Mostly correct, but I believe the strip deliberately portrays this as unrealistic, a dream basically. And seen like that it becomes even more cynical somehow. Which is something I appreciate in humor.

How I wish this was anywhere near reality (both the speaker and the audience).

One of the problems with Linux today on laptops is that the CPU will run in an unoptimized manner

Is this actually still true? I thought automatic scaling happens mostly on firmware level these days.

Are those VR goggles?

Thank you for your patience.

Everything is public, including votes.

I have yet to figure out how that works. Does Lemmy offer a way to look at these things? Like who voted?

Instance admins can notice if a lot of signups happen from a specific ip, email pattern or region.

The same goes for, say, reddit admins.

Writing good code does not excuse you from being an arsehole. I’m glad most of the FOSS community has moved on from sheer meritocracy. In the end such behaviour will always also affect the software.

Unfortunately that is not the point this article is making. At all.

open source and AI

I resent that these two terms are used interchangeably throughout the whole article. WT actual F.

Of course there’s also this:

calculating the economic value

I think I don’t llike the Linux foundation anymore. Not that I ever like-liked it. I hope they fire this unperson.

Distro-agnostic: /var/spool/mail or /var/mail; but both directories are empty on my system, and untouched since installation.

I’m sure one could make the incident report go there by installing one or two softwares. Would actually be interesting to see what it reads, since this message has caused many Linux newbs anguish.

Its easier to spot here

It’s super easy to spot on reddit. Even easier than that?

There clearly aren’t that many bots (of all kinds, incl. humanoid) in the Lemmyverse (yet), so I guess they stand out more, but beyond that?

its easier to moderate

Hm. How so?

I learned early that admins (and possibly also mods) have more insight into user behavior, is that what you mean?

Beyond that the mod/admin structure is pretty much the same as on, say, reddit.

Yes it takes very little searching to find this shit on reddit.

But - and I’ll probably get tons of downvotes, but still: the Fediverse is not safe from this.

edit: considering our APIs are free & open it could even be easier, esp. if you don’t want to leave a money trail

edit2: I definitely don’t mean to diss the Fediverse in any way! It stands sky high against walled-in platforms. Just stay vigilant and real. This is not paradise.

The proposal has been scrapped already.

I think maybe the person who proposed it did it to get the whole topic out of the way - from now on they can point every belligerent to the decision made.

Thanks! 2007, and still maintained. Wow.

https://lemmy.world/post/31180148

BTW, the proposal to the Fedora project has been withdrawn already.

I think you’re right. I think I confused it with PS brushes; those are recognized.

FWIW, what do PS patterns offer that a normal tileable image does not offer?

Weird, I’m pretty sure 2.10 already has support for importing PS patterns.

edit> I think I confused it with PS brushes

I distinctly remember an FF addon that rewrites URLs on the fly (via regular expressions iirc). I was thinking about it just the other day, because I want the same thing. For the life of me I can’t remember its name anymore.

There was a thread about this a few days ago. That guy who did the fork is nuts. A WW2 Nazi apologist.

And as I said then, Xorg is already Libre.

Without some facts to back it up I question phrasing like “most active remaining contributor”. Or “actively maintained” vs what? Just “maintained”? I want to see the stats before I believe this is more than steering the narrative.

This person picked a good time to throw a fit and draw a lot of attention to himself.

People say we should leave politics out of it and concentrate on the software (meritocracy) but I question that. I mean, the way this is going you just can’t leave that guy’s motivations out of the equation.

You can imagine the way the discourse about this proposal is going, but I randomly picked up one comment I wanted to share excerpts of anyhow:

(…) Fedora accepting X11Libre into the project would betray its users and imply that Fedora is fine with the statements made in its readme.

However, even putting that all aside, I see technical concerns. Obviously, there’s the fact that a lot of the commits made to X11 by metux before he forked off were found to ultimately cause regressions and not have been tested properly and have been reverted. The issue with the licensing in headers is minor, but also noteworthy given how critical licensing is to FOSS projects (…) and it is not a good look to mess that up so easily (…). Even more than all of this, however, is something I recently found on X11Libre’s github:

github.com/X11Libre/xserver
Fix incorrect power of two operator
master ← dec05eba:fix-pow2
opened Jun 9, 2025

2^16 is 2 xor 16 which equals 18, not 2 to the power of 16 which is 65536

metux did not understand that ^ was not the exponent operator in C. That immediately, to me at least, throws some serious doubts on the quality of the commits made by him (and, to an extent, his ability to properly review PRs). To not know such a key feature of the language the project is largely written in is… frightening, at least to me. It does not inspire confidence in the rest of his code for something as large and low-level as an X11 server, compounding on the existing concerns about his prior commits to xorg having to be reverted for causing regressions.

At the very least you should proactively point out that you’re recommending closed source, proprietary and paid software on a FOSS community, in the future.

Especially with password managers the SAAS closed source part is extremely relevant. I’d never entrust mine to that, let alone recommend it to others. Linux version with integrated ssh agent be damned.