Nobody wants to watch TV/movie/music award shows anymore because they no longer focus on TV/movies/music. Instead it's a bunch of self-important celebrities whining that they don't like the President.
Using the term "hate" reflexively to refer to anything that doesn't align 100% with your totalitarian leftist worldview, makes you part of the problem. Go fuck yourself.
Linus was a competent and effective leader. One of the reasons he was such a great leader is because he did NOT waste his time dealing with primate politics. Now he's been bullied into capitulating to the "muh feelingz!" people, the project WILL suffer.
The social justice communists have declared an assumption that meritocracies produce environments where "some groups are underrepresented". In reality, if some groups are underrepresented, what you have isn't a meritocracy. Either that or, those groups simply aren't present in the pool of potential developers for the project -- and if that's the case, you can go and create mentoring programs if you want to. We do NOT want affirmative action programs to ruin open source the way it ruins everything else it touches.
So only code that's made in an unsafe space can be good? Only code that is made by someone full of hate is valid?
The fact that you use the word "hate" to describe any words or actions that do not agree with your totalitarian socialist worldview, indicates that you don't have anything useful to contribute and are part of the problem.
My code doesn't care about your feelings. Go make me a sandwich.
This is the end of Linux as we know it. The "Code of Conduct" is teeming with words and phrases that indicate the project is now going to be policed by Social Justice Warriors who will micro-manage everything. It means that the Linux kernel is no longer a meritocracy.
The only "code of conduct" ought to be: "my code doesn't care about your feelings". You can't develop good code in a Safe Space.
In the context of the conversation, "PC" refers to a *Windows* desktop. For nearly 20 years, Windows was the platform. Now the Web is the platform, just like Netscape and Sun wanted it to be. The revolution was a success. Windows is still around but it is no longer the single gatekeeper to all of computing.
Ok, so they both died in the process, but they won. Netscape with its "browser as a platform" strategy, and Sun with its "network computing" strategy, both failed to win their early battles against Microsoft, but in the end, the PC lost its place as "the" platform. Applications are now accessed over the Internet, and they can be accessed using any device. Applications locally installed on a Wintel machine are still around, but they're no longer the primary way we do most things with computers.
Remember when you had to install a special Windows program to track a FedEx package? To log in to your bank? To do your taxes? That era is over. We're in the post-PC era now, and we've been there for quite some time now.
I used the Chrome browser for about seven years. It's a great browser -- fast, snappy, good looking, responsive. Unfortunately, it's controlled by Google, an organization that can no longer be trusted. This sent me back into the welcoming arms of Firefox (and yes, my search engine is DuckDuckGo).
Sure, these devices listen all the time - for a wake word. The idea that they're always listening to your conversation and always recording are patently false.
...until you become a "person of interest" in which case they remotely switch the microphone on all the time.
Although it should be obvious that these devices can and will be used for eavesdropping, it's not necessary. College students post their entire private lives onto social media anyway.
Where do you live? I've been saying for decades that this should be the case everywhere. Separate the companies that provide last-mile wiring from the companies that provide services over those wires, and it will end up being the only regulation the entire industry would ever need.
By the way, greetings from one four-digit user to another:)
It should be obvious that everyone should configure their email systems to block all email from all f*c*book domains. (On my network the entire service is blocked, but sometimes you have a f*c*book user in the household)
At this time we may begin to wonder whether we have passed Peak Google. Now that the company is large enough to get itself tangled up in politics, people from all political persuasions are watching its every move and looking for things to get upset about. The privacy issue could also be Google's biggest systemic problem, raising distrust in the company similar to IBM and Microsoft before it. We know how this ends -- a long, slow decline.
Personally, I'm very happy with DuckDuckGo. In just a few years it went from completely-unusable to a perfectly fine Google alternative. And I certainly wouldn't trust my email to any server other than my own.
Those were the good old days, when there were lots of different web sites and if you didn't like one, you could go to another. Many of us remember "the Internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it." Somehow we got to a point where Facebook and Google interpret the free Internet as damage and route around it.
No one should be surprised. We saw this happen with computers and now we're seeing it happen with smartphones. The market is saturated, the existing installed base is more than capable of handling most workloads, and therefore fewer people are motivated to upgrade every year.
You want us to buy new phones? Build them with longer battery life and less crapware/spyware. The screens are already good enough. The cameras are already good enough. The operating systems are already good enough. Gee-whiz bells and whistles aren't going to motivate us to upgrade anymore.
And stop building phones with notches.
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Nobody wants to watch TV/movie/music award shows anymore because they no longer focus on TV/movies/music. Instead it's a bunch of self-important celebrities whining that they don't like the President.
