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Re: France's government is ditching Windows for Linux, says US tech a strategic risk

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Post by M95D »

Leomuck wrote: post #146
M95D wrote: post #113

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Social validation brings incompetent users expecting something like Windows that "just works". Even if they could bring some bug reports... We have lots of those already! We have decades of ignored bug reports.

Wait, do we not want incompetent users on Linux? That's a weird take. Linux is not for elite technologically profound users, it's for everybody. If things don't work for non-technical users, we should strive to make it better?

As if Linux devs just sat and did nothing for the last 30 years... Linux today is the best they could do and it's not even at the Win95 functional level.

No, we don't want incompetent users on Linux. It's going to be something like eternal september.

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Post by mullingitover »

spwa4 wrote: post #266
the_why_of_y wrote: post #260

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There are now "loyalty tests" for those who apply to positions at the FBI, to be hired you have to state that the "patriots" on Jan. 6 2021 were the rioters attempting a coup, not the Capitol Police defending the constitutional transfer of government power. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/02/08/... But technically you are correct, of course. Trump never demanded that VP Mike Pence be hanged, the…

I think the parent post is defending what somewhat older people know to be true. Nixon was far worse than Trump, also betrayed US allies for example. And where it hurts: he effectively stole gold from them. And I'm sure in another 20 years even democrat voters will remember, probably correctly, that Trump was so much better than $us_president_at_that_time.

> Nixon was far worse than Trump

Nixon was never credibly accused of sexual assault, never organized a mob of rioters to sack the US capitol, never published tertiary syphilis-coded rants for the world to see in the middle of the night, nearly every night.

Nixon had a competent cabinet, some of them even had principles. Nixon's Attorney General was willing to resign on principle for his refusal to fire the special prosecutor. Nixon didn't put his own attorney at the head of the DOJ.

I could go on. To be clear: Nixon was a corrupt thug. At the same time he was nowhere near as symptomatic of a national malignant political cancer as Trump has been. Plus there was a congress to keep Nixon in check, we don't have a functioning Congress now, just a department of a political party.

Re: France's government is ditching Windows for Linux, says US tech a strategic risk

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Post by bigfudge »

breppp wrote: post #250
bigfudge wrote: post #231

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At the beginning it was fairly clear to everyone outside the US that this was an illegal war of aggression. That we waited until Iran had struck Israel and gulf countries was at least a fig leaf for the pretence we were doing something reasonable. What source do you have for French ships being allowed to pass?

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjd8275jrrko

I think you're reading too much into this report. It was one ship that according to the story passed by hugging the French coastline. My memory from a radio report at the time was these ships also passed at night. There's no sense that French ships are consistently getting special treatment.

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Post by 8note »

pessimizer wrote: post #200
drnick1 wrote: post #187

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> recentering the global economy around itself. Wishful thinking.

Wishful to the point of delusion. Europe is a stagnant backwater in a deep energy crisis that's about to get significantly deeper, and comforts itself on an completely unearned sense of moral superiority that it can't feed itself with. This is also a self-inflicted wound. There's no reason that Europe should be in the situation that it is in other than it is run by elites that are, like everyone else, invested in the…

> victimhood narratives about Russia

its russia that maintains the victimhood narrative. Europe cant fix it for them, other than beating down their army

Re: France's government is ditching Windows for Linux, says US tech a strategic risk

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Post by 8note »

YZF wrote: post #215
dfdsjsdklfjs wrote: post #212

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How old are you? What are your political views? How do you measure decline and what in your opinion is rising vs. this decline. There have certainly been some trends like globalization, climate change, social media, the pandemic, immigration etc. Can you elaborate on how it's in the interest of a hypothetical French person commenting on Hacker News, typing on their MBP laptop, tuning in to NetFlix, asking ChatGPT for…

> It also has giant homeless camps stretching on for miles, abandoned and collapsing old houses, factories, etc as far as the eye can see.

On a political tuning side, I would put this as ultra-rightwing, rather than left. Said homeless camps only exist in right wing media

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Post by 8note »

will4274 wrote: post #285
vrganj wrote: post #165

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As a European, the Anti-Americanism is not performative. It's a deep disconnect in values, brought to the forefront by the current administration and the oligarchs running wild. America used to be seen as an example, the big brother watching out for us. Now it's a cautionary tale of greed, hubris and societal decay, as well as an increasingly antagonistic actor of global instability. Y'all ruined your reputation and…

You're right about the values disconnect. In America, we believe in democracy and individual rights. In Europe, y'all still have kings and queens and authoritarian governments.

do you still believe in democracy?

every election, americans make a big stink about how you belive in republicanism because democracy is evil, and that being a republic is somehow mutually exclusive with democracy

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Post by 8note »

bigfudge wrote: post #164
slibhb wrote: post #148

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Performative anti-Americanism has become one of the major features of European culture (and especially French culture).

The French are just (wonderfully) arrogant enough to say what everyone else is thinking. The UK will likely be too spineless to actually follow through, but the Germans and Eastern Europeans are not going to tolerate the level of exposure we all have to US craziness any longer.

to be fair, its canada thats knly part french thats saying what everyone is thinking nowadays

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Post by 8note »

japanoise wrote: post #74
Mindless2112 wrote: post #55

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The demonym for France is "French," so it's not wrong (even if it doesn't sound right.)

It's not completely wrong, it will be understood, but it is ungrammatical and a clear marker that the speaker is not native, similar to getting adjectives in the 'wrong' order ('a big tasty sandwich' sounds more natural to a native speaker than 'a tasty big sandwich', even though the latter makes sense and will be understood). Demonyms for historical neighbours of England have irregular forms when speaking of a parti…

nah, "as a french" is perfectly fine english grammar.

english changes over time, and thats been a normal description for at least a decade

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Post by MiguelX413 »

spwa4 wrote: post #287
sveme wrote: post #276

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Do you really think the American empire is never to be challenged? Everything and everyone goes down after a while. Whether it‘s now is unclear, though the active resentment against the US is unprecedented. Sadly, your comment lacks any substance to argue with, all there is are unsubstantiated ad hominems. Sad.

No I'm a realist and realize that all candidates (CERTAINLY China and Russia, but even EU if we're honest) are far, far worse than "the American empire".

How is the EU worse?

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Post by troad »

gpm wrote: post #158
Ylpertnodi wrote: post #77

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> or Frenchman if you're old and inconsiderate. Or talking about a man that is French. Neither of which would be considered 'old', or 'inconsiderate".

"Frenchman" (one word) is always... "old and inconsiderate" is a good description. "French man" (two words) is at times still appropriate.

No, Frenchman is fine. It's a neutral and common descriptor, and I've far more often heard it said by French people than about them. Similar to Spaniard.

Not everything needs to be perennially problematised.

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