If it’s a package I’m not familiar with and is relatively small/unknown then I’ll give it a brief once over to see if there’s anything that sticks out (obfuscated code, making http requests when the package should never do that, etc.). Most of the time though it is just trusting the FOSS community.

Can I ask what quirks/off behavior you see (genuinely asking)?

A lot of farmers are learning how they work cause the companies that sell them the equipment keep fucking them over. I would argue that farmers nowadays needs to know how that works along with basic programming to get past the anti-consumer bullshit companies put in to make it nigh impossible to fix things yourself.

Like those platforms aren’t already full of AI garbage as well. Training new models will require a cut-off date before the genie was let out of the bottle.

Yes

Companies do share data either directly or indirectly, so I don’t think your approach of spreading it out is as effective as you think it is. Still not the worst thing to do in addition to other measures though. Another thing is to use a unique email address for each site to make that one common data point no longer common.

Yes

This is the kind of mews we need /s

I’m going to refer to myself as USB-B from now on

That’s not an issue inherent to Firefox and anyone that cares enough to block cookies usually has the know-how of how to re-enable them for a specific page.

What am I looking at? Some plastic explosives and ball bearings rigged to explode when the laptop is powered on?

How should he know? He’s a new user after all.

I use vim btw

PHP stands for “PHP Hypertext Processor”. The PHP in that stands for “PHP Hypertext Processor”. This pattern repeats infinitely.

Sounds like they need to learn about deomcracy and its merits in Helldivers

It got lost in PHP’s infinite recursion initials

Neither of those people are even mentioned in the article?

Which is all the more reason right to repair is important.

If offline mode was already an option this is especially shitty to cut off the product from people who bought it

Thank God we have you to police people’s use of hyperbole. I would’ve never known that this wasn’t actually worse than the Holocaust without you very valuable input.