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Otto Kuusinen: As long as the working class wages only an economic struggle, the bourgeoisie does not see in that any great danger for itself; but when the working class organises politically, i.e., creates a political party which expresses its will as a class, the bourgeoisie begins seriously to fear for its rule. That is why reaction deals its main blows against the political party of the working class. At the same time, trying to undermine the party from within, capitalist propaganda endeavours to persuade the workers that they can do without their own party. One of the manifestations of bourgeois influence on the working class is the anarchist and anarcho-syndicalist denial of the leading role of a political party.
Democritus: Not from fear but from a sense of duty refrain from your sins.
Democritus: Many who have not learned wisdom live wisely, and many who do the basest deeds can make most learned speeches.
Democritus: Fools learn wisdom through misfortune.
Democritus: Strength of body is nobility in beasts of burden, strength of character is nobility in men.
Democritus: Neither art nor wisdom may be attained without learning.
Democritus: It is better to correct your own faults than those of another.
Democritus: Good means not (merely) not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.
Democritus: Fame and wealth without wisdom are unsafe possessions.
Muammar Gaddafi: We will not surrender. We will defeat them by any means. We are ready for the fight, whether it will be a short or a long one. We will be victorious in the end. This assault is by a bunch of fascists who will end up in the dustbin of history.
Democritus: By convention sweet is sweet, bitter is bitter, hot is hot, cold is cold, color is color; but in truth there are only atoms and the void.
Democritus: We know nothing accurately in reality, but (only) as it changes according to the bodily condition, and the constitution of those things that flow upon (the body) and impinge upon it.
Democritus: Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.
Democritus: Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.
Democritus: Men have fashioned an image of Chance as an excuse for their own stupidity.
Democritus: In a shared fish, there are no bones.
Democritus: Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.
Democritus: The animal needing something knows how much it needs, the man does not.
Democritus: Moderation multiplies pleasures, and increases pleasure.
Democritus: If your desires are not great, a little will seem much to you; for small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth.
Democritus: No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.
Democritus: In fact we do not know anything infallibly, but only that which changes according to the condition of our body and of the (influences) that reach and impinge upon it.
Democritus: Of practical wisdom these are the three fruits: to deliberate well, to speak to the point, to do what is right.
Democritus: 'Tis not in strength of body nor in gold that men find happiness, but in uprightness and in fulness of understanding.
Democritus: He who does wrong is more unhappy than he who suffers wrong.
Samuel P. Huntington: The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.
Marjori Palmer: One of the most morale-damaging aspects of the inflation was the "sack of Germany" that occurred at the height of the (1923) inflation. Anyone who possessed dollars or sterling was king in Germany. A few American dollars would allow a man to live like a millionaire. Foreigners swarmed into the country, buying up family treasures, estates, jewelry and art works at unbelievable low prices.
Lionel Robbins: It was the most colossal thing of its kind in history: and next probably to the Great War itself, it must bear responsibility for many of the political and economic difficulties of our generation. It destroyed the wealth of the more solid elements of German society: and left behind a moral and economic disequilibrium, a breeding ground for the disasters which have followed. Hitler is the foster child of the inflation.
Lenin: There is no trace of utopianism in Marx, in the sense that he made up or invented a 'new' society. No, he studied the birth of the new society out of the old, and the forms of transition from the latter to the former, as a natural-historical process. He examined the actual experience of a proletarian mass movement and tried to draw practical lessons from it.
Che Guevara: Many will call me an adventurer - and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to prove his platitudes.
Democritus: The first principles of the universe are atoms and empty space; everything else is merely thought to exist.
Bertolt Brecht: Lenin is enshrined In the large heart of the working class.
i get annoyed when i see muslim women in the grocery store with niqabs or whatever they call those black bags with a slit for eyes. screw them niggas they need to get the hell out of our country
"Even today, olive oil has a unique and special meaning for those from the Campania region, going far beyond gastronomy. Its various uses have been passed down from generation to generation, not only for the good luck it’s believed to bring but for its myriad skin-care benefits—a perfect combination when it comes to brides preparing for their weddings."
Deeper Meaning of Olive Oil as S. Italy Bridal Beauty Ritual
Chinese President Xi Jinping on Thursday urged China and France to be reliable forces for maintaining international order, open forces for promoting global growth and progressive forces for guiding multilateral cooperation.
But I refuse to. Unlike Washington, I refuse to accept Israel is a country or "state" worth acknowledging any more, let alone accepting on the World stage.
Frankly, Israel doesn't deserve to exist right now. This has nothing to do with Hamas. This has nothing to do with Hezbollah. This has everything to do with murder, genocide, #EthnicCleansing, and #CrimesAgainstHumanity.
Israel is a failed state run by morally bankrupt evil people.
"Elvis Presley, Ava Gardner, Édith Piaf, Maria Callas and Marlene Dietrich all flocked to the cabaret, drawn to the allure of performers labeled 'travestis.' The stars sought out the Carrousel to flirt with postwar Paris’s wild side. It was an intoxicating contradiction: cross-dressing was criminalized, yet the venue was packed with celebrities."
Outlaw to Icon: Bambi on Trans Survival, Fame, Ongoing Fight
Pars Today - Following a missile attack by Yemeni Armed Forces on the Occupied Palestinian Territories on Thursday morning, a Zionist was injured and Ben G...
Not gonna lie because I love and adore the OG #Taskmaster but holy crap the two best things that have happened this series are #JasonMantzoukas and #StevieMartin and I think #Mantzoukas is actually better. And I love Stevie! So conflicted.
I fell in love with Stevie Martin during lockdown and those little vignettes she'd record on Zoom with her friend. They were so funny and so relevant and I remember thinking why haven't we seen her before?!
Wow, Obama talking about peoole losing their healtcare because of Trump's bill. That's pretty rich coming from that asshoe. Dude, go ride Mike you commie faggot. No one likes you.
Former President Barack Obama posted a scathing, fearmongering statement Thursday morning on the passage by the House of President Donald Trump’s ‘One Big Beautiful Bill.
On May 22nd 2025, news of North Korea’s destroyer launch accident spread widely. One day before, on 21 May 2025, North Korea held a launching ceremony for a
Otto Kuusinen: As long as the working class wages only an economic struggle, the bourgeoisie does not see in that any great danger for itself; but when the working class organises politically, i.e., creates a political party which expresses its will as a class, the bourgeoisie begins seriously to fear for its rule. That is why reaction deals its main blows against the political party of the working class. At the same time, trying to undermine the party from within, capitalist propaganda endeavours to persuade the workers that they can do without their own party. One of the manifestations of bourgeois influence on the working class is the anarchist and anarcho-syndicalist denial of the leading role of a political party.
Democritus: Not from fear but from a sense of duty refrain from your sins.
Democritus: Many who have not learned wisdom live wisely, and many who do the basest deeds can make most learned speeches.
Democritus: Fools learn wisdom through misfortune.
Democritus: Strength of body is nobility in beasts of burden, strength of character is nobility in men.
Democritus: Neither art nor wisdom may be attained without learning.
Democritus: It is better to correct your own faults than those of another.
Democritus: Good means not (merely) not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.
Democritus: Fame and wealth without wisdom are unsafe possessions.
Muammar Gaddafi: We will not surrender. We will defeat them by any means. We are ready for the fight, whether it will be a short or a long one. We will be victorious in the end. This assault is by a bunch of fascists who will end up in the dustbin of history.
Democritus: By convention sweet is sweet, bitter is bitter, hot is hot, cold is cold, color is color; but in truth there are only atoms and the void.
Democritus: We know nothing accurately in reality, but (only) as it changes according to the bodily condition, and the constitution of those things that flow upon (the body) and impinge upon it.
Democritus: Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.
Democritus: Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.
Democritus: Men have fashioned an image of Chance as an excuse for their own stupidity.
Democritus: In a shared fish, there are no bones.
Democritus: Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.
Democritus: The animal needing something knows how much it needs, the man does not.
Democritus: Moderation multiplies pleasures, and increases pleasure.
Democritus: If your desires are not great, a little will seem much to you; for small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth.
Democritus: No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.
