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nixos, subtoot 

That having been said, I am cautiously optimistic about how many people deciding to leave are still open to returning to a hypothetical better community if it were to come into existence. This might end with a bit less collateral damage than usual for these sorts of conflicts.

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nixos, subtoot 

"All the people opposing weapons manufacturers must be from the US" is one of the more hilariously absurd takes that nevertheless seems to keep coming back.

@sindarina @aadbrinkman @joenepraat Ligt er wel aan of dat geconfigureerd is, het lijkt stuk te zijn op een hoop instances

@anselmschueler It depends a lot on the specific sub-crisis that you're asking about; there's not really any central documentation of the issues with eelco that I know of (besides the letter), but for eg. the moderation issues, the discussions in RFC98 are a pretty good first insight in how long this crap has been going on for

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@not-leader@pleroma.envs.net @hllizi They're related indirectly; both have a causal link to fundamental governance issues, but they are still separate issues.

(I'm fine with people asking questions btw, it's mostly the "barreling ahead with loud opinions with no insight" that's been bothering me.)

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@hllizi Nope, it's about the moderation/governance shitshow

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Like, I'm fine with people newly getting involved in the conversation, but when it's so clear that this is a long-running situation, do your fucking homework first before commenting the same tired takes we've heard a hundred times before

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Lot of "I don't really understand what this is about but I'm going to insert my opinion anyway" going around in land lately

I think people working for companies like Anduril or Palantir deserve to be shunned and pushed out of any communal space on tech. These are people who willingly choose to work making the killing of other people more efficient and easy. I'm ok, happy even, with them not feeling welcome in FOSS.

OH “It is very crowded in this train” (looks around, empty seats everywhere) “so, until Kortrijk the first class is also available with second class tickets” :blobcatgooglyshrug:

I think something that many might not realize about large open source projects like #nixos is that despite a huge number of contributors:

1. Number of contributions follows a power law.
2. Contributors aren't fungible, instead it's tens-hundreds of individual SPOFs.
3. Willingness to put your time to fix problems for others (not just stuff you have a personal interest in) is highly correlated with strong ethics.

=> Piss off the wrong 5 people and the project grinds to a halt within a month.

@Linux I'd slightly disagree there: DRM-free digital purchases are a thing! Less so with movies and TV unfortunately (I would really like that to change), but quite often available for games.

Pretty much as good as a hard copy, and can't just be yanked out from under you either.

At the end of Friday 3 May ICM 4011, the oldest Koploper still in service at :ns_nl_b: , is leaving active service, after more than 40 years.

@aral @delroth It's also conveniently ignoring how there have been problems with marginalized folks getting harassed for *at least* 5 years already by this point, and the only new thing is that there's pushback against the shitty people, but of course that prior harassment would have never affected him because he's a privileged dude, and so everything used to be rosy *for him*...

As usual, the "suddenly everything is political" accusation is really just disguising a complaint about people setting boundaries that he doesn't like

3rd most active contributor to #nixos drops from the project due to the lack of leadership from the Foundation supposedly backing the project.

Everything is fine, I'm sure the arms dealers will compensate the lost contributions. /s

github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/

@jon @vladcampos@mastodon.social FWIW, The B1M has a reputation for doing (often undisclosed) sponsored placements

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