Diseased Open Source Software Community - it's about ethics in Code of Conducts

[Kola]

In America maybe. Very common to not want an automatic in Europe.

I genuinely see no rational reason to want that. Is there anything it's better at?

 

[Caesar]

I genuinely see no rational reason to want that. Is there anything it's better at?

For starters, in most other countries, if you pass in an auto you're not licensed to drive a manual, so you're locking yourself out of a lot of other peoples vehicles and the second hand market.

Also, I think you can make driving too easy. Obviously there is a balance. But if you put too much trust and rely too much on the automated systems, you've less understanding to correct when things go wrong, as well as various extra layers that can go wrong without human intervention. Being able to pay so little attention driving and not die 99% of the time is how people become comfortable texting and such behind the wheel.

 

[Stumbling7]

Anyone who trust everything Xrayez says is a full retard, same with abrarambles.
Is it hard for me to want Godot to be better, and not just hating and bitching about how "BAD" it is?

 

[Rusty Metal Skull Gun]

I genuinely see no rational reason to want that. Is there anything it's better at?

My manual car has a dashboard indicator to nag me when it thinks I'm in the wrong gear. It's frequently wrong.
In particular, it doesn't seem to understand that you need to gear down for very steep hills.

 

[Coolio55]

I genuinely see no rational reason to want that. Is there anything it's better at?

It's probably mostly a petrolhead thing but even as a casual user I feel like my speed is only vaguely connected to what I do on the pedal. Maybe I'm just shit at overtaking, idk.

My manual car has a dashboard indicator to nag me when it thinks I'm in the wrong gear. It's frequently wrong.
In particular, it doesn't seem to understand that you need to gear down for very steep hills.

They keep putting all these random sensors in cars. You'd think they'd be GOOD at making them if they're *this* fucking confident ...but no!
It's always getting shit wrong and setting off flashing alarms; causing my blood pressure to spike because warnings like that in a vehicle usually mean "Do this immediately or die".

 

[Cherenkovblue]

I dunno. I don't think it's ever been this good actually. Never before you had the sheer amount of choice in open software you have now. If you don't like a project that's part of your system, just replace it with another one. Besides some few painful exceptions, this has never been as viable as it is now. Just reject shitty code. Simple as. Of course if the best you can do is install some prefab Linux distro and then whine on twitter about tech trannies while posting Terry Davis memes, then you get pretty much what you deserve. Can't wish for freedom and then demand from everyone else to do the work for that freedom for you.

All of your choices are between different flavors of AIDS-infested dildos. Some choice. But yes, if you want something different you pretty much have to build it yourself because everyone is disincentivized to build it for you.

What I'd personally wish for is more open hardware platforms that perform better than computers from twenty years ago. There, the situation really is truly dire and this is something that could truly bite us in the ass one day, when proprietary hardware manufacturers feel brazen enough to charge you for a subscription for CPU cores, for example.

Well, if you're setting the cap at "performs better than computers from twenty years ago", then arguably you can already get that with FPGA cores. Insofar as you don't care about having a bazillion-core GPU to play the latest goyslop games that devote billions of gpu cycles to accurately rendering every last nuthair on the main character, or devoting billions of gpu cycles to crudely and inaccurately replicate the butt-tier neural networks that even dogs manage to pull off without a problem all so you can shitpost six-fingered anime waifus, then you can have a reasonably workable machine. The only real stumbling block is that most open cores tend to be geared towards a particular FPGA and if that chip goes out of stock then you're kinda fucked.

 

[HootersMcBoobies]

I genuinely see no rational reason to want that. Is there anything it's better at?

Also, I think you can make driving too easy.

I find automatics so incredibly boring. In a manual, you're always using all four appendages and it's fun. I know they're no longer more fuel efficient (automatic torque converters have gotten a lot better, and manuals always sucked on the highway due to the overdrive gear being less efficient). My car and truck are both manuals and neither have the permanent modem tracking (truck was the last year made before Toyota started putting them in standard) and you'll take them from my cold dead hands!

