For the more computer oriented type,
It might be a good idea to make sure you have downloaded and keep copies of the full offline install ISOs and source code for your favorite Linux Distros.
As well as probably the same thing for any applications you rely on.
You can look up more online, but it seems the SJW communist crowd of destroyers is getting their way and will start destroying a lot of the open source projects and banning people from contributing if they are not worshipers of the latest SJW communist dictates.
A forshadowing was when the SJWs got rid of one of the Drupal contributors based on them not liking his (totally not related to his work) sexual fetishes because they didn't like which assumed gender was playing which assumed role.
Then they started a big uproar over wanting to change the programming languages to remove all traces of master/slave in how functions are coded.
Now it seems like they have won control over the primary Linux kernel. It seems that Linus one of the last of the in your face brutally honest, no holds barred, no softpeadling, it's either good or it's garbage and out type guys got his nuts clipped.
Then the SJWs forced in a new "code of conduct" that pretty much openly states they want to purge any men from being able to contribute code or work on the projects if they happen to be fair skinned. Extra hate points if you.. have male reproductive organs... identify as a man... like reproductive action with the opposite gender.
They now are able to just ban and shun anybody not in their clique with no real reason and no way to fight back.
My guess is this will not make things better but worse and also possibly open the door to a lot more censorship of what you can do... If the SJW Communists already control Microsoft, Google, Apple and now the Linux Kernel & many projects... it can't be a good sign for the cause of freedom in the future.
Here is a brief recap to help you search a bit easier:
"The controversy
Activists from the feminist and LGBTQIA+ communities have been trying to force the Linux project to join the Contributor Covenant since at least 2015. The Contributor Covenant is an agreement to implement a special Code of Conduct (frequently CoC from now on) aimed at changing the predominantly white, straight, and male face of programming. CC’s Code of Conduct is controversial particularly because it allows anyone to be banned from contributing code for any reason, usually with no mechanism for oversight or accountability.
On September 16 the pro-CoC side got their wish (how this happened is a very strange story of its own, read recent news about Linus Torvalds’ departure if you want to know more) — Linux had officially committed to implementing and obeying the CC Code of Conduct — and they immediately set about using it to remove top Linux coders. Sage Sharp, who describes theyself as a “diversity & inclusion consultant, hufflepuff, non-binary agender trans masculine” and has 7k followers, cites GeekFeminismWiki and targets Google’s Theo Ts’o with accusations of being a rape apologist:
Several users on 4chan’s technology board speculate that Theo is targeted first because he famously resisted an Intel/NSA backdoor.
1. Insertion of the CoC into other projects has heralded witch hunts where good contributors are removed over trivial matters or even events that happened a long time ago–like Larry Garfield, a prominent Drupal contributor who was purged after it was discovered he had a sex fetish where women are submissive.
2. The lack of proper definitions for punishments, time frames, and even what constitutes abuse or harassment leaves the Code of Conduct wide open for abuse (see 1).
3. It gives the people charged with enforcement omnipotent and unaccountable power.
4. It could force acceptance of contributions that wouldn’t make the cut if made by cis white males.
5. CC’s Code of Conduct is purely about power.
6. “‘In all that time I never had to know or care whether my fellow contributors were white, black, male, female, straight, gay, or from the planet Mars, only whether their code was good’; namely, in a project that receives contributions from volunteers who are anonymous beyond a chosen handle, specious claims of exclusion and harassment crumble beneath the most haphazard scrutiny. Contributors reveal as much about their race, sex, and orientation as they want because no one cares about that tangential shit at the end of the day. If there really was some “straight white males only” mentality, the community would insist on determining whether a new contributor is “one of us” before accepting their code, but they don’t do that in the slightest. Thus, it’s patently clear there is no culture of exclusion, but rather a culture of total indifference to individual differences beyond coding ability. The rhetoric of diversity and inclusiveness is just a weapon being used to attack a community that is inherently opposed to identity politics, which is why they’re seen as such a threat to these SJW gestapo.”
On the other side of the aisle, arguments FOR CC’s Code of Conduct include:
1. Fostering an inclusive and safe space for women, LGBTQIA+, and People of Color, who in the absence of the CoC are excluded, harassed, and sometimes even raped by cis white males.
2. Lack of CC’s CoC sustains meritocracy, which “has consistently shown itself to mainly benefit those with privilege, to the exclusion of underrepresented people in technology“.
3. The vast majority of Linux contributors are cis white males. CC’s Code of Conduct would enable the building of a more diverse overall demographic as people who aren’t cis white males feel welcome to join and white male harassers are weeded out.
