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How many reasons do they have to give you before you walk away from facebook?
This is the first shot
Even though almost every big tech company uses Linux on the backend they don't want you to use it.
Think of Peacock not letting people running Linux be able to use their application.
It's free and open source, and the powers to be don't want anybody to have that.
You can do what you want with it if you are willing to learn about it. Governments don't like that.
I may be wrong, but I see more of this coming.
Are there really that many Linux users discussing on Facebook? My brothers in Open Source, there are much better places even without this ban…
Probably more like people complaining about Windows, and others recommending a switch to Ubuntu or something.
I don't use facebook, but I'm seeing Linux brought up way more among the consumer tech-crowd.
Looks like they all want to fit in with each other by resisting "windows surveillance."
Personally, I think it's pretty stupid where they decide to draw the line, almost like they're not even making the decision for themselves. But I'll still accept it if it causes more people to drop proprietary software.
Clown show, one of the reason to not to use proprietary software
i don't want to expose my ignorance or nuthin, but- does deepseek run on linux?
Of course, its just an open source LLM that you can run on open source software like Ollama or LoLLMS
I mean they are not wrong, Linux is a very big threat of good cyber security which makes it harder for them to collect information. I am not at all surprised that Facebook views cyber security practices as a threat( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
My initial instinct is that it's not about security (obviously), but the beginning of the attack of FOSS, since China dunked on everyone with their AI model, that can now be used by anyone freely while performing similarly (with the appropriate resources) rather than the ever-growing product making you pay for their useless snake oil.
You're definitely onto something. This isn't the first time corporations have targeted FOSS, but because Linux is gaining in popularity we're starting to see the old FUD and EEE tactics come back into play.
Once we start seeing more normal people using it, primarily women, we'll also see tons of misinformation that exists to sow the seeds of doubt in their minds.
Probably something like the old "mac vs. PC" commercials but with "windows vs. linux"
This is a hilarious thought, because you know Windows Chad couldn't get through two sentences before vomiting out something about AI "Linux can't even have Copilot baked into the fiber of every piece of the system like Windows does, Linux is just an old fashioned computer."
Might be the one thing that would actually bring the year of the Linux desktop.
Sure but those links to sketchy .apk games of which the ad for them involves rape or kidnapping usually are a-okay
We've been on the receiving end of attention like this from Microsoft for longer than Facebook has been a thing, if Zuck thinks this is gonna make a dent in things, he's mistaken.
Its not suckerberg, it's Microsoft doing this. Not the first time, not the last either, definitely a low and scary step, though. This is one step in the direction of "let's literally kill the competition"
Remember the first time I read about Linux (long time ago) and they were basically calling it a communist os (not even joking) first site on Google at the time was all about how it was unpatriotic to use it etc.
a communist os
That's exactly what it is
Probably not in the sense that the average American uses the word "communist", which is more about their remembered history of authoritarian regimes of the USSR and mid 20th century China and those sorts. Mao, Stalin, Pol Pot, and the atrocities thereof.
Linux is communist insofar as it is open source, and therefore less affected or tied up in capitalistic practices. Capitalists still use and contribute to Linux, but often those contributions go back into the commons of the open source code.
You probably know all that, I'm just feeling long winded.
Okay that gave me a hearty chuckle, thank you.
You're not referring to this satire article by chance?
It could be if it's really old but yeah whatever it was it was Google's top result if you searched linux in Google for quite a while. I think the one I read was a bit more malicious and less Jokey about it.
Who hurt Facebook? This must be some unintended issue or else what do they have to do with Linux? Facebook has 0 reasons to do it
You mean besides the fact that Linux gives power and choice back to the user, and that goes against everything Facebook stands for?
To be fair, Meta is the only US based AI player that open sources their models. Fuck meta in general, but it's hard to say that they are wholly opposed to open source.
I suspect they just know their model is shitter than the other corporate ones, and want to reap the benefits of the FOSS community hacking it
That and Linux is kind of like a software implementation of socialism and it's been a smashing success.
Did not expect “Linux users” to be this early in the stanzas of “First they came for the […]”
The powers that be know the threat free software is to their control.
Richard Stallman was right when he said "free software, free society."
I mean, Linux literally runs the world, so if this is the best he can do, not even my bunny slippers are gonna be spooked.
I think we're about to see FOSS under siege by the technocrats, and it's going to be depressingly effective since most people have no idea why it's so fundamentally important to the world of tech.
Are we the illuminati?
Are we the baddies?
No, no, we're not the... wait what distro you running?
Chrome OS
Quick, get em bois
I'm running the one true distribution, SCO
Neo, The matrix has you
Gentoo on desktop.
