• TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    138·
    3 hours ago

    By this logic, anyone who doesn’t believe in Marxist Leninism shouldn’t use Lemmy. I don’t like Windows for other reasons, but the personal life of the person who made it should not be a factor at all. You would in fact be severely limited if you only used products made entirely by people who are ‘perfect’ in every way.

    • Mangoholic@lemmy.ml
      52·
      1 hour ago

      Did you just put someone wanting to better people’s lives through his critic of capitalism as the same as being a billionaire pedophile.

    • el_eh_chase@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      51·
      2 hours ago

      If we were talking about a company that makes toasters or bicycles or something I might agree with you. When it comes to an OS though, that’s where you store all your personal information and interact with your digital life. An OS can be updated to include malicious features and backdoors. The morality of the executives at the company making the OS could have a direct effect on you, moral arguments aside.

    • pineapple@lemmy.mlEnglish
      11·
      2 hours ago

      Take it a bit more lightly my guy. 1st It was a joke. 2nd it was stated as a reason to use linux not the sole statement that makes windows completely irrelevent.

  • AceFuzzLord@lemmy.zip
    56·
    11 hours ago

    Linus would be too busy chewing Epstein out in a mailing list and then banning him from it permanently if they were friends.

  • Ephera@lemmy.mlEnglish
    99·
    13 hours ago

    I’m genuinely baffled how many oligarchs had contact with Epstein. I do believe their primary job qualification is a lack of morals, but there’s so many ways to be amoral, you don’t have to all be friends with the guy that offers pedophilia.

    • herseycokguzelolacak@lemmy.ml
      26·
      6 hours ago

      Epstein was not just a pedo pimp. He was a power-broker and a fixer for the American and Israeli rich elites. Not everyone was in for the girls, some of them were in for the other illegal stuff.

    • Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world
      2·
      3 hours ago

      Pre 2008 conviction contacts can be excused by ignorance. E.g. Stephen Hawking visited Epstein Island with other scientists in 2006.

      Gates was happy to make house visits to Epstein in 2011-2014

    • thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works
      261·
      8 hours ago

      Beyond just the pedophilia, his (Epstein) operation was largely one of socialising, and securing (probably coerced) introductions from people he helped facilitate and now held blackmail over.

      e.g. using blackmail material on a Bill Gates to secure an introduction to another wealthy and influential individual, offering them a “massage” and then producing kompromat at a later date to bring them into his circle.

      Now don’t get me wrong, everyone who found themselves in this position was a willing participant, not a victim - but I can understand how so many oligarchs eventually found their way into his little black book.

    • Avicenna@programming.dev
      9·
      7 hours ago

      Just oligarchs? Oligarchs don’t suprise me at all. The more surprising aspect is so many artists, scientists etc. I guess humans have a weakness for someone who makes them feel like a privileged member of a boy’s club.

      • 3abas@lemmy.world
        101·
        5 hours ago

        Noam Chomsky, that’s what broke my faith in humanity. His work in linguistics is why I’m a computer scientist, his work in political activism was my introduction to leftist theory, so much of what I do and think every day is directly influenced by his work.

        Turns out at the end of the day he’s a neo-liberal apartheid supporting hypocrite and possibly a pedophile.

        • Avicenna@programming.dev
          1·
          58 minutes ago

          Yeah it sucks. Don’t know if you are still in the field but I guess best reaction to this would be to set a better example in your corner of the world. Take what is good leave what is shitty and make sure to inform people who don’t know.

    • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
      741·
      13 hours ago

      What this whole thing has taught me is that there is a market among billionaires for someone to peddle enslaved kids.

      Now epstein is gone, and has been for years, but that demand doesn’t just die. I don’t have proof, but there is zero doubt in my mind that epstein is not a one and done. There’s either another epstein, or more likely a dozen smaller epsteins out there.

      There’s a part of me that thinks all these ICE abducting kids is being done at trumps order, specifically as a means to replace epstein.

    • M137@lemmy.world
      2·
      2 hours ago

      I actually made three new friends on new years eve completely through mentioning Linux. We were at a party and I had a really bad year last year so I was rusty in the “talking to people” department, the few people I knew there, who are indie games devs that don’t use Linux, said something (can’t remember exactly what) that made me reply with a Linux joke and those three people moved their chairs closer to me with a “ooooh, a linux nerd, let’s fucking go” energy. We went on such a nerd dive that they party host told us that we aren’t allowed to talk Linux anymore or we’d have to leave.
      We talked a lot more through the night and had to really concentrate to not get thrown out, haha.

    • ray@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      116·
      15 hours ago

      It’s a class that’s allowed to access another class’s private members. Obviously Linus doesn’t have any, because he codes in C.

      • Redkey@programming.dev
        9·
        9 hours ago

        Private members aren’t actively blocked from external access; they’re passively marked “Access prohibited”.

        That means that rather than being unable to find the members of a class, C programmers simply can’t pick up on the signals telling them that they’re not wanted.

        (Fellow C programmers: I’m joking. :D)

    • panda_abyss@lemmy.ca
      26·
      13 hours ago

      It’s a second user account on your machine. Of course, you don’t put them in the sudoers file.

  • PryDer@lemmy.world
    16·
    4 hours ago

    Sadly, Linux has a lot of issues on my laptop that I’m not able to fix. When they’ll implement new drivers in the kernel I’ll try again…

  • CaptDust@sh.itjust.works
    53·
    15 hours ago

    If he’s in the files it’s strictly to tear Jeffers apart for submitting a shit code patch and wasting his time.