Was more like "stupidgate" and massively so on both sides. What I saw was some utterly toxic and destructive people accusing "gamers" in general with completely ludicrous accusations. Unfortunately some equally toxic minority of the "gamers" took it upon themselves to "defend" games, when the right reaction would have been just to ignore the baseless accusations made.
Well said. Of course, the high-priests diligently watching for any CoC violations are exempt from the CoC and can ban and accuse without repercussions all they like. They have ample experience in organizing witch-hunts and destroying communities after all.
The utterly toxic and destructive people behind the CoC already have their fist victory: FUD. Second one will be when they get a high-profile kernel developer excluded, they are already gunning for some.
I predict that in the future any successful FOSS project will need a CoC that states "There never will be a CoC." right from the start.
This is more on the level of a few single transistors, although actual transistors can be combined for the whole to scale. This cannot.
The more of these "breakthroughs" I see, the more I am convinced this stuff will never be of any use. They are making slower and slower process and still cannot solve even computing tasks a pocket calculator could solve 50 years ago. And they have been at it for like 30 years now.
There are always plenty of idiots that think anything they do not like (usually for demented reasons) "does not work". Ask an actual engineer or scientist and it turns out that is just a lie.
While the chief pussy-grabber tries to get his preferred alleged rapist into the supreme, they probably missed that one about them having a significant part in making the planet inhabitable.
No surprise there. Valerie Aurora is also a Dunning-Kruger sufferer who thinks she is a lot smarter than she actually is (not very) and who as a hugely inflated sense of entitlement end self-worth. Classical destructive people.
There is no "clear policy" here. There is lots lots and lots of room for interpretation and manipulation. If you do not see that, then you are either completely unaware of history and how this has been done countless times before in one form or another or you are in on the evil.
We will see. Personally I think that since the kernel is in an excellent state and it takes a while to destroy that, we will see a fork in the next 5-10 years and the PC original becoming slowly irrelevant in the 10 or so years that follow. Fortunately, the Unix kernel API is small and very much respects KISS. It may even happen that the SJW fuckups will try to break the kernel API and that triggers the fork.
The problem with the CoC is not that it sort-of advocates Kant's imperative. The problem is that it can and will be used to push people out of the project for purely power-related reasons. This is an attempt at a hostile takeover. Sure, it looks benign, but it is anything but.
On the plus-side, any ambition I may have had to contribute to the kernel is now thoroughly dead.
Well, there are certainly people that will accuse you of being white and straight and try to make you feel guilty for it. (I am both and male in addition...) Personally, I just put these people in the "fuckup" class and ignore them after they have made such an utterly stupid and despicably manipulative accusation.
I have seem people apologize for being male of for "their gender" while being male. I don't get that either. It is not a club that you were ever asked to be a member of or not.
There simply is no other choice. It saddens me to see the Linux kernel community has given up the goal of producing a really good kernel and is apparently satisfied with being mediocre in the future. A pity.
The larger problem is of course people that value form over function, politeness over intent and generally want people to be as fake-friendly and as conformist as possible.
Although there is a large scam wave here in Europe that specifically targets retired people. So I am not sure about that life-experience necessarily accumulating simply by existing. Could also be that those over 65 or so just do not have enough experience with the Internet.
Directly, no. But indirectly, yes. The thing is that what body you happen to live in does shape your perception of reality. Simply wanting to conform to biological roles will put more men into engineering and more women into medicine (for example). Unless we manage to overcome fundamental biological realities, this will not change.
So in the end, all we can do is to allow people to make their own choices and not put up any artificial barriers. If the numbers are still skewed (and they are), we have to accept that. This is "equal opportunity", not enforced equality and I am perfectly fine with it.
I tend to think of a "bad upbringing" in this context as one that does not prepare you for life. Of course other forms of "bad" are possible in other contexts.
That is basically the only thing I really want. Other than that, Vivaldi is a good browser, but bookmarks are clunky. Please just take the bookmark-menu of Opera 12.x and implement the same functionality into Vivaldi. Thanks.
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Was more like "stupidgate" and massively so on both sides. What I saw was some utterly toxic and destructive people accusing "gamers" in general with completely ludicrous accusations. Unfortunately some equally toxic minority of the "gamers" took it upon themselves to "defend" games, when the right reaction would have been just to ignore the baseless accusations made.
