the big men of FOSS told you that you were no good at organizing, at the messy legal bits, at licensing, at the social bits. they demanded fealty and money because they were the organizers. how could you hope to come up with a (laughably weak) document like the GPL? with 1000 variants of the BSD license? how could you get money and housing for giving (frankly universally terrible) talks for your knowledge? you were told that the only thing you were good for was your technical skill, and someone else would worry about the rest.

none of those big men are special. all of us are organizers. all of us can do what we will with our labor. all of us have proven to be better at both organizing and technical labor than any of the big men. they keep proving it every day.

why do we have to follow their marching orders? why do we have to act like switching operating systems is resistance?

be impolite. be a fucking nightmare. they owe us for everything they are now.

you know, I was hoping I already made this clear

netbsd taking money from a relatively unknown fascist group doesn’t damn them. they likely didn’t know who FUTO was. most people don’t.

if it runs ok on your hardware (and that’s a big “if”), netbsd is likely a more stable choice than any Linux 7.x+ kernel will ever be, and you should switch over if you can.

switching to netbsd isn’t resistance. please be real.

you already crawled up onto your cross and nailed your hands to an OS that was 10-20 years behind the curve on hardware back when you were the only linux user you knew, remember? muddling through broken shit is the easy way out, you’ve done it before. how did it end? a bunch of assholes took over. why would it end any different this time?

resistance isn’t politely choosing another OS. resistance isn’t a technical solution to a social problem.

the netbsd team aren’t your friends. there’s perhaps a future where they could be, but right now the ending will be no different.

@zzt@mas.to @dnkboston@apobangpo.space @davidgerard@circumstances.run what really pissed me off was Linus yelling at people about how Linux "isn't a social justice project" a few months ago. Was adopting the contributor covenant all those years ago not a social justice move? Remember how all the nazis said they'd be witch hunted because of it yet nothing happened?

It will never stop being ironic to me that the one place I am certain never to stumble on LLM slop is piracy websites. I use piracy websites like the best catalog ever and then I go check out media from my local library. I am sure people have tried to upload LLM slop to piracy websites, but the pirates aren't sharing it, buddy. #Piracy

@jwz She then thought it over, and remarked that if she was "CEO of an AI cult" (her choice of words), she'd look for employees who looked like they weren't doing well and seemed to have a foot out of the door already. Then she'd discreetly offer them 20 million dollars in cash to leave with a public story about how the tech is so awesome it's soon going to become a science fiction machine overlord.

@jwz A while ago, a guy from Anthropic quit over fears that he was working on something that would kill all humans, and it made headlines that the other Anthropic guys also thought that. One of them even said that he believed that the chance of AI eradicating human life within the decade was "about 10%".

So my 70-year-old mum came over for a visit, and she had some very concerned questions to her computer scientist son. They were:

1. "Where do they get those percentages from? Do they just make them up, or do you think they have their chatbot make them up?"
2. "How can the lead researcher for Anthropic be someone who looks like his biggest worry should be whether his parents have packed his school lunch?"
3. "Are the staff at Anthropic swindlers, or are they actually mentally ill?"

Mute Drivers: Amsterdam

from 1990, first heard this on one of the One Little Indian compilations. it's fuckin great, I played it over and over

https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=hjizrqb1SVs

anyone wondering what’s bad about FUTO funding netbsd and netbsd not turning down the money is welcome to explore FUTO’s YouTube channel, which platforms right-wing cranks and spreads disinformation, FUTO’s site, which is full of fascist dogwhistles and references to other fascist disinformation networks, and FUTO’s history in general

this is what I mean when I tell you switching to netbsd is a fragile solution

@aburka @hipsterelectron @workingclassgames @zzt it runs Minix 3
Every computer with an Intel CPU is running Minix
Andrew has won the war

@davidgerard

Well, that's certainly specific and quite odd. But also, hardly surprising.

This is probably going to be a bit of a thing, coming out of the blue but...

NetBSD may need to be put into scrutiny.

https://www.netbsd.org/donations/2026.html

They seem to have started receiving donations from FUTO, which is a notoriously fucked up organization made by notoriously fucked up people.

This is the place where, if you really not want to become just like Linux, or just as the many other fashy, bigoted BSD's... you should decline the fascist money. And here we are.

There is truly nothing sacred anymore. But, yeah. Figured this might be worth saying upon seeing a netBSD uptick.

I’m serious about this too, by the way

Linux as a project and as an ecosystem asked for our labor under false pretenses

why hasn’t its organizing foundation been flooded with itemized invoices for that labor?

and if you do this, include the hours you burned doing advocacy, too. that shit ain’t free.

“huh huh huh if you’re so unhappy with how linus is leading the kernel, you can always ask for a refund”

bet. where do we send the invoices for all the labor we donated to the Linux ecosystem under a promise that’s now repeatedly been broken? the Foundation can cover it at standard consultants’ rates for commercial work. I haven’t done the accounting, but I imagine they should be able to cover at least a few million dollars worth before they have to start dipping into torvalds’ paycheck

RE: https://social.treehouse.systems/@dysfun/117455938703689588

netbsd

I'm more upset than I've been in a while.

Windows 11 sets the default documents folder to onedrive\documents. Anything that gets saved there gets backed up to one drive. This includes various save games, all my Reaper stuff, and various other odds and ends that I like to, you know, save.

To save disc space, OneDrive also defaults to files being online-only. They're not stored on your device, they're just listed there. So despite what they call it, this is in fact not a backup at all, because it doesn't create an extra copy. It is actually just transferring your most precious, irreplacible, personal files to Microsoft in the background, and trusting that nothing will happen. You can see where this is going, but just to underline the point with a bleeding fucking dagger, I did not ask for any of this, I just clicked save like I have done for the last twenty or so years of my life using Windows.

Since I don't care about and have never intentionally used onedrive, I signed out of it. Flash forward six months, the files that I thought were on my computer (because I can go see them there in the folder) are in fact gone from my hard drive, and also Onedrive nuked them from orbit.

Years of my life, gone without a trace. Thanks so much, Microsoft. Whoever came up with all those ideas probably got massive performance bonuses, because we're in the worst timeline.

Goodnight.

@davidgerard @nina_kali_nina minute of silence for the divas who formatted their entire hard drives and switched the OS of their actual workstations on a whim :ablobcatcry:

@davidgerard no, the libreoffice kernel can’t run libreoffice, why would it

lol. fuckin palantir employee dives in to defend the company's good name from derek guy
https://nitter.meowing.monster/dieworkwear/status/2110454298882826544
original: https://x.com/dieworkwear/status/2110454298882826544#m

> and for the record, we’re not a surveillance company. If you had even a second-grade-level understanding of business and technology,

just keep fucking that dead horse i'm sure you'll get there

now browsing on the libreoffice kernel for all my computor needs

on the one hand, a much younger me really loved hacking on a BSD and learning internals up close

on the other hand, a current day me really liked building on top of a unix-like kernel that worked on a broad modern hardware base and could run every application I wanted it to, until the slop got to it

RE: https://circumstances.run/@davidgerard/117390225782096263

yall gotta watch this. "scholars of other religions not very convinced by build-a-god-workshop evangelist" is the title i would have picked