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"Today"= 18 Months Ago (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 63 points 3 days ago (2 children)

"I... I was just asking why my WiFi driver isn't working."

[–] [email protected] 39 points 3 days ago (2 children)

This NIC is woke.

[–] caseyweederman 47 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Since I had it handy, here's the source meme for the uninitiated: An edited picture of an early reader book. A young man is leaning over the open hood of a car, gesturing with his offhand, facing the viewer. The title of the book has been edited to say "Everything I don't like is WOKE" and the subtitle is "A book for basic dickheads". Text over the young man says "This engine is woke".

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Ahh...they had woke_on_lan enabled. That'll do it.

[–] caseyweederman 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's the dang magic packets in the water supply

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 3 days ago

Linus is my favourite centrist <3

[–] [email protected] 64 points 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (22 children)

I'm sorry, and I don't want to be disrespectful or rude, but as a person who has no clue about computers I am very surprised the creator of Linux is still alive. I somehow thought he is super old and probably dead by now or at least not using the internet. I'm so sorry for my ignorance.

Edit: Thank you everyone for the many interesting replies, I've learned a lot of random stuff which I greatly appreciate!

[–] [email protected] 63 points 3 days ago (4 children)

Computer aren’t very old! Most of the pioneers are still alive and kicking

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 3 days ago (4 children)

The people that invented the internet are still using it!

https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Berners-Lee

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[–] [email protected] 52 points 3 days ago (16 children)

To be fair what he's described is at most Progressive. The left rejects the current economic model as a start. Workers owning the means of production instead of an owner class.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

I don’t really know much about his personal politics, but his work seems to speak pretty loudly about rejecting the idea of software as private property to be bought and sold by capital, which, you know, that’s more than just progressive, even if it’s just in one area.

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 3 days ago (4 children)

Unfortunately, it's true: Linux is woke. And DEI. And gay.

We need to get Elon Musk and the DOGE team on this, stat!

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I got all excited cause I saw that Linus had a mastodon account and I went to follow and saw that I already followed and he hasn't posted since early last year..... ah well, good on ya 2023 Torvalds

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

Linus Torvalds Comments On The Russian Linux Maintainers Being Delisted

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