Raspberry Pi gets schooled in how social media is supposed to work

https://eiara.nz/posts/2022/Dec/09/a-case-study-on-raspberry-pis-incident-on-the-fediverse/

Hilarious. ‘reduce harm to their users’. I am so mewing triggered.

FFS what a bunch of snowflakes! I think if they even read, never mind participated in, a 80s or 90s Usenet flame war, they would literally keel over and die.

I did not understand a word.

PS. This site cannot be reached [www.heyrick.co.uk], so glad to see Rick is alive and kicking

Thats most likely because Rick has negotiated Rickxit.

Try Heyrickxit

Thanks for the report. heyrick.co.uk should be working (quiet redirect to the .eu domain), but yes, the one that will carry on in the future will be https://heyrick.eu/

Prolly some DNS setting mucked up… looking into it.

Okay, I’ve either fixed it or broken it less. ;)

Should just add, if anybody spots anything going wrong like that, please don’t hesitate to drop me an email.

Rick has negotiated Rickxit

Well, actually Rickxit happened in 2002.

Thanks. Changing co.uk to eu fixed it. There might be a parable in that.

Amusing follow-up today. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/chrisstokelwalker/raspberry-pi-hired-ex-cop-mastodon-controversy

One dev winged: “It’s open source — and that is the antithesis of private surveillance.”

Err, it’s open source, so anyone can use it any way they blooming well want to (so long as not expressly forbidden by the licence, which it won’t be).

‘Upton claimed both Roberts and Raspberry Pi’s social media manager have been doxxed and received death threats’. Nice Fediverse inhabitants. Moderators of Mastodon instances who think it’s fine for posts with AllCopsAreBastards hashtags and much worse content to remain, but melt at one of their users to be told ‘bye bye’.

Well, actually Rickxit happened in 2002

Well just proves how ahead in thought you are ..must be something to do with looking forward and not backwards.

There might be a parable in that.

Well, since I’m a Guardian-Reading, Tofu-Eating ¹, Wokerati ^{2 3}, I guess I’d better not say anything. ;)

¹ I don’t particularly care for tofu.

² Is it actually possible for a child of the 80s to be woke? It’s called not being a bastard (ora snowflake).

³ One out of three, that’s pretty good going for this omnishambles.

I’m sure you are not triggered by seeing a picture of Pigs in Blankets, though, Rick.

Is it actually possible for a child of the 80s to be woke? It’s called not being a bastard (or a snowflake)

All the usages of “woke” by people of varying prominence that I’ve seen seem to be attempts at derogatory labelling of people of intelligence and compassion by people lacking intelligence and compassion.
I’m guessing that most (all?) the people round here are likely to fit the higher end of the spectrum of both intelligence and caring what happens to others, which means we’re likely to be labelled as “woke” by people (in the loosest sense of possessing a humanoid shape) who, from all evidence, are seriously low on the spectrum.

50+ years ago, the Neanderthals of our generation labelled the others they envied “swots”. Labels change, that’s about it.

One dev winged: “It’s open source — and that is the antithesis of private surveillance.”

How does he make that leap? I mean, if a Russian nuke upgrades it’s guidance to be a little Chinese SoC running Linux, that would make it okay?

‘Upton claimed both Roberts and Raspberry Pi’s social media manager have been doxxed and received death threats’.

Was this in the beginning or was it the scum that turn up after something happens to kick the corpse?
Was this on Mastodon or Twitter?

Nice Fediverse inhabitants.

People being people. Example? Not so long ago Belgium fell out of the football thing, so people rioted in Brussels. Today is you lot versus this lot and it’ll be a miracle if it passes with no problems.
Sadly, there are people who’s first inclination is towards violence.

It will, of course, be a good test as to the viability of Mastodon as a Twitter replacement.

Moderators of Mastodon instances who think it’s fine for posts with AllCopsAreBastards hashtags and much worse content to remain, but melt at one of their users to be told ‘bye bye’.

Ditto above. The interesting thing, as demonstrated by what happened to Pi, is that if a moderator acts ina bad way (or doesn’t act for others), they can be kicked out by other moderators.

That being said, I wonder how many of the troublemakers are American? I can see people getting upset because saying “bye bye” is implied censorship and supposedly against their first amendment rights, while saying “All cops are bastards” is them exercising those same first amendment rights. It is, of course, complete bollocks and I think many do not understand what “freedom of speech” actually is, but that’s a whole different argument.

Somebody called Bowser said (quoted in the BuzzFeed article): You’re alienating a large chunk of your customers by going pro-cop. The company clearly doesn’t know how their products are being used in the world. A lot of people who use it are anti-authoritarian, anti-surveillance, and don’t like police brutality."

While I can fully understand a strong dislike of the rozzers, particularly the increasingly militarised American ones, this point of view is shockingly, perhaps dangerously, naïve.
He’s basically saying that he uses Pi hardware to make devices to catch snooping devices, while completely disregarding the fact that the ex-cop used the exact same hardware to build snooping devices.
Who is right? Both and neither. It’sa hardware platform. It runs RISC OS, it’s gone to space. To try to imagine that it somehow picks sides is… idiotic.

Maybe the British Pi guys have just had a sharp lesson in how much the police are hated in some places. Pertinently those places where non whites are all too often “accidental” target practice.

