Oh fun. I had one of the packages installed, but not an infected version, and I hadn’t updated it during the window.
Feels like a great reminder to keep a clean minimal system. Why I was keeping vidcutter installed and up to date when the last time I ran it was probably years ago.
I find pedants are often wrong or completely missing the point.
Sometimes it triggers a fun discussion. and sometimes it’s just tedious.
(ghoti could never be pronounced like “fish” because “gh” only sounds like an F near the end of a word after au or ou, but ghoti is at least an interesting way to bring up the topic of weird inconsistencies of the english language, even if it’s wrong)
I left out some context. There was a massive controversy that sparked a lot of the “toxic community” claims. Someone showed up with pronouns in their discord display name. A server mod changed that user’s display name on the server so the pronouns were “(who/cares)” … Which vaxry declared “not a big deal” but they made it clear that showing up with pronouns in the server was “politically divisive” and that users who include pronouns are unwelcome.
“LGBT issue” being lumped in with “politics” in his quote is intentional, as his way of being dismissive of it.
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I think OP chose a random picture of servers to represent “linux” despite netflix[0] not having anything to do with this. And then cited the first item in the Debian social contract[1]. And then just wildly speculated that because other distros don’t have a social contract, that they might someday start charging money (they won’t they would just as soon stop existing than charge money, but ok).
So in summary… “Computer pictures” + “Debian good” + “Arch not good” in a wild mishmash of nonsense.
Also, to the OP: using a picture clearly labeled as Netflix just to start a conversation about the debian social contract is highly confusing and misleading. No one here has any idea wtf you are talking about.
0: Netflix has published plenty of stuff about how they exclusively use FreeBSD for their CDN https://freebsdfoundation.org/end-user-stories/netflix-case-study/
https://freebsdfoundation.org/end-user-stories/netflix-case-study/ Netflix. The one that famously uses FreeBSD for their stuff?
You dont want your ISP to know you are downloading linux ISOs though. We should use some sort of code name for it. Like “copyrighted movies”
Nice! Then you get none of the relaxation and rejuvenation of time off, and got nothing done.
This is also what I do.
My last update to vidcutter was from 2025 (based on my pacman logs). Some tools will scan for “did you install the bad package during the bad time period” and some will scan for “is the bad package name installed at all” - so i was able to identify that vidcutter was installed and I knew that the package names looking familiar made sense, and I was able to manually confirm that I was still clean. And now I have a lot of system pruning to do.
But if you thing some packages look familiar, it might be worth double checking.