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http://catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/A/AFJ.html

http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=3084

Microsoft is essentially saying "Hacker's not welcome here!"

So, pragmatic is claiming without a shread of testimony or evidence that the Ada Initiative is setting sexual honeytraps for open source leaders? See the weirdness over at http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=6907 , I could not make this stuff up.

If that nonsense is "pragmatic", I'll stick with idealists.

Fortunately, you can view the source code and decide for yourself how 'simple' it is!

http://www.ibiblio.org/apollo/

Would love to see the slightest shred of evidence for any of this, e.g. - SJW thought police organisation

Ada Initiative. See also Coraline's project to set up a CoC enforcement organization to take that burden off FOSS projects.

- Getting paid to sit at home looking for wrongthink

Note how many SJWs are trust fund babies, plus the paid shills of Share Blue etc.

- Toxic elements of the Contributor's Code of Conduct

Coraline herself; if you can't see that, you're not living in the same reality as those who've found ourselves on the wrong side of enforcement actions. You can for example ask Rod Vagg or Ted Ts'o about this in practice. See also how CoCs in general are used to purge people like Larry Garfield of Drupal, the history of them tells us to assume bad faith as a default.

Obvious? No.

Does the meta narrative have a SJW theme all over it? Maybe.

I'd be willing to bet dollars-to-donuts that Patricia had a huge rule in convincing her father to do a 180 but I think we need more facts to determine that though. Speaking of facts, there are few that rather stand out to me after reading Tiago's perspective. Paraphrasing:

Interestingly enough Linus' daughter, Patricia Torvalds, activist of "Guerilla Feminism, supports the Post-Meritocracy Manifesto which was created by Stupid Juvenile Whiner Coraline Ada Ehmke, the latter who also created the Code of Conduct.

Ruby's CoC is simple and to the point. It is summarized as "Matz is nice and so we are nice," commonly abbreviated as MINASWAN.

But Ruby's simply CoC "wasn't good enough" for Coraline though. After Coraline's attempted hijacking of Ruby's CoC was 100% shot down by Matz ...

We have set our Code of Conduct.

https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/c...

I hope it works. We may upgrade it if something happens.

Matz.

... Coraline continued being a shit stirrer. Notice how the community basically told her to "fork off". (Pun intended.)

Matz isn't alone. Other have voiced their criticism of her CoC:

Given a choice between only two extremes, I'd far rather have Linus Torvalds telling me I'm an idiot and my code is shit, then exist in an offense-taking culture where various forms of criticism are re-branded as "harassment."

Back in 2013 Stupid Juvenile Whiner Sage Sharp targeted Linus. Failing that, she is now targeting Ted Tso calling him a "rape apologist".

Funny how these people love to play Judge, Juror, and Executioner, all at once without any evidence, and want to their CoC to be inclusive even when they aren't, but I digress.

What do these examples have to do with Linux, Linus, and the CoC ?

Eric Raymond pointed the dangers of meritocracy back in 2015. with his Why Hackers Must Eject the SJWs article. The example he brought up was about djangoconcardiff lying about patch rejection in the django community.

I noticed you have rejected some pull requests to add some good django libraries and that the people submitting those pull requests are POCs (People of Colour).

rosarior shut that down.

The pull request was rejected not the person. Of the people who did not had their patches accepted at least one submitted another pull request and was accepted or are contributors in my other repositories, disproving your basic premise.

There is no need for a code of conduct, there hasn't been a conduct related incident with the repository and nothing about a contributor comes into play when rejecting or accepting a patch (as proved above). An explanation is provided when a patch is rejected, and some have been left open to re-asses in a future time.

I'm not white and please don't make any other assumptions about me, they hold no relevance to the matter at hand.

Now I hate conspiracy theories with a passion but does the "recent" rash of CoC changes seem to be politically driven? Maybe. There SEEMS to be a larger narrative at play.

Regardless, I still think it is too early to tell but this inclusion of meritocracy is definitely something to keep an eye out for in the future.

It seems more and more certain that Linus has indeed fallen to one of the "honeypots" and is being blackmailed.

What the hell are you talking about?

He is talking about the fairly widely know accusations that a small group of "Social Justice Warriors" have set out to entrap people. Note that there actually is some limited evidence that related things have happened in limited cases, whilst at the same time the accusation that it happens all the time has been weaponised and is used everywhere, including cases where this clearly is not happening.

