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  • point is it wasn’t always a dog whistle

    It was used to describe indigenous people of Africa and America to promote eugenics (at least to the 19th century).

    It was popularized by the Nazis as a specifically far right term, to describe anything that didnt meet Nazi ideals.

    When its used to discuss culture (art, religion, etc) or traits of a person (sexuality, race, gender expression, etc), its a really blatant dog whistle.

    Like everything, context matters, but it absolutely has been one for a very long time.






  • Actually, yeah, every year for them its released the summer of the following year.

    Each subproject submits their own detailed overview of the prior year, including any conference/working group events, sprints, pictures from the same, mentorship progeams, major changes in individual projects, as well as detailed financials for where money came from, where the money went.

    It generally will take a few months to compile that (especially when you’re talking an open source foundation with a multitude of groups under the umbrella), and then time to organize it all.

    Even companies will take several months after the conclusion of their year to provide similar details in an annual review.

    Its a bit late this year being in August, usually its June, but late spring to summer is when it gets released every year.

    Edited to add: I think it even came out in October or November some years back. 2018? 2019? Something like that.









  • I’m just saying the percentage of those who may have been willing to pay is small enough to be irrelevant in the for-profit release perspective.

    Netflix (when it first started streaming) and Steam (when sales included good older stuff for wildly cheap) showed that piracy is more of a service problem than anything else. A recent article called out the content problems (partial content, a few seasons behind a separate paywall, ads in the middle of playback, etc) a are directly related to an increase in piracy.

    So my opinions on copyright aside - a clear model to a happy consumer is an affordable price without all the enshittification going on. People also dont like “buying” content that later disappears because of licensing changes.

    So I’d put it squarely in the “their own damn fault” territory, and I’m glad when judges say “no” to them. I’ll take whatever positives I can get.