burns' Inworld Review. I got the invitation in late 2022 already.
The episode was scheduled to be recorded this Sunday with myself or rather my avatar showing up in-world and talking to the hosts and other guests. I was actually looking forward to it. It would have given me the opportunity to talk about legal avatar accessories on the #Hypergrid, ranging from mesh bodies to clothes. Something which most #OpenSimulator users are absolutely certain that it doesn't exist because they've never seen any of it, and because they're being told again and again that it doesn't exist.
So far, so good.
It was just today that Mal sent me an invite to the #Discord channel which would be used for voice.
Instead of asking me early on whether I use Discord or nor or whether I'm okay with using it, both he and Thirza expected me to use it like it's the most normal thing in the world. Because literally everyone uses it.
Because everyone uses this piece of #proprietary, #commercial, #ProfitOriented, #centralised, #NonFree, #ClosedSource #spyware #BinaryBlob created from #VentureCapital. The desktop app. On #Windows, of course. Because literally everyone also uses Windows. Only Windows. Everyone. Okay, except for those who use it on their smartphones.
I've mentioned Windows because the official Discord #Flatpak app for #Linux tends to malfunction. And Discord itself seems to fight tooth and claw against any and all attempts at sandboxing. It does, however, run perfectly well on Windows where it can scan the entire machine for any information of value about the user (and anything can be of value) and phones everything home. And the user gives consent buy installing it, consent that can only be revoked by uninstalling Discord and never using it again.
And now I've mentioned Linux because I'm not typing this on Windows. I'm not typing it on an iOS device either. I'm typing it on #Debian. Which is my main desktop system.
Let me count this up for you: I'm using Linux. I'm using #Firefox, secured and walled-up. I'm running all my machines behind a WRT router with custom firmware. I'm using free, #OpenSource, #decentralised #Hubzilla for social networking. (Yeah, rub your eyes in disbelief, everyone, this didn't come from Mastodon.) My smartphone is devoid of any traces of #GAFAM. It doesn't even run de-Googled Android, it doesn't run iOS or Android or Windows at all. Chat services? #XMPP and #Matrix only, thank you very much, end of discussion. No #WhatsApp, no #Telegram, no #Threema, no #Signal. (I have a dedicated Matrix account for this identity, by the way.)
Oh, and I have never been and will never be in Second Life either. (All those of you who follow me through the #SecondLife hashtag, believing I'm one of you, I wouldn't blame you if you unfollowed me in disappointment upon learning this.) I vastly prefer #OpenSim, and there I try my best at outfitting my avatars only in legal things, preferably under a free license. I'm one of the few who want OpenSim to be free as in freedom. Free as in #CreativeCommons. Not just free as in free beer. And especially not free as in pirated commercial payware unlike, again, "literally everyone."
Okay, few people know this, and few who don't would expect this. Or any of this, for that matter. But for those who do, it shouldn't come as a surprise that I boycott Discord HARD.
Seriously, Discord unites almost everything I hate in a communications service and piles even more to hate on top. "Almost" because it isn't only available for commercial operating systems. There's an official Linux client, even though it only works ever so barely. And it probably only exists so that Discord can also spy on those few who prefer security, privacy and data protection over convenience and "it's what everyone uses." Also, accessing Discord via other means than the official clients will only get your account blocked; it won't have you persecuted by the FBI like a criminal ([laughs in Germany]). Otherwise, it ticks the whole list, and it even manages to expand the list and tick the new points.
Even trying it wouldn't be worth it. Of course, I wouldn't be dumb enough to run the Flatpak on any existing machine.
Imagine I'd set up a Linux VM on one of my machines. Linux VM on Linux host. A VM only for Discord. Which I'd run as Flatpak.
I can see two possibilities which might even intersect.
One, the client won't work anyway because Discord treats the Linux desktop like dirt, plus I'd have walled it up too well. I would have registered a Discord account for nothing, and I'm not sure if you can have it deleted. Not worth it. Who knows what Discord would do with my mail address?
Two, the client breaks out of its Flatpak sandbox, scans the system, discovers that it's running in a VM, breaks out of the VM and scans the host machine. Remember it's closed-source. Unless proven otherwise by thorough source code auditing, this thing could theoretically do anything, and there actually is malware known to break out of Linux virtual machines and target Linux host systems.
