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What are you on about, typical Islamist argument used by all theocratic movements and regimes to whatabout inherent systemic issues and steer the conversation away from the dangers of religious zealotry.

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Backporting security and bug fixes is a responsible and reasonable measure taken by any software that actually respects its users ESPECIALLY when a new breaking update is released. You failed at bullying a stranger with valid concerns. Try to bring reason with you next time before you decide to be rude and condescending.

I am aware of the difference in philosophy taken by both Gnome and KDE, but would you mind elaborating on the ‘assholes’ bit?

It’s like the other comments are living in a parallel universe.

What part of the article did they actually read? Isn’t the Slack/Electron resource utilisation screenshot enough to prove an important point?

No, Electron-based applications are not better than “they used to be.”

We all fucking know why Electron got all of these companies interested in making applications with it: cheap, probably imported labour to build applications. That’s it. And no, it is not better “DX” either. NPM and the NodeJS ecosystem in general are toxic and unsustainable for larger applications.

It is free software. You can spin it up on your device, or go to any cheap hosting provider and host it there.

This aged like milk.

Am I the only one thinking how problematic that product is?

I guess ‘think of the children’ only comes up when governments want to ban end-to-end encryption or ask for ID when viewing porn, but everyone is dandy with addictive products advertisements targeted at children such as the one in the meme, gambling in video games, toy companies exploiting children, and more…

A community for the modern day library of alexandria

I almost thought you were referring to Bibliotheca Alexandrina, which is the actual modern day library of Alexandria.