this post was submitted on 28 Aug 2024
118 points (94.7% liked)

unix_surrealism

1742 readers
14 users here now

one should not chase the electric dream, but strive to became an extension to its dreamer

Automatism in the age of the children of Unix.

It's a box of antique photographs. A blade, a girl and a fish. Whatever it means, you're invested.

https://analognowhere.com

Now that you're a surrealist, become a Techno-Mage:

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
 
top 27 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 months ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Wow, that reviewer is an idiot. Who tf complains about default keybindings that can easily be changed?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago

Lunduke is a top tier moron

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Can you change the fact that you first have to hit a key combo to activate all other key combos?
Cause that is a hard no for me in any software.
Even on a laptop keyboard, you have 9 function keys and 77 others available. That's 702 possible combos without even getting into any weird 3-key-stuff. More than anyone could ever remember or use.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

I don't think so, no. And I agree on that point actually, but people who are used to tmux or screen, which seems to be the target audience, would presumably be fine with it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Yes, you can bind any ratpoison action, function or external program to anything you want without needing to use the prefix key.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Rats don't like rat poison. Can't blame them. And it's not a Desktop Environment. This guy is out if the loop.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I like Lunduke. He's calling out many of the hypocrisies of Free Software activists and the IT corpos.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I hope this is a swing and miss at satire, but honestly I can't tell.

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

No. I am sorry you feel that way.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

@kakafarm @paperd So are you a nazi-adjacent monster who likes him *because* of his bigotry and vitriol, or is that just a big bonus for you?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The West had replaced one set of bigots in positions of power with another. It is now taboo even suggesting these bigots' existence, but Lunduke does, and that is why I like him.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

@kakafarm I think it's really clear that you don't understand what the word bigotry means, but you like the gravitas of saying it. That's embarrassing.

For example, it's not bigotry to point out ethnostates don't have any sound moral basis for existence.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)
[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Personally I think we should just ignore him, every mention gives him the possibility to spread his hateful message. He's spineless, let him wriggle in obscurity.

[–] lessthanluigi 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I thought you guys made up a person to satirize Linux reviewers. I did not know this person was real until I looked him up. Didn't go much futhur than checking out his name existing tho.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Nope, certainly a real and hateful person. He used to be cohost of the Linux Action Show, marketing manager at SuSe for a bit, and was popular for a series of talks called "Linux Sucks." Somewhere in or around the beginning of the pandemic he went down the right wing rabbit hole. He is totally useless now, he's a transphobic as fuck, and generally just has a hateful message about most things.

He religiously monitors his name, wouldn't be surprised if he see this. If he is reading this: man, you just make me sad now. Please get help.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Are you saying he might actually be here? Shit, I wish I was wearing my good tie. You know, the one with fish?

Rat killers are people too.. with real feelings, Bryan :(

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

he's def. found other fedi things that had his name in it.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I lost all respect for his technical taste when he confessed that his daily driver is FreeDOS. I know linux folks skew at least a little contrarian but at that point I don't think we're speaking the same language of computing and there's not much I can learn from ya. Not super surprised to hear he went way overboard contrarian in other ways I guess.

[–] lessthanluigi 6 points 2 months ago

Wait, daily driving FREEDOS!? I could see that happening in like 2007, but even after 2011???

Don't get me wrong, I have used FreeDOS on occasion to play old sierra games on a modern computer bare metal edition, but holy shit, I can't imagine DAILY DRIVING IT!!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

"Technical taste" is the wrong angle here, and I see this a lot in FOSS. No amount of "good" or "great" technicality makes up for the fact that his personal views are abhorrent.

The first question we should ask is "are they a decent person" and the answer here is a hard no, so technical taste doesn't even matter.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I guess what I'm trying to say is that his contrarian personal views and his contrarian technical views are both expressions of some underlying contrarian-ness. Not that we shouldn't be asking if he's a decent person, just that I'm not super surprised to find out he's gone mask off weirdo.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

"Contrarian" is too nice a label.