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I’d argue that most mainstream FOSS is extremely strong. Something like 80% of servers and 60% of smartphones run Linux. Up until recently, Cloudflare was using Nginx for their entire CDN. The thing they replaced it with is technically also FOSS. Probably most computers in the world are using OpenSSL or GNUTLS.

I think the real “weakness” of FOSS is that they don’t have the money or the desire to schmooze corporate decision makers. They also don’t have sexy GUIs, but anyone could contribute that if they wanted.

I didn’t include the social media “brigading” portion because Linus already addressed that in a different sub-thread.

I don’t know if there’s any precedence for this, but I could see a court asking to see the git commit log if things went that far.

I always advocate for FOSS solutions at my work, but most of the time I get shut down with some variation of “We prefer $MSP’s solution because it gives us someone else to blame if shit hits the fan”. I hate that sentiment, but I appreciate the honesty.

My job title is “Linux System Administrator”. I’d quit if they tried to make me drop Linux.

Most of the country wants this. For every person who tries to overthrow the government, there are more people who will fight to keep it as it is.

I don’t remember most of the grammatically correct genders, but when I was trying to learn them I had the distinct impression that stereo-typically manly nouns were masculine and stereo-typically womanly things were feminine.

I have heard nonbinary people find neuter as being offensive because it’s infantilizing them. At least that’s how it was explained to me.

I haven’t heard anything about that but that’s really interesting. Do you know how they prefer to be addressed?

The boiled down summary is:

1. Abdiel Janulgue submits the patch to Christoph Hellwig

2. Christoph rejects the patch because he doesn’t want to maintain it

3. Danilo Krummrich offers to maintain it

4. Christoph says no and that he “will do everything [he] can do to stop [Rust support from being added to the DMA subsystem]”

5. Hector Martin adds Linus and says “If Linus doesn’t pipe up with an authoritative answer to this thread, Miguel and the other Rust folks should just merge this series once it is reviewed and ready, ignoring Christoph’s overt attempt at sabotaging the project.”

6. Linus says “How about you accept the fact that maybe the problem is you. You think you know better. But the current process works.”

By saying that Hector is the problem, he’s implicitly saying that Christoph is not the problem. By saying that the current process works–the very same process that just prevented R4L from submitting patches to the kernel, he’s implicitly endorsing Christoph’s actions.

This is arguably subjective, but I think making masculine and feminine words neuter is the only way to counteract the inherent sexism of gendered nouns. If you make everything masculine, you’re still tacitly supporting the previous categorization of masculine nouns as correct, and vice versa for making every noun feminine.

*Aromantic

Your washing machine still tosses (clothing) salad on a regular basis.

I don’t know how German compares to French or Spanish, but in German things can be masculine, feminine, or neutral. What I do—which is partially as a protest, and partially out of laziness—is to assume every non-person noun is neutral.

It works surprisingly well in IT where basically all nouns are neutral, but I probably sound like Kevin from The Office in every other context.

Some mods would do it. I don’t know why, but they would.

I thought Tinder’s most expensive tier costing $500/month was a joke, but it’s actually a thing. Someone somewhere is paying $500 for Tinder every single month. Wild.

Repost bots are already rampant on big subs, but it would get so much worse if those bots could generate continual revenue.

You’re probably right from a legal perspective, but the difference between “donation” and “salary” is pretty murky in this context.

Slightly OT but I always thought Asahi Lina was a woman. TIL.

Linus can merge whatever patches he wants to, and the stonewalling subsystem maintainers would have to deal with it–like he did with the eBPF scheduler. R4L maintainers already wrote the patches, they literally just needed to be merged.

Take this case, it all started over a bit of code. The subsystem maintainer refuses to take it. But it does not require any changes to existing code. It just has to be merged. Linus can take it directly. If he does that, the Rust folks can start to use it. The sub-system maintainer will lose in the end. At some point, the battle will be lost by those trying to block Rust. It all depends on Linus. We will see.

Linus hasn’t been merging the necessary code, by virtue of supporting a maintainer who was very obviously trying to sabotage R4L; if Linus was going to stand up for R4L, this would have been the time.

simply spin the wheel

That’s how the Lemmy info page (what comes up when you search for “Lemmy”) does it, and the experience isn’t great.

Before I knew how Lemmy worked I just clicked the first option it showed, which (for me) was a non-English instance. The second option was that LGBT-focused instance that defederated with lemmy.world a few months ago. Of course I didn’t know anything about either community so I just picked randomly. I went right back to Reddit until they pulled the next anti-user thing.