SweetCitrusBuzz
@SweetCitrusBuzz@beehaw.org
fae/faer or she/her
A lover of fruit, fun and helping people out.
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of Feb 2nd 2 weeks ago:
Coral Island and Stardew Valley
- Submitted 3 weeks ago to gaming@beehaw.org | 33 comments
- Comment on Facebook flags Linux topics as 'cybersecurity threats' — posts and users being blocked 3 weeks ago:
Sure! Glad to have explained and hopefully helped. I thought I had better after people called me out for something I didn’t exactly mean and possibly things I did but was incorrect about.
Yeah! Nice to run into you too around here! How’s it treating you? If you’d like to say, that is.
- Comment on Facebook flags Linux topics as 'cybersecurity threats' — posts and users being blocked 3 weeks ago:
Thanks for explaining what I was getting at better than I am able to currently, genuinely.
- Comment on Facebook flags Linux topics as 'cybersecurity threats' — posts and users being blocked 3 weeks ago:
Man pages are not good for beginners. Help pages, I am not sure if they exist within the OS for such things I mentioned such as the terminal or not.
I was being specific so as to avoid it blowing up into multiple things, but yes there being no tutorials built in is common to many FOSS things I have come across.
I disagree wholeheartedly with your assertion that people should not be handheld through the learning process or that it’s entitlement to expect or even want it, if we want people to learn and get better at things then such things are useful and needed but they have to start somewhere and having a machine ‘hold their hand’ is better than them getting frustrated imo.
So what if no other OS does it to the degree I think it should? FOSS could prove itself to be better by doing what other OSs don’t, but you seem to be suggesting it shouldn’t and that is something I genuinely don’t understand. If we want people to use it as I often see FOSS obsessives tell people yet do absolutely nothing to support them in doing so, just call their closed source software shit, tell them to move to open source and then are like “lol, byeeeee” if they do and then have no idea how to, especially if they do so just to not be berated by them again.
I disagree that people earnestly looking for help should be called ‘entitled noobs’ and even if they are, so what?
I’d rather help them so they can move on to learning on their own. This is exactly the attitude and viewpoint I was addressing, foss people cannot see how it benefits us all to help even those that just want a ‘quick fix’ to their problems as it is more than possible in a few years time those people might be even more helpful as they remember how they were treated in the face of their confusion about it.
I don’t agree only that those people put in the effort themselves should be helped, even if it’s indirectly, writing a beginner level tutorial and then linking it is more useful and nets more use to foss than just saying “no figuring it out yourself” in the long term and I genuinely do not understand why people think that ‘handouts’ are bad if they get a good result in the future or at least get the person to stop asking.
I’ve actually written many tutorials for things and plan on writing more in the future, I’ve helped many people with software both closed and open source, so yeah, I have some experience there and completely understand people’s frustration with the general foss community when they cannot get help. I’ve been that person many times too and so decided to do something about it, I genuinely hope others do too so that we can all grow together whether people start from ‘entitled’ roots or not.
- Comment on Facebook flags Linux topics as 'cybersecurity threats' — posts and users being blocked 3 weeks ago:
Okay, thanks for explaining.
- Comment on Facebook flags Linux topics as 'cybersecurity threats' — posts and users being blocked 3 weeks ago:
Point well, taken, thanks.
- Comment on Facebook flags Linux topics as 'cybersecurity threats' — posts and users being blocked 3 weeks ago:
Yes, but many foss is just created with those already in the know about what it does in mind.
FOSS has historically and continues to be unhelpful to many people coming into it. There’s often no beginner level tutorials built in, no easily accessible communities that do not have at least smug asshole that utterly unhelpful saying things like “just fork it” or “it’s not for you”.
So if FOSS ever wants to actually position itself as helpful for the common person it needs a lot more people prepared to write these tutorials etc and build them into the software itself, not just assume internet access.
The biggest one is the terminal. As far as I’m aware it does not come with a tutorial built in ever on any distro. It does not on first opening it say “hey, here are the things you can do” because the developers do not consider that people might be entirely unfamiliar with such things and/or nobody wishes to write one or include it even if it is written.
So yes, foss is good for freedom but at the expense of there often being support built in to get people started, unlike many closed sourced software things. I don’t therefore see how it is useful to people that have no clue how to get started with it, thus often sending them back to the very things FOSS says they should escape.
- Comment on Facebook flags Linux topics as 'cybersecurity threats' — posts and users being blocked 3 weeks ago:
It was more of a call out to people that only care about foss and nothing else, a challenge.
I in general do not think most of the foss community is good because they have shown themselves time and time again to be overly protective of it and themselves in opposition to what most people actually need from software or other things.
It has some very worrying views politically which likely stem from abusers like stallman and that we live under such a myopic, self centered system such as capitalism and so this leads people to have a very blinkered view on what is important, often times, sadly foss obsessives are smug know-it-alls who tell you that if you don’t like it then just fork it or to go back to windows etc, instead of actually being helpful. Not to mention many of them have very bigoted views.
They do not see that foss could be more liberatory if they actually pulled their heads out of their ego and a took a more community based approach. I get that some are like this and I am grateful, but I’ve been told many times no without any justification given or given bizzare workarounds that do not actually fix the problem and so had to basically abandon the software they claim is good because it no longer works for its supposed purpose.
