Post by @zzt@mas.to

I’m so glad that all of my memories of open source being a social collective were false actually

every bit of goodwill and advocacy and imagining that we can have a better operating system was wasted

because linus torvalds, the manchild who supposes he owns our labor and knows damn well nobody’s going to fork the kernel, took donations from some of the most far-right corporations in technology and is now on an unhinged rant about how being anti-AI makes you an SJW

funny how that works

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@zzt@mas.to 2 hours ago

it’s uhhh real telling when the negative replies to this post tell me I’m part of a “mob”

please, show your entire ass in public. that’ll teach me

paculino

@paculino@tech.lgbt 4 hours ago

@zzt Maybe some of those less popular kernels will get more focus again? Someone again tried netBSD kernel in a devuan fork last year, and hurd can handle wifi in a couple laptops now, and usb drive support might arrive this year.

David Gerard

@davidgerard@circumstances.run 2 hours ago

@paculino @zzt the early 2000s linux experience shall return!

(where everything works fine except the things that are just utterly fucked and will never work. patches welcome!!)

Ozzelot :anarchy: :linux:

@ozzelot@mstdn.social 4 hours ago

@zzt (also not getting what's bad about wanting social justice, unless you somehow benefit from social injustice)

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@zzt@mas.to 4 hours ago

@ozzelot it’s just a pure dogwhistle, it’s fucking amazing

noodlejetski :verified_gay:

@noodlejetski@masto.ai 4 hours ago

@zzt @ozzelot honestly kinda weird, given that he himself called himself a "woke communist" some time ago https://social.kernel.org/notice/AWSXomDbvdxKgOxVAm

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@zzt@mas.to 4 hours ago

@noodlejetski @ozzelot enough money will do things to a motherfucker

it probably helps that it’s his dealer cutting the check

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@zzt@mas.to 4 hours ago

it’s of course extremely convenient for the corporations that a couple of dickhead libertarians decided in the late 80s/early 90s that excluding extremely damaging influences and use cases from your license somehow makes it unfree, but maybe now that the jig is up and it’s being shouted into our faces, maybe we need to put our fucking feet down and exclude LLMs and the corporations behind them from our communities and from using our software

and then maybe we can go real wild and kick out the fascists and the people killing civilians too

these motherfuckers have gotten a massive free ride and now that they’re in a position of power (linus absolutely is, linux is finally a mainstream desktop OS for a nontrivial number of people) they’re taking it all from us

why shouldn’t we take back our labor?

lproven

@lproven@social.vivaldi.net 3 hours ago

@zzt

Counter proposal:

Fsck 'em, take their work, for nothing, give nothing back...

Sealed off from their plagiarism bots' crawlers, make something contrary to all their sponsors' principles. Minimal, simple, fast, local only, no cloud anything. No secure boot, no DRM, none of that.

And ideally with as few RH-sponsored components in it as possible.

Client first, then idiot-proof servers for the masses second. Run your own web presence from an old Pi and an old HDD on a USB cable.