And anybody who thinks that Linus doesn't look for those ways to break Linux is deluding themselves. He's a fucking asshole.

Wow, dude. Get back to your echo chamber. You're brittle and shrill outside of it.

Well, my ISP doesn't need to know anything about my posts. And the fediverse doesn't need to know who I am beyond "growingentropy," so...

Did you just do the "if you don't have anything to hide, what's the big deal" move?

I want privacy. That's all.

Yes, absolutely. We should all be concerned with the source of our ideas and even our memes, as dumb of a concept as that is.

I'm just going to throw in a bit at the end of this thread here, as I find the conversation fascinating.

This is how fascism starts. "We have to control speech for your own good" becomes "hateful speech comes from [insert group]" becomes "we have to stop them."

We are all being weaponized by the internet. Free speech is important. You don't fight fascism with more fascism, you fight it with better ideas.

I don't miss anything from Reddit, I'm just sad that some of the homogeneity of thought came over here to Lemmy.

The racists are going to be the vast minority of Ye's audience. Statistically negligible. Some people are just surface-level low-intelligence beatheads who like the music.

R. Kelly had to go to jail to get people to stop listening to his music, and I don't recall people advocating for pedophilia on his behalf.

Oh no. This whole thing quickly turned into yet another opinionated divisive fedposting shithole.

I don't think real conversations of the type you would respectfully have in person exist on the Internet anymore.

I thought maybe this place would be a little smarter than that, but it kind of sucks now.

They do both. ;)

My coworker does graphic design, and he paid $8k for his Mac laptop.

I honestly don't know if there's anything I could order in a Windows/Linux laptop that would add up to $8k.

I get great performance out of my $90 eBay laptop running Debian, by the way.

Never made it to the end. Just couldn't.