Awesome to see Omarchy getting more visibility! Fireship’s vid spreading the Linux desktop to 500k+ viewers is huge!

I don’t use this distro myself, but I still cheer for anything that helps motivate Windows users to make the switch.

  • e8d79@discuss.tchncs.de
    29·
    7 days ago

    This issue represents all you need to know about omarchy.
    There is also this:

    DHH proudly advertises that the main branch of their repository is called master instead of main, to own the libs or something.

      • e8d79@discuss.tchncs.de
        27·
        7 days ago

        Cunts like DHH are trying to turn Linux into yet another nazibar and you are questioning me on calling it out?

        • melroy@kbin.melroy.org
          6·
          7 days ago

          I just rather want to have open-source software separate from politics if you don’t mind.

          EDIT: And before people saying I’m a nazi or something… I’m not.

          • e8d79@discuss.tchncs.de
            22·
            7 days ago

            I do in fact mind as non-political is usually just code for “lets be horrible to women and minorities, and if you say anything you are being political”; besides I don’t think you could describe both the free software software and the later open source software movement as anything other than political.

          • macniel@feddit.org
            7·
            6 days ago

            Having open source literally is political as it stands opposed to close and proprietary code. You can’t have it without being political.

            • melroy@kbin.melroy.org
              1·
              5 days ago

              Free and non-free code is more about a economic system and maybe a legal system.

              But I don’t think it has anything to do with the political system.

              • macniel@feddit.org
                1·
                5 days ago

                It is. Let’s look at activitypub, a protocol that allows decentralised services to talk with each other. The protocol is auditable, viewable and modifiable by everyone aka open source.

                Everyone can participate in it’s development.

                Closed source on the other hand is not auditable, viewable or modifiable unless you are part of the organisation. Only those part of the organisation can participate in it’s development.

                Furthermore the open source nature allows to fork by anyone for whatever reasons. Closed source doesn’t allow that.

                Changes in a source can affect everyone involved. In close source you can only assume what changed, see YouTube as a recent example or algorithm changes on Twitter or not being able to use your favourite software.

                So yes open source is political.

      • e8d79@discuss.tchncs.de
        15·
        7 days ago

        What does switching from the default name ‘main’ back to master achieve; and why are they advertising this on xitter? On an unrelated note, do you know what a dog whistle is?

        • maus@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          5·
          7 days ago

          It doesn’t really matter what they call it, does it? Just like changing the name to “main” didn’t achieve anything.

          Words have multiple definitions. The definition that git’s usage is based on is:

          an original movie, recording, or document from which copies can be made. “the master tape” synonyms: original, archetype, prototype

          This shouldn’t have been “problematic” either way. It’s just all virtue signals. We aren’t rushing to rename Master Degrees are we?

          • unknowing8343@discuss.tchncs.de
            3·
            6 days ago

            I think main actually makes more sense. Talking about archetype, prototypes, “original”… Makes no sense in branch development.

            Just call it main. This will make sense for any kind of development.

    • expr@programming.dev
      4·
      6 days ago

      This is dumb. The switch to main was stupid to begin with and served no actual purpose.

      There are much more legitimate reasons to call him out as a fascist.