Using the term "hate" reflexively to refer to anything that doesn't align 100% with your totalitarian leftist worldview, makes you part of the problem. Go fuck yourself.
Linus was a competent and effective leader. One of the reasons he was such a great leader is because he did NOT waste his time dealing with primate politics. Now he's been bullied into capitulating to the "muh feelingz!" people, the project WILL suffer.
The social justice communists have declared an assumption that meritocracies produce environments where "some groups are underrepresented". In reality, if some groups are underrepresented, what you have isn't a meritocracy. Either that or, those groups simply aren't present in the pool of potential developers for the project -- and if that's the case, you can go and create mentoring programs if you want to. We do NOT want affirmative action programs to ruin open source the way it ruins everything else it touches.
The fact that you use the word "hate" to describe any words or actions that do not agree with your totalitarian socialist worldview, indicates that you don't have anything useful to contribute and are part of the problem.
My code doesn't care about your feelings. Go make me a sandwich.
Go make me a sandwich.
This is the end of Linux as we know it. The "Code of Conduct" is teeming with words and phrases that indicate the project is now going to be policed by Social Justice Warriors who will micro-manage everything. It means that the Linux kernel is no longer a meritocracy.
The only "code of conduct" ought to be: "my code doesn't care about your feelings". You can't develop good code in a Safe Space.
LinkedIn used to be *the* network used by professionals. After Microsoft bought it, they turned it basically into a white-collar Facebook.
It's what is known as a "Phyrric victory".
Then you haven't been using computers for as long as some of us have. You will note that I have a four digit Slashdot ID and yours is six digits.
In the context of the conversation, "PC" refers to a *Windows* desktop. For nearly 20 years, Windows was the platform. Now the Web is the platform, just like Netscape and Sun wanted it to be. The revolution was a success. Windows is still around but it is no longer the single gatekeeper to all of computing.
Ok, so they both died in the process, but they won. Netscape with its "browser as a platform" strategy, and Sun with its "network computing" strategy, both failed to win their early battles against Microsoft, but in the end, the PC lost its place as "the" platform. Applications are now accessed over the Internet, and they can be accessed using any device. Applications locally installed on a Wintel machine are still around, but they're no longer the primary way we do most things with computers. Remember when you had to install a special Windows program to track a FedEx package? To log in to your bank? To do your taxes? That era is over. We're in the post-PC era now, and we've been there for quite some time now.
I used the Chrome browser for about seven years. It's a great browser -- fast, snappy, good looking, responsive. Unfortunately, it's controlled by Google, an organization that can no longer be trusted. This sent me back into the welcoming arms of Firefox (and yes, my search engine is DuckDuckGo).
Yes.
Next question?
Although it should be obvious that these devices can and will be used for eavesdropping, it's not necessary. College students post their entire private lives onto social media anyway.
Where do you live? I've been saying for decades that this should be the case everywhere. Separate the companies that provide last-mile wiring from the companies that provide services over those wires, and it will end up being the only regulation the entire industry would ever need. By the way, greetings from one four-digit user to another :)
Really wish I had mod points today. You nailed it.
It should be obvious that everyone should configure their email systems to block all email from all f*c*book domains. (On my network the entire service is blocked, but sometimes you have a f*c*book user in the household)
From following many 8-bit retro computers i'd say C64 and Amiga are the two most active.
Amiga was a 32-bit computer.
At this time we may begin to wonder whether we have passed Peak Google. Now that the company is large enough to get itself tangled up in politics, people from all political persuasions are watching its every move and looking for things to get upset about. The privacy issue could also be Google's biggest systemic problem, raising distrust in the company similar to IBM and Microsoft before it. We know how this ends -- a long, slow decline.
Personally, I'm very happy with DuckDuckGo. In just a few years it went from completely-unusable to a perfectly fine Google alternative. And I certainly wouldn't trust my email to any server other than my own.
In other news, Tesla Motors has announced that they won't sell their best cars to anyone who doesn't also own a horse and buggy.
Those were the good old days, when there were lots of different web sites and if you didn't like one, you could go to another. Many of us remember "the Internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it." Somehow we got to a point where Facebook and Google interpret the free Internet as damage and route around it.
No one should be surprised. We saw this happen with computers and now we're seeing it happen with smartphones. The market is saturated, the existing installed base is more than capable of handling most workloads, and therefore fewer people are motivated to upgrade every year. You want us to buy new phones? Build them with longer battery life and less crapware/spyware. The screens are already good enough. The cameras are already good enough. The operating systems are already good enough. Gee-whiz bells and whistles aren't going to motivate us to upgrade anymore. And stop building phones with notches.
We'd take you more seriously if you didn't imply that Donald Trump is Hitler. But you did, so your post is disqualified.