oh goodie, politics in my linux feed
this post was submitted on 28 Mar 2026
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Red Hat / IBM have contracts with the Israeli military so yes
just remember redhat is also at fault for pulseaudio and systemd xD
checks out.
That signature is crazy, it looks like they have like ten underscores as part of their last name
he was fun to watch, cli on an overhead. after a few years constantly signing things it becomes a time waster writing out each letter. my full signature is 23 letters. no readable letters since army. kids can't read cursive anymore.
scrutiny intensifies
How do you get that? Is there a quizz and do you get the hat?
some professor gave me a windup bauble walking hat.
desk junk pile
favorite wall cartoon around same cubical;
Its a ton of work, like years and years of study and tests.
maybe from scratch. i started on Slackware in 1995 and had experience. this was a week class in a hotel conference room.
Yeah, redhat does certifications. Unfortunately you don't get a hat afaik :(
spent about a week listening to this guy talk. test day given a junk, blank x86 machine, install media and a list of services to setup with about 4 hours to complete. pro tip, learn to install rhel with no gui bloat. machine was so slow i spent half the time waiting for slow hardware, cdrom to hdd copy. checked it from his laptop. got results emailed. was relieved i somehow passed. don't remember what it cost. employer paid. knew how beforehand. some people got done hours before me. no hat
Tbf, being a certified hatred engineer sounds pretty badass, if not necessarily admirable π
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Exactly, linux mint supremacy
cough debian edition cough
Why do Linux people shit talk each other for using a different distro? It makes no sense.
It's (usually) all in good fun.
Anyway, we can't talk shit to anyone except each-other. No one else understands our jargon.
yeah, and besides, we're all Hannah Montanna Linux bros. GTFO if not HML
Closest thing a lot of us have to team sports
Why can't everyone just use the distro that is right for them, which is Arch?
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Kanye No: Red Hat
Kanye Yes: Red Hat Linux
Didn't notice the community, came here hoping for a RHEL shitpost.
Got confused when there was only RHEL shitposts.
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You can't spell Methwhore without mother
I don't think even England wants Kings
Yeah Lizzy was ok (still monarch and all that but she was like our collective grandma) but this new one is kinda bad imo.
"You're not my real grandad" vibes
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Fun thing.
Back in the day, I left Fedora and RH-based distros in general precisely because of the racist attitude of their communities and official sites towards Latin American users, including attempts at profiling on their community support channels. I guess not much has changed since then.
there's WAY too many nazis in open source. it makes me so mad. the originators of these tools and licenses believed in making tools available for everyone so that we could be the owners. but then these fucking selfish assholes don't want anything but for themselves. they contribut to Linux, sure, but not out of any desire that Linux grow or be usable for everyone, but just out of their own desire to not pay for something and then an opportunity to weild petty power over someone.
i am so sorry you experienced that. it was not an experience anyone should have to endure.
Red Hat are well known supporters of Israel right? They literally have part of their business there
Most large tech companies have offices in Israel. Israel positioned itself as a "high-tech nation" to a huge degree, and there's tons of engineering talent here that companies rightly want to hire and capitalize on.
Whether that makes these companies "supporters" of Israel is up to your interpretation, I guess, but it's more likely to just be the smart move without any political agenda. Not to mention that they've had offices here for years and years, well before Israel's recent wars and plummeting of their international image. At that point the company already had lots of its workforce here and closing down offices would have been a shot in the leg.
Arguably had to. For too many years Misguided us policies prevented exporting software with useful encryption, arguably blocked it entirely from opensource. Among the consequences was an encryption industry n Israel suitable for opensource
Yes, they work closely with the IDF. There is no doubt that they are supporters of Israel.
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The first time I heard of red hat, all I could think of was these
I'm okay with this, Redhat has always sucked.
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