just because I try to regularly review places I go to

That’s what appears to be the problem. Quantity over some definition of quality makes it easy, and even creates the incentive, for some hustlers to go around soliciting money for positive reviews.

Pay and your shit is marvelous, the best in town. Don’t pay and you get 3/5 at best (I would presume smart hustlers don’t go for 1/5 often to avoid getting too deep into blackmail territory).

This is kind of funny, because in the “reviews” part of Google Maps, a “Local Guide” giving a restaurant ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ is usually a strong indicator that you shouldn’t eat from there 😉. That has been my experience, at least.

Is it just me, or is the “among others” in the title made it sound like an outbreak, instead of referring to other projects?

Dare I ask, what ssh thing?

Side Note: It was already believed that SSH encryption was broken by state actors since the first NSA leaks. So, people should at least always use it over another encrypted channel anyway.

Does it qualify as cognitive dissonance maintaining a fork of a partially vibe-coded product to remove vibe-coding tooling because you hate vibe-coding?

imagine giving apps SMS access in stock roms

skill issue

People can distrust whomever they wish to. But hallucinating factually inconsistent and logically incoherent theories around that distrust is another matter.

What part does switching from dual-licensed software to GPL-licensed software to MIT-licensed software play in an evil plan? Are there sky angels out there preventing evil doers from adding backdoors to binary packages of AGPL-licensed software in particular?

My innocent self thought these “theories” only get purported by YouTube/X teenagers. I guess I was wrong.

sudo is not GPL software, chrony didn’t even complete a year as a default choice in Ubuntu, and gpsd actually adopts a BSD license. Read the comments @ISO@lemmy.zip wrote in this thread.

Freedom in the west is a goal in and of itself that acts as a moral compass when judging tools and products. Islam values freedom, but it is not a end goal, nor is it a moral precept to base your ethics on.

This is the kind of hubris that started in the Ta’weel era (a good equivalent English word escapes me. In Arabic: “عصر التأويل”) after the rashidun period and the Tanzeel era, and accumulated in the full abandonment/replacement era (“عصر التبديل”).

The whole point of true monotheism is to be only subject to Allah and no one else. No kings. No clergy (itself an anti-islamic concept). No “intellectuals”…etc. In other words, “freedom” is at the core of Islamic creed, it’s not even something to be discussed at the jurisprudence level.

The whole point of finality of religion including sharia, is that no one can add/append to it. This relates to additional restrictions even more than additional allowances (read about the limits of restricting what’s allowed if you wish “تقييد المباح”, although that’s a luxury subject nowadays since there are no legitimate states or heads of states around).

The rest of your comment is also full of the same hubris and incoherence common in the two downfall eras, especially the abandonment/replacement one (still ongoing). The maqsidi approach immediately gives that away (the modern abandonment/replacement take, which al-Shatibi is not responsible for).

• Everything is “default-allowed” unless otherwise proven (A basic rule in jurisprudence/fiqh. In arabic: “الأصل في الأشياء الإباحة”).
• Current open-source software licenses (including the copyleft subset) are a part of enforceable legal frameworks. They are not self-enforced moral/ethical directives. None of the current popular licenses were born in an environment where sharia law is ruling, or even known. In fact, none of them were written for anything but the current capitalist world order.
• There is no legitimate “Dar Hijra” around, with real independence and a proper Shura system and with real sharia enforced (an Islamic state is named after the ability for anyone to migrate to, and become a part of, it (“hijra”), because that’s a strict first requirement 😉). Most states with majority Muslim (or supposed Muslim) populations are fake colonial constructs with client feudalistic regimes.
• All good “scholars” are either dead, in prison, in exile, or keeping a low profile. Most scholars you know, if not all, are the ones the prophet had in mind when he said: “Most hypocrites in my Umma are its scholars”, and that’s a literal quote (Arabic: “أكثر منافقي أمتي قراؤها”). In modernity, this generic reality became clear beyond Muslim societies (Check out “The Treason Of The Intellectuals”/“La Trahison des clercs”).
• For when a real “Dar Hijra” emerges, and this needs much much more study and elaboration, but as a starting point, the differentiation between the knowledge, and the application of knowledge in software is important. Free access to the former must be protected (“legally”), as is access to all knowledge. When it comes to the application/implementation, it’s more complicated!
• Attribution is also important and well-protected under Sharia law. So there should be no problem there. It would actually be more respectful of actual pioneers, unlike the current patent system(s), where patents get sold around and are mostly owned by big companies and trolls.

Waiting for imaginary events to happen is not needed. We already know how these things actually turn out.

It’s kind of funny how you didn’t pick up on the connection between 3 and 4 😉

great source

Give me a compositor with at least some of the capabilities of Awesome, AND the ability to apply custom shaders to windows like picom does, and some none alpha-quality VNC solutions, then I make seriously consider a permanent move.

So it’s going to be X11 for at least 2-3 years to come for me. And this is based purely on practical and workflow reasoning. It’s is also a logical, technical, and fully informed choice, unlike the entirety of your comment.

AUR malware and DDoS attacks are not even correlated, for there to be any minimally credible speculation about causation.

Such “speculation” would only come from someone very unintelligent who would see two news items about X within a smallish time frame (weeks), then obtusely start drawing connection lines between them where there is probably* none.

* We don’t know who the malware spreaders or the DDoS attackers are. So we can’t be 100% certain about anything. But indications point to script kiddies being behind AUR malware attempts. And a more sophisticated entity behind the DDoS attacks, not just some kid or an adult with a grudge paying a botnet, like some are sillily suggesting. One should also not forget that there was always the conspiracy theory that DDoS protection service providers are behind most DDoS attacks (before AI crawlers accidentally took that crown).

The attacks started before that removed non-news post. And no one actually cares about DE’s, other that youngings still in their hopping phase.

Arch community is kind of rough

What?

The AUR is already officially mirrored on GitHub, at least since the last attack (that I heard of).

For the Wiki, I’m not sure if database dumps are provided for people to provide proper mediawiki mirrors. If they’re not, you should propose the idea. It’s a good one (as long as the dumps themselves are not hosted in one place that can be DDoS-ed itself).

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