Democritus: In fact we do not know anything infallibly, but only that which changes according to the condition of our body and of the (influences) that reach and impinge upon it.
Democritus: Of practical wisdom these are the three fruits: to deliberate well, to speak to the point, to do what is right.
Democritus: 'Tis not in strength of body nor in gold that men find happiness, but in uprightness and in fulness of understanding.
Democritus: He who does wrong is more unhappy than he who suffers wrong.
Samuel P. Huntington: The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.
Marjori Palmer: One of the most morale-damaging aspects of the inflation was the "sack of Germany" that occurred at the height of the (1923) inflation. Anyone who possessed dollars or sterling was king in Germany. A few American dollars would allow a man to live like a millionaire. Foreigners swarmed into the country, buying up family treasures, estates, jewelry and art works at unbelievable low prices.
Lionel Robbins: It was the most colossal thing of its kind in history: and next probably to the Great War itself, it must bear responsibility for many of the political and economic difficulties of our generation. It destroyed the wealth of the more solid elements of German society: and left behind a moral and economic disequilibrium, a breeding ground for the disasters which have followed. Hitler is the foster child of the inflation.
Lenin: There is no trace of utopianism in Marx, in the sense that he made up or invented a 'new' society. No, he studied the birth of the new society out of the old, and the forms of transition from the latter to the former, as a natural-historical process. He examined the actual experience of a proletarian mass movement and tried to draw practical lessons from it.
Che Guevara: Many will call me an adventurer - and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to prove his platitudes.
Democritus: The first principles of the universe are atoms and empty space; everything else is merely thought to exist.
Bertolt Brecht: Lenin is enshrined In the large heart of the working class.
Ok so I'm building a fence for my vegetable garden, and for the posts I'm using cedar 4x4s attached to metal anchor spikes. Do I need to treat the ends of the posts with anything to prevent rot or is their cedarness sufficient? The place I live has regular rain and snow and whatnot.
Instead of a chemical treatment, could I use beeswax on the bottom end grain and heat it into the wood, like I do with leatherwork? Does this make sense? Or just soak it in raw linseed oil? Again, it's not going in the ground, just wondering about where it sits in the anchor attachment. Maybe I'm overthinking, as I often do.
cedar is a naturally durable wood. Not burying the posts is a plus. Given that they're near your vegetable garden, I'd be concerned with a chemical preservative leaching into the ground and contaminating your crop ...
Cedar is often prized for its natural beauty and durability, making it a popular choice for various applications including gardening. However, when it comes
Chapter 1: My Coworker, The Programmer
A shell of a man—more of a parrot than a person. My boss, a true believer in the sacred rite of Pair Programming, chained myself and this "programmer"-colleague together like conjoined twins from different pla…
News - Middle East:
Hebrew media outlets have confirmed the launch of a missile from Yemen, leading to the suspension of flights to and from Lod Airport, known to the Zionists as Ben Gurion Airport.
Hey. I honestly think of the small core of people who frequently boost and favorite my thoughts as true friends.
If you have been wondering how I am? I just spent 2 weeks recovering from Covid, second time in less than a year. Bad brain fog, low oxygen, the fever that breaks but you are not any better, mucus either too dry to breath or too runny to not cough, that acidicy little feeling in my uvula that means a nerve ending is infected and going nuts, and now I have the once every 10 minute...
I am currently unemployed and did not go out and spread it, but this is what I did instead of looking for work. I am nearly recovered, but I heard the Covid cough all last night from my downstairs neighbor, 3 people in the grocery store last night had it, and I heard a small child with it as she was getting out of school. When you have it, you know it in other people.
I got it from a friend who showed symptoms the day after we played disc golf together. It went...
The perks for Gemini are described as "highest limits" and i was like "huh what does that mean, like is there some kind of table listing how many tokens or whatever per month" and it turns out the answer is "it's completely made up and google can say you're at the limit whenever"
it's almost like if you signal you love being scammed by spending a ton of money on a scam that they are like "well we might as well scam you some more since you love it so much"
I would love nothing more than for it to turn out that they have hooked up their advertising models to Gemini sysadmin and the reason it's so indeterminate is that the resource limits are algorithmically determined by e.g. if you are doing prompts that are hitting ad auction impressions or known to be signals of increasing dependence on the model lmao.
Posting this on public with the #CallingIt hashtag as a timestamp for when this inevitably turns out to be true.
omg. I just realized that given how non-transparent (and resistent to transparency) these systems are that in addition to bias introduced by training, there's almost no way to tell (and little disincentives not to do it) if google is injecting content into responses based on ad partner desires.
@r343l That is in fact the entire purpose of the technology.
They are not shy about this, and have been saying so in their investor relations calls for years and years and years. Google developed language models for decades before consumer LLMs for search and advertising. That is the origin and heritage of language models - the reason they exist is advertising.
Vulgarity and Cloud Orthodoxy in Linked Data Infrastructures - A critical history of the semantic web and linked data, grappling with the next generation of surveillance capitalism, where grand corporate knowledge graphs devour the planet and sell it…
@r343l Transforming access to information into an undifferentiated stream with no origin or voice is the perfect advertising surface. It escalates the logic of single bar search which also strips away the "boundedness" of search - whatever is on the page is what's out there - but you could still discern between the sources even if the ranking was influenced by advertising. Removing that step, having all information be equally plausible, and having no "escape valve" where you can go and find other information - since all the other sources of information closed down bc everyone is using the God Oracle, and the social media sites are a different kind of isolation chamber - is the truest expression of informational power as extraction.
This is why I have been jumping up and down waving my arms trying to be like "it doesn't matter if they work or not, that is irrelevant, and criticisms based in sentience vs. Nonsentience or current vs future abilities are ineffective because they miss the entire purpose, strategy, and landscape of power"
Re landscape of power, one of MY preferred concerns about LLM shit is it's been so transparently obvious it's about devaluing labor so they can pay people less or not at all and how exactly do people function in a society where, well, ya gotta have a job. It's been baffling to me to see that there are SO MANY reasons why this is a bad idea but so much of Discourse is "but is it really thinking???" shit.
Michael Parenti is an American political scientist, historian, and cultural critic who writes on scholarly and popular subjects. He has taught at American an...
Monday, 19 May 2025. We, the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), acting on behalf of millions of the unemployed, economically suffocated, landless, indebted, and
@rbfarmer Sure, but she doesn't look like she is often fasting. And fasting and then shoveling tons of junk food into your mouth doesn't help you reduce weight. It does the opposite as the body has a "shock reaction" on that food and stores it away in fat cells. So more useless fat=weight gain.
Iran's Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Amir-Saeed Iravani, has stressed that the continued Israeli attacks on Syria and the occupation of the Syrian Golan Heights by this regime are a clear violation of international la…
Otto von Bismarck: Not by speeches and votes of the majority are the great questions of the time decided — that was the error of 1848 and 1849 — but by iron and blood. wordsmith.social/protestation/…
Otto Kuusinen: As long as the working class wages only an economic struggle, the bourgeoisie does not see in that any great danger for itself; but when the working class organises politically, i.e., creates a political party which expresses its will as a class, the bourgeoisie begins seriously to fear for its rule. That is why reaction deals its main blows against the political party of the working class. At the same time, trying to undermine the party from within, capitalist propaganda endeavours to persuade the workers that they can do without their own party. One of the manifestations of bourgeois influence on the working class is the anarchist and anarcho-syndicalist denial of the leading role of a political party.
Democritus: Not from fear but from a sense of duty refrain from your sins.
Democritus: Many who have not learned wisdom live wisely, and many who do the basest deeds can make most learned speeches.
Democritus: Fools learn wisdom through misfortune.
Democritus: Strength of body is nobility in beasts of burden, strength of character is nobility in men.
Democritus: Neither art nor wisdom may be attained without learning.
Democritus: It is better to correct your own faults than those of another.
Democritus: Good means not (merely) not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.
Democritus: Fame and wealth without wisdom are unsafe possessions.
Muammar Gaddafi: We will not surrender. We will defeat them by any means. We are ready for the fight, whether it will be a short or a long one. We will be victorious in the end. This assault is by a bunch of fascists who will end up in the dustbin of history.
