There is a 3rd choice

3 months ago by FoxtrotDeltaTango to c/programmer_humor

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/...

Reposting because it was removed from another comm earlier for the political content.

Turret3857 68 points 3 months ago

open source software is literally a form of leftism... lol

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AnyOldName3 66 points 3 months ago

Technically it was the Free Software movement that was a form of Leftism, and Open Source was Capitalism's attempt to subsume it once it became apparent that it was capable of producing better software.

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Turret3857 30 points 3 months ago

can't have shit in detroit

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flamingos 37 points 3 months ago

Confirmed: the only divine church is the Church of Emacs.

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schwifty_squanch 30 points 3 months ago

Stop spreading blasphemy. Everyone knows Jesus uses Vim.

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TheHotze 18 points 3 months ago

This is why it was considered political.

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ytg 6 points 3 months ago

Maybe unconfigured. Even Jesus Christ wouldn’t be able to handle the Vimscript.

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cockmushroom 2 points 3 months ago

I'd like to take this opportunity to say that lua as a configuration utility is also a chamber of hell that jesus wouldn't even want the devil to go to.

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ytg 2 points 3 months ago

It's always amusing when the Neovim users pretend to like Lua. It's not like Emacs Lisp is the best language out there (it's not, and I'd much rather Emacs was configured in Scheme, they're working on it...), but at least it's a good fit, by design, for configuration.

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technocrit 31 points 3 months ago

Where is the third thing? Open source software is left wing ffs. Proprietary software is extremely capitalist/fascist.

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skarn 14 points 3 months ago

You say that as if we don't continually discover right wingers, fascists, religious bigots, and conspiracy theorists within the community.

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bss03 16 points 3 months ago

You'll find plenty of bigots and conspiracy theorists in unions, too. Union activity is still left-wing activity.

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skarn 6 points 3 months ago

Fascists and right wingers too?

There are features of Open Source that clearly appeal to several kinds of right wing brain.

In general the far right is also a counter-culture, that benefits from all the kinds of freedoms that the left does.

You want privacy so government doesn't come for the immigrants, they want privacy so the government doesn't come for their guns.

You want encryption so the corpos don't see you unionizing, they want encryption so the cops don't see them organizing a coup.

You want free speech because information on gender and orientation is not scandalous and dangerous, they want free speech to discuss the proper place of brown people.

You don't want to use mainstream tech because it's awful, exploitative and plutocratic, they don't want to use it because it's clearly an arm of the jewish deep state.

And let's not even get into the whole crypto thing. Largely open source, but largely appealing to ancaps and other such funny beasts.

You'll find plenty of bigots and conspiracy theorists in unions, too.

Yes but the conspiracies tend to be different.

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bss03 2 points 3 months ago

Fascists and right wingers too?

Probably. Certainly republicans, so fascism isn't a deal-breaker for them.

the conspiracies tend to be different

Plenty of union members believe in the "jewish deep state", e.g., so I don't think the conspiracies are that different.

I agree that freedoms can be abused. And, they can certainly be used for right-wing purposes. I also agree that there are plenty of fallacious arguments for freedom, some of which are based on conspiratorial thinking. But, fighting for freedoms of the people and restrictions on the state is always a left-wing activity.

That said, I don't know where the balance is or should be between solidarity and rejecting intolerance. At the moment, I'm more in favor of protecting marginalized persons by aggressively excluding intolerant people, particularly if their intolerant behavior is well-documented and they still refuse to reject and remediate it. So, I do see the fascists in open source as a problem.

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bss03 8 points 3 months ago

All Open Source / Free Software is building the commons. Strong copyleft is using the weapons of the state to help the commons stay under collective ownership.

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danc4498 21 points 3 months ago

Jesus would have been too addicted to foot fetish pics online to have any real opinions.

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DragonTypeWyvern 21 points 3 months ago

List of Jesus's fetishes by biblical support:

1: foot worship 2: feeding 3: nurse cosplay 4: groups 5: S+M

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nightofmichelinstars 6 points 3 months ago

Bug chasing. Damn those healing hands.

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alcea 16 points 3 months ago

"Dad wrote TempleOS"

Jesus said while opening the laptop with a gazillion stickers on it

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bizarroland 13 points 3 months ago

Do you think modern-day American Jesus's dad would be a software programer instead of a carpenter?

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CanadaPlus 3 points 3 months ago

Maybe a mechanic. It was a humble, low-education kind of job, but still a step up from working the fields. Actually, I guess it could still be construction.

(And FWIW, the original Aramaic word applies to both stone and wood workers, and there weren't a lot of trees in the Nazareth area)

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DahGangalang 1 point 3 months ago

Sorry for taking your comment way more seriously than of needs to be:

I'd expect Modern Jesus' dad would be a welder, which is a well paid and respected field in our time that builds things while still being very blue collar.

What's a more interesting thought is about Mary's uncle. There's conspiracy theories about Jesus that stem from the potential relationship between Jesus and his granduncle. You see, Mary's uncle was a Trader, primarily bringing tin from Britannia (modern day Great Britain) to the heart of Rome - he also founded the first Christian church outside of Palestine (coincidentally in the British Isles). Its thought that Jesus apprenticed under this uncle for a long period of time and through that saw much of the "known world". It also appears to be the origin of the myth that Jesus didn't actually ascend to heaven after resurrection, but instead dipped to Britain (leading to my favorite line from A Knight's Tale: "The Pope may be French, but Jesus Christ was English").

Most of that last part is besides the point. Chances are, that guy would equate to a tech billionaire, and has a result be the main proselytizer one behalf of a modern Jesus figure.

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ClassifiedPancake 11 points 3 months ago

Jesus would use Arch Linux

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medem 3 points 3 months ago

I'm pretty sure that he would use KolibriOS.

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khanh 6 points 3 months ago

thematically, templeOS. but i have a hunch he's use slackware or debian.