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that’s the last time anyone chose to use it instead of treating it as some form of hegemonic default

oh for sure. it’s horrifying. people are just existing with overt fascist propaganda around them all the time, and Google has been pushing it hard since 2019

for that reason i block it via uBlock origin because it is an operational reality that i need to see that shit sometimes. the only uBlock origin origin that never gets toggled is wix. that shit can stay the fuck off my screen

i dislike how those of us who aren’t okay with this are just supposed to get on board because “big tent.” nazis operate by getting their foot in the door and acting respectable. then after a little bit, suddenly they’ve taken the whole place over. it’s what they do with bars, it’s what they do with music scenes, it’s what they’ve done with past open source projects, it’s what they did with the Reform Party in the united states. i need people to stop making room for nazis as long as they behave themselves

goddamn this entire thread is annoying:

• yes the hexbears are annoying and create problems
• no they’re not just as bad as overt fascists. their hearts are in the right place, as demonstrated by this post
• being a scold when they do something good won’t get them to do more good, it will entrench them further into the things they do that are problematic

so good job hexbears. you did something good this week. keep stuff like this going

there’s WAY too many nazis in open source. it makes me so mad. the originators of these tools and licenses believed in making tools available for everyone so that we could be the owners. but then these fucking selfish assholes don’t want anything but for themselves. they contribut to Linux, sure, but not out of any desire that Linux grow or be usable for everyone, but just out of their own desire to not pay for something and then an opportunity to weild petty power over someone.

i am so sorry you experienced that. it was not an experience anyone should have to endure.

ah, i took the stray shots to be us, linux users and linux users groups, not linux, and then i didn’t pick up you were inventing a hypothetical scenario to frame a joke, so to me it seemed like a callback to a real prior redhad announcement i hadn’t heard about. with that context, it seemed like a non-sequitar and then flippant refusals to explain the reference. the additional context you just gave was extremely helpful because we had different ideas of who the “we” in the original framing was

yup. we would prefer the power of this nation to live amongst the people rather than allow it to coagulate into a single person or position. unfortunately with what amounts to actual monarchists in control of all three branches of government, we are on the backfoot.

it’s still “around” but its leadership and mission have changed drastically enough since IBM’s purchase of RedHat to represent something completely else from what it once did and how you probably thought of it back when you paid attention to it. i’m sure if you installed it you’d find it all very familiar for a while, but eventually you’d hit something that made you go “hey wait”

1. bring attention to that people on lemmy are participating in No Kings
2. draw a connection between the Red Hats and RedHat

personally i’d not have made the association joke since IBM, the RedHat corporation’s parent company is genuinely participatory in both the Latin/Indigenous American genocide and Israel’s genocide against muslims in Palestine, Lebanon, Iran, and other nearby nations, not to mention RedHat themselves have been exploiting people’s labor in North Carolina and haven’t done hardly anything to help the neighboring communities around their offices in Charlotte and Ashville, but i don’t expect most people shitposting about Linux on Lemmy to be keyed into the real world impacts the RedHat corporation has on my friends and neighbors

what are you saying, what are you talking about? it feels like you’re making reference to something which seems obvious to you but the rest of us don’t know what you’re referring

hi. slrpnk.net user here. yes. grass is political. when you mow your grass is determined by social contracts, the kind of grass you grow is reflective of the economic pressures you experience. when a city makes a green area, they must engage with politics on how to determine where and what the green area will be.

since the dawn of civilization, aka growing grass for food purposes, grass growing has been both political in its decision making, as well as a driving force in politics.

everything is political, and calling people who think that chronically online is goofy

RedHat: noooo, fedora’s definitely for sure independent. you’re not just doing free labor for IBM

hasn’t been the easiest in about 7 years haha

i think an OS can be made entirely by a corporation, or entirely by one hobbyist with no funding. something like fedora is made by volunteers with corporate funding, whereas something like Arch is made by volunteers with donations, some of which might be coming from corporate representatives

ah shit. you’re right. sr moment. what the fuck is only office?

why in the thumbnail is it neither org’s logos?

OnlyOffice was an office suite developed by Sun Microsystems. Oracle stopped development whel they bought Sun. eventually the developers got fed up and founded the Open Document Foundation. oracle threw kind of a hissy fit, then eventually gave up and donated Open Office to the Apache foundation. Apache alleges Open Office is an active project, but they’re just shuffling deck chairs. Open Office is dead, and Oracle killed it. Libre Office is what Open Office used to be, and more

edit: what the fuck is only office?

most importantly it has a severe network effect problem. you will not find anyone to message on it

hooray! learning about the abolition of poverty through the framework of making computers go beep boop wasn’t a total waste of time!