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 No.8031

Are there any good "political" tech tubers? I'm tired of "non political" tech youtubers screeching every other video about politics and how essjaydoobs not letting them say n-word is gonna destroy the world and that's just too "political".

 No.8034

Techrights guy often makes video blog posts and he's pretty clearly on the progressive side if not a full blown anti-capitalist.

 No.8036

>>8034
I'm gonna check his site out. I've heard somewhere that the guy is insane or something? But I think I heard that from Bryan Lunduke so I guess that should be taken with a MASSIVE grain of salt

 No.8048

>>8036
Techrights does seem pretty schizo. Looks like it's a requirement in this field.

 No.8049

OP guy talks about TED unabomber and is a massive anti propietary preacher.


Either OP is a retard who hasn't seen his videos or he is mad at his faggot christianism

 No.8050

>>8049
Unabomber is an ecofascist.

 No.8051

>>8049
Huh? I put Luke Seethe as the example of what type of people I don't want to see (sadly they appear to make up like 98% of vocal linux userbase)

 No.8052

>>8036
I think "unhinged" is probably the best way to describe him.

 No.8061

>>8050
Uncle Ted is an agrarian communalism fetishist with a hateboner for industrialization because it took that way of life away. I don't think he wants state enforced Malthusian policies, which is the defining feature of being an ecofascist. There would be a necessary mass dieoff if Ted got his way, but it would be collateral damage from what he sees as a necessary act rather than a desirable thing in of itself, whereas ecofascists think we need an authoritarian state that intentionally massacres people until sustainability is achieved.

 No.8062

>>8049
No the dude actually is deff a right-o. Listen to his videos that aren't tech related.

 No.8065


 No.8066

>>8062
Didn't he praise Goebbels or some shit like that?

 No.8067

If you don't wanna give him views you can check his website. His articles make it obvious the guy is an anti-tech trad clown.

 No.8068

>>8067
Well, not only I don't wanna give him views, I don't wanna view his shit in general. His content is very obnoxious.

 No.8069

>>8065
lolaccelerationAcceleration

 No.8073

>>8031
There are no left tech tubers period. The most "left-wing" thing I have ever seen out of them is Wolfgang ranting about how he should be allowed to paint his nails.

 No.8075

>>8073
Well wolfgang seems to be alright. And his videos are often actually useful stuff. Another channel I like is gotbletu, I'm unsure if he's left or right wing but he just posts unpretentious videos on cool terminal programs and tricks and doesn't go on rants about made up topics like Luke does.

 No.8080

I will become one, but I don't want to use my face. Should I have a furry avatar?

 No.8081

>>8080
Become a furry tech vtuber.

 No.8084


 No.8109

>>8031
There's something disconcerting about a bald fuck in his 30s unironically saying based and cringe irl and using soyjaks in thumbnails.

 No.8127

>>8109
>I don't really browse /g/ anymore
>makes content around the tops that were discussed on /g/ within the last week

Also he keeps making up stories about some people rabidly hating on poor arch users for being elitist.

 No.8130

>>8050
You clearly didn't read the manifesto.

 No.8203

Luke is based for a rightoid tbh.

 No.8214

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>>8031
Wow! That Luke guy is such as autist, I don't understand whats the appeal of using wojaks and pepes in thumbnails and saying "soy" and "based" unironically. His whole website is just retarded rightoid shit.

 No.11578

Bump. I miss early Wolfgang's videos so much, bros. Before he became an itoddler

 No.11579

>>11578
maybe it's just a phase, that dude is a tinkerer and the fruit company is very hostile towards tinkerers. He's bound to run into a giant corporate FuckYou roadblock and then he's going to switch to a dev-board with a open RiskV processor powered by a RC battery pack inside a 3d printed case and run a source distro.

 No.11580

>>11579
Things are weird. I went Ethan Schoonover's channel (the guy who made Solarized color scheme and his most popular video is him showing off his xmonad rice) recently and the latest videos are him reviewing some mac os exclusive writing application. And mac os isn't even styled in solarized style.

 No.11581

>>11580
So i went to his channel and peaked through his latest video, and he said that this one very unique program is the only thing that's tying him to the corporate garden. Fruit Software emulation is apparently still rough, but virtualization should work fine. If you have a tube account maybe leave him a comment.

