the whole entire conversation about pronouns was exactly a conversation about this. the request to change to more inclusive pronouns was a request that he make the project more inclusive to people like us, the queer community, who have been getting pushed out of open source ever since brandon eich was named ceo of mozilla. andreas kling’s response was that we were being too sensitive and he didn’t want to scare of contributors by getting too political. the problem is that in saying that, he’s saying he finds one set of contributions and politics acceptable, and another set not.

the same goes for his responses to people asking him to leave twitter. he says he would rather stay on twitter because mastodon is too political. and there it is again. twitter, at the time of the conversation, was already becoming a nazi cesspool that people were leaving en masse, but because his tweets got more engagement there than on mastodon, he stuck with twitter.

i’ll gather some links for you after work, but i’m just… a little surprised you were familiar enough with the situation to know it happened and not familiar enough to know the context for why it mattered

i think he’s referring to mozilla accepting money from google to let google be the default search engine for over 20 years, which 5 years into that deal, google started using any search made through not chrome to pipeline people to chrome

the ladybird dev wants to work with people who want me dead. so. yeah, fuck him. mozilla ain’t great, but they’re the least dangerous engine builders right now. servo would be a better engine for us to rally around, but everyone would rather talk about the less mature, more fascist accepting, project.

nazis are bad. that’s the hill i’m willing to die on. this is bigger than a browser engine.

the lead dev is a freeze peach absolutist. he’s said some ignorant shit about trans people and when people said “hey, let’s adjust this language” he was like “let’s not get political”

of the gogs family tree it’s my middle favorite.

1. forgejo
2. gitea
3. gogs

forgejo gets the edge because of federation. gitea’s corporate situation is less than ideal. gogs simply doesn’t have the features to be a complete solution

100%, this is either uninformed or some apologia

I was not aware of that! Hopefully it encourages drivebys!

I agree and also don’t at the same time. It’s coming from a genuine place of you get more driveby contributions on Github than you do Gitlab or Codeberg, but at the same time, people will ultimately go where the projects are, and I think the more open source code we host on Codeberg the more users we’ll get on Codeberg, and the more Codeberg users we get the more driveby contributions projects will get on Codeberg. Like I get where an individual project is coming from preferring Github over Codeberg, BUT where we are currently where everyone is preferring Github over codeberg is ultimately just us strangling ourselves. I think when Microsoft bought GitHub and a lot of projects moved to Codeberg, and then again when Microsoft started pushing Copilot hard… IDK, I guess what I’m getting at is WHAT IS THE HOLD UP PEOPLE! Move your projects to Codeberg! And when you’re looking for solutions to problems you’re having, look on Codeberg first. For one thing, it’s actually lowkey nicer to use at this point, and it does have enough traction that you should get enough driveby contributions to be worth your while

(i agree entirely, but i have to accept a lot of people just go wherever the most users are)

if that happens, people should migrate to gitlab or forgejo. gitlab is a Ukrainian company, and forgejo development is primarily driven by Codeberg in Germany.

she largely wasn’t. she was writing a warning and no one took it.

Democracy is a mental construct. It only constrains you if you believe in it. But it can give you over power as long as you convince enough people to do it. It will, however, never be restored once broken through violent means without the use of violent means.

exactly! if you want what the cybertruck is offering, the hummer ev is better in every regard. if you want a truck for truck stuff, the ford, toyota, and rivian are all very capable, arguably more capable than ice f-150s and their ilk.

the only reason for someone not to cancel their cybertruck order is because they like that it’s their fascist propaganda wagon

it’s the weight and the motor. they weigh more than any other light duty truck on the market by a wide margin and the motor lacks the torque to make up the difference. to increase the torque you would need to make the vehicle more of a fire hazard than it already is.

all of this constitutes an extremely core design flaw which is that no one asked “what is a truck?” when they designed their truck. they never asked what the purpose of the vehicle should be, instead choosing to design a device for a paranoid ketamine addicted indoor boy who wouldn’t be capable of surviving the apocalypse he envisioned the truck for without someone else heating his canned baked beans for him

cybertrucks can’t get up hills. they’re slower uphill than laden semis

but not up a hill

It’s unbelievable selfish short sightedness, isn’t it? It’s astounding to think about when you realize that these freaks think they’re doing what’s best because they’re so propagandized to think that worrying only about yourself and your closest relatives is what’s right and good, meanwhile the rest of us are trying to ensure there’s a world for the children of 160 years from now to inherit.

Yeah I’m over trying to reclaim the American flag. It’s been entirely lost as a symbol and can never be redeemed.

It’s always about the dollars, not about the votes

I used to get death threats online pretty regularly. It definitely doesn’t balance out. That said, Musk has earned this. I’m not going to feel sad about a guy doing a fascist coup having his feelings hurt when people don’t like it