They just drinking some of the residual koolaid that team Trump was pouring into social media to convince left leaning voters, who were never going to vote for him, to throw their votes away.

It’s the same tactic they used in 2016 to target black people. They simply put out a lot of fake posts from fake “black people” creating the illusion of a movement of people who refused to vote for Hillary.

The Great Hack is a documentary that covers the Cambridge Analytica scandal and shows them talking about using this exact same tactic in other elections. The former employee said it was like injecting poison into the veins of social media.

The person you’re responding to probably doesn’t even realize that they’re still regurgitating the same nonsense because they think they’re living in a world full of other people who agree with them. But that world is artificial and was created to manipulate them.

New people don’t realize that Linux is really a soap opera with a small software project attached.

Let’s say such a change happens and at that time there’s a bit of time pressure and the capacity on the rust maintainers is thing for whatever reasons. Will they still happily swallow that change or will they start to discuss if it’s really necessary to do that change? And suddenly, the C-maintainer has a political discussion on top of the technical issue they wanted to solve.

This situation could occur even if the code using the API was written in C.

If an API change breaks other downstream kernel code, and that code can’t be fixed in time then they have a conversation about pushing the changes to the next build.

In the end, Linus has already chosen to accept the extra development overhead in using Rust. I think this situation was more about a maintainer, who happens to disagree with the Rust inclusion, using their position to create unnecessary friction for other maintainers.

There’s an equally rabid and irrational type of person who identifies as being left of center and they, like their mirror image, would rather burn the whole world down than to compromise.

We have to learn to recognize these toxic people for what they are, an impediment. Just because they’re using left-wing memes instead of right-wing memes doesn’t mean that they’re our ally.

Populist movements require everyone, this necessarily means that we have to reach the people who’re not the swastika flying white supremacists and the first step is to recognize that most voters are not the extremists and labeling everyone that voted for Trump as a ‘Nazi’ is helping drive division and plays into the hands of the elites that seek to divide us.

I think the worst part is the raping.

I’m starting to think this guy isn’t a straight shooter…

https://xkcd.com/927/

Technically gifted people who destroyed their careers early and that leaves Musk as their only hope. They won’t push back because the alternative is being a nobody with a ruined career.

Doubly so now that their names are tainted by their current work.

It’s because your data is orders of magnitude more valuable if it has enough information to identify you as a person.

They can’t sell it to data brokers for a lot of money if those data brokers can’t find any information to link that data with their existing profiles.

Surveillance capitalism 101, companies obtain the most value by enabling other corporations to spy on every detail of your life.

If you can’t use a service anonymously, without it being linked to your actual person, then you can either be okay with living with the panopticon, or don’t use the service.

Discord has been slowing rolling this out over the years. It started being offered as a “spam protection” feature and eventually it’ll be a requirement to have an account.

They depend on the masses of people who will trade all of their privacy in exchange for not having to learn how to use VoIP software, video streaming software or IM software.

I use it in this configuration.

It works well except, if you lose connection temporarily the cloudflared stops responding until some, long (60s or so) timeout period.

A minor annoyance, I usually just manuirestart the service… but I cannot find the setting that is causing this.

sometimes nvidia drivers are in a state that breaks display reinit on wake from sleep

That happens so often that I’ve just bound a hotkey in Hyprland to poke my monitors config (toggling VRR off and on again) in order to force a mode change and wake up the display.

The Justice Department is part of the Executive Branch.

The judiciary, aka the courts, is part of the Judicial Branch.

The Justice Department is prosecutors, not the judge.

Well, there was this one guy recently…

I guess you know what I said better than I know what I said. 👍

You’re just confused and don’t understand the terminology of the software that you’re using…

The Original Poster made a post about a specific person. In the Comment Section there are many people responding to the OP. Each of these comments form a thread. The thread consists of people replying to the person above them.

The thread is the context of conversation, as all replies in the thread are a reply to a reply, etc to the person making the first comment in the thread.

The first comment, in this thread in which we’re conversing, is:

Nazis are shitbags, yes, but like, calm down a bit. Don’t stoop down to their level.

Notice how it is talking about a group of people and not a single person.

I’m talking about a group of people and not a single person.

In this thread, which followed the comment that I just quoted, we’re talking about a group of people and not a single person.

You seem to be confused and think we’re having a conversation with the OP, who has not commented in this thread.

You’re ‘just talking’ right now.

If you didn’t believe that talking worked and violence is the only answer, then why are you here talking?

Are you a hypocrite, or just a coward?

You’re only wasting time and talking reckless so that you feel better about being helpless. You have no idea how to navigate the situation and, like everyone since the beginning of time, you resort to thinking that someone should do violence instead of talking.

But not you, no, you’re just going to hide behind a keyboard and anonymity and talk about violence.

The people encouraging violence are often the first target of the secret police in fascist takeovers and I highly doubt that you have more than a flimsy door between you and the goon squad that’ll be kicking it in at 3am.

At the end of the day by openly and wrecklessly talking about violence, you’ve alienated allies and made yourself a target.

This isn’t a game.

Hello, welcome to Lemmy.

In Lemmy, posts can contain comments which are organized into hierarchical threads.

If you are ever confused and need to understand the context of a conversation you can scroll up and read the thread from the top.

It isn’t a race to the bottom.

You’re not going to win moderate people to your side by labeling them Nazis.

It’s a mistake to find the most extreme opinions in a group and use them to label the entire group. Just because outrage and self-righteousness feels good, doesn’t mean it’s actually accomplishing anything.

The kinds of statements, like in the OP, are just a form of public masturbation. You’re just yelling into the void for the pleasure and mental rush.

If your goal is to defeat right-wing nationalists, you need to convince the undecided people and that isn’t happening if you’re just ranting like a crazy person because your brain is addicted to upvotes and outrage.

Yeah, until I go outside and think my phone is dead

The current moment is like the recent wildfires. All this trash built up over the years and it sort of has to have its time to burn out. Everything just has to find a way to survive it until it runs out of fuel. When the pendulum swings back the other direction, just be ready to rebuild from the natural disaster.

-Author unknown, February 1933