And vegan drama that you really don’t want to get involved in.
ITT: Lemmy’s biggest circle-jerk to date.
I mean… It’s one of the reasons I like it so much here.
And posts about how everything related to Apple is bad and that all AI is really just auto correct.
…and Linux.
I just hate how it is vilified when we literally freely give billions in taxpayer monies to oil companies.
It hasn’t really been my experience here. Yeah there is some.
Have you tried being less aimless at what you subscribe here? Do you come here because you want to connect with information, or just mindlessly doom scroll and consume?
If you’re not intentional about your social media tools, you will have a bad time.
I love that Lemmy thinks neoliberalism is “socialism”
Memers of the world unite!
you know I do wonder if, out there, all those right-wing instances that we’re de-federated with are sharing this same meme but in reverse…
You don’t need to sell it to me, I already love it.
Though half of it is complaining about capitalism.
Half socialism, half complaining about capitalism, half linux, and half startrek memes.
Although, now that I think about it, the linux and startrek halves are often just a part of the socialism half.
So, I guess the original point stands. Socialism all the way down.
That’s a lot of halves.
at the end of the day, it’s all complaining and no action. i get so tired of hearing children whine and doing nothing about anything.
True, gets a bit tiring when you come to relax with some memes and people are preaching about politics.
I dislike most forms of socialism but I like most socialists. So in that way this place is not bad.
And linux!
I mean, Linux (and the entire ecosystem) is a fundamentally socialist concept.
angry spitting libertarian noises
I would say GNU is one that’s openly socialist. If Linux’s (or rather, Linus Torvald’s) philosophy is socialist, they either do a very good job of hiding the fact or there is a lot I don’t know about them.
That doesn’t make him a socialist. He doesn’t espouse any of the core socialist beliefs there. He’s just saying he’s a “woke communist” (as described by the right), which could mean anything from a centre-left liberal to a Marxist.
I’d never seen that, thanks for sharing it!
Unpopular opinion: “Open Source”, spawned from Netscape spinning off Mozilla, laid out in definition by the OSI organization, and advocated for by AnCaps like Eric S. Raymond, was always fundamentally capitalist. Devs spending a lot of free time doing free work for companies was not an accident. Capitalists borrowing ideas from the left and twisting them for their own uses is not new, either.
Free Software is more rooted in communism. You’re doing this to help your community. RMS might have always denied it–probably because it wasn’t a good idea to advocate that way during the Cold War and after–but it’s a better philosophical fit.
It’s past time to divorce the two.
There are discussions about open vs. free going back over 20 years, that I know of. The divorce happened long ago, but they’re still neighbors.
Those discussions largely resulted in “FOSS”, and a basic peace treaty. The two tended to use the same techniques and licenses in practice, and nobody really wanted to have that fight.
I didn’t realize things had progressed to this point. I thought there were still some mainstream distros that would qualify as Free, but the only ones GNU endorses are ones I’ve never heard of. There do still seem to be some non-GNU projects with a freedom-first philosophy.
Wasn’t Torvalds’ dad member of communist party?
Maybe so, but children don’t always adopt the ideology of their parents. They usually do, but not always.
Yes, and was a member of the EU parliament until recently. Both his parents were pretty radical. Linus tends to keep his politics private for the most part.
And my axe!
And my sword!