• HereIAm@lemmy.world
        11·
        3 hours ago

        Jpeg XL is such an unsexy name though. (In my opinion) JPEG is already seen as an ancient format, there are plenty of even main stream memes about it’s artifacting quirks. And now you just want to slap more stuff on it? Make it extra large. Sounds like bloat to me!

        To be real for a second; I’m sure it’s a fine format and suited for the future, but the name really does put me off it a bit 😄

    • TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      81·
      6 hours ago

      He’s right that we shouldn’t infantilise teenagers by calling them ‘children’, lumping them in with prepubescent children as if there’s no difference between them.

      • raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world
        2·
        37 minutes ago

        Sorry but by the article linked above, he whatabouts rape of teenagers with “but they were not children”. He may have done a lot of good for free software, but this is not a single poorly worded comment - these kinds of statements can be found by the dozen. And that means he is mentally unwell / mentally damaged to consider them acceptable.

      • Holytimes@sh.itjust.works
        31·
        2 hours ago

        As much as people fucking hate when this line gets rolled out and for good reason.

        There’s a reason chronophilia is a term. Infantophilia, pedophilia, hebephilia, ephebophilia, teleiopholia, mesophilia and gerontophilia. Are all different things.

        Actually properly respecting, and using correct terminology can and should be a thing as it prevents unreasonable harm in instances where things are perfectly fine.

        For example a 18 year old ephebophile. That’s fucking normal, even tho in the eyes of the law it’s punished as a sex crime. A 18 year old and a 17 year old with a 6 month gap gets fucked because we don’t actually take into account logic when it comes to this topic.

        So that 18 year old is now a “pedophile” a term with horrid implications and life defining punishments legally and socially just because we all refuse to actually educate ourselves of the terminology and actual research on the topic.

        Because the word pedo has such a huge social negative (for good reason) that we basically just all collectively go stupid as fuck and go straight to the worse punishment we can with out ever considering logic.

        It also makes further research into the topic absurdly hard to do and secure funding for. Because of the massive social problems with attaching your name to such research.

        Cause even researching it can result in you being attacked. There’s been a number of instances iv seen where research on the topic dead ends because no one is willing to actually attach their name to the subject. Or when something gets published it gets dragged through the mud because it’s a easy headline.

        So we never actually find healthy and effective methods to deal with the problem. We just attack, mislabel, don’t think and cause more harm by not actually trying to deal with it. Because the problem is “icky”.

    • cub Gucci@lemmy.today
      185·
      11 hours ago

      Something that the society achieved in the last 150 years are two dogmas:

      • 5/7 8 hours workweek is a maximum
      • people before 18 should not have sex with people after 18

      I’m kinda glad that questioning these puts one into a category of weirdos.

    • dandylion@lemmy.zip
      51·
      10 hours ago

      thank you. very important to share here.

      unfortunately I’ve heard similar phrasings and ideas expressed by 20- and 30-something year olds in the gaming community. still has me feeling unwell.

  • AceFuzzLord@lemmy.zip
    61·
    14 hours ago

    Linus would be too busy chewing Epstein out in a mailing list and then banning him from it permanently if they were friends.

  • Ephera@lemmy.mlEnglish
    104·
    17 hours ago

    I’m genuinely baffled how many oligarchs had contact with Epstein. I do believe their primary job qualification is a lack of morals, but there’s so many ways to be amoral, you don’t have to all be friends with the guy that offers pedophilia.

    • herseycokguzelolacak@lemmy.ml
      29·
      9 hours ago

      Epstein was not just a pedo pimp. He was a power-broker and a fixer for the American and Israeli rich elites. Not everyone was in for the girls, some of them were in for the other illegal stuff.

    • Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world
      4·
      6 hours ago

      Pre 2008 conviction contacts can be excused by ignorance. E.g. Stephen Hawking visited Epstein Island with other scientists in 2006.

      Gates was happy to make house visits to Epstein in 2011-2014

    • thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works
      281·
      11 hours ago

      Beyond just the pedophilia, his (Epstein) operation was largely one of socialising, and securing (probably coerced) introductions from people he helped facilitate and now held blackmail over.

      e.g. using blackmail material on a Bill Gates to secure an introduction to another wealthy and influential individual, offering them a “massage” and then producing kompromat at a later date to bring them into his circle.

