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[–] Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 12 points 1 day ago (3 children)
[–] gnuhaut@lemmy.ml 68 points 22 hours ago (3 children)

He's an anti-woke crusader and bigot. A large chunk (probably most) of his "content" is actually about that.

CW all sorts of bigotry"Best Alternatives to Woke Software", "Devuan: The Non-Woke Debian Linux Fork", lots of shit like that.

He loves talking about so-called "reverse racism", he thinks white people are oppressed in US tech.

Here's a recent one:

https://lunduke.substack.com/p/meta-ending-del-ending-fact-checking

They [Meta] are allowing criticism of LGTBQ+blublublub issues, including *snicker* the statement that gay people are mentally ill [...] and they're allowing vaccine skepticism on the platform [...] and it is, I'm not gonna lie, mildly hilarious.

[–] a_baby_duck@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

Wow. I thought a couple of his old Linux Sucks talks were kind of funny, but never knew anything about him personally. Kind of sad to learn he's an asshole.

[–] stevedice@sh.itjust.works 15 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

He also says, Palestine supporters and Hamas supporters are, and I quote, one and the same.

[–] Classy@sh.itjust.works 0 points 8 hours ago

I mean the dude is literally Jewish and pro Israeli, it isn't even surprising he would have an L take like that

[–] TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works 0 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

doesnt a free and open source operating system fit the definition of "actively attentive to important societal facts and issues" where the issue in question is not having control of your machine?

By its nature isn't Linux technically woke?

[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 7 points 17 hours ago

Just check his video titles.

Even without it, that snark face he uses for the thumbnails are a very big tell.

I don't have a list of specific instances on hand. But he was kind of a contrarian voice for a while that I listened to over a decade ago, but in 2016 went in the more anti-woke (anti-CRT in terms of the time) and very reactionary culture war turn.