Sounds like he may be a socially progressive liberal.

Depending on what you mean by saving us, I don’t think China will, but they’re not invading random countries, staging coups, droning civilians, etc, so these two countries are not even remotely comparable.

I spent every other evening for a week trying to install fedora.

Skill issue.

It’s okay, Comrade Sharkfucker

It’s still transphobic. Less reactionary, sure, but transphobic.

Communists that support Russia have critical support, which means we support some of what they do, such as supporting Cuba during a genocidal blockade, but we still have valid criticisms. You won’t see any of us claim Russia is morally good or some nonsense.

Communists don’t judge countries based on their perceived moral character. Russia, like all countries, acts in the interest of its own ruling class. Right now the interest of their ruling class is aligned with anti-imperialist forces. We understand that imperialism is the primary contradiction, and that as long as we live under a unipolar world order the global majority will only get poorer and more exploited, that climate change will inevitably kill most of us and that those who survive will be tied to the same exploitative forces.

The only reason why some of us come across as “pro-Russia” is because we’re often debunking imperialist propaganda. As long as people are willing to read beyond wikipedia or a genocide-denying newspaper, we’re fine discussing events with a lot more nuance than we get credit for. But it’s a lot easier to pretend we’re crazy Putin-loving tankies, so that’s what you see here.

I’m skeptical they ever expected AGI to come as a result of LLMs, I believe it’s just a convenient talking point both for hype, and to distract from more immediate issues, like how corporations use these tools to screw over workers.

serves as a positive advertisement for the project because it’s upsetting people that everybody doesn’t like anyway

If people join the far-right to own the left they were already far-right:

DHH wants ethnic cleansing. That’s not a simple opinion, like whether a piece of software is cool or whether some band does good music. It’s fucking ethnic cleansing.

DHH is a very good developer

He has good qualities, or he’d have never become where he is today, but in case you haven’t been around Rubyists much, most of us follow MINASWAN, and he clearly doesn’t. More importantly, he’s also shown support for Tommy Robinson in his own blog. It doesn’t take a genius to see what he’s doing.

Linux was never the desktop of choice until Windows literally forced people to use it.

Think of it as DHH forcing people to look elsewhere, then. There are plenty of excellent distros out there that aren’t controlled by terrible people and work just fine.

Rolling releases as a whole are a lot better these days, but I agree Fedora is excellent (and it helps to not need the AUR at all)

DHH is far right, clearly, I’m not sure they have a plan for destroying FOSS, they seem to be trying to normalize their worldview (which is bad enough)