The really sad thing is that if the ex-cop kept that silent and later posted “look, here’s a way to hide a Pi camera in fake chocolate”, people would probably be saying how cool that was. 🤦🏻‍♀️

I’m sure you are not triggered

I don’t get “triggered”, period. That requires an emotional response and I’m not so good at those.

I strongly disagree with putting trigger warnings on fairy tales. Your parents lied to you, repeatedly, with Santa, the Tooth Fairy, etc etc. The job of fairy tales is to educate you to the fact that it’s a crapsack world, people who offer you sweets probably want to kill you, and your grandmother was eaten by a wolf and it’ll be your turn soon…
We’re probably seeing so many snowflakes these days because nobody dared prepare them for the harsh reality of life – you’ll be lonely, poor, and die alone unless you kiss a frog……

by people (in the loosest sense of possessing a humanoid shape)

Oh, damn. That’s not so much shade as extinguishing the sun.

👍

Labels change, that’s about it.

Yes indeed. Some changes during my life have been for the better: queer-bashing and wolf-whistling are now taboo, at least. But philistinism, by which I mean fear of anything intellectual, appears still to be OK. I blame that, and the adoption of sport as a state religion, in large part for the frog chorus: brekekexit koax koax .

All the usages of “woke” by people of varying prominence that I’ve seen seem to be attempts at derogatory labelling of people of intelligence and compassion by people lacking intelligence and compassion.

And labelling all those who voted Brexit as “people lacking intelligence and compassion” amongst other things seems equally a bit lazy as well but that seems ok with some.

For the record I voted to remain and would still do so but this labelling of others as some how lacking is just plain wrong which ever way it is.

We all have different views and as long as we debate them in a civil manner then thats good for me and to some how take the high moral ground by saying " I am more intellegent than you so must be compassionate" does a diservice to lot of people who don’t fit that or should we just stop a lot of people helping out a food banks or soup kitchens unless they pass some IQ test we think of.

As to Swot then I still remember that term, plus a couple of others, just before the fist of the local He-Man made contact with my face..

saying " I am more intellegent than you so must be compassionate"

I was quite carefully to include both as separate items, with the likes of Gove in mind as he clearly fails on the compassion, and the likes of Trump just fail.

As to Swot then I still remember that term, plus a couple of others, just before the fist of the local He-Man made contact with my face..

Ah, ouch. The then area schools champion at 100, 200 and 400 was not actually the fastest pupil in town – he never caught me on any chase. Small and manoeuvrable as well as fast saved many a bruise.

labelling all those who voted Brexit as “people lacking intelligence and compassion” amongst other things seems equally a bit lazy

You are right, and I am sorry if my rant seemed to imply that. It is just that I saw no consideration given by the arguments for leave to the rights of those who have family in Europe, or those for whom Brexit is a personal (or financial or practical, or … ) disaster.

rights of those who have family in Europe

Yup. Our daughter’s husband is German. They live in Germany. She and our grandson have dual nationality, but our son-in-law doesn’t, and nor of course do we, or our son. Brexit is an unmitigated (unmitigatable) disaster.

no consideration given by the arguments for leave to [remainers]

This.

I was not able to have a say because “you’re not in the country, it doesn’t concern you”.
This was followed up by variations of “you lost, get over it” and “eff off, we don’t want people like you in England” (note – I’m not English…).

Then “why aren’t you helping us” as the leavers push for harder and harder interpretations.

Now the crap is stuck to the walls, guess what, it’s our fault for interfering with the democratic will of the people (don’t get me started…).

While there is some truth in Brexit being carried by typically less educated older people (see the voter stats), calling somebody dumb because they believed the lies of the likes of Johnson and Farage isn’t going to be particularly useful given that remain did such an abysmal effort because they were certain they’d win it.

But I can call “the generic leave voter” utterly selfish, because this attitude has come up again and again, egged on by the right wing media who seems to think the best answer to any discussion is to “shut down” the other side. Because non leavers lost, therefore we don’t have any point of view, therefore shut the eff up.

Is it any wonder some of us have taken to ridiculing leavers? I mean, it’s not as if they’d listen to anything we had to say, as they engineered destroying decades of integration and wrecking rights that some of us were born with.

Let’s put it like this. If I was ever to “return” to an English speaking country, it would be an independent Scotland, or the south of Ireland (given they haven’t broken the CTA…yet). England? All the places I used to know?
No.
Just no.

It’s not hate. I don’t hate leave voters, even those who are still convinced it was a good idea. However, I am fully entitled not to choose to be friends with them. Given that I have already lost the better half of my identity as a person.

But mostly, it’s just disillusionment and disappointment.
I sometimes say to people that looking at how Britain is, watching the news, it seems to me that I lot has changed in twenty years. It’s not the country that I remember, and it certainly isn’t the country that I grew up in. I have a strong feeling that even walking around the places I used to live, I’d be a stranger in a strange land.

Maybe I’m the frog that jumped out of the pot?

it would be an independent Scotland

I wish they didn’t keep calling it independence, it is the breaking/splitting of the Union between Scotland and England.

Just another in a long list of countries that don’t want Westminster in charge, want to make their own decisions, and create their own destiny.
It’s only a union if there’s some sort of balance or equivalence. If it’s one larger country telling the smaller one what to do (whether they like it or not – re. Brexit), breaking the union might be the correct political title, but gaining independence is what’s actually happening.