zagaberoo

joined 2 years ago
[–] zagaberoo@beehaw.org 1 points 25 minutes ago

Believing in god does not mean one believes nothing bad can happen to them.

[–] zagaberoo@beehaw.org 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Truly, I scramble six eggs in a go, but six boiled eggs feels like a whole feast somehow.

[–] zagaberoo@beehaw.org 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

This can be read completely opposite ways depending on one's starting perspective.

Fourth panel e.g.: "And how did the native peoples' failure to enforce border integrity work out for them?"

[–] zagaberoo@beehaw.org 2 points 4 days ago

That does sound like a bit much for my daily driver; I'll have to check it out in a VM sometime. It warms my heart that a distro community can have such longevity, and I think the simplicity has to be a big part of that.

[–] zagaberoo@beehaw.org 1 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Isn't the lack of dependency management a huge pain on Slackware? I think Gentoo is my forever distro, but I'm very curious about Slackware.

[–] zagaberoo@beehaw.org 4 points 1 week ago

Ass Dan's gonna live forever!

[–] zagaberoo@beehaw.org 12 points 1 week ago (2 children)

'Thy' is the disused informal 'your'. There's 'thou'/'thee' but that's still second-person.

[–] zagaberoo@beehaw.org 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I just learned that W.E.B. Du Bois pointed this out in 1935 in terms of why poor whites in the Reconstruction-era South preferred to side with the white landowners who exploited them rather than their fellow workers who happened to be black. People would rather feel superior than actually pursue a better life for everyone. It's come to be called The Wages of Whiteness.

[–] zagaberoo@beehaw.org 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

VPN, as it is sold by YT sponsorships, is a scam.

[–] zagaberoo@beehaw.org 4 points 2 weeks ago

The BDFL model, as it's called, is what allows large projects to continue to have focused vision rather than devolving into design-by-committee. The kernel is actually already well beyond pure BDFL, but my point is having a single point of overall leadership can be a huge boon for the organization of large and complex projects. FOSS philosophy has literally nothing to do with management structure; it's entirely about the rights of the end user.

BDFL is not without its own risks. WordPress is a good counterexample these days. But, when someone originates a project and sticks around to steer it, it would be silly to reject their proven successful leadership for such a vague reason as you have presented.

When things do go sideways, people are free to fork the project. That is what FOSS is.

[–] zagaberoo@beehaw.org 2 points 2 weeks ago

Excellent, I'll try the $8 option

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