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Congratulations to @thurrott / @Thurrottfeed for being the latest to provide a Lunduke endorsement!
“Piece of human garbage.”
- Paul Thurrott
"Clickbait-chasing slimeball"
- Eric Raymond (ESR)
"Negative in the Freedom Dimension"
- Richard Stallman (RMS)
"Lunduke is a sneaky little Nazi"
- KDE Spokesperson
Lunduke is a "fascist maggot, apartheid, ethnosupremacist, babykiller apologist clown"
- GNOME Spokesperson
"Posting links to content from Lunduke is an immediate ban"
- GNOME Moderation Team
"Lunduke is a Nazi"
- Fedora Marketing Team
"<violates forum rules>"
- Linux Mint
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Something worth pondering on:
Democrats are opposed to proving identity to vote.
But want to require age verification to use a computer.
Colorado Democrats have introduced new legislation which would require Operating Systems (such as Linux or Windows) to perform age verification at the system level.
“Age Attestation on Computing Devices” (SB26-051) would:
- Apply to all Operating Systems, Open Source or proprietary (Linux, FreeBSD, macOS, etc.).
- Require the OS to set a user’s age upon account creation, and store that within the system.
- Require the OS to provide an API for application developers to request an age (or “age bracket”) for the user.
- Institute a $7,500 fine for “intentional violation” of the bill (which would include refusing to implement the age verification and API).
This version of the bill does not indicate how the age of the user would be verified (outside of a good faith declaration of age). That language is currently vague and open to wide interpretation.
leg.colorado.gov/bills/SB26-…
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Ok, this is an AI bot.
The new Xbox VP (@asha_shar) is using an AI bot to post “make me look like a gamer” posts on X
Not surprising, as she was previously working on AI.
Here she is responding to @SmashJT in the most bot-like way possible.
“Great list. I did my top 3 in another reply. Halo, Valheim, 007. It's been a long time since I played Chrono Trigger. Have you done every ending? Thanks for all the detail. I appreciate it a ton.”
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Lunduke: Microsoft has a history of racist hiring practices. I don’t like racist hiring practices. Here’s a personal anecdote of when I (and others) were discriminated against, based on our ethnicity, at Microsoft.
@thurrott, responding to Lunduke: “This is the most racist f**king thing I’ve ever read my entire life you piece of human garbage.”
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I’ve seen many people suggest that Asha Sharma being appointed to be the VP of Xbox was done by Microsoft’s Board of Directors.
While that is theoretically possible, it seems highly unlikely.
Historically at the company, transfers and promotions like this (Asha Sharma was already a Microsoft employee) are driven and approved by the hiring manager. Which, in this case would be Microsoft CEO, Satya Nadella.
The Board stepping in to force Nadella to make this move would be highly unusual for Microsoft. Even at the VP level.
The CEO of Microsoft (Satya Nadella, from India) just hired a new, unqualified VP of Xbox (Asha Sharma, whose family is from India), replacing a white guy (Phil Spencer).
Normally the ethnicity of a person in a role doesn't actually matter. Who cares what part of the world a person has ancestry from, as long as they do a good job... right?
But, in this case, it's worth pointing out a strange -- highly racist -- pattern within Microsoft.
That pattern is this:
Microsoft managers from India, disproportionately hire people also from India (even if those people are less qualified than other, non-Indian, candidates).
A pattern which is overtly racist and anti-meritocracy.
In the case of Asha Sharma, the new Xbox lead, this is glaringly obvious... as she has no experience, whatsoever, working in games. Zero. Not a drop of gaming. (Her longest tenures were at Instacart and working on Facebook messaging.)
Are we to believe that there were zero candidates available, to lead one of the largest gaming organizations in the world (Xbox), with significant experience working in the gaming industry? Not *one*?
That is extremely unlikely. In fact, I can say with absolute certainty that there are many managers and directors, already working within Microsoft, with extensive experience (decades) shipping successful games and gaming hardware.
And that's just the internal candidates.
Which means that Asha Sharma was likely hired for a reason other than her applicable work experience.
