Eldritch

Lol good catch. Damn dictation software. Hah yes it's the cenobites choice.

How is a classless stateless society a totalitarian state? If there's a totalitarian state it isn't communist because it's a state. Not just totalitarian.

Eventually. It's a long slow arc. But there's definitely a history of it. From its Inception the modern smartphone has been built almost exclusively on top of Linux or BSD. Even if proprietary presentation layers above it don't always make it perfectly clear. Similar can be said for any modern gaming console or hand held. With the exception of Microsoft's products.

Most of the modern internet, your home consumer router and maybe even some of your appliances. Built on open source code. And finally, many are switching to own their PC again. There isn't a lot of hype or fan fair publicly. But open source has been quietly putting in the work and showing up for decades.

Realistically, we're actually just returning to a pre Microsoft state. Granted before the explosion of the personal computer most computers were massive devices an individual couldn't own. And there wasn't a lot of money to be made in selling the software itself. So there was a lot of collaboration and sharing. Even if proprietary layers were built on top. The base was vital. We're finally getting back there.

There are other tools besides the Gimp. Have you tried krita? It's a little more pen* and tablet oriented. But a solid program in its own right. And despite being part of the KDE platform if I'm not mistaken. They have excellent Windows and Mac versions as well

Good point.

Funnily enough it does also work. This will likely be what most people remember them for lol. And it was all their own doing

Even if they did. Resistance and failure to obey could end up directly impacting and being a threat to their families at home. Honestly for most of them it doesn't really matter what they think. They are just trying to keep their families from being targeted by the government. Similar things happen in china. And will likely be increasingly happening in the United States and other places in the west. People will put up with an awful lot when you're able to threaten their family without repercussion.

Compared to American media standards, very. In the US they're too afraid of "losing access" to ever push back. One might ask what the point of having access is if you can't ask tough questions. But that's a tough question so none of them have asked it.

As a goth with blackout curtains, this is a welcome and comforting composition. Just have to avoid the beams.

Weird taste is best taste.

That's 100% by design from both ends. ML call themselves communist despite all the evidence to the contrary. And then they don't actually teach what communism is here. Just re assert ML claims that they somehow are as they attack them. China etc aren't any more AES in any meaningfully way than the west.

Yes if this had been opt-in. Something that the user had to explicitly enable it. And was thoroughly explained. The worst anyone would have to say about them is that they were overly opinionated. But no one would care beyond that. The reason it's a big thing. It is the way it was hidden and enabled by default. It 100% is a mess of their own making.