Well no shit, I was just wondering. Damn tho wtf?

Is the owner a tankie? (stalin justifier) I thought they were just communists, many of whom I know actually hate stalin.

The top photo’s wasp comes off as a yellow jacket to me. They are notoriously aggressive compared to milder species like mud daubers and paper wasps. So if that’s the look of the waso that stung ya, I’m completely unsurprised.

For reference we tend to get quite a few paper wasps in our garden, and they are so mild that they will fly right by us without giving a damn.

Though, to be clear, a lot of wasp aggresssion is dependent on the temperment of their queen. You might need to remove the nest.

I dont think this is a reasomable counterpoint because the target audience in question would also vastly prefer shit as simple as an mspaint illustration or a dithered irl image.

Also, it is quite feasible to find royalty free images, and I have no idea where you’re getting the impression it is not. There are a host of images that provide licensing metadata. Google image search and co. can find these. It’s simply a matter of verifying the license authenticity.

It’s just fundementally stupid.

Thank god. Now if all goes well people can stop talking about that really buggy and awful fork.

It is self-evident that free software with open licensing and no strings attached is a superior and more beneficial ownership model than closed source paid licensing. That part I don’t think anyone needs to be convinced of.

As someone who has both technical and nontechnical people in their family, I call bs. Even if it is partially self-evident (in the fact that you dont need to sign into an account or pay for it), the details, and more importantly the weight, of FOSS is often lost on people.

I’ve had to watch some of them walk into a rake and bruise their foreheads several times over before really absorbing it.

It’s something people need to really read up on before true comprehension. That, or get burnt really really badly.

Ideology? Politics? Tomato tomatoh in my eyes. At the very least, they’re nearly inseperable (think: DMCA, copyright law, etc.)

God I love this publication to death. I’ve actually bought some of the ebook compendiums.

I was merely pointing out that these opinions, whatever they really are, have more publicity from people criticizing the founder.

Why yes, friend, I will just conveniently pretend that you bringing that up is completely outside the context of whether or not to seriously consider the criticism.

And if you are trying to make a point of whether or not the ideology is seriously impacting the project, you need-only take a casual walk through the issue list, and find (among other evidence) that a suggestion to move to codeberg was criticized for… “DEI”. Wow. How technically-focused.

The best from your point of view would be not to speak about it.

You are getting more and more incoherent the more of these replies you churn out. What, precisely from my point of view (which I guess apparently you know very well? the irony…) here implies that “not talking about it” is the best choice? That’s absurd.

I find it very important to understand the motivations, technical and ideological, behind a project.

If it were true, all this hatred against the project would be pointless.

I don’t spend any effort talking about in any other respect than telling people that they should likely disregard if for both technical reasons (it cuts out Xwayland, his commits frequently lead to very blatant regressions that are nontrivial, etc.) and ideological (his terrible, awful politics and motivations for making the project, to begin with!)

The reason I replied to your comment is mostly out of idle curiosity and a deepseated longing for genuineness and critical thinking of other people that I have not yet managed to kill (despite its impracticality in the modern age).

Free software is all about freedom, and diversity means freedom of choice. If you don’t agree with that, you miss the all point.

This is all such a massive and disheartening reduction of what software freedom is. I hope that you eventually manage to think less shallowly about this.

Tell me, do you have any particular, material distinction you are making by making a choice between desktop protocols? The desktop protocol is a purely technical thing, and I have not heard a single peep out of you in regards to specifics.

To elaborate, in Xorg, it is a very monolithic beast. It is very convoluted in its purview and carries a lot of preset implementation of its various facets. It contains an entire networking stack for deciding how to communicate windows over a network.

It is significantly less flexible and modular than Wayland, because in Wayland basically everything of significance is decided by the compositor.

This, ironically to your point, actually gives you more choice and freedom in how things work (this is also why tiling window managers love wayland to death, it’s pretty easy to just build upon the basic wlroots implementation!). So I have to ask you, frankly, what in the fuck do you think you’re actually saying right now?

The issue, in this way, is that you only seem to care about software freedom in the sense of the abstract concept rather than the reality. You seem to think of software freedom in the sense of “I either build and install this package, or I build and install this one”, with an all-consuming disregard for the technical aspects of freedom. Which is impractical, and arguably antithetical to the very process of trying to foster software freedom to begin with. As evident by literally everything to do with this situation. My lord.

