Mozilla foundation demonstrates all traits of fascist ideology

The 'do as I say or' fascist ideology rears its ugly head in many FOSS project, Mozilla's Firefox and Thunderbird being the most glaring examples.

They experiment on humans, Dr. Mengele style, since their taking over Netscape code. Their recent UI antics can make anyone nauseous, yet they defend their decisions as innovation. My ass.

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Target is busy

FOSS developers, especially Linux and especially its kernel developers have become famous for setting false targets. The error message 'Target is busy' must be the epitome of that: wrong priorities everywhere.

Dudes, I will finally break it to you because nobody else did: when I as the owner and administrator of a system order a mounted drive to be unmounted, that is a direct order from the only authority that is in control of the system. I and only I make decisions here, in the form of -f argument by way of which I tell umount that I, root, command it to unmount it regardless of anyone else's considerations. But Linux developers deem themselves above all and refuse.

That is a false target. That is a wrong priority. Their concern that some software that keeps open handles to that mount may become upset is void and nil. By issuing the force command line argument as root I communicate my unconditional order to surrender, an ultimatum that must be followed.

The system is already dead. The mounted volume is already unresponsive. No one guarantees anything. There is no support, no venue for complaints, no contract. I am on my own.

What do you think I am going to do next? Right! The reboot. But it may also fail to commence gracefully because of a dead share/zombie processes.

So? False targets set by Linux developers do not do much.

All hat, no cattle.

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FOSS developer's first two reactions to problem reports

Defensiveness is a FOSS developer's primary competency. This is clear from reactions to millions of questions/bug reports from many frustrated users, but this one is a champ! Google 'linux screen corruption after resume', and you will get Ubuntu, Mint, and other forum posts about this problem. There is no solution by the enlightened ivory tower dwellers that write the kernel or desktop managers. What they suggest is painfully expected: "Do not sleep your system" or "Upgrade".

Fortunately, users across the globe are already so fed up with this sort of crap that most of them flat out refuse to forego that for which they use their Linux of desktop/driver combination. Kudos and power to the user!

But I found a solution. It is very simple, unobtrusive, and at the fingertips of every user: create a shell script with these two lines, adjust them for your monitor configuration that you can discover from xrandr (needs to be installed), and voila, your screen is back to normal, without logging out, rebooting, or foregoing any nice features:

#!/bin/sh
xrandr --output HDMI-1 --off;
xrandr --output HDMI-1 --auto;
xrandr --output VGA-1 --auto --right-of HDMI-1;

This is it. The enlightened master race that lords over Linux forums should have thought of that, but I found no mention of such solutions except for a single, scarcely upvoted post on Unix Stack Exchange that mentions the 1st 2x lines, but it alone results in the screen becoming duplicated across the monitors instead of extended. The 3d line fixes that.

Enjoy!

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Everyone must be dumb and dumber. This is your direct order!

So, there are 8+ billions of us on Earth now. Congratulations, everyone! Each of you must be as dumb as possible. This is what genius degenerates who live in ivory towers say.

How do I know that? Simply! Today I was asked to install Fedora Linux for a user, and I had the finest pleasure to peruse their latest and greatest Anaconda installer.

In olden days, we, unwashed masses, had freedom to partition our hard drives as we saw fit. We were allowed to choose conventional partitioning and mount points or LVM. Not anymore.

The genius degenerate who coded Anaconda made it as dumb and counterintuitive as possible. It is no longer possible to choose the disk partitioning scheme or to use custom mount points. It is also incapable of installing by overwriting data on an existing partitioned drive: screw you, user, and screw your efforts! You must delete all of your partitions and start over. Fuck your time!

We get no choice of software. Open your mouth, we will shove Gnome and a standard bunch of shitty software, down your throat. And if you dare to object, we will railroad you.

As an added-value bonus, that shit is now so smart and sophisticated that it keeps throwing up this wonderful little dialog that does not, I repeat, does not mess anything up at all!

