Comments by "James LaBarre" (@SenileOtaku) on "The Lunduke Journal" channel.

  1. My dream for Mozilla???? For the Mozilla Corporation/Mozilla Foundation to hand off Firefox & Thunderbird to an organization that DOESN'T have their collective heads up their collective asses.... Then to go away and never speak to me ever again.
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  2. So if AI can effectively solve ALL those Captchas, can we finally get *RID* of the Captchas???
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  3. A shame that Haiku is fitting in the "Woke" category. I had been dabbling with it (Sean from ActionRetro keeps promoting it) and had thought maybe it would be a good alternative to Linux. OpenBSD looks like the next best option. It's still a Unix-based system, I can likely run everything I use now on that system (even if it means compiling certain applications myself). FreeDOS is good for retro gaming, but I never got into computer gaming in the 80's or 90's or after. OS/2's community has made enough runtime and other patches to make it somewhat functional in present day (and after all, I might have had some part in the Will Zachman controversy with OS/2 & Microsoft). Maybe I should quit computers, move to Japan and wander around the countryside rebuilding abandoned Shinto shrines...
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  4. "...AI needs to be *everywhere*..." HEY, get out of my sock drawer, AI...
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  5. 2026: We have always been at war with Eastasia...
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  6. I just wonder if the Russian programmers could withdraw their code, or some Russian company could sue in an international court. Just speculating (it's probably not as simple as that). But it could totally fubar the entire internet (not like that particular outcome isn't coming soon anyway).
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  7. I remember back when Open Source was primarily Libertarian. No one cared what your personal preferences were, as long as you could write good code.
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  8. Yes, that was when the Open Source community was primarily Libertarian. Didn't matter what your beliefs, politics, or other traits were, just as long as you respected others and could write decent code. A functional meritocracy.
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  9. I wonder if my being Libertarian is keeping me out of various Linux and open source companies. Just recently I had applied to a major Linux distribution & project, and seemed to be progressing fine, only to abruptly told "nope, not interested". And boycotting LTT? Don't need to, since I already determined they were flaming idiots, and not worth wasting any amount of time on those dunderheads.
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  10. One other effect of a viable Linux CAD program, one that starts getting a notable adoption, might convince companies like AutoCAD that Linux is a viable platform for them to support.
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  11. What we need is for cellphone manufactures to UNLOCK their bootloaders. They definitely should have to provide unlocking tools the moment any device goes out of support.
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  12. I choose to be offended that they chose to be offended...
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  13. Seriously, what's wrong with "master boot record"? They're a great band...
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  14.  @baronarcanus9111  I have about as much faith in the OSS community making the correct choices as I have in the voting public recognizing the lies and corruption of the current administration. Which is none at all.
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  15. Years ago there was a record store called "Vinyl Solution"; if the store still exists I'm sure some whiney wokester has complained about it.
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  16. More true than you realize. RedHat is adding more upon more upon more layers and levels of managers, with fewer and fewer people doing actual WORK. It's an infestation from IBM. Team leads get dragged into "management" roles, which means they are no longer doing real work. Then someone else gets the team lead pushed on them, only to become yet another manager later. It's like the old saying: too many Chiefs and not enough Indians.
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  17. Yep, I got one nearly 2 years ago, I'm finally setting it up now (had to first get a power supply replacement, and then a Kung Fu Flash to load programs from).
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  18. All of the Touhou Doujin, Vocaloid, J-Trance, etc releases I listen to are downloadable as DRM-free downloadable media. Not that I can find ANY of them as official CDs anyway (they're only available in Japan). Let's see the legacy record labels in the US try to do anything like that [1]. [1] That might be why Visa and MasterCard are trying to "censor" all the Japanese media distributors, because Japan media exports are seriously kicking American legacy media's ass.
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  19. I mean seriously, they don't even offer my OWN system of defining preference and orientation. Mine would be "MG-FP". Let them even try to figure out that classification.
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  20. The thing is, as a Linux, LibreOffice and Firefox user (as well as a former NetWare engineer), I would actually trust Microsoft more than Google now. Not that I trust Microsoft.
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  21. Or the GNOME Project. They just love finding new ways to sh*t on the end-users.
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  22.  @sbrazenor2  there needs to be a proper 'sarcasm emoji'.
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  23. If I were that person, I still wouldn't renew my support until Godot cleaned house and unbanned everyone.
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  24. Brave is Chromium-based. See my message above (probably above) about my thoughts on that.
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  25. I'm just wondering whether we'll be able to readily slot-in the hard-forked Linux kernel into existing distributions? Or will it require a fork of the distros as well? If we have to fork the distros, we might as well start migrating any non-GNOME GTK+-based desktops and applications over to CTK, so we can ALSO start removing all of GNOME's intentional breakage in GTK+. Move back to a dev environment not being trashed by a bunch of whiney little petty dictators.
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  26. It's probably a feeble attempt to make it look like there was more support for his viewpoint. DDV would then point to the "anonymous" website and say "see, I'm not the only one thinking this".
