Notices by Drew DeVault (drewdevault@fosstodon.org), page 9

wake up babe new tzdata release just dropped

Gaming is a huge consumer energy sink, it's a good example of western extravagance in this respect. Nintendo Switch uses 6-7W in game and a PS5 averages nearly 200W.

Every 24 hours of PS5 game-time is a kilo of CO2 in the atmosphere if your local power supply isn't green

The beauty of free software is that if you don't like something, you can fix it! But if you don't like something and you bitch for 10 years because no one else is fixing it for you then you're just an asshole, dude.

Some of these detractors built a tottering pile of godawful hacks on top of X11 where every piece depends on another critical design flaw of X11 and are upset that by fixing all of these design flaws their pile of hacks fell over when no one wanted to maintain the load bearing side of their hacks

The story of Wayland:

1. No one wanted to maintain X11 because it sucked
2. We made Wayland and it's much better
3. A vocal minority of change-averse people complained with little to no factual basis
4. They were asked to muster some labor to maintain X11
5. None of them did
6. All of the people who actually do get work done eventually stopped listening to them and moved on with Wayland

Fun fact, *I* didn't like the fact that you couldn't take a screenshot on Wayland... so I bloody well implemented screenshots on Wayland and now people *still* bitch about it when literally every goddamn wayland compositor supports screenshots, most of them thanks to yours truly

Neurodivergent folks, a question that has come up a lot lately in my chats with people:

How do you feel about neurodivergence being cited when explaining a person's problematic behavior? "Problematic" here specifically referring to harassment, gaslighting, being an asshole, etc

Neurodivergent replies only, please

Richard Stallman's political discourse on sex

https://drewdevault.com/2023/11/25/2023-11-26-RMS-on-sex.html

Bring politics back to free software! Free software has always been political and don't let anyone tell you otherwise.

Computers were a mistake

I do not understand people who want ligatures in fonts for programming

another example of the more generalized rule that computers should not speak unless spoken to

add-on opens a tab with a changelog or begging => immediate uninstall

Imagine being a perfectly competent programmer and choosing Medium or Substack for your blog

Can I take a moment to acknowledge that all of this silly drama only exists so bloody gamers can play proprietary windows-only software on Linux

Fucking Mastodon DDoS, I should just black-hole mastodon user-agents

Is it just me or has anyone else had problems transcoding their offline music collection into a format Android doesn't choke on... for the past, like, 10 years

If you have evidence of Hacker News:

1. Censoring progressive voices or discussions, or
2. Tolerating hate

Send me the receipts. Please boost.

I can be reached here on fedi or via email, sir@cmpwn.com

"we can't have a trans person on the conduct team because they would commit malware into the repository"

The shit I put up with 🤦♂️

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