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The level of evil and cruelty with Israel is boundless.
Israel has admitted to arming an ISIS-linked gang in Gaza. We talk to Palestinian analyst Muhammad Shehada who explains why.Read more here: https://electroni...YouTube
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President of the United States Donald Trump has admitted a possible change of power in Iran if Tehran fails to make the country “great again.newsmaker newsmaker (English News front)
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"All that is necessary for evil to triumph, is for good men to do nothing."
-- Edmund Burke
(1729-1797) Irish-born British statesman, parliamentary orator, and political thinker
Source: Attributed, not found in any of his writings, originally mistakenly appeared in Barlett's Familiar Quotations
"All that is necessary for evil to triumph, is for good men to do nothing." ~ Edmund BurkeLibertyQuotes
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“History teaches us that men and nations only behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.”
~ Abba Eban
[Aubrey Solomon Meir] (1915-2002) Israeli diplomat and politician
Speech in London, 16 December 1970
"History teaches us that men and nations only behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives." ~ Abba EbanLibertyQuotes
Osint as a fad has been completely coopted.
Osint as a function is still going strong on this side. It's just a fancy word for what /cow/boys were doing a decade ago, while /sg/, kiwifarmers and similar are doing nowadays.
Their online Ukraine psyop has been their most successful this far. They have been trying to copy GG and Trump2016 type of online organization for years and they were finally successful.
An irl friend of mine was completely mind broken by it.
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Do you know when the mice abandon ship?
“If there’s nothing to hide, let the journalists in.”
Speaking on the BBC, British journalist Piers Morgan delivered a scathing critique of Israel’s ongoing blockade of Gaza and its refusal to grant access to international media.
He condemned the humanitarian crisis, accusing Israeli forces of starving a civilian population already devastated by war, and targeting people queuing for limited food aid.
#Gaza #GazaGenocide #IsraelWarCrimes #PiersMorgan
Anthony Albanese and Penny Wong : absolutely gutless.
Claude Code for VSCode
Link: marketplace.visualstudio.com/i…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Sankoré, the famous medieval mosque-university at Timbuktu (in present-day Mali), was set up around the 12th century and is proof that Africans have always pursued knowledge.
(I remember a senior professor who was quite shocked to discover that Timbuktu exists...)
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Sankoré was a contemporary of Oxford and the Sorbonne.Foluke's African Skies
I know I'm late to the party to be finishing @karenhao's Empire of AI Now. But now that I've finished the book, I can tell you that it is nothing short of a masterpiece. It needs to be required reading for everyone in the tech industry, or anyone who wants to be in the tech industry.
The book also articulates why I've had such an aversion to OpenAI since its inception in 2015, more so than any other tech company.
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An Instant New York Times Bestseller “Excellent and deeply reported.” —Tim Wu, The New York Times “Startling and intensely research...PenguinRandomhouse.com
I even said that there is a higher chance of me wanting to go back to Google, the company that fired me, than OpenAI. I've never been to fully articulate why I had such an aversion to them, but once you read Empire of AI, you'll understand.
Now, Anthropic is being sold as the benevolent alternative to OpenAI, just like OpenAI was sold as the benevolent alternative to Google back in 2015. Don't buy it.
Please read the book which is based on years of meticulous reporting by Karen.
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A lot of games are going to work without you having to do anything and some will need some tinkering. In that case, protondb.com/ will be your best friend, telling you exactly what you need to do to get things running.
That being said, some games simply can't be run under Linux. They might work in the future as compatibility improves but some won't. If it's an issue for you, you might want to dual boot windows as a workaround.
I’ve seen some folks complain about its size, but it’s like 8 or 9gb. Small price to pay if you ask me for how turnkey it is. Besides storage is cheap now.
Especially when you consider Windows is like 20-30GB
I’ve begun my journey to reduce my reliance on US tech, so it’s time for an update on how it’s all going.
No surprise, some services are far more easy to replace than others. Email and streaming are low-hanging fruit; maps and messaging can be more difficult. But we should still make the effort.
