Good evening all

My mom is still with us, but she's retreating further every day into whatever mental world she inhabits. She seems...dazed. It takes effort to get her to realize that I'm there to see her.

She no longer calls me. She has zero interest in my life (she does still smile when she sees her youngest grandson).

She cannot engage in mutual conversation any longer. Her mind is solely on her meals. So, I bring her treats.

I am serving my mom. It is all about her now.

I grieve.

Deadly Shooting in D.C. Targets Israeli Embassy Staff, Two Killed #Palestine palestinechronicle.com/deadly-โ€ฆ

6,390 views so far; 88 Comments so far

Senate Homeland Security Committeeโ€™s Hearing on Adverse Events Related to COVID-19 Vaccines

U.S. Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee Subcommittee on Investigations holds a hearing on how health officials downplayed myocarditis and other adverse events associated with the covid-19 vaccines at 2 p.m. ET on May 21.

youtube.com/live/ymVqWeqSWB8?sโ€ฆ

friendica (DFRN) - Link to source

Manjaro Dependency Cluster Fuck


Does anyone know how to resolve the following other than deleting pod2man?

pacman -Syyu
:: Synchronizing package databases...
core 144.3 KiB 222 KiB/s 00:01 [######################] 100%
extra 8.3 MiB 4.88 MiB/s 00:02 [######################] 100%
multilib 147.9 KiB 157 KiB/s 00:01 [######################] 100%
:: Starting full system upgrade...
resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: installing perl (5.40.2-1) breaks dependency 'perl=5.40.1' required by pod2man

Sanaโ€™a forces target โ€œBen Gurionโ€ Airport, two vital Israeli targets in Jaffa, Haifa en.ypagency.net/357347

Otto von Bismarck: One day the great European War would come out of some damned foolish thing in the Balkans. wordsmith.social/protestation/โ€ฆ


Quotes

  • 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.


"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 itโ€™s believed to bring but for its myriad skin-care benefitsโ€”a perfect combination when it comes to brides preparing for their weddings."

Deeper Meaning of Olive Oil as S. Italy Bridal Beauty Ritual

vogue.com/article/olive-oils-sโ€ฆ
Carmine Romano/"Vogue"
#OliveOil #Campania #Italy #Beauty

Xi urges China, France to be reliable forces for maintaining international order eng.chinamil.com.cn/CHINA_2091โ€ฆ

Sorry, but I don't feel sorry. How many innocent men, women, and children does #Israel murder every single day in #Gaza?

Honestly, we need more.

Deny. Defend. Depose.

#FreeGaza #FreePalestine

reuters.com/world/middle-east/โ€ฆ
My Country may not want to acknowledge Israel's #genocide. Hell, they may even want to help.

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.

They called you the black sheep.
Not because you were wrong โ€” but because you were different.

While the herd followed the path without question, you paused. Looked up. Listened to the wind.
And whispered, โ€œThere must be another way.โ€

The black sheep doesnโ€™t blend in.
Not because they canโ€™tโ€ฆ
But because they wonโ€™t.

Theyโ€™ve seen too many cliffs disguised as traditions. Too many cages called โ€œnormal.โ€

So they step out. Alone, maybe. But awake. ๐Ÿ–คโœจ

They ruffle feathers. Stir waters. Break silence.
And sometimes โ€” they build the bridges the flock never knew it needed.

To every black sheep out there:
You are the quiet revolution.
The shift in the pattern.
The wild note in the chorus.

You donโ€™t need to fit in.
You were born to stand out โ€” and lead forward.

"Elvis Presley, Ava Gardner, ร‰dith 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 Parisโ€™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

apnews.com/article/france-pariโ€ฆ via AP
Photo: Thomas Padill/AP
#Bambi #Trans #Paris #WWII #Drag

Air raid sirens in Tel Aviv as Yemen fires missile at Occupied Territories parstoday.ir/en/news/daily_newโ€ฆ

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.
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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.

thegatewaypundit.com/2025/05/bโ€ฆ

North Koreaโ€™s Destroyer Launch Accident 2025: What Went Wrong? youngpioneertours.com/north-koโ€ฆ

Otto von Bismarck: The social insecurity of the worker is the real cause of their being a peril to the state. wordsmith.social/protestation/โ€ฆ


Quotes

  • 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.


in reply to CedarTea

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 ...

This article may be of interest:
vegetablegardeningnews.com/is-โ€ฆ

The Copilot Delusion

Link: deplet.ing/the-copilot-delusioโ€ฆ
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4โ€ฆ

Affordability gap: Most Americans not making enough to cover basic costs of living
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/affordability-gap-most-americans-not-making-enough-to-cover-basic-costs-of-living/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into U.S. News @u-s-news-CBSNews

Israeli Enemy Media: Landings Halted at Lod Airport Following Missile Launched from Yemen english.masirahtv.net/post/478โ€ฆ

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...

Iran's Envoy: Tehran Calls for Condemnation of Ongoing Israeli Attacks on Syria iranpress.com/content/305415

Otto von Bismarck: Not by speeches and votes of the majority are the great questions of the time decided โ€” that was the error of 1848 and 1849 โ€” but by iron and blood. wordsmith.social/protestation/โ€ฆ


Quotes

  • 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.


