The number tattoos from the holocaust directly tie into early ‘database software’ aka tabulation machines developed by IBM. IBMs NYC HQ was involved the entire time from prewar census to ghettos to concentration camps. And then they made your first PC.
My first PC was zilog based. But yep, IBM 100% helped Nazi Germany catalog and track their prisoners on the way to the ovens. But like so many companies they’ve been allowed to whitewash their image.
The statistically average persons first PC. My school didn’t have a datapoint computer lab. The Amiga 500 didn’t put a computer repair shop in every town. IBM was on top when computers were being put everywhere. And even when they weren’t, “Dude, you’re getting an IBM clone.”
No company behind it, the DSC/DFSG has been around for around 30 years now, its operated through the non-profit SPI for just as long, and important to note it was Bruce Perens who made the first draft of the DSC.
I think the drama in Debian has historically been more on the geekery side than anything else, and should continue to be the case for a looooong time.
There’s a package in Debian called “fortune-mod” that contains “offensive jokes” - racism, homophobia, misogyny etc. They refused to remove it because free speech or whatever.
If the package is not malware, I actually would prefer the repo maintainers fight to keep it there. I do not want the software repo to be censored. If I don’t like a piece of software, I can avoid using it.
The package is not shipped with Debian. The package is not shown to a user anywhere in Debian. A user has to go out of their way to acquire the package.
I thought this was hilarious. I digged into this. I agree with the author. Honestly if one doesn’t like the quote generated, one can generate a new quote and move on. Author addressed this years ago here https://salsa.debian.org/debian/fortune-mod/-/raw/master/Offensive
Then again, I’m sure someone made an offensive free version of this.
Redhat is just part of IBM now, so even more baggage on top.
Yet another reason I’ve been a Debian user for so long.
Wild. How many Israelis still have IBM tattoos?
Say what now?
The number tattoos from the holocaust directly tie into early ‘database software’ aka tabulation machines developed by IBM. IBMs NYC HQ was involved the entire time from prewar census to ghettos to concentration camps. And then they made your first PC.
My first PC was zilog based. But yep, IBM 100% helped Nazi Germany catalog and track their prisoners on the way to the ovens. But like so many companies they’ve been allowed to whitewash their image.
Whoa, thanks.
Commodore 64 gang, by the way :-D
🤘🏼🤜🏼
They made the Amiga 500??!?
Amiga, the superior computing platform of the 20th century
o7
Yep, they’re basically the UIDs from IBM’s system, or something pretty close to that.
They made Fisher-Price My First Computer?
MY first PC, or THE first PC? Cuz a couple of years ago, IEEE recognized the Datapoint as manufacturing the first PC.
The statistically average persons first PC. My school didn’t have a datapoint computer lab. The Amiga 500 didn’t put a computer repair shop in every town. IBM was on top when computers were being put everywhere. And even when they weren’t, “Dude, you’re getting an IBM clone.”
How have I never heard of this?
Because IBM would strongly prefer you not know about it, and/or you haven’t played the wikipedia ‘how many clicks to Hitler’ game enough.
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Would IBM ever do anything bad?
… fingers crossed someone doesn’t bring up some shit about Debian …
No company behind it, the DSC/DFSG has been around for around 30 years now, its operated through the non-profit SPI for just as long, and important to note it was Bruce Perens who made the first draft of the DSC.
I think the drama in Debian has historically been more on the geekery side than anything else, and should continue to be the case for a looooong time.
This is not as bad, but…
There’s a package in Debian called “fortune-mod” that contains “offensive jokes” - racism, homophobia, misogyny etc. They refused to remove it because free speech or whatever.
If the package is not malware, I actually would prefer the repo maintainers fight to keep it there. I do not want the software repo to be censored. If I don’t like a piece of software, I can avoid using it.
The package is not shipped with Debian. The package is not shown to a user anywhere in Debian. A user has to go out of their way to acquire the package.
I thought this was hilarious. I digged into this. I agree with the author. Honestly if one doesn’t like the quote generated, one can generate a new quote and move on. Author addressed this years ago here https://salsa.debian.org/debian/fortune-mod/-/raw/master/Offensive
Then again, I’m sure someone made an offensive free version of this.
Came here to post about their NSA development, but your comment tops it off.
Wait how does using fedora support redhat? You don’t pay for fedora. They get nothing.
Other then free beta testing?
Its RHEL’s testing ground… Quite literally Fedora is the upstream.