Did I fucking say “Bush?”
No, I did not!
You keep using fascist Republicans and ancient history as your examples and then trying to pretend that there’s been no difference when “liberals” have been in charge – a bullshit lie that serves only to promote the right wing. Obviously the Democrats aren’t all that good, but they sure as Hell aren’t the same as the fascists and only a fascist would pretend they were.
No shit Trump isn’t foreign, but he also isn’t “normal” or a continuation of how the US was in the '90s through 2010s, like you and others in this thread keep trying to falsely insinuate.
Biden did not have ICE thugs kidnapping random brown people off the street. Obama did not try to deorbit satellites and close observatories because factual reality hurt his fragile feelings about climate change. Bill Clinton did not conduct a pogrom against trams people. And none of them attempted a coup or tried to destroy all the checks and balances of our government in order to set themselves up as a dictator with unlimited corruption!
Quit your fucking bullshit, you liars!
Fuck you for denying all the progress that’s ever been made fighting against it and normalizing the resurgence of tyranny. You are not entitled to just shit on American leftists and progressives like that!
In addition, by pretending that Trumpism isn’t a regression compared to the RECENT past, you are encouraging complacency in the face of it. That makes you a fascist yourself, despite your false pretense of the opposite.
Your comment is a racist denial of all the progress that’s been made since the '60s and is being undone by Trump.
And the other comment was entirely correct that pretending you weren’t talking about Trump just because you didn’t mention him by name is disingenuous bullshit.
Back in reality, we can acknowledge the US’ prison problem without denying the fact that the rise of Trump’s fascism is making it categorically even worse.
I am not okay with the sort of backhanded pro-fascist normalization being insinuated here, and neither should anyone else!
I bet Linux wasn’t updated to recognize the new processor yet and thus wasn’t scheduling to the various types of P, E, and LPE cores correctly.
Can you actually install your hacked version on your TV, or is it DRM’d to prevent it? That’s the only thing that matters.
Sure, because caring about users’ rights is “insane.” Because caring about societal effects of (lack of) antitrust and consumer protection law is “insane.” Because having an ounce of goddamn self-respect and not wanting to be abused is “insane.”
No, I don’t think I’m insane at all, actually. I think the people incomprehensibly arguing against me in this thread can fuck all the way off with their corporatist simping!
What the fuck? I said I don’t even actually care if the kernel is Linux or NT (or anything else) as long as it’s genuinely open so the user can modify it, and you somehow try to twist that as quibbling over distros?! Way to miss the point by a goddamn mile!
It really isn’t, though. It will still have a shitty UI that tries to shove the “smart” features in your face, it’ll probably shove some bullshit EULA in your face on first startup, and engage in other dark patterns.
You really think 2025 deserves it? I think this is the more appropriate Klingon custom.
However, browsing it requires an active ”Profil Zaufany” (exactly translated to English as Trusted Profile) account, which is not available for registration for people outside of Poland.
According to the ministry’s statement issued in their own Public Information Bulletin, this requirement has been enforced as a part of ”recommendations issued by the Ministry of National Defence’s CSIRT team, which include the possibility of user accountability”.
Moreover, the published code cannot be easily copied over while browsing via the official website.
🙄 fucking user-hostile “security by obscurity” wankers
That’s great for the folks who have access to decades-old pre-enshittification technology and the means to maintain it, but what about everybody else?
Continuing my smart TV OS analogy, your answer is like saying just to use a dumb TV instead. There aren’t any dumb TVs anymore! The TV manufacturer cartel colluded to quit making them!
“Just go live in the fucking woods like the goddamn Unabomber, eschewing modern technology” is not a valid solution for normal people! The law must be changed to protect them from predatory abusive corporations.
Because the distinction matters. The corporate raping of Linux has to stop being tolerated or else nothing is solved. The technical details of the kernel don’t actually matter; the licensing and openness is what matters. Hell, if the Windows NT kernel got magically relicensed to AGPLv3 tomorrow it would instantly become the superior option just because of that.
Linux doesn’t fucking matter. Copyleft matters.
This is why permissive licensing isn’t good enough; copyleft is essential. (And not just GPLv2 copyleft, but copyleft with anti-tivoization and cloud loophole protection as well, such as AGPLv3.) Every part of the system – the tech itself, the management, and the legal/business structure – has to be designed to resist being subverted against the user.
We need more real Linux – GNU/Linux, with compliant copyleft licensing – not Tivoized crap like they put on TVs.
Roku OS, Amazon Fire OS, Tizen (Samsung TV OS), etc. – all technically Linux, but you wouldn’t know it because they’ve systematically butchered them to destroy everything that made Linux good (the users’ freedom).
Well, yeah. The definition of “continent” is arbitrary.
I could argue that there are only four, for instance (America, Afro-Eurasia, Antarctica, and Australia).
Funny that the tradition in France, Ireland and UK is to eat a new-world animal.
100% fearmongering bullshit designed to erode property rights. Cars have been completely “open” throughout their entire history until recently, and the problems caused by irresponsible owner modification have been both negligible and entirely acceptable (compared to the alternative of going full-blown police state to stop them).
Make no mistake: full-blown police state is exactly what you’re arguing for when you suggest people shouldn’t have the right to modify their own fucking property!
Liar.