107 sats \ 4 replies \ @Malachi17 18 Sep \ on: Dumbest Tech Mistakes? lol
I dumped Nix at the point they started having a contributor covenant. I don't need my OS having political views other than maybe freedom of speech which is a right or so I'm told.
When I first started using linux in the 90's though, I mounted up my windows drive under linux because I thought that would be cool. This was back around Redhat 5.2 or possibly some Mandrake derivative that I was testing. The mount did not cleanly unmount, and got stuck in some kind of write loop and it hosed the partition on the mounted disk.
So, I thought I'd re-partition it, but somehow also in the process the whole disk had died. This was my first lesson in "it can dual boot, but should it?"
I don't need my OS having political views...
Can you expand what are the exact political views the Nix Foundation has? Or link the covenant you're describing?
Also curious what OS you switched to...
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I started with Suse back in 1990. Suse has become political, but OpenSuse is in the process of being "broken off" because Suse doesn't want their name associated with them. (Probably in part due to politics)
The OS I prefer when I'm not being constrained by hardware, however, is openbsd.
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The forums where people discuss development and support of an operating system are not exactly "the public square" that social platforms are trying to be. Seems reasonable to have a "rule" that moderators of privately hosted forums can point to when they kick/ban users who are considered to be harassing others for any reason.
I guess it is discriminatory towards people who speak their mind unfiltered. What do you expect from an OS who's logo is a snowflake?
It doesn't read as political to me, just a list of the most commonly cited ways that people harass one another online.
OpenBSD is BASED AF
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Seems reasonable to have a "rule" that moderators of privately hosted forums can point to when they kick/ban users who are considered to be harassing others for any reason.
Most rules start out as reasonable seeming. The purpose in this case is some kind of "gender inclusiveness". If you are good programmer, who cares if somebody says you are a faggot? In the era I started in, that was pretty much the norm. Might as well say, "Hey, how's life"?
What do you expect from an OS who's logo is a snowflake?
Exactly.
It doesn't read as political to me, just a list of the most commonly cited ways that people harass one another online.
Many changes like this don't know. "Inclusive language" though is political. Make no mistake. Again, if you are a good coder, code. That's the inclusiveness.
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