I remember. And how much shit the community flung towards them. And their rep is still stained with it, as it should be.
The catarrhine who invented a perpetual motion machine, by dreaming at night and devouring its own dreams through the day.
I remember. And how much shit the community flung towards them. And their rep is still stained with it, as it should be.
That includes me. Or at least my geospoofed location for the sake of google search (when I need to use it - I’d rather use DDG but… meh), so Google stops trying to sell me local shit.
Alright. Sounds fair. Instead of taking dangerous actions, I’ll make it create a report instead.
Thank you! Frankly, if done this way I’d be excited to use it ASAP.
Automod is just a tool, indeed, but how a tool is designed dictates or at least encourages its usage.
Trying to automate things and decrease mod burden is great, so I don’t oppose OP’s idea on general grounds. My issues are with two specific points:
- Punish content authors or take action on content via word blacklist/regex
- Ban members of communities by their usernames/bios via word blacklist or regex
Instead of those two I think that a better use of regex would be an automated reporting system, bringing potentially problematic users/pieces of content to the attention of human mods.
Okay… I don’t even like Ubuntu, I’m still pissed at snaps, but I’m going to call it bullshit. OP is being at the very least disingenuous, if not worse (witch hunting).
Ubuntu Pro is a subscription system with the following features:
Are you noticing the pattern here? It’s junk that enterprise cares about, but you don’t. Canonical is milking corporations.
To make the comparison with airbag vests even worse, Pro is free for personal use, up to 5 machines. So it’s more like Canonical is saying “since we know that stupid bizniz bureaucracy prevents them from regularly replacing airbag vests, we’re willing to repair them for a price. For free if you’re a random nobody, by the way.”
And no, it does not contradict the Ubuntu principle, as your title implies.
And since I can’t be arsed to rebuke this shite being cross-posted to !latestagecapitalism@lemmygrad.ml, I’ll do it here. (I apologise to the others for posting politics here.)
The airbag vest part alone would be a good example of late capitalism; the business is clearly seeking to add surplus value to the goods. And since that surplus value cannot come from paying less for the labour of the workers, it comes from the buyers/“subscribers” - transforming the goods into a service, and commodifying personal security.
Ubuntu Pro is not this, as I’ve shown above. But even if it worked somehow like you’re implying that it does, through both threads (i.e. you don’t have ubuntu pro = you don’t get security updates), it would still not be an example of late stage capitalism: security updates are a service by nature, requiring additional labour to be produced, specially when you’re backporting a patch to ancient software.
I always got this feeling that LMDE will eventually become Mint’s main distro, with the Ubuntu-based version slowly fading away.