...also whenever I drive an automatic I keep hitting the break by accident for for the first five minutes because the pedal in wider and there's no clutch.

 

[Moonglade Feral Druid]

Mozilla continues to implode as a result of the the Google case.

 

[Battlefield42]

Linux "influencer" seethe tax, 'tis the season after all. [A]

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Going full DeVault, then doubling down on the insanity. Anybody who says "FOSS is definitely political" does not mean it in the FSF way, just sludge taken human form having an episode.


Isn't this already the case with Intel's server CPUs and their Software Defined Silicon idea? Tesla paid upgrades, but for your processor.

Serious question. How is Trump fascist?

 

[Frederica Bernkastel]

Stallman isn't taking the election results well.

 

[AnOminous]

Stallman isn't taking the election results well.

Sad considering he's a direct victim of the cancel culture bullshit of fucking troons who are cancerously destroying FOSS.

 

[Stumbling7]

Linux "influencer" seethe tax, 'tis the season after all. [A]

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Going full DeVault, then doubling down on the insanity. Anybody who says "FOSS is definitely political" does not mean it in the FSF way, just sludge taken human form having an episode.


Isn't this already the case with Intel's server CPUs and their Software Defined Silicon idea? Tesla paid upgrades, but for your processor.

Not surprising, coming from the same dude making an Opinion piece on why he left Odysee. (because they don't delete/moderate offense content people post, and that hurt my feelings)

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[UERISIMILITUDO]

Not surprising, coming from the same dude making an Opinion piece on why he left Odysee. (because they don't delete/moderate offense content people post, and that hurt my feelings)
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If your platform's community guidelines allow videos that openly incite others to enact violent acts against beings of a certain skin color, sorry, but your platform is horrible.

I take it this guy ignores the anti-white hatred openly espoused just about everywhere? Is he one of those types who don't think white people even exist?

 

[Kendall Motor Oil]

I don't know how to properly archive a full Twitter thread. What tools do you use to archive. I am using Singlefile but it isnt able to capture the long line of replies.

You can use webrecorder.io but it stores the page in a WARC which needs a WARC reader to read. I think the same org that makes webrecorder has a firefox or chrome plugin that you can also try. It lets you click on javascript buttons that load more content or scroll for more comments before it captures.

 

[cybertoaster]

Linux "influencer" seethe tax, 'tis the season after all. [A]

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Going full DeVault, then doubling down on the insanity. Anybody who says "FOSS is definitely political" does not mean it in the FSF way, just sludge taken human form having an episode.


Isn't this already the case with Intel's server CPUs and their Software Defined Silicon idea? Tesla paid upgrades, but for your processor.

Does that delusional retard actually do anything useful or is just another oxygen thief doing worthless crap like checking that comments written 30 years fit the current CoC idiocy?

Mozilla continues to implode as a result of the the Google case.

Reminder that they axed the engineering them working on the next generation of firefox years ago but still kept their DIE parasites on board until now.

 

[Kola]

Sad considering he's a direct victim of the cancel culture bullshit of fucking troons who are cancerously destroying FOSS.

This IMO proves that he deserves it, and in a way, sanctioned it. There's only so much you can do to save a man from himself.

 

[AmpleApricots]

choices are between different flavors of AIDS-infested dildos

That's hyperbole, IMO. There are for example some very terrible but also some good and lean init systems. A non-programmer will always be at an disadvantage. But like I said, there are painful exceptions where there really is not any good software. Webbrowsers spring to mind. But you could argue that that's in the nature of the material they are meant to serve. Nothing wrong with lynx or eww; they just don't work properly anywhere. Is that the fault of a webbrowser that is useless or a web that is? That's in the eye of the beholder. In my ongoing plans to leave the web for good without losing too many of the advantages I've been experimenting with LLMs on rented, distant servers reading websites for me and presenting the looked for information in an emacs buffer. The results are encouraging, but not "production ready" yet. I am optimistic that this is only going to get better though. I'm no Stallman, but I kinda feel like I can see the writing on the wall where running a modern webbrowser on my daily driver just simply won't be a good idea.