In other words, we wait sceptically for one side or the other to produce any evidence whatsoever.

http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=6907

A reminder from ESR:

http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=6907

You sound like a Fox News viewer.

Fox news huh? How about right from another horses mouth. Don't worry, they ARE going after you on your other social media accounts.It's not like we don't have examples. Holy fuck! Look at that, we've got just another case for wrong think. Oh, and this one too. Just to show that the Mike Pence rule applies too.

If that was all there was to it, I'd be happy.

Sadly, I have to wonder about the reasons for this given that a Code of Conduct (Control) was implemented. Linus had resisted such nonsense for years. And he faced serious pressure before cracking, so I figure something was up.

Maybe someone from 30 years ago wrote a letter and then scrubbed their social media history, who knows?

The real news here isn't that Linus decided to get some therapy.

The real news is that Linux, the project, adopted the "Contributor's Covenant" code of conduct and thereby acknowledged SJW ideological supremacy. The CC is an SJW vehicle promulgated by Coraline Ada and a related group of activist malcontents. While the CC appears on the surface to be a call of civility, it's actually the tip of a very long and exsanguatory anti-meritocracy spear, one that ultimately seeks to elevate high-verbal-IQ non-technical politics-playing San-Francisco-residing cliques of social justice advocates into positions of recognition and authority in the free software world and beyond. If you write code and you're good at it, these people are a direct threat to your status, your hobby, and your livelihood, because if these people get their way, your technical excellence becomes secondary to their wokeness.

These people also admit, quite openly, that they use out-of-project CoC enforcement as a means to forbid FOSS contributors from supporting certain political positions. Check the HN thread. They're gleeful. They have a scalp and they're showing it to everyone.

This is a very curious move from Linus. He's previously been so adamantly anti-tone-policing, anti-SJW, and pro-meritocracy that I can't help but wonder if he is in fact being blackmailed or coerced in some fashion. Back in 2015, ESR reported that the tech-SJW community was attempting to frame Linux in some fashion. My personal hunch is that Linus got complacent about operational security and eventually got caught in an SJW trap. I don't fault him. If you or I were put in a position of swearing fealty to Coraline Ada or being forced by a Twitter mob into giving up maintainership of a project that we'd worked our whole lifetime to force into existence, we might also choose to drop to our knees, kiss the ring, and get woke.

Of course it won't work, since blackmailers are never contented. But in the heat of the moment, it doesn't feel that way.

This is a very sad day.

Like an Alex Jones of IT, wow. Threat to my hobby, blackmail, geez that’s deep. You’re nuts dude, if you need help there are people out there. Get some fresh air or something.

The real news here isn't that Linus decided to get some therapy.

The real news is that Linux, the project, adopted the "Contributor's Covenant" code of conduct and thereby acknowledged SJW ideological supremacy.

Yes! How terrible that a project adopt a code of conduct where people are asked to be courteous and treat others with respect!

While the CC appears on the surface to be a call of civility, it's actually the tip of a very long and exsanguatory anti-meritocracy spear, one that ultimately seeks to elevate high-verbal-IQ non-technical politics-playing San-Francisco-residing cliques of social justice advocates into positions of recognition and authority in the free software world and beyond.

We are all in awe of your high-verbal-IQ demonstrating your totally coherent and rational analysis!

This is a very curious move from Linus. He's previously been so adamantly anti-tone-policing, anti-SJW, and pro-meritocracy that I can't help but wonder if he is in fact being blackmailed or coerced in some fashion. Back in 2015, ESR reported that the tech-SJW community was attempting to frame Linux in some fashion. My personal hunch is that Linus got complacent about operational security and eventually got caught in an SJW trap.

So totally coherent and rational and not at all devolving into conspiracy theories.

Of course it won't work, since blackmailers are never contented. But in the heat of the moment, it doesn't feel that way.

This is a very sad day.

Oops, we've apparently decided it's not a theory and a fact! Linus has been captured by the SJWs!! Someone rally an army of obnoxious politically incorrect men to save him!!!

The running theory is that he has been blackmailed which has been a concern for some time. He was advised a few years ago that these attacks on his authority are state sponsored and not by friendly states either (think Extortion 17) although the paychecks might come from the US or UK because they have assets inside the IC. There is no way that he is voluntarily taking time off to get counseling.

The real news here isn't that Linus decided to get some therapy.