      Now don’t get me wrong, everyone who found themselves in this position was a willing participant, not a victim - but I can understand how so many oligarchs eventually found their way into his little black book.

    • Avicenna@programming.dev
      9·
      10 hours ago

      Just oligarchs? Oligarchs don’t suprise me at all. The more surprising aspect is so many artists, scientists etc. I guess humans have a weakness for someone who makes them feel like a privileged member of a boy’s club.

      • 3abas@lemmy.world
        102·
        9 hours ago

        Noam Chomsky, that’s what broke my faith in humanity. His work in linguistics is why I’m a computer scientist, his work in political activism was my introduction to leftist theory, so much of what I do and think every day is directly influenced by his work.

        Turns out at the end of the day he’s a neo-liberal apartheid supporting hypocrite and possibly a pedophile.

        • mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          1·
          19 minutes ago

          I’m kinda surprised that him proposing that the US should throw Ukraine to the wolves (Russia) didn’t completely tank his career. In hindsight, for the past 20 years he’s kinda just turned into a tankie (or at least tankie-adjacent) due the the US’s misdeeds in Vietnam, Cambodia, Iraq, and Afghanistan.

          While the US has done wrong, that doesn’t automatically make its adversaries right.

        • Avicenna@programming.dev
          1·
          4 hours ago

          Yeah it sucks. Don’t know if you are still in the field but I guess best reaction to this would be to set a better example in your corner of the world. Take what is good leave what is shitty and make sure to inform people who don’t know.

          • 3abas@lemmy.world
            1·
            3 hours ago

            I’m way further left now, but I still recommend Manufacturing Consent as an essential reading, as it opened my eyes to how the rich controlled media shapes narratives and enables genocides and destructive imperial wars and regime changes. It’s just hard to recommend it now with his name attached.

    • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
      791·
      16 hours ago

      What this whole thing has taught me is that there is a market among billionaires for someone to peddle enslaved kids.

      Now epstein is gone, and has been for years, but that demand doesn’t just die. I don’t have proof, but there is zero doubt in my mind that epstein is not a one and done. There’s either another epstein, or more likely a dozen smaller epsteins out there.

      There’s a part of me that thinks all these ICE abducting kids is being done at trumps order, specifically as a means to replace epstein.

      • Duamerthrax@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        2 minutes ago

        I don’t think there’s any reason to find a replacement for Epstein. There’s almost certainly other people already running those sorts of events. Jared Leto has a sex cult island. I think they’re all consenting adults, but you know he’s trading favors to producers that want to visit so he can keep getting movie roles.

      • Tinidril@midwest.socialEnglish
        28·
        14 hours ago

        There has been lot of information released indicating Epstein’s child trafficking ring was barely impacted by his absence. He had lots of conspirators, most of whom are probably still at it, nevermind all of the Mossad, KGB, and CIA cooperation.

        • Birds are not real@lemmy.world
          11·
          11 hours ago

          The only logical explanation I have found about it is by learning about Frankism from Professor Jiang and his youtube channel Predictive history.

          • Tinidril@midwest.socialEnglish
            5·
            10 hours ago

            I’ll check it out, but it seems pretty straightforward to me. When a social class sits outside the rules the rest of society is expected to live by, they get entitled and they get bored. Since they aren’t entirely immune to public opinion, they also become easy targets for blackmail as they push towards more and more “exclusive” forms of “entertainment”.

            • captainlezbian@lemmy.world
              2·
              2 hours ago

              Exactly, also people tend to tolerate what their peers consider normal. We’re basically always checking reality off of how those in our circle react to things. This means that if your circle assumes old men always want to sleep with 18-20 year old women, and they do so regularly, then if suddenly a 17 year old girl shows up in the mix and nobody reacts it can be easily rationalized. And from there you can slip to a lot of 16 year olds. And while new people may not be comfortable with it, they likely have financial incentives not to walk away or cause a scene, because he wasn’t just a pimp, he was also a matchmaker, then in that case the rationalization engine that is the human brain can go to town.