Yes, I actually expect the Discord client (remember, the source code is treated as highly classified military intel) to try and access all other computers on my network once it discovers them and scan them, too, regardless of counter-measures ranging from not mounting my network shares to blocking access from the VM to anything else on the network. It could probably do this with ease and unnoticed if its root suid managed to break out of the Flatpak sandbox, then out of the VM, assumed root control over the host system, clandestinely mounted all network drives and #WebDAV, #CalDAV and #CardDAV shares it could possibly find, scanned the hell out of them and phoned everything home to be sold to some advertising company (and given to the #NSA free-of-charge).
Now, if someone suggested I could use the Web client instead, I'd still need an account. And I don't even have a #Google account, nor shall I ever get me one. Remember that my go-to browser is a very walled-up and secured Firefox. I'm pretty sure that it's too secured and too walled-up for the Discord Web app to work. And seriously, Discord is the last thing for which I'd let the guards in Firefox down. No way, no how. That'd be privacy and data protection suicide.
A different browser would make things even worse. Or do you really, seriously, unironically expect me to install #GoogleChrome?! And then run it on default settings with no privacy/security add-ons? Not gonna happen. Ever.
And if you should suggest I could use Windows instead and save me all the trouble, you haven't understood a word.
Seriously, demanding I use Discord is like giving @Juno Rowland something that was clearly stolen from Second Life and demanding she wear it. In public no less. #NotGonnaHappen.
As for my appearance at Inworld Review, I can't see it happen anymore. -
CW: In which someone's plans involving me were shattered on short notice by blindly expecting me to "do as everyone does anyway". Caution, LONG. You've been warned.
Okay, so I've been invited as a guest on the next episode of @Mal Burns' Inworld Review. I got the invitation in late 2022 already.
The episode was scheduled to be recorded this Sunday with myself or rather my avatar showing up in-world and talking to the hosts and other guests. I was actually looking forward to it. It would have given me the opportunity to talk about legal avatar accessories on the #Hypergrid, ranging from mesh bodies to clothes. Something which most #OpenSimulator users are absolutely certain that it doesn't exist because they've never seen any of it, and because they're being told again and again that it doesn't exist.
So far, so good.
It was just today that Mal sent me an invite to the #Discord channel which would be used for voice.
Instead of asking me early on whether I use Discord or nor or whether I'm okay with using it, both he and Thirza expected me to use it like it's the most normal thing in the world. Because literally everyone uses it.
Because everyone uses this piece of #proprietary, #commercial, #ProfitOriented, #centralised, #NonFree, #ClosedSource #spyware #BinaryBlob created from #VentureCapital. The desktop app. On #Windows, of course. Because literally everyone also uses Windows. Only Windows. Everyone. Okay, except for those who use it on their smartphones.
I've mentioned Windows because the official Discord #Flatpak app for #Linux tends to malfunction. And Discord itself seems to fight tooth and claw against any and all attempts at sandboxing. It does, however, run perfectly well on Windows where it can scan the entire machine for any information of value about the user (and anything can be of value) and phones everything home. And the user gives consent buy installing it, consent that can only be revoked by uninstalling Discord and never using it again.
And now I've mentioned Linux because I'm not typing this on Windows. I'm not typing it on an iOS device either. I'm typing it on #Debian. Which is my main desktop system.
Let me count this up for you: I'm using Linux. I'm using #Firefox, secured and walled-up. I'm running all my machines behind a WRT router with custom firmware. I'm using free, #OpenSource, #decentralised #Hubzilla for social networking. (Yeah, rub your eyes in disbelief, everyone, this didn't come from Mastodon.) My smartphone is devoid of any traces of #GAFAM. It doesn't even run de-Googled Android, it doesn't run iOS or Android or Windows at all. Chat services? #XMPP and #Matrix only, thank you very much, end of discussion. No #WhatsApp, no #Telegram, no #Threema, no #Signal. (I have a dedicated Matrix account for this identity, by the way.)
Oh, and I have never been and will never be in Second Life either. (All those of you who follow me through the #SecondLife hashtag, believing I'm one of you, I wouldn't blame you if you unfollowed me in disappointment upon learning this.) I vastly prefer #OpenSim, and there I try my best at outfitting my avatars only in legal things, preferably under a free license. I'm one of the few who want OpenSim to be free as in freedom. Free as in #CreativeCommons. Not just free as in free beer. And especially not free as in pirated commercial payware unlike, again, "literally everyone."
Okay, few people know this, and few who don't would expect this. Or any of this, for that matter. But for those who do, it shouldn't come as a surprise that I boycott Discord HARD.
