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Cake day: January 11th, 2022

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  • I use Kobo ones, I had a Touch years ago and currently use a Clara HD, the software isn’t too fast (though maybe that’s different on newer models) but has always been pretty reliable for me, even on the Touch despite its age

    Something I like is that it’s integrated with Pocket (the Mozilla-owned service) and can automatically sync articles you add to your list to the e-reader


  • I think I’m finally doing this “touching grass” thing people talk about, I just got an e-bike a few days ago so I’m finally able to get out of the house in a meaningful capacity since I can’t drive and I’m horribly out of shape, this lets me get around to places I need to go somewhat comfortably on my own while still letting me get a decent amount of physical activity (certainly far more than the near-zero I got before)

    I’ve done a few trips just for fun and it’s nuts just how much more you pay attention to and enjoy the environment compared to in a car, but today I did a grocery run and it was also very practical, I got a decent pannier bag I can clip to the bike that can be used as a shoulder bag or backpack and it holds a pretty decent amount



  • If it isn’t the biggest harassment campaign on the internet, then it’s at least one of them

    My thought about the person herself is that while she’s a pretty garbage person, it’s very clearly a result of the world around her treating her like shit on every level for basically her entire life, she grew up in a horrifically abusive right-wing household just to end up in constant attack by the worst people the internet’s had to offer, with those people shaping every aspect of her “growth” from that point forward, to the point of the 4chan harassers even going so far as to give her multiple fake friends and people trying to “help” her just to end up being part of the harassment campaign so that she can’t even know who she can trust even among people she knows IRL

    Just a shitshow on every level and it’s undeniable that she’s a massive victim here even if she hasn’t exactly been a good person herself (but again, that’s largely because of how she’s been a victim the whole time)

    (I think CWC still uses she/her? Someone correct me if I’m wrong, it’s been absolutely ages since I last checked for obvious reasons, I don’t like looking into this stuff lol)


  • A few years ago, the bus service in my town made massive cuts to routes and frequency, making the buses pretty much completely useless to me, I really miss taking the bus places

    But you know what I’m actually finding I miss the most about it? Having an excuse to actually get some reading done, I have an e-reader and being on the bus was the perfect time for me to use it, these days I rarely touch it because I have trouble focusing on that at home for various reasons, the bus trips were just long enough I could get some decent reading done and the small size and weight of my e-reader made it very convenient to do so, while using other devices was often inconvenient

    I almost never read through books, and that bothers me, especially since it means I’m really limiting myself in my understanding of theory, I basically had to fight myself to even get through a good chunk of State and Revolution, I don’t think I ever actually finished reading it


  • I was reading some of this and thinking maybe it was a bit exaggerated how much cars are specifically a weapon, but then I just saw this post about an article talking about someone in Vancouver who murdered a baby (and severely injured the father) by running a red light they could see very far in advance who got acquitted because “it was just a lil fucky wucky uwu” and the comments pointing out that this happens all the time, regardless of how massively illegal the driver’s behavior was

    Not to mention how many examples I’ve seen of drivers intentionally engaging in aggressive dangerous acts towards pedestrians and cyclists, which to be honest does leave me worried, as someone who plans to get an e-bike very soon and use it as my main form of transportation in an area without good bicycle infrastructure

    So yeah, the idea of cars being an intentional form of societal violence absolutely tracks

    Unfortunately, most supporters of good urbanism don’t understand how many intentional systemic factors are playing into it, they only see the symptoms, but then again I suppose if they saw these factors they wouldn’t be liberals


  • Not sure that’s really relevant, the US government could very well deal with situations like this if they wanted to, it’s just that they don’t want to because they are not pro LGBTQ as a whole

    It’s very important to point this out too, because the idea that global south countries should be attacked for being queerphobic doesn’t actually exist because the US supports queer people, it’s just using pinkwashing as another way manufacture consent for imperialism among another demographic, people who pinkwash things like this are not actually supporting queer rights themselves when they do so (many people and organizations who do so are in fact actively queerphobic)


  • I read your whole comment, but to be honest, I’m not really sure where to begin with this, because it doesn’t seem like you actually understand the situation and are making weird assumptions based on that misunderstanding

    Hyprland isn’t the only window manager, there are others, it’s not like it is an essential part of Linux everyone must use.

