“Trust” as in: trust it enough to run it on your machine.
(And assuming that you can’t understand code yourself)
There’s such different views on life that I don’t think its possible to get software designed close to what you or I believe in.
If the source is open, the code is viewable. So yes I think I can trust, at least the code.
Also there’s a saying “trust but verify”. So actually check to see if the binaries your getting actually behave the way you think.
No. If I disagree with someone politically it’s likely because they want me and anyone like me dead. Those people are dead to me.
I’m pretty sure we’ll disagree politically on many issues but I don’t want you or anyone like you dead. I hope people in the US will stop viewing politics as cults and start to communicate with people disagreeing with them.
For the first 40+ years of my life, sure. For the past 10…we are suffering from a cult.
Do you support trans rights? Do you support immigration? Do you support the demilitarization of police and complete restructuring of the current US “justice” system? Do you know why credit scores exist? Do you support using taxes to provide for our most vulnerable? Do you know what diversity, equity, and inclusion are?
If you said no to any of those, then I doubt we share common ground
I doubt many people outside the US have any clue about whether the US justice system needs to be restructured, so there goes ~95% of the global population.
Excluding people from discussions because they don’t agree with ‘one’ point is setting yourself up for failure.
You aren’t winning anyone over with an all-or-nothing attitude, you’re cutting off many potential allies.
I choose not to do business with anyone who’s too vocal about their political disagreements. I’m paying you for your services not your opinion so shut up!
I used to feel this way but I need more nuance now.
If I had a global (or national, or statewide, or even citywide) platform of any kind, and there were momentous things happening in the world that I felt were wrong, and that I felt needed more awareness, how could I not use my platform?
I used to be so sick of celebrities with their political statements until one day that hit me. How could you, in good conscience (and this is true even of opinions I don’t agree with) find yourself with millions of people willing to listen to you, how could you not use your platform if you feel strongly enough that there is a moral or ethical obligation to speak up?
It’s a matter of trust, I can’t trust magats to be competent.
You might have replied to the wrong guy. I really didn’t touch on that.
I had a contractor in my house who saw that I had 40k models. Just as he was packing up, he started ranting about how the game had gotten too woke.
Please spare me and just leave.
Yes.
Whether you’d boycott it is another thing.
Is the political disagreement around surveillance or something related?
no.
IMO conservatives are untrustworthy and can’t identify fact from fiction.
would you run software from a dev who has a problem discerning reality? do you think a schizophrenic person writes stable maintainable code?
mental health is an important part of gaining trust in your product. ironic that they continue to trust and support a geriatric nazi-wannabe, but goes to show how compromised conservatives are when it comes to their decision making skills.
TempleOS?
technically the guy went crazy because of the project.
I can’t really apply “you don’t understand the code yourself” because I do.
So I do check the code if it’s something critical, but otherwise don’t bother. For example the Lemmy server I’m running I didn’t really check much because it can’t really do any harm to me.
But if I was running Lemmy somewhere on my home network, I’d either isolate it or thoroughly check it (but probably just isolate it from the rest of the network and put it in a VM, nobody’s got the time to read other people’s source code).
Since you’re asking specifically for “on my machine” I usually put stuff I don’t fully trust in a VM.
I’ve installed thousands of programs on my systems over the past 30 years. Closed source, open source, you name it. Never had a single problem.
Trusting software is such an overblown hangup that people have. Even if it bites me in the ass someday, so what? I’ll roll back, reformat, do whatever I have to do. It’ll have been worth it.
Depends on the software. I’d not trust a vpn that was made in an authoritarian state. I’ll play a game made in one.
As for the developer if they are more famous for their political views than the software I’d probably not install it.
Sure. Brave and GrapheneOS are two that I trust but have misgivings about their project heads.
I moved off of lemmy because I didn’t want to use software made by a tankie, so no.
Does it make much difference when your still federalised?
If you had not mentioned it i would be unable to tell that you are not on lemmy, i also believe your comments and interactions are still getting indexed by lemmy instances and help their growth.
That said, your instance is alluring to me.
I didn’t know about piefed till now, how big of a switch/change would it be?
I made the switch some weeks ago and can only speak of my experience using Voyager: The switch was flawless.
it’s the same principal of using one lemmy/piefed mobile client over another. my comments are still going to the fediverse, but if you’re using one software, you aren’t supporting the growth of another. even if other instances can see the things I post, that’s not their growth, since at any time I can cut them off if I do not like the behavior of their users.
as for features, piefed has a few significant things that lemmy does not have. for example, problematic users have a big red or yellow warning sign next to their name everywhere they go, showing that that person has low or very low reputation. at a certain threshold that I set, I can also automatically hide downvoted posts and comments. there’s also built-in user notes, so I can tag users and have that tag display next to their name as well.
and finally, piefed has actual user/instance blocking. for example, we found out the hard way that by having .ML as an instance blocked in my personal settings, no .ML users were able to comment on my posts or reply to my comments at all, even though my instance is federated with them.
there’s also a lot more settings when it comes to communities. while it was still on lemmy, we used to have a lot of .world users downvoting every post in !libjerk@anarchist.nexus, simply because they found the content offensive and did not interact in any other way. downvotes affect discoverability in /all, so those liberals were in effect trying to censor us because they don’t like being criticized. we’ve even had to deal with people using alts as zombies for downvoting. now that we’ve moved the comm to piefed, we can restrict the people who are allowed to downvote as much as we want, so that sort of abuse is impossible now.
Who’s out here trying to figure out the political or other beliefs of developers? I’ve got around 50 docker containers running on my server, there’s no way I’m going through people’s profiles to see if they’re morally aligned with me.
I presumably already do. Am I expected to know every single maintainer of every single piece of software I boot up? That is a LOT of homework to run an application.
Genuinely can’t tell if this a real question or some weird reductio ad absurdum thing on the not separating art from the artist trend in modern society.
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‘Open source’ is a deliberately ambiguous phrase, engineered to derail libre software.
It’s not, it’s a term that means very specific things. Most people don’t even know that, but both free software and open source are not some catch all phrases. And in fact they don’t even mean the same thing.
You can for example have an open source software that’s not free software. The reverse is harder, but IIRC I’ve seen some license that would qualify (it’s been years, maybe I’m misremembering cause I can’t find it anymore).
^ yet another victim of this scam. They don’t even know and they’re trying to teach us. lmao
