• Marxine@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Yeah, I follow him for his privacy and FOSS content, but some of his takes can be quite… controversial, and those attract some questionable folks.

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      1 year ago

      I feel like that’s the case with most tech expert channels. I’d even say Mental Outlaw is relatively mild compared to Distrotube (“if you support open-source, you should also support guns”) and especially Luke Smith (holy shit, where do I even begin).

      I watch them because their expertise in FOSS technologies is beyond question, but that is where my trust in them ends.

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        1 year ago

        Both Distrotube and Luke Smith are firmly in the category of - I used to watch their videos until I was like “whoa buddy, I thought we were talking about Linux and stuff…”

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      1 year ago

      The only video I watched of him was about sudo being “insecure, bloated, useless” and telling people to download a port of doas uploaded by some random user on GitHub… so you’d get 2 surfaces of attacks now, one which is definitely not being fixed as quickly.

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        1 year ago

        That has to be one of his worst software takes, oof… Hope not too many people decided to follow this ‘advice’