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#tech #digitalsovereignty #email #socialmedia #streaming
But that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t make the effortParis Marx (Disconnect)
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Montevideo, June 22 (Prensa Latina) More homicides occur in Uruguayan prisons than in the streets, sociologist and academic Gabriel Tenembaum said.Juan Carlos Dominguez Taño (Prensa Latina)
Someone spray-painted this black because it said something about children in Gaza. Tells you all you need to know about Germany’s response.
#Gaza #Germany #ParkamNordbahnhof #Berlin
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“You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.”
~ Indira Gandhi
(1917-1984) Prime Minister of India
"You can't shake hands with a clenched fist." ~ Indira GandhiLibertyQuotes
sadly I think Ry is correct
@RyLiberty
Are they crazy enough to assassinate Iranian leadership or even use nuclear weapons? Yes.
They murdered hundreds of thousands in Gaza in front of the world and they shoot innocent people trying to get food every day.
They absolutely will assassinate leaders and use WMD
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One of anthropology’s great cautionary tales involves the American anthropologist Margaret Mead. Mead travelled to Samoa in the 1920s and described in her book Coming of Age in Samoa a society totally free of the Western world’s sexual taboos, to its great benefit. The book captivated Western audiences and seemed to suggest a happy alternative to our damaging complexes and hangups, a world of joyful love and sex without guilt and shame — until it was revealed, decades later, by Derek Freeman, that Mead’s informants had been systematically lying to her about their sexual lives because she was an outsider and a woman. The whole thing was a dream. Mead’s Samoa didn’t exist and never had.
Critics of liberalism and multiculturalism, especially critics of the postmodern variety, see them both as a kind of Western imperialism, whilst denying that they are such. These people are right. Presented as neutral political and interpretive frames that allow the world’s great multitude of peoples to live happily side by side and “be who they really are” in peace and harmony, liberalism and multiculturalism are nothing of the sort. They smuggle in values, not least of all a commitment to moral universalism, to individual over group, to law over custom, that are utterly partial in their origin and force, and to which the vast majority of people throughout history have not subscribed and probably couldn’t even if they wanted to.
The multicultural experiment forced on Britain and other Western nations by their ruling classes is not a genuine encounter with the Other. It’s a dangerous fantasy, a delusion of shared humanity that ends in disaster. We’ve been told these people are just like us, though they may wear a different skin colour and worship a different god — but they’re not. Just how different they are is a lesson our rulers still have yet to learn, if they even care to learn it at all, but one tens of thousands of young white girls will never be able to forget.
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America sent the man on the left, with a bright future ahead of him, to die for this filthy creep and his business interests on the right.
Was it a good tradeoff, folks?
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Don't forget.
Cows are now being fed Bovaer to reduce climate emissions.
The problem is that it is made of 3-NOP which is a toxic chemical.
Farmers have to wear masks and protective suits when handling it.
It is even suspected of damaging fertility or the unborn child.
And now the experts are telling us it is safe to give it to cows and drink the milk.
I'm skeptical.
Από τα Δίδυμα μέχρι τα Μεστά και από το Πυργί μέχρι την Κώμη, υπάρχουν πυρομαχικά για να ανατιναχθεί ολόκληρη η Ανατολική Μεσόγειος.
Ουαί κι αλίμονο
#Χιος
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For any space mission to launch, thousands of hours must have been spent iterating new technologies to make the spacecraft fly. The Biomass satellite, which today shared its first science data, is no exception. The probe, which carries just a single instrument on board, will perform a five-year census of all the trees on Earth to teach us more about how climate change and pests are affecting the world’s forests than we’ve ever learnt before.
#engineering #technology #space #science #esa #europeanspaceagency
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After a week of anticipation, the U.S. struck Iran’s nuclear facilities in Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan. Iran accuses the U.S. of “betraying diplomacy” and violating international law and the UN Charter.Qassam Muaddi (Mondoweiss)
"Senior officers in London’s Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) have accepted invitations to address an Israeli think tank linked to its government and intelligence service, Mossad..
