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What was your first Linux distro, and why did you pick it?

For me it was Fedora. I knew basically nothing about Linux at the time, but the logo just clicked 😁 It also felt more up to date and actively worked on, so I figured it was a good place to start.

What about you? 🙄

#linux #opensource #software

Lord Caramac the Clueless, KSC boosted

Zhi Zhu 🕸️

@ZhiZhu@newsie.social · 2 days ago

"You know what's better than refusing to use a #technology because you hate its creators? Seizing that technology and making it your own. Don't like the fact that a convicted monopolist has a death-grip on networking? Steal its protocol, release a free #software version of it, and leave it in your dust...

That's how we make good #tech... by liberating the technology from its monstrous forebears and making free and open versions of it:"
- @pluralistic

https://pluralistic.net/2026/02/19/now-we-are-six/

#News #World

Text from article:
Let's start with some context. If you don't want to use technology that was created under immoral circumstances or that sprang from an immoral mind, then you are totally fucked. I mean, all the way down to the silicon chips in your device, which can never be fully disentangled from the odious, paranoid racist William Shockley, who won the Nobel Prize for co-inventing the silicon transistor:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/10/24/the-traitorous-eight-and-the-battle-of-germanium-valley/

Further, we wouldn't have the packet-switched network that delivered these words to you without the contributions of the literal war-criminals at the RAND corporation:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARPANET

Refusing to use a technology because the people who developed it were indefensible creeps is a self-owning dead-end. You know what's better than refusing to use a technology because you hate its creators? Seizing that technology and making it your own. Don't like the fact that a convicted monopolist has a death-grip on networking? Steal its protocol, release a free software version of it, and leave it in your dust:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/07/samba-versus-smb-adversarial-interoperability-judo-network-effects

That's how we make good tech: not by insisting that all its inputs be free from sin, but by purging that wickedness by liberating the technology from its monstrous forebears and making free and open versions of it: — Text from article: Let's start with some context. If you don't want to use technology that was created under immoral circumstances or that sprang from an immoral mind, then you are totally fucked. I mean, all the way down to the silicon chips in your device, which can never be fully disentangled from the odious, paranoid racist William Shockley, who won the Nobel Prize for co-inventing the silicon transistor: https://pluralistic.net/2021/10/24/the-traitorous-eight-and-the-battle-of-germanium-valley/ Further, we wouldn't have the packet-switched network that delivered these words to you without the contributions of the literal war-criminals at the RAND corporation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARPANET Refusing to use a technology because the people who developed it were indefensible creeps is a self-owning dead-end. You know what's better than refusing to use a technology because you hate its creators? Seizing that technology and making it your own. Don't like the fact that a convicted monopolist has a death-grip on networking? Steal its protocol, release a free software version of it, and leave it in your dust: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/07/samba-versus-smb-adversarial-interoperability-judo-network-effects That's how we make good tech: not by insisting that all its inputs be free from sin, but by purging that wickedness by liberating the technology from its monstrous forebears and making free and open versions of it:

https://pluralistic.net

Pluralistic: Six Years of Pluralistic (19 Feb 2026)

Zhi Zhu 🕸️

@ZhiZhu@newsie.social · 2 days ago

That's how we make good #tech... by liberating the technology from its monstrous forebears and making free and open versions of it:"
- @pluralistic

https://pluralistic.net/2026/02/19/now-we-are-six/

#News #World

https://pluralistic.net

Pluralistic: Six Years of Pluralistic (19 Feb 2026)

it's B! Cavello 🐝

@b_cavello@mastodon.publicinterest.town · 3 days ago

In the fashion space, there's a big move toward "visible mending." In ceramics, there's #kintsugi.
What does #VisibleMending look like for #software?

rag. Gustavino Bevilacqua boosted

Devin

@devin_and_earth@mastodon.social · 4 days ago

After 8 years in media production, I'm hoping to change careers. I'm 1.5 years away from earning my B.S. in Software Engineering. Looking ahead past the LLM AI nonsense, what are some #software needs or industries people think are strong potential frontiers for innovation and creativity? I'm particularly keen on considering software applications toward physical problems, such as embedded systems.

#cs #engineering

Devin

@devin_and_earth@mastodon.social · 4 days ago

#cs #engineering