Seriously, Discord unites almost everything I hate in a communications service and piles even more to hate on top. "Almost" because it isn't only available for commercial operating systems. There's an official Linux client, even though it only works ever so barely. And it probably only exists so that Discord can also spy on those few who prefer security, privacy and data protection over convenience and "it's what everyone uses." Also, accessing Discord via other means than the official clients will only get your account blocked; it won't have you persecuted by the FBI like a criminal ([laughs in Germany]). Otherwise, it ticks the whole list, and it even manages to expand the list and tick the new points.
Even trying it wouldn't be worth it. Of course, I wouldn't be dumb enough to run the Flatpak on any existing machine.
Imagine I'd set up a Linux VM on one of my machines. Linux VM on Linux host. A VM only for Discord. Which I'd run as Flatpak.
I can see two possibilities which might even intersect.
One, the client won't work anyway because Discord treats the Linux desktop like dirt, plus I'd have walled it up too well. I would have registered a Discord account for nothing, and I'm not sure if you can have it deleted. Not worth it. Who knows what Discord would do with my mail address?
Two, the client breaks out of its Flatpak sandbox, scans the system, discovers that it's running in a VM, breaks out of the VM and scans the host machine. Remember it's closed-source. Unless proven otherwise by thorough source code auditing, this thing could theoretically do anything, and there actually is malware known to break out of Linux virtual machines and target Linux host systems.
Yes, I actually expect the Discord client (remember, the source code is treated as highly classified military intel) to try and access all other computers on my network once it discovers them and scan them, too, regardless of counter-measures ranging from not mounting my network shares to blocking access from the VM to anything else on the network. It could probably do this with ease and unnoticed if its root suid managed to break out of the Flatpak sandbox, then out of the VM, assumed root control over the host system, clandestinely mounted all network drives and #WebDAV, #CalDAV and #CardDAV shares it could possibly find, scanned the hell out of them and phoned everything home to be sold to some advertising company (and given to the #NSA free-of-charge).
Now, if someone suggested I could use the Web client instead, I'd still need an account. And I don't even have a #Google account, nor shall I ever get me one. Remember that my go-to browser is a very walled-up and secured Firefox. I'm pretty sure that it's too secured and too walled-up for the Discord Web app to work. And seriously, Discord is the last thing for which I'd let the guards in Firefox down. No way, no how. That'd be privacy and data protection suicide.
A different browser would make things even worse. Or do you really, seriously, unironically expect me to install #GoogleChrome?! And then run it on default settings with no privacy/security add-ons? Not gonna happen. Ever.
And if you should suggest I could use Windows instead and save me all the trouble, you haven't understood a word.
Seriously, demanding I use Discord is like giving @Juno Rowland something that was clearly stolen from Second Life and demanding she wear it. In public no less. #NotGonnaHappen.
As for my appearance at Inworld Review, I can't see it happen anymore. -
CW: In which someone's plans involving me were shattered on short notice by blindly expecting me to "do as everyone does anyway". Caution, LONG. You've been warned.
Okay, so I've been invited as a guest on the next episode of @Mal Burns' Inworld Review. I got the invitation in late 2022 already.
The episode was scheduled to be recorded this Sunday with myself or rather my avatar showing up in-world and talking to the hosts and other guests. I was actually looking forward to it. It would have given me the opportunity to talk about legal avatar accessories on the #Hypergrid, ranging from mesh bodies to clothes. Something which most #OpenSimulator users are absolutely certain that it doesn't exist because they've never seen any of it, and because they're being told again and again that it doesn't exist.
So far, so good.
It was just today that Mal sent me an invite to the #Discord channel which would be used for voice.
Instead of asking me early on whether I use Discord or nor or whether I'm okay with using it, both he and Thirza expected me to use it like it's the most normal thing in the world. Because literally everyone uses it.
Because everyone uses this piece of #proprietary, #commercial, #ProfitOriented, #centralised, #NonFree, #ClosedSource #spyware #BinaryBlob created from #VentureCapital. The desktop app. On #Windows, of course. Because literally everyone also uses Windows. Only Windows. Everyone. Okay, except for those who use it on their smartphones.
I've mentioned Windows because the official Discord #Flatpak app for #Linux tends to malfunction. And Discord itself seems to fight tooth and claw against any and all attempts at sandboxing. It does, however, run perfectly well on Windows where it can scan the entire machine for any information of value about the user (and anything can be of value) and phones everything home. And the user gives consent buy installing it, consent that can only be revoked by uninstalling Discord and never using it again.
