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Although why you would not like or want the latest stable or your app, for example, is beyond me. It's a stable version, you should want the new features.

Call me an old man. But I like when things are stable. I don't like starting my computer, and the software was updated to a new version, and some features disappeared or changed in behavior. This is why I hate the web where people update software right under my nose! With no control from my side.

These repo contains thousands of orphan packages which are not maintained and will never get any update ever again (proceed to show a list of obscure go modules)

Have ever checked if you checked how maintained are the dependencies/libraries of your favorite software? It's a nightmare as well. The distro is not making anything worse.

You get the duplicated work of maintainers, packaging the same app, multiple times, for multiple supported version of the distro.

First, the work is not often duplicated. The first maintainer to package will usually upstream patches which make packaging easy. Packagers will look how other distros packagers packaged the app they're trying to package.

Also the duplication only happen a few time. Ubuntu just pulled almost all of their packages from Debian Sid. Same with RHEL/CentOS and Fedora. And so on, and so on

Also you're overestimating how hard packaging is, most of the time, it's scripted. (golang modules in debian, are imported in an almost fully automated way)

You know what distros bring?

• Security. (My packages were vetted by packagers)
• Uniformity. (All my software works coherently)
• Stability. (My software doesn't break at the will of some third party developer)

Hosting a mail server is really easy. Making sure Hotmail, Gmail and others accept your emails is a nightmare.

I don't host my own email, I just delegate my email management to a small provider.

There has been a lot of discussion in the infosec community about "keepass being insecure" because of CVE-2023–35866

In this official statement by the devs, they basically explain the criticality of the CVE is basically overblown:

• You need local access
• You need an application which was authorized to access your database

That's a lot of ifs, even though, theorically, this application with local access and which was previously authorized could change the master password of your database.

A lot of people in the infosec community recommend 1Password, but IMHO, 1Password is the new LastPass.

For context lastpass has suffered heavy hacks recently, and it was insecure from the bottom up. Lastpass then lied about the gravity of the hack

1Password (like LastPass) is closed source and run by a for profit company. My advice:

• Use KeepassXC
• If you need sync use Bitwarden
• If you're ready to self host, use Bitwarden with Vaultwarden (preferably only accessible behind a wireguard VPN)

Unfortunately this is a nightmare to regulate. Whatever regulation a government will come up with, amazon (and all other big tech) will do everything to maliciously comply.

Look at the french regulation on book prices. The french "directorate for competition, consumers, fraud punishment" told amazon that they could not sell books with free shipping. Books have regulated price in France to garantee equal access to everyone everywhere. The DGCCRF claimed that offering free shipping de facto lowered the price of the books and was unfair to small local book shops. The next day, amazon introduced €0.01 shipping for books...

I'm all for regulating these assholes to ensure fair competition. But regulating them is not as simple as some people make it sound like. I would hate to be a lawmaker.

Calling whataboutism is a logical fallacy used to justify having different standards for yourself and your adversaries. Anybody using whataboutism in place of an actual can be safely dismissed as a troll. Meanwhile, western media is certainly no less biased than CGTN and has been caught lying about China repeatedly.

What are you on? Whataboutism is not a logical fallacy. We are talking about the bias of CGTN, and you say "what about western media?" Yeah western media are also biased, but it doesn't take away the fact that CGTN is a heavily biased media outlet, highly biased towards positive chinese news. I never mentioned any western media or said they were superior, but to avoid talking about this difficult topic, you change the narrative. Did I mention anything about western media? No! Because that's not the topic.

Whataboutism is not a logical fallacy. Far from it. Whataboutism has been heavily documented as a propaganda technique by many sociologists and rhetoric scientists:

• https://bibliotekanauki.pl/articles/1196123.pdf
• https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ1317315.pdf

Small remark instead of /u/.... you should use the at-sign @ to mention somebody. For example: Hey @Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world.

This is just whataboutism. Talking about the US doesn't remove any critique of china. We were talking about China here. And CGTN (the news source which was linked) has a documented bias towards china

OP is a CCP-chill:

On lemmy? No. The devs decided to do a single page app with a REST API, which leads to the sluggishness and slow load-time. kbin (which is compatible with lemmy's content) is your best bet, IMHO. https://kbin.fediverse.observer/list

I'm too used to lemmy unfortunately, and kbin is far from perfect.

/r/videos that's where I used to get my daily shot of youtube. But with youtube starting to block ablocker it might be good for me to quit.

/r/fixedbytheduet would be nice as well, but lemmy doesn't allow uploading videos :(

The issue is the compatibility. You can follow Lemmy from Mastondon, but not vis-versa.

Lemmy is pretty dismissive of the rest of the fediverse.

Moi je leur laisse le boulot, même si je me plaint tous les mois de la police.

Le problème c'est que policier, c'est un travail ingrat. Quand tu fait bien ton boulot, personne devrait s'en rendre compte. Si t'es un peu laxiste "la police ne fait rien!", si t'es ferme "violence policière!!!"

Je sais pas quoi penser pour être honnête.