A number of high-ranking MPS officers have also accepted gifts or hospitality from the Israeli embassy in London, despite MPS guidance stating that such offers be refused"
#Israel #MPS #MetPol #Palestine
Met Police linked to Israel as it gears up for pro-Palestine protests
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Senior Metropolitan Police officers are regular attendees at a think tank closely tied to Israel’s military and intelligence services and have accepted hospitality from its embassy in London.JOHN McEVOY (Declassified Media ltd)
While the world’s got its eyes on the war between Israel, the US, and Iran, the Zionist death machine keeps grinding on in Gaza. Our friend Hamza just dropped a gut-wrenching piece showing the brutal desperation of Palestinians trying to grab aid while dodging bullets. Reposting the video from @dropsitenews so y’all can see what that nightmare actually looks like.
#Gaza #FreePalestine #GenocideInGaza #ZionismIsTerrorism #PalestinianLivesMatter #CeasefireNow #EndTheOccupation #Solidarity #DropsiteNews #Hamza
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"I know you wanted it to die, because you wanted to kill a piece of open source software ~ I know that upsets you that open source can be forked, but, uhh, my condolences to Redhat."#lunduke #goodquote #xlibre #xorg #redhat #opensource #freesoftware #freetofork #forkoff
US is fully fascist.
Trump's trade deal with China is a rollback to the pre-trade war status quo, but with Americans paying a higher tariff rate.
Trump's tariffs will cause more economic pain to the US than China, with the World Bank projecting US growth to slow significantly. China, as the world's largest goods exporter and leader in processing critical materials, has leverage in the global economy and can respond to US restrictions with its own.
The tech bros are gathering everyone's data and giving it to the government so they can see who isn't expressing the right opinions online.
Right now, they are using it against people coming into the US.
I have a feeling we'll be like the former East Germany in a few years if things keep going the way they are.
Weird Computer Contest
A contest to see the strangest computer being used to read mastodon/the fediverse. The prize is a cool drawing from me just for you.
Rules:
1. Post a reply to show your device and why it is strange. Can mean hardware and software. A photo is better.
2. You can't go *too* much out of your way to use some goofy device that you don't ever really use.
3. Winner selected by general consensus.
This is *not* just an excuse to see/post photos of strange computers.
My daily driver for most of my personal computer touching these days is a ClockworkPi DevTerm. The photo doesn't really convey scale, but it's about the size of an A5 sheet of paper.
Inside the hardware is nothing special, it's a raspberry pi CM4 module on a custom carrier. But I really enjoy the form factor. The keyboard is OK for four-finger typing on the couch, but I do frequently connect an external keyboard and display.
The screen is 1280x480. I'm usually running emacs full screen and split in to two windows side but side. That gives me enough to comfortably read and write text.
I use mastodon.el in emacs. It's not as good as tusky on my phone, but it does the job.
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Germany and Italy pressed to bring $245B of gold home from US
Link: ft.com/content/e39390cc-ea02-4…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
Trump’s attacks on the Fed and growing geopolitical risks reignite public debate about repatriating bullionOlaf Storbeck (Financial Times)
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You honestly couldn't script this season of California.
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#Zionists OWNS America
Professor #JeffreySachs once again reveals the whole truth about the illegal and unprovoked #USA attack on #Iran.
He ridicules the current administration and irreparably exposes the deep state and the #CIA.
Is he saying anything new?
Certainly not, but it is quite satisfying to hear it from a recognized #US professor.
Enjoy
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The US has officially attacked Iran and Professor Jeffrey Sachs joins the show to help us understand the truth about the US Iran War.00:00 - Intro to Jeffrey...YouTube
Cites on mqy claim that Zionists ARE NOT Jews. They're apostates.
meridian.allenpress.com/awg/ar… Academic paper
huckmag.com/article/zionism-is… Ilan Pappe
Ps. When I told my mother my zionist weapons smuggling post wwii father was teaching Comparative Religion at UNC Asheville in the 90s, she lol and said: "He never had a religious bone in his body!". Any questions?
In this excerpt from his groundbreaking book, outspoken and radical Israeli historian Ilan Pappe examines the origins of Zionism and tracks its role in…TCO London Publishing
Yalla, sure, go make Khamenei a martyr...
He was the one holding back on nuclear weapons this whole time.
The next Ayatollah will be certain to keep that in mind.
