The headline does not contain any clickbait-typical elements, for instance

• Most of The Words Capitalized
• A question mark at the end
• "You won’t believe’
• etc.

deodorant without any smell exist.

but if someone installs arch then complains that it broke because they didnt check the news (something that the maintainers recommend you do) then the blame/fault shifts to the user, not the system.

The question is though why pacman does not display these news during the update. Gentoo has been doing this for decades.

Indeed I am always disguested when someone says “send a mail”.

Maybe this is more common when English is not your native language; e.g. in Germany, “mail” is “Brief”, and “email” is just “E-Mail” or more short “mail”, because no one says “elektronischer Brief”.

Interesting to see his take on “e-mail” vs “email”.

So that might just be the origin of this language butchering you observed; as “email” means something different in various languages, lots of people who don’t speak English as their first language might have chosen to use “mail” for electronic mail. That is just speculation of course.

I don’t know where you are living, but in my place there are local “tech collectives” which are non-profit organizations that provide folks with an email address. Of course way too many people are still using gmail, but the alternative is there.

I think what’s worse is that you are basically forced to have one of those corporations email account for a smartphone, and nowadays you are basically forced to have a smartphone to participate in society.

I have been done with email for nearly a decade now, mostly. So, to answer your question, I use fax and snail mail. Not joking. I feel liberated and don’t give a shit about postage or inconvenience. There is still that exceptional 5% or so who I will exchange email with, which does not have GAFAM in the loop.

I respect that. Reminds me of Donald Knuth, who stopped using email in 1990: " I have been a happy man ever since January 1, 1990, when I no longer had an email address"

https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/email.html

when email is effectively controlled by major tech companies,

That is not the case. We both can setup a mail server and email each other without any issues.

What alternative do you propose that is not based on some proprietary solution?

That “article” is obviously AI generated; that whole page should be blocked from this community.

You should read the original article, or even his mail on LKML, because that is not what he is saying. He is not endorsing AI in any way; instead, he is concerned that the latest linux release candidate has so much changes, because everyone and their mother is using some AI tool to create and send “little small” fixes; obviously he has no control over how volunteers work.

Furthermore, he stated that the security mailing list has become unusable due to the influx of AI generated entries.

What is a “gender filter”?

Yes, it should have been a ; instead.

spoil them with some human interaction.

How is that “spoiling” someone?

I mean come on, is it really asked to much to say your name and why you are part of this meeting?

Yes.

It makes the meeting artificially longer; if we would just get started, we would save save. Doing this is just being disrespectful to everyone’s time.

Why is this so badly written?

Why do you pipe stderr of du into /dev/null?

The same idiots who bring a toddler to the art museum. I can keep myself together when I follow my girlfriend 3 hours walking at the slowest possible pace through a boring ass exhibition; the toddlers, not so much.

But maybe it was an employee and the screams of the child enhance my art experience somehow.

That is why I self-host https://github.com/TeamPiped/Piped ; it is a bit of work to setup, especially because you need a SSL certificate. But man that thing is fast.

But you can also just play the video in mpv.

Has AI really atrophied their tech skills that much?

These people never had any skill to begin with. They only have a codebase now because of AI.

Do you bully people for their phone use IRL? Does anyone take you seriously? I bet not.

It sounds more like that this is something you do. You write whole paragraphs defending your “iphone choice”.

I’d rather have a phone by a computer company than an advertising company.

There are other companies than Google and Apple who sell smartphones, e.g. FairPhone.