Facebook flags Linux topics as 'cybersecurity threats' — posts and users being blocked

[ourkaos@lemmy.today]

That's the reason I got out of programming. Spending days reinventing the concept of the wheel so you can then reinvent the wheel, and as soon as you finish someone looks at your code and says "why didn't you just add 1 here?"

I didn't make enough money to maintain a drug habit that would have allowed me to keep my sanity.

[cy_narrator@discuss.tchncs.de]

Who hurt Facebook? This must be some unintended issue or else what do they have to do with Linux?

[_cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

We've been on the receiving end of attention like this from Microsoft for longer than Facebook has been a thing, if Zuck thinks this is gonna make a dent in things, he's mistaken.

[_cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

You mean besides the fact that Linux gives power and choice back to the user, and that goes against everything Facebook stands for?

[_cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

I mean, Linux literally runs the world, so if this is the best he can do, not even my bunny slippers are gonna be spooked.

[vitorobles@lemmy.today]

Those who need it the most. Imagine them just asking questions about what this Linux thing is to their friends.

[_cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

I don't think it was Microsoft, in the past few years they've been being a little chill towards Linux.

As for being an attack, even if they wanted to, they couldn't get rid of Linux. Even the US government can't tell people to stop using it. I mean, they can tell people to stop, but there's no practical way for them to enforce such a law. Most distros out there also distribute via torrent, so even if you took down the websites for all the distros, you couldn't stop the distribution of the ISOs. Not to mention, if they outlawed or restricted Linux, I can't think of anything that would absolutely make the Linux users become very rebellious. Imagine the majority of the hackers, white, gray, and black hat, all of a sudden becoming very angry with the US government. It would be absolute chaos.

Not to mention, there are corporations like Valve and Ubuntu that have invested millions into Linux. I don't believe for a second they would just lay down and not fight the government outlawing something that has become very lucrative for them.

[mushroomm@sh.itjust.works]

Sure but those links to sketchy .apk games of which the ad for them involves rape or kidnapping usually are a-okay

[psycho_driver@lemmy.world]

That and Linux is kind of like a software implementation of socialism and it's been a smashing success.

[atherel@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

And when you look at it it's stupid either way

[teknikal@eviltoast.org]

Remember the first time I read about Linux (long time ago) and they were basically calling it a communist os (not even joking) first site on Google at the time was all about how it was unpatriotic to use it etc.

[jrgd@lemm.ee]

You're not referring to this satire article by chance?

[nevermindnomind@lemmy.world]

To be fair, Meta is the only US based AI player that open sources their models. Fuck meta in general, but it's hard to say that they are wholly opposed to open source.

[teknikal@eviltoast.org]

It could be if it's really old but yeah whatever it was it was Google's top result if you searched linux in Google for quite a while. I think the one I read was a bit more malicious and less Jokey about it.

[roofuskit@lemmy.world]

This is the opposite of a conspiracy. More of an incompetence theory.

[phoenixz@lemmy.ca]

Its not suckerberg, it's Microsoft doing this. Not the first time, not the last either, definitely a low and scary step, though. This is one step in the direction of "let's literally kill the competition"

[rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee]

Are we the illuminati?

[reksas@sopuli.xyz]

yeah, i hope i'm just overthinking. Its just that linux is basically only true freedom we have what comes to operating systems. Maybe they just want to keep people who dont know that much about computers away from linux. Though that should be opposed just as well.

[revan343@lemmy.ca]

a communist os

That's exactly what it is

[rumba@lemmy.zip]

Are we the baddies?

No, no, we're not the... wait what distro you running?