xianc78 @xianc78@gameliberty.club

@bonifartius Are they independent from EU funding. Remember that the EU funds a lot of FOSS projects which gives them a good number of influence in the FOSS community.

@PurpCat I'm probably going to try it too, just to see if it's worth recommending. Linux Mint has been my go to recommendation for years, but them actually working with Mozilla and censoring Lunduke's last name on their forums has given me second thoughts.

@bonifartius I do not trust any FOSS convention hosted in the EU.

@berkberkman @PurpCat @33c74427f3b2b73d5e38f3e6c991c122a55d204072356f71da49a0e209fb6940 To be fair, his videos started to become more philosophy based ever since he started homesteading. It was never really a tech channel. It was more of a philosophy/life-advice channel with some Linux tutorials in them.

@PurpCat @33c74427f3b2b73d5e38f3e6c991c122a55d204072356f71da49a0e209fb6940 He got into some hot water back in 2018 where he made full podcasts exclusive to donors on Patreon while only posting clips on YouTube. It got so bad that people were posting antisemitic slurs in his comments so he disabled comments on all of his videos. I think that's when Luke Smith got popular because he was basically the polar opposite of Lunduke in a lot of ways.

He seemed to make a comeback in recent years because he has been exposing woke and pro-WEF agendas in the tech-industry (FOSS or otherwise), and Luke Smith has stopped making videos as of 2023.

@PurpCat What really perked my interest was not their anti-woke stance, but rather there stance on being independent form Big-Tech as much as possible. Case in point, they bundle Ungoogled-Chromium as the default browser instead of vanilla Firefox like every other distro does. Granted, it's not a perfect solution since it's still reliant on Chromium's upstream, but still. If LadyBird becomes a viable alternative, I picture them switching to that instead.

@PurpCat Oh that. I think this is different because this is an actual "professional" project run by a non-profit organization with a president going by his real name.

@PurpCat What was the first one?

@RustyCrab @david Schools tend to be dead zones (whether it's intentional or not or how they do it, I don't know), so you are stuck using their Wi-Fi if you want to access the Internet.

All it takes is one tech savvy kid to teach other kids how to do it, and that knowledge spreads like a virus. I remember being in high school ten years ago, and even then, jailbreaking iPhones was common knowledge.

@RustyCrab @david I have family members who work in education and they tell me that VPNs are a very popular tool to bypass the school's firewall. All the kids know how to use them.

So it looks like the woke FOSS crowd has taken notice of OpenMandriva and is boycotting a FOSDEM event that the OpenMandriva co-founder is holding. I'm not familiar with FOSDEM so I don't know if they could get them kicked out of the convention entirely, but I expect these parasites to try to kick them out of as many FOSS spaces as possible.

@Forestofenchantment Most of them are probably bots or it's just Minds not federating properly. Most of them don't even reply to us.

I can't search anything on fedi anymore without being bombarded with Minds boomer clickbait.

@Mr_NutterButter It's part of the globalist agenda, replace nation-states with continental super-states or "technates" as the technocrats call it. Obviously, Europe has one. Africa sort of has one. North America is the next logical step.

https://www.thelastamericanvagabond.com/israel-global-north-american-union/