this post was submitted on 19 Jun 2026
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Ye Power Trippin' Bastards

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This is a community in the spirit of "Am I The Asshole" where people can post their own bans from lemmy or reddit or whatever and get some feedback from others whether the ban was justified or not.

Sometimes one just wants to be able to challenge the arguments some mod made and this could be the place for that.


Posting Guidelines

All posts should follow this basic structure:

  1. Which mods/admins were being Power Tripping Bastards?
  2. What sanction did they impose (e.g. community ban, instance ban, removed comment)?
  3. Provide a screenshot of the relevant modlog entry (don’t de-obfuscate mod names).
  4. Provide a screenshot and explanation of the cause of the sanction (e.g. the post/comment that was removed, or got you banned).
  5. Explain why you think its unfair and how you would like the situation to be remedied.

Rules


Expect to receive feedback about your posts, they might even be negative.

Make sure you follow this instance's code of conduct. In other words we won't allow bellyaching about being sanctioned for hate speech or bigotry.

YPTB matrix channel: For real-time discussions about bastards or to appeal mod actions in YPTB itself.


Some acronyms you might see.


Relevant comms

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It's sorrowful some people choose to hate, complain, ridicule, and block everything that does not fit their choice...

With just a single idea shared, a lone message posted in a community, with your finite priceless time and experience invested, you may get banned instantly, and permanently, instead of actually learning and discover together...


The single message that resulted in my immediate permanent ban:

MessageIt's not Linux, but your distribution, or you, what makes it "unsafe".
There are numerous options to harden your Linux environment, and it's relatively trivial to keep it safer if you ever want it, or actually stop blaming and complaining.

For example, to limit the access for root or custom group hwaccess, without much fuss but to give you an idea, for the most popular distros as Debian-based:

  1. Add a Udev rule:
# /etc/udev/rules.d/90-hwaccess.rules

KERNEL=="mem",        GROUP="hwaccess", MODE="0660"
SUBSYSTEM=="spidev",  GROUP="hwaccess", MODE="0660"
SUBSYSTEM=="i2c-dev", GROUP="hwaccess", MODE="0660"
  1. Set at boot:
setfacl -Rm 'g:hwaccess:rwX' -- \
    /sys/kernel/debug/ec \
    /sys/bus/pci/devices/*/config;

You may then setup SELinux, AppArmor, and secure it via SecureBoot's shim, too.
Yet, you chose to effortlessly complain instead...

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[–] Broadfern@lemmy.world 19 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You broke the comm’s rules:

Rules:

  1. FOSS (especially GPL) advocates and Linux (specifically GNU/Linux) evangelists aren't welcome (GNU Hurd will count as Linux). -We ask that you block us and we will perma-ban for violations of this rule.

That is entirely on you.

[–] artwork@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Oh... I see... Thank you!
I could not even imagine such a rule when I noticed the post at home page of LemmyWorld instance, and commented on it... ^^"

[–] limer@lemmy.ml 13 points 2 days ago

Ydi, you spoke reason in a troll community that has rules that any tech savvy person could see as a danger sign.

Don’t feed the trolls

YDI because you broke the comm's rules.

I say this as a Linux advocate.

[–] RickyRigatoni@piefed.zip 5 points 2 days ago

YDI for feeding the troll.

[–] Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] artwork@lemmy.world -1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Yes, indeed... it was just... unexpected to get banned in just 4 minutes participating in that community... ^^"
Though, re-considering the purpose of the community, it may be...

[–] Harvey656@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Linux gives userspace access to /dev/mem /dev/spidev I²C/SMBus EC registers and PCI config space which is terrible for safety.

I might be ignorant, but isnt that information technically different per distro?

[–] artwork@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Of course it is! Thank you! And hence mentioned it in the comment, too!

[–] Harvey656@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

There's been a ton of antis recently spreading straight up misinformation.

Saw one recently saying anticheats dont work on linux because the apps can't run root. Which is massively wrong. Weirdos.

[–] A404@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 days ago

just wait until they find out that you have to literally use a exploit to load your own kernel drivers on windows

[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 days ago

Yeah I mean technically PTB, but it's a community specifically for that, so what did you expect?

[–] csolisr@hub.azkware.net 0 points 2 days ago

Do they happen to have the same moderators as the subreddit? Because they're also famous for being trigger-happy with the ban-hammer