The real news is that Linux, the project, adopted the "Contributor's Covenant" code of conduct and thereby acknowledged SJW ideological supremacy. The CC is an SJW vehicle promulgated by Coraline Ada and a related group of activist malcontents. While the CC appears on the surface to be a call of civility, it's actually the tip of a very long and exsanguatory anti-meritocracy spear, one that ultimately seeks to elevate high-verbal-IQ non-technical politics-playing San-Francisco-residing cliques of social justice advocates into positions of recognition and authority in the free software world and beyond. If you write code and you're good at it, these people are a direct threat to your status, your hobby, and your livelihood, because if these people get their way, your technical excellence becomes secondary to their wokeness.

These people also admit, quite openly, that they use out-of-project CoC enforcement as a means to forbid FOSS contributors from supporting certain political positions. Check the HN thread. They're gleeful. They have a scalp and they're showing it to everyone.

This is a very curious move from Linus. He's previously been so adamantly anti-tone-policing, anti-SJW, and pro-meritocracy that I can't help but wonder if he is in fact being blackmailed or coerced in some fashion. Back in 2015, ESR reported that the tech-SJW community was attempting to frame Linux in some fashion. My personal hunch is that Linus got complacent about operational security and eventually got caught in an SJW trap. I don't fault him. If you or I were put in a position of swearing fealty to Coraline Ada or being forced by a Twitter mob into giving up maintainership of a project that we'd worked our whole lifetime to force into existence, we might also choose to drop to our knees, kiss the ring, and get woke.

Of course it won't work, since blackmailers are never contented. But in the heat of the moment, it doesn't feel that way.

This is a very sad day.

'Chris couldn’t read my mind, so she had no way to know that I spotted “open source” as the winner we were looking for the first or second time the phrase was mentioned – well before I explicitly advocated for it myself. It seemed perfect to me – ideologically neutral, easy to parse, and with just enough connection to an already respectable term of art (that is, intelligence-community use of “open source”) to be useful.' Posted on 2018-02-04 by Eric Raymond

He posted about this exact thing if you want to get some insight into the reasoning.

The real-time aspects will still be handled by a microcontroller.

I was inspired by this 20 year old comic.

I don't know shit about him, but found this:
https://ajitvpai.com/
"Ajit has spent several years as a lawyer for Verizon"
Hmmm.

I'm inclined to trust ESR's opinion:
http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=617

Funny enough, you often see the same people (or at a minimum the same behaviors) behind the destruction. It's not just Adria Richards and Anita Sarkeesian and Zoe Quinn shitting up the things computer nerds love, it's gone fucking mainstream and can be seen everywhere, from the Eich excommunication debacle to the fuckheads Sarah Sharp and Matthew Garrett (mjg59) technicolor poop-spraying on Linux. The staunchly anti-political technology field has become not only politicized but strongly polarized. We need to cut out the social justice cancer without apologies.

CoralineAda (Coralina Ada Ehmke) or at least connections to "her" via "her" hot dumpster file "Contributor Covenant" seem to pop up often in places that subsequently find themselves embroiled in identity politics/feminist/SJW "live and let live as long as you live like we tell you to" controversies. Codes of conduct like hers are often used to marginalize white and male individuals under a patently false veil of equality.

krainboltgreene (Kurtis Rainbolt-Greene) is an aggressive "male feminist" that also makes an occasional appearance when something shitty and smeared with identity politics goes down.

Here, have some links for more reading. I'm getting depressed looking this trash can up and I don't want to dredge up more memories. Read for yourself.

https://github.com/opal/opal/i...
https://github.com/opal/opal/i...
https://www.reddit.com/r/Mozil...
https://news.ycombinator.com/i...
http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=6918
http://paul-m-jones.com/archiv...

Also, before they get around to replying, fuck AmiMoJo and PopeRatzo in particular. They are prime examples of the burnt crust that needs to be scraped off the Pyrex dish of computing.

It's probably the same friend who claimed there was a feminist honeytrap targeting Linus.

I don't know about LSD, but Eric Raymond makes a plausible case for modafinil.

Eric Raymond is mentally ill, I doubt that he is capable of making a reasonable case.

I don't know about LSD, but Eric Raymond makes a plausible case for modafinil.

Historians will say mission accomplished.

Just for the record, just in case someone points to this and claims nobody expressed any doubts. Certainly not because I missed the tone of biting sarcasm in your voice:

• There are serious doubts if Rust is fast enough
• Serious doubts have been expressed about how to deal with the way libraries are distributed
• There are also serious doubts among the more crusty community members about whether it's easy to convert which point to documentation and library difficulties

Maybe these will be overcome. Maybe a better more formally proven type system will be implemented. For now there are doubts.