Predictable AF, unfortunately

I really have no idea why everyone is bashing Signal so much here. None of the concerns listed seem even slightly technical.

The only problem I have with signal is that it is:

A. Centralized (which isn’t explicitly a privacy concern, but a control concern in-line with linux and foss)

B. Requires a phone number to register.

It is quite private in spite of that, and goes to great lengths to achieve that privacy. It is what I see people in the security community consistently suggest.

However, if this is a public group, are we to really be that concerned about many of the considerations Signal tries to tackle? Worst case scenario a bad actor simply enters the chat and backs everything up.

It seems like our threat model is moreso in the way of general surveillance economy concerns (and perhaps to have a slightly less public entry).

In this case, point A and B become even more glaring! Why not something like an E2E encrypted Matrix chat?

A really shitty one. (As in, completely removes Xwayland, and results in obvious regressions.)

This isn’t coherent, and even if it was, the burden of stance interpretability is context-dependent.

He is the one with the politically charged README that reads plainly like the thoughtless garbage MAGA types in America put out. I mean cmon man, “[…] we’ll make X great again”?

Also your shallow and brainless dismissal of all this criticism coming from his “detractors” (and who would not become a “detractor”, after actually investigating his terrible dribble?) is defeated easily by just reading the actual words he said.

As in, for instance, the original source of his garbage antivax posturing that he posted in the linux kernel mailing list: https://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/2106.1/04542.html .

These are not alleged opinions, he’s just full of shit.

And this isn’t even mentioning the fact that Xorg is going to be dead, should be dead, and will continue to die. And good riddance, too! Terrible and borderline unmaintainable.

The argument that choice diversity is good inherently is stupid, too. Wayland is a god damned protocol! There is no reason to have lots of diversity there! It has no tangible benefit.

There are already many different compositors that implement the Wayland protocol, and there are also many 3rd party extensions! Can you think of a single, material benefit to simply having different basic desktop protocols?

Ykw you’ve convinced me. I’m adding anime girls to my software rn. I wasn’t a huge fan but after seeing your comment, I just really saw the light.

Think of the amount of morons I can throw into a rage over a cartoon girl…

On the one hand, Toybox exists. So, the non-copyleft license bs isn’t new. On the other hand, toybox afaik isnt aiming to treat “deviations with GNu as bugs”. Almost feels hostile-takeover-ish though I know that almost certinly isn’t the idea behindbit.

If this ends in proprietization bs I’m going to throw hands.

That’s a lot better than it could be. But I’m also talking about training costs. Models have to be updated to work swimmingly with new languages, conventions, libraries, etc. Models are not future-proof.

There are more efficient training methods being employed. See: the stuff R1 used. And existing models cam be retooled. But it’s still an intrinsic problem.

Perhaps most importantly it’s out of the reach of common consumer grade hardware to train a half decent LLM from scratch. It’s a tech that exists mostly in the scope of concentrated power among peoole who care little for their enviromental ramifications. Relying on this in the short term puts influence and power in the hands of people willing to burn our planet. Quite the hard sell, as you might imagine.

Also see: the other points I made

I aint just talking about inference. Training costs are insane and models have to be updated to be used well with new languages, libraries, etc.

Energy and water costs for developmenr and usage alone are completely incompatible with that. Come back in 20 years when it’s not batshit insane ecologically.

Not to mention reducing power usage of programs isnt going to be very feasible based on simply an LLM’s output. LLMs are biased twoards common coding patterns and those are demonstrably inefficient (if the scourge of web apps based on electron is any tell). Thusly your code wouldn’t work well with lower grade hardware. Hard sell.

Theoritically they could be an efficient method of helping build software in the future. As it is now that’s a pipe dream.

More importantly, why is the crux of your focus on not understanding the code you’re making. It’s intrinsically contrived from the perspective of a solarpunk future where applications are designed to help people efficiently - without much power, heat, etc… weird man

chawan

True. I wish expectations aligned more with this kind of practice… I see a lot of people thinking in binaries about these kinds of issues: that either we should just trust (insert company here) completely or distrust… People should learn to demand accountabillity and transparency instead of just eating corporate drivel or becoming skeptic of Anything Ever.

What in the fuck?

It just kept going. Calling customers “zombies”… bannung people from using chrome to access website, banning “regular reddit users”… banning particular countries for pettt grudges with like, a few individuals???