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  27. It makes me think of the classic scene in "Spartacus"
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  28. It sure sounds genocidal to me.
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  29. Do you remember the Star Trek:TOS episode "Mirror Mirror"? Remember the way people advanced in that episode? I understand that is the way people advance in Intel. Employees can write up any other employee for the smallest infractions, even something like not holding the handrail on the stairs.
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  30. Except that Bill Gates is probably a backer of this effort.
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  31. So who will be the judge that would have to approve Google's "sale" of Chrome? I think he or she should be informed of this attempted end-run around any divestiture ruling. But you know that some point in the next few years (or less) someone is going to find a major zero-day vulnerability in Chromium-Core. Some vulnerability that will hit EVERY Chromium-based browser on every platform. You remember how bad it was with all the vulnerabilities in MSIE? That was ONE browser on ONE platform. A Chromium vulnerability will hit nearly EVERY browser on nearly EVERY platform. I'm kind of looking forward to it, so I can sit by and LAUGH at them.
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  32. Remember way back when Open Source was primarily Libertarian? You earned respect and admiration by virtue of competence and good coding.
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  33.  pluto8404  Well, start voting third-party then. The Libertarian Party would welcome you.
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  34. Of COURSE Failbook needs to rely on Artificial Intelligence, because there's no actual intelligence there.
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  35. Does anyone remember when OpenSource was libertarian-oriented? They didn't care about your politics, sexuality, race, etc as long as you could write good code.
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  36. It will especially be a disaster when (not if) a major back door/vulnerability is found in the Chromium core. You remember what i disaster it was when MSIE turned into a major attack vector? That was just ONE browser on ONE operating system. Just imagine how that will be with dozens of browsers and nearly EVERY operating system.
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  37. I'm still waiting for my reparations from the French Government for their purge against the Huguenots. I'm descended from THREE different Huguenot lines, so I should get triple reparations.
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  38. And that's a problem. With the Chromium base being the core of SO many browsers, on pretty much EVERY operating system, when (not if) some core vulnerability is discovered, a majority of web browsers will be under attack. The risk of a monoculture.
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  39. EVERY year is the Year of the Linux Desktop for some subset of people. But seeing what's happening in the linux community, I'm looking at Haiku...
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  40. An organization (like a school) or a company has the right to define what you can do on equipment owned and operated by them. What they don't have the right to do is dictate what you do on YOUR devices and YOUR internet service. Certainly there will be schools, companies & the like who will go too far, which is one (of many) reason to make your personal resources completely free and open. Of course, it's also the parent's responsibility to protect their children. Sometimes that will mean blocking them from content inappropriate for their age and maturity, it also means fighting intrusions to their privacy.
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  41. Sorry, but the stances the video showed are not at all Libertarian. At one time the Open Source Community at large was predominantly Libertarian, but that time is long gone.
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  42. Maybe we need to rename Executive Order 14071 to "Clone Protocol 66" ("Order 66")...
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  43. Contributions? Like deciding to purge the entire source tree of words like "master"? Words that in context are far more descriptive of function than anything they replace them with. Yeah, we can do without those contributions as well.
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  44. The World Economic Forum strikes again
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  45.  @souljastation5463  Was with you there until you said "Libertarian". You obviously have no clue of what Libertarianism is about. "Capitalist" is such a misused term these days you likely mean something entirely different than I would.
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  46. I considered the onerous MSWin 11 requirements as a **feature**; it prevented a whole lot of systems from "migrating" (I won't call it "upgrading") to MSW11. That would mean fewer MSWin systems as machines moved to Linux, *BSD, or other systems. As an alternative, it would mean there would be a whole lot of cheap or free machines becoming available.
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  47. No, it's just pining for the fjords...
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  48. Sorry, I thought you wanted someone *competent*
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  49. Hey, nothing wrong with anime profile pictures. NOW you're judging on external factors, the same thing you accuse others of. *I* use an anime picture for most sites (I happen to have a different one here). Of course, it's Kyon making a facepalm, as it's my impression of most of the BovineStuff going on in the world.
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  50.  @csteelecrs  Well, it could be like the way IBM's internal departments have to pay other departments for services. They refer to those transactions as "Blue Dollars". And they get severely anal about their interdepartmental billing & payments (and even try to remove services so they don't have to spend Blue Dollars).
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  51. I still think it's an intentional insult, calling it "Mudzilla" rather than Mozilla.
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  52. I still think they should have replaced "Master / Slave" with "Seme / Uke"
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  53. I guess they're trying to revive Ebonics.
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  54. Android isn't necessarily a bad OS, if you can run AOSP or some derivative thereof. The problem comes down to most Android phones being locked down. If vendors were forced to make the phones rootable we'd be in a better situation. So how can I move into a career that doesn't involve computers at all?
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  55. Independent production works out very well for Team Shanghai Alice (AKA "Zun"). Not only doesn't Zun thrive as an independent, the conventions for Touhou Project would likely blow away anything from the AAA studios.
