Linux Sound Subsystem Begins Cleaning Up Its Terminology To Meet Inclusive Guidelines

[krOoze]

So that's why they closed the schools. Can't use blackboards nor whiteboards.

[krOoze]

PS: Also they can't give any master degrees.

[geearf]

Yeah, except with gerrymandering, the biggest states still have the most control, so, what exactly do you think it accomplishes here? The only thing gerrymandering does is make some random guy on a farm have disproportionately way more voting power than someone in the city (I'm generalizing here but that's the gist of it). That's not to say the farmer doesn't deserve to be heard, but you're literally advocating for inequality of votes. The people who support gerrymandering are the same sort of people who don't like mail-in ballots, compulsory voting, voter identification, etc: they know that such changes are likely going to make them in the losing side. And I'm not mentioning sides here because it isn't all one-sided.

Sure I agree.

But here's the thing: if you're so certain your party is going to lose, shouldn't that be a wakeup call that maybe, just maybe, it isn't righteous?

I don't know about that.
People can easily believe they are the enlightened ones and all the others are not, no matter the numbers; and truthfully they are not necessarily wrong, all good ideas probably came from few at first.

If you are registered to either party, you are too biased to be making an informed decision, anyway.

I think it'd be very interesting to see 4+ major parties in the US, not for the actual results, but just to see how people would behave outside of their pseudo binary choices of good vs evil. I mean, at that point don't you have to start thinking and not flip the coin to assign labels?

[geearf]

So that's why they closed the schools. Can't use blackboards nor whiteboards.

I may be stupid, but I thought that was pretty clever, so thank you!

PS: Also they can't give any master degrees.

I actually thought about that and wonder what's going to become of my degree with people like this...

[Remdul]

If the excuse was previously "it's just a word, get over it", why do said people get so upset when it is changed? Ah! So that's how change exposes bigots!

My retort to the bigots would be: 'get over it, it's just a (new) word'.

(And yes, 'cancel culture' is a thing; with the same black-and-white reasoning, things come full circle. The goal is 'balance', the means is 'discussion').

[blackiwid]

I don't know anything about the german system, I'd be happy if you could expend on what you wrote (or even give me the proper things to search for, that'd be fine too).

Here in Germany and I think in most places in europe we have coalitions, heck here the president has nearly 0 power he just can refuse to sign laws when he thinks they are against the constitution which maybe once or twice happend, but the parlament can ultimatively replace him so even if that would happen he can just be replaced.

And in the Parlament you have to get majority, that means if 1 party is the biggest but has only 40% of the house they need 10% more votes from other parties to sign a bill, to get those they have to make some consessions to at least 1 other party, usually that is not made bill by bill but with coalitions which is basically a contract where 2 or 3 parties come together and compromise on 10 or 20 laws and then they implement this 10 or 20 laws in the following years.

So that means that if you have 2 smaller parties with 10% and 1 bigger with 30% this 3 parties can coalite and that means that a small party with 10% or even 5% can have influence on laws. And that gives parties also the opportunity to grow, because 1998 as example the first time the green party was together with let's call it a Bernie Sanders party with some neoliberal tendencies , the Bernie Sanders party (SPD) hat >30% votes back then nearly 40% and the greens maybe 8%, now the green party has around 20-25% and is the 2nd biggest party, and the SPD only has 10-15%. So together with the left party with another 10% they could get enough votes to vote for a green party canceler.

Last election neither the "left" parties nor the "right" parties had enough votes, and the 2 big parties was tired to coalite again (why the SPD lost so much votes) so the Christian (slightly right) party tried to coalite with the greens and the FDP (libertarians), but the libertarian leader out of complete suprise just quit the speeches and killed it, because he apperently deeply hates Angela Merkel or something. Nobody understood why, they would legalized weed if nothing else and maybe tried out some basic income stuff, if that would have happened. Now the libertarians fight to get over 5% again.

What do you mean that winner takes all in France? Is it because the President nominates the Prime Minister and then all the cabinet is picked instead of elected? There has been a mixed government at rare times though (Chirac and Balladur under Miterrand, Jospin under Chirac, maybe more that I don't remember) so that's not impossible. I think their system of everyone fights and then the top 2 move is a bit nicer, of course it collapsed last time because there too many similar parties going for it that sort of nullified each other, so maybe it's not that good after all. I agree with you though, if the country is a democracy it would make sense to have more people (somewhat) happy with the result than that....

