The biggest issue is that there isn't a universal agreement on what causes harm. There is agreement on the basics - murder, violence, etc - but they're already illegal anyways, no need to ban them by license.

Finally, presumably if anyone added some malicious code in a their program, it would be sneaky and not obvious from quickly reading the code.

Indeed, my first though was that these are not MY questions.

All that talk about "safety guardrails" is essentially a call against open source - when models are open, people can always remove them. That's the price of freedom. And we have seen time and time again how the benefits outweigh that price.

I think NixOS is awesome, but it certainly doesn't offer "access to (basically) all Linux-capable software, no matter from what repo." - at least not natively. You can do that through containers, but you can do that with containers on any distro. Where it shines is declaring the complete system configuration (including installed programs and their configuration) in its config file (on file-based configuration, I wouldn't really consider blendos a viable competitor).

Learning git is very easy. For example, to do it on Debain, one simply needs to run, sudo apt install lazygit

No, OP is asking about debain.org, not a random site.

This is the official Debian bash package. It might be slightly less safe (I think apt verifies signatures that I'm not sure are checked when your manually download the deb), but not like a random exe

There is a difference between forefox-based browser and chromium-based one. Namely, if you base it on chromium, you take the blink engine and you can build watever UI around it you want. If you base it on firefox, you actually have to take the full firefox code and make changes to it.

All those firefox-based browsers are very similar to firefox with some small changes made. If you actually want to make large changes, keeping up with updates will quickly become a mess.

By contrast, qutebrowser has very little in common with Chromium except for the rendering engine - the user experience is totally different.

Germany is determined to remove any systems from its telecoms networks

If only Huawei was the only such system...

We need to see the actual artwork to know if it has something infringing. This link means little.

Is that effect any different than the one you'd get if you have biased references, or biased search results, when doing the researchb for your writing?

It's not that users want to centralize everything. It's Lemmy's design that promotes it, because despite federation, there are still advantages to choosing big instances and communities.

1. Joining the largest instance makes searching, joining, or opening communities much more seamless.This can be addressed by:

• Improving the search so that it can find communities, or even content, that no one on the instance has subscribed yet.
• Making it easier to open a community in your home instance.
• In addition to Sub/Local/All feed, you can have a "moderated" feed (with communities selected by admins). The "local" feed is most useful for instances on a specific topic. But for very small instances, it'll be too empty at least at first. So a moderated feed can create an on-topic feed that's more lively.

2. For most topics, only the largest communities are large enough to have good content, so everyone wants to join them. To address this, you need some easy mechanism to subscribe to all communities on a topic. For example, we can let communities follow other communities. Then people can create topical meta-communities that aggregate content without centralizing it.