Democritus: By convention sweet is sweet, bitter is bitter, hot is hot, cold is cold, color is color; but in truth there are only atoms and the void.
Democritus: We know nothing accurately in reality, but (only) as it changes according to the bodily condition, and the constitution of those things that flow upon (the body) and impinge upon it.
Democritus: Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.
Democritus: Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.
Democritus: Men have fashioned an image of Chance as an excuse for their own stupidity.
Democritus: In a shared fish, there are no bones.
Democritus: Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.
Democritus: The animal needing something knows how much it needs, the man does not.
Democritus: Moderation multiplies pleasures, and increases pleasure.
Democritus: If your desires are not great, a little will seem much to you; for small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth.
Democritus: No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.
Democritus: In fact we do not know anything infallibly, but only that which changes according to the condition of our body and of the (influences) that reach and impinge upon it.
Democritus: Of practical wisdom these are the three fruits: to deliberate well, to speak to the point, to do what is right.
Democritus: 'Tis not in strength of body nor in gold that men find happiness, but in uprightness and in fulness of understanding.
Democritus: He who does wrong is more unhappy than he who suffers wrong.
Samuel P. Huntington: The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.
Marjori Palmer: One of the most morale-damaging aspects of the inflation was the "sack of Germany" that occurred at the height of the (1923) inflation. Anyone who possessed dollars or sterling was king in Germany. A few American dollars would allow a man to live like a millionaire. Foreigners swarmed into the country, buying up family treasures, estates, jewelry and art works at unbelievable low prices.
Lionel Robbins: It was the most colossal thing of its kind in history: and next probably to the Great War itself, it must bear responsibility for many of the political and economic difficulties of our generation. It destroyed the wealth of the more solid elements of German society: and left behind a moral and economic disequilibrium, a breeding ground for the disasters which have followed. Hitler is the foster child of the inflation.
Lenin: There is no trace of utopianism in Marx, in the sense that he made up or invented a 'new' society. No, he studied the birth of the new society out of the old, and the forms of transition from the latter to the former, as a natural-historical process. He examined the actual experience of a proletarian mass movement and tried to draw practical lessons from it.
Che Guevara: Many will call me an adventurer - and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to prove his platitudes.
Democritus: The first principles of the universe are atoms and empty space; everything else is merely thought to exist.
Bertolt Brecht: Lenin is enshrined In the large heart of the working class.
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The Israeli occupation army warned Palestinians in the Jabalia camp and 13 neighborhoods in the northern Gaza Strip to evacuate their areas immediately, threatening to launch violent attacks on those areas.The Israeli army said in a statement regard
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It's not lost on me that it took nearly 5 days and collectively ~30 hours to set up and get my Linux install fully operational.
But it is operational.
The last bit of this was trying to get piracy up and running again. Stellaris just released the Astral Planes update, so that was my test. I downloaded the RUNE and Fitgirl versions, both of which installed and ran correctly off the rip using Lutro.
After that I popped on an USB disc drive, popped in my old total annihilation CD and installed that and got that running.
So everything works. All the games I play worked, and all the media I played worked.
Are there some things that annoy me? Yeah. Gnome apparently doesn't let you create desktop shortcuts unless you resort to command line. That's ridiculous. I also no longer have 20+ years of experience to draw on and am having to relearn basic stuff like "how do I uninstall or undo what I just did when I ran a script from a tutorial I didn't understand".
So for now, I guess I'm along for the ride, and get to relearn how to do everything.
I wouldn't recommend Linux to my dad or any of my friends. They can barely use windows, and I had enough trouble during my setup and install that I know they'd run into an issue eventually that I'd have to solve. Plus they barely learned how to use Windows, and Linux is NOT dumbed down enough for the average user yet.
As a final note some Linux users push harder than crack dealers I've met. "Just one hit of KDE man I just know you'll love it, oh you had issues with KDE? Well try these 300 different kind of KDE's cause I promise bro once you go KDE you never go back".
@Phanlix Gnome did a number of things that irritated me when it went to version 3, then I found Mate which behaves like old Gnome 2 but ported to modern GTK. Much nicer.
The 89th Texas Legislative Session will be remembered for many things—but if you’re a student, teacher, or parent trying to make public education work in this state, it’s going down as the year lawmakers finally dropped their mask.
I'm in the market for a new big desktop replacement gaming laptop, and looking at the market there are almost exclusively Nvidia powered.
I was wondering about the state of their new open-source driver. Can I run a plain vanilla kernel with only open source / upstream packages and drivers and expect to get a good experience? How is battery life, performance? Does DRI Prime and Vulkan based GPU selection "just work"?
The only alternative new for my market is a device with an Intel Arc A730M, which I currently think is going to be the one I end up buying.
Edit 19/11: Thanks for all the feedback everyone! Since the reactions were quite mixed - "it works perfectly for me" vs "it's a unmaintainable mess that breaks all the time", I'm going to err on the side of caution and look elsewhere. I found a used laptop with an AMD Radeon RX 6700M, which I'm going to check out the coming days. If not, I've also found Alienware sells their m16 laptop with an RX 7600M XT, which might be a good buy for me (I currently still rock an Alienware 17R1 from 2013 with an MXM card from a decomissioned industrial computer in it).
This OUTDATED article gets posted all the time. The full story is the guy is a massive FreeBSD fan so he is trying to convince more people to keep on using Xorg because he wants to make sure it isn't abandoned. Reason for that being that Wayland is built with Linux in mind and would not work under FreeBSD without a lot of effort bwing put in as it uses some Linux-specific components or libraries.
Let's go through the article point by point:
Wayland is broken by design:
A crash in the window manager takes down all running applications: Yes, because the compositor IS the server, window manager AND compositor at the same time.
You cannot do a lot of things: What, like allowing Windows to see your keystrokes, which makes developing a keylogger absolutely trivial?
There is not /usr/bin/wayland: Yes, because Wayland is a set of protocols, which a bunch of projects can implement as few or as many of, as they see fit, thus avoiding the issue of "unmaintainable mess" that has plagued Xorg for years.
It offloads work to the window manager: Again, yes, that's a part of its structure: do the protocols, then let the compositor implement them. That way, you have multiple implementations running simultaneously that are well integrated with their window managers and thus more efficient and performant. It also means that when a compositor suffers from too much cruft, we can just make a new one, while application developers wouldn't really have anything to change because if their application works on Wayland, then it works on different compositors (unless it is made specifically for GNOME, or specifically for wlroots, like wlr-randr)
....so what works on DE 1, doesn't necessarily work on DE 2: True, because oftentimes, it doesn't need to. Not implementing features can lead to a more lean and streamlined software solution. However, sometimes features are necessary and only implemented in some compositors. This usually happens because the universal solution is not ready. KDE are often known to do this with Plasma and KWin.
Wayland breaks screen recording applications: Correction: The following screen recording applications were not built to support Wayland (because Wayland is new to them or they just decided not to, or they were either too busy or too irresponsible enough to realise Wayland is coming, and has been for over 10 years. In defence of the devs, they probably wanted to make sure Wayland will become stable enough, but it has been the default even on Debian for many years now, so....
In terms of the applications, I'm not aware of many of them, and for this sort of application, I'm sire alot of work is required to change the graphical backend, so I understood that some smaller projects gave up, but OBS has been working on Wayland for quite a while. Is it perfect? I don't think so, but back when Brodie Robertson was using Hyprland, he was recording his videos using OBS. This article is quite outdated.
Wayland breaks screen sharing applications:
As the update shows, Jitsi now does work on Wayland.
Zoom only seemed to work on gnome, BUT if you open up the Link to the zoom issue and read through the comments, there is clearly a person that clearly states that they changed /etc/os-release from PureOS to debian and it worked for them, all because of some pointless limitations enforced by the Zoom developers. As the person posting the issue states "Currently, the zoom application has put an arbirtrary restriction on screensharing so it ONLY works on GNOME, when the api being used works on all wayland desktops." Read that again. It's a pointless restriction put there by the Zoom team because they couldn't be bothered to test anything non-GNOME.
And the last issue is a problem with the article writer's own appimage. I don't know about that one.
