Animals run on instinct and are not capable of anything close to this kind of stuff. This level of cruelty is only possible with humans and any attempt to equate the perpetrators with animals in Western discourse is an attempt by humans not doing shit about the horrors our fellow humans are committing to feel better about themselves by insinuating that the people committing atrocities are somehow “not” human like us.

Don’t get me wrong, animals are fucking brutal to each other, but they are not cruel for the sake of being cruel. Unduely cruel animals are selected out of the gene pool. A predator that constantly hunts for sport will wipe out their prey and go extinct. Individuals that waste energy torturing their prey for their own enjoyment will be out competed by members of their own species that simply do what they need to survive. Animals actually have mechanisms to prevent excessive cruelty in an overwhelmingly cruel existence, meanwhile we actively encourage and send resources to support cruelty and allow it to expand. This is a choice, not nature. We have the unique ability to build a safe, thrivable world for every member of our species through our technology. We choose not to.

It would be like giving credence to the concept of “anti-aryanism” in the context of the holocaust.

Which, should be noted, was absolutely a Nazi talking point. Literally “the Jews want Aryans dead so we have to kill them first.”

Commodore as a brand has ruined every company that’s ever bought it. Cursed brand some say.

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It is. No one with the power to do anything about it give a shit.

It was ghosts. Big ones. And a tornado.

I didn’t even google much about GNOME or KDE. But I did have an exploration period where I opened every dropdown I saw to see what options are there and perused through the settings to see all the things I can change, mapping out how the software works.

A little curiosity goes a long way for getting to know a GUI softwate suite IMO. A computer is a complex tool that needs to be mapped out at least a little bit before you need to seriously use it.

I don’t deny that many Linux apps have bad UX and can benefit from improvement. But I don’t like the pretentious way these blogs talk about it, and act like the developers are somehow obligated to fix it for them like it’s a paid product and they’re the customer. If they identify a problem in open source, why not contribute to the solution instead of just demanding a solution from people working for free out of passion like they owe you?

How does attacking a city bus help them other than some misguided sense of revenge?

In the context of your thought experiment, it would be like attacking the family of the people attacking your family, when their family was not involved in their crimes. As an outside observer, why should I actively support the person in your thought experiment if the crime against his family turns him into just as much of a monster as those who attacked him first, someone who is willing to the exact same tactics as those he hate? I would just feel bad that they were attacked on the first place, recognise it as the catalyst for them abandoning their own ethics which is a tragedy in itself, and not want to take sides in what is currently happening between them.

If you want me to take the side of one party in any general situation, then I will personally want them to be materially better than the other side. Otherwise I’m defaulting to taking no sides.

Honestly, the entitlement of the “Linux has bad UX” crowd really pisses me off. Yeah Linux is definitely as unusable as a hammer without a handle, guy. Hit the nail on the head with your handleless hammer right there. Give yourself a pat on the back for your metaphor skills 👍

Mac and Windows have billion dollar UX teams. Linux apps have almost entirely volunteer developers with at most some employees in a tiny company or nonprofit with shoestring budgets.

Mac and Windows have invasive UX “research” by recording user interactions behind their back. Most Linux apps don’t even have the ability to record interaction data by design and intention.

Mac and Windows make money directly from people using their platforms so obviously they’re going to do everything they can to keep you on the platform. Linux apps are donation funded with the occasional enterprise/professional support contract.

Windows and Mac users don’t give a shit about how well the underlying code works because they’re not supposed to see it, and it’s very clear the companies know that and have prioritised accordingly. Linux developers are disproportionately in it for the love of programming and prefer to spend their time actually programming as opposed to doing wireframes or UI markup. Linux UIs tend to get made once and then not touched for years until something absolutely needs to change.

If you compare Linux’s (read: mostly random people developing in their free time’s) UX to the literal biggest tech companies in the world, then you will never run out of things to bemoan Linux for. This is like complaining that your gearhead buddy’s project car has metal toggle switches in random places instead of a nice flowing panel like a brand new car straight off the dealership.

TL;DR: Pull request, long term funding toward establishing a UX team, or STFU. Stop making demands to volunteers and nonprofits and start actually contributing to UX improvements if you care so much. A major ethos of open source is “you don’t like it? You fix it.”

I picked up both GNOME and KDE as a long time Windows user like that. On both mouse and trackpad.

I can’t even figure out how to drag and drop on my friend’s Macbook. Or a lot of other basic things.

If anything Macs are the odd one out with their control scheme, though I’m certainly not ruling out skill issue. But if you claim skill issue on my inability to use a Mac then I’m claiming skill issue on your inability to use Linux.

Surely we should hold Ukraine to higher ethical standards than tHoSe DaMn OrCs if we’re to support them in this conflict.

His human horn got sold to the Omicronians

Turns out they only reap consequences

OpenAI’s vastly inferior LLM sends its regards

West: China is evil and anyone that trades with them is morally bankrupt! We must rid ourselves of reliance on Chinese goods! Doesn’t matter of we’re screwing over our own citizens in the process, they should have put Western pride over their own livelihoods anyway!

China: Cool, we’ll even help you wean yourselves off by restricting exports.

West: That just proves our point of how evil they are! They’re depriving poor us of resources! How dare they!

I’d imagine Rust’s strict enforcement of a few specific patterns makes the assembly more predictable than C/++ where you can do literally anything?

Interestingly, developers in ecosystems like Go, Rust, and those utilizing native Web APIs—where robust standard libraries drastically reduce reliance on third-party code and strict cryptographic verification is built into the core toolchain

Does NPM really not do cryptographic verification or is this part of the joke? I always assumed the attacks were due to a compromised key or something, but this is implying you can just push whatever you want to an NPM package if you have the author’s login?

Also, Chinese cities don’t give a shit if you decorate the outside of your unit. HOAs do.

Literally one of the first complaints libs have about Chinese cities is “copy paste skyscrapers everywhere.” They have some variety in parts of the city but most of the residential areas are still “boring” and “homogeneous” and “designed to kill individualism” according to Western internet geniuses.