the number of “women for trump” bumper stickers I see daily are astounding.

you must be fun at parties

To be fair, it’s entirely possible to make the same and very similar mistakes in Rust, too.

you can’t know that

I think that entire comment is actually incorrect. My understanding is that they did not “remove” any maintainers, but actually rejected patches from Russian citizens (because of their employer), and also removed some Russian names from the maintainers list who already have code in the kernel.

yikes.

That doesn’t invalidate my statement though.

freedom TO vs freedom FROM

I was more referring to mainline specifically, otherwise your chances of having many people actually benefit from your changes without a lot of effort is small IMO.

And here I am looking to move away from Linux after they started rejecting contributions for political reasons.

I still don’t think something so important should be beholden to the whims of one company (Linux Foundation) or their country’s laws (USA).

I would strongly prefer to use an operating system that didn’t have this problem. Do any even exist?

For professionals used to Photoshop, yes it is that bad. People want what’s familiar because they’re used to it and they’re busy or lazy. They don’t want to learn something new.

If GIMP wanted to increase their userbase by a million overnight, they would make it look more like Photoshop.

The problem is they and many current users are huge FOSS zealots and see this kind of thing akin to selling your soul to the devil.

except gaia is one of the largest forums on earth.

they have more subscribers than Apple TV+

it was funny even before the last line though

I just don’t see the point. I can’t think of any good reason to have one personally.

I would love to be proven wrong though.

Except there were scientific studies done at the time that “proved” it was safe, even as a cigarette filter. Can’t really blame people for trusting that IMO.

Now I wonder what was actually so flawed about those studies.

99% of browsers and their forks also expose your real OS via javascript (navigator.platform), even on Tor Browser. Some in the privacy community say this information is actually worthless (it could be lying), but I don’t know for sure.

Not everyone wants to live in the terminal. I would argue most people don’t.

I think if Rust people want C and C++ devs to switch over, there needs to be a lot more documentation that’s easy to follow on how exactly to do that. For example with Swift there’s an amazing tutorial called Swift for C++ Practitioners that step-by-step goes over all the equivalent functionality and how to translate existing concepts over from one language to the other. I think Swift at least has the edge there with familiarity because the syntax physically looks closer to C-like languages, so when that’s not the case, even more hand-holding is going to be necessary IMO.

I would use Ada or Spark in a heartbeat if there was an easy-to-use, mature cross-platform GUI library for it.