I would say that it is cowardice to demand that others risk their lives while enjoying relative safety. And anyone attempting to force another to risk their lives for any reason is attempting to rob others of their agency over the most fundamental thing that any human has right to: their life.

Maybe it’s nice sentiment for a healthy teenager or 20-something that isn’t responsible for anyone else’s well-being. However, is that reality doesn’t fit neatly into black and white; bravery and cowardice (and glory is just a lie that the rich and old tell the young and poor to get them to fight and die for them). Sometimes the braver and more just thing is to fulfill one’s responsibilities to their spouse, children, or dependents and ensure that they are able to live to help others. And other’s have had so much taken from them by a place that asking for them to also give their life is pure sadism.

Beyond that, not everyone is physically, mentally or socially equipped for warfare, which is a good thing because humanity also needs farmers, doctors, teachers, and other builders.

Everyone has one life to live. Most people younger than 60 have had next to no control over the US government through any phase of their lives - hard to rationalize this being “their own” mess. Telling these people that they must risk their lives, rather than seeking better ones is pretty ethically problematic.

And on the other side of the coin, that is the exact same rhetoric used by racists and xenophobes to argue against asylum seekers.

(Note: This really doesn’t apply to the tax-dodging shitheads who are avoiding paying for the societal benefits that they enjoy.)

Got it.

Ah yes. “Equal opportunities” of the old days, like being told to be out of town by sunset or you’ll be lynched, or firing women who get pregnant, or redlining neighborhoods and adding restrictions too deeds to prevent the “wrong sort” of people (aka anyone not white) from moving in.

“DEI Ideology” is a made-up boogie man that the far-right created as an excuse to discriminate against minorities and their allies, since being outright racist isn’t acceptable anymore. White conservatives are terrified of meritocracy.

EDIT: In hindsight, this may have come across as an attack on the other commenter. That was not the intent, nor was the intent to accuse them of the horrific crimes of the past. These were used as used as examples of the reality experienced by minorities and women throughout US history, including the latter half of the 20th century to the present (to a lesser degree).

Maybe bRock type?

Assumed it was either there or Palo Alto.

Have you continued luthiery yourself?

Also, I also have tremors when doing fine detail work. Depending on the cause (and your health), it may be possible for your Dr. to prescribe something to help. Mine suggested that β-blockers could help if it gets too intense.

Yup. A massive portion entry and mid level positions in the scientific field that I did my undergrad in were offshored in my graduation year. This led to competing with PhD and MSc candidates, sometimes with 10+ years of experience, for basic lab tech positions… in a recession. Glad to have developed other skills.

As someone such here, this statement is correct.

In your statement, you provided much more self-awareness and abstract thought than an LLM, by its nature, is capable of. They are not intelligent.

I don’t disagree that what’s going on in our meat computers (simplification) isn’t terribly special, in the grand scheme of things. And, there’s little reason that similar processes and results can’t be realized in other media. But, LLMs, by themselves, will never be capable of it because of their innate characteristics. Brains have numerous specialized structures that are networked together, so, probably the best bet would be building systems that can fullfill similar functions, and connect them.

Did Elon Musk shoot her while on a K binge?

In the US, “anti-DEI” is nothing but thinly-veiled discrimination. It is used primarily by people with the skills, personality, and sociability of a slice microwaved Wonderbread who need something to hide behind to avoid taking responsibility for their failings as well as by literal neo-nazis to try out a facade of legitimacy for their discriminatory actions while signalling their socio-political stance to their fellow neo-nazis.

DEI stands for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. It’s meaning is approximately:

Diversity - Efforts should be made to ensure diverse representation in the workplace, especially for groups that have historically suffered from discrimination. To this end, when skills and capabilities are approximately equal, those from groups that have suffered oppression should be favored. This both strengthens the workplace by adding different perspectives and helps to “rebalance” to correct for centuries of discrimination that have robbed these groups of opportunities.

A diverse workplace is stronger and more effective than a homogenous one, as proven by extensive sociological research.

Equity - People are different and may need assistance to put them on equal footing when they are otherwise equally capable to those who have greater societal representation. This could be as simple as ensuring that someone who needs glasses to read without eye strain is able to readily able to get them. Or it could mean ensuring that someone who has gender dysphoria (which can cause extraordinary mental health problems like anxiety and treatment-resistant major depression) is able to get the treatment that they need.

Inclusion - This is about the simplest of the three. Everyone should feel safe and valid in the workplace, regardless of their immutable characteristics.

When people say that they are “anti-DEI” in the US, they mean that they want a society where the only people with power are white, protestant men. They want a society where white, protestant men are favored over other all other groups and considered the “default” choice for anything. And they want a society where people who are different from them are afraid to participate because they may be arbitrarily punished and/or lynched.

