@avoca@gladtech.social I'm too busy laughing, but I'm going to need to block you now because I'm laughing so hard I can't even breathe.

@avoca@gladtech.social lol

@avoca@gladtech.social okay boomer @sco_tty@mastodon.social

@avoca@gladtech.social You mean the start where you blamed people for not picking the right distro to start with like it justified the abuse they got? The reason I swore at you from jump, mate, is that you are blaming the victim in the situation. That's not okay.
@sco_tty@mastodon.social

@pikesley@mastodon.me.uk I just wanted to say I love your display name.

@avoca@gladtech.social lol, okay

@avoca@gladtech.social Yup, let's call the woman who's angry about victim blaming toxic.

@avoca@gladtech.social My pronouns are in my bio, I am not your "mate", nor am I a dickhead. I am a woman who's been dealing with the toxicity of the Linux community for two decades and you're victim blaming here.

But nice to meet you too.

@CedC@diaspodon.fr Do not peddle AI slop as the savior here. AI is not helpful, it is not useful. It is a prediction engine of what sounds like the right answer. Not what is the right answer, but what will sound plausibly like a correct answer.

That slop is part of the reason why the kindness in the Linux community is so important right now. AI is putting a lot of bad information out there. It is making up urls for people to download packages from that malicious folk then go and register domains for to offer up malware to these trusting people. It makes up names of packages and programs that do not exist, sending users into forums asking for total nonsense because the pedo-bot or the bullshit engine told them that would fix their problem.

@avoca@gladtech.social Let me tell you a story about how I started out on Linux two decades ago:

I knew I was going to need support, and I had a whole IRC channel of nerds telling me (one of two girls regularly there) that I needed to switch to Linux. Okay, I said, if one of you will be my on call support, I'll do it.

The masochist who agreed to my terms was on Mandrake cooker for his personal machine, an unstable rolling release. He had me install that shit without me having any idea what that meant. It didn't occur to him that it would be hard for me and cause me to ask him a lot of problems because he was so used to putting out small fires he didn't notice he was doing just that constantly.

In the end, I was saved by the Mandrake Newbies list, who realized what'd happened, then helped me step down to the Mandrake stable release.

But telling n00bs they need to just do their homework and pick a "good beginner distro" is fucking victim blaming. They have no idea what's what, they have to depend on the kindness of others to help them understand because the search engines are full of fucking slop these days, and the forums are full of RTFM bros.

If you can't be nice to people asking questions, shut your fucking mouth. Do not blame the people asking the questions.

@Linux_in_a_Bit@infosec.exchange