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ugh.... politics. wake me up when there is a technical controversy to talk about
Are atomic bombs only technical to you? No tech is apolitical. Wake up.
you are making an unfair comparison here by comparing apples to oranges. atomic bombs kill people, linux distros dont. and if you are still upset just a reminder that many defense, air craft, and MILITARY missile launching systems .....use linux
It's not unfair. Giving mindshare to those fuckers helps to kill people in the end. And don't be disingenuous, linux is in military systems, yes -that's bad- just like the good guys must have atomic bombs as a deterrent of Imperial greed (hopefully the Iranian people are making theirs right now 🇮🇷✊🇵🇸✊)
Were all Arch Linux users always THIS insufferably apolitical? Mein Gott. That's why the far-right has them by the balls.
No, Mr. Ed Sheeran, come back here
what ?
I mean, I'm pretty sure this excuse for a distro shipped with multiple critical bugs lol.
It really should not be receiving funding when compared to the handful of other arch packs thst actually have a functioning security model.
i agree with this. OP should have started with that
Such as the multiple input sanitation issues, allowing for direct shell excecution of arbitrary code?
People who don't do politics are confusing to me.
i watched the video. my answer is simple, maybe even to a stupid degree: i don't like to take heart medications
hate on the British
+1 from me. People are so happy to boycott projects that are presenting different political views while they don't bat an eye when other projects they back up are similarly political but on the other side of the spectrum.
I agree it'd be best to have apolitical tech initiatives but since people won't be able to have their beliefs to themselves then we just have to agree everyone has the right to have their political opinion tied to the projects that they develop. Sad, but at least honest.
Uh yeah, projects on the side of the political spectrum which hurts people and acts in bad faith are not worth supporting, and projects on the side which protects and helps people are worth supporting, no shit dumbass.
I don’t think anyone wants apolitical tech except for a few people like you, who haven’t thought about it very much.
I want liberationary tech. The entire reason I got interested in FOSS in the first place was because it forms a natural extension of the liberationary political work that I do in other fields. If you want apolitical software, then why are you interested in linux, which inherently challenges traditional notions of copyright? No tech is apolitical.
Do you want Liberation or Liberalism/Libertarianism? No sure whether I should click on the "agree" icon. I hope for the former, specially if you're coming from the working class.