boost this cat when they least expect it

@DenJohn @TheOneDoc @elly @lanodan @mgorny @moses_izumi it works 60% of the time anyway.

@DenJohn @elly @moses_izumi @lanodan @mgorny @TheOneDoc I've been told that Fermi will never get NVK, then I've been told that it might get NVK after all. Idk.

@justsoup Yeah there's still humans around, so I'm not completely against systemd. But still, gives not so great vibes..

@pj @justsoup I like Wayland, but also I think many X11 DEs (xfce, mate...) are awesome too.. like, I can spend hours customizing MATE with its iconic old themes that never look boring to me :>

Wayland has its drawbacks like any other technology. (and so does X11)

@justsoup @pj (this is the perfect thread to be very clear that lunduke is a complete idiot)

@pj @justsoup besides, using claude because they were given api tokens for free, says a lot about principles..

@pj @justsoup some linux maintainers are also going that route now :(

@pj @justsoup already bad in itself I think.

No one is happy with age verification, in the one hand.

But in the other hand, *please* don't harass maintainers. It only makes things worse.
Don't listen to stupid people who don't know what they're talking about like lunduke.

It really does not help.

@justsoup oh of course

all this makes me a lot more reluctant about switching to systemd on my host really

@dalias @burnoutqueen

yes, I get that. I also am transgender and have been smeared by Lunduke in an episode of his podcast that he dedicated talking about how I am a transgender rabbit therian and thus it could not possibly be xlibre's own community behavior that makes people not want to deal with them.

anyway I hear a lot of talking about the law and I am also autistic as fuck so pattern recognition is something I lock into very easily.

so I notice the talking points about the law are as described by Lunduke and how his misinformation has diffused around fedi, and much less debate about what is actually in it. people copy, paste and react to talking points all day on fedi.

my point is that the aspects of the law that I bring up, nobody knows about them because none of the journalists have talked about what is actually in the law and are instead turning it into a boogeyman for clicks like Lunduke did. he just did it before everyone else.

internally in alpine we have been debating what, if anything, to do about this law for almost a month now, so it is possible that things look differently to me :)

so anyway:

1. i would put money on Linux distributions with package managers being left alone. I just don't see the risk. if anything the risk is as you say, that we are complying in advance without even being confronted.

2. some distributions which have actual app stores (e.g. elementaryOS) probably will have to comply with this somehow because they have more of the right shape. i don't think that makes them evil, to any more extent than participation in capitalism is evil by default. i would rather the trans woman running the indie distro keep her income.

3. in general I think people should calm down just a little bit and engage with these legislation attempts to protect our interests as distribution maintainers. this way we aren't caught off guard. it was surprising to see that this was not on anyone's radar. I seriously wonder where LF was here, for example.

@Khrys that's called harassment

@Foxboron I saw a post of someone trying to start a harassment campaign in my feed and was just about to write this. Thank you

People are rightfully angry at age verification laws.

That doesn't justify any harassment campaigns towards *any* FOSS developers, maintainers nor contributors. Turn that anger towards something productive.

Get a grip people, holy shit.

The Rust project puts out an article about how they're listening to their community https://blog.rust-lang.org/2026/03/20/rust-challenges/

Except it turns out that article was drafted by an LLM https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/1rz15t3/what_we_heard_about_rusts_challenges_and_how_we/obiwu24/

They claim nearly every line was rewritten by a human but I'm not sure how you could send a worse signal to your community about how much you aren't listening than having an LLM draft a post saying we're really listening, honest

@justsoup I never said it did, more that it really is a shame..

apparently from my cursory looking (please don't quote me on that) they mainly only use LLMs for code reviews ........ already bad in itself :/

I suspect they generate code now too or will do so in the future.

@karolherbst Still runs linux very comfortably ^^

@elly @TheOneDoc @lanodan @mgorny @moses_izumi it's a Fermi card (Quadro 2000M)