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Re:A forum engine written in Assembly by mhd on Sunday August 27, 2023 @03:08PM (#37285662)
I looked into maybe using this a few months ago, but decided against it.

https://board.asm32.info/hi-johnfound-welcome-back.351/#1624...

Re:A forum engine written in Assembly by veavo on Sunday August 27, 2023 @03:19PM (#37285764)
"I liked this software but the author has Wrong Political Opinions" (And before someone says anything I don't particularly care about the war one way or the other)

If you really took that to heart you would be unable to use a computer at all. From your message I understand you don't like communism. Do you know how many communists are there in open source communities, and even big companies?

Re:A forum engine written in Assembly by cultofmetatron on Sunday August 27, 2023 @03:30PM (#37285845)
> If you really took that to heart you would be unable to use a computer at all.

yea no kidding. its like these people never looked up von Neumann. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_von_Neumann

Re:A forum engine written in Assembly by karmakurtisaani on Sunday August 27, 2023 @03:35PM (#37285886)
You mean his stance on the whole nuclear war thing? At least with that I can kind of see where he was coming from, but this forum guy just seems delusional.
Re:A forum engine written in Assembly by cultofmetatron on Sunday August 27, 2023 @03:39PM (#37285918)
> but this forum guy just seems delusional.

as someone who spent 3 months in ukraine in 2020, I agree. I have nothing but nice things to say about the Ukrainian people. I'm not white and I was never once disrespected. I have no idea what this guys is talking about when it cones to "nazis in ukraine." I never once came across such people.

Re:A forum engine written in Assembly by 0xDEF on Sunday August 27, 2023 @03:44PM (#37285948)
You replied to the wrong comment.

But you're right. I would say Hungary and eastern Germany (excluding Berlin) are more racist than Poland and Ukraine.

Re:A forum engine written in Assembly by karmakurtisaani on Monday August 28, 2023 @10:20AM (#37294435)
> You replied to the wrong comment.

You sure about that? Looks fine to me.

Re:A forum engine written in Assembly by pessimizer on Sunday August 27, 2023 @04:32PM (#37286382)
Nazis are all over Eastern Europe, it's something that happened to a certain segment of young men after the end of communism, was born largely from imported racist material from the US and Western Europe, and was fed by inspiration from UK and Italian football hooliganism (Casuals, Ultras, etc.) and "National Socialist Black Metal" which is actually a genre of music. People involved in these scenes formed gangs that developed into militias, some of the people in these militias were the children of oligarchs and politicians, and they used those gangs to enforce local collection rackets and to commit political violence. This isn't a story about just Ukraine, it's more a story about Russia, Ukraine, and Poland.

Having oligarchs connected to Nazi militias was an ideal way for the US to get money and arms into Ukraine to fuel the 2014 coup. It was simply a marriage of convenience, but one that propelled Nazis into a lot of power on the ground and in some of the institutions of Ukraine. Ukrainian Nazis think of Russians as a racially mongrelized people, and were happy to help wage war on Russian speakers in Ukraine as a war of racial cleansing. Also, their newly heroic status in some of the conservative mainstream quarters of Ukraine (combined with the forcing of Russian speakers to the East), allowed them to racialize Ukrainian identity. As we poured money and arms into the country, the Nazi militias became more and more official, and more and more the direct recipient of those arms.

The rise of the Nazis has largely been inflicted on Ukraine by US manipulation. They're just another instance of "freedom fighters" and "moderate rebels" that we fund to get what we want. When Ukraine voted for an actor who played the president on TV, they were taking the same desperate stand against the powers-that-be (in this case Russia and the US) as the US was when they elected Trump (against the Democrats and Republicans.) They were voting for peace, and an end to corruption. It didn't go well.

Re:A forum engine written in Assembly by cultofmetatron on Tuesday August 29, 2023 @12:49PM (#37310577)
a country with a massive population of nazis voted a jew to be their president? I mean. its doesn't make sense
Re:A forum engine written in Assembly by sam_lowry_ on Sunday August 27, 2023 @03:51PM (#37286020)
> this forum guy just seems delusional

Bingo. Choosing forum software is choosing a long-term commitment.

Someone expressing such views is not just of a different political spectrum, he has a fragile mind.

Making a forum in assembler probably requires such a mind, but I would rather choose greedy, drugs-dependant but reasonsbly normal Drupalers than this dude.

Re:A forum engine written in Assembly by jacquesm on Sunday August 27, 2023 @03:40PM (#37285920)
What's so bad about von Neumann?
Re:A forum engine written in Assembly by charsii on Sunday August 27, 2023 @03:29PM (#37285837)
It's still always better to do N-1 than N evil things.
Re:A forum engine written in Assembly by pessimizer on Sunday August 27, 2023 @03:34PM (#37285880)
Re:A forum engine written in Assembly by 0xDEF on Sunday August 27, 2023 @03:41PM (#37285931)
Where do you see "commmunists"? Did you check the link? The chat functionality is full of racist messages in Russian.
Re:A forum engine written in Assembly by Genwald on Sunday August 27, 2023 @03:36PM (#37285898)
I don't understand this all or nothing rebuttal. You can avoid supporting an individual that you don't like without doing background checks on everyone involved with everything you use.

