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The Age of Non-Woke Open Source is Beginning
The Lunduke Journal ^
| Jul 28, 2025
| Bryan Lunduke
Posted on 08/01/2025 7:34:38 AM PDT by ProgressingAmerica
Non-Woke "Political Protest Forks" like XLibre & Redot are thriving. Non-DEl Linux Distributions like Open Mandriva are as well. But Woke projects? Not doing so well.
TOPICS: Computers/Internet
KEYWORDS: foss; linux
A lot is being said and discovered about how Google is wildly woke, Apple is wildly woke, and Microsoft is wildly woke.
Pretty much all of the software world is wildly and disgustingly woke. But within open source a non-woke environment is emerging. A unique, never-before-seen non-woke environment.
To: ShadowAce
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posted on
08/01/2025 7:35:35 AM PDT
by
ProgressingAmerica
(We cannot vote our way out of these problems. The only way out is to activist our way out.)
To: ProgressingAmerica
Isn’t open source itself a woke concept?
To: ComputerGuy
>
Isn’t open source itself a woke concept? LOL. Hardly.
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posted on
08/01/2025 7:54:24 AM PDT
by
dayglored
(This is the day which the LORD hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it. Psalms 118:24)
To: ComputerGuy
Isn’t open source itself a woke concept?
I would think the opposite. Woke is all about centralized control over thought.
Open source is all about decentralization of power. Open source is hard to censor and control.
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posted on
08/01/2025 7:55:43 AM PDT
by
marktwain
To: ComputerGuy
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posted on
08/01/2025 8:01:30 AM PDT
by
ProgressingAmerica
(We cannot vote our way out of these problems. The only way out is to activist our way out.)
To: marktwain; ComputerGuy
>
Open source is all about decentralization of power. Open source is hard to censor and control. Open source is about spreading the information and value of software around so that anyone can learn from it, modify it for their own needs, identify and correct mistakes and vulnerabilities, and pass what they've done around again for others to use. It's the very antithesis of central control and limitation.
Trying to control open source software is like trying to pick up a blob of mercury off a mirror with your fingers. Can't be done.
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posted on
08/01/2025 8:32:57 AM PDT
by
dayglored
(This is the day which the LORD hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it. Psalms 118:24)
To: ProgressingAmerica; rdb3; JosephW; martin_fierro; Still Thinking; zeugma; Vinnie; ironman; Egon; ...
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posted on
08/01/2025 8:33:36 AM PDT
by
ShadowAce
(Linux - The Ultimate Windows Service Pack )
To: dayglored
And as far as LLMs, you can go to Hugging Face, and find plenty of Open Source models that aren’t liberally biased.
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posted on
08/01/2025 8:35:29 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: ComputerGuy
“Isn’t open source itself a woke concept?”
like others say, it is impossible to create a monopoly like MS did. While the companies and Devs in ALL technology tend to lean left/woke, open source is one of the more painless forms that cannot really force that wokeness on anyone like the rest of the tech industry does.
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posted on
08/01/2025 8:47:56 AM PDT
by
Openurmind
(AI - An Illusion for Aptitude Intrusion to Alter Intellect. )
To: ShadowAce
That short GIF of the penguins always entrances me. I can watch it over and over, each time expecting that somehow it will start a little earlier or last a lot longer. Like that old GIF of the amply-endowed young woman in a low-cut blouse who sneezes and the blouse becomes unbuttoned, but the GIF stops just before she spills out of it. My brain is somehow always hoping that this time around we'll get to see the spill.... this time for sure... nope...
So perhaps there's an original video of the penguins somewhere, either real-life or AI (I hope the former) from which this snippet was made. Do you happen to know?
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posted on
08/01/2025 9:34:10 AM PDT
by
dayglored
(This is the day which the LORD hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it. Psalms 118:24)
To: dfwgator
Regarding my query to ShadowAce above in #11, it appears you have a world-class collection of images and videos and links and whatnot. Do you happen to have a longer version of the penguins GIF? Or for that matter, a longer version of the young lady GIF (that’s an old one, probably late-90’s or early 2000’s)?
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posted on
08/01/2025 9:40:13 AM PDT
by
dayglored
(This is the day which the LORD hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it. Psalms 118:24)
To: dayglored
I do not know.
I pulled it from chzbrgr.com
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posted on
08/01/2025 10:11:36 AM PDT
by
ShadowAce
(Linux - The Ultimate Windows Service Pack )
To: ProgressingAmerica
...within open source a non-woke environment is emerging. A unique, never-before-seen non-woke environment. Interesting...
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posted on
08/01/2025 7:54:59 PM PDT
by
GOPJ
(...taxpayers paid 18.75 million dollars per charging station..(under Biden) - Freeper SuperLuminal )
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