Any people reading this who rely on Discord: this is your nudge to consider moving elsewhere.
Where? I don't know. What I do know is that whatever alternative I suggest, you will find a myriad of reasons why it just "won't cut it."
But I also know that if resources were spent on making the hard-to-enshittify decentralized platforms better, they would get better, while still remaining hard to enshittify.
So, perhaps it's worth it to trade some short-term convenience for long-term resilience. 🤷♀️
Truly surprising that a *checks notes* proprietary, centralized, VC-funded platform started enshittifying the moment it gained enough market share to make it very difficult for people to flow elsewhere. 🤯
I am so happy for the crew, and so happy for @Blender.
If you have not seen Flow, go see it. It is wonderful, warm, insightful, and wise, without a single line of dialogue. It is, to me, an instant #Solarpunk classic, as well.
It's not a proxy war, it's a war of imperial conquest by Russia against Ukraine. With Russia being very clear they do not consider Ukraine a country, Ukrainian a language, and Ukrainians a people.
Putting it in any other terms is furthering Kremlin's propaganda. Please don't do that.
This matters a lot, because – as the NEWAG DRMed trains thing in Poland clearly shows – stereotyping hackers as some nebulous cyber-criminals enables companies that do something shady to just shout "oh, hackers!" when researchers call them out on that.
And it works! It's a strategy that is being used consciously and with purpose by NEWAG, and has been used in the past by other huge companies who wanted to deflect criticism related to their own cyber-shenanigans.
When writing about pretty much any kind of attacks, we tend to recognize that while people with certain skills were certainly involved, that is not their defining characteristic.
Would @arstechnica write a headline featuring "Russia-aligned driver groups"? 🤔
No, that would obviously sound ridiculous. "Russia-aligned mercenary groups" makes way more sense. Even though most of them likely can and do drive.
And yet over and over again: "Russia-aligned hackers". 🙄
> I am a very happy user of an old ENOX 42" TV, very much not-"smart". > > I am looking to replace it. Was hoping I would find some non-"smart" options from a manufacturer whose similar product I own and am happy with.
ENOX:
> It is not smart to go for a non-smart TV anymore 😊
Well, calling your customers dumb is certain *a* strategy, not sure if it's a good one. 🤷♀️
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