Unfettered Freedom, Ep. 7 - Nvidia Buys ARM, GNOME CoC, Linux Exploits, Free vs Proprietary DistroTube
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Date: 2022-03-30
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Michael
Now my biggest question is, why is Gnome so big out here? It seems -everyone- see it like the default DE for Linux. In the case of Enterprise distros Like Suse and Redhat, it's all Gnome AFAIK. And Ubuntu, PopOS! etc. What's the deal there? If they want Linux to reach the masses, why not use something more logical replacement like KDE, Cinnamon or something, and not some leftie pipe-dream of a dystopian MacOS/IOS-lookalike? Wait, should we also stay away from GTK...? If I remember it correctly it's the GNOME-ToolKit. I try to be as toolkit-slim as possible (FVWM, with mostly Motif & TK-apps). But there's always one or two apps you need that requiers all that masses of GTK or QT to work. Such a shame...
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Now my biggest question is, why is Gnome so big out here? It seems -everyone- see it like the default DE for Linux. In the case of Enterprise distros Like Suse and Redhat, it's all Gnome AFAIK. And Ubuntu, PopOS! etc. What's the deal there? If they want Linux to reach the masses, why not use something more logical replacement like KDE, Cinnamon or something, and not some leftie pipe-dream of a dystopian MacOS/IOS-lookalike? Wait, should we also stay away from GTK...? If I remember it correctly it's the GNOME-ToolKit. I try to be as toolkit-slim as possible (FVWM, with mostly Motif & TK-apps). But there's always one or two apps you need that requiers all that masses of GTK or QT to work. Such a shame...
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Kevin
Gnome doesn't bother me, but I am not one very involved, nor concerned with political policy. I do understand that corporate America is! Being politically correct means something to some people, and I believe this is what the writers of the Gnome Code of Conduct are trying to be, but I'm just too old to understand why?
;-) By the way, thank you for posting the tutorial video on getting started with the Awesome Tiling Window Manager. I now use it everyday, and rarely open my gnome desktop.
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Gnome doesn't bother me, but I am not one very involved, nor concerned with political policy. I do understand that corporate America is! Being politically correct means something to some people, and I believe this is what the writers of the Gnome Code of Conduct are trying to be, but I'm just too old to understand why?
;-) By the way, thank you for posting the tutorial video on getting started with the Awesome Tiling Window Manager. I now use it everyday, and rarely open my gnome desktop.
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it_industry
What also annoyed me about Gnome's CoC is they failed to define exactly what they meant by privilege and how do they determine who has this privilege. Also do they determine the privilege of those it applies to on a regular basis? It seems they assume everyone knows exactly what they mean. Privilege isn't a metric I'm aware of and if it's apart of a CoC it needs to be defined clearly. Otherwise it gives them too much leeway to have unjust biases.
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What also annoyed me about Gnome's CoC is they failed to define exactly what they meant by privilege and how do they determine who has this privilege. Also do they determine the privilege of those it applies to on a regular basis? It seems they assume everyone knows exactly what they mean. Privilege isn't a metric I'm aware of and if it's apart of a CoC it needs to be defined clearly. Otherwise it gives them too much leeway to have unjust biases.
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Lukas
I think GNOME is just trying to avoid having to deal with racist/homophobic people (unaware/ignorant of their privilege) getting offended by the BLM movement or LGBTQ+ people and GNOME's support for them as they're still partially treated lesser and get discriminated against. I don't think they hate on white hetero men, they just don't want to deal with entitled idiots.
But yeah, it can be very misleading.
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I think GNOME is just trying to avoid having to deal with racist/homophobic people (unaware/ignorant of their privilege) getting offended by the BLM movement or LGBTQ+ people and GNOME's support for them as they're still partially treated lesser and get discriminated against. I don't think they hate on white hetero men, they just don't want to deal with entitled idiots.
But yeah, it can be very misleading.
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S-heyl
The more I listen to you the more I realize you are a dumb arrogant person. I loved using Linux but more listening to you make me love Windows and convert back to a decent new Windows laptop. You are a fundamentalist advocate of garbage Free Software. Linux is only useful with many open source apps (not necessarily FSF apps).
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The more I listen to you the more I realize you are a dumb arrogant person. I loved using Linux but more listening to you make me love Windows and convert back to a decent new Windows laptop. You are a fundamentalist advocate of garbage Free Software. Linux is only useful with many open source apps (not necessarily FSF apps).
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Trigex
Great episode Derek, but you made a bit of an odd statement on China here. You said that ARM, owned by a Japanese company, being bought by an American company is a blow to China with the ongoing trade war. How is that at all a blow to China? China just isn't involved there.
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Great episode Derek, but you made a bit of an odd statement on China here. You said that ARM, owned by a Japanese company, being bought by an American company is a blow to China with the ongoing trade war. How is that at all a blow to China? China just isn't involved there.
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Matty
I'm sorry, but I fail to see the issue with the code of conduct. This is a pretty uncharitable interpretation, granted it probably could have been phrased a lot better. Claiming that their CoC contains 'racist' language is pretty preposterous too.
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I'm sorry, but I fail to see the issue with the code of conduct. This is a pretty uncharitable interpretation, granted it probably could have been phrased a lot better. Claiming that their CoC contains 'racist' language is pretty preposterous too.
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Endery
Disagree about password. Well, half. 2fa is actually very good and you must have it, agree. But disagree that passwords are easy to break. if you have a 32 character password, yay, it will take 9 billion years to break it. So insecure.
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Disagree about password. Well, half. 2fa is actually very good and you must have it, agree. But disagree that passwords are easy to break. if you have a 32 character password, yay, it will take 9 billion years to break it. So insecure.
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Djordje
I'll advise Joe Rogan to invite you to some of his future podcast so you can speak (and explain) even freely (in more detail).
I can bet that most Developers never thought what they are creating and for what purpose.
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I'll advise Joe Rogan to invite you to some of his future podcast so you can speak (and explain) even freely (in more detail).
I can bet that most Developers never thought what they are creating and for what purpose.
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censored
You can't discriminate against anyone for any reason? Seems about right, considering how shit Gnome is, I guess they really don't discriminate against people that can't design or program to save their own lives.
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You can't discriminate against anyone for any reason? Seems about right, considering how shit Gnome is, I guess they really don't discriminate against people that can't design or program to save their own lives.
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