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The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (4 children)

I don't know how well this fits here, but, well I don't know where else to post nixos drama. So without further ado:

NixOS drama

Quick introduction: nix is package manager that allows you to reproducibly build any piece of software. It has been exploding in popularity over the past few years and has gotten to the point of receiving commercial endorsement. It has also received endorsement from more controversial companies, and this is where issues start to brew

A few days ago, after the success of an open letter condemning nixcons sponsorship of Anduril, a new open letter showed up. This time it discusses the creator of nix, Eelco Dolstra, and how he is becoming detrimental towards the goals of the nix community. The letter is not quite as well received as the anti-anduril letter, mostly because of its padded length and aggressive tone. I think delroth captures my personal feelings towards this letter.

Furthermore, Eelco has dropped a response, which ends in him suggesting users to move away from the community-run nix foundation and towards his consulting company, Determinate Systems. Needless to say I don't like this call towards division at all.

Now I haven't don't a particularly deep analysis of this whole drama, since I'm basically merely a user and not all that active in the development of nix. Here is a link for if you want to get more details from someone who did go more in depth dissecting both articles

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

well, dolstra's actions vidicated the open letter completely; also i really hate using the dismissive phrase “drama” for something that is actually a large issue with open source project governance and acceptance of blood money.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

Was about to say something similar wrt “drama”, thanks for beating me to it

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

butter

edit: was supposed to say nitter but I'm keeping it, deal with it

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

I heard butter pairs well with autocarrot

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I thought that litter was dead? (supposed to say ~~bitter~~ nitter but I'm keeping it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (3 children)

nitter.poast.org inexplicably still works. I'm too scared to ask why.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (5 children)

this place has certain reputation which probably would in part explain why

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Any fans of "Well There's Your Problem" or "Trashfuture" in here? Both podcasts really hit that "TechTakes" sweet spot imho.

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