Notices by ☃️karolherbst☃️ (karolherbst@chaos.social)

While I do think that the latest messaging and handling wasn't great and in parts pretty disappointing and continues to be so, I do think that KDE is genuine in their fight against fascism and related ideologies. Though at times a bit clumsy in how to deal with it. But making mistakes is part of life.

I can vouch for at least some of the more important KDE devs to be genuine in this fight.

But I also won't ever blame people about being upset at KDE here.

And that's all I'm gonna say

Look.. comparing AI users with drug addicts and mean it as an insult tells me more about yourself than the people you are criticizing...

can we just stop that nonsense? Like....

it's apparent you have never met a drug addict in your life

many people are not able to comprehend the beauty in doing

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/116007724314869070

That it's not close to 100% for all the options is a big problem 🙃

Calibri is now woke

So some people are wondering if whatever the MAGA/Linux crowed is up to is planned and on purpose.

Yes, it is. They accuse us of what they would be doing themselves. Wayland, systemd, etc.. it's all a conspiracy to them _because_ it's the way the approach things and accuse us of the same.

They always weaponize disagreements within the broader community for their political agendas. Every project of them is like this.

It's sad to see how many do not understand those dynamics.

Every accusation of them is a self-revelation. Period. Every. Single. One.

Also they weaponize political ideals to harm them. Things like "neutrality", or "everybody is welcomed" or "tolerance" you name it. They use those terms to undermine the ideals behind them and sow disagreement on purpose.

Every technical disagreement is weaponized to not let us focus on the important things. And yes, most of the anti-whatever sentiments are reinforced by them.

Don't fall for it.

You think it's a coincidence that 90% of the anti-systemd distros are lead by absolute shitheads? Think again...

Claiming that systemd is bad because of "being monolithic" or "not the UNIX way" or whatever random nonsense reason you come up with is all a political game whose purpose is to divide us.

All those have _zero_ relevance. You are just made to believe they matter, even though they absolutely don't.

Focus on the real technical problems, limitations, drawbacks. Not some artificial "tech ideals" that have no relevance.

@lanodan @a1ba well.. things are more complicated than 100 years ago.

@a1ba @lanodan like there was a philosophy to begin with, more like "let's see what we can all agree on. Fine, yeah just... write it down so we can move on" or something.

seeing people argue about systemd and how it's not UNIX anymore.

UNIX is dead, and it's a good thing. just accept it finally.

@ShadowJonathan @lanodan probably the worst as in the most boring one.

Gotta step up your game on this one.

foss drama breached containment, non foss people are already talking about it

@pythno @gfxstrand While this would seem like a reasonable approach to a lot of people, there are also company politics involved.

Like AMD, Intel, Nvidia, etc.. invest in AI and if we, as in the mesa project, would outright disallow it, it might put certain maintainers into weird spots they might not want to be themselves and I don't think it's useful to take the risk.

It's.. not an easy position for Mesa to be in right now.

@cadey "NPM has always been kinda weird compared to other open source package repositories, so them requiring something strange like that reads as reasonable." Ah that makes sense 🙃

Maybe we should establish more processes like banks do "we'll never ask this of you ever".

But then again, people also click on phishing links in emails saying "this is a phishing attack training, do not click on the following link:"

We should just stop using email honestly.

@cadey "We should stop using email" one might think why that helps.

Simple: If you communicate on other platforms with people, you have a strong _UI_ indicator it's the same account you've spoken to previously. Be it on Matrix, Discord, Signal, etc...

An account with a faked name messaging you will pop up as a new chat, so it's already kinda obvious _something_ is going on.

Email just sucks, or rather Clients do.

Some clients like gmail do sometimes indicate if a sender looks fishy tho.

@elly @BrodieOnLinux yeah well.. not gonna blame them for doing the right thing in the end.

@BrodieOnLinux @elly ah yeah, fair, somehow my tired brain wasn't able to parse that out 🙃

@BrodieOnLinux @elly I just hope they learn that wasting political capital like this isn't worth it. But also "just following orders" wasn't and never will be a valid excuse.

Like they had to decide that enforcing a rule, which they don't have to begin with, in this particular case is worth it.

Sure individuals might not want to risk their job and all that, I get it, but getting fired over this would be ridiculous.

Like just say there was more important things to do or something 🙃