Would you elaborate on Lunduke, for those of us spared from GNOME internal politics?

I enjoyed his linux sucks talks before 2020, but around the time of covid his brain become cooked.

He fully embraced culture war politics the last few years and is trying to infect everything in the free software space with it and personally attacks free software volunteer maintainers.

Just having a LGBTQ+-flag on a homepage during the day of visibility, or the project leaving Twitter after Musk took over is enough for him to declare war on your project: https://github.com/BryanLunduke/SoftwarePoliticsTracker

Heck, he even labels display protocols (Wayland) as "woke"

Thank you so much for sharing this!!

I'm surprised you're willing to look into the sequel. After reading Old Man's War I've been unwilling to read any more of John Scalzi's work in the decade+ since then. It read like a teenage boy's wish-fulfillment fantasy, and since I've never been a part of that demographic, it was extremely frustrating to get through that book. With my youthful energy at the time, I slogged through to the end of the book somehow.

Have you ever read "Travel by Wire!"? It was the first story that Arthur C. Clarke published. It's... youthful in its writing.

Or how about Pebble in the Sky?

> Boucher and McComas were disappointed by the novel, saying that despite Asimov's good ideas, "his heavy treatment and routine plot are disappointing.

Try to find a copy of The Big U by Neal Stephenson. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Big_U ("When Stephenson's Snow Crash was published in 1992, the book that became a best-seller and vaulted him to fame, The Big U was out of print and Stephenson was content to leave it that way. When original editions began selling on eBay for hundreds of dollars, he relented and allowed The Big U to be republished, saying that the only thing worse than people reading the book was paying that much to read it.")

Or Sundiver being a much weaker book than the rest of the Uplift series.

Or A Planet Called Treason by Orson Scott Card (which was even worse when I reread it as an adult).

Old Man's War was Scalzi's first "real" story... one that he had in the back of his mind to write in his college years.

He has matured as a writer since then.

Why would a pink theme count as bimbofication? Because it's associated with femininity? And anything feminine is immediately "bad" by association?

If Drip had a pink theme, I'd use it (albeit I'm fond of their current design, too!).

Sounds like securing your password manager with two factor authentication is a must!

I'm the OP -- I had 2fa enabled on my LastPass account, but didn't have access to the token (a 2fa app running on an old phone I don't have anymore)

I was able to remove the 2fa myself by going through a recovery process and clicking a link they sent me over email...

2fa on LastPass is pretty much useless.

>I was able to remove the 2fa myself by going through a recovery process and clicking a link they sent me over email...

ah that's a little better if it at least needs email