Okay, that’s a lot of someones. That doesn’t contradict “someone has forked it.” You’re being unnecessarily assy.

As per other comments, sudo-rs exists and is being maintained. And that’s the magic of FOSS.

Although it’s apparently not a fork. But it’s still a workable substitute, and that’s what matters. My entire point was that the entire Linux ecosystem isn’t going to be fucked just because one guy dies or decides to stop maintaining a widely used codebase.

Thank fuck. Thanks for letting me know

“And who built those bridges?”

“Mugatu!”

Wow, thanks for ruining it for me. Doesn’t Musk own paypal?

I recently got excited when I noticed some nice, obscure finds on ebay. Some vintage stuff, some handcrafted stuff, some really niche hobby stuff. But I’m not ordering from a company owned by Musk.

I haven’t ordered from amazon in years. But when I found out they own Abebooks it was a sad day…

Exactly. That’s why the commodification of education is a travesty that can’t be overstated…

The groundwork was already set when they pinned all the atrocities of the west on the humanist tradition. The atrocities were committed by mercantilism, capitalism, religion, and colonialism.

The humanist tradition gave us secularism, democracy, human rights, and even the very concept of equality, without which we never would have developed post-modern ideals such as egalitarianism, multiculturalism, and inclusivity.

Those concepts were originally encapsulated by the term “liberalism,” hence we have things like “liberal arts,” “liberal democracy,” and “liberal education.” Unfortunately, capitalist conservatives appropriated the terminology and gave us the corruption that is neoliberalism: austerity for the poor, tax-cuts and subsidies for the wealthy, deregulation of markets and industries, just one step away from anarcho-capitalism and technofeudalism.

But people today, lacking the nuance that a liberal education would instill, conflate neoliberalism with humanist liberalism due to the nominal resemblance. Hence, leftists have engendered a hatred for “liberals,” when what they really hate are “neoliberals.”

These are the kinds of nuances that matter, and seem to be all but lost these days…

That’s because they don’t believe in intrinsic value. They don’t believe human beings are inherently worthy of dignity and respect. They think those are things that have to be earned, and earned at the expense of others at that. They think dignity comes from being exalted above others, so they push others down while scrambling to boost themselves up.

They don’t want to live in a world where everyone is equally dignified. To them, if they have no one to look down on, they feel they themselves are a diminished thereby. It goes all the way down the social ladder. Even the lowest hick in the trailer park finds someone on TV in a more wretched condition than themselves, so that they can feel lofty.

They view life as a zero sum game, and the only measurement of value or worth that they recognize is monetary. It’s to the point where you can’t even talk to them about intrinsic value, because they’ll think you’re talking about finances.

That’s why they think financial oligarchs are kings. They view them as “winners” at life, as if they got there by hard work, diligence, and other platitudes, rather than by stealing the value of the labor and innovation of the people subject to them and siphoning and hoarding the wealth of society.

It’s why they don’t believe in taxing the rich to fund the welfare state. They don’t view people at the “bottom” of the social hierarchy as being worthy of dignity and respect, let alone the care and support of society and civil governance. To them, money is all that’s important, and when they look at a balance sheet, they see anything going to help the poor as a “waste.”

It’s tragic. It could have all been avoided, if we had elected better leaders, if education had been prioritized more by society, particularly liberal arts and the humanities. They don’t generate profit, so the same people view those things as a waste. But how is a society going to raise the next generation of leaders without a strong base in the humanities and liberal arts?

I can’t take credit for it. I believed the man who coined the term was named Carl something.

Or maybe he spelled his name with a K… Karl, Marquis? Marcus? Marquette? Something like that…

That’s good, at least everything won’t collapse catastrophically at this like a single point of failure without any redundancies. It would be better if someone other than canonical would do it, but at least it’s not like no one is…

Mine won’t certainly, but by the magic of FOSS I’m sure someone will do it.

Oh look, someone already has…

Isn’t the whole point of FOSS software that anyone can fork it?

That’s what I thought of too. I was like “Oh, is he that guy in Nebraska I’ve been hearing about?”

There’s nothing billionaire oligarchs fear more than people who are capable of thinking for themselves. Of course they want to destroy the humanities…

That’s called “appropriating the surplus value of labor”

The FOSS ecosystem will be fine, because it’s maintained by people who do it for the love of the craft.

We’re still in the pot, dude. It’s a double-boiler, we only jumped out of the inner chamber where even the metal on the bottom doesn’t go above boiling temperature…

No, no, they made devices into strong female protagonists!

/s

Maybe I misunderstood your original comment. It seemed like you were saying that it was okay for the CCP to massacre protestors because the protestors were manipulated by CIA plants.

If that’s not what you were saying, then I was mistaken. If it was, then I don’t know how anything you just said is supposed to change my opinion…

How am I being authoritarian?

My prediction about the ad hominems turned out to be accurate, apparently…