The Middle East, "Center of the World," According to the Meta-Analysis of "Trump of Arabia" and His Holy Alliance with the GCC, by Alfredo Jalife-Rahme voltairenet.org/article222308.โ€ฆ

The British are salvaging Sykes Picot in Syria - beneath the radar of British tax payers beeley.substack.com/p/the-britโ€ฆ

The occupation threatens to evacuate Jabalia camp and 13 neighborhoods in the northern Gaza Strip dailyyemen.net/2025/05/22/the-โ€ฆ

My experience with Linux Day 5 and beyond: Conclusion


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This entry was edited (1 year ago)

Dispatch from Texas: The Billion-Dollar Heist of Public Educationโ€‹ projectcensored.org/texas-billโ€ฆ

State of the Nvidia open source driver in late 2023?


Hi all,

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 entry was edited (1 year ago)

A response to the "Boycott Wayland" article


Link to article: gist.github.com/probonopd/9febโ€ฆ

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_rโ€ฆ
  • 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/pโ€ฆ
  • 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

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My experience with Linux Day 2


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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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US Pilot Detained in Venezuela: Diosdado Cabello Denounces Terrorist Intentions and Handover to the US telesurenglish.net/us-pilot-deโ€ฆ

Hungary Stands up to Globalism: Orbรกn Passes โ€˜Stop Sorosโ€™ Law Against Progressive NGOs.

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Otto von Bismarck: Politics is not an exact science. wordsmith.social/protestation/โ€ฆ


Quotes

  • 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.


Descompactando heterossexismo


Informaรงรตes bรกsicas, incluindo algumas pouco exploradas em vรกrias discussรตes, sobre os componentes do heterossexismo e suas relaรงรตes com outros sistemas de opressรฃo.

Recomendaรงรฃo de leitura: Caso nรฃo tenha lido tal postagem ainda, recomendo que leia Vocabulรกrio usado em cรญrculos NHINCQ+ inclusivos. Vรกrios termos citados sรฃo explicados aqui ou possuem links, mas acho que serรก mais fรกcil absorver as ideias principais do texto caso e leitore jรก saiba o que รฉ uma orientaรงรฃo a-espectral, o que รฉ uma orientaรงรฃo fluida, o motivo de "atraรงรฃo por gรชneros diferentes" nรฃo ser uma definiรงรฃo adequada para hรฉtero, e outras informaรงรตes consideradas bรกsicas para o assunto.

Aviso de conteรบdo: Este texto explora heterossexismo e suas diversas vertentes, e contรฉm exemplos de tudo isso. Tambรฉm contรฉm exemplos de sexonormatividade, amatonormatividade, cissexismo, diadismo e policiamento de gรชnero. Hรก algumas leves descriรงรตes (relativamente clรญnicas) de atos sexuais, coerรงรฃo sexual e cirurgias em genitรกlias.

Heterossexismo รฉ uma palavra que raramente precisa de explicaรงรฃo: afinal, pessoas que se deparam com ela geralmente jรก sabem o que รฉ hรฉtero (alguรฉm binรกrie que sente atraรงรฃo somente pelo outro gรชnero binรกrio), heterossexual (alguรฉm hรฉtero pelo menos em relaรงรฃo a orientaรงรฃo sexual) e sexismo (que, apesar do nome, geralmente รฉ uma palavra utilizada em relaรงรฃo a opressรฃo por gรชnero). Mesmo que alguรฉm nรฃo 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 nรฃo significa que nรฃo hรก nenhum lugar que defina heterossexismo por si sรณ. Nestes casos, se define heterossexismo como algo em torno de "o sistema que oprime qualquer orientaรงรฃo que nรฃo seja hรฉtero". Esta รฉ uma boa definiรงรฃo e nรฃo pretendo desafiรก-la, e sim elaborรก-la.

O que vejo acontecer em muitas discussรตes รฉ a reduรงรฃo de heterossexismo apenas a subtipos especรญficos de sua definiรงรฃo. Isso pode acontecer de forma maliciosa, mas tambรฉm acontece sem querer, especialmente quando o conhecimento de tantas pessoas a respeito do assunto รฉ pouco desenvolvido. O propรณsito deste texto รฉ oferecer perspectivas mais incomuns sobre o que heterossexismo tambรฉm engloba.

1. Duaricismo


Eu cunhei duaricismo para significar, basicamente, "a priorizaรงรฃo de atraรงรตes e relacionamentos duรกricos acima de outras possibilidades". Duรกrique tambรฉm foi uma palavra que cunhei (ainda que com opiniรตes envolvidas de pessoas duรกricas), e significa que alguรฉm รฉ de um gรชnero binรกrio e sente atraรงรฃo pelo outro gรชnero binรกrio, exclusivamente ou nรฃo. Um relacionamento entre um homem e uma mulher tambรฉm pode ser chamado de duรกrico, assim como um relacionamento entre duas pessoas nรฃo-binรกrias pode ser chamado de enebeano.

