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Cake day: June 29th, 2023
  • Skullgrid@lemmy.worldtoLinux@lemmy.ml•Ikey Doherty vs Omarchy: Why He’s Building Barney Instead of Another Distro
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    3 hours ago

    I am totally in the dark here, the last time I did anything programming related was making a batch file in windows 20 years ago.

    It’s a good thing we’re looking at this from a more “why this tool not other tool” aspect then.

    To de-abstractify the concepts a little:

    1. There are horrible data sources from things like unit 731 or the holocaust, and most of the time, scientists reject using them for various reasons, but the ethics of using that data is murky. A similar idea enters the picture here. Yeah, DHH et al aren’t killing people, but what about when the Omarchy foundation starts being the top sponsor of White Pride Worldwide?
    2. basically, nothing is permanently done. It always needs maintenance and updates, because entropy exists. Washing Machines, Guitars, homes, clothes, software, etc. Human culture too. You may have a recording, but to keep the “culture” alive, it needs to be played by someone and listened to someone. The issue with fascist open source is that the people keeping the “culture” alive are fascists, so one is participating in their perpetuation of their works, regardless of if the tools themselves are fascist or not.
    3. We are, unwillingly, perpetuating in the public visibility of Omarchy by discussing it. If we install Omarchy and talk about how we’re pleased with it, etc , we are helping others get visibility of Omarchy when we are behaving as OS curators. We are not perpetuating every other operating system that exists. The public awareness of a zillion others disappears, where we could be promoting it.

    To expand on the last point : Compared to human attention, human creations might as well be infinite. Curation is how we try to limit what we are exposed to, since we can’t start from A and walk our way to Z for everything.

    I guess it wasn’t that long.

    I look forward to your response, ephemeral associate. Stay safe and stay sane out there.

  • Skullgrid@lemmy.worldtoLinux@lemmy.ml•Ikey Doherty vs Omarchy: Why He’s Building Barney Instead of Another Distro
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    8 hours ago

    no, you’re making a salient argument. I don’t want to dump a book length (/s) idea I’ve had brewing in my head about this, so we can have a little chat. I’ll just throw the broadest strokes to you.

    1. What do you do with unethical scientific advances? Eg : Data on human limits on heat/cold/sleep deprivation obtained through torture? Can you use them in ethical projects after?
    2. How does a culture perpetuate? What are permanently completed projects? If an untrustworthy party is working on a project that for now seems fair, can you rely on it while its still being worked on and have faith that you can use that to go forward and build new things without getting stabbed in the back after?
    3. Curation. By choosing something curated by a “bad person TM” you are not giving opportunities of propagation to a project maintained and created by a “good person TM”.
  • Skullgrid@lemmy.worldtoNot The Onion@lemmy.world•Breaking Benjamin frontman pauses concert to rant about Fallout 4 modding beef: 'There was a modder in the community that was really mean to me'English
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    2 days ago

    One attendee shouted: “Play some music!” Others in the crowd were loving it.

    As someone who personally deflated the Periphery singer’s ego after they mooned us while we were queing outside, and he told us to “Buy merch between sets because we need to leave before the show is over” fifty fucking times before I yelled “SUCKS TO BE YOU”, I agree with the former.

    If it matters that much to you, write a song about it. Otherwise, shut the fuck up about your personal beefs.

    Napalm death did great. Barney proselytised a little bit ABOUT the song’s message before going into it. “Friends, there are many people in this world, still oppressed by slave labour conditions. This song is about them ‘ARGH ARGH BLAAAAARG!’”

    It got even better when they went into the older, very short grindcore songs. He just screamed the title before they went into it for like 30 seconds.

    Yes they did you suffer.

    Addendum : I was at the periphery show to see meshuggah.

  • Skullgrid@lemmy.worldOPtolinuxmemes@lemmy.world•You don't actually have to be 1337 to use arch(install)btw
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    2 days ago

    my jokey response was already said by Allero, so I’ll tell you what I think draws people to it.

    1. Early packages. As soon as the packages are shipped, arch tries to get them in the repo, stability and interoperability be damned
    2. Related to the above, AUR. You can’t be bothered to build something? Get it from the AUR from someone who an be bothered to build it, but can’t be bothered to be the maintainer of that package. This then leads to the issue recently with malware.
    3. Minimalism. Arch only gives you what you need and you need to set up everything else.
    4. No automated help, thus, total control and responsibility over your system. Installed a flatpak? Set up the executable in the application launcher yourself. (NB : your mileage may vary, I’m comparing LXQT arch with LXQT debian)

    I’m using it in VMs only, and because setting it up is faster for me than setting up debian, which is my daily driver. Like I said many times in this thread, I slop it on using archinstall since it just needs the initial config, and I just walk away. The deb installer uses a wizard that “does stuff” while I go through it, so I have to stop and start. I’m only doing defaults anyway , so I don’t have to change much in the installer.