Wayland breaks automation software
As stated IN YOUR FACE, it is an application that works on X11 only. Yes, Wayland is not made to use such applications, but it doesn't mean they can't exist. Every heard of ydotool (remember that name)? Now you have.
Next up, we have 3 issues about GNOME and KDE global menus (1 for GNOME, 2 for KDE). From the little I know about global menus and using these projects, as well as considering that they are both incredibly stable on Wayland and Fedora KDE will be dropping Xorg completely, I think it's safe to assume these issues have probably been fixed. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
Wayland breaks AppImages that don't ship a special QT plugin: Great! Just ship the plugins then! Problem solved! Also, quote from the article: "However, there is a workaround: "AppImages which ship just the XCB plugin will automatically fallback to running in xwayland mode" (see below)."
Wayland breaks Redshift: Once again, a program built for Xorg doesn't always work on Wayland. Especially if it works with the compositor, like a colour temperature control application, or a wallpaper setter. The article quotes that "Redshift does not support Wayland since it offers no way to adjust the color temperature" which is not true, as proven by Redshift alternatives like Gammastep.
Wayland breaks global hotkeys: I present to you: Hyprland (where you can get global hotkeys). Now, it is normally not allowed by design, as a security measure, but Hyprland has not allowed that to stop them from implementing a solution where you can choose keys that will be passed on to the application. Boom, problem solved. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to be implemented anywhere else, as far as I know.
Wayland does not work for XFCE: Come back to me in late 2024 after XFCE 4.20, which will introduce Wayland support, has been released. Also, wiki.xfce.org/releng/wayland_r…
Wayland does not work properly on Nvidia Hardware: It keeps on getting closer but is not there yet, or so I've heard. Apparently, the issue is with the proprietary drivers, as noveau works well. But I use AMD, so I'm only working off rumours and opinions here.
Wayland does not work properly on Intel hardware: Again, I'm using AMD, so I can't confirm or deny this, but considering the Intel drivers are open source, and I've heard about many, many improvements made on the Intel side of things, I think it would be reasonable to assume it has been fixed.
Edit: As multiple Intel users have pointed out in the comments, there seem to be no issues on Wayland with Intel hardware.
Wayland prevents GUI applications from running as root: This one has been crossed out as the article writer admits there is a solution
Wayland is biased towards Linux and breaks BSD: Arguments seem valid, and I'm guessing, are correct. This one is likely true and will remain so for the foreseeable future.
Edit: And yet, it seems that there are Wayland compositors for FreeBSD, so the above might only be true for OpenBSD and others.
Wayland complicates server side decorations: From what I've heard, this is true, mainly something to do with some GNOME agenda, as the article states. I think that one is true.
Wayland breaks windows raising/activating themselves: The linked issue is closed and seems to be resolved. There is a mention of a WIP protocol at the time (2019) that woukd fix this. I had difficulty following the discussion, but I think this has been fixed.
Wayland breaks RescueTime: Because RescueTime depends on X11-only tools like xprop.
Wayland breaks window manager: What you're describing is Wayland breaking X11-only tools for doing various tasks in a window manager. They are X11 tools, so of course they don't work on Wayland. I'm not sure if there are alternatives, but I'd guess there probably are. I know for a fact that Xrandr has alternatives like wlr-randr and kanshi for wlroots.
Wayland requires {instert WM here} to implement Xorg-like functionality:Yes, it does.
Quote from article: "As it currently stands minor WMs and DEs do not even intend to support Wayland given the sheer complexity of writing all the code required to support the above features. "
DEs: GNOME, KDE, MATE, XFCE, Cinnamon, Budgie, Enlightenment, and recently even Pantheon have either announced to start work on, have started work on, or already support Wayland.
Window managers: Qtile is doing it. Xmonad wants to hire a dev to do it. Dwm has a spiritual successor called dwl. i3 has a drop-in replacement called sway. Openbox has 2 spiritual successors called labwc and waybox. Now you might notice one of the biggest WMs is missing on here: AwesomeWM, which is such a shame. The Awesome devs have said they would be okay with someone taking on that challenge (which has already been attempted, as evidenced by the existence of way-cooler), but it seems that they wouldn't do it themselves.
As for the projects mentioned in the article, (JWM, TWM, XDM, IceWM) they are too small and obscure, and will likely fade away with Xorg.
Wayland breaks _NET_WM_STATE_SKIP_TASKBAR protocol I don't know about that one, ao I'll assume it is still the case. Edit: Ignoring the fact that the link is broken, it basically just links to a docs change where skipTaskbar is marked as unsupported on Linux. Link: github.com/electron/electron/p…
Wayland breaks NoMachine NX The link points to a page that has this marked as "SOLVED, Released in version 8" so I'm guessing it has been solved.
Wayland breaks Xclip: As you said it yourself, Xclip is an X11 application, so it doesn't work on Wayland. Of course it wouldn't work on Wayland. With Wayland, we're trying to prevent what happened with Xorg from happening again, or am I wrong?
Edit: As pointed out by some people in the comments, there are also alternatives to xclip like wl-clipboard.
Wayland breaks SUDO_ASKPASS: That link seems to point to the way this issue has been resolved so I don't see your point.
Wayland breaks X11 atoms: I lack knowledge on the topic so will assume this to be a valid argument
Wayland break games: I'm 99% sure you can disable Vsync??? But I'm not a gamer. Also, WINE on Wayland is getting better and better. Soon enough, I hope the subpar performance will become better performance (when compared to Xorg)
Wayland breaks xdotool: Well, yes. There is ydotool, but you're looking for a 1-to-1 replacement and I'm not sure if ydotool fits the bill for that.
Wayland breaks xkill: Well, yes. Again. It is an X application, so of course it does. Though for some reason I remember it working once on wayland. Must have been an xwayland app, or maybe I'm just misremembering this.
Wayland breaks screensavers: Yeah, that seems to be the case.
Wayland breaks setting the window position: That is a WIP for Plasma, not sure about any other projects, so assume true for anything else.
Wayland breaks color management: Not anymore. That is being actively worked on.
Wayland breaks DRM leasing: While not rhat familiar with the issue, my understanding of the topic is the article is correct: not all compositors support it.
Wayland breaks in-home streaming: Not familiar with this, so will assume true.
Wayland breaks NetWM/EWMH: Yeah, that seems to be the case.
Wayland breaks window icons: Yeah, that seems to be the case, as said in the article, when no .desktop files are used.
And that concludes my response to this article based on my fairly limited knowledge on the topic. If I got anything wrong, please, please let me know. As you can see my knowledge is quite limited, and as such, any corrections (preferably backed up with evidence) would be appreciated
@theshatterstone54 Get no argument from me, another way that Wayland is broken is with an application running on one machine but displaying on another, which was a large part of the original X protocol. Between this and the fact that I'm running Intel graphics for which there exists an in-kernel Xserver, I continue to run Xorg.
I'd like it noted I'm an absolute Linux noob here.
Yesterday I had issues with Nvidia, which was fixed by switching to Pop!OS which worked swimmingly. Fedora failed at this spectacularly, Nobara, their Nvidia specific version, spectacularly so.
I also had issues with mounting a samba share. I have an asus router that's capable of hosting samba shares, but only in v1 of samba which as it turns out is disabled by default in Linux distros these days. Windows too but the fix for that is easier, just install the package. Anyways. I was able to get a temp fix going by enabling guest login and disabling the users server side, which was unsatisfying and only allowed me read access.
After following dozens of tutorials and reinstalling Pop!OS to clear my shenannigans I found a forum that had this listed.
client NTLMv2 auth = no
client use spnego = no
client min protocol = CORE
client max protocol = NT1
Post that under smb.conf (under workgroup=WORKGROUP... yes it matters) and it disables all versions of samba except for v1, which works for me since this is the only share I care about.
So now, I can log into my samba share, and I have full read write access, yay.
But I still couldn't figure out how to permanently mount this NAS, boo. I found some topics discussing adding a line to fstab to get it to mount on boot. After a few hours of poking I realized cifs was indeed not installed on PopOS! so the tutorial I was following was right, but still wrong.