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  56. Cat ears? Come on, Azusa Nakano looked cute in the cat ears (and I have family members that do the 'furry' cosplay, even though they're not programmers) That said, considering C and C++ have decades more development than Rust, I wouldn't expect Rust to readily integrate into a long-standing kernel. And I'm not a programmer either. Rust is still at the "fad" stage, and has quite a long ways to prove itself as an established and stable language. I see no problem with experimental builds of Rust kernels; it might even expose glaring flaws in Rust, C or even the kernel. But even as a non-developer, I can see it needs to prove itself. I almost get the impression these folks are equating C and C++ with "toxic masculinity" and "white supremacy", while Rust is representational of DEI and equity.
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  57. Lolicon and shotacon. Although I still don't understand how Shotaro Kaneda [1] became the basis of "shotacon". [1] at least as I understand that's the basis of the name. Shotaro Kaneda is the main character in "Tetsujin 28-go" ("Gigantor" to us Americans, so in the US he was known as "Jimmy Sparks").
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  58.  @krunkle5136  There was an old saying in the Science Fiction community; "When two science fiction fans meet, they'll form a club. Then they'll look for a third member so they can have a schism and form TWO clubs."
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  59. Microsoft basing their re-engineered Edge browser on Chromium was just a stupid idea anyway. At this point Google has become their major competitor, so basing Edge on a project so heavily controlled by a major competitor was a bonehead move. But I guess basing it on a Mozilla/Gecko/Firefox codebase (being a descendent of the very same Mozilla browser MS tried to kill before) would have been SO ironic their heads would have exploded.
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  60.  @manofacertainrage856  I would have said "whitespace", but that has the word "white" in it, so it would get immediately targeted by the wokesters.
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  61. Soy-boy Steve jobs would have been all in favor of DEI.
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  62. It's much like Hollywood and the BBC: rather than creating their own original characters and shows/movies, they'd prefer to take over an existing "intellectual property" and destroy it according to their own ideologies.
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  63. Could call it "Monty".
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  64.  @thomasmaughan4798  It's unsustainable not to be libertarian. The attitude was that your preferences, race, gender, etc were irrelavent to your coding ability, how well you could build a system, how well you could train others, etc. Moving away from that only leads to the death of your project. (hmmm... so if DEI & such kill your project, maybe we should encourage the Gnome Project to step it up... <G>)
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  65. They have balls?
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  66. But then you're just supporting the same (or worse) behind a proprietary wall. As well as encouraging companies beholden to the World Economic Forum.
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  67. Come on, it's easy, it's an inverse ratio. For the less work and usefulness an executive provides, their pay goes up proportionally.
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  68. I think The Rubin Report would be a good venue. Lunduke is on Locals (which Dave Rubin is a backer of) so it would fit. Although I think it would be MORE entertaining to see Bryan Lunduke on Guttfeld.
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  69. So in other words the next Linux King will be chosen in much the same way the CCP have declared THEY will pick the next Dalai Lama?
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  70. Would probably have to be bought by some company like IBM or (barf) Oracle.
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  71. Well, in and of itself, a Rust-based Linux kernel could be useful for educational purposes; it might find flaws & shortcomings in both, and give insight on them. But making a Rust/Linux kernel out of spite is just stupid.
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  72. With all the batshit crazy nutcases in Codeberg, GitHib, etc, we might see a resurgence of Sourceforge as a preferred hosting site (presuming they don't go braindead as well).
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  73.  @AdroSlice  “Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice. Moderation in pursuit of justice is no virtue.” Karl Hess (speechwriter for Barry Goldwater).
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  74.  @gctechs  And Hilary Clinton. Maybe even Commie-la Harris.
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  75. Except the way tech companies (and appliance manufacturers, car manufacturers, and on and on) operate these days, even though you paid for the product they'll just invade your privacy anyway.
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  76. That was immediately my thought too.
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  77. I think we need to establish a new Open Source license, one that projects can re-license to if/when the GNU gets destroyed/undermined. Establish an entirely new open source hardware/software/protocols/API ecosystem to work around the wokesters and corrupt tech companies.
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  78. "Richard Stallman" ? (yes, I already know what the spam actually said, but "Richard Stallman" would be funnier)
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  79.  @xmaverickhunterkx  An alternate name for RUnix? (Russian Linux)
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  80. Except at the moment it's still possible to get away from or (somewhat) work around Apple. Now, in the upcoming version of MacOS if Apple decides to *ONLY* allow installing applications from the Apple App Store, THEN there can be a case against them.
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  81. Both still Chromium-based, both still subject to the corrupt influence of Google.
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  82. I think whatever judge is approving any divestiture of Chrome should get informed of this scheme before it happens. Would be fun if the judge denied the sale. Maybe force them to sell to someone all of the organizations hate (you know who...)
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  83.  @JodyBruchon  Sorry, To me Winamp is the garbage interface.
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  84. I think these projects, and the rest of the wokesters, are promoting plenty of division on their own.
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  85. I've been migrating all my machines away from Fedora and back to LinuxMint, now that I'm no longer with RH.
