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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

And Linux usage skyrockets to record heights.

[–] [email protected] 54 points 1 week ago (10 children)

The Right doesn't care what people actually believe.

They happily quote MLK on a daily basis.

Ray Bradbury was always anti-fascist, but he called out President Obama because there were no space missions during the Obama terms. After Bradbury died the Right tried to cherry pick quote to make him look like a life long Republican.

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (32 children)

I'm sorry, and I don't want to be disrespectful or rude, but as a person who has no clue about computers I am very surprised the creator of Linux is still alive. I somehow thought he is super old and probably dead by now or at least not using the internet. I'm so sorry for my ignorance.

Edit: Thank you everyone for the many interesting replies, I've learned a lot of random stuff which I greatly appreciate!

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I got all excited cause I saw that Linus had a mastodon account and I went to follow and saw that I already followed and he hasn't posted since early last year..... ah well, good on ya 2023 Torvalds

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[–] [email protected] 63 points 1 week ago (6 children)

TIL Linus is capable of decency. Occasionally.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

He is offensively decent.

[–] [email protected] 83 points 1 week ago (4 children)

As long as the code you submit is quality. Otherwise brace for impact.

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[–] [email protected] 363 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Watching Linus take a big public dump on someone who deserves it is one of life's finest guilty pleasures. It's like a Maya Angelou poem. You can tell he really cared, and meant it, and took some time to get it right.

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[–] [email protected] 81 points 1 week ago (1 children)

In Europe, Linus is probably right of centre. Just let anyone do whatever except walk around with a gazillion firearms because that’s just insane.

[–] [email protected] 141 points 1 week ago (13 children)

nah even in Europe being trans friendly makes you at least left leaning

we're not many miles ahead in the societal run towards progress and acceptance, the US is just sprinting the wrong way

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

LGBT has always been a target.

The "good guys" still (chemically) castrated one of their greatest minds that won the war for ten, just because he happened to like dicks.

Theres a reason people wanted to reduce the victims of the Holocaust to just being Jewish and ignored all the other groups that both sides wanted to persacute.

They did the same thing this time, target LGBT to build the movement and are now expanded to other groups.

Hopefully everyone stands up while we still have the numbers, otherwise they'll keep chipping away fringe groups.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (5 children)

What the Americans call libertarians have some minority representation in Europe and they’re tolerant of minorities. Not as good as leftists but better than conservatives.

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