If you think I have any interest in personal squabbles over 8 lines of code, I don’t.
That meme at the start was directed at your argument, not you in particular; those are not the same thing. I apologise if it came across as personal to you, but it wasn’t meant to be. Notice how I immediately went to discuss the actual topic with no further “personal attacks” until you decided to get pissy with your next comment. Had you just shrugged and actually wrote your counterpoint instead, that would’ve been the end of it. You didn’t. Just… you know, if you wanna go around being snarky on the internet, be prepared to receive some snark back as well.
With that said, I think the argument about uutils’ license is a much more sound one. As a matter of fact I expressed the same concern a over year ago, albeit in a much less elaborate fashion:
https://lem.lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/23171431/13400085 (Which of course I didn’t expect you to dig up because that’d be absurd)
I’m not a big fan of uutils, believe it or not. It’s not nearly as stable as they tout it to be, they broke cp recently as an example, and it’s is generally not a step in the right direction IMO. Still, the fact that uutils may be ill conceived doesn’t invalidate the fact that relying on public, official, C APIs is perfectly reasonable. Both can be true.
Had this post been about the license instead of “oh look the hypocrites use C APIs in the end” as if there was any alternative, we wouldn’t be having this conversation.
Might I remind you that what you call “socialism” is generally called “basic human rights” in the rest of the developed world?
Europe is not socialist by any means, nor is Japan, nor is the UK, but they all have reasonably priced healthcare and education, varying degrees of help for the homeless, etc.
Not having children starve in school because their family is poor is not socialism, it’s basic decency.
Not being forever in debt because of a medical complication you likely had no control over is not socialism, it’s basic decency.
Providing services that make everyone’s life better is not socialism, nor is properly regulating what corporations and billionaires can and cannot do, it’s a reasonable middle ground with seems to elude you and many of your compatriots.
You Americans need to understand that, despite the decades of propaganda you’ve been fed, your country is woefully behind compared to the rest of the world. If you want it to get better, you need to set aside your prejudice towards “leftist” (and I mean it in the lightest sense of the word, even the right-most of right-wing parties abroad doesn’t wish to eliminate public healthcare) policies, or you’ll be stuck being the richest third world country for the rest of time.