I observe a concerted effort, globally, to force and instill in users the obedience to dumb shit, the dumber the better. We no longer try to elevate the user - we stomp them over and keep them as dumb as possible. Why do we need so many dumb people out there? Anybody knows?

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Genius degenerates rule our world

Genius is as genius does: as a degenerate.

This is from the best of the best, from the new owners of GitHub that bring us such wonderful things as .NET, Visual Studio, BING and other crap:

If an educated adult does this, then we are SOL. As in 'royally screwed'. Imagine what the worst of the worst do!

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How Stack Exchange works

I figured out the reason for savage downvoting of questions/answers from new users. If you have enough reputation to downvote, then you downvote every new user who does not have enough reputation to downvote, in order to either turn them off or have SE auto-ban them because otherwise they will begin to downvote you.

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Fuck you and your performance counters

Genius is as genius does: as a degenerate.

There is a tried and tested method of obtaining free physical memory size in C#: by referencing VisualBasic DLL and using its ComputerInfo class. But this is not good enough for geniuses because it does not fit their goal of utmost sophistication. So, those geniuses preach that using PerformanceCounters is a "preferred" method.

Now, google "PerformanceCounters hang" or "takes too long", and you will find numerous questions as to why that class takes MINUTES to instantiate. Of course, genius degenerates explain that it is by design and normal. Fuck that!

I still reference VisualBasic DLL and obtain my free memory in a fraction of millisecond, and they are welcome to wait.

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We educate our IT professionals wrong

Our society is all about fun. We fun this, fun that, and fuck all. Consistently with that, we teach students that computers are fun. Hell, no, they are not! Computer science is science, not art. Computers are very complex, very fragile, very unforgiving. But our students believe that computers are toys. This leads us towards a catastrophe.

The transparent menus in KDE, which I've written about below, are only possible due to the above fallacy: FOSS developers believe that they came here to play, and that their every user will either enjoy playing along or shut up.

No, shitheads! We do not enjoy when you screw around. We have lives. We have real-world jobs, and your antics do not amuse us. Smarten up!

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All modern desktop environments for Linux are sad caricatures on software

FOSS developers decisions always screw things up. They are geniuses, and genius is as genius does: as a degenerate.

Enter KDE, AKA "K Desktop Environment". Two words: transparent menus. Yes, you read it correctly: their menus are transparent, as in 'can't see shit on them'. Figuring out how to disable transparency takes you to the Web, and you find that everyone tried that but was told that short of using another theme it is not possible. Sounds genius, does it not?

At some point, between KDE 2 and 3, the developer of system monitor applets decided that he can't live without a major redesign, so he screwed the applet up and users over. I begged him to add textual values to graphs but he flat out refused. Fast forward to the present, and textual values have been added, but simultaneously he expanded the graphs and made them 2 inch wide. Now, the CPU, RAM, and network applets take like 50% of the panel's width. Sounds genius, does it not?

Its desktop mode when all icons disappear, and it is not possible to revert, is like WTF is wrong with you, FOSS developers? Why are you absolutely hell-bent on torturing your users?

All desktop icons are duplicated on the secondary monitor. Why? No, seriously, why?

Enter Gnome. Your every action, every mouse move morphs the desktop to a windowed preview. I don't know how else to describe that the desktop shrinks to about 75% of its height and width and acquires rounded corners. WTF motivates them to do it, I dunno. It is beyond me what motivated Gnome developers to emulate smartphones, but I've written to that affect, ad nauseam. What is the purpose of its multi-step activation of the main menu through 'Activities' link up-top? What is the grand idea that tasks require many clicks of a mouse when they could require only one? Are we not selling many enough mice or touchpads?

Enter MATE, AKA miserable Gnome2 wannabe. This perpetually confused desktop is the least painful of them all but still nowhere near the previously glorious Gnome2.