Part of the problem with it is that we all live in a system where the developers need money to live and so will refuse point blank to help if they are not paid which sadly leads to them mostly supporting companies and not what people say foss is actually useful for: the common person. So it is as subject to them whims of capitalism as anything else but people like to pretend it is not for some reason.
People do need to eat and so it is good if they are paid, but I wonder how many people actually do so and how much developers care if they do unless they are getting the big bucks from them somehow.
The point therefore is that foss on its own is not as liberatory as people seem to think it is and it is more that people who only care about foss this was directed at.
I use linux and other foss things daily, but I do not think they are as good as they could be because they are actively hostile to people’s needs and to devs too (see the kernel rust incident), this is why I find it a bit silly to care about linux compared to other things, but if people do care about both then that is good.
Also sadly, having more people in the community with more diverse needs does not inherently shift many developers and they double down more, so I did not think having facebook censor it was neither here nor there as to whether foss was or could be good or not.
I do understand now that maybe that was presumptious of me but for other reasons unrelated to linux and foss itself and more to the discussions people might have and how much those are allowed or not.
- Comment on Facebook flags Linux topics as 'cybersecurity threats' — posts and users being blocked 3 weeks ago:
Oh my intent was the opposite. But fair enough.
- Comment on Facebook flags Linux topics as 'cybersecurity threats' — posts and users being blocked 3 weeks ago:
wedge-like?
- Comment on Facebook flags Linux topics as 'cybersecurity threats' — posts and users being blocked 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, thank you for explaining 🙂
- Comment on Facebook flags Linux topics as 'cybersecurity threats' — posts and users being blocked 3 weeks ago:
Well, my point was that it’s funny that people who likely never lift a finger to help people in other ways suddenly come out of the woodwork when it’s technology they like. But yeah, I see your point, it isn’t great that folks won’t learn about it on their walled garden social media and hopefully that might lead them to escape it.
- Comment on Facebook flags Linux topics as 'cybersecurity threats' — posts and users being blocked 3 weeks ago:
Are you seriously comparing a fight for rights for people to software. LMAO.
What a ridiculous thing to do.
- Comment on Facebook flags Linux topics as 'cybersecurity threats' — posts and users being blocked 3 weeks ago:
Oh well, it’s only facebook.
There are far more important things to worry about and to do.
- Comment on Gaming on controller & "typos" 3 weeks ago:
Yes, but you might not like it. You would have to unlearn it. Only way I know of doing so is to not game for some time, then retrain yourself.
- Comment on US cloud could soon be illegal in the EU as Trump punches first hole in EU-US data deal, European digital rights groups Noyb says 4 weeks ago:
Probably for the best. Clouds in general are not private.
- Comment on TikTokers offered $5,000 to join Facebook and Instagram 4 weeks ago:
I don’t think I ever suggested pleasing everyone just those of us who need safety and protection. Which sadly there’s a stunning lack of on fedi except for a few places, the developers of most software running on it certainly do not help though.
- Comment on TikTokers offered $5,000 to join Facebook and Instagram 4 weeks ago:
I mean, no. The real solution is to move to better software which aren’t developed by assholes or to seize it away from the assholes.
- Comment on TikTokers offered $5,000 to join Facebook and Instagram 4 weeks ago:
Jesse Singal joined bluesky and was in contact with a well known fascist site about what to do about trans people there.
Then Bluesky moderation rolled out the red carpet and gave him the VIP treatment for it, seemingly only for being a journalist despite his terrible views.
Here is an article about it: www.advocate.com/business/bluesky-jesse-singal
- Comment on TikTokers offered $5,000 to join Facebook and Instagram 4 weeks ago:
I’m not sure that’s a good idea due to them giving the VIP treatment to a known transphobe just because he’s a journalist.
- Comment on TikTokers offered $5,000 to join Facebook and Instagram 4 weeks ago:
LMAO.
- Comment on Video game publishers are starting to use "anti-DEI" as a marketing meme 4 weeks ago:
Critical Race Theory.
- Comment on Walgreens Replaced Fridge Doors With Smart Screens. It’s Now a $200 Million Fiasco. 4 weeks ago:
Hilarious.
- Comment on New Square Enix policy will clamp down on harassers, bigots and "unreasonable" compensation requests 4 weeks ago:
In my naïve hopes I hoped this could be from stopping harrasment within Square Enix and its development partners, but alas no. It is stopping fans from harrasing, which is good but really they should turn that policy inwards as well.
- Comment on Biden’s TikTok Flip-Flop: President Rushes To Undo Ban He Championed As Backlash Grows 4 weeks ago:
Not really, I’d say it’s equally spread along all points in the political spectrum currently.
- Comment on Brainwash An Executive Today! 5 weeks ago:
Still not brain washing.
This is more manipulation. Brainwashing is a specific form of torture, not whatever this blog writer thinks it is.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
Ah, of course the guy motivated by money ensures he can keep getting it.
Let’s hope he will invest it in moderation worth a damn.
Sadly it sounds like he’ll still be in charge of the project so he can keep ignoring user issues and pull requests that are actually useful and making changes that users don’t like, want or need.
- Comment on Platforms Systematically Removed a User Because He Made "Most Wanted CEO" Playing Cards 5 weeks ago:
🙄
- Comment on Platforms Systematically Removed a User Because He Made "Most Wanted CEO" Playing Cards 5 weeks ago:
That isn’t what I said. Why take my words out of context? I have no desire to use a specific thing that has become a hub for fascists, not the whole internet. This is very disingenous.