• GoatEnglish
    2·
    11 hours ago

    who doesn’t want a victim-blamer significant other with a superiority complex and a chair up an ivory tower they never get up from

      • GoatEnglish
        6·
        7 hours ago

        In recent years, Debian maintainers have been acting with increasing disrespect toward upstream software maintainers and abusing their reputation of being a “stable distro” to shift blame for their bad decisions onto others.

        The most significant example would be the orphaning of bcachefs-tools, during which Debian maintainers demonstrated outrageous incompetence in the way they package Rust libraries and a lack of willingness to make simple changes to their package manager (a way to have certain packages installed in multiple versions at once if the names of files inside those packages allow that to happen without conflicts) to accommodate for software whose library dependencies are at odds with those of other Debian packages. This incited an influx of harassment and bigotry towards the bcachefs-tools maintainers and the Rust community at large.

        Another example that comes to mind is the KeePassXC fiasco, in which the build configuration for KeePassXC in its Debian package was modified to remove certain features, without any sort of prior communication or discussion with the KeePassXC team itself. One of the features removed by Debianers was the KeePassXC browser extension integration that helps users avoid exposing passwords to the clipboard when using the password manager, protecting them against clipboard grabbers. Because the KeePassXC team was not notified in advance, the settings menu of the password manager had no provisions for telling the user that specific features were disabled at compile time (the assumption being that only advanced users manually compiling KeePassXC would modify those settings), leading to their bug tracker being swarmed by frustrated and confused users of the Debian unstable branch who suddenly had the browser extension integration removed from their version of KeePassXC without a trace. This miscommunication put pressure on the KeePassXC team and misrepresented their software in the eyes of users, as Debian maintainers did not bother coordinating their changes with anyone. To add insult to injury, the Debianers then proceeded to scold the KeePassXC team on their issue tracker for supposedly having bad defaults, further escalating the purposeful breakage event into what came to most resemble bullying of upstream maintainers by Debian packagers.

        • TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyzEnglish
          2·
          6 hours ago

          When my son was 4 years old I took away his mattress and forced him to sleep on the floor every night.

          If he did his chores, I closed his window.
          If he got straight A’s, I gave him a blanket.
          If he got in a fight at school and won, I wouldn’t force him to take his shower cold.

          One day, he asked me,
          “dad, why is that no matter how hard I work, I can’t seem to earn a bed?”

          I slapped him, first - every question carries a price - then responded,
          “son, you can work as hard as you can in this world, it doesn’t always mean you’re going to get what you want.”
          Then I asked him,
          “is there a bed in our house?”
          He answered,
          “yes, but it’s yours, isn’t it?”
          I punched him again - for the question - then told him
          “yes. If you want a bed, you need to fight me for it.”

          Our president is 80 years old.
          The average age of our senate is 64 years old.
          Young people expect the older generations to give them everything, they are never raised to fight for and take what they want, so they deserve nothing.

          Waking up to my 7 year old with a blade held to my throat was the proudest I’d ever been.
          As I slept on the floor, shivering that night in the cold (he also took my blanket and broke my window), I rested soundly, knowing I’d taught him well.

    • deus@lemmy.worldEnglish
      24·
      22 hours ago

      The word “Debian” was formed as portmanteau of the first names of himself and his then-girlfriend (later ex-wife) Debra Lynn

      Hmmm