A necessidade da cunhagem e do uso de duรกrique รฉ a mesma necessidade da cunhagem e do uso de outros termos juvรฉlicos: muitas vezes, hรก a necessidade de falar de um relacionamento ou de uma atraรงรฃo de forma especรญfica, ainda que isso possa nรฃo representar a orientaรงรฃo inteira do(s) indivรญduo(s).

Por exemplo, รฉ comum haverem discussรตes sobre pessoas multi (que sentem atraรงรฃo por mais de um gรชnero) e o que acontece quando estรฃo em relacionamentos duรกricos. Chamar tais relacionamentos de "relacionamentos entre um homem e uma mulher" acaba sendo longo demais pra muitas pessoas, que preferem resumir isso como "relacionamentos hรฉtero". Mas isso por si sรณ traz a conotaรงรฃo de que a orientaรงรฃo que uma pessoa multi tem รฉ definida por sue(s) parceire(s) atual(is), o que รฉ uma forma comum de apagamento.

Da mesma forma, pessoas podem querer palavras para descrever que sรณ sentiram atraรงรฃo por um gรชnero mas que nรฃo sabem se sentem atraรงรฃo por outros gรชneros, ou para descrever a atraรงรฃo de personagens que nรฃo possuem orientaรงรฃo confirmada. E este vocabulรกrio รฉ รบtil mesmo em um contexto onde esta atraรงรฃo pode ser vista como "desinteressante", "normativa" ou "mais privilegiada".

Enfim, duaricismo รฉ uma questรฃo dentro de heterossexismo. Duaricismo inclui ver a atraรงรฃo duรกrica de alguรฉm multi como mais real ou concreta do que outras atraรงรตes. Duaricismo inclui leis que sรณ reconhecem casais formados por um homem e uma mulher. Duaricismo inclui a noรงรฃo de que um beijo entre um homem e uma mulher รฉ sempre mais inocente e romรขntico do que o mesmo beijo entre outras combinaรงรตes entre gรชneros. Duaricismo internalizado inclui demorar se perceber como alguรฉm que nรฃo รฉ duรกrique, mesmo apรณs reconhecer ter atraรงรตes por outros gรชneros.

Para quem jรก entrou em contato com vรกrios materiais sobre heterossexismo, pode ser que todos estes exemplos jรก tenham sido absorvidos como exemplos de heterossexismo. Isso รฉ porque duaricismo รฉ uma parte da estrutura do heterossexismo. Porรฉm, o erro cometido por muites รฉ ver duaricismo como a รบnica forรงa que existe dentro do heterossexismo.

2. Alossexismo


Alossexismo (ou zedsexismo, para quem nรฃo gosta da palavra alossexual por suas origens) รฉ a crenรงa de que existe um nรญvel normal e ideal de atraรงรฃo, especialmente (nas teorias atรฉ o momento) em relaรงรฃo ร s atraรงรตes sexual e romรขntica. ร‰ a priorizaรงรฃo da atraรงรฃo de forma alo em detrimento das diversas possibilidades da a-espectralidade (caracterรญstica do que รฉ a-espectral; de pessoas que sรฃo assexuais, arromรขnticas, gris/gray, demi, lith, etc).

Alossexismo faz parte do heterossexismo porque quem nรฃo รฉ alo nรฃo รฉ viste como hรฉtero. Ao menos nรฃo da forma que a heteronorma constrรณi o que รฉ ser hรฉtero.

Para acentuar que pessoas a-espectrais nรฃo sรฃo favorecidas completamente pela heteronorma ainda que sejam hรฉtero em algum aspecto, existe gente que usa "alo-hรฉtero" ou "heterossexual heterorromรขntique alo" ou similar para indicar que estรฃo considerando alossexismo ao indicar qual รฉ o grupo mais privilegiado em relaรงรฃo a orientaรงรตes. Pessoalmente, eu nรฃo me importo em usar apenas hรฉtero (ou completamente/somente hรฉtero), porque o que indico com isso รฉ que essas pessoas sรณ podem ser descritas precisamente como hรฉtero, enquanto uma pessoa arromรขntica heterodemissexual (entre outras possibilidades) nรฃo pode descrever precisamente sua orientaรงรฃo apenas como hรฉtero.

Dentro de um sistema alossexista, pessoas que nรฃo sentem atraรงรฃo sรฃo vistas como pessoas que nรฃo sentiram atraรงรฃo ainda, ou como pessoas que estรฃo escondendo algo. Pessoas que sรณ conseguem sentir atraรงรฃo quase imediata de vez em quando ou nunca sรฃo vistas como reprimidas ou excessivamente determinadas a "se guardarem para a pessoa perfeita"; pessoas que nunca conseguem sentir atraรงรฃo quando se trata de pessoas conhecidas/interessadas sรฃo vistas como medrosas ou potencialmente abusivas. E todos estes casos sรฃo frequentemente vistos como questรตes a serem resolvidas.

