• TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    107·
    2 hours ago

    By this logic, anyone who doesn’t believe in Marxist Leninism shouldn’t use Lemmy. I don’t like Windows for other reasons, but the personal life of the person who made it should not be a factor at all. You would in fact be severely limited if you only used products made entirely by people who are ‘perfect’ in every way.

    • brachiosaurus@mander.xyz
      5·
      1 hour ago

      but the personal life of the person who made it should not be a factor at all.

      The data windows collects about you goes in the hands of people involved in a pedo sexual abuse scandal. You should be indeed concerned

    • el_eh_chase@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      4·
      1 hour ago

      If we were talking about a company that makes toasters or bicycles or something I might agree with you. When it comes to an OS though, that’s where you store all your personal information and interact with your digital life. An OS can be updated to include malicious features and backdoors. The morality of the executives at the company making the OS could have a direct effect on you, moral arguments aside.

    • Mangoholic@lemmy.ml
      21·
      43 minutes ago

      Did you just put someone wanting to better people’s lives through his critic of capitalism as the same as being a billionaire pedophile.

    • pineapple@lemmy.mlEnglish
      11·
      2 hours ago

      Take it a bit more lightly my guy. 1st It was a joke. 2nd it was stated as a reason to use linux not the sole statement that makes windows completely irrelevent.

    • TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      3·
      2 hours ago

      He’s right that we shouldn’t infantilise teenagers by calling them ‘children’, lumping them in with prepubescent children as if there’s no difference between them.

    • cub Gucci@lemmy.today
      173·
      6 hours ago

      Something that the society achieved in the last 150 years are two dogmas:

      • 5/7 8 hours workweek is a maximum
      • people before 18 should not have sex with people after 18

      I’m kinda glad that questioning these puts one into a category of weirdos.

    • dandylion@lemmy.zip
      31·
      6 hours ago

      thank you. very important to share here.

      unfortunately I’ve heard similar phrasings and ideas expressed by 20- and 30-something year olds in the gaming community. still has me feeling unwell.

  • AceFuzzLord@lemmy.zip
    58·
    10 hours ago

    Linus would be too busy chewing Epstein out in a mailing list and then banning him from it permanently if they were friends.

  • Ephera@lemmy.mlEnglish
    971·
    12 hours ago

    I’m genuinely baffled how many oligarchs had contact with Epstein. I do believe their primary job qualification is a lack of morals, but there’s so many ways to be amoral, you don’t have to all be friends with the guy that offers pedophilia.

    • herseycokguzelolacak@lemmy.ml
      22·
      5 hours ago

      Epstein was not just a pedo pimp. He was a power-broker and a fixer for the American and Israeli rich elites. Not everyone was in for the girls, some of them were in for the other illegal stuff.

    • Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world
      1·
      2 hours ago

      Pre 2008 conviction contacts can be excused by ignorance. E.g. Stephen Hawking visited Epstein Island with other scientists in 2006.

      Gates was happy to make house visits to Epstein in 2011-2014

    • thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works
      241·
      7 hours ago

      Beyond just the pedophilia, his (Epstein) operation was largely one of socialising, and securing (probably coerced) introductions from people he helped facilitate and now held blackmail over.

      e.g. using blackmail material on a Bill Gates to secure an introduction to another wealthy and influential individual, offering them a “massage” and then producing kompromat at a later date to bring them into his circle.

      Now don’t get me wrong, everyone who found themselves in this position was a willing participant, not a victim - but I can understand how so many oligarchs eventually found their way into his little black book.

    • Avicenna@programming.dev
      8·
      6 hours ago

      Just oligarchs? Oligarchs don’t suprise me at all. The more surprising aspect is so many artists, scientists etc. I guess humans have a weakness for someone who makes them feel like a privileged member of a boy’s club.

      • 3abas@lemmy.world
        10·
        4 hours ago

        Noam Chomsky, that’s what broke my faith in humanity. His work in linguistics is why I’m a computer scientist, his work in political activism was my introduction to leftist theory, so much of what I do and think every day is directly influenced by his work.

        Turns out at the end of the day he’s a neo-liberal apartheid supporting hypocrite and possibly a pedophile.

        • Avicenna@programming.dev
          1·
          11 minutes ago

          Yeah it sucks. Don’t know if you are still in the field but I guess best reaction to this would be to set a better example in your corner of the world. Take what is good leave what is shitty and make sure to inform people who don’t know.

    • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
      751·
      12 hours ago

      What this whole thing has taught me is that there is a market among billionaires for someone to peddle enslaved kids.

      Now epstein is gone, and has been for years, but that demand doesn’t just die. I don’t have proof, but there is zero doubt in my mind that epstein is not a one and done. There’s either another epstein, or more likely a dozen smaller epsteins out there.

      There’s a part of me that thinks all these ICE abducting kids is being done at trumps order, specifically as a means to replace epstein.

      • Tinidril@midwest.socialEnglish
        25·
        10 hours ago

        There has been lot of information released indicating Epstein’s child trafficking ring was barely impacted by his absence. He had lots of conspirators, most of whom are probably still at it, nevermind all of the Mossad, KGB, and CIA cooperation.

