Cheers and congrats
Who's fucking genius idea was it anyway to just let this company MITM half of the Internet's TLS traffic?
If I ever open a clinic, the waiting room is going to have the music from the Kerbal Space Program vehicle assembly building.
It really feels like everything is cheapened by association. Civic rituals like lowering the flag. All these public moments of silence. All the fawning eulogies. How could you take any person or institution seriously after such debasement? It's like the BBC changing their color scheme to black and banning upbeat music when the old crone bit it, but instead of royalty we're talking about a podcaster.
There's also some amount of like Kirk being viewed as the institutionalist to some degree. That sounds insane, but just saying.
Well yes. He was the front man of a substantial political fundraising and propaganda apparatus. That's institutional by definition. By comparison, Fuentes is just an influencer. Kirk's political line was determined by what gets evangelical crackers to open their wallets for Republican political campaigns (There are limits here. Your job is to sell ethno-religious strife as an alternative to any materially beneficial policy, but you're not supposed to wear your Grand Wizard robe to the rally). Fuentes's political line is determined by what creates the most controversy possible for the sole purpose of promoting himself.
hopped on the bike again today and my butt was immediately like 
The right eye on this image is transparent and it looks demonic in dark mode
Rode 17.5 miles today 
Could have probably done 20, but I had a mechanical issue 7 miles into the trail and decided not to push it. The front derailleur cable started slipping.
As the sun continues to set on the X11 display protocol, X.Org - the premier implementation - has been forked by a former developer who accuses its maintainers of "abandoning the project, and letting it rot forever."
He's not exactly wrong. X.Org is essentially mothballed. It is an enormous, complicated piece of deprecated infrastructure, with a very limited amount of resources and experienced maintainers. The corporations which sponsor Free Software development don't particularly care about desktop end-users, and the resources which are being spent on desktop experience are largely being spent on Wayland compositors. On the other hand, it appears many of his commits on X.Org were reverted for sloppy management of licensing / attribution, as well as some regressions which were introduced.
It is worth noting that when Wayland was introduced in 2008, X.Org developers were among its biggest advocates and contributors. The writing has been on the wall for a long time now, and the work of building an alternative is mostly complete.
That said, Wayland is not at all a 1 to 1 replacement for X, and like with the introduction of Systemd, there are a lot of people with strong feelings about this, a lot of conspiracy mongers cranking out YouTube slop. People throwing out accusations about how "they" are trying to ruin Linux yet again.
I personally have fond memories of X. Especially in the later days when the whole "unix porn" phenomenon bloomed and there was a sort of renaissance of customization. I miss herbstluftwm terribly. That said, I've been running Wayland for something like 6 years now and I do not really get why people hate it. It works fine, and it actually has a future.
Update:
It's also worth noting the author of this fork is a chud. Some excerpts from the README
This fork was necessary since toxic elements within Xorg projects, moles from BigTech, are boycotting any substantial work on Xorg, in order to destroy the project, to eliminate competition of their own products. Classic "embrace, extend, extinguish" tactics.
This is an independent project, not at all affiliated with BigTech or any of their subsidiaries or tax evasion tools, nor any political activists groups, state actors, etc. It's explicitly free of any "DEI" or similar discriminatory policies.
Together we'll make X great again!
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A large number of Americans genuinely believe politics is a one-dimensional axis which runs from infinity Conservative to infinity Liberal. Therefore, if you are shitting on Liberals you must be right-wing. This is pretty deeply baked in. Political polling institutions which are ostensibly staffed by political scientists often frame the left simply as "very liberal." Television political coverage does more or less the same thing. Orgs like DSA, if mentioned, are portrayed as very liberal. Communism is used only as an epithet, but is functionally interchangeable with Liberalism. Non-affiliated voters are universally described as "independents," which are universally assumed to be somewhere in-between Liberal and Conservative (never outside). This is also why the solution to every political issue is framed in terms of dialog and meeting in the middle. This is the only thing which is even possible under this paradigm. To resist compromise is to be divisive. Division is bad, against the rules, and means you want to destroy The System ("Democracy," which is good).
Then you have the smart-asses who learned about the Political Compass website sometime after 9-11 and think they're Machiavelli because they understand there are actually two axes (with Margaret Thatcher and Joseph Stalin in the same corner).
Our political education is really fucking bad.