#Iran
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LIVE: Iran vows to retaliate over US attacks; Trump warns of regime change | Israel-Iran conflict News | Al Jazeera
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- ‘Trump doesn’t want to quit while he’s ahead’
- Iran to observe holy month of Muharram under shadow of war
- Israel promises to continue Iran attacks until ‘all goals achieved’
- Israel says it is striking military sites in western Iran
- Two supertankers make U-turn in Strait of Hormuz after US strikes on Iran: Report
Israel and Iran continue to trade attacks as US President Donald Trump hints at possible regime change in Tehran.Usaid Siddiqui (Al Jazeera)
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Waves of barbaric attacks by Israeli military against Tehran earlier today
Preliminary reports of large civilian casualties were reported.
#Iran #Israel #WarOnIran #IranUnderAttack #StopIsrael #PeaceNow #StopGenocide #SancrionIsrael
Israeli media has been limited in detailing the specifics of recent attacks on targets within Israel due to military censorship. For instance, most outlets didn't mention that Tel Aviv University was the target of a strike yesterday, which damaged a nearby shopping area. The prominent coffee shop's signage at the site was cropped or not included in the images published, even though they circulated widely on social media.
This morning's message states only the following:
"Israel Electric Corporation: Strategic infrastructure facility in the south was hit, disruptions in electricity supply to settlements in the area"
Instead, Israelis are shown random images of attacks on targets in Iran.
@palestine
@israel
#TAU #Israel #Iran
Don't forget the #GazaGenocide
Why the hell is no one asking Israel to stop bombing Iran?
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The Israeli #Mossad agents just bombed the entrance of #Tehran’s #Evin #prison in an effort to facilitate the escape of prisoners in order to destabilise Iran’s security.
It was never about Nuclear Weapons! It's all about regime change like Iraq, Libya & Syria.
#WarOnIran #IranUnderAttack #Israel #Iran #RegimeChange
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The Israeli occupation has just bombed the entrance of Tehran’s Evin District prison in an effort to facilitate the escape of prisoners in order to destabilise Iran’s security.Telegram
Trump posts on Truth Social to "make Iran great again"; calls Sunday's US strikes on Iran a "bullseye".DAWN.COM
Quoting Noa Limona on how the Israeli media is reckoning with uncritically accepting military explanations for targeting journalists and media infrastructure, after using the same justifications in both Gaza and Iran attacks that are now being used at home against them:
[…] After all, the killing of journalists in Gaza is covered here only through the #IDF filter, according to which they are all terrorists.
[…] and the bombing of the Iranian broadcasting network was reported with cheers and corrupt mockery. No journalist in the mainstream media questioned the army’s justifications for the bombing: the station ‘served military activity,’ the wonder excuse that worked for us in Gaza, and served as ‘a mouthpiece of the regime that incites genocide.’ It seems that no one in Israeli studios felt the crushing irony.”
Limona’s concludes that the assault on press freedom that began with targeting foreign journalists is expanding to encompass Israeli media outlets that don’t toe the government line. She warns that even mainstream Israeli channels (11, 12, 13) are now being labeled as problematic by government supporters, suggesting that the restrictions will eventually affect all non-compliant media.
Hebrew haaretz.co.il/opinions/2025-06… or archive.is/oKaRU
@palestine
@israel
#PressFreedom #Israel #Palestine #Iran
לזירה מוכת ההרס בתל אביב זרמו אתמול כוחות הצלה רבים כדי לפנות פצועים, לאתר לכודים ולוודא שאין עוד סכנה בין הבניינים המטים לנפול. ואמנם עד מהרה אותרה סכנה חמורה,נועה לימונה (הארץ)
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A lot of bitter truth. And, as far as I can, as a non-US-citizen , I share her feelings.
What a lot of people prefer to ignore (also in Europe, very much so):
"n fact, Iran hasn’t attacked any other country unprovoked in nearly 300 years, while Israel has attacked five countries in just the past year while also committing genocide."
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We could really use some honest headlines right now.Laura Bassett (Nightcap)
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A Highland-wide control zone to limit Airbnb-style lets has been suggested as a way of tackling a shortage of homes across the region.
Councillors proposing the move said 7,011 short-term let licences had been granted across the Highlands, but only four refused.
Holiday lets are not banned in control areas, but operators need planning permission as well as a short-term lets licence.
