Notices by Reluctant Weeb (reluctant_weeb@bae.st), page 8
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@sapphire @Agartha_Noble @ceo_of_monoeye_dating @Tony @JonnyFever @NonPlayableClown @bot
I know? That's my point, that movie is showing a completely alien social structure. One we've only kept moving away from as time goes by.
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@JonnyFever @Agartha_Noble @ceo_of_monoeye_dating @Tony @sapphire @NonPlayableClown @bot
Like I said, you couldn't get it. Your too old, things have changed too much. Things like new technology can be learned, but new social standards? Especially when they're as base as interactions between the sexes, I don't think people literally have the capacity to understand something other than what they grew up in; especially if they (like you) choose to close your eyes.
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@mushroom_soup
I wonder how many of the people who claim white people don't like spicy food would be able to handle fresh horseradish burning their nose hairs off?
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@nugger @mushroom_soup @Gloifleg @Zerglingman @SKracket @MeBigbrain @Hyperhidrosis
People hang onto what you say because likely they haven't heard any such things literally ever before. What you say about religion does affect people on fedi. That is a responsibility that you may not like, but it also is an opportunity. You can lead people to Christ by your posts.
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@ringo @mushroom_soup @Gloifleg @Zerglingman @SKracket @MeBigbrain @nugger @Hyperhidrosis
Don't read into this much but after reading that I don't like you.
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@nugger @mushroom_soup @DEERBLOOD @Nelenese
While that is true, that building is not spiritually enriching. A beautiful building is an asset to a church.
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@Terry
Just use yt-dlp.
Mad Muds in Glendale.mp4
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@ceo_of_monoeye_dating @Soy_Magnus @Jello
I thought it was the sectioning of the image into roof, trees, clouds, and sky.
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@M_39 @CentaurBreeder @ceo_of_monoeye_dating @Soy_Magnus @Jello
WHY THE FUCK IS THIS THREAD STILL GOING?
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@M_39 @CentaurBreeder @ceo_of_monoeye_dating @Soy_Magnus @Jello
I'm not having fun. This shit is clogging up my feed. All the threads I'm interested in die before they get going, but this banal shit has to go on for over an hour.
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@mushroom_soup
Wash your hair everyday. Girls are so gross.
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@marine @mushroom_soup
My hair is longer down past my shoulders, thick, and curly. I used to have terrible dandruff until I started washing every day. If washing your hair damages it it's probably becasue you're slathering it in overly harsh chemicals.
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@Zealist @Godcast
I can never force myself to smile. I always feel (as in feel with my face) like I'm doing it wrong.
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@mushroom_soup
I feel like I'm having a stroke reading this. I don't understand anything.
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@Suiseiseki @Awoo
That article is just Stallman once again trying to stake claim over the entire linux ecosystem. Don't let him get away with it.
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No, Richard, it's 'Linux', not 'GNU/Linux'. The most important contributions that the FSF made to Linux were the creation of the GPL and the GCC compiler. Those are fine and inspired products. GCC is a monumental achievement and has earned you, RMS, and the Free Software Foundation countless kudos and much appreciation.
Following are some reasons for you to mull over, including some already answered in your FAQ.
One guy, Linus Torvalds, used GCC to make his operating system (yes, Linux is an OS -- more on this later). He named it 'Linux' with a little help from his friends. Why doesn't he call it GNU/Linux? Because he wrote it, with more help from his friends, not you. You named your stuff, I named my stuff -- including the software I wrote using GCC -- and Linus named his stuff. The proper name is Linux because Linus Torvalds says so. Linus has spoken. Accept his authority. To do otherwise is to become a nag. You don't want to be known as a nag, do you?
(An operating system) != (a distribution). Linux is an operating system. By my definition, an operating system is that software which provides and limits access to hardware resources on a computer. That definition applies whereever you see Linux in use. However, Linux is usually distributed with a collection of utilities and applications to make it easily configurable as a desktop system, a server, a development box, or a graphics workstation, or whatever the user needs. In such a configuration, we have a Linux (based) distribution. Therein lies your strongest argument for the unwieldy title 'GNU/Linux' (when said bundled software is largely from the FSF). Go bug the distribution makers on that one. Take your beef to Red Hat, Mandrake, and Slackware. At least there you have an argument. Linux alone is an operating system that can be used in various applications without any GNU software whatsoever. Embedded applications come to mind as an obvious example.
Next, even if we limit the GNU/Linux title to the GNU-based Linux distributions, we run into another obvious problem. XFree86 may well be more important to a particular Linux installation than the sum of all the GNU contributions. More properly, shouldn't the distribution be called XFree86/Linux? Or, at a minimum, XFree86/GNU/Linux? Of course, it would be rather arbitrary to draw the line there when many other fine contributions go unlisted. Yes, I know you've heard this one before. Get used to it. You'll keep hearing it until you can cleanly counter it.
You seem to like the lines-of-code metric. There are many lines of GNU code in a typical Linux distribution. You seem to suggest that (more LOC) == (more important). However, I submit to you that raw LOC numbers do not directly correlate with importance. I would suggest that clock cycles spent on code is a better metric. For example, if my system spends 90% of its time executing XFree86 code, XFree86 is probably the single most important collection of code on my system. Even if I loaded ten times as many lines of useless bloatware on my system and I never excuted that bloatware, it certainly isn't more important code than XFree86. Obviously, this metric isn't perfect either, but LOC really, really sucks. Please refrain from using it ever again in supporting any argument.
Last, I'd like to point out that we Linux and GNU users shouldn't be fighting among ourselves over naming other people's software. But what the heck, I'm in a bad mood now. I think I'm feeling sufficiently obnoxious to make the point that GCC is so very famous and, yes, so very useful only because Linux was developed. In a show of proper respect and gratitude, shouldn't you and everyone refer to GCC as 'the Linux compiler'? Or at least, 'Linux GCC'? Seriously, where would your masterpiece be without Linux? Languishing with the HURD?
If there is a moral buried in this rant, maybe it is this:
Be grateful for your abilities and your incredible success and your considerable fame. Continue to use that success and fame for good, not evil. Also, be especially grateful for Linux' huge contribution to that success. You, RMS, the Free Software Foundation, and GNU software have reached their current high profiles largely on the back of Linux. You have changed the world. Now, go forth and don't be a nag.
Thanks for listening.
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@Terry @histoire
It's complicated, the kernel is bloated and unhardened and there are some distros like Ubuntu with telemetry. It is definitely possible to remove anything even remotely sketchy from linux (there are hardened kernals built with this in mind), but it's probably easier to move to a schizo operating system like openBSD. And if you're gonna do that you also need to worry about things like backdoors in your hadware. All of this is ignoring the linux distros built with maximum privacy in mind, going as far as having all network activity routed through TOR and only being usable through a live environment. Basically, it's really complicated as "linux" isn't monolithic. Any linux though is pretty good for privacy/security and basically the best you can do without going pretty far out of a non-hacker's comfort zone, as the first step to a truly secure desktop is librebooting a cpu, which only works on certain (usually old) cpus and risks permanently bricking them if done wrong.
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@mushroom_soup
Did you make these? They're quite lovely.
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