Existe a questรฃo da falta de atraรงรฃo ser ocasionalmente percebida como a possibilidade de ser gay/lรฉsbica. Algumas pessoas usam isso para indicar que alossexismo nรฃo existe, ou nรฃo estรก dentro da heteronorma; "รฉ sรณ homomisia maldirecionada". Mas a questรฃo de identidades a-espectrais serem percebidas como nรฃo-hรฉtero precisa ser considerada por si sรณ, e nรฃo sรณ porque ela pode estar acompanhada de percepรงรตes limitadas sobre que orientaรงรตes alguรฉm pode ter.

Grupos a-espectrais e hรฉtero podem perpetuar duaricismo. Grupos heterodissidentes e alo podem perpetuar alossexismo. Grupos a-espectrais que nรฃo sรฃo hรฉtero podem sofrer tanto com alossexismo quanto com duaricismo. Mas todos estes grupos sรฃo afetados pela existรชncia do heterossexismo estrutural.

3. Monossexismo


Monossexismo รฉ, dependendo de quem definir, o sistema que prioriza atraรงรฃo por um gรชnero, ou o sistema que coloca gay/lรฉsbica e hรฉtero como os รบnicos, mais importantes ou mais dignos "polos" de atraรงรฃo. Eu deixei monossexismo para depois de alossexismo porque รฉ uma questรฃo que acredito que seja mais complexa, especialmente porque existem questรตes dentro de monossexismo que ainda nรฃo foram nomeadas e que sรฃo pouco discutidas, ainda que sejam importantes. Mesmo assim, acredito que alossexismo seja uma questรฃo dentro do monossexismo.

Mesmo ao citar exemplos bรกsicos de monossexismo contra pessoas multi - que sรฃo geralmente o foco de discussรตes sobre monossexismo - รฉ possรญvel ver que quase tudo nรฃo se aplica necessariamente apenas a pessoas multi. "Ou vocรช gosta de homens ou de mulheres, o resto รฉ frescura", "quem nรฃo รฉ gay nem hรฉtero sรณ nรฃo se decidiu ainda", "todo mundo รฉ meio assim" e "namorar a pessoa certa vai te fazer mudar de ideia" sรฃo expressรตes direcionadas nรฃo sรณ a pessoas multi (sendo que isso nรฃo se reduz apenas a pessoas bi ou pan, e inclui orientaรงรตes flexรญveis), mas tambรฉm a pessoas a-espectrais, de orientaรงรตes fluidas e de orientaรงรตes indefinidas.

Orientaรงรตes fluidas e indefinidas muitas vezes sรฃo colocadas dentro de guarda-chuvas multi (ou atรฉ mesmo a-espectrais), mas vejo muitas pessoas nestes grupos nรฃo se sentirem confortรกveis em se dizerem multi, ou em se dizerem multi em momentos que nรฃo se sentem atraรญdas por mais de um gรชnero. Por isso, acho adequado citar estes grupos separadamente.

Alรฉm disso, com o tempo, fui percebendo que hรก uma lรณgica monossexista repetidamente aplicada a diversas orientaรงรตes, mesmo de pontos de vista "prรณ-bi" ou "prรณ-multi". Refiro-me ao apagamento e ร  intolerรขncia contra identidades alรฉm de algumas "aceitรกveis".

Muites conseguem ver que dizer que gay e hรฉtero sรฃo as รบnicas orientaรงรตes รฉ monossexismo. Porรฉm, lรณgica como "sรณ existe atraรงรฃo por homens e por mulheres", "sรณ existem pessoas L/G, hรฉtero, bi ou assexuais" e "identidades multi alรฉm de bi e pan sรฃo inรบteis" acabam sendo extensรตes deste pensamento.

Se os modelos de orientaรงรฃo sรฃo "homem que sรณ se atrai por homens", "mulher que sรณ se atrai por mulheres", "homem que sรณ se atrai por mulheres" e "mulher que sรณ se atrai por homens", รฉ mais fรกcil estender este modelo para "pessoa que sรณ se atrai por homens e mulheres" e "pessoa que nรฃo se atrai por ninguรฉm" do que para "pessoa que geralmente se atrai por homens e ร s vezes por pessoas nรฃo-binรกrias sexualmente que sรณ se atrai por mulheres e pessoas de identidades nรฃo-binรกrias femininas e neutras romanticamente".

ร‰ mais fรกcil ver atraรงรฃo por pessoas nรฃo-binรกrias como impossรญvel a nรฃo ser que seja associada com categorizar estas pessoas como homens ou mulheres internamente; รฉ mais fรกcil ver orientaรงรตes a-espectrais na "รกrea cinza" como desnecessรกrias; รฉ mais fรกcil ver fluidez de atraรงรฃo como algo inexistente; รฉ mais fรกcil julgar negativamente pessoas que nรฃo veem sua orientaรงรฃo como algo definรญvel; รฉ mais fรกcil querer empurrar todas as orientaรงรตes "estranhas" para uma terceira orientaรงรฃo aceitรกvel (geralmente bi), ignorando pessoas poli, toren, trixen, flexรญveis, fluidas, que nรฃo querem ser categorizadas e afins que nรฃo veem tal simplificaรงรฃo como representativa de suas experiรชncias.