I am above mentioning LXDE, XFCE and other caricatures on desktops. I'd rather be stuck with FVWM than with those shits.

Can our genius FOSS Community not offer anything workable? Guess not, they only want utmost perversion in UI designs. Praying for an asteroid.

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From the best of the best

Dude, if you are math-challenged, then hide it, do not show!

Words cannot do justice to this image.

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Another Linux lie: we have multimedia

Truth: you pretend to.

Years ago, I begged Linux "community" not to abandon ALSA for PulseAudio. I explained that forcing a networked sound server on everyone is an unreasonable and unreliable way to play sound. Nobody listened. Today, 10-15 years late, Interwebs are full of questions/bug reports of 'Pulseaudio crashing' with no resolution in sight.

On my system, PulseAudio also developed a habit of crashing, with no possibility of recovery other than by rebooting the machine;

$ sudo pulseaudio -k
E: [pulseaudio] main.c: Failed to kill daemon: No such process
$ sudo fuser -v /dev/snd/*
                     USER        PID ACCESS COMMAND
/dev/snd/controlC0:  root        751 f.... alsactl
                     user2      1563 F.... pulseaudio
$ pulseaudio 
E: [pulseaudio] pid.c: Daemon already running.
E: [pulseaudio] main.c: pa_pid_file_create() failed.
$ sudo pulseaudio -k
E: [pulseaudio] main.c: Failed to kill daemon: No such process
$ pulseaudio -D
E: [pulseaudio] main.c: Daemon startup failed.

I warned them that they created a monster, but there is enormous, orchestrated pressure to use PA. It is so heavy-handed that there is clearly a conspiracy behind that because they use psychologically sophisticated tactics that only special services have access to or training in. Someone badly wants PA on each Linux box. Backdoor anyone?

Anyhow, since all 'official' commands fail I found a bulletproof way to restart PA.

$ ps lmax|grep pulse
1  1000  1563     1   -   - 2340828 18516 -     -    ?          0:05 /usr/bin/pulseaudio --start --log-target=syslog
0  1000  6731  6040   -   - 119460   880 -      -    pts/1      0:00 grep --color=auto pulse
$ sudo kill -s SIGKILL 1563

After that, the monstrosity restarts itself, and I have the sound again. Screw you, genius degenerates!

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Genius degenerates rule our world

Enthusiasts must be massacred. This becomes especially clear when one uses a modern KDE desktop for Linux. It was developed by truly genius enthusiasts, but unfortunately by degenerate ones, as it is frequently true in the wonderful FOSS world.

You just can't disable transparency. Some genius degenerate thought it was a cool idea to make the main menu transparent. One can barely read menu titles through his transparent UI. What did you think, fucking retard? That we will enjoy flexing our eyesight every time we want to start an app? Do you have a kickback contract from optometrist association? That's how you come across.

The CPU/drive/network monitoring widgets are now 2" wide. Some genius degenerate thought that it was a great idea to make them so large that they take almost the entire width of the screen, and non-adjustable. Congratulations, asshole! You've proven yourself a genius degenerate.

Did you try to get more KDE themes? How do you like the preview window? Do its tiny thumbnails give you any idea of what the new theme will look like? It does not, to me. How do these genius degenerates pick and choose when or where to waste square feet of screen space and when and where to squeeze everything on the tip of a sewing needle? Only Satan knows.

Thunderbird FireTray add-on does not work with KDE tray, so Thunderbird disappears without trace, and the only way to see its window is to use the main menu again. Also, keyboard layout indicator is MIA. So, KDE team did not test their code. Again! They released their software without testing. Again! They always do and have us test for them. What do you do with this savage cruelty?

Desktop icons are duplicated to the secondary monitors. Why are you doing that to us? What have we done to aggravate you? You develop KDE voluntarily. No one forces you. But you torture your users. This must be reciprocated, to teach you, fucking retards, a lesson!

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