When they claim that DEI is discriminatory and that they oppose discrimination, they are lying. Being forced to actually compete with others on even ground is terrifying to them and not being held above everyone else makes them think they are being oppressed.

What is the future of X.org if all the mainstream distros drop X11 for Wayland?

Retirement to the archives. The protocol is extremely dated and held together with duct tape. The maintainers are mostly also contributors to Wayland projects, where they are implementing features impossible with X11.

I wanted to understand the reasoning, so, here’s the summary section of the README (with my commentary):

Xlibre is a fork of the Xorg Xserver with lots of code cleanups and enhanced functionality.

Ok. That sounds reasonable. A little long for an initial README/manpage line but not bad.

This fork was necessary since toxic elements within Xorg projects, moles from BigTech, are boycotting any substantial work on Xorg, in order to destroy the project, to eliminate competition of their own products. Classic “embrace, extend, extinguish” tactics.

Hrm…seems a bit historically inaccurate, as Wayland was created by an X.org dev and the reasons for deprecating are related to performance, security, and moving away from dated architecture. Also a bit intense and opinion-based for technical writing. Maybe the guy is just passionate and hyper-focused on X11?

Right after journalists first began covering the planned fork Xlibre, on June 6th 2025, Redhat employees started a purge on the Xlibre founder’s GitLab account on freedesktop.org: deleted the git repo, tickets, merge requests, etc, and so fired the shot that the whole world heard.

That…sounds even more weird to put in a README or manpage because it has nothing to do with usage or development instructions and seems like the guy is taking it very personally.

This is an independent project, not at all affiliated with BigTech or any of their subsidiaries or tax evasion tools, nor any political activists groups, state actors, etc. It’s explicitly free of any “DEI” or similar discriminatory policies.

Why is he writing “Big Tech” in upper-camel case? That’s kinda weird. And the dev is treating "Big Tech".replace(" ", "") as a singular corporate entity with subsidiaries?

“Political activists groups”

…?..Ok that’s a bit weird and the pluralizing of “activist” looks grammatically problematic.Going in a pretty weird direction.

state actors, etc

I’ve not been aware of any xz-like issue being found in Wayland but, maybe I missed something.

It’s explicitly free of any “DEI” or similar discriminatory policies.

Oh. This is a racist. Things make a lot more sense now.

… Anybody who’s treating others nicely is welcomed.

It doesn’t matter which country you’re coming from, your political views, your race, your sex, your age, your food menu, whether you wear boots or heels, whether you’re furry or fairy, Conan or McKay, comic character, a small furry creature from Alpha Centauri, or just a boring average person. Anybody who’s interested in bringing X forward is welcome.

Conspicuously missing LGBTQ+ people but, maybe that’s what they mean when using the derogatory “fairy”?

a small furry creature from Alpha Centauri

DO NOT USE WORDS FROM OUR SACRED BOOK IN YOUR UNHINGED PRO-DISCRIMINATORY RANT MASQUERADING AS A README.

Together we’ll make X great again!

Repurposed neo-nazi rhetoric. Gross.

Significant mention in the thread of freedesktop.org Code of Conduct violations. I can likely guess but, let’s see what that’s about.

Code of Conduct freedesktop.org has adopted the Contributor Covenant for all the services we host. Please conduct yourself in an appropriate manner, avoiding abusive, bullying, and/or discriminatory behaviour. For more information, including where to report any inappropriate behaviour, please consult the full Code of Conduct.

Ok. That seems to be pretty thoroughly reasonable for anyone who does not have strongly held discriminatory feelings. What did he (git blame for the changes shows that it was metux ) do/say?

Looking through the thread, there’s a Mastodon post showing CW: transphobia.

Digging deeper, it appears that the freedesktop.org CoC Committee is not very open in its decision making so, it’s not clear what part of the CoC was broken.

Probably that and they know there is no evidence to support their anti-vax agenda so, have to invent it.

Thanks for that. No apology necessary - that was rather hilarious.

Been a while since I was in a lab (I was mainly concerned with squishy, squidgy things like microbes, so not quite OChem either) but, this looks accurate to me with a minor bit of pedantry that I had to validate before mentioning. BPA is not actually a plasticizer but a monomer/co-monomer (it does frequently get incorrectly labeled as a plasticizer in retail products). Notably in polycarbonate, which is something like 90% BPA by mass.

A big issue with is the incomplete reaction of monomers, leading to things like room-temp leeching of unreacted BPA in polycarbonate (so glad that I took a Nalgene with me everywhere for years when I was younger /s).

“I call it Billy and the Clonasaurus.”

At this point, I’m starting to think that the next evolution of conventional weapons of war will be building a SpaceX launch pad near the intended target.

If there were real justice, those ordering the installation should see criminal charges and gen-pop prison time.