dancemethis

First of all, the odds of "white cis men" as you put it being put to shame for free is... quite, quite smaller than people who don't share the social structure privilege.

It's... not that people have a _need_ to do that. And let's be honest, you know it.

And second, there's a reason reverse racism and cisphobia aren't things, and that "they" (kinda we; I'm in the group too) are deemed privileged: by default they do happen to have it quite easier over the course of their lives. Both in opportunities and general quality of life. And things got so bad there was finally some critical mass to try and get people less scared of contributing to Free Software because they are in a group that is _quite_ disproportionally bashed by groups disproportionally more in power. One shouldn't compare the reaction of the oppressed with the violence of the oppressor, after all.

Bullies are trash, bullies in power doubly so.

If you think there's a _need_ to be able to hurt others, be it the group you are somehow against or think about them hurting you, I don't think the issue is in the CoC.

Maybe if a good number of people hadn't done bad things for decades, no one would need a CoC. But this is the world we are living, where people define themselves by their ability to mock and shame others. One group happened to do it a lot more.

Do you think it weird that it doesn't seem an issue at all? I just never thought of shaming others. Or feeling like the right to "need" it matters. I don't think this is the right mountain of freedom to die defending at all. What matters is code, helping a community grow, helping people get a modicum of privacy and freedom at least on their software. Not being free to harass.

Phind has been pretty nice to use for some rubber ducking with C#. Only disadvantage is using Discord to wall communication.

It's still worthwhile, and it will be for the foreseeable future.

If you want to dabble in desktop with C#, Avalonia is the best way to go nowadays. I'm having a blast with it working on a couple of projects for my assigned client, and in a couple of personal toy projects.

Yeah, it's not popular. Most won't thank them for the upcoming enshittification of Bandcamp.

Already joined HN.

That's some comic book villain.

They (Discord team) seem to not know what Free Software means too.

Some time ago I asked them whether they planned to ever become Free Software so it could be actually safe and have a community around it, and after a couple of messages they went (not verbatim, but in spirit) "oh, open source? lolno", missing the point entirely in multiple ways.

Taking into account their massive teen-focused PR campaign - which is a particularly social phase of human growth and FOMO reigns supreme, their predecessor OpenFeint's demise including a privacy lawsuit, the amounts of data and metadata implicitly and explicitly collected, it's at least _likely enough to distrust it_. The doors in the back are bound to be giving that sweet personal data to whomever has a big enough money stick, and/or other non-trustable agencies.

Discord _is_ particularly hostile to user privacy, that said.

Thank the reds we're not all forced to speak German.

It is tragic that they won't support .MOE domains. Would have moved years ago by now.

Oh, it's the kiddo who thinks they are very smart and adult for being a proud-to-be-misinformed gratuitous anticommie again.

Then the individual goes on the dumber-than-life anti-communist rant. I love how he tries to create a bunker with "if you disagree you're into Scrum".

I dislike Scrum quite a bit, but oh gee ain't that a full plate for Scrum apologists to have a point.

You use Mac. You are already being attacked by Apple. Both on the permissions to run the computing you want, and your data being harvested by them.

Good on you nonetheless to check one less, but the one still open is much larger, so the fight goes on.

Will never understand why doesn't Nintendo sue them for this.

It's "winning" personal user data with ease. It fits.

Not using particularly privacy-hostile platforms is the actual best kind of security.

I mean, that's not _too_ different from the way Discord "officially" sells user data in the shadows.

In a way, this is pretty amusing. Two people ending up having very different conversations... talking to each other.

I mean, I'm super against supporting hostile government countries, but a lot of stuff is made in the US. It's hard to avoid money going there.

Apple is ready to pay a bit to keep pretending they have encryption. Must mean the money they get in the back from their user data is much bigger.

It's not, because Free Software handles practical and ethical advantages as an indivisible unit, while open source focus only on promoting practical advantages.

It's unfortunate it's not actually going to be Free Software, but being able to at least audit and do non-commercial is... better than Notion, I guess. But I do retract a fair portion of my excitement over the project.

Your "reserved right" to define what a word means to you... puts the work to somehow figure out what you mean onto the reader. This isn't quite nice. The speakers are the ones that should strive to make themselves understood in the first place.

I don't have any love for "open source" since it is just "the part of Free Software that appeases people in suits", but please, use the thing as it is.

So, yeah, unless Notion becomes Free Software and actually secure soon, there's the Notion killer.

Tom Clancy is, because his games need to keep screaming "HEY THIS IS BY TOM CLANCY, OK? LOOK AT ME, TOM CLANCY, I'M BEING TOM CLANCY!" in their titles.

Since I've seen it (around HN, no less) years ago, it has been among the first few installations on every machine I handled.

Beautiful. It feels tall in just the right way.

Probably the first time I see brouhaha being used outside King Crimson's "Elephant Talk".

Well, blog is a personal diary first and foremost.

> Avast and AVG no longer pose a threat to user privacy, meaning both products are 100% safe to use.

They are still proprietary. They definitely do pose a threat.

Good on you (and everyone) for releasing it as Free Software. Just the target is unfortunate.

It's beyond ironic that Discord called itself that, being the successor to OpenFeint and its privacy lawsuit scandal, and being proprietary.

Now it is one of the most privacy-hostile AND preservation-hostile platforms around.