“Unalive” isn’t being used for political correctness, it is being used because algorithms actively penalize content using the words “kill” and “suicide”, so using “unalive” instead is a way to work around censorship.

I was not going to downvote your comment despite disagreeing with it, but since you are now citing your downvote/upvote ratio as proof that most people support your position, you now get downvotes from me.

That’s why in video games I smash everything in order to be safe.

I think that the problem here is that you are assuming that the wording was carefully crafted to mean something precise when in fact it was just thrown together sloppily. 😆

I do not see the causal connection you are seeing in the meme at all. I just see it pointing out that now is a particularly bad time for Electron apps to be so dominant, which is true.

It may have taken a while, but the Year of the Linux Desktop has finally arrived in 1969!

Here I came expecting to hear from the Rust-haters and the Wayland-haters, and instead I got to hear from the MIT License-haters!

There were plenty of people who were not Nazis in Germany when the Nazis took over the country.

In fairness, Anthropic needed some way to bundle up to stay warm in the upcoming AI winter…,

You have my deepest condolences.

Don’t do it, I2C! The “C” in your acronym doesn’t stand for cancer!!!

I didn’t necessarily hate it, but it was a significant step down after DS9 and TNG.

(And to demonstrate that I am not biased against new Star Treks: I am one of the few human beings alive who loved the first season of Star Trek: Picard when it came out!)

What would you propose as an alternative?

Agreed, there will always be a turbofish in the sea.

A sign that their programming skills are rusty.

Nothing if that works for you, but sometimes I end up using Ctrl+Insert / Shift+Insert a lot because I am doing a lot of things in the terminal and Ctrl+C has a different meaning there, so it is nice for Ctrl+Insert / Shift+Insert to work everywhere for when I have it in my muscle memory.

I am confused about how this differs significantly from someone mistyping their e-mail address so that they end up instead typing in someone else’s active e-mail address, because in both cases e-mails get sent to the wrong person.

As the world outside increasingly turns into a social and ecological hellscape, people will want to look at it less and less, and the time spent peering through windows will diminish. Eventually, the existence of a portal to a realm outside their bleak cave will be forgotten to time and memory, leaving behind only pale indoor light and stale indoor air.

Call me old school, but I prefer my foss to be linear.

Being written in Rust has mixed effects. Rust is still less mainstream than C, so fewer people can contribute. However, it does attract more interest because it’s different.

Yes, it’s “different”. That is all that it has to offer: it’s “different”. There is no other reason why people might be interested in it.

However, the reasons why you create/contribute to new-but-similar projects is to add functionality that the original project doesn’t have.

Why is that the only reason to motivate someone to do such a thing?

So why are people (and Canonical) contributing so much labor to something that still doesn’t function as intended?

Maybe we should take them that they word that they are genuinely think that coreutils would be better if it were written in Rust? Why is that such a radical possibility?

I say it’s the licensing.

Yes, I have noticed that you are very big on saying what others’ motivations are.