[kemotep]

Bryan Lunduke is really interesting. A Microsoft alumni from the 90’s and early 2000’s moving on to become a champion for open source and Linux. He had a decent following with interesting insights and then just blew that all away.

It’s not often someone can stick to their “convictions” but he has the wealth he never needed to build a following to have a career. He could have retired young, tinkered with computers and raised his family.

His “heel turn” as is was was shocking at first but to double down on being anti-vax, sympathetic to January 6th protesters, and complaining about the existence of LGBT people (who have been around in Computer Science from the beginning) is just disappointing.

I loved his take on how GNU/Hurd should work. The idea of releasing a piece of software and only doing security updates after getting it to boot on common hardware is an interesting idea. Nothing he’s had to say in the past 4 years has been insightful or interesting. There are more than enough voices in the Linux community that can champion the cause these days without supporting the kind of tired, identity politics and culture war driven nonsense that he focuses on now.

[lostmsu]

> Nothing he’s had to say in the past 4 years has been insightful or interesting.

I personally found 3/4 of that video to be extremely insightful.

> There are more than enough voices in the Linux community that can champion the cause these days without supporting the kind of tired, identity politics and culture war driven nonsense that he focuses on now.

You need to see that between this statement of yours and what Lunduke said in his video, you are promoting identity politics and culture war, and he is actually trying to fight against it.

[kemotep]

When I say he isn’t insightful I mean that his opinions aren’t unique. I can hear almost identical opinions from half a dozen other linux content creators who do not run a side blog promoting their far right identity politics. Maybe that isn’t giving him enough credit but Linux Sucks doesn’t seem to have changed much in content or structure from 2019, the last one I listened to.

If being tired about hearing from conservatives who freak out about the existence of trans people is promoting a culture war, I don’t know how to respond to that. I just want people to be able to live their lives and be left alone, especially if they aren’t hurting anyone. For some conservatives, this is somehow an attack against them because I don’t care to listen to their opinions on why trans people shouldn’t be left alone to live their lives in peace.

[lostmsu]

Why don't you post these other creators then instead of attacking a video based on the political views of the author? I have no idea where you got transphobia from him, but there appears to be none in the video.

[caeril]

> sympathetic to January 6th protesters

Ooof, this is a really bad look. I had no idea he sympathized with a group of unarmed boomer LARPers. His technical positions should be immediately disregarded because he has the wrong opinions about due process applying to people who put their feet on someone's desk. What a Nazi.

[mmh0000]

I'm not sure why I'm replying to this, it'll just fall of deaf ears... But Someone on the Internet is wrong[1]!

It took my literally two seconds to Google up some photos[2], they don't look very "unarmed"[3] to me.

[1] https://xkcd.com/386/

[2] https://apnews.com/article/photos-election-jan6-trump-washin...

[3] https://media.npr.org/assets/img/2022/01/05/gettyimages-1230...

[caeril]

Again, I'm agreeing with you. One can of pepper spray would have rendered the entire armory of the Capitol Police ineffective, and Democracy would have been stolen from us.

One thing these Trumptards with their gun fetishism have over us is their extensive firearms knowledge, and they know that only one molecule of capsaicin entering the firing chamber of a .40 S&W pistol or .223 rifle completely disables it, so this Terrorist would have laid waste to the entirety of the defensive apparatus of DC. We really got lucky, here.

Every time I think about this Attack On Our Solemn Democracy I tear up. It could have gone the wrong way, very very fast. This incredibly well-organized, armed-to-the-teeth Boomerwaffen SS would have been no match for the Capitol Police, the DC Police, the DC National Guard, or the entirety of the Department of Defense under Posse Comitatus. The mechanized divisions of mobility scooters armed with Big Gulps alone would have overwhelmed this nation's defenses, and we would be living under a Dictatorship, forced to watch Fox News and re-runs of Murder She Wrote.