Well, if you're setting the cap at "performs better than computers from twenty years ago", then arguably you can already get that with FPGA cores.

No, I actually meant free computers that can perform better than computers twenty years ago. Sorry if that was unclear. If you want core2duo-ish performance, there are older ARM SoCs and — well, core2duo computers — you can boot and use without any proprietary binary blobs. That fits the definition of free to me. They just aren't powerful. ARM was pretty good about that in general until "Trustzone" and properietary software being needed to init RAM etc. of the SoC. x86 SoCs (and yes, modern "CPUs" fit the definition of a SoC a lot better than the definition of dedicated CPU) are of course still a lot worse with embedded "security processors" that run Minix and such. That level of shenanigans hasn't quite reached the lower-end, embedded "multimedia" ARM SoC world yet. I'm sure it will.

Of course if they have some silicon backdoors like ring 0 access through an undocumented instruction that can be reached by any program calling that instruction like some security researcher found in an older VIA x86 SoC, nobody can truly know.

Hence an open platform with fully published data how it was made and what makes it tick, but the financial investment into creating one that can perform on the level of something modern of the last decade would be so high (with very questionable RoI) that I don't see it happening ever. (and yes, I'm aware of RISC-V but some chinese SoC makers using that standard doesn't magically produce a libre SoC) That's why I feel the situation is dire. I am pretty sure that hardware subscriptions for end users and more locked-down systems will be coming eventually, now that Moore's law is dead and computers have a useful lifetime of 10+ years. Things are going to become less profitable and they're gonna want to keep having the money flow increasing somehow.

 

[i440BX]

Linux "influencer" seethe tax, 'tis the season after all. [A]

Going full DeVault, then doubling down on the insanity. Anybody who says "FOSS is definitely political" does not mean it in the FSF way, just sludge taken human form having an episode.


Isn't this already the case with Intel's server CPUs and their Software Defined Silicon idea? Tesla paid upgrades, but for your processor.

Man, he is such a faggot. Not only he is deranged, but when I used to watch his news for a brief time, before knowing his retarded philosophy, he made factual mistakes and he barely knew the technical details of Linux components/programs.

He is from France, notorious for its bohemian bourgeoisie (if you look at the background of his rooms, you will notice he has money). Also he is wrong about Democrats being right wing to European. Culturally, they are very radical compared to many political parties in Central and Eastern Europe, even if they are socialist.

Anyone who trust everything Xrayez says is a full retard, same with abrarambles.
Is it hard for me to want Godot to be better, and not just hating and bitching about how "BAD" it is?

I was briefly into him when the woke Godot scandal was getting pushed. I started to realise his problems when I read his book. I do still think several things are not to be discarded, when it comes to corruption accusations, toxicity and technical problems. When it comes to his political philosophy, yeah, he is wrong.

Never heard of abrarambles though.

 

[y a t s]

In my ongoing plans to leave the web for good without losing too many of the advantages I've been experimenting with LLMs on rented, distant servers reading websites for me and presenting the looked for information in an emacs buffer. The results are encouraging, but not "production ready" yet. I am optimistic that this is only going to get better though. I'm no Stallman, but I kinda feel like I can see the writing on the wall where running a modern webbrowser on my daily driver just simply won't be a good idea.

Poor Stallman had been getting by emailing web pages to himself in emacs from the FSF servers for years. I wonder how that's going for him now.

 

[Eternal Gopnik]

I don't know how to properly archive a full Twitter thread. What tools do you use to archive. I am using Singlefile but it isnt able to capture the long line of replies.

* You can use https://ghostarchive.org/, it captures threads and even replies and it's fast.
* You can open the thread on a Nitter instance like https://xcancel.com/ or https://nitter.poast.org/ and archive the result. It's less than ideal for really long threads because at some point it'll autocollapse and the "Read More" button doesn't work when it's archived on archive.today.
* If you don't care about the replies, you can unroll the thread with https://threadreaderapp.com/. Archive the result as well since it's not an archive itself despite sort of seeming like it is - the unrolled thread will be gone if the original tweets are deleted.