 No.11583

Right wing autism seems to correlate with "tru unix suckless debloated" autism (dwm, endless configuration, gentoo and other garbage) just like left wing autism correlates with love for rust and js.
Theories of explanation? The explanation for the left wing autism - rust relation is probably that rust is heavily controlled by sjw corporations. But right wing autism? Is it generally more popular among lone programmers who write software for themselves like dwm? Why then?

 No.11584

>>11583
I like Common Lisp and Erlang myself
C is acceptable no interest in rust
Hate JavaScript simple as

 No.11585

>>11581
Well to be fair I didn't watch the video properly (since I'm uninterested in whatever he's showing) so I skipped around the video but it's good that he's not surrendering open source.

>>11583
Rightoids are just more highlighted in the area because they are being kicked out of mainstream platforms so they have to go with alternative open source software where they can be safe. Also there happens to be a lot of foss supporters from countries like Russia where people generally align themselves with hating le sjws and beating their wives.

 No.11586

>>11583
Right-wingers are poseurs who think they are the hot shit for inconveniencing themselves.

 No.11587

>>11584 (me)
Now that I've said that I'm wondering how redoing the Stalin scheme compiler as common lisp to rust instead of scheme to C would go
Does rust have a decent tree shaker?

 No.11591

>>8067
The best anti-techs are techs. They know shit's technically fucked rather than just coming from a vague "muh tradition". Although many then succumb to the latter as a byproduct because they latch to the most accessible ideology at hand that justifies their anti-tech stance on some "deeper" level. The guy in OP seems like such an example.

 No.11595

Follow YouTubers who talk about Apple products.

 No.11596


 No.11602

Embedding error.
I like LGR, he almost never talks about politics, but his channel is more geared towards "curiosities" and retro shit rather than reviews on the latest shit.

His game reviews are also top notch

 No.11607

>>11585
Implying suckless devs have wives
Most foss devs are virgin loosers

 No.11608

The father of FOSS, Stallman, is this world's most virgin virgin

 No.11610

>>11608
He's not even a virgin.

 No.11611

>>11610
What, some woman really was that generous so as to put out to him once in response to his douchy invitation cards? Any proofs?
I highly doubt it

 No.11612

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>>11611
https://www.stallman.org/articles/childhood-sweetheart.html
> A few months later, a beautiful and clever but rather too forceful woman asked me to be her lover. I had some doubts but wouldn't reject the idea out of hand. So she spent the night with me.
https://www.stallman.org/extra/personal.html
> (For amusement only — I am in a long-term relationship now and not looking for another.)

Stallman is a gigachad, you are just jealous of him.

 No.11618

>>11612
Sure sure that's all tue
Never seen him with a girl

 No.11619

>>11618
Why are you disparaging Stallman like this, he's not Chris-Chan.

 No.11623

>>11618
>literally replies to a picture of stallman with a girl
>noooo i've never seen him with a girl

??

 No.11633

>>11583
>libtards == left-wing
The truth is that left-wingers don't have their own "thing" when it comes to tech. And why should they? Most of these tech wars are infantile consoomer wars, where even programming languages become brands and identities.

 No.12492

>>11633
Fuck brands, fuck identities.
Free yourself and embrace portable standards, videos about these would be nice.

 No.12494

>>11583

How exactly is love for minimalism Right-wing?

I consider myself a leftist to some degree, yet everything you just described as Right-wing autism, I also do and enjoy

Stop associating activities to some group just because some of them do it

 No.12495

>>8062
he's a channer with a meme reactionary third-way ideology

 No.12496

>>12495
also the extent of his appreciation for the unabomber is just like… advocating buying land out in the boonies?

 No.12512

>>12494
Learn to read. I didn't say that love for minimalism is right-wing. I said that when you find a person who is a "le minimalism debloat" type, 90% of the time they're are going to be reeeing at them ebil leftists and supporting trump and all the shit like that. It's frankly ridiculous. I recently found a random meme on youtube about gzdoom's supposed poor code quality, clicked on the channel and saw among their videos memes about people discussing lgbt issues on gzdoom's fbi.gov and another video ">mfw trans rights" with video's location set to Auschwitz. Yes, there's nothing really right-wing about doom but yet the community is filled with similar people. In fact, most of the time I go to any small and fringe community the experience is the same.