            • Birds are not real@lemmy.world
              12·
              10 hours ago

              I advise you do and it may get a bit more difficult to follow but your comment is partly right yes. The only aspect of it that differs is that it is a form of acquiring knowledge, because knowledge of god means knowledge of the sins. Through sinning you acquire understanding of why sins are wrong and the more you sin, the more valid your faith is unlike the faith of someone who has never sinned and therefore has no innate understanding of why sinning is wrong. It is a very strange cult but it is the only one that explains logically why powerful entities choose to commit things like the ones epstein did and there is a lot of goddamn powerful maniacs that have been proven to be true frankist and believe the nonsense it is.

              • Tinidril@midwest.socialEnglish
                3·
                10 hours ago

                Sounds to me like a rationalization for what I suggested. I’m not saying they don’t believe it but, in my experience, the main predictor of what people believe is what they want to believe. People decide how they want to live, then construct a belief system to justify it.

                • Birds are not real@lemmy.world
                  11·
                  4 hours ago

                  Your point reminds me of the logic behind certain religious psychologies that see this world not as an end in itself, but as a proving ground or a purgatorial space. Its morality is sometimes inverted for a higher, otherworldly purpose.

                  Take public execution in medieval Christian Europe. While a spectacle of deterrence, some theologians (like Nicholas of Cusa aka who I picture rubbing my rod at night) grappled with a darker rationale: that the intense physical pain of burning could serve as a form of accelerated penance. The idea was that this suffering might pay the temporal debt of sin before death, potentially sparing the soul a longer, more severe punishment in the afterlife. The executioner, in this context, was performing an act of supposed spiritual charity, which is actually why executioners were often clergy or faith oriented men.

                  This mirrors,the core doctrine of Frankism, an 18th-century Jewish heretical movement. Frankists believed in ‘redemption through sin.’ Their goal was at times personal regret, but a cosmological acquisition of a higher knowledge. The pleasure or suffering of the sinner was incidental to this divine path to regret and penance.

                  We see a third variant in groups like ISIS. When they stoned Muslims for adultery, it was framed as enacting divine law to purify the community and offer the sinner ritual atonement. When they cut the throats of Western captives, the logic switched entirely to theater of terror, a spectacle for global distancing (stay in your country, as a result of the frequent invasions of countries from west asia), but also because in Islam, the act of cutting through the neck artery is seen as a quick and painless death. It causes death quickly because oxygen output runs out very fast and is why it is the mandatory way of making meat halal, part of it is to use a quick, simple and relatively painless death.

                  The unifying, and strangely rational, thread is this: when reality is viewed through an eschatological or cosmological lens, worldly concepts of pleasure, pain, and even morality become secondary. Acts are judged not by their immediate human cost, but by their function in a grand narrative of spiritual war, purification, or redemption. It’s a logic that operates on a plane completely separate from humanist rationale because humans are not the end all be all.

        • captainlezbian@lemmy.world
          2·
          2 hours ago

          Qanon was correct in the same way your conspiracy theorist uncle was right about MKULTRA. There’s a quick summary that can give a pretty big overlap of them and reality, but that’s not why these people believe this, and the more details, context, or scope you add the less they align.

          Qanon is an intellectual descendant of the satanic panic, and the framing it uses is very much in that line of thinking. It’s framing it as political enemies raping young children as part of a dark ritual that involves blood libel.

          The Epstein situation in contrast is that the rich, powerful, and influential run in overlapping social circles and within them there are people whose role is to facilitate connections (Peter Thiel actually facilitates a similar role). These people may also facilitate other connections like drugs (there’s so much drugs in the Epstein stories) and pimping. The pimping for the elite, at least by one of these people, also seemed to disproportionately traffic adolescents and many of the rich, powerful, and influential clients, friends, and connections of this man seemed to either partake in his underage victims or knowingly look the other way in order to maintain these beneficial connections.

          Both of these are very bad things involving the rich and powerful engaging in pedophilia, but the former is utterly fantastical and originates in a panic with no evidence and itself lacks evidence, while the latter is a realistic situation that has a lot of evidence for it

          • Flax@feddit.ukEnglish
            1·
            2 hours ago

            It’s quite interesting. My great grandmother apparently used to talk about the Roman Catholics abusing children and mothers in the Magdalene Laundries and people saw her as a crazy conspiracy theorist.

