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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • For people unfamiliar with the vim ecosystem (I assume that’s at least part of the down votes), it’s actually much closer than you’d expect. If you’re only familiar with vi/vim, nvim customizations are essentially on feature parity with vscode, with the added benefit of the vim-first bindings.

    What you have to do is install a customized neovim environment. Lunarvim, astrovim, nvchad, etc. Most of them have single line installation options for Linux, and then it comes with a bunch of plugins that will pretty much match whatever you’d find with vscode extensions.





  • Mostly agree, but the “incentive” focus is a misnomer. Humans don’t just sit around and stare at walls when they’re not “incentivized”. Incentives in sociopolitics is just a rebranding of coercion, getting people to do things they don’t want to do. People are incentivized/coerced to work at McDonald’s because otherwise they’ll live on the streets, the housing scalpers will make sure of it.

    FOSS exists and isn’t at risk of dying. Yeah, it’s ideal if the people working on FOSS things don’t have to also work a soul crushing day job, and yeah maybe when their soul is crushed they’ll lose interest in the things they enjoy doing, but we shouldn’t frame that as them getting jaded towards FOSS projects. It’s actually just depression, and it impacts other hobbies too.

    All that being said, I’m all for donations to people who do FOSS work so they can escape and do the things they love, it means better FOSS products and happier developers.


  • I didn’t equate them all to Nazis, you have an incredibly simplistic black/white view of the world.

    The people who voted for Nazis weren’t a uniform mass of people. Some voted for them on promised economic reforms, some voted on the basis of making Germany great again, some voted for them because they disliked the Lügenpresse (lying press), which the Nazis talked about all the time. The thing all Nazi voters shared was that the anti-Jewish/anti-communist rhetoric didn’t turn them off to voting for the party.

    Similarly, there are a ton of Republicans who vote Republican for many reasons; promised economic reforms, making America great again, a dislike for “fake news”, etc. The thing all Republican voters share is that the anti-Mexican/anti-trans rhetoric doesn’t turn them off to voting for the party.

    They’re fine with the promise of building a wall to keep the Mexicans out. They’re fine with legislating against trans people. They’re fine with the rhetoric many southern Republicans are using about “solving the trans problem”, similar to the final solution rhetoric Nazis used.

    Republicans in 2023 are about as bad as Nazis were in 1930. That is to say, they’ve only done very lightweight rounding up of minorities and haven’t started killing them en masse. Whether or not the fascist wing of the Republican party wins out and successfully genocides minorities is anyone’s guess, but ignoring the similarities and history here is incredibly foolish.

    Not all people who voted Republican are horrible. Not all people who voted Nazi were horrible either. The platform can get better or worse, we’ve seen a history where it can get worse, but it’s also been shutdown before.

    Either way, having spaces online that disallow protofascist or fascist parties is fine and not “unhealthy”. Not every part of the internet has to allow for hateful rhetoric, it’s fine to have spaces geared towards gaming, community, or just people in agreement that people supporting a bigoted party shouldn’t be there.


  • There were people who voted for Nazis for “non-hateful” reasons, but it meant they didn’t care enough about the anti-jewish rhetoric to vote against it.

    It’s the same for Republicans and trans people/Mexicans/etc. The party is full of hateful bigots, yes there are some people who are indifferent to the hatred spewed and stand with Republicans on some other basis, but indifference towards bigotry is an issue in and of itself.

    Having a community explicitly ban people who support these bigoted groups (Republicans/Nazis/etc.) is not a problem. I prefer a space that allows people to share their views, I’ve debated self-identified fascists before, I’m fine in that environment, but I respect that some people aren’t.

    Just because someone doesn’t want to engage with hateful communities only makes them “too sensitive to go outside” if “outside” is sympathetic to these hateful groups.