After that I was at least getting an error, which referred me to mount.cifs(8) - Linux man page, which I'm pretty sure by arriving at that means I'm now a man.
Was the final syntax to get the ball rolling, yes I know I should do a credentials file and link that, get off my back mom.
And finally... my samba v1 file share is mounted within Linux.... and there was much rejoicing, yay.
Anyways half the reason I made this post is so I can search it later if I ever need to do this godforsaken task again, as exactly zero of this was intuitive or easy. In fact, all of this could have been avoided if whoever wrote this decided not to baby me and left V1 protocols intact, despite the security risk. The fact is all these package still have V1 in them, they're just disabled by a really really in depth process, and reenabling them was... a pain in the rear.
I still am having another issue. I have a local external harddrive that's connected via USB. I got that mounted fine through Disk and changing the settings there, which automatically updates fstab for you (thanks to whomever made that user friendly at least). However, steam will NOT point to that drive no matter what I do, chmod 777 is already in play. Weirdly, I was able to manually add it through the steam console commands, but that seemed to start it's own instance of steam, and none of the changes saved, the drive was working great and installed a few games fine, but on reboot or even just closing and reopening steam it's disassociating.
So gotta say, so far, I do NOT love drive management in Linux. I guess shame on me for using something semi-obscure, but Christ. I literally have been working on this all day since I got up at 10am. User friendly this is not.
The goal still is to game on Linux, day 2 has passed and I'm closer to being ready to install games.
Day 3 will be spent figuring out how to get that damn USB drive on steam as a secondary install location.
Any tips would be appreciated. I've chmod 777'd the mounted drive. And I was able to add it via steam console manually, but it didn't save unfortunately and reset everything after I exited steam.
EDIT: Got it, there are other comments where I linked how within this thread.
There's infinity between should and does sometimes.
So it was already ext4.
I ended up manually running the steam console as described here. Still wasn't able to use the gui to add a drive but I was able to use the console command to do it manually. Then I restarted to make sure everything was working. On starting steam again it was gone! So I full exited steam and opened console again, and somehow it was there! So I set the option under settings to start on boot thinking that it'd run the console edition again on boot and I could live with that.
Well it turns out somehow there are now 2 steam installs on my computer. I'm not gonna touch it since it's working, but my working theory is somehow running the console created a second steam on my pc. It did act like it was doing a full install the first time I booted on command line. Weird. But like I said it's working now. I may poke at it later and see if I can uninstall the redundant one, but I kinda don't wanna poke it.
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Informações básicas, incluindo algumas pouco exploradas em várias discussões, sobre os componentes do heterossexismo e suas relações com outros sistemas de opressão.
Recomendação de leitura: Caso não tenha lido tal postagem ainda, recomendo que leia Vocabulário usado em círculos NHINCQ+ inclusivos. Vários termos citados são explicados aqui ou possuem links, mas acho que será mais fácil absorver as ideias principais do texto caso e leitore já saiba o que é uma orientação a-espectral, o que é uma orientação fluida, o motivo de "atração por gêneros diferentes" não ser uma definição adequada para hétero, e outras informações consideradas básicas para o assunto.
Aviso de conteúdo: Este texto explora heterossexismo e suas diversas vertentes, e contém exemplos de tudo isso. Também contém exemplos de sexonormatividade, amatonormatividade, cissexismo, diadismo e policiamento de gênero. Há algumas leves descrições (relativamente clínicas) de atos sexuais, coerção sexual e cirurgias em genitálias.
Heterossexismo é uma palavra que raramente precisa de explicação: afinal, pessoas que se deparam com ela geralmente já sabem o que é hétero (alguém binárie que sente atração somente pelo outro gênero binário), heterossexual (alguém hétero pelo menos em relação a orientação sexual) e sexismo (que, apesar do nome, geralmente é uma palavra utilizada em relação a opressão por gênero). Mesmo que alguém não tenha tido contato com a palavra sexismo ou com outras palavras que usam sexismo como sufixo, a familiaridade com os significados de palavras como racismo e machismo podem ajudar a dar contexto para qual deve ser o significado de heterossexismo.
Mesmo assim, isso não significa que não há nenhum lugar que defina heterossexismo por si só. Nestes casos, se define heterossexismo como algo em torno de "o sistema que oprime qualquer orientação que não seja hétero". Esta é uma boa definição e não pretendo desafiá-la, e sim elaborá-la.
O que vejo acontecer em muitas discussões é a redução de heterossexismo apenas a subtipos específicos de sua definição. Isso pode acontecer de forma maliciosa, mas também acontece sem querer, especialmente quando o conhecimento de tantas pessoas a respeito do assunto é pouco desenvolvido. O propósito deste texto é oferecer perspectivas mais incomuns sobre o que heterossexismo também engloba.
1. Duaricismo
Eu cunhei duaricismo para significar, basicamente, "a priorização de atrações e relacionamentos duáricos acima de outras possibilidades". Duárique também foi uma palavra que cunhei (ainda que com opiniões envolvidas de pessoas duáricas), e significa que alguém é de um gênero binário e sente atração pelo outro gênero binário, exclusivamente ou não. Um relacionamento entre um homem e uma mulher também pode ser chamado de duárico, assim como um relacionamento entre duas pessoas não-binárias pode ser chamado de enebeano.
A necessidade da cunhagem e do uso de duárique é a mesma necessidade da cunhagem e do uso de outros termos juvélicos: muitas vezes, há a necessidade de falar de um relacionamento ou de uma atração de forma específica, ainda que isso possa não representar a orientação inteira do(s) indivíduo(s).
Por exemplo, é comum haverem discussões sobre pessoas multi (que sentem atração por mais de um gênero) e o que acontece quando estão em relacionamentos duáricos. Chamar tais relacionamentos de "relacionamentos entre um homem e uma mulher" acaba sendo longo demais pra muitas pessoas, que preferem resumir isso como "relacionamentos hétero". Mas isso por si só traz a conotação de que a orientação que uma pessoa multi tem é definida por sue(s) parceire(s) atual(is), o que é uma forma comum de apagamento.
Da mesma forma, pessoas podem querer palavras para descrever que só sentiram atração por um gênero mas que não sabem se sentem atração por outros gêneros, ou para descrever a atração de personagens que não possuem orientação confirmada. E este vocabulário é útil mesmo em um contexto onde esta atração pode ser vista como "desinteressante", "normativa" ou "mais privilegiada".
Enfim, duaricismo é uma questão dentro de heterossexismo. Duaricismo inclui ver a atração duárica de alguém multi como mais real ou concreta do que outras atrações. Duaricismo inclui leis que só reconhecem casais formados por um homem e uma mulher. Duaricismo inclui a noção de que um beijo entre um homem e uma mulher é sempre mais inocente e romântico do que o mesmo beijo entre outras combinações entre gêneros. Duaricismo internalizado inclui demorar se perceber como alguém que não é duárique, mesmo após reconhecer ter atrações por outros gêneros.
Para quem já entrou em contato com vários materiais sobre heterossexismo, pode ser que todos estes exemplos já tenham sido absorvidos como exemplos de heterossexismo. Isso é porque duaricismo é uma parte da estrutura do heterossexismo. Porém, o erro cometido por muites é ver duaricismo como a única força que existe dentro do heterossexismo.
2. Alossexismo
Alossexismo (ou zedsexismo, para quem não gosta da palavra alossexual por suas origens) é a crença de que existe um nível normal e ideal de atração, especialmente (nas teorias até o momento) em relação às atrações sexual e romântica. É a priorização da atração de forma alo em detrimento das diversas possibilidades da a-espectralidade (característica do que é a-espectral; de pessoas que são assexuais, arromânticas, gris/gray, demi, lith, etc).
Alossexismo faz parte do heterossexismo porque quem não é alo não é viste como hétero. Ao menos não da forma que a heteronorma constrói o que é ser hétero.
