Comments by "Chaos Corner" (@chaos.corner) on "The Lunduke Journal" channel.

  1. I don't think it's the developers as much as those who wheedle their way to the levers or power. Though there's likely a few developers too.
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  2. Abandoning your core competencies... Always goes so well.
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  3. Apparently cake mixes have you add eggs not because they couldn't include dried eggs in the ingredients but because it makes the person making the mix feel like they did something.
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  4. These are the kind of people who will respond to that with "You know, you have a point".
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  5. The "Jimmy Wales yacht" meme has been around for a loooong time.
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  6. Apologies are just an admission of guilt to these people and just encourages them to go harder.
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  7. LDS. Not just for Mormons anymore.
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  8. Mozilla has become IT Crowd's "A lot of sexy people not doing much work and having affairs" with Moss and Roy coding Firefox in the basement.
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  9. Linus going to end up ousted within 12 months.
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  10. Don't you want to be unburdened by what has been?
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  11. Any delegation of power increases your attack surface and should not be done lightly.
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  12. On the other hand, I'm old enough to remember a time when if you wanted to see something again, you had to hope for reruns. Sometimes that would never happen. Often if you missed something, that was it. There are several shows I only managed to see the end of or significant parts of in modern times. Sometimes while scratching my wooden leg.
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  13. Hah. After Latinx was roundly rejected, they're just going to come back and try again.
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  14. Brinucs?
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  15. Sounds like an abusive relationship to me.
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  16. "Components in your computer systems"... And it's important to bear in mind that computer systems means everything more complex than a toaster (and some toasters) including cars and medical devices and manufacturing equipment.
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  17. The worst part of open source may be the community but paradoxically, the best part of open source is the community.
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  18. To be fair to ESR, it seemed that free speech was kind of a built-in thing for all the open source communities around. It has taken some concerted effort to turn things as bad as it has got and I don't know if codifying it would have helped because they would just have played along until they had sufficiently infiltrated the organizations to subvert them anyway.
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  19. Might be fun to join with the username 'Imnotlunduke' and variants.
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  20.  @nemea6698  Also, master has other context like master/apprentice, to master a skill and master bedroom. It's a mental illness.
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  21.  @mytech6779  Can confirm. People were complaining about "political correctness" in the 80s. It was more just an annoyance at that stage but it was putting down roots and is now a major problem. Make no mistake, this is going to take down many valued organizations as once established, it's near impossible to root out.
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  22. If you're a "centrist" and complain about the right being political but don't complain about the left being political, you ain't no centrist. (Vice versa too, of course).
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  23. Slackware not woke AFAIK.
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  24.  @futuza  And then it gets big and you have to have other contributors and then a social media coordinator, HR, steering committees, a few other things and if it's current day, suddenly there's a good chance subversive forces have entered your organization.
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  25. Time to take another look at TempleOS, I think.
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  26. Hating people for their immutable characteristics is bad. Unless they have the wrong immutable characteristics, apparently.
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  27. Google have not been treating what dejanews became very well either.
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  28. Having hard rules is a tough sale when it's all kind-of arbitrary anyway and when they junked up the system with a whole bunch of money-grubbing TLDs a few years ago in any case. But really, what it all points to is that the domain name system is awkwardly engineered and that domain names have too much prominence because URLs are too visible to users.
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  29. The problem is, in these days of social media, it's hard to be a quiet conservative. Especially with what these fanatics consider a conservative.
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  30. It depends. LibreOffice starts grammar checking my pronoun usage and that's a hard erase.
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  31. Blocking the port is only a band-aid what with all the IOT devices these days (unless you're handling them in a sophisticated manner)
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  32. The more complex a system becomes... Which is why I argue against increasing complexity unnecessarily. The *nix community used to seem to get this intrinsically but now it seems even the simplest app is a script which requires installing a whole new subsystem.
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  33.  @mug786  I think he's talking about Gnu Hurd. Personally, I think it's a shame BEOS never got more of a shake. But here we are.
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  34. I don't have any idea if Patrick Volkerding is woke or not and that's the way I like it.
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  35.  @user-dc9zo7ek5j  The USA is not even the worst place. Parts of Europe (UK and Germany to my knowledge) have gone off a cliff.
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  36. Ah, the "anyone not to the left of Stalin is right-wing" position in the wild.
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  37.  @Gyropathic  Soylent green is toe jam?
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  38. Just go full RMS and have a script email you webpages.
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  39. Yeah, "Open source" was kinda the default near the beginning. Then companies started to see value in keeping their source code proprietary and selling the binaries. RMS's actions were in reaction to this change. I believe he was unable to obtain the source code to his printer driver or something.
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  40. I dunno. I think I'm on board with this getting rid of use of the word 'master'. My only question is what should my slaves call me now?
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  41. Mozilla has been sus for a while. Ousting someone for their unrelated political position? Big red flag there.
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  42. This is not an open source problem. It is happening with organizations, both profit and non-profit everywhere
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  43.  @squidware  Not sure what they're using it for but udp is handy for a fair bit of lightweight stuff that doesn't require a reliable connection like 'I'm alive' notifications.
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  44. Is Lyx still going? It's a word processing type interface that exports to LaTeX that kinda gives you the rough appearance of what you're going to get (WYSIWYM). Edit: Yes it is.
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  45. I'm big on IP reform but they definitely stepped hard into things that are hard to defend.
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  46. I knew things were on the downturn when they started moving functionality out of the open part of the OS and into the proprietary Play Services.
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  47. Part of the problem is all these boards and foundations getting so much money which makes them a target for subversion (this also happens for regular companies too). I'm not sure what the solution is other than a shift in the zeitgeist which may well be happening.
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  48. I suspect there's a good chance blocking people from the repositories violates some clause of whatever license they're using. Edit: It's MIT so apparently not.
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  49. It's astounding how provincial the wokies are sometimes.
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  50. Having to lay off staff is probably a blessing in disguise at this point. As long as they lay off the right staff.
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