Por isso, vejo qualquer esforรงo em "simplificar" e apagar/nรฃo reconhecer identidades alรฉm de um certo "grupo consagrado" como fundamentalmente monossexista, ainda que a retรณrica nรฃo seja exatamente sobre sรณ considerar duas orientaรงรตes vรกlidas. Se existe reducionismo de gรชnero, รฉ possรญvel tambรฉm falar de reducionismo de orientaรงรฃo, ainda que os conceitos nรฃo sejam completamente equivalentes porque reducionistas de orientaรงรฃo nรฃo necessariamente veem qualquer pessoa como "basicamente hรฉtero" ou "basicamente lรฉsbica/gay" (ainda que este tipo de retรณrica tambรฉm exista).

Monoliminaridade e orientaรงรตes mono que nรฃo sรฃo consagradas


O problema de considerar que monossexismo vai contra qualquer orientaรงรฃo que nรฃo seja "atraรงรฃo exclusiva pelo mesmo gรชnero" ou "atraรงรฃo exclusiva de um gรชnero binรกrio pelo outro" รฉ que existem orientaรงรตes que sรฃo mono (no sentido de serem ou poderem ser definidas como atraรงรฃo por um gรชnero), mas que nรฃo se encaixam nestas definiรงรตes.

Sรฃo orientaรงรตes que:

  • Definem atraรงรฃo exclusiva por um gรชnero, mas que nรฃo determinam quem estรก sentindo atraรงรฃo ou que determinam que quem estรก sentindo atraรงรฃo รฉ uma pessoa nรฃo-binรกria (exemplos: feminamรณrique, home, neu caso "sem gรชnero" conte como "um gรชnero" nestas circunstรขncias);
  • Definem atraรงรฃo por uma categoria, de forma que รฉ possรญvel alguรฉm sentir atraรงรฃo por apenas um gรชnero e usar o rรณtulo, mesmo que tambรฉm seja possรญvel alguรฉm sentir atraรงรฃo por vรกrios gรชneros e usar o mesmo rรณtulo (exemplos: iteri, cetero, proqua).

Dependendo do caso, pessoas de tais orientaรงรตes podem nรฃo ser afetadas por retรณrica do tipo "ou vocรช se atrai por um gรชnero ou por outro". Uma pessoa feminamรณrica nรฃo vai parecer indecisa em relaรงรฃo a sua atraรงรฃo รบnica por mulheres. Uma pessoa viramรณrica nรฃo vai ter dificuldades em conseguir um relacionamento pelo medo de que a pessoa largue um homem por alguรฉm de outro gรชnero.

Mesmo em casos de pessoas que poderiam se considerar multi que sรณ sentem atraรงรฃo por uma categoria de gรชnero, nรฃo sei o quanto as mesmas suposiรงรตes existentes sobre alguรฉm que sente atraรงรฃo por mรบltiplos gรชneros ("vai trair com outro gรชnero/sentir falta de alguรฉm de outro gรชnero", "deve querer ter sempre mais de uma pessoa na cama", "รฉ indecise sobre por quem se atrai", etc.) sรฃo direcionadas a pessoas que afirmam sรณ sentir atraรงรฃo por pessoas de gรชneros femininos, ou por pessoas xenogรชnero, ou por pessoas nรฃo-binรกrias.

Ainda assim, tais orientaรงรตes sรฃo vistas como supรฉrfluas ("muita gente sente essa atraรงรฃo e se define com rรณtulos que mais pessoas entendem"), inexistentes ("sรณ existe atraรงรฃo por mulheres ou por homens"), especรญficas demais ("sรณ use gay/hรฉtero!") e temporรกrias ("eu tambรฉm achava ser isso, mas eventualmente percebi que sรณ estava me escondendo atrรกs de rรณtulos que ninguรฉm conhece para nรฃo ter que lidar com o estigma de ser bi/lรฉsbica/gay"). E estas opiniรตes sรฃo consideradas monossexistas quando sรฃo direcionadas a quem รฉ multi.

Desta forma, seriam orientaรงรตes como feminamรณrique monodissidentes? Seriam pessoas proquu que sรณ se atraem por pessoas mascugรชnero ou pessoas iteri que sรณ se atraem por maveriques monodissidentes? Eu nรฃo acho que faz muito sentido encaixรก-las nesta definiรงรฃo. Mesmo assim, sรฃo orientaรงรตes que sofrem com retรณrica monossexista, ao menos atรฉ separarem estas questรตes de monossexismo para deixar o conceito sรณ para quem nรฃo tem como classificar a prรณpria orientaรงรฃo como mono.

4. Periorientismo


Periorientismo talvez tambรฉm seja uma cunhagem minha, mas nรฃo tenho certeza. ร‰ o sistema que prioriza pessoas que podem descrever sua orientaรงรฃo de forma precisa sem separรก-la em vรกrios tipos.

Alguรฉm que sรณ diz que รฉ demibi, por ser demibi em qualquer tipo de atraรงรฃo que considere relevante (sexual e romรขntica, na maior parte dos casos), รฉ periorientade. Alguรฉm que รฉ lรฉsbica em sua orientaรงรฃo sexual e oniarromรขntique em sua orientaรงรฃo romรขntica รฉ variorientade.