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  86. I tore off the port-side wing on my airplane and replaced it with another starboard side wing... (actually, the opposite of that sounds PRECISELY like something the far-left wokesters would do).
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  87.  @AlexIndigo  It's also because it (in concept anyway) encourages and advovates free speech and open thought. Can't have people believing they have personal rights.
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  88. Even worse, when you consider the applications running on these languages. OpenStack (written in Python) is running in containers on top of OpenShift (written in Python). So interpreted code on top of interpreted code on top of interpreted code.
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  89. So what happens if you go on a GNOME video chat and chant "Lunduke Lunduke Lunduke"...?
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  90. I have been planning to remove Fedora from all my systems (after leaving my last job, there's no reason to continue supporting it, quite the opposite). I was planning on moving back to Linux Mint, but now I need to look into OM. I had used Mandrake Linux back in the late 90's/early 2000's, so that could be a return to my roots as well.
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  91. I think it's an intentional mispronunciation, sort of a subtle insult, a way of saying "Mudzilla" is not the "Mozilla" we once knew.
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  92.  @mytech6779  Yeah, perhaps a mistake after all; the mental patients had to take jobs in the government.
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  93. MIGA???? (Make Internet Great Again?)
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  94. Seriously, are you stoned??? Because that's the only explanation for your clueless lack of logic there.
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  95. There are lots of them already. Can't think of the major ones, but my preferred audio player (Audacious) has a Winamp Skin mode (which I don't use, because I despise the Winamp UI)
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  96.  @terminalvelocity4858  It's why I think we all should take a break from Linux and the other woke projects and work on ReactOS. It will piss off the WokeLinux people *AND* Microsoft.
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  97.  @GLOW_IN_THE_DARK_CIA_NIBBAS  Didn'tused to be. At one time Open Source tended to lean Libertarian.
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  98. Of what I've read on the "computer bug" in that early computer system, it sounded like they were referring to an established term, and referring to the irony of a physical bug (as in insect) being the cause of a glitch in the system (hence a "bug").
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  99.  @robotron1236  Well, we certainly won't be using it in the current kernel.
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  100.  @shaunpatrick8345  More mumbly-speak. It's almost as much of a word-salad as a Commie-La Harris speech.
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  101. Another option is Haiku. I need to do a proper install on my main laptop to try it out for daily usage though (the laptop it's installed on doesn't have a battery).
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  102. What, you're expecting The Regurgitator to actually look for facts? As Ben Shapiro would say "that's some real journalisming there..."
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  103. Actually, Open Source in it's early days was Libertarian. It just got infected by the same woke disease everything else has.
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  104. I'd say "whitespace", but it has "white" in the name, so it would just get accused of supremacist racism.
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  105. The convoluted download process is to weed out the wokesters.
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  106.  @DonaldDeCicco  ALL versions of MSWindows are version 666...
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  107.  @genestone4951  Ah, if I were rich I would have picked up the two C64Cs that were still in their original boxes (at the same estate sale)...
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  108. Looks like we need to move to Haiku and NetPositive.
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  109. Haiku?
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  110. "Mudzilla". As in their name is mudd.
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  111. Well... Wikipedia.
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  112. Haiku, maybe?
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  113. Sell it to IBM. Chrome will be dead or destroyed within two years under the operation of IBM.
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  114. Doesn't make much difference anyway. I can't stand Winamp's interface. Winamp established a precedence for lots of applications to use non-standard interfaces. Winamp stands out like a very ugly thumb, rather than following the theme and appearance of everything else on your desktop. It was the fugliness of Gnome3 & Gnome4 before Gnome was a thing. Winamp could print the sourcecode in 8-point type, roll it up tight and stick it up their backside, I don't want it any way.
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  115. But those "forks" are still following the FF codebase far too closely. I hesitate to call them forks, they're little more than custom re-compiles. Any of Firefox's boneheaded UI changes, for example, get carried right into those "alternative" recompiles.
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  116. Or a treatise on the forms of cursive writing used by the inhabitants of the island of Java.
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  117. Stupid settlement. Google can create FAR more damage and evil with AI than with Chrome.
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  118.  @pluto8404  pen on pineapple, apple on pen?
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  119. It's humorous in the same way it's humorous to see how people manage to induct themselves into the Darwin Awards.
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  120. I'm glad to see that "Chase Oliver" is on the list of the 2024 Presidential candidates. I hate those surveys that can't think past Demopublican or Republicrat. But religion? It didn't list "neo-Taoist".
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  121. Whatever remedy happens, I definitely *don't* want it to be good for Google. If Google doesn't squeal like a pig, it wasn't harsh enough.
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  122. Yes, someone in an adjacent team to me was working on all those edits for the kernel. At my brother's job they can no longer refer to assembly/alignment tools as "jigs".
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  123. So something positive to come out of AI...
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  124. I can see people being confused by characters like Rory Mercury (961 years old in the series) who has the appearance of a 13 year old.