It is a reasonable assumption, based on Microsoft's established patterns, that she was hired because of her ethnicity.
Microsoft is one of the largest users of H1-B visas within the entire Tech industry -- with the vast majority of those H1-B's going to employees from India.
More workers from India, replacing non-Indian workers. Every Microsoft employee has seen this happen over the years.
A little personal anecdote:
Back in the late 1990's, I worked within a small team at Microsoft (only a dozen or so people). When I first joined, the team looked roughly like the surrounding area (Redmond, WA): Mostly white, with one Indian, and one Korean.
It was roughly proportional to the community.
The Indian man was then promoted to a management position. And, quickly, things changed.
In less than 1 year, the team was now predominantly Indian (with a few people of other Asian ancestry)... with only 3 White guys remaining.
Within a single year, the demographic ratio had flipped. It now no longer matched the city in which we worked.
Then things got weird.
The team moved to a new floor of the building, and every employee within the group was given their own, individual office.
Well. Every employee... except for the 3 White guys.
We were put, together, in the smallest office available. The size of a long, thin closet. In fact... I believe it was originally just a storage closet.
It was so cramped that, whenever the guy at the back of the "office" needed to leave the room... the other two guys had to get up and exit one at a time. Single file.
We called it "The Honky Closet".
All requests for the "Honkies" to move to space where we could fit was denied by non-Honky management (despite several offices remaining empty).
The purpose was clear. It was one, of many, attempts to get the remaining "White guys" to willingly quit. Which we all did within a matter of months.
And, yes, those roles we also replaced with "non-Honkies".
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It’s worth noting that this bill from Colorado Democrats could have massive repercussions on the world of Linux.
- System76 (makers of Pop!_OS) are based in Colorado.
- IBM (Red Hat) has offices in Colorado.
- Canonical (Ubuntu) also has a presence in Colorado.
Failure to comply with these age verification measures, as the system level, could result in massive fines for these Linux companies.
Fines large enough to potentially put some out of business.
Colorado Democrats have introduced new legislation which would require Operating Systems (such as Linux or Windows) to perform age verification at the system level.
“Age Attestation on Computing Devices” (SB26-051) would:
- Apply to all Operating Systems, Open Source or proprietary (Linux, FreeBSD, macOS, etc.).
- Require the OS to set a user’s age upon account creation, and store that within the system.
- Require the OS to provide an API for application developers to request an age (or “age bracket”) for the user.
- Institute a $7,500 fine for “intentional violation” of the bill (which would include refusing to implement the age verification and API).
This version of the bill does not indicate how the age of the user would be verified (outside of a good faith declaration of age). That language is currently vague and open to wide interpretation.
leg.colorado.gov/bills/SB26-…
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Colorado Democrats have introduced new legislation which would require Operating Systems (such as Linux or Windows) to perform age verification at the system level.
“Age Attestation on Computing Devices” (SB26-051) would:
- Apply to all Operating Systems, Open Source or proprietary (Linux, FreeBSD, macOS, etc.).
- Require the OS to set a user’s age upon account creation, and store that within the system.
- Require the OS to provide an API for application developers to request an age (or “age bracket”) for the user.
- Institute a $7,500 fine for “intentional violation” of the bill (which would include refusing to implement the age verification and API).
This version of the bill does not indicate how the age of the user would be verified (outside of a good faith declaration of age). That language is currently vague and open to wide interpretation.
leg.colorado.gov/bills/SB26-…
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The @ladybirdbrowser is getting better and better.
Time for me to do another build and take it for a spin.
Running the oldest browser (WorldWideWeb from @CERN) in the newest browser (@ladybirdbrowser) 🤓
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The CEO of Microsoft (Satya Nadella, from India) just hired a new, unqualified VP of Xbox (Asha Sharma, whose family is from India), replacing a white guy (Phil Spencer).
Normally the ethnicity of a person in a role doesn't actually matter. Who cares what part of the world a person has ancestry from, as long as they do a good job... right?
But, in this case, it's worth pointing out a strange -- highly racist -- pattern within Microsoft.
That pattern is this:
Microsoft managers from India, disproportionately hire people also from India (even if those people are less qualified than other, non-Indian, candidates).