Para acentuar que pessoas a-espectrais não são favorecidas completamente pela heteronorma ainda que sejam hétero em algum aspecto, existe gente que usa "alo-hétero" ou "heterossexual heterorromântique alo" ou similar para indicar que estão considerando alossexismo ao indicar qual é o grupo mais privilegiado em relação a orientações. Pessoalmente, eu não me importo em usar apenas hétero (ou completamente/somente hétero), porque o que indico com isso é que essas pessoas só podem ser descritas precisamente como hétero, enquanto uma pessoa arromântica heterodemissexual (entre outras possibilidades) não pode descrever precisamente sua orientação apenas como hétero.
Dentro de um sistema alossexista, pessoas que não sentem atração são vistas como pessoas que não sentiram atração ainda, ou como pessoas que estão escondendo algo. Pessoas que só conseguem sentir atração quase imediata de vez em quando ou nunca são vistas como reprimidas ou excessivamente determinadas a "se guardarem para a pessoa perfeita"; pessoas que nunca conseguem sentir atração quando se trata de pessoas conhecidas/interessadas são vistas como medrosas ou potencialmente abusivas. E todos estes casos são frequentemente vistos como questões a serem resolvidas.
Existe a questão da falta de atração ser ocasionalmente percebida como a possibilidade de ser gay/lésbica. Algumas pessoas usam isso para indicar que alossexismo não existe, ou não está dentro da heteronorma; "é só homomisia maldirecionada". Mas a questão de identidades a-espectrais serem percebidas como não-hétero precisa ser considerada por si só, e não só porque ela pode estar acompanhada de percepções limitadas sobre que orientações alguém pode ter.
Grupos a-espectrais e hétero podem perpetuar duaricismo. Grupos heterodissidentes e alo podem perpetuar alossexismo. Grupos a-espectrais que não são hétero podem sofrer tanto com alossexismo quanto com duaricismo. Mas todos estes grupos são afetados pela existência do heterossexismo estrutural.
3. Monossexismo
Monossexismo é, dependendo de quem definir, o sistema que prioriza atração por um gênero, ou o sistema que coloca gay/lésbica e hétero como os únicos, mais importantes ou mais dignos "polos" de atração. Eu deixei monossexismo para depois de alossexismo porque é uma questão que acredito que seja mais complexa, especialmente porque existem questões dentro de monossexismo que ainda não foram nomeadas e que são pouco discutidas, ainda que sejam importantes. Mesmo assim, acredito que alossexismo seja uma questão dentro do monossexismo.
Mesmo ao citar exemplos básicos de monossexismo contra pessoas multi - que são geralmente o foco de discussões sobre monossexismo - é possível ver que quase tudo não se aplica necessariamente apenas a pessoas multi. "Ou você gosta de homens ou de mulheres, o resto é frescura", "quem não é gay nem hétero só não se decidiu ainda", "todo mundo é meio assim" e "namorar a pessoa certa vai te fazer mudar de ideia" são expressões direcionadas não só a pessoas multi (sendo que isso não se reduz apenas a pessoas bi ou pan, e inclui orientações flexíveis), mas também a pessoas a-espectrais, de orientações fluidas e de orientações indefinidas.
Orientações fluidas e indefinidas muitas vezes são colocadas dentro de guarda-chuvas multi (ou até mesmo a-espectrais), mas vejo muitas pessoas nestes grupos não se sentirem confortáveis em se dizerem multi, ou em se dizerem multi em momentos que não se sentem atraídas por mais de um gênero. Por isso, acho adequado citar estes grupos separadamente.
Além disso, com o tempo, fui percebendo que há uma lógica monossexista repetidamente aplicada a diversas orientações, mesmo de pontos de vista "pró-bi" ou "pró-multi". Refiro-me ao apagamento e à intolerância contra identidades além de algumas "aceitáveis".
Muites conseguem ver que dizer que gay e hétero são as únicas orientações é monossexismo. Porém, lógica como "só existe atração por homens e por mulheres", "só existem pessoas L/G, hétero, bi ou assexuais" e "identidades multi além de bi e pan são inúteis" acabam sendo extensões deste pensamento.
Se os modelos de orientação são "homem que só se atrai por homens", "mulher que só se atrai por mulheres", "homem que só se atrai por mulheres" e "mulher que só se atrai por homens", é mais fácil estender este modelo para "pessoa que só se atrai por homens e mulheres" e "pessoa que não se atrai por ninguém" do que para "pessoa que geralmente se atrai por homens e às vezes por pessoas não-binárias sexualmente que só se atrai por mulheres e pessoas de identidades não-binárias femininas e neutras romanticamente".
É mais fácil ver atração por pessoas não-binárias como impossível a não ser que seja associada com categorizar estas pessoas como homens ou mulheres internamente; é mais fácil ver orientações a-espectrais na "área cinza" como desnecessárias; é mais fácil ver fluidez de atração como algo inexistente; é mais fácil julgar negativamente pessoas que não veem sua orientação como algo definível; é mais fácil querer empurrar todas as orientações "estranhas" para uma terceira orientação aceitável (geralmente bi), ignorando pessoas poli, toren, trixen, flexíveis, fluidas, que não querem ser categorizadas e afins que não veem tal simplificação como representativa de suas experiências.
Por isso, vejo qualquer esforço em "simplificar" e apagar/não reconhecer identidades além de um certo "grupo consagrado" como fundamentalmente monossexista, ainda que a retórica não seja exatamente sobre só considerar duas orientações válidas. Se existe reducionismo de gênero, é possível também falar de reducionismo de orientação, ainda que os conceitos não sejam completamente equivalentes porque reducionistas de orientação não necessariamente veem qualquer pessoa como "basicamente hétero" ou "basicamente lésbica/gay" (ainda que este tipo de retórica também exista).
Monoliminaridade e orientações mono que não são consagradas
O problema de considerar que monossexismo vai contra qualquer orientação que não seja "atração exclusiva pelo mesmo gênero" ou "atração exclusiva de um gênero binário pelo outro" é que existem orientações que são mono (no sentido de serem ou poderem ser definidas como atração por um gênero), mas que não se encaixam nestas definições.
São orientações que:
Definem atração exclusiva por um gênero, mas que não determinam quem está sentindo atração ou que determinam que quem está sentindo atração é uma pessoa não-binária (exemplos: feminamórique, home, neu caso "sem gênero" conte como "um gênero" nestas circunstâncias);
Definem atração por uma categoria, de forma que é possível alguém sentir atração por apenas um gênero e usar o rótulo, mesmo que também seja possível alguém sentir atração por vários gêneros e usar o mesmo rótulo (exemplos: iteri, cetero, proqua).
Dependendo do caso, pessoas de tais orientações podem não ser afetadas por retórica do tipo "ou você se atrai por um gênero ou por outro". Uma pessoa feminamórica não vai parecer indecisa em relação a sua atração única por mulheres. Uma pessoa viramórica não vai ter dificuldades em conseguir um relacionamento pelo medo de que a pessoa largue um homem por alguém de outro gênero.
Mesmo em casos de pessoas que poderiam se considerar multi que só sentem atração por uma categoria de gênero, não sei o quanto as mesmas suposições existentes sobre alguém que sente atração por múltiplos gêneros ("vai trair com outro gênero/sentir falta de alguém de outro gênero", "deve querer ter sempre mais de uma pessoa na cama", "é indecise sobre por quem se atrai", etc.) são direcionadas a pessoas que afirmam só sentir atração por pessoas de gêneros femininos, ou por pessoas xenogênero, ou por pessoas não-binárias.
Ainda assim, tais orientações são vistas como supérfluas ("muita gente sente essa atração e se define com rótulos que mais pessoas entendem"), inexistentes ("só existe atração por mulheres ou por homens"), específicas demais ("só use gay/hétero!") e temporárias ("eu também achava ser isso, mas eventualmente percebi que só estava me escondendo atrás de rótulos que ninguém conhece para não ter que lidar com o estigma de ser bi/lésbica/gay"). E estas opiniões são consideradas monossexistas quando são direcionadas a quem é multi.
Desta forma, seriam orientações como feminamórique monodissidentes? Seriam pessoas proquu que só se atraem por pessoas mascugênero ou pessoas iteri que só se atraem por maveriques monodissidentes? Eu não acho que faz muito sentido encaixá-las nesta definição. Mesmo assim, são orientações que sofrem com retórica monossexista, ao menos até separarem estas questões de monossexismo para deixar o conceito só para quem não tem como classificar a própria orientação como mono.
