English is the dominant language in the US, nobody argues that. But making it the official language has a lot of implications, both symbolic and bureaucratic.

Needless to say one of the “unintentional” side effects of this EO is the nationalist posturing, giving some ammunition to chuds who like to shout things like “speak English, this is America”, and general eurocentric colonial sentiments.

It also has the possibility of introducing barriers to migration, which given the administration’s expressed interest and prior action, is a guaranteed motivation. The fact of the matter is that the people coming here who are most likely to know English (thus be admitted entrance into the country and approved for citizenship following this EO) are going to be white. Having worked in higher education, this would be massively damaging to so many international students, never mind all the many other people who might be seeking entry to the country for all the myriad of reasons one might do so.

There are also significant legal ramifications for the millions of current citizens for whom English is not their primary language. The implementation of an official national language is certain to erode accessibility of bureaucratic systems to those who rely on multilingual resources, which were previously mandatory for public services to provide. Moving forward, we’re very likely to see many of these resources become unmaintained (if not be scrapped altogether), while the material published in English is kept updated. Again, this is absolutely going to disproportionately impact people of color in the US, who are more likely to not speak English as a first language, or be fluent in it at all.

And while I feel like those points speak for themselves, I’d also like to add that I grew up being preached to about how great the US is for its multiculturalism. I was taught a whitewashed and distorted history, but the benefits of multiculturalism were never overstated. We benefit from being surrounded by people with experiences vastly different than our own who we can learn from. Language is intimately tied to our capacity for understanding and developing knowledge, so any attempts to suppress the presence of languages other than English block us from any growth we might experience from them, either on an individual or societal level. For so many minority groups, particularly indigenous peoples, language is one of the most raw connections we have to our history and culture.

Tl:dr (but please do read it all); designating a national language, in the US, with its current administration, is a transparently nationalist effort to harm minority groups, both prospective migrants and current citizens.

Merge is blocked

12 tests failed

Why the hell does my HTML renderer need a baked-in frontend for a privacy nightmare that requires I sign over rights for every keystroke even if I don’t use it? If Mozilla really wants to roll it out themselves, make it an extension available for download and tie your abysmal terms of use to that, don’t upend your entire reputation for the latest big tech trend.

And the sentiment against AI on lemmy absolutely sucks dick. I’m tempted to go back to Reddit because this place is luddite.ml at this point. People who’ve never spun up a local model on their GPU talk like they have trifecta PhD creds in comp sci

Oh poor you, how dare people appropriately respond to foil-plated shit being advertised to us as platinum decor. Stay away from glue on days you use your computer

You make yourself a danger to officers

Hell yeah

And it helpfully installs a scareware antivirus that changes your default search engine so you don’t have to go through the trouble!

I mean, I fault Mozilla for that, and a lot of other things especially in light of recent developments. But Brave still fosters user dependency on a google project, ceding browser engine market dominance toward google. I might be bale to give Brave a pass for its faults if it was making strong moves in creating a truly free and open internet, but as-is they’ve basically taken an open-source project, applied their own branding, and baked in functionality that on a better engine can be replicated with more granular control by extensions.

In theory that’s fair reasoning. Unfortunately the dev made it clear that his reasoning was based on politics

You’re right, words are meaningless and language has no bearing on society at large. after all, fuiebt eidiowb rhe efifo quifopim.

Fascism, just like Communism or even a Dictatorships are not inherently bad

No offense but what the fuck are you even saying

Fascism is absolutely inherently bad, there is no removal of its evil, oppressive, and authoritarian traits after which anything is left.

Yeah but i don’t want to recommend a browser to someone just for them to have some cryptocurrency, AI chatbot, and Ad reward program shoved in their face.

And then telling them that they Can get rid of it, they just have to go make some file they don’t understand in a location on their hard drive they’ve never been to.

Because being real, if Brave’s bloat was bundled into an antivirus software, it would rightfully raise red flags for anyone with standard computer literacy.

Thank you for your service 🫡

A 3d printer comes to mind

A number of them have written about their reasons- I can’t speak for the maintainer this article is about but the general sentiment I’ve seen from the ones I’ve been hearing about is that the culture around kernel development is dogwater. Lots of it surrounding refusal to make any space for R4L and shitting on devs working on it, but then also spinning out of that are maintainers likening their quality control responsibilities to being “the thin blue line”.

Wow that ‘etc’ is doing a ton of legwork

Man too bad all I’ve got to eat is this cyanide. Those cookies over there? Don’t you know how unhealthy those are?

That’s just when they let the mask slip. It’s not like they were saints up til that point.

If you made the mistake of buying an M-series Mac before migrating to Linux, Asahi is a great way to continue using that machine if you’re fine with no external displays. Since I only ever use my M1 air on the go, it doesn’t bother me.

However, you cannot wipe the existing MacOS install nor stub partitions as they’re needed for firmware updates and booting non-mac operating systems. I think I managed to squeeze my macos partition down to something like 40gb, which is a ton of unusable space on my 128GB laptop.

If you’re in the market for a new machine, there are better options in terms of affordability and usability, even if you’re specifically looking for an ARM device

Something something all you have is a hammer

“Egg” is a term used to refer to a trans person who hasn’t come out (of their shell) yet.

I think those are called hands