Existem pessoas que sรณ consideram quem tem orientaรงรฃo sexual e romรขntica diferentes como variorientadas. Pessoalmente, nรฃo vejo porque alguรฉm que รฉ assexual, arromรขntique e poliqueerplatรดnique nรฃo deveria ser considerade variorientade, quando tambรฉm deve enfrentar questionamentos sobre como รฉ possรญvel alguรฉm nรฃo sentir certos tipos de atraรงรฃo mas sentir outros, uma gama menor de relaรงรตes porque a maioria procura alguรฉm que sinta atraรงรฃo sexual e romรขntica e exigรชncias de sรณ categorizar ou priorizar uma de suas orientaรงรตes em detrimento do resto.

Existe tambรฉm a questรฃo de pessoas poderem ser tecnicamente variorientadas mas se colocarem como periorientadas, como pessoas que se dizem assexuais bissexuais por verem o rรณtulo bissexual como importante ainda que sรณ sejam bi em orientaรงรตes alรฉm da sexual, pessoas que se dizem lรฉsbicas multi sem querer categorizar tais orientaรงรตes em tipos diferentes mesmo quando sรฃo tipos diferentes e pessoas que sรฃo multi e/ou a-espectrais que sentem atraรงรฃo em condiรงรตes diferentes e/ou por gรชneros diferentes em tipos diferentes de atraรงรฃo mas que "cobrem" isso usando termos abrangentes. Nรฃo acho uma boa ideia categorizar tais experiรชncias como periorientadas ou variorientadas sem permissรฃo, mas acho que de qualquer forma tais pessoas sรฃo prejudicadas por periorientismo.

O padrรฃo รฉ ser periorientade. Nรฃo รฉ ร  toa que vรกrios lugares sรณ colocam orientaรงรฃo como orientaรงรฃo sexual, sem fornecer espaรงo para que pessoas falem de suas orientaรงรตes romรขnticas, alternativas, queerplatรดnicas ou outras que desejarem. Nรฃo รฉ ร  toa que se alguรฉm disser que รฉ pan, a suposiรงรฃo geral vai ser que a pessoa รฉ pansexual e panromรขntica, ainda que uma pessoa pan possa ser panalternativa, caligorromรขntica e abrossexual.

Intolerรขncia, apagamento e ausรชncia de informaรงรฃo sobre pessoas variorientadas sรฃo frequentemente considerades questรตes a-espectrais, pelo conceito moderno de variorientaรงรฃo ter sido popularizado em espaรงos assexuais. Embora seja importante considerar periorientismo ao falar sobre questรตes que comunidades a-espectrais enfrentam, tambรฉm รฉ um problema que afeta pessoas variorientadas alo.

A questรฃo alossexista de ver pessoas a-espectrais como incompletas por lhes faltarem atraรงรฃo ร s vezes serve como justificativa para que pessoas periorientistas "aceitem" a existรชncia de pessoas a-espectrais variorientadas (ainda que de forma condicional e restrita, assim como pessoas heterodissidentes em relacionamentos duรกricos tambรฉm sรณ recebem uma certa aceitaรงรฃo 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 atraรงรฃo por mais gรชneros em sua atraรงรฃo sexual ou romรขntica (como pessoas heterossexuais polirromรขnticas ou pansexuais que sรฃo gays em sua orientaรงรฃo romรขntica). A possibilidade e existรชncia de pessoas que sรฃo alo e sentem atraรงรตes diferentes por gรชneros diferentes (como pessoas gays heterorromรขnticas) tambรฉm รฉ frequentemente vista como impossรญvel, ridรญcula e afins, ainda que uma outra pessoa jรก tenha se aberto como tal.

Periorientismo รฉ uma questรฃo que cabe dentro do monossexismo, jรก que qualquer pessoa variorientada nรฃo pode ser completamente mono (assim como qualquer pessoa a-espectral nรฃo pode ser completamente mono, jรก que isso envolve uma atraรงรฃo considerada "completa").

Sรญntese...?


Meu ponto com tudo isso รฉ apontar que a orientaรงรฃo hรฉtero centralizada pela heteronorma nรฃo รฉ apenas formada pela definiรงรฃo de hรฉtero como uma identidade que pode existir em contextos heterodissidentes. Heterossexismo coloca a orientaรงรฃo padrรฃo/ideal/normal como:

  • Duรกrica (atraรงรฃo de mulheres por homens ou de homens por mulheres);
  • Definida por atraรงรฃo por apenas um gรชnero (mono, sem fluidez, flexibilidade, dรบvidas ou atraรงรฃo por pessoas nรฃo-binรกrias);
  • Frequente e constante (alo, sem fluidez);
  • Periorientada (a pessoa tem que ser hรฉtero em todas as orientaรงรตes utilizadas para formar relacionamentos relevantes para a sociedade normativa);
  • Bem definida (nรฃo querer declarar fidelidade definitiva ao rรณtulo hรฉtero sรณ รฉ permitido quando รฉ para normalizar a identidade hรฉtero, fora isso รฉ um desvio inadequado);
  • Uma รบnica orientaรงรฃo, pois as outras nรฃo existem ou nรฃo merecem nomes.

