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[–] [email protected] 164 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is pretty much my stance.

A whole lot of what the right gets uppity about is none of falls strictly in the 'none of their fucking business' category

A common dog whistle for the right is individual rights and freedoms... Yet they get hung up on things like trans rights which are checks notes individual rights and freedoms

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Yeah, but you forget about their individual right and freedom not to feel offended.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

*Their individual right and freedom to infringe upon other people's rights without consequences.

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[–] [email protected] 88 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Love to see it. Not shocked, though.

For an opposite example, the creator of a niche programming language that is the only one I'm interested in (it's really great, and I haven't seen anything that comes close to fitting the same place) said something at-very-least stupid which was the final straw that caused a core developer (nearly co-creator? created the package manager+installer, wrote a book) to quit. And it already had a low bus-factor.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can't say that without spilling the deets. What language?

[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Wouldn't have been difficult to sleuth using my profile here, but Nim-lang. Specifically because it's basically an all-in-one, being easy and fast+capable+flexible. Maybe not enough to go by (and I didn't finish/release it), but some code that I actually wrote (+what it's loading)

For further context on the statement by the creator, it was complaining about the "grammar" of singular they. Aside from that being an obvious culture-war BS dogwhistle, the person who quit knew them closely so I don't think it was an overreaction or misunderstanding.

@Serdan

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh, damn. Why do assholes gotta ruin everything?

I've seen Nim before. It looks interesting, and I like the promise of a no-nonsense, performant language. I'm comfortable over here in dotnet land though. 😄

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

dotnet, go, and rust seem like the most promising languages at the moment.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Which language?

[–] [email protected] 63 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I remember having a conversation with my conservative boss. He said something stupid about not understanding pronouns and the look on his face when I told him it didn't matter because the pronouns aren't for him. If he can't take a few minutes to understand why someone uses a specific pronoun, it's better that he just excuses himself from it. He just couldn't understand why I would exclude him in that way. Like fuck you dude, you bring it up, get upset when you can't understand and then think it's all about you. Fuck off.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Would be better if you just started calling him she, they or it. You would probably be fired, but he would get the message. mostly wouldn't you never know with them people

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They'd be fired, and he wouldn't have got the message. I'm 100% confident on this one

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The boss doesn't need to get the message. How it works isn't complicated and I don't believe that anyone just can't understand it. That's not the issue and never has been.

They just hate trans people.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Bingo. The message isn't for the boss. It's for my coworkers who might be hiding their identity because of that boss to know they have someone in their corner.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I want to see Linus and Stallman fight

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Who does that help?

Edit: Yes, I see.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Stallman being punched help anyone

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I'm out of the loop. I know he's seen as cantankerous but did he say or do something actually bad?

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ah hell. Yeah he should probably get decked.

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago

Best Linus.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

this implies torvalds is a community on social.kernel.org.

person mentions have @ not ! (also you can't follow people on lemmy yet)

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Torvalds isn't always right, but he's wrong much less often than not.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

*in Dread Pirate Roberts voice*

You have a dizzying intellect.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago

huh... i have no idea who that other person is but linus being this based is nice

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

What a fuckin legend

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

Nicely done, very based indeed.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I need to be able to upvote more than once!

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Good thing that it gets reposted every now and then!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

The goodness of Linus must be made known!

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

This is pure gold

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

I knew there was a reason besides Linux that made me love Linus.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Bea-fucking-utifully said.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

I already had a huge respect for him for being really pragmatic, but after this post my respect for him climbed a level above I thought wasn't even possible.

And that's without considering the guy basically made software that runs >99% of modern internet.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Hey I was one of those boosts!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

In another life, I delivered a package to Linus and he answered the door in a bathrobe at 1:30 in the afternoon, just got out of the shower. Nice guy.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Isn't this the "woke communist" that runs his company in a shitty way? Overworks employees and stuff? I'm not familiar with the drama is just weird not seeing anything about that in the comments

[–] [email protected] 57 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Different Linus. This Linus made Linux, he's not the one who does tech tips.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh cool, I think I've always just assumed Torvalds was LTT's last name bc I didn't know they were different people lol

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

ltt linus's last name is Sebastian

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I was OOT on this until you clarified it. On the phone as well so that didn't help either. I was probably going to get there but you definitely saved me about half a tank.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Even though wrong Linus (Torvalds is the Linus who made Linux) I'm glad someone brought that up. Last time I saw LTT he was cozying up with nazis. Last time I heard about him he was being a PR-washing ultralib. He's been beloved among reactionaries every step of the way.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago
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