I'm not quite sure how fighting the Axis after being attacked by it counts as generous.

The US could have defeated Japan, its attacker, with a fraction of the effort it put into WWII. Most of its resources, and 80% of US servicemen killed in action (source), were in the European theatre against Germany and Italy. And it could have done so: Hitler would surely have repudiated Japan, given the option, if the US would agree not to enter a war that everyone knew it could eventually win.

But, instead, the US spent the output of its industry and the blood of its young men to save Europe, and more of its industry, later, to rebuild it, under the Marshall plan. I would be a fool to be ungrateful for that.

That is a bunch of nonsense, there is nothing to do with the GOP there.

Fascists and Nazis get listed, but those are Left ideologies - socialists, national socialists. Oh sure, they're to the "right" of Communism, but still in the progressive camp. White Supremacists doesn't get you very far away from the Nazis so there is nothing much anywhere close to the GOP. It is actually kind of funny to think that someone is trying to pin "racism" on the party formed to free the slaves, and that fought segregation. Not even the "anti-government" stuff gets close. The GOP is for limited government, fiscal responsibility (at least officially), and personal liberty, not an absence of government.

Misconstruing Mussolini
Why Nazism Was Socialism and Why Socialism Is Totalitarian
Hitler, Mussolini, Roosevelt

British Fascists To the Left

More on the BNP’s success at stealing labor votes. Here are some wonderful posts about the BNP by Daniel Hannan. For instance:

Incidentally, any BBC presenters reading this, why do you keep calling the party “far Right”? Weren’t you listening to Nick Griffin’s acceptance speech? He wasn’t going to talk about immigration policy he said, since everyone knew where he stood on the subject. No, his priority was to expose the way in which public assets had been privatised. Look at the BNP’s manifesto: it wants nationalisation, subsidy, higher taxes, protectionism and (sotto voce) the abolition of the monarchy. And look at where its votes came from. The BNP is a symptom of Labour’s collapse.

Plus readers might remember his interview with Vox Day:

VD:One thing that tends to confuse Americans is that the British National Party is not very popular despite holding what appear to be populist views on immigration and the European Union. Why do they enjoy so little support compared to the three major parties?

DH:Because they are, contrary to the way they are described in the BBC, a party of the far left. They’re in favor of nationalization, they’re in favor of protectionism, they want workers’ councils to run industry, they want a massive state program of rebuilding manufacture. Like Hayek said about the socialist roots of Nazism, they are a national socialist party and the socialist bit is very important to them. Plus, there is a line, a very important line in politics, between being anti-immigration and anti-immigrant. And they’ve crossed that line.

VD: In a certain respect, they really are fascists, but in the Italian Fascist sense.

DH: Yeah. I think most of these so-called “far right” parties are on the left by any normal definition. It’s a brilliant media trick in Europe to always refer to them as “the far right”. The target of that is the mainstream right. Every time you read about the BNP in the press, it’s always prefaced with “the far right BNP”, as though they were like us, but more so, which is the opposite of the case. When somebody reads that, it doesn’t make them think any worse of the BNP, it makes them think worse of the right. Which, of course, is why they do it.

Communism and fascism/National Socialism are both "progressive" left wing ideologies. National Socialism may be to the right of communism but it is still a left-wing socialist ideology.

Misconstruing Mussolini
Why Nazism Was Socialism and Why Socialism Is Totalitarian
Hitler, Mussolini, Roosevelt

British Fascists To the Left

More on the BNP’s success at stealing labor votes. Here are some wonderful posts about the BNP by Daniel Hannan. For instance:

Incidentally, any BBC presenters reading this, why do you keep calling the party “far Right”? Weren’t you listening to Nick Griffin’s acceptance speech? He wasn’t going to talk about immigration policy he said, since everyone knew where he stood on the subject. No, his priority was to expose the way in which public assets had been privatised. Look at the BNP’s manifesto: it wants nationalisation, subsidy, higher taxes, protectionism and (sotto voce) the abolition of the monarchy. And look at where its votes came from. The BNP is a symptom of Labour’s collapse.

Plus readers might remember his interview with Vox Day:

VD:One thing that tends to confuse Americans is that the British National Party is not very popular despite holding what appear to be populist views on immigration and the European Union. Why do they enjoy so little support compared to the three major parties?

