Now, you might think you’re safe as long as you don’t install that plugin. I have news for you: it’s a dependency for the GTK frontend, which Debian 13 installs and enables by default. So even if you never asked for it, it’s already there, quietly doing its thing.

So, if I’m reading this correctly, if you’re using X, as opposed to Wayland, then Debian 13 would leak whatever text you select unencrypted over HTTP to chinese servers. So, if your password manager selects the password in X, then your password would leak unencrypted, by default.

I don’t know whether they currently sell phones abroad, but I know in the past they have sold abroad. It’s a big market.

So it certainly affects them organizationally. Any phone that they want to sell abroad will have completely different software. They’d likely have to use an entirely different team of people.

any interpreted language is a waste of power

It’s not a waste of power. There are a lot of tradeoffs like ease of development and fault tolerance. And the cost of the interpreter is greatly mitigated at run time. Please just stop talking about this. It’s not as good of a point as you think it is.

Java is not as bad as you’re making it out to be. It’s always funny to see people list the problems with Java as if they’re obvious. They’re trade offs.

With this change, you’re right, they certainly won’t have to worry about selling the device abroad.

I love word ladders. Here’s one that I do every day, which even has a word ladder in the URL. https://wordwormdormdork.com/

For your second point, do you say that you use Adobe or Windows?

I mean, you already know the answer to that. The point is that you don’t have to give the entire context of your computing environment every time you mention some product you use.

Linux is just the kernel.

It’s not only the kernel. It is also the name that people have settled on for differentiating the computer running the Linux kernel from a computer running Windows.

I was contrasting it with the animal “gnu”, otherwise known as the wildebeest, which is pronounced more similar to the word “new”. I suspect more people know the animal gnu than know the organization GNU.

I understand why Stallman wanted us to say GNU/Linux, because his organization needs money and wants its name out there, but that’s simply not how things get named in the real world.

First, GNU was always a mouthful. It’s always been intentionally pronounced differently from the animal. People prefer names that are not confusing and that don’t sound strange.

Second, we don’t do the same thing for other operating systems. If you’re an illustrator, you don’t say that you work on Adobe/Windows or whatever.

Third, GNU/Linux adds nothing interesting over simply “Linux”. And in fact, there have been distributions where they avoid GNU tooling due. Everybody still recognizes these as Linux.