4. Periorientismo
Periorientismo talvez também seja uma cunhagem minha, mas não tenho certeza. É o sistema que prioriza pessoas que podem descrever sua orientação de forma precisa sem separá-la em vários tipos.
Alguém que só diz que é demibi, por ser demibi em qualquer tipo de atração que considere relevante (sexual e romântica, na maior parte dos casos), é periorientade. Alguém que é lésbica em sua orientação sexual e oniarromântique em sua orientação romântica é variorientade.
Existem pessoas que só consideram quem tem orientação sexual e romântica diferentes como variorientadas. Pessoalmente, não vejo porque alguém que é assexual, arromântique e poliqueerplatônique não deveria ser considerade variorientade, quando também deve enfrentar questionamentos sobre como é possível alguém não sentir certos tipos de atração mas sentir outros, uma gama menor de relações porque a maioria procura alguém que sinta atração sexual e romântica e exigências de só categorizar ou priorizar uma de suas orientações em detrimento do resto.
Existe também a questão de pessoas poderem ser tecnicamente variorientadas mas se colocarem como periorientadas, como pessoas que se dizem assexuais bissexuais por verem o rótulo bissexual como importante ainda que só sejam bi em orientações além da sexual, pessoas que se dizem lésbicas multi sem querer categorizar tais orientações em tipos diferentes mesmo quando são tipos diferentes e pessoas que são multi e/ou a-espectrais que sentem atração em condições diferentes e/ou por gêneros diferentes em tipos diferentes de atração mas que "cobrem" isso usando termos abrangentes. Não acho uma boa ideia categorizar tais experiências como periorientadas ou variorientadas sem permissão, mas acho que de qualquer forma tais pessoas são prejudicadas por periorientismo.
O padrão é ser periorientade. Não é à toa que vários lugares só colocam orientação como orientação sexual, sem fornecer espaço para que pessoas falem de suas orientações românticas, alternativas, queerplatônicas ou outras que desejarem. Não é à toa que se alguém disser que é pan, a suposição geral vai ser que a pessoa é pansexual e panromântica, ainda que uma pessoa pan possa ser panalternativa, caligorromântica e abrossexual.
Intolerância, apagamento e ausência de informação sobre pessoas variorientadas são frequentemente considerades questões a-espectrais, pelo conceito moderno de variorientação ter sido popularizado em espaços assexuais. Embora seja importante considerar periorientismo ao falar sobre questões que comunidades a-espectrais enfrentam, também é um problema que afeta pessoas variorientadas alo.
A questão alossexista de ver pessoas a-espectrais como incompletas por lhes faltarem atração às vezes serve como justificativa para que pessoas periorientistas "aceitem" a existência de pessoas a-espectrais variorientadas (ainda que de forma condicional e restrita, assim como pessoas heterodissidentes em relacionamentos duáricos também só recebem uma certa aceitação condicional e pouco firme de alguns grupos). No entanto, estas pessoas se mostram como periorientistas quando problematizam, criticam, fazem chacota e/ou duvidam de pessoas que sentem atração por mais gêneros em sua atração sexual ou romântica (como pessoas heterossexuais polirromânticas ou pansexuais que são gays em sua orientação romântica). A possibilidade e existência de pessoas que são alo e sentem atrações diferentes por gêneros diferentes (como pessoas gays heterorromânticas) também é frequentemente vista como impossível, ridícula e afins, ainda que uma outra pessoa já tenha se aberto como tal.
Periorientismo é uma questão que cabe dentro do monossexismo, já que qualquer pessoa variorientada não pode ser completamente mono (assim como qualquer pessoa a-espectral não pode ser completamente mono, já que isso envolve uma atração considerada "completa").
Síntese...?
Meu ponto com tudo isso é apontar que a orientação hétero centralizada pela heteronorma não é apenas formada pela definição de hétero como uma identidade que pode existir em contextos heterodissidentes. Heterossexismo coloca a orientação padrão/ideal/normal como:
Duárica (atração de mulheres por homens ou de homens por mulheres);
Definida por atração por apenas um gênero (mono, sem fluidez, flexibilidade, dúvidas ou atração por pessoas não-binárias);
Frequente e constante (alo, sem fluidez);
Periorientada (a pessoa tem que ser hétero em todas as orientações utilizadas para formar relacionamentos relevantes para a sociedade normativa);
Bem definida (não querer declarar fidelidade definitiva ao rótulo hétero só é permitido quando é para normalizar a identidade hétero, fora isso é um desvio inadequado);
Uma única orientação, pois as outras não existem ou não merecem nomes.
Pessoas que conseguem mais ou menos preencher alguns dos requerimentos podem ser coagidas a fingir que preenchem os outros. Pessoas que nitidamente não conseguem preencher os requerimentos são excluidas da sociedade heteronormativa ou de partes dela.
Porém, esta lista só leva em conta hétero como orientação por si só. A questão é que, num contexto eurocêntrico cristão, mesmo pessoas que preenchem os requerimentos da orientação hétero podem não ser completamente reconhecidas como tal, por conta de heterossexismo ter sido formado de forma muito interligada com outros sistemas de opressão.
Novamente, não estou falando que a definição de heterossexismo como o sistema que prejudica pessoas heterodissidentes está errada, ou mesmo incompleta. Porém, quando se fala sobre heterossexismo de forma mais abrangente, pode ser importante também levar em consideração quando grupos hétero não são vistos como tal.
Sexonormatividade
Sexonormatividade é uma palavra geralmente encontrada em contextos assexuais, e que é usada de forma muito similar a alossexismo. Porém, há lugares que mencionam que pessoas que não são assexuais também podem sofrer com sexonormatividade. Assim, acredito que sexonormatividade não seja somente a priorização da alossexualidade, mas também a ideia geral de que todo mundo precisa querer sexo, e de que todo relacionamento que envolva compromisso precisa envolver sexo.
Assim, pessoas com repulsa a sexo (algo que não é exclusivo de pessoas assexuais e nem de pessoas heterodissidentes em geral) ou que se recusam a fazer sexo em "circunstâncias esperadas" podem sofrer consequências por isso, inclusive consequências similares ao alossexismo e ao periorientismo: questionamento de como a pessoa pode ser de tal orientação quando não quer sexo, pressão para que a pessoa faça sexo quando não quer, acusações de que a pessoa precisa ser "consertada", etc.
Nota (17/09/20): @vitorrubiao@colorid.es apontou que sexonormatividade também age em relação a levar pessoas a acreditarem que há alguma idade onde todo mundo deve já ter tido relações sexuais, o que pode fazer com que pessoas tenham sua identidade hétero questionada mesmo que não tenham tido oportunidade ou vontade de ter relações sexuais até aquele momento.
Amatonormatividade
Amatonormatividade é uma palavra que pode ser encontrada em vários textos sobre poliamor ou arromanticidade, mas ele surgiu em um contexto feminista. É um conceito que descreve o ideal social de alguém achar a pessoa perfeita, se apaixonar, formar um relacionamento e viver "feliz para sempre".
No caso de pessoas arromânticas, esse ideal de um dia achar o par romântico perfeito é ofensivo e tem uma conotação de "curar a orientação". No caso de pessoas não-monogâmicas, a ideia de ter um relacionamento só que seja perfeito é questionada não só em relação ao número de pessoas, mas também em questão de colocar uma busca por relacionamentos perfeitos como central e como um objetivo de vida. No caso de mulheres, amatonormatividade é um problema por haver aquele ideal de que toda mulher precisa ser uma mãe e ter cuidar de uma família como objetivo de vida, mais cedo e de forma mais forte do que acontece com homens.
Assim como sexonormatividade pode fazer com que pessoas hétero possam ser vistas como heterodissidentes em certas circunstâncias, amatonormatividade também pode pressionar pessoas hétero a buscar relacionamentos românticos quando não querem eles tanto assim, ou prejudicar pessoas hétero que "ainda" não formaram laços românticos em certa idade.