DH:Because they are, contrary to the way they are described in the BBC, a party of the far left. They’re in favor of nationalization, they’re in favor of protectionism, they want workers’ councils to run industry, they want a massive state program of rebuilding manufacture. Like Hayek said about the socialist roots of Nazism, they are a national socialist party and the socialist bit is very important to them. Plus, there is a line, a very important line in politics, between being anti-immigration and anti-immigrant. And they’ve crossed that line.

VD: In a certain respect, they really are fascists, but in the Italian Fascist sense.

DH: Yeah. I think most of these so-called “far right” parties are on the left by any normal definition. It’s a brilliant media trick in Europe to always refer to them as “the far right”. The target of that is the mainstream right. Every time you read about the BNP in the press, it’s always prefaced with “the far right BNP”, as though they were like us, but more so, which is the opposite of the case. When somebody reads that, it doesn’t make them think any worse of the BNP, it makes them think worse of the right. Which, of course, is why they do it.

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There is plenty more.

They might be trying to entrap you as a leader of the free and open source world, according to ESR.

* http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=6907

The anti-feminist libel by Eric is titled "From Kafkatrap to Honeytrap". It was covered on Slashdot some time ago, and no, I could not make this stuff up.

Privilege theory and the concept of systemic racism dealt the death blow to the détente. In embracing these theories, minorities and progressives broke their essential rule, which was to not run around calling everyone a racist. As these theories took hold, every white person became a racist who must confess that racism and actively make amends. Yet if the white woman who teaches gender studies at Barnard with the Ben Shahn drawings in her office is a racist, what chance do the rest of have?

Within the past few years, as privilege theory took hold, many whites began to think that no matter what they did they would be called racist, because, in fact, that was happening. Previously there were rules. They shifted at times, but if adhered to they largely protected one from the charge of racism. Itâ(TM)s like the Morrissey lyric: âoeis evil just something you are, or something you do.â Under the détente, racism was something you did; under privilege theory it is something you are.

That shift, from carefully directed accusations of racism for direct actions to more general charges of unconscious racism, took away the carrot for whites. Worse, it led to a defensiveness and feeling of victimization that make todayâ(TM)s whites in many ways much more tribal than they were 30 years ago. White people are constantly told to examine their whiteness, not to think of themselves as racially neutral. That they did, but the result was not introspection that led to reconciliation, it was a decision that white people have just as much right to think of themselves as a special interest group as anyone else.

http://thefederalist.com/2016/11/14/election-marks-end-americas-racial-detente/

You will not prevent this development by screaming âoeracism!â. Hereâ(TM)s a hot tip: people you dismiss as retrograde scum will not, in general, vote for you. In fact, one of the things you Democrats most urgently need to do is banish âoeracismâ and âoesexismâ from your political vocabulary.

While these words point at some real problems, they are also a trap. They lead you to organize your political pitch around virtue-signaling, exclusion and demonization. That, in turn, can be successful (though repulsive) politics when itâ(TM)s used against a minority to mobilize a majority or plurality. But youâ(TM)re in the opposite situation now. You were trapped by your own privilege theory. You demonized a plurality of American voters, and in return they gave you Trump.

http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=7268

(Apologies for the mangled characters. I just don't care enough to fix them today. Click the links if they bother you.)

http://www.minetest.net/. Also, if you like free and open source software, I got more links to some cool stuff here (not games): https://theouterlinux.com/rese...ðY"--/. I try to only list things that actually work with the most bang per byte and most are cross-platform. I'm also not a big fan of eye candy over functionality. If anyone has website suggestions to add to the open source info and archives section, I'd love to know. I need to add http://ibiblio.org/catalog/, for example.

You start by calling me a racist and think that my reply was meant to engage you in a political argument?

No, actually, I don't see Bruce Perens calling you a racist, in fact, you interjected yourself, but actually, to start yourself off, you are one who stated:

"In fact, the entire "argument" for the left is that you are a racist if you don't agree with them."

A very defensive reaction, and a false premise, but I guess you wanted to get enraged over an imagined attack, and direct your abuse at the left" as Bruce Perens already described you. You began with trying to play the victim card, that comes across as hysterical posturing, nothing more.

That you then jumped to "They have no logic, no reason, nothing but insults." is even more discrediting when we consider the tendency of the current President to make up accusations, throw-out insults, and otherwise present fact-deficient claims, a problem that also applies to many in the Republican party, and yes, even to yourself. As demonstrated by your own conduct here.

Which actually makes me wonder if you're not trying to make them look bad as you're paid to be a discredit to the conservative party.

Sheesh, and you think that I'm the kid here.