The councillors said the powers could be used where there was local demand for them.
Highland Council officials said control area status for the whole of the Highlands would require research and, if it was introduced, could mean additional costs and workload for its planning department. The idea of Highland-wide status has been suggested by Inverness councillors Michael Gregson and Duncan Macpherson.
In a paper going to next week's meeting of the full council, they said the region needed more than 24,000 homes over the next 10 years.
They added: "The private long-term rental market has shrunk disastrously: estate agents are withdrawing from letting out properties because of the shortage of properties available.
"Even taking into account the efforts of Highland Council and the housing associations, there is a shortage of affordable housing."
Councillors behind the idea say it could tackle a shortage of homes in the region.Steven McKenzie (BBC News)
One difference between real human interlocutors and language models is the level of sycophancy. Consumer chatbots are trained to be helpful, but there are situations where a human will give you what you need, not what you want.
Testing this, I just posted this query to chatGPT, and got the shopping advice I requested, missing what I think is the clearly superior response of "Hey Buddy, are you sure your wife really wants to celebrate her birthday with housework?"
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Any suggestions for other queries I could provoke a language model to display its helpfulness to answer the direct question at the expense of a superior, unasked, question?
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Here's another ("My house is on fire, so I want to backup my archived picture from my laptop.") where chatGPT demonstrably misses some more urgent questions of the scenario (and the idea of picking up the laptop and completing backups outside of the burning house)
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Excellent disquisition on Trump's fundamental racism. While DEI is in its essence of course reasonable and sane, here there is the finer-grained analysis of how it plays out in the still white world. Black artists don't need white approval--and therein is also the conundrum of how "black and white" are such horseshit terms, yet the lived reality underscores otherwise--so far.
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A look back at 1960s Black arts movement explains why Trump is obsessed with eliminating Black artistry and the museums and institutions that support itGuardian staff reporter (The Guardian)
Kellogg’s six-hour-long meeting with Lukashenko raises questions about the US’ intentions.Andrew Korybko (Andrew Korybko's Newsletter)
Just quoting the readme so there's no misinterpretation:
This is an independent project, not at all affiliated with BigTech or any of their subsidiaries or tax evasion tools, nor any political activists groups, state actors, etc. It's explicitly free of any "DEI" or similar discriminatory policies. Anybody who's treating others nicely is welcomed.
It doesn't matter which country you're coming from, your political views, your race, your sex, your age, your food menu, whether you wear boots or heels, whether you're furry or fairy, Conan or McKay, comic character, a small furry creature from Alpha Centauri, or just a boring average person. Anybody who's interested in bringing X forward is welcome.
Also the guy got told off by Linus Torvalds for being an anti-vaxxer theregister.com/2021/06/11/lin…
So imo this isn't a project that should be supported
: 'Any Linux discussion list isn't going to have your idiotic drivel pass uncontested from me'Simon Sharwood (The Register)
This isn't coherent, and even if it was, the burden of stance interpretability is context-dependent.
He is the one with the politically charged README that reads plainly like the thoughtless garbage MAGA types in America put out. I mean cmon man, "[...] we'll make X great again"?
Also your shallow and brainless dismissal of all this criticism coming from his "detractors" (and who would not become a "detractor", after actually investigating his terrible dribble?) is defeated easily by just reading the actual words he said.
As in, for instance, the original source of his garbage antivax posturing that he posted in the linux kernel mailing list: lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/ke… .
These are not alleged opinions, he's just full of shit.
And this isn't even mentioning the fact that Xorg is going to be dead, should be dead, and will continue to die. And good riddance, too! Terrible and borderline unmaintainable.
The argument that choice diversity is good inherently is stupid, too. Wayland is a god damned protocol! There is no reason to have lots of diversity there! It has no tangible benefit.
There are already many different compositors that implement the Wayland protocol, and there are also many 3rd party extensions! Can you think of a single, material benefit to simply having different basic desktop protocols?
Also your shallow and brainless dismissal of all this criticism coming from his “detractors” (and who would not become a > “detractor”, after actually investigating his terrible dribble?) is defeated easily by just reading the actual words he said.
