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   CrudeSausage to All   
   Re: After NixOS, faggots attack Ladybird   
   26 Mar 25 19:48:35   
   
   XPost: comp.os.linux.advocacy, comp.os.linux.misc   
   From: crude@sausa.ge   
      
   On 2025-03-26 5:10 p.m., TronNerd82 wrote:   
   > On 2024-07-04, RabidPedagog  wrote:   
   >>    
   >   
   > Oh boy, we're off to a great start with our source here...   
   >   
   >> Two days ago, the Ladybird Web Browser made quite a bit of news -- with   
   >> a major investment and the establishment of a new Non-Profit   
   >> organization to build a "from scratch" web browser.   
   >>   
   >> Positive, non-controversial, non-political, very nerdy news.   
   >   
   > Actually meaningful news. Can't wait to see what new developments come   
   > out of the project, and I sure can't wait to see the rest of your   
   > totally noteworthy and in no way idiotic post!   
   >   
   >> Unfortunately, within hours of the spotlight being directed at Ladybird,   
   >> a group of activists launched an all-out-assault on the open source web   
   >> browser -- by smearing it as "Transphobic", "Mysoginistic", and (this is   
   >> absolutely not a joke) suggesting that the Ladybird developers actively   
   >> support and promote human slavery.   
   >>   
   >> Hundreds of posts repeating such smears (among others) -- with one Tech   
   >> publication declaring a total boycott of Ladybird because of it.   
   >>   
   >> What vile deed were the developers of Ladybird guilty of, which   
   >> necessitated such an intense response, you ask?   
   >>   
   >> Well, I'll tell you.   
   >>   
   >> The Ladybird team stated... wait for it...   
   >>   
   >> ... that they were a "purely technical project".   
   >>   
   >> Seriously.  That was their crime.  Being "technical".   
   >>   
   >> Here's the details.   
   >>   
   >> (...)   
   >   
   > ...Aaaaannnndddd just like that, you drank the Lunduke Kool-Aid. You   
   > tried your best, but the second you linked to Lunduke's trash, you lost   
   > any shred of credibility. Better luck next time. :)   
      
   A progressive, I'm sure. I don't know who you are, but I already know   
   that I don't care about your opinion.   
      
   --   
   God be with you,   
      
   CrudeSausage   
   John 14:6   
      
   --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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