Here's what ESR (you've heard of him, no?) had to say about the election:

Eric Scott Raymond isn't immune to foolish statements either, though I will say that if nothing else, he managed to endeavor to a higher level than yourself. Still, he got numerous facts wrong, and his premises are broken.

And what lesson did you learn from this election?

That Donald Trump only barely managed to outperform Bush, after 12 years of population growth, and that more effort needs to be focused on controlling gerrymandering and voter initiatives. But even with that, it was still a substantial lead in the popular vote, and no amount of lying about a landslide will change Trump's win from anything except a popular victory. As noted, you were also engaged in that lie, when you claimed the "people" favored him. A deceit of your own, and you should know better. But you don't want to do that.

Personally, I think Tim Kaine was the weakness. He delivered Virginia, but what else? Not much. Somebody with more dramatic left-wing appeal should have been chosen. Or more right-wing appeal. A Republican "disgusted" at Trump would have brought voters into the fold by the millions.

"The party that formed specifically to abolish slavery, that gave their very lives by the hundreds of thousands to free the slaves from their Democrat masters, and that passed something like a dozen civil rights acts over the objections of Democrats, has always been racist."

Yup, believe it or not, it HAS been a long-standing accusation against the Republican Party and its leaders. Namely, Douglas was saying that about Lincoln during their famed debates.

Take the Civil War and emancipation. It didn't take more than a decade before the Republicans walked away from protecting black civil rights in favor of winning the Presidency.

Sorry, but even Lincoln can't be sainted on the issue, let alone the thousands of other elected Republicans, or even the ones today.

You start by calling me a racist and think that my reply was meant to engage you in a political argument? Sheesh, and you think that I'm the kid here.

Here's what ESR (you've heard of him, no?) had to say about the election:

So, what can you do?

The most obvious thing is that you have to stop contemptuously dismissing the largest single demographic segment of the American electorate. Because believe me, they noticed. So did their wives and children.

This has larger implications than you may yet understand. It's not just that you need to take any Democrat who uses the phrase "angry white men" out to the woodshed and beat him or her with a strap until he/she wises up. The whole apparatus of racial and ethnic identity politics is turning in your hand, reversing (like your old-media dominance) from an asset to a liability.

(Just to drive the point home, the gender card doesn't work any more either. Trump is a feminist's worst nightmare. He won anyway. He came close enough to winning the entire female vote to trigger bitter post-election denunciations of American women in general by feminists - which pretty much epitomizes the sort of reaction that isn't going to help you.)

Your best plausible case is that the minority groups you counted on passively fail to add up to a winning coalition in the future, as they did this cycle. Your worst - and increasingly likely - case is that white people now begin voting as something like an ethnic bloc. This is, after all, how you've been teaching other ethnic groups to play the game since the 1960s.

You will not prevent this development by screaming "racism!". Here's a hot tip: people you dismiss as retrograde scum will not, in general, vote for you. In fact, one of the things you Democrats most urgently need to do is banish "racism" and "sexism" from your political vocabulary.

And what lesson did you learn from this election?

I believe the actual motivation behind this move is the same one that is behind making it more difficult for poor and disenfranchised people to vote - even though there is no evidence of significant voting fraud in the USA: Poor folks and minorities might vote Democratic.

"I need to accuse more people of racism"

Suppression of the Black vote has historically been an important part of Republican strategy, this [washingtonpost.com] is just one of many reports on that issue.

"The party that formed specifically to abolish slavery, that gave their very lives by the hundreds of thousands to free the slaves from their Democrat masters, and that passed something like a dozen civil rights acts over the objections of Democrats, has always been racist."

Having gerrymandered them into the most odd-shaped electoral districts, it becomes time to make sure they can't get news online or participate in democratic discourse.

"REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE"

http://distro.ibiblio.org/tiny...

Base is 11meg, but it can EASILY be reduced to 9meg by removing unneeded features.

Granted someone like you that has ZERO ability to code probably can't understand linux.

