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Stallman was right. Holy shit.

And yet they have all the time in the world to spend on an invasive daemon that pulls updates OTA without user consent. Plus all the other bullshit they've tried (Mir, unity, juju or whatever it's called). Thankfully Debian is still true to the game.

>snapd not open-source.

Red herring. The Linux Mint teams' main complaints have to do with issues around the way snap wrests control from the user.

>I will remind people that the most popular PPA to this day is a Java PPA being run by some 3rd party that doesn't offer Java. That PPA has root access to thousands of machines.

Imagine strawman-ing this hard.

I wouldn't worry about it too much. Think of it as a map, and similarly, the map is not the territory.

What, Aramaic? The Vulgate? Wycliffes?

I wrote a bible desktop application and pulled in a bunch of translation and commentary from the swords project. I recommend looking into it if you're after the underlying data, nicely structured.

An apology, to the cancel crowd, is merely an admission of guilt. There is no such thing as redemption. By the time someone apologizes, the mob has moved on to a fresh outrage. In their wake are ruined reputation and careers.

Audacious. It's compatible with the skins, even.

Looks pretty cool. There is interest in CDE as well lately, it seems (NsCDE as well as CDE proper).

Beyond aesthetic reasons, it's hard to understand when one would really use these for daily driving. Anyone using this or CDE able to offer insight?

Lowering the barriers to open-source contribution has allowed in people who have absolutely no business being there. If you have standards, you get accused of gate-keeping.

Thanks for mentioning the T- website specifically, it takes a lot of courage to call it out directly these days, because all it takes is one of them with a lot of followers and then you get swamped with hate. It's fucking unreal man.

There's a ton of us down here programming and having fun, free of politics and bullshit. Look forward to seeing you (again).

Replying to myself to highlight antirez's own comment upthread:

>Yep it's the open source, and in general the "spontaneous" development world, that happens without big money, just for hacking. This "place" once was kinda free and not observed much. Now you can't say anything, if you don't respect a good practice (LOL) people yell at you on Twitter. Even saying that commenting is a good idea is a problem. Not cool.

So yeah, pretty much twitter.

This implies that a lot of the politicization of open source projects has to do with outsiders making power plays (for in group status or just because narcissism). I think this is part of it, for sure. I also think it can also manifest when parts of the community get trapped in a purity spiral, which is somewhat related but comes from within rather than without.

Advice? I don't know. Stay underground and ignore the mobs, they will get bored and move on if you ignore them.

Ironically, I think lowering the barriers for involvement in open source has let in a mass of people who have no fucking business being there.

Probably the roving mobs on Twitter who occasionally brigade project issue trackers and mailing lists. Check out the master/slave post he wrote a while back.

Or just the toxic nature of some open source communities, especially on Reddīt for whatever reason.

I'm not sure why you're getting downvotes, because this is spot-on. Anonymous paper-folding image boards and other places like that are already celebrating the arrival of newcomers. It's like sending a petty offender to prison, and instead of getting reformed, they just get a lot more hardcore.

I get it that Reddit doesn't want extremism on its site, and I don't have an opinion either way on the bans. But I think it's naive to assume that people won't just hop to another, possibly more extreme, platform.

This is the comment I wish I had made.

This is just clickbait. The "GitHub down" schadenfreude has really gotten tired.

Honest and thoughtful retrospective, obviously with no hidden agenda, and written with humility. Fantastic stuff.

Just look at FB's stock over the last week. Wew lads, this is actually pretty big. From ~245 to 215 at market close today.

In some markets it is necessary to put the same length of fiber-optic cable between the colocated servers, so that being closer to the exchange's cabinet doesn't translate into an advantage. So obviously we're talking about extremely low latency, high-frequency trading. This carries a huge amount of prerequisites to even get started.

Not only are that, but there are many different order types besides "buy at market price, sell at market price". Then there's options, short sales, and more.

It goes deep. People devote 30 years of their career to this. Read the authors experience as a kind of warning, if you will.

Amazon is just a digital flea market, with all that the epithet entails. Shit-quality Chinesium stuff, counterfeit everything, fake customers, fake everything except the price. All amzn cares about is dominance, and they are winning unfortunately.

Is it a power-grab or an attempt by individuals to gain social status?

I think that it has all those trappings, but underneath is a deep addiction to anger, outrage and the rush of adrenaline that accompanies it.

There is also a sort of religiosity that your comment alludes to.

>Various thinkers have pointed out that leftism is a kind of religion. Leftism is not a religion in the strict sense because leftist doctrine does not postulate the existence of any supernatural being. But, for the leftist, leftism plays a psychological role much like that which religion plays for some people. The leftist NEEDS to believe in leftism; it plays a vital role in his psychological economy. His beliefs are not easily modified by logic or facts. He has a deep conviction that leftism is morally Right with a capital R, and that he has not only a right but a duty to impose leftist morality on everyone.

No I would not say it did. Being publicly shamed, kicked out of a conference, fired, and having your name posted all over the place are the kinds of things that tend to stay with you. Remember, we're talking about a stupid dick joke between friends.

Or make a private joke to your friend about a dongle.

Both of those are right on point, and match my observations within my own circles. For me stallmans cancellation was a big turning point. I'm using a pseudonym everywhere now. I can't risk someone pulling up a comment or post years from now and using it to ruin my reputation or career, simply because i may have voiced an unpopular or controversial opinion that did not age well.

It seems, too, that making jokes is very risky. With text online it's just far too easy to take something out of context and misrepresent or weaponize a person's words. I have had this happen to me personally and it's unbelievably frustrating.

People aren't allowed to make mistakes, it seems. It is just too fraught, and even sincerity and honesty are not safe.

Overwhelmingly it is the identity-politics/SJW crowd that seems to be going after individuals, targeting the vulnerable, and attempting to ruin actual lives.

Banning someone from an internet forum or project is one thing.

Trashing a person's reputation and character through a targeted internet campaign (hello Twitter mobs) is another matter.

What chess engine do you all recommend for gnome-chess? I see glaurung, fairy-max, hoi-chess, gnuchess?

Cancel culture in action.

The silent majority is bigger than any of us think. Angry twitter mobs give misleading impressions. Watching company after company, institution after institution cave to demands from the outraged woke-culture has completely pushed me the opposite direction.

I will never post any of these beliefs online under my real name. But I will vote.

I remember having a coworker who was "learning clojure". That guy did more damage than could even be imagined.

Even more so since gh is part of Microsoft, a publicly traded company.