4. Being against the CoC means you want women, LGBTQIA+, and People of Color to be harassed."
"
It might be a good idea to make sure you have downloaded and keep copies of the full offline install ISOs and source code for your favorite Linux Distros.
As well as probably the same thing for any applications you rely on.
You can look up more online, but it seems the SJW communist crowd of destroyers is getting their way and will start destroying a lot of the open source projects and banning people from contributing if they are not worshipers of the latest SJW communist dictates.
A forshadowing was when the SJWs got rid of one of the Drupal contributors based on them not liking his (totally not related to his work) sexual fetishes because they didn't like which assumed gender was playing which assumed role.
Then they started a big uproar over wanting to change the programming languages to remove all traces of master/slave in how functions are coded.
Now it seems like they have won control over the primary Linux kernel. It seems that Linus one of the last of the in your face brutally honest, no holds barred, no softpeadling, it's either good or it's garbage and out type guys got his nuts clipped.
Then the SJWs forced in a new "code of conduct" that pretty much openly states they want to purge any men from being able to contribute code or work on the projects if they happen to be fair skinned. Extra hate points if you.. have male reproductive organs... identify as a man... like reproductive action with the opposite gender.
They now are able to just ban and shun anybody not in their clique with no real reason and no way to fight back.
My guess is this will not make things better but worse and also possibly open the door to a lot more censorship of what you can do... If the SJW Communists already control Microsoft, Google, Apple and now the Linux Kernel & many projects... it can't be a good sign for the cause of freedom in the future.
Here is a brief recap to help you search a bit easier:
"The controversy
Activists from the feminist and LGBTQIA+ communities have been trying to force the Linux project to join the Contributor Covenant since at least 2015. The Contributor Covenant is an agreement to implement a special Code of Conduct (frequently CoC from now on) aimed at changing the predominantly white, straight, and male face of programming. CC’s Code of Conduct is controversial particularly because it allows anyone to be banned from contributing code for any reason, usually with no mechanism for oversight or accountability.
On September 16 the pro-CoC side got their wish (how this happened is a very strange story of its own, read recent news about Linus Torvalds’ departure if you want to know more) — Linux had officially committed to implementing and obeying the CC Code of Conduct — and they immediately set about using it to remove top Linux coders. Sage Sharp, who describes theyself as a “diversity & inclusion consultant, hufflepuff, non-binary agender trans masculine” and has 7k followers, cites GeekFeminismWiki and targets Google’s Theo Ts’o with accusations of being a rape apologist:
Several users on 4chan’s technology board speculate that Theo is targeted first because he famously resisted an Intel/NSA backdoor.
1. Insertion of the CoC into other projects has heralded witch hunts where good contributors are removed over trivial matters or even events that happened a long time ago–like Larry Garfield, a prominent Drupal contributor who was purged after it was discovered he had a sex fetish where women are submissive.
2. The lack of proper definitions for punishments, time frames, and even what constitutes abuse or harassment leaves the Code of Conduct wide open for abuse (see 1).
3. It gives the people charged with enforcement omnipotent and unaccountable power.
4. It could force acceptance of contributions that wouldn’t make the cut if made by cis white males.
5. CC’s Code of Conduct is purely about power.
6. “‘In all that time I never had to know or care whether my fellow contributors were white, black, male, female, straight, gay, or from the planet Mars, only whether their code was good’; namely, in a project that receives contributions from volunteers who are anonymous beyond a chosen handle, specious claims of exclusion and harassment crumble beneath the most haphazard scrutiny. Contributors reveal as much about their race, sex, and orientation as they want because no one cares about that tangential shit at the end of the day. If there really was some “straight white males only” mentality, the community would insist on determining whether a new contributor is “one of us” before accepting their code, but they don’t do that in the slightest. Thus, it’s patently clear there is no culture of exclusion, but rather a culture of total indifference to individual differences beyond coding ability. The rhetoric of diversity and inclusiveness is just a weapon being used to attack a community that is inherently opposed to identity politics, which is why they’re seen as such a threat to these SJW gestapo.”
On the other side of the aisle, arguments FOR CC’s Code of Conduct include:
1. Fostering an inclusive and safe space for women, LGBTQIA+, and People of Color, who in the absence of the CoC are excluded, harassed, and sometimes even raped by cis white males.
2. Lack of CC’s CoC sustains meritocracy, which “has consistently shown itself to mainly benefit those with privilege, to the exclusion of underrepresented people in technology“.
3. The vast majority of Linux contributors are cis white males. CC’s Code of Conduct would enable the building of a more diverse overall demographic as people who aren’t cis white males feel welcome to join and white male harassers are weeded out.
4. Being against the CoC means you want women, LGBTQIA+, and People of Color to be harassed."
"