For some reason, Kernel Sanders made me think of Dr Fun: Kernel Panic

For those that don't know, Dr Fun was the first webcomic 520 weeks, or 10 years worth

For some reason, Kernel Sanders made me think of Dr Fun: Kernel Panic

For those that don't know, Dr Fun was the first webcomic 520 weeks, or 10 years worth

That bizarre cathedral guy, Eric Raymond, is busy cleaning up NTP for security and recently evaluated Rust as a possible language for a complete re-write and found it deficient. His blog posts on that:

"Rust vs. Go"
Rust severely disappoints me
"Rust and the limits of swarm design"

That bizarre cathedral guy, Eric Raymond, is busy cleaning up NTP for security and recently evaluated Rust as a possible language for a complete re-write and found it deficient. His blog posts on that:

"Rust vs. Go"
Rust severely disappoints me
"Rust and the limits of swarm design"

Obligatory Doctor Fun reference.

http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=1310

"Ubiquity, like great power, requires of us great responsibility. It changes our duties, and it changes the kind of people we have to be to meet those duties. It is no longer enough for hackers to think like explorers and artists and revolutionaries; now we have to be civil engineers as well, and identify with the people who keep the sewers unclogged and the electrical grid humming and the roads mended. Creativity was never enough by itself, it always had to be backed up with craftsmanship and care â" but now, our standards of craftsmanship and care must rise to new levels because the consequences of failure are so much more grave." - Eric Raymond, in: http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=4196 see also: icei.org

Wow. I'm actually speechless. Next you'll be telling me that loud pipes save lives? Right?

Slow down.

Slow down.

Slow down.

Slow down.

Try not to fall for bullshit such as this from someone who thinks they are *much* smarter than they actually are.

http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=6907 And do remember, this is TOR we're talking about. They've got more people after them than just outrage milkers.

Linus specifically having to avoid spending any time with females one on one as he's been "targeted for take down"

Where the hell did that come from?

Someone linked it downstream. You can find it here:
http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=6907

Basically, some "Feminist Open Source" group called the Ada Initiative was trying to frame Linus for Rape, so Linus now refuses to be alone with women at conventions and the like. Supposedly it comes as a result of Linus hurting someone's fee-fees in the Kernel Mailing List, there was some big bru-ha-ha and a few SJWs got buttmad that Linus only cares about results, not identity politics garbage.

Said group has disbanded but they spread out to other "Women in Tech" groups to try the same type of things.

The recent push for "social justice codes of conduct" in open source is one of their brainchildren, it's a way to create an official channel so they can claim harassment and lynch people they find "problematic."

I had absolutely no idea that Shari Steele and the Tor Project Administration was a court of law!

Oh wait, they're not? Fascinating!

But boy howdy, you gotta admire their moxie. After all they did their own little investigation and found him guilty all by themselves. No pesky evidence or defense lawyers needed -- just enough harpies claiming victimization (but not enough to actually go to the police) and you too can destroy someone's life forever. ... ESPECIALLY interesting since one of the "victims" later pointed out that she wasn't a victim, it was a bunch of SJWs speaking on her behalf without permission to create a lynch mob towards Jacob...

(Although I have it on good authority she's suffering from internalized misogyny and thus you should believe the 3rd party witnesses over her statements, because Third Wave Feminists represent all women, even women who don't want to be represented by them. ESPECIALLY those kinds of women.)

Remember there was an active attempt to frame Linus Torvalds with sexual assault allegations. Around the same time you saw these types trying to push codes of conduct that were backdoors to get editorial control over projects they were targeting.

So everyone needs to be a tiny bit wary when hearing stories like this, especially when you see these SJW style shame lynch mob tactics used. No evidence, mobbing tactics, public shaming, threatening people who question the narrative, and demanding reparations for perceived slights in the form of policy changes and increased decision making power to their political allies. It's a playbook that targets some known exploits in our culture -- namely that everyone's hesitant to demand evidence of an overly emotional woman, and everyone's first response is to beat up whomever she's pointing at and ask questions later.

If there are actual allegations, they need to be taken to a court of law. If they won't hold up in a court of law, recognize it for what it is -- bitchy ex girlfriends wanting to slander an ex boyfriend they're mad at. Don't let the Kangaroo Court bullshit that's infested our campuses start leaking out into the real world.

And if you want to implement an "anti-harassment" policy for your project: Don't. It's a stupid fucking idea leading to drama and abuse by lesser minds.

If you are really looking for a nice Code of Conduct, aim for the Code of Merit - because as ESR has so adamantly pointed out, "We must constantly demand merit – performance, intelligence, dedication, and technical excellence – of ourselves and each other."

SJW Codes of Conduct like the Orwellian Contributor Covenant by Coraline Ada Ehmke (who is tied to Model View Culture, which is ran by white supremacist "feminist" Shanley Kane, which is also tied to the Ada Initiative's two founders, which was the group attempting to frame Linus for rape...) are nothing more than a way to backdoor losers like Ehmke and her ilk into projects they don't deserve access to.