 No.12515

>>11583
>>12512
reactionaries love to complain about everything supposedly not being perfect to them, it's their nature
suckless just seems like a weird nostalgic pastiche of a bunch of different stuff that doesn't fit in its own context. like trying to bring back "classic" unix stuff or stripped down versions of some other technology that you'd be better off using instead of their weird alternative version anyways

 No.12516

>>12515
>>11583
>Right wing autism seems to correlate with "tru unix suckless debloated" autism (dwm, endless configuration, gentoo and other garbage)
Not even close lmao

Did you guys just want to talk shit about a staple of UNIX philosophy (but making it seem "communist"!)

 No.12517

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>>12512
>I didn't say that love for minimalism is right-wing. I said that when you find a person who is a "le minimalism debloat" type, 90% of the time they're are going to be reeeing at them ebil leftists and supporting trump and all the shit like that.

 No.12521

>>12515
>suckless just seems like a weird nostalgic pastiche of a bunch of different stuff that doesn't fit in its own context. like trying to bring back "classic" unix stuff or stripped down versions of some other technology that you'd be better off using instead of their weird alternative version anyways
Which suckless software have you even used?

Sbase and ubase are valuable, if you can afford not using scripts that depends on coreutils extensions. In my current situation busybox makes more sense, yet I like that the equivalent suckless tools are distributed separately and don't have colored output by default. 9base is a viable alternative to ubase and includes a good ed and dc for instance, but I still end up installing plan9port most of the time.
Sinit works fine on one of my distros and avoids any pitfalls, like crashing it when specifieing an invalid power management option. Its only negative is its lack of error recovery, so I'm working on setting up s6-linux-init on the distro is use it with, though I will probably never need it.
Dwm starts faster than i3 on my laptop and its simple codebase spawned some more ambitious wms (e.g. teslawm). The source based distro I use is also flexible enough for me to inject my own config.h.
St is a good xterm replacement.
I don't have any use for sic or ii ATM. I'm trying to bridge some protocols to channels on a local irc server and will most likely use one of them for logs.
Surf is a good webkit wrapper, but webkit has its own problems.
Suckless people made some good distros based on these programs, like Morpheus, Oasis and StaLi (does anyone know why its gitlab repo disappeared?).

The biggest appeal of suckless software is its size, that it doesn't have unstable dependencies (have you ever tried compiling something that depends on boost or llvm?) and is very portable. You will realize its practical use, when you examine the unnececessary complexities and resulting unreliabilities of most alternatives.

 No.12523

>>12521
>Sbase and ubase are valuable
http://musl.libc.org/
>Sinit works fine on one of my distros and avoids any pitfalls, like crashing it when specifieing an invalid power management option. Its only negative is its lack of error recovery, so I'm working on setting up s6-linux-init on the distro is use it with, though I will probably never need it.
just use systemd lol, or runit
>Dwm starts faster than i3 on my laptop and its simple codebase spawned some more ambitious wms (e.g. teslawm). The source based distro I use is also flexible enough for me to inject my own config.h.
awesome
>St is a good xterm replacement.
rxvt-unicode

 No.12525

>>12523
>http://musl.libc.org/
Musl is a libc (glibc replacement) while ubase includes linux specific tools (util-linux replacement) and sbase UNIX utilities (coreutils replacement). Util-linux and coreutils depend on a lot of glibc internal (though patches exist, did I mention bloat?), so sbase and ubase are generally a good choice for a musl arch, that doesn't depend on GNUextensions/Linux crud.
>just use systemd lol, or runit
You don't know what init is. Init (PID 1) is the first userspace process and calls scripts for initialization (/etc/rc, /etc/rc.d/boot, etc.). Because all orphan processes are assigned to init, it usually execs a service supervisor after setup or lets said supervisor handle it. Runit is primarily a service supervision suite, that ships with its own init (runit-init). In fact you can use any daemontools-style service supervision with sinit.
In this regard SystemD is special, because its developer force all kinds of functionality into PID 1, the process the operation of the whole system depends on, and cannot recover without (see https://suckless.org/sucks/systemd/).
>awesome
>rxvt-unicode
You didn't post any arguments, so I'm just going to list the sizes of the respective alpine packages:
$ apk info awesome
awesome-4.3-r1 description:
lua-configurable window manager framework

