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

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NortelNutworks said:
My biggest hate for ARM comes from the way these fucking things boot. DTBs, DTOs, retarded headless bootloaders like U-Boot and Fastboot made for embedded systems or phones, chip-specific kernels, etc. People don't appreciate the freedom we all had because of the IBM PC clone BIOS. Without it Linux probably wouldn't have stood a chance.
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Microsoft got the major chipmakers to standardize on ACPI primarily to hurt Linux.
 
NortelNutworks said:
My experience using one for a few years alternates between "This is fucking awesome. I can fix/reprogram anything myself" and "Jesus Christ this thing just barely works.", but I haven't sold it yet. Looking forward to the RCORE SoC upgrade module.

My biggest hate for ARM comes from the way these fucking things boot. DTBs, DTOs, retarded headless bootloaders like U-Boot and Fastboot made for embedded systems or phones, chip-specific kernels, etc. People don't appreciate the freedom we all had because of the IBM PC clone BIOS. Without it Linux probably wouldn't have stood a chance.
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I've been looking into buying one as a wardriving & on-the-go tinkering rig, specifically the pocket version. TBH I'm split between that and something like a HackberryPi CM5 (seller; github), so just a compute module jammed into a blackberry-sized phone chassis. FOSS autism steers me towards the Reform, the cheaper price tag steers me towards the Hackberry. As janky as ARM can be, these kinds of tinkerboxes really have some strong appeal. I did order a Hackberry some time back but had to cancel due to DHL being niggerlicious, might give it a second shot sometime soon though.
 
prollyanotherlurker said:
I think that is very problematic. Does the rust foundation think about marginalized folks at all? I'm ashamed I wrote the firmware for all of those vibrating sex toys in rust now that I know they have enforced bigoted wording. It's a shame these fascists are allowed to even touch a computer. I think everyone that codes in rust should all unite in protest. I think the first steps to an equitable outcome would be:
  1. Archive or delete all repos for projects written in rust
  2. Tell every Distro and operating system to no longer package rust
  3. remove every rust program from our computers
  4. seethe and dilate.
And we should keep this up until every single member of the rust community resigns. Thank you for listening fellow allies.
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Bug: With Rust now outing themselves as problematic fascists, is there any plan to rewrite the firmware for your sex toys in Scratch?
 
Following the government's failure to punish Google for their anti-competitive practices, and therefore Mozilla's Google funding being assured for the foreseeable future, Firefox develelopment seems to have returned in earnest and has overtaken Safari to once again be the second most web compatible browser. Maybe it does have a future after all.
 
volatile puar said:
Following the government's failure to punish Google for their anti-competitive practices, and therefore Mozilla's Google funding being assured for the foreseeable future, Firefox develelopment seems to have returned in earnest and has overtaken Safari to once again be the second most web compatible browser. Maybe it does have a future after all.
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It's probably due to Google directly. When they disabled v2 webkit in Chrome, people lost a lot of useful plugin functionality. Adblockers stopped working. So people are going to Firefox, Brave, Pale Moon, etc.
 
CrunkLord420 said:
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I have seen rules about this on a few forums and social stigma on almost all. Why is that? To me, nothing about the concept of continuing a thread even after long inactivity (in light of some new information or for whatever other reason) seems bad. It feels far more preferable than having two or more threads discussing the same topic with nothing really linking them. Is the stigma something that evolved way in the past due to some practical reasons and has been carried to the modern times through tradition, it has no reason at all (apart from the personal opinion of some moderators, and proliferation through tradition), or is there some practical purpose even today that I am simply missing? Or maybe even something completely different?
 
Zeftax said:
I have seen rules about this on a few forums and social stigma on almost all. Why is that? To me, nothing about the concept of continuing a thread even after long inactivity (in light of some new information or for whatever other reason) seems bad. It feels far more preferable than having two or more threads discussing the same topic with nothing really linking them. Is the stigma something that evolved way in the past due to some practical reasons and has been carried to the modern times through tradition, it has no reason at all (apart from the personal opinion of some moderators, and proliferation through tradition), or is there some practical purpose even today that I am simply missing? Or maybe even something completely different?
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Do your part soldier, necro 5 threads today to keep the site alive.

