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.

i voted best i could. now i’m trying to wake people up to the truth before the genocidal chickens come home to roost

it’s true! he’s a fuckin carpet bagging fake!

I bet he doesn’t feel anything when he hears Union Maid because no one ever taught it to him as a kid.

yeah. it’s not like we keep dogs because we mistakenly think they’re small noisy excitable people. we don’t have to assume animals are dumber than us

fake ass fake Appalachian elf on the shelf ass motherfucker

do you have any idea the optics of making your entire political identity being about how you came from Appalachian roots, and then fucking going after a Jewish Ukrainian just to be a fucking bully? Volodymyr Zelenskyy is more of us than JD Vance is. Appalachia is a hermit crab region of people who landed here trying to flee prosecution somewhere else. our cultural roots are a blend of native american, African, ulster scot, Jewish, German, and eastern European (largely polish and Ukrainian with a touch of russian).

this fuckin’ putz just attacked someone who embodies much of Appalachia’s struggle. and do you know what he did it to do? he did it to perpetrate the continuation of our struggle. we are a region rich with mineral wealth, but poor because outside interests have robbed us blind through trickery, coercion, and violence. the current development plan of my part of Appalachia centers around the development of pipelines to transport petroleum from the country north of us to ports along our nation’s southern coast, and to mine the rare earths under our soil. sound familiar?

yeah fuck this fucking asshole. Appalachians who know their shit love Zelenskyy and hate Vance

it’s also a solid propaganda campaign since part of our current problem is that we, the sane, don’t have presence of messaging in the deep red places. the dems have for years given up on those votes, allowing polarization to take its grip and slowly strangle us. obama won with a 50 state strategy because that’s what it actually takes to win

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