Pessoas que conseguem mais ou menos preencher alguns dos requerimentos podem ser coagidas a fingir que preenchem os outros. Pessoas que nitidamente nรฃo conseguem preencher os requerimentos sรฃo excluidas da sociedade heteronormativa ou de partes dela.

Porรฉm, esta lista sรณ leva em conta hรฉtero como orientaรงรฃo por si sรณ. A questรฃo รฉ que, num contexto eurocรชntrico cristรฃo, mesmo pessoas que preenchem os requerimentos da orientaรงรฃo hรฉtero podem nรฃo ser completamente reconhecidas como tal, por conta de heterossexismo ter sido formado de forma muito interligada com outros sistemas de opressรฃo.

Novamente, nรฃo estou falando que a definiรงรฃo de heterossexismo como o sistema que prejudica pessoas heterodissidentes estรก errada, ou mesmo incompleta. Porรฉm, quando se fala sobre heterossexismo de forma mais abrangente, pode ser importante tambรฉm levar em consideraรงรฃo quando grupos hรฉtero nรฃo sรฃo vistos como tal.

Sexonormatividade


Sexonormatividade รฉ uma palavra geralmente encontrada em contextos assexuais, e que รฉ usada de forma muito similar a alossexismo. Porรฉm, hรก lugares que mencionam que pessoas que nรฃo sรฃo assexuais tambรฉm podem sofrer com sexonormatividade. Assim, acredito que sexonormatividade nรฃo seja somente a priorizaรงรฃo da alossexualidade, mas tambรฉm 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 nรฃo รฉ exclusivo de pessoas assexuais e nem de pessoas heterodissidentes em geral) ou que se recusam a fazer sexo em "circunstรขncias esperadas" podem sofrer consequรชncias por isso, inclusive consequรชncias similares ao alossexismo e ao periorientismo: questionamento de como a pessoa pode ser de tal orientaรงรฃo quando nรฃo quer sexo, pressรฃo para que a pessoa faรงa sexo quando nรฃo quer, acusaรงรตes de que a pessoa precisa ser "consertada", etc.

Nota (17/09/20): @vitorrubiao@colorid.es apontou que sexonormatividade tambรฉm age em relaรงรฃo a levar pessoas a acreditarem que hรก alguma idade onde todo mundo deve jรก ter tido relaรงรตes sexuais, o que pode fazer com que pessoas tenham sua identidade hรฉtero questionada mesmo que nรฃo tenham tido oportunidade ou vontade de ter relaรงรตes sexuais atรฉ aquele momento.

Amatonormatividade


Amatonormatividade รฉ uma palavra que pode ser encontrada em vรกrios textos sobre poliamor ou arromanticidade, mas ele surgiu em um contexto feminista. ร‰ um conceito que descreve o ideal social de alguรฉm achar a pessoa perfeita, se apaixonar, formar um relacionamento e viver "feliz para sempre".

No caso de pessoas arromรขnticas, esse ideal de um dia achar o par romรขntico perfeito รฉ ofensivo e tem uma conotaรงรฃo de "curar a orientaรงรฃo". No caso de pessoas nรฃo-monogรขmicas, a ideia de ter um relacionamento sรณ que seja perfeito รฉ questionada nรฃo sรณ em relaรงรฃo ao nรบmero de pessoas, mas tambรฉm em questรฃo de colocar uma busca por relacionamentos perfeitos como central e como um objetivo de vida. No caso de mulheres, amatonormatividade รฉ um problema por haver aquele ideal de que toda mulher precisa ser uma mรฃe e ter cuidar de uma famรญlia como objetivo de vida, mais cedo e de forma mais forte do que acontece com homens.

Assim como sexonormatividade pode fazer com que pessoas hรฉtero possam ser vistas como heterodissidentes em certas circunstรขncias, amatonormatividade tambรฉm pode pressionar pessoas hรฉtero a buscar relacionamentos romรขnticos quando nรฃo querem eles tanto assim, ou prejudicar pessoas hรฉtero que "ainda" nรฃo formaram laรงos romรขnticos em certa idade.

Cissexismo e diadismo


Ainda que pessoas hรฉtero possam sentir atraรงรฃo por pessoas do outro gรชnero binรกrio independentemente de sua corporalidade, existe a noรงรฃo social de que um homem transando com alguรฉm com um pรชnis รฉ um sinal de que aquele homem sente atraรงรฃo por homens (por exemplo). Tambรฉm existe a noรงรฃo de que pessoas trans e hรฉtero sรฃo "lรฉsbicas/gays que decidiram ser do outro gรชnero binรกrio", ou por considerarem expressรตes de gรชnero fora do padrรฃo como "mais heterodissidentes" ou por verem pessoas trans como obcecadas por "enganar" pessoas cis e hรฉtero ao conseguir fazer "sexo gay/lรฉsbico" com elas.