awesome-4.3-r1 webpage:
http://awesome.naquadah.org/

awesome-4.3-r1 installed size:
3112 KiB

$ apk info dwm
dwm-6.2-r0 description:
dwm - dynamic window manager

dwm-6.2-r0 webpage:
https://dwm.suckless.org

dwm-6.2-r0 installed size:
68 KiB

$ apk info rxvt-unicode
rxvt-unicode-9.26-r0 description:
rxvt fork with improved unicode support

rxvt-unicode-9.26-r0 webpage:
http://software.schmorp.de/pkg/rxvt-unicode.html

rxvt-unicode-9.26-r0 installed size:
3028 KiB

$ apk info st
st-0.8.4-r0 description:
Simple terminal emulator for X

st-0.8.4-r0 webpage:
https://st.suckless.org

st-0.8.4-r0 installed size:
104 KiB

Which features do you think merit this difference in code size?

 No.12529

>>12525
omg they have a couple more megabytes, what an inconvenience

 No.12530

>>12529
If you weren't a bougie with high-end hardware you'd know that matters a lot for us poorfags, but you just want to act like pieces of software are like soccer teams á la 4ch*n.

 No.12532

>>12530
i exclusively use shitty office laptops bought from shady shops

 No.12576

>check out vimconf 21 playlist i found on youtube
>the last video in the list is a video from a channel called Triggernometry filled with comments like "as a nigerian"

And people tell me that minimalist community isn't filled with chinlets that try to sneak in their agenda on literally every step.

 No.15050

>>8031
Prot: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0uTPqBCFIpZxlz_Lv1tk_g

Sadly, he only makes tech videos about Emacs, so if you don't use it you may not be interested. I don't know his political beliefs exactly, but I'm sure I've never seen him complain about the "essjayoos".

 No.15081


 No.15096

>>15081

The torrent creator adds the subs to their torrent so that thousands of people don't have to waste man hours searching for subs when they download the torrent. It avoids unnecessary replication of work.

Add a paragraph about your links so that many people don't have to waste time investigating them.

 No.15098

>>15096
big titty chinese lady

 No.15127

>>15098

how is she political?

 No.15128

>>15127
She is very openly a feminist.

 No.15151

>>12532
Based

 No.15153


 No.15154

>>15153
Video: Talking about the death of Aaron Shwarz.
Persecuted by the US government for making scientific papers available to everyone.
The affected company dropped charges. The US govt wanted to put him away to make an example out of him.

Also some talk about open source MIT licensed software, and how it's free labor for big tech.

 No.15160

>youtubers
wtf happened to blogs
when did we decide online info dissemination should exclusively be some smug fuck that can use video editing software

 No.15162

>>15160
video editing software like ffmpeg?

 No.15163


 No.15166

>>15160
> when did we decide
We did not, Google did. They simply pay more advertising money for videos. That's all.

 No.15167

>>15160
There are a lot of interesting blog entries, when you search for specific programming language features. I never noticed this trend, until I saw the "official" SLIME documentation was 4 youtube videos.

 No.15171

>>15167
If there's any programming language whose documentation is youtube vidoes, there's no way in hell I'm touching that.

 No.15184

>>15160

totally agree.

Any recs for political tech blogs?

 No.15950

>>11602
I also like NCommander and Cathode Ray Dude

 No.16300

>>8031
Wow, this is objectively the dumbest thing I've ever read, who the fuck would want politics in IT and why would you ever need it? Like for example, say some random made a video about TCP, what could you possible add to that video that's politics that aren't either completely unrelated and you just switched the topic of the video completely or you're literally just making up how they relate…
Or am I missing something?

 No.16312

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>>16300
Technological development is not divorced from capitalism. The consolidation of freedesktop/systemd for instance was inherently political.
Code in itself can only be ideological in what it expects of the runtime environment. However capitalists direct the design and development of software.


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