Diversity of Views, Diversity of Sources
3.5 days ago - after chatting for approximately 3 hours over coffee (lost track of how many mugs we had enjoyed) - my wife published a list of writers who still prolifically cover GNU/Linux. The list we came up with was: Bobby Borisov; Andy Farnell; Daniel Pocock; Joey Sneddon; Jack Wallen; SJVN; Steve Elms (LinuxLinks); Michael Larabel; Liam Dawe; Liam Proven; Christine Hall; Marius Nestor; How-to Geek and It's FOSS News. Those last two are site names, not individual people (there are several). She said "For This New Year, 2025, We Need More Writers Out There" because she curates links and thus depends on the work on others. Joey Sneddon's omglinux.com has been practically 'dead' since last summer. He seems to lack the personal capacity to keep that going. The same goes for Liam Dawe's LifeOnLinux, which he terminated because it never picked up like GamingOnLinux.
The more sites cover GNU/Linux (or the more unique sites doing so), the better, unless it's LLM slop.
Some incredulous people believe that only one view must exist in tech (like in politics) and whatever IBM or the Linux Foundation says (e.g. the "memory safety" cargo cult [1, 2] which likes to ignore how states mandate back doors!) must not be disputed.
Don't fall for this irritating provocation. It's just Microsoft- or GAFAM-led (M the most, i.e. Microsoft) attack on the community and its diversity.
IBM and Microsoft speak of "inclusive language" while they work for Donald Trump on nationalism. They not only profit from ethnic cleansing in many parts of the world; they also try to weed out communities and beliefs in Free software. They want nothing but a bunch of slaves (governed by a CoC) in their proprietary GitHub - a 'free' farm for livestock that can code.
Give them the finger. We want diversity, not monopoly. █