@vic@djsumdog@Nazareno@mischievoustomato Then let's make it complicated again. Start with all new shit being made on a new protocol with a new client that has in its license that you can't distribute binaries. Users must compile it on their own system.
@j Most Americans need to get used to being Poor (TM). That means not buying all the latest consoomer junk, nor having a big Boomer house filled with nice furniture and decorations.
There are ways the decline could be reversed, but that would be inconvenient to a lot of people so they'll keep marching into the Second World.
@Suiseiseki Since you seem young, let me help you out a bit. Your response was such a soft troll that I'm bored of the direct banter already. Here's some pointers:
I'm smoking GNU/freedom
Should have just let that one slide. It was a light introductory personal insult to set the tone for my response. You don't get any troll points for a shitty earnest reply. A better response would have been "The crack that you glowies sell in the ghetto", if you were going to respond at all. It chains off your first insult nicely.
nonfree installation recipies, etc.
Nobody cares. Gentoo is widely seen as a FOSS-friendly, non-glowing distro, which is why I used it in my response to your first troll. A better comeback would have been "Gentoo. Nice cover. Luring people in to think that compiling from source somehow makes your NSA backdoors go away."
... SPECIFIC ...
My previous message accused you of being a wordcel and your reply merely reinforced it. Instead, you should have taken the argument that using genericized (in the general, not legal, sense) names for services only serves to reinforce their marketing efforts. I would probably respond that nobody knows what the other services are, and then you could reply "Exactly. Because people like you, who know better, continue to prop up Big Tech." See how that could have bent into your favor?
Kleenex
Once again, this was just an insult, a way of mocking you, as is part of the banter game. As this is the closing insult (before the last little jab), you should also close your response with another insult in kind. Maybe something about bootlicking, or perhaps accuse me of being a paid shill since that would open other attack avenues later on. "Does your CIA handler pay you per trademark used like that guy from Idiocracy, or do you just like sucking corpo cock? Maybe you're so used to it that you don't even notice anymore".
shit taste
Now there you go! Good job, the only well-crafted jab in your reply. Keep it up. As a reward, I'll actually respond to that one:
What would you know about taste, poser? I bet you aren't even writing your own git web-server software from scratch in C in your spare time. https://notabug.org/yzziizzy/git_webstack/
@Suiseiseki wtf are you smoking? Do you not see the "notabug.org" in my bio? The "gentoo" in my name? Can you not mentally substitute whatever specific website or service for the genericized names of big services I used? If someone asks for a Kleenex, do you throw a tard fit about the Kimberly Clark corporation, or do you hand them a tissue?
Also, cgit sucks. Might as well just use an nginx directory listing and a clone url, it'd be about as useful.
@redstarfish Who the hell reads a "Computer Science Journal" anymore? This is 2024. Put your code on Github, your presentation on YouTube, and your pdf on Twitter/wherever.
@PraxisOfEvil@MetastasizedHeroicism The US's particular government design inevitably leads to two parties split 50/50 and practically zero representation of the will of any voter. In many ways the US is a perfect storm scenario for tyranny disguised as democracy.
@PraxisOfEvil@MetastasizedHeroicism Not enough, not fast enough, and with no idea what to do about it. This has been a problem since the very beginning of the nation, except now a totalitarian police state is technologically possible to implement. Get the fuck out while you can, brother.