I agree with you in general. Many small projects with limited popularity are one heartbeat away from disappearing forever. However, projects that are absolutely essential to prevent “collapse” as the video suggests will almost certainly find new life. Red Hat, Google, Canonical, Valve, Synology etc. that all rely heavily on open source projects will pump cash to keep them alive if it comes to that. It’s not true across the board universally, but in general collapse is not imminent.
Maintainers quitting is definitely a loss for everyone. However, we all have the source code. Hard fork and someone new takes up the mantle. Almost guaranteed to happen if the project is important enough.
I’m confused by this. I don’t get how these types of hacks work with an offline single player game. Where is the attack entrance vector for a hacker? Like sure if your computer got hacked through a coffee shop’s public WiFi or something, but my home network isn’t actually a high profile target. Or if I get malware from the web. But that point I have bigger problems than playing an unpatched unity engine game I feel lol.
Why is scolding good? Has it ever actually helped anything? From what I’ve experienced, it exists only make the person scolding feel better. The person being scolded is almost guaranteed to double down.
Not everyone with bad opinions thinks they’re being oppressed or being targeted by mind control. A lot of them are just incredibly lonely and socially inept. Telling them over and over that they’re bad people only causes them to entrench themselves further into toxic beliefs.
I don’t think Lemmy is pro fascism or murder, but large chunks of it are so anti American that it does indeed swing back around to become pro Russia. If you’re significantly anti American, it’s easy to understand why some people might support one of the few countries actually willing to stand up to the US.
Using the word “genocide” in the source code in 2023 is way more weird than using master/slave or blacklist/whitelist. Those terms have been around for decades.
Exposing this on Bluesky is kind of a self-defeating point.