        • Birds are not real@lemmy.world
          11·
          7 hours ago

          The only logical explanation I have found about it is by learning about Frankism from Professor Jiang and his youtube channel Predictive history.

          • Tinidril@midwest.socialEnglish
            4·
            6 hours ago

            I’ll check it out, but it seems pretty straightforward to me. When a social class sits outside the rules the rest of society is expected to live by, they get entitled and they get bored. Since they aren’t entirely immune to public opinion, they also become easy targets for blackmail as they push towards more and more “exclusive” forms of “entertainment”.

            • Birds are not real@lemmy.world
              12·
              6 hours ago

              I advise you do and it may get a bit more difficult to follow but your comment is partly right yes. The only aspect of it that differs is that it is a form of acquiring knowledge, because knowledge of god means knowledge of the sins. Through sinning you acquire understanding of why sins are wrong and the more you sin, the more valid your faith is unlike the faith of someone who has never sinned and therefore has no innate understanding of why sinning is wrong. It is a very strange cult but it is the only one that explains logically why powerful entities choose to commit things like the ones epstein did and there is a lot of goddamn powerful maniacs that have been proven to be true frankist and believe the nonsense it is.

              • Tinidril@midwest.socialEnglish
                3·
                6 hours ago

                Sounds to me like a rationalization for what I suggested. I’m not saying they don’t believe it but, in my experience, the main predictor of what people believe is what they want to believe. People decide how they want to live, then construct a belief system to justify it.

                • Birds are not real@lemmy.world
                  11·
                  5 hours ago

                  One of my favorite quotes of all times by henry ford reflects your statementent “Wether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right.”

                  But I guess my last comment was more to highlight something odd about religious psychology and it is that this planet is not the end goal and that anything done here has implications on the judgement of your character in the afterlife to a faithful person. I guess religious execution would be a good example: In the modern times (this was not just in the middle ages), humans were still burned alive but the goal was not the spectacle as it often is assumed to be. When you read through proper literature from cardinals and theologians of those ages, (my favorite being Nicholas De Cusa which has written on this) the reason they practiced death by fire is because the pain was seen as an instrument to make the sinner regret their actions, allowing them to receive a quicker punishment for their actions here than endure what the christian god would give them in hell. This is therefore an attempt at saving their soul rather than a way to give everyone a show or even to deter other potential sinners by the public spectacle. And this in turn also was seen by the executioner as a way of acquiring more praise from god because they forced someone through a terrible situation, salvating the nature of their soul from any malice BEFORE they pass (meaning they saved the soul by lighting the body on fire). Frankism follows the same logic, sinning as a way to see the evil in sinning before you die and therefore being of higher religious value than a common soul which has not sinned as much. Because the pleasure in sinful acts is not the focus, what is the focus is that sinning brings suffering to even the sinner. This can be understood by false analogies like how a thief or a murderer will not acquire happiness from their act despite those acts being pleasurable to them. Because pleasure and happiness are not the same. Pleasure is ephemeral, happiness lasts. But knowledge also lasts, and so the murderer or thief will be brought to realizing the evil of their ways prior to death, following the assumption that most people experience the regret for sins they have commited before their passing.

                  And the same goes for ISIS which would stone some of their prisonners, typically when they were muslims as a way of saving them before their passage, strangely they prefered to just kill the caucasian prisonners right away by beheading which then was indeed for the spectale and deterrence of western visitors. This world is weird sometimes.

    • M137@lemmy.world
      2·
      2 hours ago

      I actually made three new friends on new years eve completely through mentioning Linux. We were at a party and I had a really bad year last year so I was rusty in the “talking to people” department, the few people I knew there, who are indie games devs that don’t use Linux, said something (can’t remember exactly what) that made me reply with a Linux joke and those three people moved their chairs closer to me with a “ooooh, a linux nerd, let’s fucking go” energy. We went on such a nerd dive that they party host told us that we aren’t allowed to talk Linux anymore or we’d have to leave.
      We talked a lot more through the night and had to really concentrate to not get thrown out, haha.

    • degen@midwest.socialEnglish
      7·
      6 hours ago

      Another contributor who doesn’t have wildly differing political ideals from your own, I think?

    • ray@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      115·
      14 hours ago

      It’s a class that’s allowed to access another class’s private members. Obviously Linus doesn’t have any, because he codes in C.

      • Redkey@programming.dev
        9·
        9 hours ago

        Private members aren’t actively blocked from external access; they’re passively marked “Access prohibited”.

        That means that rather than being unable to find the members of a class, C programmers simply can’t pick up on the signals telling them that they’re not wanted.

        (Fellow C programmers: I’m joking. :D)

    • panda_abyss@lemmy.ca
      26·
      12 hours ago

      It’s a second user account on your machine. Of course, you don’t put them in the sudoers file.

  • PryDer@lemmy.world
    16·
    3 hours ago

    Sadly, Linux has a lot of issues on my laptop that I’m not able to fix. When they’ll implement new drivers in the kernel I’ll try again…

  • CaptDust@sh.itjust.works
    56·
    14 hours ago

    If he’s in the files it’s strictly to tear Jeffers apart for submitting a shit code patch and wasting his time.