If you use libre software, you are now and forever a 'woke communist'.
Libs and Chuds in shambles.
>looking for a new distro
>Ask the maintainer if their distro is woke communist or trans
>she doesn't understand
>pull out illustrated diagram explaining what is communist and what is trans
>she laughs and says "it's a good distro sir"
>install the image
>its trans
lmao this is gonna be my favorite pasta for a couple days
at least until all the humor is drained from it
It's kind of shocking to see a tech guy who isn't a reactionary, because like 99.99% of them are (and before you mention the whole open source thing, Hitler quotes in BSD and RMS' whole existence).
Better than that Swedish guy who used to be in the cracker group Fairlight and add the message "Kill a commie for Mommy" to their intros. He moved to the US and became some kind of local Republican politician.
edit: Linus' dad used to be a communist BTW, but now he's just another example of a Finnish guy who was a communist in the 70s and then became a neoliberal NATO dork. Many such cases!
a tech guy who isn’t a reactionary, because like 99.99% of them are
what
Not saying there aren't a lot of reactionaries in tech, but there's also a shitload of trans communists.
I'll be honest. I kind of assumed a lot of people on this site and similar ones worked in tech.
All the famous ones pretty much are, and the ones I've personally run into are mainly neoliberal/libertarian psychos.
I think this is confusing tech guy (CEO of watr, the app that delivers you water to your house) with tech guy (codes linux kernels in his free time)
It's not even true for the first ones I don't think but especially the second ones aren't reactionary. Them often being misogynist or racist doesn't really make them the retvrn type we gotta pull the clock back type people
and before you mention the whole open source thing
Fun fact, the open source movement (in contrast to the free software movement, you already got RMS there) was started by Randian psychopaths (CW: extreme homophobia, reactionary thinking). So you're more right than you know.
there also this recounting of the splitting away and rebranding of libre software to open source: https://thebaffler.com/salvos/the-meme-hustler
While free software was meant to force developers to lose sleep over ethical dilemmas, open source software was meant to end their insomnia.
The coup succeeded. Stallman’s project was marginalized. But O’Reilly and his acolytes didn’t win with better arguments; they won with better PR. To make his narrative about open source software credible to a public increasingly fascinated by the Internet, O’Reilly produced a highly particularized account of the Internet that subsequently took on a life of its own. In just a few years, that narrative became the standard way to talk about Internet history, giving it the kind of neat intellectual coherence that it never actually had.
This is so interesting. I can't believe I haven't interrogated O'Reilly Media's role in the modern tech world, but this is really an illuminating piece.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/9ke3ke/famed-computer-scientist-richard-stallman-described-epstein-victims-as-entirely-willing
When hearing about someone committing sexual assault, I personally wouldn't do any kind of dumb pedantism about whether it's actually sexual assault or about what kinds of rape allegations are ”absurd”, but maybe that's just me :shrug-outta-hecks:
Stallman also said in 2006 that pedophilia doesn't really harm children.
Got really scared for a second because I misread the title.
Linux is Woke and Cool! I am always saying this. :denguin: 🐧 :penguin-dance:
:penguin-dance:
Is he US based? It's weird that a Finnish guy would care about the 2nd amendment specifically
The internet forces politics to gravitate towards US centric political debates. But no, I think he still lives in Finland. But haven't checked.
He's lived in the US for like 25 years. Portland more specifically.
He was born in Helsinki and moved to the US. His dad is a politician in Finland tho
Isn't the trans (usually femme?) programmer basically a meme at this point? Like how do chuds in that industry even reconcile being associated with that
how did "programmer socks" even become a thing, the internet still finds ways to baffle me
honestly sometimes trans online communities make me feel like i'm the only trans girl who isn't some kind of hacker goddess
Most trans girls are not superhuman hackers. Maya arson crimew was an outlier adn should not have been counted
tech people are dumb as shit anyway, why would you want to be one of us?
The trans-women are cheating in
athleticsprogramming :frothingfash:
If you want to troll older CHUDs, just photoshop all the brands they’re loyal to (because :grillman:s unironically have brand loyalty) saying something about pride or black history month, and watch the fireworks.
The right has gotten way too comfortable being the one sacred cow when it comes to trolling.
That's a good bit we should use more often. Eddie Bauer is about to go woke.
MALD HARDER LIBERALS I HAVE COMMUNISM IN MY COMPUTER
I've had a bad day.
This made it so much better instantly.
Sometimes it's ok to meet your heroes.
good. i hate having to play nice with those fucks in the various communication channels
Unironically, the left needs to get more toxic.
Imagine a bunch of pride flags posted and the caption is “don’t mind me, just putting up my cousinfucker repellent.”
What do we have to lose? CHUDs have done nothing but insult and threaten people and they have won the culture wars. If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em.
We wasted time trying to win the argument when we should have tried to win the dick-measuring contest.
