Norah - She/They

Honestly, I think it all leads back to the original character limit of Twitter. It’s referencing that Microsoft is money-grubbing and power-hungry.

I use Asus routers running the merlin (soft) fork of their Asuswrt firmware. There are a couple of binary closed source blobs, but the rest is open.

wait, is that name “manjarno” like when brad pitt says bonjorno in inglorious basterds??

One of their developers temporarily broke Asahi Linux.

Wait, how??

No, I also found the way he handled it really distasteful. Even before his response, just generally the way the whole thing was attempted under a veil wasn’t great. The actions taken should have been transparent from the start.

I do agree that it shouldn’t be polluting this thread like this though.

Jackass forgets that the US invaded and occupied another country for most of the 21st century.

Typical.

How am I tone policing?

I don’t think it’s irrational to have wanted them to be transparent about it, but you do you I guess.

What are you talking about, Windows 8 was a complete shitshow. It wasn’t until 8.1 that it became respectable.

I personally think this is a cop out. Obviously people would have been outraged either way, but personally my only issue is about how it was done. The whole point of the FOSS community is openness and transparency. The senior maintainers of arguably the most important FOSS project trying to operate secretively on something like this has shattered my trust in them, as well as many others.

That’s a valid point to make, but it’s actually both. Russian athletes would have been able to compete under the IOC flag if it was just the doping scandal, from what I understand.

Ah, cool. You’re one of those.

Also, wonder what happened in 2014 that might’ve provoked a response from Russia there.

Ukraine using its right to free association, to sign an agreement with the EU strengthening relations? Specifically including a further formalising of cooperation around Chernobyl (Euratom is independently a signatory), an issue entirely caused by Russia in the first place, who didn’t ever offer a similar level of cooperation? Is that what you’re referring too?

You know that Russia wasn’t able to compete in the Olympics or Paralympics this year, right? The individual athletes weren’t banned however, but they had to compete under a neutral banner and weren’t in the parade of nations.

Edit: I should have added, was disgusted because Israel were allowed to compete. Huge double standard there.

Reminds me of a comment the other day on a post about Ventoy. Whatever the situation there is, which definitely needs clarification still, the person was saying that you shouldn’t trust it at all because the maintainer is Chinese, even though he has emigrated away. Because the CCP will be able to leverage his family still there to force him to create a backdoor.

That’s just thinly veiled racism in my opinion.

1. There’s an older comment in this thread that details how you could verify those blobs: https://sh.itjust.works/comment/14458323
2. You very much implied that you shouldn’t trust all people of Chinese descent. I personally very much dislike the CCP, as a government I think they cause an immeasurable amount* of harm. However, what you are suggesting is on the same level of racism as the US government locking up all Japanese-Americans in internment camps during WWII.
3. Seriously, calm down.

Yes, and in the last twelve months those discussions clearly accelerated, and that post made it clear the lead/original dev had made their mind up. Which very much negates you saying this was rushed.

Here’s a post from May in the Minetest Luanti forums discussing the name change: https://forum.minetest.net/viewtopic.php?p=425205#p425205

I’m not going to search further to find the original discussion, but another user in this thread mentions seeing talk of this about a year ago. I agree that it’s not very professional for the new website to be in a less than functional state, but it feels like excitement or decision fatigue may be the culprit, not a rushed process. Then again, it’s an open source video game, not everything has to be “professional” all the time. Meanwhile, enjoy this meme from luanti.org:

Okay… So it sounds like a dead project to me? When Luanti seems to have a huge community around it already…

Okay, but openblox.org doesn’t resolve a website at all, directing users instead to a domain registrar.