I did.

I also read a fair chunk of the article you linked and it didn’t change my view.

I disagree that employers fear litigation. Is there something else I missed?

It is very much true

From the link you provided:

This may come as a surprise to some: it is only after two years of continued service that employees have the right to request written reasons for their dismissal.

Employers don’t need to provide a reason for your dismissal.

There are some exceptions but they’re very specific and unlikely to relevant. If an employer wants rid of you they can do so at their whim.

Even if you think you have a case, good luck finding a solicitor who will take on your case. They simply won’t be interested because it’s not easy to win without the rights you get after 2 years employment.

I live in the UK where it’s practically impossible to get fired.

In the UK you only get employment protections after working at a company for two years. Up until then you can be fired without reason

Is it definitely the MP3 format at fault here? Was your MP3 from an official source or could it have been from a faulty source or improperly transcoded?

I guess. I don’t get it.

This sums it up exactly!

You aren’t just downvoting comments you disagree with, you’re downvoting comments because you don’t understand them.

By downvoting instead of commenting you never open that discussion to learn about somebody’s view.

And by downvoting you’re reducing the chance that somebody else might see the comment. Who either does understand it, or responds to continue the discussion.

I completely agree, you’ve summed up my view far better than I could.

There’s also a controversial approach that if you’re debating with someone and you believe in the points you’re making then you should upvote even the comments you disagree.

By doing so the full thread of comments is ranked higher so more people see the incredibly clever points you’re articulating.

This isn’t so relevant on Lemmy right now because it’s still small so you might read all comments on ba post. But it made a massive difference on reddit where there were thousands of comments. So the algorithm becomes very selective.

That’s what the report and block tools are for.

If it occurs harassment is an issue for moderators and admins to deal with.

This is how you end up with echo chambers.

It’s fake internet points, the amount you have doesn’t matter in the slightest. There’s no reason not to downvote what you disagree with.

The amount on each individual comment does matter, as it affects how the algorithms order comments when showing them to other people.

You have no reason to so I presume you haven’t.

If we were actually in a discussion and you started downvoting all my comments I’d see it as a sign of pettiness and disengage.

I’d probably also tag you as a reminder to myself not to engage with you again.

This is precisely my reason for why they should be public.

In my view downvotes should be used sparingly, only to suppress spam and trolling comments that don’t add to the conversation.

By keeping votes private people just downvote anything they disagree with

You don’t need to apologise.

Given that you thought they were trying to provoke you, your response was really relaxed and from it you got the clarity you needed.

Navigating the world of neurotypicals is hard but I think you’re doing fine.

understand what is the common idea about the fact that systemd could be a critical part of Linux which is in the hands of IBM and Microsoft and what this means for the linux community overall.

Either nobody cares, or it’s too much complottistic to be real.

I wasn’t familiar with the word complotism but yes I think this is the case - It’s just an unsubstantiated conspiracy.

Even if were true that Microsoft had taken over systemd by stealth. What is the harm? If they suddenly do something malicious with it then all the distros will just fork systemd and continue without the malicious elements.

I’ve read the update you made to your original post.

So I now understand your concern is Microsoft control systemd and the proof of that is that the project lead works for Microsoft? Is that the only proof?

I think it’s quite a grasp. There is no money in open source so the developers need jobs. In this case the developer happens to be employed by Microsoft.

I was impressed they resisted calling it micro$oft. That’s the usual sign of somebody adopting the tribal views of others.

In that case why not share your opinion?

Instead you’ve claimed you’re neutral and shared links to the views of 15 other people.

You haven’t even provided any context on these articles. Or quoted anything from them that you are concerned about.

Everything about this screams you’re asking in bad faith just hoping to waste people’s time or start an argument.

You provided 15 links.

Are you seriously expecting somebody to walk you through each one?

You’re claiming not to care either way about systemd and yet you’ve provided 15 sources against it and apparently done zero research into why it has been so widely adopted.

Well, the latest development I’ve seen is they’re deleting (censoring) comments calling out the political bias of their CEO on their post about how they’re fighting against censorship:

https://www.reddit.com/r/ProtonVPN/comments/1ij4qn9/behind_the_scenes_of_proton_vpns_fight_against/

Here’s an evidenced account of part of what their CEO asserted:

This is what the CEO posting as u/Proton_Team stated in a response on r/ProtonMail:

Here is our official response, also available on the Mastodon post in the screenshot:

Corporate capture of Dems is real. In 2022, we campaigned extensively in the US for anti-trust legislation.

Two bills were ready, with bipartisan support. Chuck Schumer (who coincidently has two daughters working as big tech lobbyists) refused to bring the bills for a vote.

At a 2024 event covering antitrust remedies, out of all the invited senators, just a single one showed up - JD Vance.

By working on the front lines of many policy issues, we have seen the shift between Dems and Republicans over the past decade first hand.

Dems had a choice between the progressive wing (Bernie Sanders, etc), versus corporate Dems, but in the end money won and constituents lost.

Until corporate Dems are thrown out, the reality is that Republicans remain more likely to tackle Big Tech abuses.

Source: https://archive.ph/quYyb

To call out the important bits:

1. He refers to it as the “official response”
2. Indicates that JD Vance is on their side just because he attended an event that other invited senators didn’t
3. Rattles on about “corporate Dems” with incredible bias
4. States “Republicans remain more likely to tackle Big Tech abuses” which is immediately refuted by every response

That was posted in ther/ProtonMail sub where the majority of the event took place: https://old.reddit.com/r/ProtonMail/comments/1i1zjgn/so_that_happened/m7ahrlm/

However be aware that the CEO posting as u/Proton_Team kept editing his comments so I wouldn’t trust the current state of it. Plus the proton team/subreddit mods deleted a ton of discussion they didn’t like. Therefore this archive link captured the day after might show more but not all: https://web.archive.org/web/20250116060727/https://old.reddit.com/r/ProtonMail/comments/1i1zjgn/so_that_happened/m7ahrlm/

Some statements were made on Mastodon but these are subsequently deleted, but they’re capture by an archive link: https://web.archive.org/web/20250115165213/https://mastodon.social/@protonprivacy/113833073219145503

I learned about it from an r/privacy thread but true to their reputation the mods there also went on a deletion spree and removed the entire post: https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/1i210jg/protonmail_supporting_the_party_that_killed/

This archive link might show more but I’ve not checked: https://web.archive.org/web/20250115193443/https://old.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/1i210jg/protonmail_supporting_the_party_that_killed/

There’s also this lemmy discussion from the day after but by that point the Proton team had fully kicked in their censorship so I don’t know how much people were aware of (apologies I don’t know how to make a generic lemmy link) https://feddit.uk/post/22741653

Can you share more info about it? Why did you choose it, any pros or cons? It’s the first time I’ve heard of it.

The article specifically states rackspace are only moving 50 VMs.

The client moving 40,000 is unnamed.

Why would a company have 40,000 VMs?! The scale of computing resources is always astronomically different to what I think a service would need.