I wouldn’t say it’s a theory. Just my thoughts / speculation. I would speculate that people who are pushing out RT / Alex Jones level content would be more hesitant to do so if there would be a big “this is not a reliable news source” sticker next to it.

I would speculate that people who point Alex Jones / RT stuff just hope people read the article without thinking about where it comes from.

While I acknowledge that the MBFC does have some right wing bias, I think it serves its purpose. Aka to flag literal propaganda “news” sites.

The titles are literally accurate in the image. Israel is (unethically) launching preemptive strikes.

If you look at the .ml news communities that don’t use MBFC you will see that way too many news stories are from literally Russia Today, Southern China Morning Post, and other extremely biased to a very particular agenda publications.

I think people are trying to tie MBFC to being Zionist just so the bot will be dropped and it will be easier for them to normalize things like Russia Today outside of .ml spaces.

I really appreciate your super stark pro libre software attitude. I want to support you here. You should know that the approach you are taking is ultra abrasive and would probably cause more harm than help.

People would just associate libre software with militant weirdos, if all they saw where your posts.

If you want to make meaningful change I strongly recommend taking a softer less abrasive approach.

We want libre software to be connected with safety, friendliness and personal autonomy, not militarism, chanted phrases, and dogma.

Even on Lemmy the ultra pro libre software social network (relative to non federated networks) your current approach is off putting. I want you to succeed and I think a different approach may be better.

Just my two cents.

I would personally just get a nice air cooler for ~50€ and use the rest of the budget for an alternative improvement. I might also consider a slightly cheaper case. I might also consider saving a bit more money on the power supply by going with gold over platinum.

An extra €100 to your CPU would do a world of good.

Also I might consider using a more reputable NVMe drive. Maybe from that cooler/power supply money. A more reputable PCIE 4.0 drive with meaningful dcache would serve you well.

Also you may consider higher clocked RAM. If you are using an iGPU faster ram makes a world of difference.

I have a bias to “function over form” pc building so your values may differ here. My two cents.

I feel like he’s telling on himself. I think for most people having a sense of empathy is the default, and learning how and when (if ever) to ignore that feeling is the hard part.

Crazy that it was programmed that way. Exponential back off is like big scale programing 101.

Crazy that it was programmed that way. Exponential back off is like big scale programing 101.