they aren’t they can call it chocolatey or something similar but there has to be a certain amount of cocoa to be called chocolate

The old one is undoubtedly a better movie, but the new one is undoubtedly a much better mario movie

that is an insult to socialist realism

That’s from a different thing iirc (the super mario bros super show)

I mean, there is the petite-bourgeoisie which can own their means of production and perhaps afford to pay a few others to work with per but are otherwise still oppressed by capitalism, albeit in a smaller way

Scratch a liberal, a fascist bleeds

I’ve started lurking there. It’s mostly greybeards and those so obnoxiously insane or annoying they’ve been kicked off everything else

that attitude got us in this mess. The internet was free before corporate interests and the series of eternal september esque events happening from '98 onward caused largely by accessibility. Whatever we come up with needs to be difficult enough to access so corporations can’t turn everyone into “customers”. It doesn’t need to be so hard that only nerds can use, but it needs to have enough friction to require effort, thought, and interest of some kind to use

I’ve long since thought we should do this, and avoid the pitfalls the internet has fallen into. The entire stack needs to be foss and standardised, including hardware. It needs to be mostly incompatible with anything before it (Can still be standardised in a POSIX-like way but not “you can run your old windows program” compatible), and it needs to be designed democratically (and as much as people hate bureaucracy, designed by committee of academics and other not-for-profit organizations and individuals). We need what is essentially a less violent computer cultural revolution

Look, I appreciate using Þe Þorn but at least be consistent about it

“Linux” is like 12 different software projects in a trench coat. Like people in a trenchcoat, the whole thing falls apart if one of them goes missing. The BSDs (and most other sane operating systems, for that matter) are a monolith developed together for each other

OpenBSD did this because of cryptography laws and surprise surprise software written for it is now one of the vertebrae of our modern network stack

Lol yeah I suppose. Funny story how I got my PS3, I was on ebay and there was a “broken” one listed on ebay for a dollar. The seller said the blu-ray drive wasn’t working and replacing it didn’t help. That was a good day to be me, I tell ya

It’s like M$ secure boot on steroids. Speaking of which, we really ought to have our entire computing ecosystem less dependant on the wills of like 10 companies

Where! Dell and Lenovo limit their linux options to a handful of laptops and their workstations, HP limits their linux options to a couple of their workstations, acer only provides windows, asus also only provides windows but is mainly a parts manufacturer so you could technically say you can buy an asus with no operating system. None of these provide a no operating system option (with the exception of maybe a few HP workstations that can be bought “linux ready”, but they don’t clarify what that means), requiring you to choose ubuntu and maybe RHEL on the super high end stuff. The only manufacturer I can think of with a definitive “No thanks, I’ll bring my own” esque-option is Framework, but only on their kits and not their pre-assembled models

Or that an operating system is a broad definition with some “operating systems” not being able to do anything on their own (strictly speaking, Linux is an operating system in the technical sense. it provides calls, interfaces with hardware, and manages memory. Without a userland like GNUs, however, it can’t actually ask for an age. Are we suggesting that Linux should prompt for age at compile time? )

I like the implication that both have to sign off on it

Oh yeah M$ is definitely behind this

PRS vs Testes

I’d be surprised if it wasn’t microsoft angry at valve for pivoting to linux. Gaming is the last major stronghold for home computing dominated by microsoft, it’s all been replaced by platform agnostic web apps and mobile devices for 90% of non-gaming use cases