Isso faz com que, por conta do cissexismo (pessoas cisdissidentes nรฃo sรฃo vistas como pessoas que realmente sรฃo de seu gรชnero), hรก a possibilidade de que pessoas trans hรฉtero e/ou sues parceires hรฉtero sejam vistes como heterodissidentes.

Outra coisa que acontece รฉ um julgamento do quanto uma pessoa trans precisa "passar" (ser vista como cis) e/ou de que cirurgias precisa fazer para que tenha acesso ร  identidade hรฉtero, ou para que sues parceires deixem de ser vistes como "queers enrustides".

Com pessoas ipsogรชnero (intersexo, mas que sรฃo do gรชnero atribuรญdo ao nascimento), acredito que funcione de forma um pouco diferente. Nem toda pessoa intersexo รฉ visivelmente intersexo, e muitas pessoas intersexo sรฃo vistas como "perissexo mas com alguma doenรงa/sรญndrome/diferenรงa". Entรฃo, por exemplo, uma mulher ipsogรชnero com cromossomos XY pode nรฃo ser necessariamente reconhecida como uma "ameaรงa" ร  orientaรงรฃo hรฉtero de seus parceiros.

Mesmo assim, existem pessoas ipsogรชnero que sรฃo confundidas com pessoas trans por causa de efeitos hormonais (como homens com seios ou mulheres com barba), ou pessoas ipsogรชnero cuja genitรกlia nรฃo รฉ prรณpria para penetraรงรฃo de pรชnis em vagina (por natureza ou por conta de cirurgias incompletas ou que deram errado). Eu nรฃo tenho histรณrias que possam confirmar isso, mas nรฃo duvido que tais pessoas possam passar por exclusรตes da sociedade hรฉtero da mesma forma que pessoas trans.

Expressรตes de gรชnero nรฃo normativas


A ideia de que homens hรฉtero sรฃo desleixados, nรฃo tocam em outros homens e nรฃo usam nada rosa e de que mulheres hรฉtero sรฃo boas cozinheiras, vaidosas e emocionais na verdade nรฃo tem nada a ver com ser hรฉtero: tem a ver com cumprir papรฉis de gรชnero. Porรฉm, como jรก mencionei, isso acabou sendo misturado em uma ideia do que รฉ ser hรฉtero por questรตes histรณricas (de ver gรชnero e orientaรงรฃo como similares).

A pressรฃo social para cumprir papรฉis de gรชnero em cima de pessoas hรฉtero geralmente รฉ mais focada nela mesma do que em questรตes de orientaรงรฃo, mas a aversรฃo ร  heterodissidรชncia pode ser usada como combustรญvel para evitar ou atacar quem tiver comportamentos que nรฃo cumprem os papรฉis de gรชnero esperados.

Por exemplo: uma menina รฉ excluรญda das outras na escola por gostar de jogar futebol; um menino รฉ repreendido por querer uma bicicleta rosa; dois irmรฃos se abraรงando em um lugar pรบblico sรฃo atacados por serem confundidos com um par romรขntico; uma adolescente รฉ forรงada a parar de usar calรงas camufladas e camisas retas. Nada disso demonstra ausรชncia de atraรงรฃo duรกrica ou presenรงa de atraรงรฃo pelo mesmo gรชnero ou por pessoas nรฃo-binรกrias, mas as intervenรงรตes provavelmente seriam justificadas de forma heterossexista.

Isso tambรฉm inclui o julgamento de certos fetiches e de certas posiรงรตes sexuais como indicaรงรตes de que alguรฉm nรฃo seria ("totalmente") hรฉtero.

Outras possibilidades


Eu nรฃo cheguei a ler sobre isso a ponto de ter certeza sobre qualquer coisa a respeito, mas eu nรฃo duvido que outros fatores, como neurodivergรชncia, raรงa, religiรฃo, participaรงรฃo em trabalho sexual ou qualquer outra coisa tambรฉm afetem a percepรงรฃo da sociedade heterossexista sobre alguรฉm "realmente ser" hรฉtero, para alรฉm de percepรงรตes estereotipadas de expressรตes de gรชnero em um contexto eurocรชntrico.

Nota (17/09/20): @vitorrubiao@colorid.es apontou que pessoas soropositivas hรฉtero sรฃo frequentemente acusadas de heterodissidรชncia, pela associaรงรฃo histรณrica da transmissรฃo 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 รฉ ajudar pessoas com pouco contato com questรตes relacionadas a heterossexismo a refletir mais sobre partes pouco divulgadas desta ideologia. Espero que este texto tenha sido informativo para alguรฉm que teve paciรชncia de lรช-lo atรฉ o fim.

Algumas destas informaรงรตes talvez fiquem obsoletas ou estranhas daqui a alguns anos, porque qualquer modelo teรณrico de opressรฃo precisa se adaptar a novas conversas ou a informaรงรตes previamente desconsideradas. Mas, no momento, este texto como estรก parece fazer sentido em relaรงรฃo ao material com o qual tenho contato.

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PipeWire 1.0 RC released (Final release expected end 2023)


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 regression in regex parsing. (#3528)
  • 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.

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