Sad to see the #Rust community promote Bryan Lunduke (a racist, misogynistic, homophobic, and transphobic piece of ***) Linux Sucks series. This video series is really toxic.
https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/11nxp0j/fellow_rust_enthusiasts_what_sucks_about_rust/
For me a real scandal is #KDE having the Google logo on the official webpage kde.org.
KDE Vision features this paragraph about privacy: "In a world where our privacy is increasingly threatened, we wanted to emphasize its importance. Freedom without the right to privacy is no freedom at all."
Still, KDE community is OK with having Google logo on their website, the logo of a corporation that profits mainly from user private data and that collaborate with governaments like the US one threatening people safety.
*This* is an actual community *officially* supporting violation of human rights.
It doesn't matter if it actually influence KDE or not, the issue is the symbol.
@post @carlschwan Nah, I'm fine with that. Google just give them money not steering their opinion
Even if Google don't influence their decisions, it's still pornographic.
@akariyuki27 @post Yes, they have zero influence over KDE. The money they give is decreasing every year and it's a miracle they even still give us money as the people who originally setup this yearly donation to KDE are not working at Google anymore. Technically the advantage of being a sponsor is that once a year at akademy they can attend the board dinner but they don't bother showing up.
The problem is the symbol, Google is not a corporation like the others, it poses serious threats to the safety of people, their human rights and democracy.
Never forget that #EdwardSnowden is a refugee in Russia and unable to return to the US for having unveiled the enormous NSA mass surveillance system that also serves despotic governments and in which Google played and still plays a key role.
KDE's inability to manage this situation with dignity is a sign that #KDE is now only a shadow of what it once was: it is only an infrastructure for technophiles passionate about #FOSS who like to make bombastic manifestos, documents such as Vision and Mission but who don't even give a damn about human rights.
@carlschwan
> Technically the advantage of being a sponsor is that once a year at akademy they can attend the board dinner but they don't bother showing up.
They also get their logo on the website of a major Free Code community. Which is akin to BP getting their logo on the Tesla website. Not sure why the leaders of the KDE community continue to allow this openwashing, given that...
> The money they give is decreasing every year and it's a miracle they even still give
@post
they have enough other
Sponsors that Google can't exactly force them to do anything.
So they just get money. That's it.
While for example Firefox only has Google which means Google could demand a lot of things
@carlschwan
#kde