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  125. I identify as Emperor Norton the Second. I can't imagine Mozilla wants to read my fanfiction. But they threaten to revoke my right to use Firefox? How they gonna stop me?
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  126. It would be interesting to see a legal challenge on that. Not saying it could win, but would certainly stir up a whole mess of trouble.
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  127. Interesting that all but ONE of the browsers in the Alliance are Chromium-based, just like MS Edge. Doesn't matter which one you pick, Chromium browsers all face the same flaws and the same vulnerabilities. When the day comes that a severe vulnerability hits Chromium Core, then all those Chromium browsers will fail as one.
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  128.  @danjuroff  YouTube is a secondary (or tertiary?) platform for his videos. They're just mirrored from his Rumble/Locals channel. YT is handy for those of us not set up for Locals memberships yet (although I would prefer if they were on Odysee).
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  129. Heck no. In fact, I'm MORE concerned about Thunderbird dying than I am about Firefox. FF can die ONLY in the case there's someplace to maintain the codebase core for the derivative browsers to work from.
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  130. Ladybird is in development (and we should be putting support behind that development). I wonder if we could revive the old Spyglass and Mosaic codebases...
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  131. That was more because of that disaster known as INsecure Boot. The very idea that a core hardware should be under the absolute control of one company, a company that has every reason to lock out other companies and projects, and has been proven to do such things in the past, was and is an abomination. People rejected IBM's Microchannel Architecture for less. But here you have hardware vendors and OS projects groveling before Microsoft and obeying every dictate from them.
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  132. And to think I was thinking of studying Python. They make a LOT of usage of it at my prior job. You know, I had been at least a follower of OpenSource long enough to remember when it was predominantly Libertarian. But it's been infiltrated by the socialists and wokesters.
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  133. I guess I should start listing my race as "Yokai".
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  134. Is this the beginning of the RUNIX Operating System? Sorry, that would be the RUNIX kernel running along side various SPL-licensed [1] utilitues and tools. Maybe the Russian developers will kick everyone in the GNOME project out (or maybe port all the non-GNOME GTK+ applications to CTK). [1] Sane Public Licence, to replace the GPL once the wokesters destroy that.
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  135.  @Halfbit_0  Isn't that called Sumo Wrestling?
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  136. It would be quite nice to prove that RedHat wanted to get rid of me because I was openly Libertarian (therefore not some nutcase leftist). I'd say "don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out", but it might be useful to jog their brains back into functionality (because it's obvious that's where they have their brains)
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  137. Going back to the pre-internet days?
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  138. So what happened between DDV and RMS? Did Drew try propositioning RMS and get turned down?
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  139.  @cccpkingu  That was my impression. A subtle insult every time he says their name.
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  140. That's insulting to Nintendo. Heck, comparing Oracle to the Mafia would be insulting to The Mafia.
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  141. Should have included Edlin, just for the giggles...
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  142. Nah, I've heard of them years ago, and I wasn't at all impressed with them.
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  143. I'll stick with Ungoogled Chromium for when I need Chrome compatibility (such as any site with the BROKEN Cloudflare filtering).
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  144. Bad idea. There needs to be multiple core codebases, unrelated to each other. Otherwise you will see a monoculture that will end up spreading a contagion.
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  145. But the great majority of alternatives to Firefox are Chromium-based browsers. Even IF you discount the dark hand of Google's influence in the Chromium codebase, eventually there will be one or more severe vulnerabilities discovered in Chromium. Do you remember back when all those vulnerabilities were discovered in MSIE? This will be much worse; MSIE was one browser on one platform, while Chromium vulnerabilities will be multiple browsers on multiple platforms. The problem in Firefox is any of the FF-based alternatives aren't doing enough to differentiate themselves. I think we all need to start putting our support behind Ladybird. Not just to promote and advance a third option, but also to piss off the wokesters.
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  146. Well, Russia has been interfering with the Biden's illegal business activities in Ukraine. Eventually Crackhead Hunter won't be able to afford his blow without a US Government subsidy.
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  147. Call it Saneux, a SANE *nix.
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  148. I've known about Waterfox for years, used it as my default for a time. Problem is they don't differentiate themselves much from Firefox to make it worthwhile. If they were smart they'd take the opportunity to undo some of the boneheaded decisions Firefox has made, but that would require some actual coding.
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  149. Looks like I need to find a replacement for Notepad++. Not that I use MSWin much, but I put N++ on any MSWin systems I set up for others.
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  150. "Territorial integrity"????? Factored against WHICH time period? Maybe go back to the time of King David? Or do you want to turn the oasis the Israelis have built in the desert to people who would trash and destroy it in short order? Hamas would just take over that land and then use it as a base to terrorize the rest of the world (what, you think they'd stop at Israel? How gullible are you?) They's proceed to take all the county's riches for themselves while forcing their own people to starve (when they're not using them as human shields). Within a few years it would all be an uninhabitable desert again.
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  151. Ladybird? Pale Moon? Maybe it's time to dust off NCSA Mosaic or Spyglass...
