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This makes me so angry to see. I feel like all the things I find important in technology are getting obliterated and the organizations I used to rely on turn ou

This makes me so angry to see. I feel like all the things I find important in technology are getting obliterated and the organizations I used to rely on turn out to be useless. If we ever lose Linus it's fucking over

Gigachad 4y ago
It seems like almost every non corporate org has been misdirected in to harmful social justice work. Wikipedia spending 98% of their budget on non Wikipedia related expenses for example. Mozilla working on censorship and deplatforming efforts, even the Tor project feels compromised. Pretty much the only org that still has its original goals in tact seems to be the EFF. I’d be happy to donate to Wikipedia again if they actually spent the money on their tech. I don’t care if they want to rewrite the whole site in Rust, it’s better than spending it on non tech rubbish.
- throwayyy479087 4y ago
  We're watching the birth and growth of a new religion. Similar patterns happened during the start of Christianity in Rome and Islam in North Africa. Institutions repurposed, language was repurposed and edited, exponential growth of ideologically possessed population, and eventually massive social upheaval. There's not a word for it yet - "wokism" maybe - but we're in for a doozey.
  - Georgelemental 4y ago
    I don't think that's really true. True believers are willing to sacrifice for their beliefs. Most woke crazies can't handle the slightest adversity or pushback, when management is no longer on their side it's over
- soulofmischief 4y ago
  Don't forget about the ACLU and their recent involvement in the Amber Heard debacle. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/05/aclu-johnny-depp-amber-heard-trial/629808/ https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/05/aclu-johnn...
neilv 4y ago
Linus Torvalds is a gem with huge impact, but Linux kernel development also has a lot of other good people.
- snapcaster 4y ago
  He isn't just a "gem". He's the closest thing in my personal head canon to the god emperor. He's protecting us and our freedom to compute from all the forces of chaos. It is a seriously dark future if we ever lose him
  - account42 4y ago
    When, not if. Unless we die first.
    - snapcaster 4y ago
      If we have to sacrifice 1000 nerds a day to sustain him so be it :)
  - doublerabbit 4y ago
    > He's the closest thing in my personal head canon to the god emperor. I lost respect for him when he got in to bed with Microsoft and other sponsored companies. It may of pushed Linux in to the lime light but this only opens Pandora's box to the point where you now have corporate entities pushing the direction they want. I see Linus as figure head of an agenda that the corporate sponsors want. Wasn't Linux suppose to be competitor to windows, an open source free alternative? That's why I installed Linux fifteen years ago and which has now been replaced with FreeBSD which is another good if not better protector of freedom.
zo1 4y ago
On the python front, we seem to have already lost Guido to this new religion.
- snapcaster 4y ago
  I'm not even anti-woke, I just want someone to care about the fucking technology. I want someone to care about privacy, individual agency, centralization of power. Growing up in hacker culture I really never thought it would end up like this. Wouldn't have predicted this future

Gigachad 4y ago

It seems like almost every non corporate org has been misdirected in to harmful social justice work. Wikipedia spending 98% of their budget on non Wikipedia related expenses for example. Mozilla working on censorship and deplatforming efforts, even the Tor project feels compromised. Pretty much the only org that still has its original goals in tact seems to be the EFF. I’d be happy to donate to Wikipedia again if they actually spent the money on their tech. I don’t care if they want to rewrite the whole site in Rust, it’s better than spending it on non tech rubbish.

throwayyy479087 4y ago
We're watching the birth and growth of a new religion. Similar patterns happened during the start of Christianity in Rome and Islam in North Africa. Institutions repurposed, language was repurposed and edited, exponential growth of ideologically possessed population, and eventually massive social upheaval. There's not a word for it yet - "wokism" maybe - but we're in for a doozey.
- Georgelemental 4y ago
  I don't think that's really true. True believers are willing to sacrifice for their beliefs. Most woke crazies can't handle the slightest adversity or pushback, when management is no longer on their side it's over
soulofmischief 4y ago
Don't forget about the ACLU and their recent involvement in the Amber Heard debacle. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/05/aclu-johnny-depp-amber-heard-trial/629808/ https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/05/aclu-johnn...

neilv 4y ago

Linus Torvalds is a gem with huge impact, but Linux kernel development also has a lot of other good people.

snapcaster 4y ago
He isn't just a "gem". He's the closest thing in my personal head canon to the god emperor. He's protecting us and our freedom to compute from all the forces of chaos. It is a seriously dark future if we ever lose him
- account42 4y ago
  When, not if. Unless we die first.
  - snapcaster 4y ago
    If we have to sacrifice 1000 nerds a day to sustain him so be it :)
- doublerabbit 4y ago
  > He's the closest thing in my personal head canon to the god emperor. I lost respect for him when he got in to bed with Microsoft and other sponsored companies. It may of pushed Linux in to the lime light but this only opens Pandora's box to the point where you now have corporate entities pushing the direction they want. I see Linus as figure head of an agenda that the corporate sponsors want. Wasn't Linux suppose to be competitor to windows, an open source free alternative? That's why I installed Linux fifteen years ago and which has now been replaced with FreeBSD which is another good if not better protector of freedom.

zo1 4y ago

On the python front, we seem to have already lost Guido to this new religion.

snapcaster 4y ago
I'm not even anti-woke, I just want someone to care about the fucking technology. I want someone to care about privacy, individual agency, centralization of power. Growing up in hacker culture I really never thought it would end up like this. Wouldn't have predicted this future