swww renamed to awww, due to the author's guilt from obliviously naming it "final solution"
swww renamed to awww, due to the author's guilt from obliviously naming it "final solution"
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And this, people, is why we should extensively teach fascist and colonialist history. Bet >90% of Americans don't know this. Many don't seem to have an issue with Stephen Miller's Nazi rhetoric, or Trump speeches often suspiciously sounding like the ones from a certain Austrian painter. They simply don't recognise simple patterns like this.
I don't think the author is at fault at all. I would rather ask their educators about what the fuck they were doing that this person doesn't know these words.
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In defense of the author and their education... They're Brazilian so English probably isn't their native language, and their history education was almost certainly in Portuguese. I don't think it's necessarily an indictment of their education that they weren't taught about the English translation of a German phrase, and I don't think it's reasonable to apply the same standards of subtext awareness to native and non-native speakers either.
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I also don't think it makes sense that people who haven't even taken history as a major, need to be taught each and every phrase that was used by a fanatic group.
A lot of these words, phrases and symbols tend to be taken from stuff that meant well in the past or even now. See swastika, svaha^[which I am not sure of the Nazi reference, but it was being chanted by people being portrayed as Nazis in a game].
Just knowing those terms, while might help prevent them from being used in accidental cases, is not as important as being able to recognise the pattern of peoples' actual actions.
Because a group that has copied stuff from other traditions, can always do that again with other sources, to replace that stuff.It's important that out of history, we make sure to identify the part that we actually need to be against, which is the specific actions that cause grief back then, instead of just picking each and every unrelated thing, which any new group can simply replace, while also getting to keep the original grievous actions.
This is also to prevent us from getting our willpower drained from always getting outraged by multiple instances of minor similarities that are much more probable to be a false +ive, to have the power to push back when we find the actual problem creators.
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To take this a step further, wolf-whistles (neo-Nazi dog-whistles) are often intentionally vague, and spotting them is important in recognizing cryptofascists because they will try and claim plausible deniability, "oh leftists call everyone a nazi" is something open nazis say to downplay themselves to other reactionaries. They know that their beliefs are still unspeakably disgusting to most societies, they tend to disguise it, downplay it and rationalize it.
[1]Sometimes it's language and phrases itself, you can often see cryptofascists use the same phrases, euphemisms or odd terms as famous fascist speeches or texts, whether as an intentional subtle allusion or just unwittingly echoing what they've read. And that's where they'll chuck in terms like "Final solution" in memes.
Other times, it's more direct coded language and symbols. It's probably less unknown these days, but some common examples of codes are the sonnenrad 'Black Sun' symbol, Nazi-era pseudo-runes (not to be confused with legitimate historical Germanic runes!), the numbers 14 and 88, and more.
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Other times, it’s more direct coded language and symbols. It’s probably less unknown these days, but some common examples of codes are the sonnenrad ‘Black Sun’ symbol, Nazi-era pseudo-runes (not to be confused with legitimate historical Germanic runes!), the numbers 14 and 88, and more.
I know someone who used 88 in a username on accident, not knowing how cryptonazis use it. He found out because he got called out for it and asked to explain. After finding out what 88 can mean, he changed his username because he didn't want to be mistaken as a nazi. TBF, his initial reaction was "wtf, why would someone suggest I'm a nazi and want to ban me because I have some numbers at the end of my name?" I think some people take it for granted that others are aware of these things.
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Bet >90% of Americans don't know this.
Considering that pcmr (PC Master Race) is now an acceptable term on reddit and now elsewhere, I'd say you were right.
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When that whole thing started up Nazis seemed a lot less "real" imo
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Exactly. Luckily, back in high school, my IB History class spent a good couple months just learning about authoritarian rulers and their tactics.
I especially like pulling out Pinochet because he’s a clear and relatively recent example of right wing authoritarianism, manipulation of existing religious structures, and US government support of authoritarian regimes that help contextualize its trend towards authoritarianism.
