jtrek

joined 1 week ago
[–] jtrek@startrek.website 18 points 6 hours ago

All tools are not equally safe nor should they all be publicly available.

A chainsaw is a tool that you might cause harm with if you use it in stupid ways. We don't give chainsaws out to children. We don't use chainsaws for cutting dinner.

There are human elements to the problem but that's not a big reveal.

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 9 points 1 day ago

Seems fair. Was a pretty big fuck up. Might deter others from making similar fuck ups.

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 3 points 1 day ago

That was always a bad idea and feeds my mild Cassandra complex.

No government should be relying on private platforms like that.

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 16 points 1 day ago

The suits at Microsoft are out of their fucking minds.

Yes. They are stupid and don't deserve their huge paychecks.

They could've done basically nothing. Maybe security updates. And they would've had a decent brand that kept bringing in money. Their leadership is worse than doing nothing. A dog would make a better ceo.

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 5 points 3 days ago

The "and" in the title is key. Humans can currently choose their gender expression, so that part can be stripped out with no changes to the world. Not assigning gender at birth is an interesting thought. Some people are really, from my view, weird about making sure their children perform gender correctly as early and often as possible.

Also I think it'd be neat if it was "genre" in English too. People understand there's more genres than horror and fantasy.

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 5 points 3 days ago

I like the idea. I don't want to use facebook or similar, but that's where stuff like "BuyNothing" is most active.

Unfortunately, I don't know much about self hosting (beyond what I've picked up working in software development) so I don't see myself running one of these myself. I'd probably use it if it came to my neck of the woods (NYC)