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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