- cross-posted to:
- linuxfr@jlai.lu
- linux@lemmy.ml
- cross-posted to:
- linuxfr@jlai.lu
- linux@lemmy.ml
this thread fucking sucks for me to have to post, but the linked open letter is an important read. none of the systemic issues pertaining to marginalized folks and commercial/military-industrial interests in the Nix community I’ve previously written about on TechTakes have been solved; in fact, they’ve gotten worse to the point where the Nix community moderation team is essentially in the process of quitting. that’s the beginning to an awful end for a project I like a whole lot.
even if you don’t give a fuck about Nix, the open letter is an important read because the toxicity, conflicts of interest, and underhanded tactics detailed in it are incredibly common in the open source space. this letter could have been written about a multitude of infamously toxic open source projects; Nix is lucky that it has marginalized folks involved who care about the direction of the project and want to make things better, but those people are actively leaving, after being burnt out by the toxic people and structures entrenched in Nix’s community. that’s a fucking tragedy.
The very sequence of letters “tootboost” is hurting me. If I ever hear someone saying that in person I cannot guarantee their or my safety.
To me the term suggest an apparatus attached to the anus to increase the power of flatulence.
How does one measure that, an ass spectrometer?
It’s a new SI unit, the power of a toot is measured in Trumps.
hmm, maybe a handgun silencer screwed in reverse? okay no sorry, I’m done.
One of those giant stereo unpowered ear horns used to hear incoming enemy aircraft before radar, but in reverse so it acts like a giant stereo megaphone.
Yeah the name definitely could be better, but alas I am not Eugen and can’t bdfl it. It’s a hard life
Kate Bush left “Tootboosting” in the vault.