I was merely pointing out that these opinions, whatever they really are, have more publicity from people
criticizing the founder. The best from your point of view would be not to speak about it.
And this isn’t even mentioning the fact that Xorg is going to be dead, should be dead, and will continue to die. And good
riddance, too! Terrible and borderline unmaintainable.
If it were true, all this hatred against the project would be pointless.
The argument that choice diversity is good inherently is stupid, too. Wayland is a god damned protocol! There is no reason > to have lots of diversity there! It has no tangible benefit.
Free software is all about freedom, and diversity means freedom of choice. If you don't agree
with that, you miss the all point.
I was merely pointing out that these opinions, whatever they really are, have more publicity from people criticizing the founder.
Why yes, friend, I will just conveniently pretend that you bringing that up is completely outside the context of whether or not to seriously consider the criticism.
And if you are trying to make a point of whether or not the ideology is seriously impacting the project, you need-only take a casual walk through the issue list, and find (among other evidence) that a suggestion to move to codeberg was criticized for... "DEI". Wow. How technically-focused.
The best from your point of view would be not to speak about it.
You are getting more and more incoherent the more of these replies you churn out. What, precisely from my point of view (which I guess apparently you know very well? the irony...) here implies that "not talking about it" is the best choice? That's absurd.
I find it very important to understand the motivations, technical and ideological, behind a project.
If it were true, all this hatred against the project would be pointless.
I don't spend any effort talking about in any other respect than telling people that they should likely disregard if for both technical reasons (it cuts out Xwayland, his commits frequently lead to very blatant regressions that are nontrivial, etc.) and ideological (his terrible, awful politics and motivations for making the project, to begin with!)
The reason I replied to your comment is mostly out of idle curiosity and a deepseated longing for genuineness and critical thinking of other people that I have not yet managed to kill (despite its impracticality in the modern age).
Free software is all about freedom, and diversity means freedom of choice. If you don’t agree with that, you miss the all point.
This is all such a massive and disheartening reduction of what software freedom is. I hope that you eventually manage to think less shallowly about this.
Tell me, do you have any particular, material distinction you are making by making a choice between desktop protocols? The desktop protocol is a purely technical thing, and I have not heard a single peep out of you in regards to specifics.
To elaborate, in Xorg, it is a very monolithic beast. It is very convoluted in its purview and carries a lot of preset implementation of its various facets. It contains an entire networking stack for deciding how to communicate windows over a network.
It is significantly less flexible and modular than Wayland, because in Wayland basically everything of significance is decided by the compositor.
This, ironically to your point, actually gives you more choice and freedom in how things work (this is also why tiling window managers love wayland to death, it's pretty easy to just build upon the basic wlroots implementation!). So I have to ask you, frankly, what in the fuck do you think you're actually saying right now?
The issue, in this way, is that you only seem to care about software freedom in the sense of the abstract concept rather than the reality. Which is impractical, and arguably antithetical to the very process of trying to foster software freedom to begin with. As evident by literally everything to do with this situation. My lord.
What is there to fear? Seriously. Pretending like this has anything to do with fear is the most childishly narcissistic framing possible. Grow up.
Xorg is nearly dead and buried. Nobody actually cares about Xlibre. Notice how the only thing being mentioned is the sidenote that this fork is run by a racist troll whose been kicked for cause from several prominent OSS projects. Literally the only reason XLibre exists is because this individual needed to start his own project because he's worn out his welcome in many others.
And, considering the geopolitical state of affairs at the moment. It's pretty plainly obvious that the only sort of person who is "anti-DEI" are fascists. And the only people making excuses for the fascists are other fascists. So, thanks for letting us know who you are.
Listen, I was willing to ignore your low-level insults until now, because I know that
people tend to say things they don't really mean when they are upsed, but THAT
uggly thing on the end is totally inacceptable! I find disgusting ALL kinds of tyranny,
so don't you dare presuming such horrible thought. I demand a full retractation and a
public apology!
If you don't know the distinction between refraining from having a moral judgement on
someone you don't really know, and making excuse for anyone, that's your problem.
All of that fuss because somebody want to talk about a software ? The air is toxic around here.
And it was at that precise moment that satire died forever. 🪦
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