Re: Trans "ally" creep knows developer is a male, refers to him as "they" anyway

On 2025-02-08, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:

On 2025-02-07 1:14 p.m., RonB wrote:

On 2025-02-07, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:

On 2025-02-07 3:16 a.m., RonB wrote:

On 2025-02-06, CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:

On 2025-02-06 1:25 p.m., Joel wrote:

CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:

On 2025-02-06 12:30 p.m., Joel wrote:

CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> wrote:

On 2025-02-06 11:47 a.m., DFS wrote:

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https://news.itsfoss.com/running-linux-in-pdf/
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Early in the article and later notes the software developer is named
Allen, but never once says he or him.  Instead says 'they' several times.
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Believe you me, I blasted this creep.

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And you've just gotten an answer as to why I went back to Windows. The
experience is extremely disheartening. I don't want to use Linux if it
gives these child predators the impression that I approve of them in any
way.

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Why are you making such a big deal of it, though?  I swear, if I had
to judge every business by some grandiose moral code, I'd starve. It's

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Because I have principles. I have yet to buy any Gillette products since
they made that idiotic commercials shaming men for being men. It's been
years, but I don't believe they've earned my trust back.

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So you're judging the product by the content of television
advertising.  I just don't operate in that world, TV commercials are
in one ear and out the other, mostly.  Then again, I'll never forget
seeing the 1997 Spice Girls Pepsi commercial.

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I've gotten to the point that I only want to purchase the best product,
regardless of politics. For me, that's usually Apple. However, I am not
a fan of not being able to upgrade my machine or change its components.
Going from the 2TB encrypted nvme and 32GB of RAM I currently have to
any Mac would feel like a significant downgrade. Apparently, their M3 is
not that much faster than my 5900HS either.
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a lot easier to just accept the things you cannot change, as they say
in 12 Step, it's like you have Linux as an option, and it's competing
rather well with the commercial OSes, but some people involved in
producing distros probably have views I'd disagree with. Does that
make their code not work?  Do I have to know about all their views to
use their product?  It's not sensible because there's very finite
choice in a desktop OS, GNU/Linux is the only platform that delivers
something like people are accustomed to, without being paid/
proprietary.  I can tolerate the programmers/developers/coders having
their political views.

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If the views of the programmers are that homosexuals need to be treated
better than heterosexuals, that the black community should get
preferential treatment in the hiring process or that saying something
like "White lives matter" is racist, I don't want to touch their products.

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Business is business, I will do business with just about anyone.
Waffle House is known to support right-wing politics, yeah OK but they
make a fuckin' bangin' omelet, so maybe I'll just have to give a few
pennies, indirectly, to the prez.

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I think we're in the same boat as far as technology goes. I'd like to go
to Linux exclusively but I have to admit that the events of the past few
years have me rethinking that since it looks like wokism, not
innovation, is going to be the priority for open-source going forward.

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You assume that the Woke, political loudmouths in Open Source are the ones
driving open source innovation. They're more likely the drones. The backbone
of open source are developers who just develop are are doing it after coming
home from a day job — they don't have time for the brain-dead Woke bullshit.
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Woke bullshit doesn't produce an OS, developers do.

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And they are actively liquidating the developers who don't subscribe to
this idiocy.

 
Or so you assume. Obviously you still don't "get" Open Source. You can't
"liquidate" developers because they can always fork the project. This is not
Microsoft or Apple, where it's "their way or the highway."

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You're right, but how long do you think conservative developers will
stick around when they see that they're being demonized left and right
whenever they submit to a project? Look at what they did to the guy who
was actively improving Thunderbird. He had to fork the program to
Betterbird just to be able to keep improving the software. Who knows if
he'll continue doing so if so few of us donate to help him out. Even
after they fork, there's a good chance that one of the people working
with them will turn on them because of some political garbage just like
they did with Lunduke. Heck, a few years ago, while he was exclusively
working on software for a living, people turned on him because some of
his code was proprietary. He made everything open only to find that few
if any people actually bothered to donate to help him out. They would
rather see him starve and get free code than even consider sending him a
few bucks for his work.

Lunduke seems to be someone whose ego is easily bruised. But I may be making
assumptions that aren't true. I have no idea what he was developing,
however.

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“Evil is not able to create anything new, it can only distort and destroy
what has been invented or made by the forces of good.”  —J.R.R. Tolkien