I had absolutely no idea that Shari Steele and the Tor Project Administration was a court of law!

Oh wait, they're not? Fascinating!

But boy howdy, you gotta admire their moxie. After all they did their own little investigation and found him guilty all by themselves. No pesky evidence or defense lawyers needed -- just enough harpies claiming victimization (but not enough to actually go to the police) and you too can destroy someone's life forever. ... ESPECIALLY interesting since one of the "victims" later pointed out that she wasn't a victim, it was a bunch of SJWs speaking on her behalf without permission to create a lynch mob towards Jacob...

(Although I have it on good authority she's suffering from internalized misogyny and thus you should believe the 3rd party witnesses over her statements, because Third Wave Feminists represent all women, even women who don't want to be represented by them. ESPECIALLY those kinds of women.)

Remember there was an active attempt to frame Linus Torvalds with sexual assault allegations. Around the same time you saw these types trying to push codes of conduct that were backdoors to get editorial control over projects they were targeting.

So everyone needs to be a tiny bit wary when hearing stories like this, especially when you see these SJW style shame lynch mob tactics used. No evidence, mobbing tactics, public shaming, threatening people who question the narrative, and demanding reparations for perceived slights in the form of policy changes and increased decision making power to their political allies. It's a playbook that targets some known exploits in our culture -- namely that everyone's hesitant to demand evidence of an overly emotional woman, and everyone's first response is to beat up whomever she's pointing at and ask questions later.

If there are actual allegations, they need to be taken to a court of law. If they won't hold up in a court of law, recognize it for what it is -- bitchy ex girlfriends wanting to slander an ex boyfriend they're mad at. Don't let the Kangaroo Court bullshit that's infested our campuses start leaking out into the real world.

And if you want to implement an "anti-harassment" policy for your project: Don't. It's a stupid fucking idea leading to drama and abuse by lesser minds.

If you are really looking for a nice Code of Conduct, aim for the Code of Merit - because as ESR has so adamantly pointed out, "We must constantly demand merit – performance, intelligence, dedication, and technical excellence – of ourselves and each other."

SJW Codes of Conduct like the Orwellian Contributor Covenant by Coraline Ada Ehmke (who is tied to Model View Culture, which is ran by white supremacist "feminist" Shanley Kane, which is also tied to the Ada Initiative's two founders, which was the group attempting to frame Linus for rape...) are nothing more than a way to backdoor losers like Ehmke and her ilk into projects they don't deserve access to.

Mystery solved.

Gramscian Damage

Dr Fun was one of the first webcomics.

He posted this in 2006

Back in year 2000 some people i knew defaced AT&T billboards including tags about the NSA listening. This isn't all that new. Sadly, not a lot of pushback. When was the last time (or more likely, any time) you've talked about a stingray and your phone?

Dr Fun was one of the first webcomics.

He posted this in 2006

Back in year 2000 some people i knew defaced AT&T billboards including tags about the NSA listening. This isn't all that new. Sadly, not a lot of pushback. When was the last time (or more likely, any time) you've talked about a stingray and your phone?

You're not necessarily wrong, but it's also a defeatist attitude. We should have the right to use modern technology without being surveilled by our own government.

Are you aware that the US government has been using warrantless wiretaps since the telegraph era? Benjamin Franklin created a post office so he could spy on mail and have breaking news in his news paper before anyone else. The situation is the same or worse everywhere else forever.

That's why the founders of the USA used encryption that was unbreakable at that time. Avoiding surveillance might be a noble cause, but you've always been under surveillance. So long as encryption without backdoors is still allowed, you can have secure correspondences (providing your devices aren't pre-hacked in the firmware -- they are).

What I'd be concerned with is the widespread use of directed energy weapons against civilians who post/say dissenting things, or the outright murder of those who try to shine a light on police misconduct. Maybe get enraged about the use of Zersetzung tactics against prominent FLOSS leaders by the political left as part of their ongoing effort to dispose of dissenters and install Politically Correct allies in all information outlets.

In other words, IMO, there are more serious shit to deal with right now such as leftists in California using cops to attack and kill noisy non-PC wrongthinkers. A bigger problem than surveillance is the lack of important information being spread. Fix the media's complicit covering up of heinous shit first and then you might have a chance to change everything else you want. People won't care if they don't know.

Ban them. They're people from the same group behind geekfeminism and the former Ada Initiative. Entryism is their preferred tactic.