I thought the Unreal Engine was running native on linux, last time I checked… 17 years ago…

They needed to construct additional pylons.

What’s uptime?

What??? For realsies???

Not sure if ironic, or an incredible idiot.

Can someone ELI5 why this is so great? I watched the video and I hardly get it. (Linux user for 18 years)

I saw the video. Is that really against the FOSS philosophy? I imagine that you can’t do that with e.g. the kernel either.

The licencing they chose is a bit of a hack job, but I see the necessity. IMHO, it’s clear that they want to advance the libre software world.

Isn’t it FOSS?

If he only knew anything about politics, it wouldn’t be so bad. He seriously applauded Elon Musk for “fighting” against media bias by “the far-left democrats”. 🫠

I switched back in 2005 (I think), because Windows XP didn’t have the drivers for being installed on an S-ATA drive and SUSE could be installed without any hassle. I feel very old.

I’ve heard good things of Chimera OS. Haven’t used it myself yet, though.

I know this is gonna seem wild, but… you talk to each other?

Ok, so I guess it’s a semantics issue then.

Thank you for a more productive conversation than any of the ones I’ve had on twitter. Take care.

You could defederate with instances running versions that don’t delete federated posts. Removing compatipility with older protocol implementations is not unheard of.

With all due respect: I think your analogy made a strawman of what was originally demanded.

Originally, several less-than-ideal “privacy” (or whatever you call it) issues were pointed out.

No one demanded perfect privacy like with E2EE messengers, but rather: sensible protocol implementation of deletions.

No one is demanding that people shouldn’t be able to scrape stuff from the internet.

Still: There is a possibility of doing everything in your power to delete stuff that’s supposed to be deleted when you’re a developer.

And they actually do implement this stuff. That is why it is important to point these things out! The squeaky wheel gets the grease, as they say. Or is this issue counterproductive too, because it gives people the illusion that you can delete things on the internet?

If you think that “privacy” is the wrong term: granted. But sensible deletion protocols are not too much to ask for.

That’s a strawman. No one demands mind-altering powers. Records to be deleted: that’s another story.

Being able to delete tweets doesn’t stop people from screengrabbing them. It’s still good that the option exists.

It cowld defederate any non-compliant instances.

Allow me to pick your example apart a bit.

However, what is not feasible, or within the realm of reason, or what privacy advocates tend to advocate for, is the ability for me to willingly go up on stage, say something on the mic which I immediately regret, and then ask everyone present to forget it ever happened and delete any footage they might have of it. No reasonable person would ask for something like that, because it is not a reasonable request.

That’s not what is demanded. No one demands that the audience (users) forget what I said (the comment), much less: immediately. No one is asking for mind-erasing power or the ability to remove screenshots from other people’s client devices.

With federated websites, that becomes enhanced; it’s like if the bar you’re in has a camera pointed at the microphone, and transmits both video and audio directly into several other bars.

Now, that is where the actual demands come into play: As you pointed out, it is reasonable to demand that the bar deletes any recording of what I said on stage. But the way the footage is shared with the other bars can be regulated via a protocol. In your analogy, it’s like the other bars copy tapes from the original bar and show them at their place. Now, implementing a procedure of “delete that tape, please” is not impossible. In fact, it already works on Mastodon. If a bar doesn’t comply, it simply wont get any tapes from the other bars (it gets defederated).

AFAIK, there is already such a feature planned on github. Which is great. But that is exactly the reason why these things need to be brought up and “privacy realism” is counterproductive.

I find all the “privacy isn’t possible on the clearnet, lol” Commets quite troubling. Yes, the internet doesn’t forget and we should always behave on the internet as if our moms could read it.

But that kind of “privacy realism” fosters an additude that doesn’t care about privacy at all; no matter how it could be improved (even if it’s never perfect). Just because anyone on the street can follow me home and therefore can find my home address, I’m not carrying a sign with my address when going to a protest.

According to this comment, privacy is worse than with mastodon. And while data always can be scraped, it still isn’t too much to ask to properly federate deletions.

Yes, the internet is a public place and reddit is bad and you might not like raddle, but come on, people. Have you all given up on improving things already? And do only tech-savvy people with the knowledge and resources to run their own servers have a right to privacy on the internet?