Well said. Of course, the high-priests diligently watching for any CoC violations are exempt from the CoC and can ban and accuse without repercussions all they like. They have ample experience in organizing witch-hunts and destroying communities after all.
The utterly toxic and destructive people behind the CoC already have their fist victory: FUD.
Second one will be when they get a high-profile kernel developer excluded, they are already gunning for some.
I predict that in the future any successful FOSS project will need a CoC that states "There never will be a CoC." right from the start.
I do. Different words, same old stupid people.
This is more on the level of a few single transistors, although actual transistors can be combined for the whole to scale. This cannot.
The more of these "breakthroughs" I see, the more I am convinced this stuff will never be of any use. They are making slower and slower process and still cannot solve even computing tasks a pocket calculator could solve 50 years ago. And they have been at it for like 30 years now.
There are always plenty of idiots that think anything they do not like (usually for demented reasons) "does not work". Ask an actual engineer or scientist and it turns out that is just a lie.
While the chief pussy-grabber tries to get his preferred alleged rapist into the supreme, they probably missed that one about them having a significant part in making the planet inhabitable.
No surprise there. Valerie Aurora is also a Dunning-Kruger sufferer who thinks she is a lot smarter than she actually is (not very) and who as a hugely inflated sense of entitlement end self-worth. Classical destructive people.
There is no "clear policy" here. There is lots lots and lots of room for interpretation and manipulation. If you do not see that, then you are either completely unaware of history and how this has been done countless times before in one form or another or you are in on the evil.
Obvious troll is obvious.
Well, the "lots of them" and the "powerful organizations" comes from you, so the onus to provide links is squarely on you.
As I said, I ignore these people and I certainly do not keep them on a list.
We will see. Personally I think that since the kernel is in an excellent state and it takes a while to destroy that, we will see a fork in the next 5-10 years and the PC original becoming slowly irrelevant in the 10 or so years that follow. Fortunately, the Unix kernel API is small and very much respects KISS. It may even happen that the SJW fuckups will try to break the kernel API and that triggers the fork.
Indeed. Due to how long Linus held out, it will also take quite a while for the SJW destroyers to do their evil work.
The problem with the CoC is not that it sort-of advocates Kant's imperative. The problem is that it can and will be used to push people out of the project for purely power-related reasons. This is an attempt at a hostile takeover. Sure, it looks benign, but it is anything but.
On the plus-side, any ambition I may have had to contribute to the kernel is now thoroughly dead.
Well, there are certainly people that will accuse you of being white and straight and try to make you feel guilty for it. (I am both and male in addition...)
Personally, I just put these people in the "fuckup" class and ignore them after they have made such an utterly stupid and despicably manipulative accusation.
I have seem people apologize for being male of for "their gender" while being male. I don't get that either. It is not a club that you were ever asked to be a member of or not.
There simply is no other choice. It saddens me to see the Linux kernel community has given up the goal of producing a really good kernel and is apparently satisfied with being mediocre in the future. A pity.
The larger problem is of course people that value form over function, politeness over intent and generally want people to be as fake-friendly and as conformist as possible.
I agree that it would be nice to have some hard data here from a long-term study.
Well, Chromium is better than Chrome.
Oops, you are correct! I was using a not-quite so clunky addon and never noticed the new menu on top of the window.
This is pretty much what I wanted. Thanks for pointing it out to me!
I see what you mean.
Although there is a large scam wave here in Europe that specifically targets retired people. So I am not sure about that life-experience necessarily accumulating simply by existing. Could also be that those over 65 or so just do not have enough experience with the Internet.
Directly, no. But indirectly, yes. The thing is that what body you happen to live in does shape your perception of reality. Simply wanting to conform to biological roles will put more men into engineering and more women into medicine (for example). Unless we manage to overcome fundamental biological realities, this will not change.
So in the end, all we can do is to allow people to make their own choices and not put up any artificial barriers. If the numbers are still skewed (and they are), we have to accept that. This is "equal opportunity", not enforced equality and I am perfectly fine with it.
Not necessarily, but the risk is certainly higher. You have a point.
I tend to think of a "bad upbringing" in this context as one that does not prepare you for life. Of course other forms of "bad" are possible in other contexts.
Fully agree on that.
That is basically the only thing I really want. Other than that, Vivaldi is a good browser, but bookmarks are clunky.
Please just take the bookmark-menu of Opera 12.x and implement the same functionality into Vivaldi. Thanks.