            Squid Game in a way is also a story about the rich elite participating in sickening immoral activities

            • captainlezbian@lemmy.world
              2·
              46 minutes ago

              That’s the thing, some conspiracy theories are going to be true, most aren’t, and some will bear a passing resemblance to the truth.

              The main tool at our disposal here is skepticism. Are the claims being made plausible? Are the motivations realistic? Is there evidence from reputable sources? Am I approaching this with a critical mindset? Am I focused on the explicit claims, or am I allowing people to “yes and” this? Am I letting my emotions or preconceived biases and prejudices cloud my judgment?

    • M137@lemmy.world
      4·
      6 hours ago

      I actually made three new friends on new years eve completely through mentioning Linux. We were at a party and I had a really bad year last year so I was rusty in the “talking to people” department, the few people I knew there, who are indie games devs that don’t use Linux, said something (can’t remember exactly what) that made me reply with a Linux joke and those three people moved their chairs closer to me with a “ooooh, a linux nerd, let’s fucking go” energy. We went on such a nerd dive that they party host told us that we aren’t allowed to talk Linux anymore or we’d have to leave.
      We talked a lot more through the night and had to really concentrate to not get thrown out, haha.

    • degen@midwest.socialEnglish
      7·
      10 hours ago

      Another contributor who doesn’t have wildly differing political ideals from your own, I think?

    • ray@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      122·
      18 hours ago

      It’s a class that’s allowed to access another class’s private members. Obviously Linus doesn’t have any, because he codes in C.

      • Redkey@programming.dev
        10·
        13 hours ago

        Private members aren’t actively blocked from external access; they’re passively marked “Access prohibited”.

        That means that rather than being unable to find the members of a class, C programmers simply can’t pick up on the signals telling them that they’re not wanted.

        (Fellow C programmers: I’m joking. :D)

    • panda_abyss@lemmy.ca
      271·
      16 hours ago

      It’s a second user account on your machine. Of course, you don’t put them in the sudoers file.

  • CaptDust@sh.itjust.works
    57·
    18 hours ago

    If he’s in the files it’s strictly to tear Jeffers apart for submitting a shit code patch and wasting his time.

  • TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    1415·
    6 hours ago

    By this logic, anyone who doesn’t believe in Marxist Leninism shouldn’t use Lemmy. I don’t like Windows for other reasons, but the personal life of the person who made it should not be a factor at all. You would in fact be severely limited if you only used products made entirely by people who are ‘perfect’ in every way.

    • Jax@sh.itjust.works
      31·
      2 hours ago

      Raping children is what you call ‘not perfect’?

      No, simply no — try that comment again only do it without defending child rapists.

    • vandsjov@feddit.dk
      2·
      3 hours ago

      You would in fact be severely limited if you only used products made entirely by people who are ‘perfect’ in every way.

      Who is talking about people that are perfect in every way? Do you think that people believe that Linus Torvalds is perfect? He is not. We don’t need people to be ‘perfect’, but not being part of a child molesting ring is good start.

    • Mangoholic@lemmy.ml
      72·
      5 hours ago

      Did you just put someone wanting to better people’s lives through his critic of capitalism as the same as being a billionaire pedophile.

    • brachiosaurus@mander.xyz
      81·
      6 hours ago

      but the personal life of the person who made it should not be a factor at all.

      The data windows collects about you goes in the hands of people involved in a pedo sexual abuse scandal. You should be indeed concerned

    • el_eh_chase@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      51·
      6 hours ago

      If we were talking about a company that makes toasters or bicycles or something I might agree with you. When it comes to an OS though, that’s where you store all your personal information and interact with your digital life. An OS can be updated to include malicious features and backdoors. The morality of the executives at the company making the OS could have a direct effect on you, moral arguments aside.

    • pineapple@lemmy.mlEnglish
      11·
      6 hours ago

      Take it a bit more lightly my guy. 1st It was a joke. 2nd it was stated as a reason to use linux not the sole statement that makes windows completely irrelevent.