Also, not supporting the Russian invasion of Ukraine is not about not supporting communism.

Re:A forum engine written in Assembly by thaumaturgy on Sunday August 27, 2023 @03:36PM (#37285900)
If the only classification you have for supporting the brutal genocide of a people is "wrong political opinion", then you have woefully inadequate mental models for the world around you.
Re:A forum engine written in Assembly by jacquesm on Sunday August 27, 2023 @03:30PM (#37285843)
This is a bit more than a 'wrong political opinion', this is outright support for genocide.

"The Nazi plague must to be eradicated from Ukrainian society. "

Fuck that shit.

Re:A forum engine written in Assembly by pessimizer on Sunday August 27, 2023 @03:36PM (#37285896)
https://voxukraine.org/en/the-ability-of-ukrainians-to-disti...

> 43% of respondents in Ukraine and 36% abroad disagreed with the statement “Nazi and/or neo-Nazi ideology is not widespread in Ukraine”;

You can tell from the title that the people who did the survey didn't like the answers they got. Their conclusion was that the Ukrainians themselves are falling for Russian propaganda. That's denial on steroids. According to a sibling comment, it means that a majority of Ukrainians are seriously mentally ill and shouldn't be depended on.

Re:A forum engine written in Assembly by karmakurtisaani on Sunday August 27, 2023 @03:36PM (#37285892)
Yep. When someone holds a view like that, they come off as an unstable or delusional person. Using a product from such a person can quickly become a liability.
Re:A forum engine written in Assembly by YeBanKo on Sunday August 27, 2023 @04:09PM (#37286181)
This is almost verbatim translation of the top putin’s propagandist.
Re:A forum engine written in Assembly by mhh__ on Sunday August 27, 2023 @03:44PM (#37285943)
Not that many in my experience at least.
Re:A forum engine written in Assembly by 10000truths on Sunday August 27, 2023 @03:14PM (#37285708)
What the hell are those god-awful notifications that keep spamming the bottom right corner of the page? I can't seem to turn them off.
Re:A forum engine written in Assembly by xigency on Sunday August 27, 2023 @03:15PM (#37285718)
Would be fine if they didn’t cover the content on the page, but maybe that’s a mobile problem.
Re:A forum engine written in Assembly by mcint on Sunday August 27, 2023 @03:14PM (#37285715)
There's a bell icon in the header, it toggles the real-time notifications. Took me a minute to find it too.
Re:A forum engine written in Assembly by StingyJelly on Sunday August 27, 2023 @03:21PM (#37285777)
I went straight to ublock element picker without thinking about it

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Re:A forum engine written in Assembly by YeBanKo on Sunday August 27, 2023 @03:18PM (#37285750)
I just checkout out the chat functionality and the first thing I saw there was a a bunch of obscene racists messages in Russian.
Re:A forum engine written in Assembly by ndegruchy on Sunday August 27, 2023 @03:25PM (#37285803)
Ugh, yeah. That's unfortunate.
Re:A forum engine written in Assembly by serf on Sunday August 27, 2023 @03:20PM (#37285771)
to each his own, but I can't really use a computer without implicating myself with software written by people with totally different ethics/philosophy/politic than myself; in fact I think that no one can.

if you find a software stack that aligns itself perfectly with any single dogma (outside maybe TempleOS) then let me know, but right now that seems like a pipe dream.

I mean, just as food for thought, is there any common-use cryptography without major ties to war parties and national security groups?

aside: I can think of plenty of more practical reasons to avoid a net-facing forum software written in asm in 2023.

Re:A forum engine written in Assembly by winternewt on Sunday August 27, 2023 @04:57PM (#37286571)
I don't think it's a black-or-white thing. You weigh pros and cons. Linus can be a bit of a jerk but the Linux kernel is immensely useful to me, so I use it in spite of some misgivings. This software, on the other hand, is mostly a fun curiosity and the author is promoting actual genocide. So in this case I'll say no thanks.
Re:A forum engine written in Assembly by RagnarD on Sunday August 27, 2023 @03:53PM (#37286036)
It's an indication that someone can be a good programmer while still lapping up Putin's propaganda.

On a related note, I somewhat recently posted just the link to the very religious SQLite ethics page on Facebook - which immediately flagged it as some objectionable something or other. Just a link to a web page of one of the most popular open source packages on the planet which Facebook itself no doubt uses. They're so incredibly leftist that their algorithms can't even abide linking to a religiously oriented page.

Re:A forum engine written in Assembly by 0xDEF on Sunday August 27, 2023 @03:55PM (#37286041)
Thanks for posting. In the .Net world we had the whole Moq library drama recently. Now I check the social media of library creators before I use the library. I'm sorry but I cannot trust deranged people's code in production systems.