Thank you for the reply. Quite the response there, might need time to process. Although I will not ever discredit you for your source of information (which is family, friends, and colleagues), I didnt expect that you would go on the route of “independent media has their own master” and “media as a source of information is laughable”. It’s true that biases does exist, but it certainly is also true that we as a human being can process those biases out based upon the political alignment of each news source. I mean, I would expect that as a basic skill and conclusion that everyone would realize once they know news source are likely biased.

And about CCP, I suppose I use that term interchangeably with the chinese government and officials and I’m sorry if that’s not accurate enough to convey my intention.

Also, just as a note for the future, calling all of the things in media is “100% pure unadulterated bullshit” would only highlights your lack of skill in engaging with a society/system which has more than a single news source and narrative.

Hmmm I haven’t been in touch with people that actually opposes the mass media’s narrative about how screwed and inhumane the social credit systems are in china, and speaks english. That pleases me knowing that other people would think differently than I am.

Although I don’t agree with how you see “if you dont live in X, i cant be confident of the condition in X”. Because as a person I could also conclude things coming from incomplete information scattered around independent/corporate news outlet. It seems like you have misclassify my non-involvement with China and their citizen into a misjudgment on my conclusion.

Let me give you a perfect example on a very specific issues about China that I’m confident about. The fact that China have even a notion of regulating speech via state wide censorship is horrendous enough for me to not trust any non independent media representative from China.

Edit: I think your vision towards my non involvement within China and their citizens also undermined the fact that I’m an adult with a human brain which could actually think. Although I would be pleased if you could give me a sourced argument on why,

1. Chinese Great Wall of Censorship is not bad and it’s actually misunderstood
2. Social Credit system is also a misunderstood part of the CCP effort to manage their citizen

I intentionally left out the covid part of the argument, simply because it will devolve into a discussion of “well I was there and it was ok” kind of argument, which is to me, not interesting.

At this point, I don’t care as long as it’s open sourced and it’s good to me to use. Hell, lemmy is made by communist which I am very opposed of (I really like capitalism with socialism safety net more). Political views and shit like that doesn’t budge me anymore from using the product. Maybe I would value more in the way they treat their product, like microsoft’s way of handling their open source project as a way to EEE.

Elaborate please? I’m here just for the open source project

made by a person that sells vpn

conflict of interest.

Just serve static files

just use session

1. If you want “it just werks” then you should use either gnome or kde. If you some snappy hacker-ish DE, then use i3wm or other window management program of your choosing.
2. That’s just the default UFW lol

how many cocks do you need to suck to not like gpl like the commenter?

welp

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BASED AND OPEN SOURCE PILLED

damn right i did

This is not true, knowing that you can verify yourself before talking to others and they can’t just willinilly act on your behalf because they’re not coming from the same device.

Manjaro is pretty good. The best thing about it is that it’s quite stable, the open source and proprietary driver is up to date and it has everything that Arch has, including aur.

I don’t know, can I?

Although I do realize the misconception in my naming, but for non-technical person, I would rather call it Element rather than Matrix because the application that’s in play store and many more sites is called Element. YES I’m aware that there’re alternative clients, but I would rather call it element so non-tech people would better recognize it this way.

Anyway, I’d just like to interject for a moment. What you’re refering to as Element, is in fact, Matrix/Element, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, Matrix plus Element. Element is not a communication protocol unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning Matrix ecosystem made useful by the client, homeservers and vital system components comprising a full end to end communication solution defined by Matrix organization.

Many computer users run a modified version of the Matrix’s client every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of Matrix/Element which is widely used today is often called Element, and many of its users are not aware that it is basically part of the Matrix ecosystem, developed by the Matrix Organization.

There really is an Element, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the Matrix ecosystem they use. Matrix is the protocol: the specification in the system that manages the resources to the other programs that the servers run. The protocol is an essential part of the Matrix Ecosystem, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete end to end solution of the server and clients. Element is normally used in combination with server to make the whole system. All the so-called Element distributions are really distributions of Matrix/Element!

Discord is already trash

I beg to differ, it’s been quite good without any hitch. Except in linux, idk why but I think there’s a memory leak everytime you’re talking for more than an hour.

open sourcing by microsoft

lol, are you kidding? Till the moment they Open Sourced Windows 10, I’ll always call them a fraud and or poser.

actor db is literally abandoned though

based stallman