    I am really hoping you simply haven’t read into the context of this, because in case you’re not aware, this is not about hyprland the software at all or people contributing to it, this is about its main developer contributing to freedesktop.org projects such as wlroots (a Wayland compositor framework used by multiple projects including hyprland)

    enforcing basic code of conduct rules

    That they wrote themselves and want to apply everywhere. Obviously I’m not for insulting people because of sexual preferences, ethnicity, etc. but we don’t need liberals with a “Code of Conduct” to “protect” people. If a person doesn’t like a community, they don’t have to join it.

    As I mentioned, this isn’t about other people joining hyprland, it’s about freedesktop.org, one of the most important organizations in the Linux ecosystem because it’s responsible for many foundational components. Codes of Conduct (along with enforcement of those) are an essential safety tool in these kinds of community, as you simply can’t tolerate Nazis and their ilk in a community like this without them forcing out all of the people who would be targeted by someone like that, who do exist in this community (the person enforcing the CoC in this instance being one of them)

    The creator of Hyprland obviously isn’t bothered by having these alt-right/Nazi types in the community and hasn’t been willing to remove them. These liberals certainly won’t make him change his mind …

    This doesn’t matter, because it’s not about hyprland, that guy can fuck off to his Nazi cave as far as I’m concerned, we aren’t trying to change hyprland. This is about this person trying to make himself at home in an organization full of the kind of people he targets, who will be under attack if someone like him is allowed this leeway. Those people are already part of this community and need to be kept safe, would you rather they be forced out?

    US and NATO are also very pro-LGBTQ, does that mean we need to side with them against African and SEA countries who don’t have a good LGBTQ track record?

    To be honest, I find this to be an extremely bad faith interpretation of my comment, and makes it sound like you didn’t even read what I wrote. Again, this is not about liberals using the aesthetics of “queer rights” to manufacture consent to attack the global south, this is a community full of queer people banning an outright Nazi because he is a threat to them. This isn’t about creating the image that the community is supposedly safe for queer people when it’s not, it’s about ensuring the safety of the queer people who are already here and contributing in major ways.

    I have to be clear here, your comment is not some principled stand against imperialism, it is very close to being a defense for outright Nazis just because the people they’re targeting for being vulnerable minorities happen to be liberals (you know, like most people in the west), and I really hope that this is just because you have some kind of misunderstanding of what’s actually going on in this situation.


  • I have to be honest comrade, when the events that are going on are “a trans person is being harassed by one of the biggest bigoted serial harassers in the community for enforcing basic code of conduct rules”, I think this kind of comment is unnecessary at best and harmful at worst, this is not a “both sides” issue by any means

    This person you showed isn’t even the freedesktop member responsible for the decision

    Edit: To clarify, this isn’t a “liberals vs alt-right” two-sided conflict, this is a “Nazis attacking vulnerable minorities” one-sided conflict, if this kind of behavior from Vaxry is tolerated and allowed then that puts all such people in the community at risk, including people like us


  • Oh wow, that thread wasn’t around last time I checked (when I made my post in the weekly megathread), it really does go to show how the other thread is just entirely brigading when there’s a clear community consensus in the thread you mentioned of how fucked up it all is

    Honestly, I think /r/linux is somehow less of a cesspool than the Lemmy equivalent most of the time lol, though at least it so far hasn’t had this kind of brigading issue


  • reddit logo users are harassing a trans person in the freedesktop organization for banning a well known bad actor from contributing, the guy who made hyprland, who encourages and participates in queerphobic harassment, especially against trans people

    It’s especially infuriating because previously people had reasonable discussions on /r/linux about how ridiculously shitty this guy is, but now pretend as if the accusations are completely unfounded, or pretend it doesn’t matter (the usual defense is “it’s his personal Discord, how can you ban him for stuff he does there??”), along with the usual complaints about “ideology infiltrating Linux” (this is especially hilarious seeing how many of these people also worship Richard Stallman), as well as the typical redditor idea that rules lawyering is perfectly valid because “debate” and any use of common sense moderation is “power tripping”

    But all he has to do is say “Red Hat Bad!!” (this isn’t even a Red Hat thing really) and write a few one-sided blog posts directly naming and shaming and everyone goes nuts

    Words can’t describe how upset I am at this situation, people like this are the absolute lowest scum of the Linux and free software community

    Do you think they even realize how many of the people who write the software they rely on are queer 🤔

    Edit: Feel a little more hopeful finding out that another thread was posted where people are far more reasonable, making it pretty clear that the thread I’m talking about isn’t really the usual community response and is actually just brigading by the asshole’s groupies