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Frederica Bernkastel said:
I don't think Devuan will stay. They're even more lefty than Debian afaik. The others I can't say as much because I don't know who maintains them. AntIx definitely will because they're the "anti-fascist" Debian distro.
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The Devuan twitter account is basically only used for posting humorous but entirely factual infographics about the dangers of Poettringware, anyway.
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Betonhaus said:
It's be weird if Ubuntu becomes the better distro because of this. Linux Mint may end up forking more and doing their own thing.
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Yes, Linux Mint will start maintaining all their own packages over disagreements about whether to use Twitter.com.
 
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Betonhaus said:
It starts with Twitter disagreements, and ends with banning support for all AMD chips because they disagree with what the CEO of AMD has on his Reuben sandwiches
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Her, actually.

..yes, legit 'her'.

(Also Jensen Huang's cousin or something. If you think that's weird, don't ask about the Kompella brothers in networking...)
 
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WhiteNight said:
This is the Debian publicity team mailing list archive. Start at Jan 22. There is a bunch of faggotry (Musk threw a Nazi salute!), and a few dissenting voices.
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Every time the supporters of Debian leaving X are confronted about it, they end the discussion and demand that those critical defer to procedural authority.

Very interesting.

I don't believe bluesky or mastodon are any more likely to comply with the Debian CoC.
 
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Safari said:
Every time the supporters of Debian leaving X are confronted about it, they end the discussion and demand that those critical defer to procedural authority.

Very interesting.

I don't believe bluesky or mastodon are any more likely to comply with the Debian CoC.
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Mastodon's "non-official", but so is every other social media account it seems. Per their Publicity page:
Debian's micronews, micronews.debian.org (its RSS is used as source for @debian profiles in social networks)
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This includes their Identi.ca server. The only news sources that aren't just mirrors appear to be their bits, micronews and actual news releases/mailing lists. From what I can tell, the X thing is a whole lot of nothing. Set up an X account, subscribe to micronews (bits too if you want to be real fancy) and mirror everything to it. That's all it was. You won't have your name on their publicity lists, but that also saves you from reading tranny seethe all day.
 
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GNU Abyss said:
From what I can tell, the X thing is a whole lot of nothing. Set up an X account, subscribe to micronews (bits too if you want to be real fancy) and mirror everything to it. That's all it was. You won't have your name on their publicity lists, but that also saves you from reading tranny seethe all day.
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I don't think this exit from X will mean much in the long run.

However, I do think it reflects poorly for the project to selectively enforce CoC against certain social media platforms while remaining on others that have similar problems involving a lack of moderation. This is true whether their presence on the platform is "official" or not. The perception of this action is unlikely to be positive.

In time, these little acts of indulgence can grow to threaten the reputation of the organization.
 
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This includes their Identi.ca server. The only news sources that aren't just mirrors appear to be their bits, micronews and actual news releases/mailing lists. From what I can tell, the X thing is a whole lot of nothing. Set up an X account, subscribe to micronews (bits too if you want to be real fancy) and mirror everything to it. That's all it was. You won't have your name on their publicity lists, but that also saves you from reading tranny seethe all day.
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Alternatively, if you really need to follow the 'Debian media team'... something which has no reason to exist... you could join a BASED fediverse server like Alex Linder's pieville.net and make fun of them for being curry niggers from there.
 
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WhiteNight said:
This is the Debian publicity team mailing list archive. Start at Jan 22. There is a bunch of faggotry (Musk threw a Nazi salute!), and a few dissenting voices.
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God these people. This is from https://lists.debian.org/debian-publicity/2025/01/msg00030.html

God I was going to just quote the first part of it. But I kept reading. The whole thing is so cringe. How do these people get this way? Genuinely, I just don't get it. I'm not ever actually that right wing. If anything I'm more center leaning, and even when I was younger, and a bit more left leaning than I am now I would have thought these people are cringe retards.

I agree with this, since musk took over it has become more and more right wing, this has now culminated in Musk giving a Nazi salute at the inauguration, (and there is a post on Mastodon, from someone who has studied and teaches about Nazis who has confirmed it is) supporting the far right AfD in Germany, he is a strong supporter of Trump, He is trying to influence election outcomes. This is not the Debian way either as we have elections here to decide on things.

The website reproductive rights is now OFF line in the USA and elsewhere, this supports women's rights to autonomy over their own bodies.

The attacks on the LGBTQ+ communities are going to continue, facebook will allow these attacks and as removed fact checking etc. Trump has already reinstated the ban on LBGTQ+ people in the US Army for example. Meta, Twitter and others are fully supporting Trump in return for less regulation on their platforms, and threats against other countries trying to impose regulation. This will make the internet more dangerous for marginalized groups and in fact anyone who tries to speak out.

It would not surprise me if the same thing happens with TikTok once a US billionaire gets hold of it, so that becomes another mouthpiece for Trump and his supporters.

Lets do the right thing, I do get the argument about reach of Twitter/X, but this is surely also about ethos, rights, values,ethics and humanity and aligning with platforms that share these values. We just need to engage, boost and interact on Fedi far more.
 
Anyone having trouble with Quad9 DNS lately? Specifically on Linux.

Full context: I'm experiencing "bursts" of slowness with my internet connection, where seemingly at random it crawls to a halt, then it comes back to normal for a few minutes. Rinse and repeat. Only on Linux, Windows is fine. After fiddling with a few different settings - firewall on/off, more/less permissive, preventing the network card from going to sleep, connection speed negotiations - with some help from Wireshark I've settled on DNS.
Wireshark showed some ICMP packets to Quad9 not going anywhere, and noticeable delays (half a second to a full second) between resolving and the page actually loading (or the request being made and the resolving coming back, not fully sure).

Ah, the old adage. It's not DNS, it's not DNS....it's DNS.

I've used Quad9 and Cloudfare, in that order, on both Linux and Windows for years without issues. Even now on Windows it's fine, but on Linux it does this shit. I changed it solely to Cloudfare and for now it seems fixed. I'll report back if this isn't it.

I should look into self hosted DNS. My opinion on Cloudfare...isn't great.
 
Jang Joo said:
I should look into self hosted DNS. My opinion on Cloudfare...isn't great.
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IDK who your ISP is. I'm on Telus in Canada. My ISP provides DNS resolution. The router they gave me with my service also provides DNS caching. In a lot of cases, folks using other DNS systems are doing nothing but increasing their DNS latencies. But irregardless, perhaps consider using more localized DNS, with the others being secondaries.
 
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IDK who your ISP is. I'm on Telus in Canada. My ISP provides DNS resolution. The router they gave me with my service also provides DNS caching. In a lot of cases, folks using other DNS systems are doing nothing but increasing their DNS latencies. But irregardless, perhaps consider using more localized DNS, with the others being secondaries.
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If you use something like Steve Gibson's DNS benchmarker you can often find an external DNS provider that's not far if any off the latency of your ISP's caching resolvers, and unless you're on a gigaISP might in fact have a bigger set of cached records.

But in most uses there's not much wrong with using your ISP's DNS unless they're rewriting stuff. I had one that would redirect you to service notices. Then started rewriting outbound queries to DNS servers not their own. In that case going all the way to DoH to a trusted server was needed.
 
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