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What’s this i didn’t quite understand this website Can anyone explain me what’s going on?

__s 6y ago
> GNU World Order is an internet audio show about GNU, Linux, UNIX, and other technical and geeky topics. I release this show in open source audio formats. This is an anarcho-syndacalist, anti-facist, and pro-human-rights podcast. I stand in solidarity with all people of colour, of marginalised communities, and the oppressed around the globe. Leave your ad blockers on.
- Rebelgecko 6y ago
  How much does fascism come up wrt operating systems? It seems a bit out of left field unless it's rhetoric to overthrow project leaders that consider themselves "BDFL"s. Even if that is the case it's incredibly melodramatic melodramatic to conflate LKML with Der Sturmer. I don't think project management strategies necessarily line up with political systems.
  - smhost 6y ago
    here's a good introduction to fascist operating systems: https://vastabrupt.com/2018/10/31/gender-acceleration/ https://vastabrupt.com/2018/10/31/gender-acceleration/
    - Rebelgecko 6y ago
      I'm curious to what extent that article is intended to be taken seriously. It makes a lot of big claims and uses a lot of very charged language without much substance to back it up. The implication that trans women are good at computer science because most languages use 0-indexed arrays sounds like pseudoscientific numerology to me. As well as their claim that using the yannic bit 0 is a way of rising above the phallic "1".
      - anthk 6y ago
        It reeks pseudoscience bullshit.
    - camdenlock 6y ago
      This reads like a piece of bad misandrist science fiction, i.e. a modern academic paper drowning in critical theory. Pretty entertaining, but frightening when you realize it’s probably taken seriously by its author and others.
    - sitzkrieg 6y ago
      i can only hope this is a bad inside joke
      - deleted 6y ago
        [deleted]
  - Yetanfou 6y ago
    Not much more than that fascists can use them. For the rest all this rhetoric about fascism, racism, trans-activism and other critical-theory related issues does nothing but drive a wedge between those who are in support of deconstruction and those who oppose it - there is no middle position here. It is a small but vocal minority which supports this, that is why it keeps on cropping up everywhere. Unfortunately the majority of those who oppose it are afraid to say so out of fear of being ostracized or cancelled. I've been a volunteer for the GNU project for many years but I vehemently oppose this type of activism. It doesn't help the project, it doesn't help forwarding is goals, it only serves to brand the project and in extension free software as yet another thing to be shunned by those who do not hold with critical theory.
  - throwaway982374 6y ago
    > How much does fascism come up wrt operating systems? It's not strictly related to operating systems but it's been coming up in many online forums around all sort of topics. Look at some discussion groups around well-known software projects and you'll find people dropping far-right dog whistles, arguments around someone's pronouns and the occasional flamewar.
- asveikau 6y ago
  I like open source audio formats (opus!) but it is my understanding that patents on MP3 and the most popular configs for AAC are expired.
ficklepickle 6y ago
Seems to be essentially a celebration of GNU software/Linux. Basically podcasts about Linux software, with a little bit of an anarchy twist. The title is a play on words, see "New World Order". NB I just skimmed, so I could be mistaken
tototomtoboro 6y ago
It is a podcast.

__s 6y ago

> GNU World Order is an internet audio show about GNU, Linux, UNIX, and other technical and geeky topics. I release this show in open source audio formats. This is an anarcho-syndacalist, anti-facist, and pro-human-rights podcast. I stand in solidarity with all people of colour, of marginalised communities, and the oppressed around the globe. Leave your ad blockers on.

Rebelgecko 6y ago
How much does fascism come up wrt operating systems? It seems a bit out of left field unless it's rhetoric to overthrow project leaders that consider themselves "BDFL"s. Even if that is the case it's incredibly melodramatic melodramatic to conflate LKML with Der Sturmer. I don't think project management strategies necessarily line up with political systems.
- smhost 6y ago
  here's a good introduction to fascist operating systems: https://vastabrupt.com/2018/10/31/gender-acceleration/ https://vastabrupt.com/2018/10/31/gender-acceleration/
  - Rebelgecko 6y ago
    I'm curious to what extent that article is intended to be taken seriously. It makes a lot of big claims and uses a lot of very charged language without much substance to back it up. The implication that trans women are good at computer science because most languages use 0-indexed arrays sounds like pseudoscientific numerology to me. As well as their claim that using the yannic bit 0 is a way of rising above the phallic "1".
    - anthk 6y ago
      It reeks pseudoscience bullshit.
  - camdenlock 6y ago
    This reads like a piece of bad misandrist science fiction, i.e. a modern academic paper drowning in critical theory. Pretty entertaining, but frightening when you realize it’s probably taken seriously by its author and others.
  - sitzkrieg 6y ago
    i can only hope this is a bad inside joke
    - deleted 6y ago
      [deleted]
- Yetanfou 6y ago
  Not much more than that fascists can use them. For the rest all this rhetoric about fascism, racism, trans-activism and other critical-theory related issues does nothing but drive a wedge between those who are in support of deconstruction and those who oppose it - there is no middle position here. It is a small but vocal minority which supports this, that is why it keeps on cropping up everywhere. Unfortunately the majority of those who oppose it are afraid to say so out of fear of being ostracized or cancelled. I've been a volunteer for the GNU project for many years but I vehemently oppose this type of activism. It doesn't help the project, it doesn't help forwarding is goals, it only serves to brand the project and in extension free software as yet another thing to be shunned by those who do not hold with critical theory.
- throwaway982374 6y ago
  > How much does fascism come up wrt operating systems? It's not strictly related to operating systems but it's been coming up in many online forums around all sort of topics. Look at some discussion groups around well-known software projects and you'll find people dropping far-right dog whistles, arguments around someone's pronouns and the occasional flamewar.
asveikau 6y ago
I like open source audio formats (opus!) but it is my understanding that patents on MP3 and the most popular configs for AAC are expired.

ficklepickle 6y ago

Seems to be essentially a celebration of GNU software/Linux. Basically podcasts about Linux software, with a little bit of an anarchy twist. The title is a play on words, see "New World Order". NB I just skimmed, so I could be mistaken

tototomtoboro 6y ago

It is a podcast.