This is unfortunately true of both sides.

For example, conservatives think pro- choicers are callous baby-killers who only care about abortion because it allows them to “whore around” without consequences. Liberals on the other hand, think pro-lifers are misogynists who want to ban abortion because banning it will hurt women and because they want to make the country more like The Handmaid’s Tale.

Yes. It’s called summarizing. Obviously it’s a bit more complicated. I’m not writing an essay on the history of Linux here.

I’d just like to interject for a moment. What you’re refering to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.

Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called Linux, and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.

There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine’s resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called Linux distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux!

It’s actually a sandwich.

Yes, yes, and it’s NT/Windows or as I’ve taken to calling it NT+Windows…

This point is pedantic and tired to the point that it has become an infamous copypasta.

It’s also, at least as stated here, not even technically correct. A kernel is an operating system all on it’s own. It just can’t do much.

GNU just provides the software that the user interacts with.

Additionally, there are a number of Linux distros that are entirely free of GNU software.

Just about everyone understands what you mean when you call Linux an OS. The pedantry is unneeded.

i cant believe this guy invented popcorn :o

I never know wether to upvote or downvote this comment

How so you differentiate with non-Linux GNU systems?

The kernel is the OS

TempleOS comes to mind…

Don’t undermine the fact that Linus also made Git and I’m pretty sure some scuba diving app. Modern day essentials if you ask me!

Basic human decency. That’s seriously all it takes.

I’m sorry, is my BEING AN ASSHOLE triggering you???

Snowflake.

(do NOT make fun of my $1,000.00 USD trump branded FREEDOM sneakers or I’ll get upset 😡 they were NOT a scam)

Or at least show some remorse if you do!

LGBT has always been a target.

The “good guys” still (chemically) castrated one of their greatest minds that won the war for ten, just because he happened to like dicks.

Theres a reason people wanted to reduce the victims of the Holocaust to just being Jewish and ignored all the other groups that both sides wanted to persacute.

They did the same thing this time, target LGBT to build the movement and are now expanded to other groups.

Hopefully everyone stands up while we still have the numbers, otherwise they’ll keep chipping away fringe groups.

In Europe being trans friendly has fuck-all to do with your political leanings on the left-right axis. It’s just USA warping the political discourse with their literally one-dimensional politics.

Nah it really depends.

While the right tends to be religious and does not really approve anything LGBTQ-related, they’ve learned to behave and to mind their own business, which is actually fine. Respect other people, even if you don’t agree with them and as long as nobody’s getting hurt, we can all live happy lives.

This new wave of “America-style” extreme right lunatics though, that’s a different story. Those entitled fuckers feel they’re allowed to mess with other people’s lives, and they’re due a harsh lesson in civility.

What the Americans call libertarians have some minority representation in Europe and they’re tolerant of minorities. Not as good as leftists but better than conservatives.

You don’t even have to be trans friendly. He never said he was friendly. You can just not care about what other people do with their lives.

It’s pretty hard to make an accurate blanket statement about what the US believes any more. There really are two very different Americas, and the evil one is in power.

Well. He’s gotten better.

I think he really struggled understanding that he was seen as a leader, and that people were modelling his behavior because he was setting the standard. Once he realized that, his criticisms became more… measured.

Must… Resist… TVTropes… Link…

Idk, it’s more of a Dr. Cox from Scrubs situation. Clearly not the “villain” but definitely abusive on his way to do good works.

I guess it’s “Jerk With a Heart of Gold” but it’s not very zippy.

makes you wonder what the reply would have been like 10 years ago. probably something along the lines “just breathing the same air as you already makes me feel stupider…”

That stuff takes a very long lead time to get right.

Yet somehow, people still think Mr. “We’ll be on Mars by 2025,” who is still launching rockets that explode mid-air, should be allowed to throw out this tried and true method. Surely, the idea of “move fast and break things” is more financially responsible than polluting debris and waste over the country. Fucking monorail salesman…

Yeah that’s uh… that sounds about right. I wonder a lot about that generation.

Would Rod Serling, a humanist at heart, who campaigned to bring black actors onto mainstream TV sets, and always sent a message that the individual should always fight against an oppressive regime… would he too be lost in a sea of republicanism as he got older and the world changed around him?

I’m glad we’ll never know.

That’s the thing, my dad was one of the first informatics people (computer based algebra in Russia and Germany) and my mom did her thesis on how to design a cigar shaped body in 3D on a computer. But they are in their mid to late 60s now and my dad went from being a professor of IT to “how do I open the internet” so my confusion is based on bias from my family. All his former colleagues also didn’t stay up to date with technology and they worked for an elite university in Germany.

Anyway, good that they are alive and kicking! And glad their kicks are not so random as my folks’.

Ouch. Fucking ouch. We’re right here you know. Looking over your shoulder as you write on that magic tablet. No need to denigrate ghosts.

Al Gore is still alive!

The web, not the internet.

A hint is Unix time counts seconds from 1970-01-01

Actually, Ken Thompson and Douglas McIlroy are still alive

Brian kernighan is still writing code, at least as of 2022:

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/08/unix-legend-who-owes-us-nothing-keeps-fixing-foundational-awk-code/

Many here will argue if you aren’t pure you aren’t left in any flavor.

Oh definitely. it’s a spectrum, but his post doesn’t go that far left. The idea that any of that is “left wing” is spread by conservatives to make those ideas look radical.

I’m just commenting on what’s there.

Yup, my point is not that he isn’t an ally, it’s that being an ally isn’t inherently leftist.

Since I had it handy, here’s the source meme for the uninitiated:

Ahh…they had woke_on_lan enabled. That’ll do it.

Luckily we don’t need to be quite so diligent with the choice of wifi chips as we used to. Too many still have binary blob drivers from the manufacturer

No, 'cause the /s cheapens the experience of good sarcasm.

And a ward against the evil eye

/s is the worst thing to happen to Internet discussion, at least recently.