Submitted 8 months ago by MITM0@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hwtSnO9TA4
We have this “meritocratic” right wing christian “centrist” relishing in the fact that Debian has gone political (AKA Woke) & is now struggling because the devs don’t want to work for them.
The good-ol get woke go broke schtik, I was wondering if some of nice people could share your opinions on it, especially on his solutions
I was about to watch when I realized who it was. To be honest, many of the Linux YouTubers have turned me off for different reasons, but I never enjoyed this guy’s videos and I’m not the only one…
I guess I should watch this to give a decent opinion. Other distros are just as political and decisions reflect their stance (like how Alpine doesn’t include Xlibre for reasons). As it stands, I’m fine with that.
I am unaware of the particularities surrounding the Debian situation, so I’ll still need to play catch up.
I’ll be honest here Trafotin is also not a trust-worthy person. But hey he’s right on this one
Oh for sure, they can be aggravating but I haven’t watched any of their vids in over a year. I wouldn’t take their advice the same as how I wouldn’t want anyone to take my advice. Just because someone says they work in IT doesn’t mean they do, right? I used to work in a pharmacy and people would ask me for medical advice when they saw me in town, but I didn’t work in the dispensary. I knew the answer to their question, but I was not going to risk it.
open-source supporter and any level of rightwing is self-contradicting
Nothing surprises me since the YouTube distrotube uploaded a video with his rifle saying that “if you support free software you should support gun rights”
When will these people understand that Gun-Control doesn’t mean people won’t be able to own guns
They don’t really understand anything because they don’t really think. They just repeat what they’re told while convincing themselves its an independent thought that appeared in their head as if by magic. These are the people outsourcing most of their thinking these days to ChatGPT, because it’s not something they’ve ever really valued or been interested in doing themselves. Life’s a lot easier when you don’t have to think about much.
I will never understand why people think FOSS is or should be apolitical.
FOSS has always been political. It’s literally never existed in any other way.
Like being neutral is also a political stance. FOSS can never be apolitical
Yes, FOSS has always been political, just not the politics Debian dipped itself.
He wouldn’t have any problem whatsoever if Debian was publicly endorsing right wing views and losing leftist contributors.
Linux and the GPL FOSS movement is inherently leftist, snd right wingers have been wailing about leftist views in various FOSS projects for over a decade. I recall many threads on reddit accusing Linus of having been made ‘woke’ by his daughter when the CoC was introduced, back during the gamergate era.
It’s all the same shit, all the same complaints, and all a waste of time. As the US descends into extreme fascism to the cries of approval of the MAGA cult, it becomes harder and harder to stomach them in a project.
The more concerning thing going on is Debian potentially embracing AI, which I am very much not a fan of.
Can you elaborate on this, or point me to where I can read about it? Getting away from AI was a part of the reason I ditched Windows :/
You can read more about it here: www.phoronix.com/news/Debian-More-Newcomers-LLMs
He shows the article, from phoronix, in the video above, and talks about it
Another alt-right crybaby?
Don’t know TBH, he’s the least annoying but smug regardless
hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 8 months ago
Oh man, I'm a bit late to the party here.
He really believes the far-right Trump propaganda, and doesn't understand what diversity programs do. It's not a war between white men an all the other groups of people... It's just that is has proven to be difficult to for example write a menstrual tracker with a 99.9% male developer base. It's just super difficult to them to judge how that's going to be used in real-world scenarios and what some specific challenges and nice features are. That's why you listen to minority opinions, to deliver a product that caters to all people. And these minority opinions are notoriously difficult to attract. That's why we do programs for that. They are task-forces to address things aside from what's mainstream and popular. It'll also benefit straight white men. Liteally everyone because it makes Linux into a product that does more than just whatever is mainstream today. Same thing applies to putting effort into screen readers and disabled people and whatever other minorities need.