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  152. I'll have to bring up Family Tree Maker 7 and see if the latest Wine version has fixed the print dialogue yet (I initially reported it in 2010, Bug 23326). I've tried running debug traces various times over the years to give the devs the info to fix it, with no luck. Some years back I made the only-partially-joking suggestion that Wine should be ported to MSWindows (especially MSW 10 & 11) so that people could run those no longer supported MSWin applications under current MSWindows. I need to see if Wine has been ported to Haiku.
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  153. You mean they weren't janky to begin with?
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  154. “Government is not reason; it is not eloquence. It is force. And force, like fire, is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.” - George Washington
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  155. You mean Google's products weren't already falling apart???
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  156. Nope, the Biden Administration wouldn't dare oppose their masters in the CCP.
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  157. I think it's meant as an intentional insult, as in Mozilla being mired in the mud of their own making (hence "Mudzilla"). Kind of like how George Bush Sr. mispronounced Sadaam Hussein's name because his "mispronunciation" was an insulting word.
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  158. If I were a KDE user, since it's a once per year notification, I would leave it as a reminder the next year.
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  159. I would agree with that (to an extent). I don't mind someone being trans (one of my daughter's close friends is trans, and they're a good kid). I don't like the whole trans-in-your-face thing, and I think transitioning is a thing to be done as a personal decision by informed, consenting ADULTS. Transitioning pre-teens is stupid, especially since at that age the opposite gender still has cooties. Finally, when I speak of "trans", I only mean people who are actually doing the physical & hormonal transition. None of those fake-trans people who declare a different gender on a daily basis.
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  160. Interesting detail. I saw a few times at different CVS stores their kiosks were rebooting for system updates. Finally caught one that showed Ubuntu in the boot messages (an Ubuntu build of BusyBox). At the time I was disappointed it wasn't RedHat or Fedora, but now I'm glad it wasn't.
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  161.  @_PatrickO  But the "law" (executive order, actually) is politically motivated. The Biden cabal can't have Russia interfering with Dumbass Joe's illegal business interests in Ukraine.
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  162.  @edwardallenthree  Russia didn't DARE invade Ukraine until Dumbass Joe came in
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  163. Yeah, I was looking for Haiku. Shawn at ActionRetro would be disappointed.
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  164. "LGBTQ" just needs to add an "H" to their abbreviation, then it will be fair for everyone.
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  165. Sorry, they're already booting all of us out.
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  166. As my dad used to say, "There's two kinds of help; some help and NO help".
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  167. @VH911-i4j It's the same place I am at. I use Cinnamon Desktop, and that's not yet working on OpenMandriva as yet. I'll still keep it on one of my test machines and see how it progresses. I'd switch over to Haiku, but I understand that's woke too. Have we heard if ReactOS is woke or not woke? (not that it's usable as a daily driver yet, even after nearly 30 years of development).
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  168. That was going to be my suggestion. Either that or it's 4. "Thou shalt not comment to four, thou canst comment to two, but can only proceedeth to three".
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  169. My pronoun is "Emperor Norton the 2nd"...
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  170.  @vaikjsf34a  Linux might not, perhaps HardForkUx could.
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  171. One thing's for certain; if there's NO dominant browser in the market, then web developers will have to START doing their f**king jobs and test against ALL browsers, instead of shoving a minimal test against a single OS/browser combo and call their job done.
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  172. I'd like to load a newer AOSP-based build on my wife's old G6 Play as well (and my E5 Play). There's something wrong with Motorola's unlock site where I can't unlock my E5, even though I bought it unlocked and fully mine.
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  173. As the old saying goes, "Opinions are like anuses; everybody has one, and everyone else's stinks".
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  174. Considering Failbook makes a lot of internal use of Linux, I seriously doubt they'd ban Linux. I even think FB does some kernel development. But really, getting "information" from Faceborg?????? FB doesn't have useful information of ANY sort.
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  175.  @ltxr9973  I think Godwin's Law was revoked some number of years ago.
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  176. That could work in a different way. Arrest Joe Biden for giving the Taliban all those tanks and equipment.
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  177. The problem with Brave Browser is it's still Chromium-based. Someday, sooner rather than later, some major vulnerability is going to get discovered in the Chromium core, one that will infect ALL browsers based on it. And the range of systems affected will spread across operating systems and browser packages. Plus don't think Google won't be injecting their corrupt changes into the codebase core. I haven't found a proper native Fedora package of Betterbird. Flatpacks work great for immutable Linux systems, but it seems just plain stupid to have to install all those libraries all over again, when the OS already has those libraries in place. Duplicating (or even triplicating) the same set of libraries again and again is such a waste. As for "office-suite" functionality; what about Gnumeric and AbiWord? Are they still at a usable state? I know KDE has their office packages (I would like KDE, but I've never been able to configure it to look and work the way I want). I know, I'm still using Fedora; I had switched to it when I worked at redHat, since I figured I would be able to contribute to Fedora test/development while I was there. Now that I'm no longer with RH I'm slowly switching everything back over to Linux Mint.