Cissexismo e diadismo
Ainda que pessoas hétero possam sentir atração por pessoas do outro gênero binário independentemente de sua corporalidade, existe a noção social de que um homem transando com alguém com um pênis é um sinal de que aquele homem sente atração por homens (por exemplo). Também existe a noção de que pessoas trans e hétero são "lésbicas/gays que decidiram ser do outro gênero binário", ou por considerarem expressões de gênero fora do padrão como "mais heterodissidentes" ou por verem pessoas trans como obcecadas por "enganar" pessoas cis e hétero ao conseguir fazer "sexo gay/lésbico" com elas.
Isso faz com que, por conta do cissexismo (pessoas cisdissidentes não são vistas como pessoas que realmente são de seu gênero), há a possibilidade de que pessoas trans hétero e/ou sues parceires hétero sejam vistes como heterodissidentes.
Outra coisa que acontece é um julgamento do quanto uma pessoa trans precisa "passar" (ser vista como cis) e/ou de que cirurgias precisa fazer para que tenha acesso à identidade hétero, ou para que sues parceires deixem de ser vistes como "queers enrustides".
Com pessoas ipsogênero (intersexo, mas que são do gênero atribuído ao nascimento), acredito que funcione de forma um pouco diferente. Nem toda pessoa intersexo é visivelmente intersexo, e muitas pessoas intersexo são vistas como "perissexo mas com alguma doença/síndrome/diferença". Então, por exemplo, uma mulher ipsogênero com cromossomos XY pode não ser necessariamente reconhecida como uma "ameaça" à orientação hétero de seus parceiros.
Mesmo assim, existem pessoas ipsogênero que são confundidas com pessoas trans por causa de efeitos hormonais (como homens com seios ou mulheres com barba), ou pessoas ipsogênero cuja genitália não é própria para penetração de pênis em vagina (por natureza ou por conta de cirurgias incompletas ou que deram errado). Eu não tenho histórias que possam confirmar isso, mas não duvido que tais pessoas possam passar por exclusões da sociedade hétero da mesma forma que pessoas trans.
Expressões de gênero não normativas
A ideia de que homens hétero são desleixados, não tocam em outros homens e não usam nada rosa e de que mulheres hétero são boas cozinheiras, vaidosas e emocionais na verdade não tem nada a ver com ser hétero: tem a ver com cumprir papéis de gênero. Porém, como já mencionei, isso acabou sendo misturado em uma ideia do que é ser hétero por questões históricas (de ver gênero e orientação como similares).
A pressão social para cumprir papéis de gênero em cima de pessoas hétero geralmente é mais focada nela mesma do que em questões de orientação, mas a aversão à heterodissidência pode ser usada como combustível para evitar ou atacar quem tiver comportamentos que não cumprem os papéis de gênero esperados.
Por exemplo: uma menina é excluída das outras na escola por gostar de jogar futebol; um menino é repreendido por querer uma bicicleta rosa; dois irmãos se abraçando em um lugar público são atacados por serem confundidos com um par romântico; uma adolescente é forçada a parar de usar calças camufladas e camisas retas. Nada disso demonstra ausência de atração duárica ou presença de atração pelo mesmo gênero ou por pessoas não-binárias, mas as intervenções provavelmente seriam justificadas de forma heterossexista.
Isso também inclui o julgamento de certos fetiches e de certas posições sexuais como indicações de que alguém não seria ("totalmente") hétero.
Outras possibilidades
Eu não cheguei a ler sobre isso a ponto de ter certeza sobre qualquer coisa a respeito, mas eu não duvido que outros fatores, como neurodivergência, raça, religião, participação em trabalho sexual ou qualquer outra coisa também afetem a percepção da sociedade heterossexista sobre alguém "realmente ser" hétero, para além de percepções estereotipadas de expressões de gênero em um contexto eurocêntrico.
Nota (17/09/20): @vitorrubiao@colorid.es apontou que pessoas soropositivas hétero são frequentemente acusadas de heterodissidência, pela associação histórica da transmissão de HIV a comunidades NHINCQ+.
Existe uma necessidade de combater e denunciar pensamentos advindos do heterossexismo mesmo dentro de grupos compostos por uma maioria ou totalidade heterodissidente. O objetivo deste texto é ajudar pessoas com pouco contato com questões relacionadas a heterossexismo a refletir mais sobre partes pouco divulgadas desta ideologia. Espero que este texto tenha sido informativo para alguém que teve paciência de lê-lo até o fim.
Algumas destas informações talvez fiquem obsoletas ou estranhas daqui a alguns anos, porque qualquer modelo teórico de opressão precisa se adaptar a novas conversas ou a informações previamente desconsideradas. Mas, no momento, este texto como está parece fazer sentido em relação ao material com o qual tenho contato.
Este texto cobre vários termos importantes, além de dar dicas para evitar alguns “erros” básicos que pessoas novas na comunidade podem não perceber que deveriam evitar.
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PipeWire 0.3.81 (2023-10-06) This is the first 1.0 release candidate that is API and ABI compatible with previous 0.3.x releases.
Highlights
jackdbus support is now enabled by default.
IRQ based scheduling in ALSA was improved and enabled by default for Pro-Audio profile. It will also link the pcms together to get lower latency. This now matches what JACK does and results in equal latency for Pro-Audio profiles.
Support both old and new versions of webrtc-audio-processing to make the transition easier.
Forced quantum changes by nodes or metadata will now also force a suspend and resume of the graph, like the rate changes to make sure all nodes adapt to the new quantum. This is important for Pro-Audio nodes that need to reconfigure the hardware to a new period in IRQ based scheduling.
Fix a regression in regex parsing.
Many bugfixes and improvements.
PipeWire
Jackdbus is by default enabled now. The idea is that when jackdbus is installed, the real libjack.so is in the path and we can become a real JACK client.
Forces quantum changes by nodes or metadata will now also force a suspend and resume in the graph, like the rate changes to make sure all nodes adapt to the new quantum. This is important for Pro-Audio nodes that need to reconfigure the hardware to a new period.
The stream now has an EARLY_PROCESS option that can be used to implement custom buffer fill levels. (#3480)
Fix a bug in position reporting in the driver node. (#3189) (#3544)
Destroying a link will now recalculate the graph correctly.
Fix the rate comparison for finding the best rate in the graph.
Use malloc_trim() when available to release memory. (#1840)
Tools
pw-cat now supports DFF DSD files.
pw-cli avoid some NULL derefs in some cases.
Modules
The RAOP sink has seen some cleanups and improvements. It will now ask for feedback every 2 seconds to keep some devices alive.
A bug in filter-chain was fixed where it would fail to apply the gain when mixing just one source.
The filter-chain can now pass the stream volume to a control in the filter-chain graph. (#3434)
Improve volume handling in RAOP sink.
Pulse-server
Some cleanup in the pending_stream handling.
Fix a regression in the event emission code where it failed to emit a changed event when a node was linked. (#3522)
Lower the realtime priority of pulseaudio clients.
Set pulse.module.id on the echo-cancel streams. (#3541)
SPA
Support both old and new versions of webrtc-audio-processing to make the transition easier.
The ALSA driver now does the sync of all followers directly from the wakeup event. This results in more stable rate matching.
IRQ based scheduling in ALSA was improved and enabled by default for Pro-Audio profile. It will also link the pcms together to get lower latency. This now matches what JACK does and gives equal latency for Pro-Audio profiles.
GNU/Hurd support was added.
Some improvements to passthrough handling.
Bluetooth
Improvements to the codec handling when PipeWire is used as Audio Gateway.
Adapt to new Bluez API for BAP devices.
JACK
When the jack library is set in the default library path, avoid using LD_LIBRARY_PATH because this can cause confusion.
Handle clearing the latency on a port.
jack_property now always manages to actually change the metadata because it waits for a roundtrip before exiting.
@Joliflower What I'd love to see for pipewire is a working port of pulse-effects. I really miss the capabilities that provided and it will not work with pulse-pipewire, I've tried.
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In Episode 97 of Breaking History, Gordon and I explore Trump’s Golden Dome missile defense plan, weighing its potential for peace through strength versus the risk of a new global arms race.
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