To be honest I am no expert on the french system, but if you have like 10 candidates and the top 2 get 55% and then they get a seperate 2nd vote round where people are forced to pick one of those 2 is stupid, because then the person that only got 30-35% of the votes the first round wins the election so 60-70% voted against that party they get no real representation. Their will gets completely ignored they get bullied to pick one of the 2 horrible parties. That is even worse than the american system, at least your vote for the green party counts in the end, there is no 2nd round where you are literally forced to vote for 1 of the 2 big ones... Coalitions are much better, that leads to laws that at least partially make more people happy, everybody get's something they like.

[nadro]

Honestly, Linux audio was one of the first things I loved about it when I started using it in 2014. And that was JUST ALSA/Pulseaudio. The ability to route audio and paprefs features that added virtual devices for multi-in/out and networked audio was awesome to me. That was all before I started recording/making music with JACK.
Now with JACK I can route audio in/out of JACK & Pulseaudio. On my Youtube channel I'm doing a video about producing music with Linux and my condenser mic is too sensitive for this room so with JACK I can run it through a gate, envelope-filter, and compressor before it goes into OBS, but then I can demo KX/Ubuntu Studio's using JACK and my MIDI Piano inside of a VM and route that to OBS separately via Pulseaudio. And I can run VM's on remote machines and capture JACK over the network.
It's an awesome level of control.

Very good info. Can you provide link to your channel? I had a lot of problems with music recording on Linux, even Audacity doesn't work (both PulseAudio and ALSA) when there are more than 2 tracks in a project. Thats why I still didn't sell my copy of Windows 10. When I last time tried to use JACK I had to kill PulseAudio and vice versa (I have one sound card) and it was very frustrating. Maybe situation is different now?

[schmidtbag]

I don't know about that.
People can easily believe they are the enlightened ones and all the others are not, no matter the numbers; and truthfully they are not necessarily wrong, all good ideas probably came from few at first.

Ah well there's the crux of the matter: hardly anybody thinks they're wrong. Even the Nazis felt they were taking the righteous path (not all of them, of course). All the more reason why this "us vs them" mentality is so destructive. So my point here is: if adjusting the voting system to more accurately represent the will of the populous is something you (not specifically you) are worried about because your preferred party will lose as a result, perhaps that means that party should lose. It means that party learned to take advantage (or abuse, depending on your perspective) the flaws in the existing system. Who you vote as president should represent the largest amount of people in a country. The problem with the US is it's too big for its own good; it isn't possible to please everyone, especially when the 2 biggest parties demonize everything the other doesn't agree with, or votes to spite of the other party.

I think it'd be very interesting to see 4+ major parties in the US, not for the actual results, but just to see how people would behave outside of their pseudo binary choices of good vs evil. I mean, at that point don't you have to start thinking and not flip the coin to assign labels?

I agree, though it should be an odd number; even 3 would be enough. If there were 4 major parties, you'd basically have radical left, left, right, and radical right. About 20% of the US population today is radical in either direction.

[blackiwid]

I agree, though it should be an odd number; even 3 would be enough. If there were 4 major parties, you'd basically have radical left, left, right, and radical right. About 20% of the US population today is radical in either direction.

I disagree, there are more than 2 political directions and culturally left is not the same as economically left. I mean 1 anti-war party to choose from would be nice wouldn't it? But yes the democratic party is only culturally left, meaning identity politics left, they are with biden and all the "centrists" against even public / healthcare for everybody. They are very strong pro war and pro regime change, which is also a right wing position. (which we can debate but here in germany the only strong anti-war party is the more or less radical left party).

The democrats are best buddies with wall street, are against worker rights etc. Bernie Sanders would be here in europe a centrist maybe even slightly conservative, but I could accept him as seen "left" but the rest of the party just wants some "black virtua signaling" and representation that is the only thing you could call left in that party. But policy matters not "representation" and speech police and other meaningless crap.

[Dedale]

Ugh... The more I read the news about changing words to be more inclusive, the more I can't stand political correctness.
https://open.lbry.com/@Lunduke:e/Lin...Sh16U2hTCGRWup

I really like how Lunduke explains calmly and politely things. I disagree with his assessment that it is a misunderstanding coming from misguided people. I smell more a power grab by the usual despicable ones who saw an overture.

I wonder who, in the long term future will want to join such a community ?

I am sorry to hear the news about one of Linus's Daughters.