https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/chrisstokelwalker/raspb...
If I clicked that link, and bladerunner.social served me malware, where is the "throat to choke"?
And if you get malware from facebook.com, who do you think you're going to "choke"? You think you're going to get something from facebook?
The friends that have left the profession would rather work fastfood than anything even tangentially close to law enforcement, like security.
I’m not quite jaded enough (barely) that I still believe that people can grow up in decent environments, somewhat sheltered from the world, thinking they can go into policing or politics and “do some good”. I don’t know that I still believe that they actually can do any good… but if they started off naively optimistic and then realized what it was like, and left? That takes a degree of character, and some guts knowing you’re leaving a profession. There’s opportunity cost.
Now… this particular guy at RPi and 15 years to figure it out? Eh. And generally unsure why this is being flagged, except for “drama” maybe. It’s a bad look from an organization that lots of people know about and respect(ed).
If you can turn a side hobby into a second career, why not go for it?
The RPi's social media poster definitely needs retraining. There is no need to be this passive aggressive on a commercial account.
1. Is raspberry.social the Mastodon server by the actual Raspberry people?
2. They hired an ex police person? What is the context here that makes this so dramatic?
3. What is #fediblock? Is this a Mastodon wide block? That terrifies me, that's king of against the whole nature of a decentralised network right? Are we introducing "centralised" behaviour into the decentralised network?
2. Raspberry pi hired an ex police person, I guess the concern is that he is a maker who previously made surveillance gadgets.
3. #fediblock is an announcement of defederation. As a server admin, you can jump in on #fediblocks. Or, you may want to stay federated with the instance. Originally they were used to announce defederation with pedophilia/gore/spam/harassment instances and other things you don't want your community getting polluted with. They are still used for that, but there's a lot of activism in #fediblock also.
#fediblock isn't a requirement for any instance to take part in.
The problem was made worse because the Raspberry pi team wouldn't engage with other instances to try and resolve the issue.
Yes there are going to be issues with the #fediblock, bigger instances will always have more power to silence others.
edit: added dont
He's there to help us protect our rights... right...?
https://www.thepoke.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/anakin-...
