I used the Android app Boost for Reddit. One day I opened it as usual, browsed as usual, but something felt a bit odd. Turns out it was updated into being a Lemmy app instead. Fair enough then, I continued my scrolling.

There is also nothing inherently wrong with “optimization” and “automation”. It’s just that they are buzzwords and how the tech bros approach these topics.

Hmm, why can’t there be evolution without death? As long as organisms reproduce, genes are passed on, and some reproduce more successfully than others, why would it matter if existing individuals stay around or not? I don’t see how it makes evolution fundamentally impossible.

It was NOT found to be untrue. Full stop. It was found to be unsubstantiated.

You are right, I was imprecise. What I meant is that “it was not found to be true”, not that “it was found to be not true”.

Yeah, he was stupid to have that idea. But nobody was actually wronged in the end.

I think it looks good for the integrity of Linus that he took the blame and never revealed the identity of the logistics employee that made the mistake of misassigning the prototype for the auction. He could’ve easily thrown them under the bus and fired them instead, because their mistake did real reputational damage to the company.

Sexual harassment

It was found to be an untrue allegation by a third party. You can of course choose to not believe them, but there was never any proof and everyone who works there denies it (and a lot of women work there), so take of that what you will.

poor work life balance

Very true

anti union

Linus is not anti-union. He said he would consider it a personal failure if his employees felt the need to unionize, but he supports their right to do so.

The warranty for his (I think it was a) backpack, was trust me bro.

To be fair, the warranty was proposed to be “trust me bro”, the community very much didn’t like that, so it actually came with a real warranty when it launched. So it never actually happened.

The VPN is not supposed to protect you from an authoritarian government, it’s meant to bypass the ID requirement, which it does very well.

Except when you are working on top-down game/3D environment. In which case you are constantly changing between Z and Y…

Lol, you can’t admit to losing an argument, can you.

Most of that attack piece was shown to be fake allegations though. It did contain some valid criticism, and the valid parts were resolved.

A different creator spouted a bunch of lies in an attack video, was a big drama, nobody cared when it was proven wrong later and the community sentiment in many online spaces is like this now. Standard drama sells corrections don’t thing.

proven that he is paid off

Never heard of this, any source?

If you own a domain you can redirect all to a single inbox, so there is nothing to manage. You register at randomsite? randomsite@yourdomain.com it is. Every account gets a unique email address, all emails end up in the same inbox, and there is nothing to do, you have infinite addresses.

And you never share your actual Proton address where it all ends up.

Sure, but having to deal with that could certainly be annoying to someone who just wants to use the computer that’s already turned on.

Because they use the same PC?

How does your story show that they don’t respect GDPR though? I’m not saying they do, but I don’t see it in what you wrote. You told them to delete your data and they replied that they already do when you delete your account.

Where is the problem?