And now I've mentioned Linux because I'm not typing this on Windows. I'm not typing it on an iOS device either. I'm typing it on #Debian. Which is my main desktop system.
Let me count this up for you: I'm using Linux. I'm using #Firefox, secured and walled-up. I'm running all my machines behind a WRT router with custom firmware. I'm using free, #OpenSource, #decentralised #Hubzilla for social networking. (Yeah, rub your eyes in disbelief, everyone, this didn't come from Mastodon.) My smartphone is devoid of any traces of #GAFAM. It doesn't even run de-Googled Android, it doesn't run iOS or Android or Windows at all. Chat services? #XMPP and #Matrix only, thank you very much, end of discussion. No #WhatsApp, no #Telegram, no #Threema, no #Signal. (I have a dedicated Matrix account for this identity, by the way.)
Oh, and I have never been and will never be in Second Life either. (All those of you who follow me through the #SecondLife hashtag, believing I'm one of you, I wouldn't blame you if you unfollowed me in disappointment upon learning this.) I vastly prefer #OpenSim, and there I try my best at outfitting my avatars only in legal things, preferably under a free license. I'm one of the few who want OpenSim to be free as in freedom. Free as in #CreativeCommons. Not just free as in free beer. And especially not free as in pirated commercial payware unlike, again, "literally everyone."
Okay, few people know this, and few who don't would expect this. Or any of this, for that matter. But for those who do, it shouldn't come as a surprise that I boycott Discord HARD.
Seriously, Discord unites almost everything I hate in a communications service and piles even more to hate on top. "Almost" because it isn't only available for commercial operating systems. There's an official Linux client, even though it only works ever so barely. And it probably only exists so that Discord can also spy on those few who prefer security, privacy and data protection over convenience and "it's what everyone uses." Also, accessing Discord via other means than the official clients will only get your account blocked; it won't have you persecuted by the FBI like a criminal ([laughs in Germany]). Otherwise, it ticks the whole list, and it even manages to expand the list and tick the new points.
Even trying it wouldn't be worth it. Of course, I wouldn't be dumb enough to run the Flatpak on any existing machine.
Imagine I'd set up a Linux VM on one of my machines. Linux VM on Linux host. A VM only for Discord. Which I'd run as Flatpak.
I can see two possibilities which might even intersect.
One, the client won't work anyway because Discord treats the Linux desktop like dirt, plus I'd have walled it up too well. I would have registered a Discord account for nothing, and I'm not sure if you can have it deleted. Not worth it. Who knows what Discord would do with my mail address?
Two, the client breaks out of its Flatpak sandbox, scans the system, discovers that it's running in a VM, breaks out of the VM and scans the host machine. Remember it's closed-source. Unless proven otherwise by thorough source code auditing, this thing could theoretically do anything, and there actually is malware known to break out of Linux virtual machines and target Linux host systems.
Yes, I actually expect the Discord client (remember, the source code is treated as highly classified military intel) to try and access all other computers on my network once it discovers them and scan them, too, regardless of counter-measures ranging from not mounting my network shares to blocking access from the VM to anything else on the network. It could probably do this with ease and unnoticed if its root suid managed to break out of the Flatpak sandbox, then out of the VM, assumed root control over the host system, clandestinely mounted all network drives and #WebDAV, #CalDAV and #CardDAV shares it could possibly find, scanned the hell out of them and phoned everything home to be sold to some advertising company (and given to the #NSA free-of-charge).
Now, if someone suggested I could use the Web client instead, I'd still need an account. And I don't even have a #Google account, nor shall I ever get me one. Remember that my go-to browser is a very walled-up and secured Firefox. I'm pretty sure that it's too secured and too walled-up for the Discord Web app to work. And seriously, Discord is the last thing for which I'd let the guards in Firefox down. No way, no how. That'd be privacy and data protection suicide.
A different browser would make things even worse. Or do you really, seriously, unironically expect me to install #GoogleChrome?! And then run it on default settings with no privacy/security add-ons? Not gonna happen. Ever.
And if you should suggest I could use Windows instead and save me all the trouble, you haven't understood a word.
Seriously, demanding I use Discord is like giving @Juno Rowland something that was clearly stolen from Second Life and demanding she wear it. In public no less. #NotGonnaHappen.
As for my appearance at Inworld Review, I can't see it happen anymore. -
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