Mind the shavings

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Cake day: August 16th, 2024

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  • What is his lack of consequences made of?

    People around him jumping on grenades for him.

    Some people who have done that a long time are fucking done with him over this. Objectively, the swirl of dipshits around him is lessened. He has no power, only people around him being dumb stubbornly.

    Also, he’s suing rupert murdoch. I think the puppetmasters are done with him. Fascism is nothing but betrayal, and nobody perpetrating it is safe, which most of them over there know, and it scares the shit out of them, making them try to shield themselves from it by hiding even deeper in their cruelty, the only thing loud enough to drown out the shame they work triple overtime not to have.

    Maybe it won’t take him down, but it’s a fucking crack in his little game that isn’t going away, and presents a significant point of leverage.

    Magnetize resistance with kindness and sense spoken plainly. Add to the critical mass of people that will end this shit.












  • As someone who is way into the idea of Linux, wants to switch, and is very gun-shy about the million little programs and extensions I might not be able to replace, let me tell you what is required of anybody who is actually genuine in their desire to see Linux gain the traction it deserves:

    Don’t ever tell anybody to read the manual again. Just answer the god damn question. It’s good when answers to basic, common problems are peppered around the internet like that; it’s dumb and wrong and weird to think of it as a thing to be avoided. If you’d like to put a link to the part of the manual where the questioner could have looked to find it, that’s cool, too. Don’t just leave the link–there’s a good chance they didn’t understand it and that’s why they’re asking. Maybe they just want a person-answer instead of a reference-manual-answer, and it’s good when the answer exists in both forms. Every answered question is a contribution.

    I would go even further: the version of reality where Linux beats Windows and ushers in an era of community-centric open source dominance is populated by a Linux community that considers “rtfm”, “pebcac”, etc to be borderline bannable offenses. If you are a small, weak person, and want Linux to be your way of thinking you’re better than other people, you’ll drive question-askers away, back to Inferiority Land, using your knowledge to dunk on them instead of help them, and call it a win. These are the ugly bridge trolls, who may as well be paid Microsoft employees, keeping people away from your community, and a serious change of pace might yield much smoother adoption. At the very least, the community owes it to their own work to see how much smoother.

    As someone considering the switch seriously, the knowledge that I may have to deal with people like that is absolutely, 100% a factor, and I am someone who has no qualms about telling someone on the internet to fuck off, so it’s gonna be more of an issue for many others who are more conflict-averse.

    The Linux community needs to take very seriously whether it actually wants increased open source adoption, or if it wants to remain a tiny minority so that it has a nice, large majority to feel better than.