If a software project (or company) promotes and protects developers who call for the ostracizing, banning, and attacking of groups such as Jews, Christians, or Conservatives… Does that make you more or less likely to use their software?

Does Objectionable Behavior by Developers Impact What Software You Choose? Debian & GNOME hide a registered sex offender on their team. Many Open Source projects attack Jews, Christians, and Conservatives. Does that make you less likely to use them?

These results… are pretty much exactly what I expected.

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“js.js is a JavaScript interpreter in JavaScript” “the interpreter is about 200 times slower than Spidermonkey” I’m gonna need BrendanEich’s view on this. 🤣 github.com/jterrace/js.js

FOSSY — a Free Software conference in Portland, Oregon — takes place at the end of July. It includes session on “Databases and Diversity” (which is exactly what you think it’s about… DEI in Database development) and other sessions on how “equity, inclusion, and

Don’t panic! Everybody can relax! The “Code of Conduct committee will be wearing masks”. PHEW!

In one episode of Captain Planet, the villain is — I kid you not — a furniture company. The Planeteers stop an evil business owner from making chairs and tables. Because, you know, trees or something. Captain Planet - Season 2, Episode 21 captainplanet.fandom.com/wiki/The_Great…

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How many desktop Linux PCs are in active use? Not purely marketshare, but in real numbers? According to US Government Analytics: 72.7 Million According to Statista & StatCounter: 57.3 Million How many PCs are running Linux when they play games via Steam? 3.3 Million. These

A prominent GNOME representative, who writes announcements for GNOME Foundation and repeatedly publishes anti-Jewish attacks on the GNOME website, is still at it. To date GNOME has taken no action to stop his spreading of hate and libel. Also worth noting: GNOME has also not

If you’re not running as root, it’s not your computer.

Many people who promote Firefox, at this point, do so primarily for political reasons. See: Mozilla rebranding themselves as a “Global Crew of Activists”.

If you need to ask permission to use a piece of software, do you own it?

This is your regular reminder that Firefox says it can do whatever it wants with anything you type, click, or upload.

🤣 The Woke Right is now trying to claim that Mamdani (a Muslim Communist who opposes the existence of Israel and generally hates Jews) is really… a secret Jew, and an Israeli asset on a secret Mossad operation. This is off-the-deep-end levels of stupid.

I’m sensing a trend.