Comments by "John Crawford" (@JohnCrawford1979) on "How Important is Non-Woke-ness for Software?" video.

@MrBearyMcBearface - Or only know what they've been programmed to know.
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@alsed7 - that's the response of a person brainwashed, not a person that's studied a subject and can articulate a view with clarity and their own critical thinking. They are simple droids, who get commands from their handlers on who to attack, capture, advance. You are giving them far more credit and intelligence they they deserve.
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@alsed7 - I don't think they necessarily do know. They are taught to believe this is what they stand for, but a lot of them fell out of what they previously stood for, which to me indicates they didn't have much of a backbone to begin with. Too often they are bullied into the woke agenda. It's not like some of us remember about college where we would at least learn enough of the subject to pass the course because it's an elective, but still come out with our beliefs and views intact. A lot of these kids just come out as woke fanatics, often dumber than they were when they enrolled in the college.
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I'd rather leave and find some better place where people don't hate me.
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Starbucks was always kind of liberal. They never hid their politics. Maybe because I'm in a more conservative area, but I can still as a conservative go into my local Starbucks and feel safe, and be in a friendly atmosphere. Not so sure about in Seattle or Portland, though. But it all depends. Not all of Seattle or Western WA is woke. I just hope that the city could return to sanity some day. It's just sad the state the Emerald City today and remembering its amazing past.
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@dtaggartofRTD - You don't get it. They are the ones boxing themselves in. You may think you're smart right now, but what are you going to do if they decide to cut off your bank account or put you in prison just because they found you were commenting on Lunduke's video here? Just by commenting on Lunduke's video, you've already advertised yourself to them.
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@alsed7 - The handlers are not the ones freaking out, at least not in public. If you're trying to say they are trying to use rabble rousing to demoralize, then sure, I can agree with that. But to say getting so angry to be unable to stay rational enough while being interviewed to answer the question, that's just showing where the programming has gone past its limit and has crashed.
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@MrBearyMcBearface - I don'tknow that it was. I think software programmers can tell the difference between what they do and mind control. Or, maybe they can understand mind control programming from having to manipulate software programs to work on computers. 😏👍
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With AI, can we be so certain that this will remain the case? What can we say if a computer does become away and decides it does care who is using it, what their intentions are?
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Not really that simple. There's many ways of trying not to hate someone still gets interpreted as hate. Plus, I don't see anyone advocating to hate woke. Just a lot of frustration over how woke people seem to do everything they can to destroy us.
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That's why I switched from Firefox to Brave after learning they pushed Brendon Eich out over his donation to support Proposition 8 in 2008. I would say he was close to the first of examples of woke doxxing to happen as they dug up knowledge of his donation in 2012, about four years after. Regardless, to be forced out over that is ridiculous. But it was the turning point as to when I can remember wokeness starting to flex its ability to oust people that they disagree with. There were also some other crazy things going on in the colleges, with some of the first safe spaces being noticed to certain prestigious ivy league colleges trying to have black masses, claiming they would be 'cultural enrichment'.
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All these corporations also have ties with big government lefties as well as being partially owned by China, who very much have an invested interest in pushing cultural warfare to the verge of another US civil war.
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For now we can fork projects. But what happens when they decide they don't want their projects forked, and thus attack at the very essence of OSS?
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@baronarcanus9111 - That's why I'd place the birth of woke around 2012, since that was when we started seeing LGBTQ+ flex their political muscle and go after their political enemies, as they did with Brendon Eich that got him cancelled from Firefox. Good fortune was that is we now have Brave.
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@baronarcanus9111 - Stallman doesn't do a lot of projects, anyways. He's mostly name recognition as a founder of GNU and Free Software Foundation. Not saying he hasn't done a lot, as his main contributions are the GNU Compiler Collection and GNU Emacs, as well as writing all versions of the GNU General Public License. Considering these things, I doubt he really cares if people fork his projects, nor is he all that concerned about market shares.
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@baronarcanus9111 - Yeah, that goes against my creed, as I'm sure it does Lunduke's considering we share the same 10 Commandments, with the first being to have no other gods before us than the One true God.
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@jhgvvetyjj6589 - more importantly, it leaves a paper trail to the source, and if the group at the source decides they don't want you to fork their work, they may do whatever they can to make your life a living hell. You can argue all you want about it being opensource and free to fork, but w0k3 K4r3n 4$$h4t$ will be w0k3 K4r3n 4$$h4t$.
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@horusfalcon - I've tried it a few times. It's alright. Hard to beat Debian's stability, though.
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@horusfalcon - yeah. I've heard about the whole systemd stuff. however, the alternative is basically loading into RAM, and the laptops that I use Debian on only have 4GB of RAM, and they need all 4 GB to run halfway decent and not crash. So systemd it has to be for me.
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It's not simply disagreements. You may not have any choice if they decide to only allow people that agree with them to use their software. They might take the tools you believe are yours away from you because they are the developers and you disagree with them. Then what?
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