Post AzZ2RM3l4VNqTrKZzU by Alephwyr@chitter.xyz
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(DIR) Post #AzZ1cqYdv96oIfh1Ie by nyx@social.xenofem.me
2025-10-25T09:53:56.846866Z
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the thing that everyone seems to have largely forgotten about free software is that the most important thing about it, the whole point why it matters at all, is because it was always supposed to be a commons of peer-to-peer production where every user is engaged with the software they use in some way. I realize it's no longer practical to know every single thing about the system you're running with how absurdly complex software has become, but even if all you do is learn how to write shell scripts, or fill in some documentation that's lacking, or package software, the point is to use a system that is built by the people who use it, otherwise the commons will eventually get enclosed by rent-seeking parasites who want to exploit the free real estate. which just so happens to be exactly what has started happening to Linux over the past decade or so, and it's only gonna get exponentially worse as the Linux desktop matures, as Microsoft's monopoly on desktop computing eventually breaks from it making increasingly cravenly exploitative versions of Windows, and as tech companies figure out ways of monetizing Linux in the desktop spacethe recent omarchy drama should be seen as a major turning point in the beginnings of this process by being a distro marketed to ricers with corporate funding behind it despite being a glorified collection of ricer scripts and not a real distro, but at the moment it's only being done by one incompetent asshole who has a history of using and abusing the open source community for his own benefit
(DIR) Post #AzZ2RM3l4VNqTrKZzU by Alephwyr@chitter.xyz
2025-10-25T09:58:16Z
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@nyx I don't really follow the politics of open source at all except for what I'm exposed to just by being adjacent to the community from so many different positions, but I just sort of figured based on inductive pattern that linux is going to get destroyed in the next 5-10 years, and have started looking at alternatives. Right now, GhostBSD is maximally usable, but lacks good security options even in basic respects. OpenBSD is functional but annoying. Redox is tantalizing but not functional and also probably in the same space of things that the bastards are going to get their hooks into. Nothing else seems terribly plausible to me. I couldn't figure out Haiku and don't think I could figure out Haiku. I could figure out Plan 9/9 front but do not want to.
(DIR) Post #AzZ2RNFUeMMgAXpSvA by nyx@social.xenofem.me
2025-10-25T10:03:00.400590Z
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@Alephwyr I mean, it's not like the software is gonna just go away lol. and certainly future versions of Linux are going to continue to be released since companies will want to stick their binary blobs in the kernel to port it to the newest hardware. it's more that Linux will become an increasingly bloated monstrosity of different corporate interests all trying to shove their garbage into the kernel and userland, but it'll remain free and usable. it'll just continue to become worse until the base experience of the Linux desktop resembles something like Windows, where every free alternative is old X11 software
(DIR) Post #AzZ3kVtSpj4kR7DPYu by Alephwyr@chitter.xyz
2025-10-25T10:07:05Z
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@nyx I think we're nearing the point where it's dangerous to talk about the political consequences of software decisions where bad people can hear you. No politician or even lobbyist is ever going to have natural ideas about what kinds of lawfare they can do to ruin things in an advantageous way, but we're nearing the point where some of them might seize on *suggestions*
(DIR) Post #AzZ3kXF7ofzqcaMDxo by nyx@social.xenofem.me
2025-10-25T10:17:43.998535Z
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@Alephwyr I don't really know what point you're trying to make other than that you've gotta practice better spectrosec. the NWO gets its power largely from belief in its omniscience