A pattern which is overtly racist and anti-meritocracy.
In the case of Asha Sharma, the new Xbox lead, this is glaringly obvious... as she has no experience, whatsoever, working in games. Zero. Not a drop of gaming. (Her longest tenures were at Instacart and working on Facebook messaging.)
Are we to believe that there were zero candidates available, to lead one of the largest gaming organizations in the world (Xbox), with significant experience working in the gaming industry? Not *one*?
That is extremely unlikely. In fact, I can say with absolute certainty that there are many managers and directors, already working within Microsoft, with extensive experience (decades) shipping successful games and gaming hardware.
And that's just the internal candidates.
Which means that Asha Sharma was likely hired for a reason other than her applicable work experience.
It is a reasonable assumption, based on Microsoft's established patterns, that she was hired because of her ethnicity.
Microsoft is one of the largest users of H1-B visas within the entire Tech industry -- with the vast majority of those H1-B's going to employees from India.
More workers from India, replacing non-Indian workers. Every Microsoft employee has seen this happen over the years.
A little personal anecdote:
Back in the late 1990's, I worked within a small team at Microsoft (only a dozen or so people). When I first joined, the team looked roughly like the surrounding area (Redmond, WA): Mostly white, with one Indian, and one Korean.
It was roughly proportional to the community.
The Indian man was then promoted to a management position. And, quickly, things changed.
In less than 1 year, the team was now predominantly Indian (with a few people of other Asian ancestry)... with only 3 White guys remaining.
Within a single year, the demographic ratio had flipped. It now no longer matched the city in which we worked.
Then things got weird.
The team moved to a new floor of the building, and every employee within the group was given their own, individual office.
Well. Every employee... except for the 3 White guys.
We were put, together, in the smallest office available. The size of a long, thin closet. In fact... I believe it was originally just a storage closet.
It was so cramped that, whenever the guy at the back of the "office" needed to leave the room... the other two guys had to get up and exit one at a time. Single file.
We called it "The Honky Closet".
All requests for the "Honkies" to move to space where we could fit was denied by non-Honky management (despite several offices remaining empty).
The purpose was clear. It was one, of many, attempts to get the remaining "White guys" to willingly quit. Which we all did within a matter of months.
And, yes, those roles we also replaced with "non-Honkies".
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Someone’s still feeling salty about CentOS.
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This is needed. The attacks on Christians, at the hands of the Islamists, must be stopped.
Thank you @Israel & @netanyahu for helping to protect our Christian brothers and sisters.
Feb 19
Israeli PM Netanyahu declared that Israel will devote significant intelligence and technological resources to combat Islamist persecution of Christians worldwide.
He pledged Israel will be at the forefront of fighting forces murdering Christians.
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Reminder that, according to KDE, "Lunduke is a sneaky little Nazi".
x.com/LundukeJournal/status/…
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KDE’s Communications lead says that “Lunduke is a sneaky little Nazi”.
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KDE Attacks Critics as "Sad People" Who Are "Straight Up Lying"
KDE is in damage control after recent moves to restrict the systems which can run KDE Plasma (via Wayland & SystemD). Saying criticism is "FUD" and "fake".
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openmandriva.org/ -- We never joined the madness so we don't have to revert it. Having a master branch in a repository is roughly as racist as having a master's degree means you're qualified to have slaves.
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Developers of the Godot game engine are complaining about a flood of AI code submissions.
“Al slop PRs are becoming increasingly draining and demoralizing for Godot maintainers.”
“Changes often make no sense, descriptions are extremely verbose, users don't understand their own changes... It's a total s**tshow.”
“We find ourselves having to second guess every PR from new contributors, multiple times per day.”
Ironically, one Godot developer also said, “Godot prides itself in being welcoming to new contributors.”
This was despite Godot conducting a “mass cleansing” (banning) of contributors and users who failed to express the correct political views.
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It is worth noting that there is a significant amount we don't know about the circumstances surrounding Robinson's resignation from Debian.
Many of the communications referenced were in private, and are not being publicly provided.
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