:semperfidelis:
 
Zeftax said:
I have seen rules about this on a few forums and social stigma on almost all. Why is that? To me, nothing about the concept of continuing a thread even after long inactivity (in light of some new information or for whatever other reason) seems bad. It feels far more preferable than having two or more threads discussing the same topic with nothing really linking them. Is the stigma something that evolved way in the past due to some practical reasons and has been carried to the modern times through tradition, it has no reason at all (apart from the personal opinion of some moderators, and proliferation through tradition), or is there some practical purpose even today that I am simply missing? Or maybe even something completely different?
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I don't remember where, maybe it was the KDE forum, I saw a janny justify it among the lines of "this is a 6-months old thread, and the information may me outdated, or some people may have moved on, but everyone who posted here will receive a notification, so don't do that."
I do find that retarded, unsubscribing from a thread is what, two clicks? Maybe I just don't get something, as I also don't like Discourse itself, despite every other project having migrated their forums there. I guess I should be grateful I get at least that and not another Discord server.
 
Max Weber said:
Maybe I just don't get something, as I also don't like Discourse itself, despite every other project having migrated their forums there. I guess I should be grateful I get at least that and not another Discord server.
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"Better than Discord" is a low bar. Everybody uses Discourse because other people use it, even though it's a piece of shit. I hate how it's hard to archive long Discourse threads.
 
Max Weber said:
Discourse itself, despite every other project having migrated their forums there. I guess I should be grateful I get at least that and not another Discord server.
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Oh I saw that a few times and it's absolutely fucking disgusting. Discord may as well be nonexistent, completely different (worse) purpose and usage to forums. It is maybe slightly better than IRC in that it keeps a history so (in theory, not in practice) you don't get people asking the same question every week, but that advantage is ruined by the fact that most people are too retarded to use the search function, you need a (phone-verified) account to even view the logs, and it is absolutely proprietary and centralized.
I have, however, seen a worse shitshow than even discourse, flarum. It was used by the redot forum while it was still active (now replaced by discord...), genuinely the worst forum SW I have ever seen, their site is full of ai-generated pictures as well, I wonder if those two are in any way connected...
 

"The Xlibre devs would send me to a death camp if they could"

First of all. Based.

Second. These people are just fucking insane. We need people that are willing to tell them to shut the fuck up and code. This is what happens when no one is willing to tell them they're retarded, and insane. Now if anyone does they will just be called another Nazi.
 
Ed Special said:
Fuck Discord, Reject Discourse, RETVRN TO IRC.
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I believe forums are better than IRC for most purposes due easier accessibility for the posterity. Although for quick one-offs you can't figure out (but feel like too specific to spam a forum with) IRC is the choice for me.
I have tried discord a few times, even liked it in the beginning (what was it, 2016?), easy voice calls, no lags like skype, no need to figure out hosting like teamspeak, takes a lot of worries off of your back. But during circa covid it really became unusable, I am astonished so many people still even bother trying to use it. Knowing what I do now, I would not have used even the 2016 version though.

edit: I am not mentioning covid as an event, but as a timespan. Maybe it is connected to the event as well (a lot of people went terminally online), but I mostly take it as a memorable time landmark. I suspect the real reason is the tencent buyout. Also the fact that central hosting, user-friendliness, and profitability are incompatible.
 
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Lol. I had a realization while finishing that video.

Trannies saying "I don't feel safe"

Is the equivalent of a Florida man yelling "I feel threatened!" Directly before getting into a fight or shooting someone. To get away on stand your ground laws.

Literally doesn't matter what it is. They just need to claim "safety" and the rest of the retards go along with it.
 
prollyanotherlurker said:
Lol. I had a realization while finishing that video.

Trannies saying "I don't feel safe"

Is the equivalent of a Florida man yelling "I feel threatened!" Directly before getting into a fight or shooting someone. To get away on stand your ground laws.

Literally doesn't matter what it is. They just need to claim "safety" and the rest of the retards go along with it.
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They say words are violence, to justify committing violence and murdering their enemies.
 
Zeftax said:
I have tried discord a few times, even liked it in the beginning (what was it, 2016?), easy voice calls, no lags like skype, no need to figure out hosting like teamspeak, takes a lot of worries off of your back. But during circa covid it really became unusable, I am astonished so many people still even bother trying to use it. Knowing what I do now, I would not have used even the 2016 version though.
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This is, ironically, what everyone was saying about Skype circa 2016-2018, albeit without mention of the coof.



Still infinitely better than Teams, though, if for no other reason than it doesn't hog eight gigabytes of RAM and an entire Ryzen 3's worth of CPU resources. There's also a third-party 'cord client that hooks into the API and pulls the absolute bare minimum that works on systems as low as Win95 on a Pentium II, if you want an actual bare-minimum chat client through 'cord for some reason. Seems solid, doesn't pull as many system resources as even some IRC clients I've tried, but it's still got the fundamental, unavoidable issue of the fact that it still connects to the absolute worst, most pedophile-infested social network known to man.
 
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