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  178. There ARE no acceptable alternatives. Until Ladybird is at a daily-driver functional state, the most we can do is to implement whatever hacks undermine the evils of the Mozillas, Googles, Microsofts, Apples and Amazons of the world.
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  179. I'm using Waterfox for now, but eventually it's core codebase will go away. Could we set up a "consortium" of Mozilla-derivatives (Waterfox, Librewolf, Thunderbird, Betterbird, and even further offshoots like PaleMoon and Epyrus)? Can we set it up so it won't eventually devolve into a self-serving behemoth?
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  180. I may not be a practicing Christian anymore (I'm more of a "neo-taoist"), but now would be a good time for the Second Coming.
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  181. Maybe, although seeing the way the Mozilla Foundation is behaving, it should be Ladybird Browser instead of Firefox.
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  182. An unrealistic "Performance Improvement Plan"...? Hmmm..... Now I'm beginning to wonder, as that sounds VERY familiar.
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  183. So no AI-enabled Edlin???? 6:30 "...this is not bloated software, this is morbidly obese software..." Make Software Healthy Again? (kudos to RFK Jr.) Yep, RedHat funds Fedora. Now that I'm not at RH, I'm switching my Linux machines back from Fedora to LinuxMint
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  184. That sounds more likely that you would think
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  185. No sir, I don't like it.
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  186. Why not Chase Oliver?
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  187. Hey, Dumbass Biden has to protect his Ukranian business interests and payoffs.
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  188. Ladybird Browser can't be ready soon enough... If Mozilla can't be bothered to focus on their browser, then they're of **NO** use to me. And Firefox isn't even the most important product they make; that would be Thunderbird. I could find a different browser (a non-Chromium one, of course), but Thunderbird (or a derivative thereof) is critical.
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  189. At one time they could have gotten jobs in the Biden Administration, but that's going to be over soon.
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  190.  @rosomak8244  Hey, I used to have multi-colored hair in the 1980's. But I wasn't a psychotic nutcase.
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  191. Things you can't say to men dressed as women: "...nice legs"? "...nice fake boobs"? Sure, I could see doing cross-dressing cosplay ("crossplay") at a convention, etc, but it seems inappropriate in a work environment (unless your business is a stage production of "Rocky Horror Show"). So "Post-meritocracy" I guess means it's perfectly acceptable to suck at your job. And here I thought that was only accepted for Congresscritters and MBAs... Do you think maybe the RussianLinux fork might be anti-DEI? I'd be hesitant to ask the person running CTK [1] if they're non-woke (I'm afraid it might be a bad answer); I'd really want it to be a way to combat all the wokeness inflicted in GTK+ currently. This is the point where I'd want to move to Japan and wander around the countryside rebuilding abandoned Shinto shrines with hand tools. Something non-technological. I may not be "certified" but I certainly am certifiable... [1] CTK is a fork of GTK+ that's meant to undo all the damage inflicted by the Gnome Project.
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  192. I've thought it would be a good topic for Dave Rubin (and Lunduke is already on Locals anyway).
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  193.  @jacekjacenty  As in Ladybird Browser?
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  194.  @Gadottinho  I can certainly see the World Economic Forum wanting to stop Open Source. If you can change the code, then you can own it. And according to the WEF, you aren't supposed to own anything anymore. They want to see a return to Feudalism, with themselves as the royalty lording over you from their castles.
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  195. Maybe Brian needs to start enlisting folks who have had no prior association with him to set up accounts for information gathering on these "neo-diverse" forums.
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  196. Well, it USED to, but the censors, activists and governments have gotten better at destroying The Net.
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  197. I used Mandrake in the late-90's into the early-00's. The thing I need to check is whether Cinnamon Desktop or NsCDE is available for it. Maybe another step will be to migrate all the GTK+-based applications (excluding GNOME) to CTK.
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  198.  @Tufhhuyy  That was certainly the case with Pidgin vs Carrier. Carrier forked from Pidgin when the Pidgin developers made changes the users hated, and the the Pidgin devs said "suck it up and deal with it", refusing to address the problems. But Carrier, even as the superior project, faltered and died.
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  199. I had noticed that. Google probably thinks they'll be able to stomp on anyone who tries.
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  200. A few years back the Thunderbird project was talking about starting up a paid email service, which would fund their project. I had been waiting for them to implement it so I could switch over to that. But that plan obviously fell through.
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  201.  @taurniloronar1516  "Frammitz" (don't even remember where that word came from, probably a technical term dad used from the USAF or technical writing)
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  202. Looking back, it seemed in the 1970's and even more so in the 1980's we were on the way to a more open, more peaceful, friendly and understanding society. Not saying we were perfect, far from it. But we were moving forward quite nicely. Then the Clintons came into power, and they found it far more useful to THEIR agenda to stir up hatred and racial tensions. We've never been able to undo the damage they caused, it's only gotten progressively worse (no pun intended).
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  203. Maybe after Google sells of Chrome, Mozilla will sell off Firefox... I'm probably *MORE* concerned about what will happen to Thunderbird.
