Re: What Made My Day Today? :-)

On 2024-05-02 2:59 p.m., DFS wrote:

On 5/1/2024 5:25 PM, Andrzej Matuch wrote:

On 2024-05-01 4:11 p.m., DFS wrote:

On 5/1/2024 2:47 PM, Physfitfreak wrote:
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Work now! Work for them. Die for them. Toil for them. Reduce your population for them. Lose your savings for them. Watch their cartoons for them. Pay a hundred times higher prices, for them. Cut your genitals off for them. Become homosexuals for them. Become alcoholics for them. Commit suicide for them. Follow your Penis X for them. Delve into fentanyl for them. Subsist on eating goo for them. Become nobodies for them. Reduce to a Nazi for them. Reduce to a "Relf" for them.
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It will all be quite natural.
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Therefore, speak highly of them, for them! They're your masters. They're what you'll never be. You'd be talking Ebonics before that happens. You'd be dark-skinned with thick lips before that happens. You'd be extinct before that ever happens.
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Know what you cro-magnons are, and find your place in today's world. Your place is in the past. Join those other early humans who couldn't compete with the Modern Humans of their time. You watch their soap operas they make for you, no? Do that!

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nutter!
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No wonder your 'cro-magnon' White American wife divorced you: you're a mentally-ill, broke loser at life.
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Linux and the cola newsgroup has attracted a fair number of wackjobs like you thru the years.

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Forget the newsgroup, Linux itself has attracted all sorts of people. Many of us really believed that it was and was going to be a tool with which to fight some of the worst practises of corporations and surveillance agencies.

 I'm not worried about corporations or "surveillance" agencies whatsoever.  It's one-off hackers getting my info by breaking into a credit reporting agency or hospital that worry me.

And it happens all the time. The security used by credit reporting agencies and hospitals seems to be very lax.

We thought that its developers were advocates of every form of freedom, especially speech, and that they would have some common sense.
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Instead, we have developers prioritizing "diversity" and "equity" in the programming staff over competence, and advocating for censorship of anyone who doesn't believe that there are as many genders as people farting every day. It's embarrassing.

 The Linux Foundation seems to be one of the worst offenders.  Not only do they use commercial/proprietary apps, they won't even allow all-male panels of technologists to present at their events.  At least one female MUST be included.

Lunduke has already shown that The Linux Foundation does _very_ little *for* Linux. The foundation seemingly exists to compromise the system rather than enhance it in any way.

Luckily, you can use the code however you wish and don't need to compensate these losers in any way for their work. It is nonetheless demoralizing how much power these clowns were given in the development community.

 "Key Linux kernel maintainers have largely welcomed a new proposal by Intel engineer and fellow kernel maintainer Dan Williams to introduce inclusive terminology in the kernel's official coding-style document.
 The first to sign off on Williams' proposal were Chris Mason and Greg Kroah-Hartman. But other maintainers have approved the proposal too, which requires kernel developers to avoid using the words 'slave', for development trees and branches, and 'blacklist'."
 https://www.zdnet.com/article/linux-kernel-developers-unveil-new-blm-coding-style-to-avoid-words-like-blacklist/
  How nauseating.
  Dan Williams is a soul brother:
https://community.intel.com/t5/Blogs/Tech-Innovation/open-intel/Dan-Williams-Kernels-of-Wisdom/post/1446111
 He claims non-inclusive terminology distracts maintainers and "injures developer efficiency"
 JHC.  Another thin-skinned neegroyd looking for insults where there are none.

I just find it ridiculous that people would believe that "master/slave" is an inappropriate terminology. They want us to believe that all slaves in history were black and that all masters in history were White. It ignores the fact that millions of White Europeans were enslaved by Muslims, and that Romans routinely enslaved neighbouring White populations as well. For them to act like the only victims of slavery were the black ones enslaved by the Jews is insulting.
As for blacklist, the term refers to the colour "black" which is also not intellectual property of black people. Since the very beginning of time, white has been linked to good and black has been linked to bad. It has nothing to do with Africans. Once again, they are manipulating language to their own ends.
If that's how the Linux development community wants to behave, that's up to them. However, I would be embarrassed to use code made by people who think this way. Development, whether commercial or open-source, needs to revert to an environment where the focus is on the quality of the code, not on the feelings of the individual developers.
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Andrzej (Andre) Matuch
TG: @AndrzejMatuch
Catholic, paleoconservative, Christ is king.