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I don't know that I agree with that. Nazis suck, but just because they are trending at the moment doesn't seem like a great reason to spend time dwelling in their ideology. Lots of people have done lots of ghastly things and you can't unknow some of them. And now they live rent free in your head on the off chance someone's words collide with an old phrase.
I don't have a great answer, but I would have been happier if we taught people to recognize what fascism actually is and how to stop it rather than focusing on the icons and word choice of one set of awful people.
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Tangential: Recently, I was talking with a friend of how in Colombia, schools don't teach much of recent events of Colombian history (Colombia has been in a pseudo-civil war for almost 80 years), but we learn A LOT about WWII, Vietnam war, Korean war, cold war, etc.
Given that the Goverment has done extremely nasty things in these decades, I'm somewhat convinced this is intentional.
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So how long until Lunduke does a video about how this software has GoNe WoKe?
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About 3.5 minutes probably.
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Lunduke really went fucking crazy. It's wild watching his feed and remembering he's the same guy from Linux sucks.
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Also moved to codeberg in the process. Bonus
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I don't think you should let Nazi's win the war of language.
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Agreed, I think the author's feeling towards this is commendable in spirit, but to let a generic phrase be forever attached to a political movement in any setting is a bit much, even if it's infamously memorable, it doesn't belong to Nazis.
Still, it's just a name change, so, aside from a few lines of code to change, it doesn't badly affect anyone. All power to the author-
It's not a big deal to change the name, and it masks actual Nazi use of the language.
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to let a generic phrase be forever attached to a political movement in any setting is a bit much
ahahahahahahhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah
BTW this is a prolonged 'Aha moment', not a typesetting symbolism of laughter.
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It's case-by-case. Fascists are going to invade and appropriate every shred of culture they can find. But some of their choice culture is so toxic that they will own it for a long time. "Final Solution" and "Concentration Camp". But others like "living space" are probably not forever nazi.
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"Living space", like? Displacing other peoples to provide an ideal amount of population density to your own people is still not OK. Or it should be anyway.
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How wholesome! I also appreciate the move to Codeberg. Don’t forget that Codeberg runs on donations. Please help if you can.
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Btw, as a cool gui for setting your wallpaper there's waypaper
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A happy ending!
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Now if only the GIMP maintainers would come to their senses.
Edit: corrected "it" to "if".
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No thats what the mask is for.
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Good, but the way the developer spells "nazy" makes me to follow the quoted advice on my own brain process:
if you want to change the wallpaper during runtime, you must pkill the daemon, and then start it again
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Awww 💜
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Fair reason to rename the project, but isn't it reasonable to consider it already too tainted by historic association and requiring a delisting instead?
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Wut
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Stuff like swaybg, despite being very well built, only support setting a single wallpaper on startup. This means, if you want to change the wallpaper during runtime, you must pkill the daemon
So this...this is the power of Wayland
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No, it's a limitation with swaybg so they created a tool that doesn't have that limitation.
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...have you actually used Wayland? If you're using Plasma or GNOME, its indistinguishable from X11 except it actually has a slightly more (inexplicable tbh) polished feel to it.
This comment is incredibly misinformed
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I still bounce back to x11 over a handful of deal breaking issues I run in to every time I try. Screen shares are extremely low quality, barrier (vkvm software) crashes intermittently, and inevitably I run in to clipboard issues. After a couple of days I just want my computer to work again. I use Plasma
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Yeah I tried it, out of the gate my favourite WM - i3 isn't supported.
I tried some of the other WMs, and they all kinda sucked imo.
I tried Gnome but it didn't work for me when I tried using guake.
I also had issues with Spectacle on Plasma (captured area is just plain white).
In both - OBS didn't work properly either (black screen with some capture methods, massive lag with others) and games were a bit laggy (stutters/frame time spikes).
Last one could be that Wayland doesn't play nice with the proprietary Nvidia driver or that unlike with Xorg, Proton/SteamPlay dont support launching a gamescope nested session from a Wayland session (or didn't back when I tried it) which usually ensures silky smooth performance.
So yeah, this was a while back but.
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