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So then do you define a company with 400 million annually and over 2K employees as Medium Tech? Because that ain't no mom-and-pop tech shop seeking to undermine the status quo, that's got to be in the top 10 companies in that space. Obviously MS and Atlassian are bigger, but gitlab is like number 2 for git!

Probably because your original comment sounds like a shitpost. If that's an authentic problem you have then it sounds like you've got malware in your browser, or maybe someone with higher access in your network hierarchy (apartment or university admin) is doing a redirect of some kind, though why to porn i cant imagine so I think we're back to "malware in the stack".

The US also has a huge, cellular, distributed, militarized police force. Under Trump, that's the real immediate threat. They've had decades of dehumanizing their fellow citizens and are eager to employ military tactics and authoritarian rule to a population they see as sheep. Many of them are part of unregulated militias as well.

A US civil war or revolution would almost certainly look like guerilla leftists and military deserters vs military hardliners and the police. On the upshot, a lot of police are actually soft babies and probably wouldn't stick it out for protracted fighting.

Militias could dig in and hold a lot of territory under martial law in some areas though. Appalachia just a hive of little forts and compounds.

I looked into doing something similar with Wikipedia and the recommendation is also to use Kiwix, and the offline file size is also very large.

Welcome to the collapse! Hoarding "clean data" for personal use is like hoarding clean water and food: you need a place to keep it, and it starts going stale the minute you shelve it. So either buy a digital bunker to load up with what you need or ask the all knowing AI gods for answers like the other poors.

Also the Stack Exchange software used to be open source, surely there's still a fork somewhere. You could certainly run your own Developer QA site, but like with Lemmy, the problem then is getting enough traffic to be able to productively tap into the collective wisdom.

(Edit: sorry, this comes across mean spirited but I'm honestly sympathetic and just nihilisticallly frustrated to be in a similar situation. I foresee a big NAS and a lot of downloads in my future, but I hope we also find ways to share our forbidden knowledge until the day it can be free again)

I also stopped posting there years ago for much the same reason. You could feel the strangulation of the community as duplicate questions started getting shouted down, posts got turned into "community wikis" against your will and your own questions started getting edited to better fit someone else's plans and ideologies. The company was sold shortly after, so maybe animals can sense their pending extinction (some of them anyway)?

I miss those days when writing an answer genuinely felt like helping to grow the global community of friend developers. It's a shame no technology has been discovered that will let the small amount of collective good in us all work together against the assholes, but alas it seems the opposite is always true.

"Censorship forced me to flee a pro-nazi site to another pro-nazi site," is a contradiction worth noting. It highlights the general pro-nazi vibe going around big tech.

I donate about $7 a month to my masto instance (Hachyderm, funny enough) because:

• Twitter wanted $10
• I know about 1% of users donate
• I like having an independent instance run by people I feel ideologically aligned with.

For similar reasons I will very likely donate something to db0 this quarter to support my Lemmy habit.

I still have reason to use Facebook, reddit, Instagram, and those places all suck. It's so dire scrolling there and literally 80% of the content is ads. I canceled all my streaming services this year but I'm still going to pay for independent social media because it's worth it.

Many people consider it an unseamly career, and most who go to school for it come unraveled or wash out early. They needle you everyday, and it's all too easy to get caught in a tangle. And then even if you manage to graduate, the job market is only sew-sew!

The attacks are more sophisticated and with Ai able to be performed at far larger scales. Cybersecurity practices have been eroded for years by, I suspect, intentional effort by multiple spook groups to make security more complex and less accessible to normal people. Multiple fascists governments globally have also made strong efforts to weaken education, sow mistrust of experts, and in general promote anti-intellectualism.

The result is a population of over confident, uneducated people who believe they can detect scams and lies with their vast superiority, and who widely lack tools, training, and access to real cybersecurity.

They probably think NordVPN protects them from phishing too, somehow.

I suppose while we're conquering a grab bag of countries Trump remembered exists, Putin is supposed to be using his North Korean troops to take over the rest of Europe? Goddamn, WW3 is going to be so fucking stupid, right up until the nukes fly because the might of the Greenland national guard proved too great for us.

The first time I played Crisis, I was already in awe because of that brilliant sunrise opening scene. As I'm creeping through the jungle towards the next objective, I hear loud running water and decide to see what it is.

They put in an absolutely stunning waterfall off to the side, complete with rainbows and ferns growing up around the base. One of those few memorable, special times when a game had the right art direction, graphics tech, and hit at just the right moment for me to all culminate in a real feeling of wonder and joy.

I tend to be very cynical about games being able to do that to me anymore, and it is much rarer with how commonplace high-definition but artistically uninspired assets have gotten. But it still happens now and then, the last time being Elden Ring which did have impressive art and design, and did "wow" me several times.

My favorite bird! So beautiful!