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  204. What, you think Microsoft, Apple, Adobe, etc are any better? Probably a lot worse, because we can't see what they're doing.
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  205. Beautiful birth??? Nope, the internet is already an abortion.
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  206. I don't want a Chromium-based browser of ANY flavour.
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  207. It's an intentional insult, "Mozilla" has turned clarity into mud.
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  208. I'm way too old to learn a new career, but I really don't want to work in the computer field anymore if I'll have to deal with these sorts of fuckwits.
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  209. Brave Browser is still a Chromium-based browser though. Google will still sneak their underhanded code in through the Chromium core.
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  210. Some days I look forward to the collapse of The Internet. Then I'll go buy an abandoned village in Japan and spend my tim restoring the local shrine and vintage buildings. It will take a while to learn the old crafts.
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  211.  @bullpup1337  Well, Commie-La Harris wouldn't like it because her masters can't control it.
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  212.  @Egon_Freeman  Billy Boy may not be at Microsoft in an official capacity, but I'm sure he's heavily influencing business and technical decisions to advance his socialist one-world agenda. Of course, he has to make sure P-Diddy gets Epsteined first (unless Hilary does it before him).
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  213. Bill Gates is probably one of the people behind this report. Maybe Bill G wants to see Stallman in jail so he can be conveniently "Epsteined" (right after he does the same to P Diddy).
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  214. "...beating around the bush and explaining the obvious, slowly, as though you were instructing a collection of cabbages..." Have you seen what the general public has been reduced to? Cabbages are more aware and clued-in that a significant proportion of the populace. (I've never understood the conservatives' disagreement with abortion; it's just a way to make sure the braindead don't breed)
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  215. Does that make "Question Mark & the Mysterions" a hate group?
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  216. So just ***WHAT*** is Youtube's problem where I can't correct/add to a comment????? What a bunch of dimwitted dunderheads.
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  217. I never saw any reason previously to et a Bluesky account (I don't have a Twitter/X account either), but maybe I should set one up now so I can taunt the far-left commies and get banned as well...
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  218. "...Can somebody recommend free software which is welcoming to Nazis..." A cracked install of MSWindows ? (using the non-open source definition of "free software").
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  219. Wasn't "double-plus good" a term in the novel "1984"?
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  220. That's like when I suggested IBM should just outsource the CEO and Board of Directors to India. Could probably find someone for $50K/yr.
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  221. There's the thing. I have no problem with transitioning, I just don't think gender dysphoria is anywhere NEAR the level the manipulators claim. I might venture a guess it's in a single percent of the numbers the wokesters are claiming. And while transitioning at a younger age might be physically easier, I feel it is a decision that should ONLY be made when someone reaches adulthood. And it should only be decided by the person themselves, after serious and extensive consideration, with a full understanding of ALL the factors. It is not a decision to be forced on children who are still trying to understand who they are.
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  222. That's because they are settling for mediocre. If they had any ambition they'd aspire for a B or A... 😁
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  223. Kyle Hickey is calling for everyone else to kill their MAGA neighbors because he's to CHICKENASS to do anything on his own. Typical wimpy whiney soyboy wokester.
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  224. "Fork the planet!!!!!!!"
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  225. Oh, so be a money-grubbing tyrant that loves censoring and imprisoning all his opponents, and makes a business of bribing American Presidents and employing said President's crackhead children... Yeah, not such a good example to give, dude.
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  226. Considering Google is Microsoft's biggest competitor at this stage, I thought it was stupid for them to re-base Edge on Chromium-core. They should have used Mozilla/Firefox, but I suspect the irony of depending on a descendent of a browser they once went out of their way to destroy would have made their heads explode (probably not a bad thing there either).
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  227. I could understand some confusion with both Linux and BSD being open source, and thinking they're nearly the same. thus if BSD = Linux, MacOS would equal Linux. But really, even as far as the BSD base of MacOS goes, I would say MacOS is to BSD as Android is to Linux.
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  228. So just is what is "Twitch" anyway? I've never used it, never found what it's supposedly used for, and never found a use for it. All I've heard about it is how it's used by game companies to promote racism against middle-class white people, or anyone their DEI dislikes). So it would seem there's now *LESS* than zero reasons to use Twitch.
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  229. No, that over simplifies it. There are plenty of men messing the world up as well. Generally they're the ones who don't feel they should have to work to EARN their advancement. I'm old enough to have seen the "women's movement" of the 1970's. Back then it was more called the Equal Rights Movement. We didn't decide that any one group was more deserving than another, but that all were equal in rights, and equal in potential. We believed in helping ALL to advance, whereas now it's all about putting groups down. Now it's about cutting down any that stand out, rather than encouraging others to grow.
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  230. For that matter, I've gotten so pissed off at how the GNOME Project is screwing over GTK+, and willfully & intentionally BREAKING it, I'm looking at NsCDE.
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  231. I've thoufgt we all should take a break from Linux, etc and start working on ReactOS (presuming that isn't woke as well). Maybe work in FreeDOS as well.
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