The way I see it as a European, it will mean that they where selling my data anyway, so that means they won't do that anymore. It also means they will not be able to do that for any of the other 350+MM Europeans.
And that literally has nothing to do with the cost of the houses themselves but rather their scarce availability.
Why do you suppose that is? Is there not enough room for housing in California? What makes California so different from other states that housing is so expensive?
The reality is scarce availability is a direct result of out of control NIBYism implemented by those with power over the states regulatory regime. This solar thing is just one more drop in California's massive over-regulation bucket that is hurting real people in order to protect those with money/power by erecting even more barriers.
One need only look at the epidemic of "illegal" additions where single family dwellings are being converted into mini-apartments and the growing homelessness epidemic (Home to 1/4th of the countries homeless population) to see that California's legitimacy has been eroded by insane racist policies that disproportionately disadvantage the poor.
This is required for the basic habitability of our planet.
Since when has decentralized generation ever amounted to anything other than inefficient token gestures? Has always been the case much better results and higher efficiency are realized with large scale industrial production. Edison lost this fight a century ago.
It would be better policy and more environmentally sound simply to levy some kind of tax on power consumption to support large scale solar projects vs piecemeal rooftop installations operating at low efficiency power conversion that won't be professionally maintained or tracked. It isn't like there is no space in California for solar farms. Mojave desert by itself has more than enough land area to supply the energy needs of the entire country.
MMMMMM, the hypocrisy is juicy. A conservative telling someone to accept people as they are, when you can't.
I'm not a conservative. I'm an equal opportunity hater of both SJWs and gun toting rednecks.
I mean, would we even need these CoCs if it weren't for the fact that Mr Asshole can't stop calling people fags?
The politics are often not introduced based on organic need but rather someone installed into a role where their responsibility is generating bureaucratic policy.
llvm list archives are public. You could actually search them and point out all of the assholes calling others fags but you won't find it because it hasn't happened.
I believe in genocide. I believe in female castration. I believe white people are superior to every one else. I believe trans people are just mentally damaged and should be lobotomized or simply killed.
I've worked with someone who openly advocated the murder hundreds million by means of turning the entire middle east into a "glass parking lot". They were dead serious about it. This was not hyperbole or idle joking.
Just because someone has apeshit beliefs about something so long as they are not infringing on rights of others by breaking laws it is still possible to work with and respect those you disagree with.
I don't actually believe those things but the idea that "people need to grow the fuck up and learn to tolerate those with different beliefs and values from their own" is fucking short sighted and moronic.
Tolerating doesn't mean agreeing or accepting. If someone is advocating for something you think is wrong nobody is suggesting you remain silent.
What you mean is as long as they aren't too far from your own or don't affect you. As a global community we decided on what are acceptable values and beliefs. There's variation in those but eventually everyone has to reconcile on a standard or we will go to war over it. It's happened over and over and over.
Both freedom and tyranny are self-reinforcing phenomena.
Tyranny withers in face of freedom of expression. Freedom withers in the face of censorship.
Censorship is universally invoked from a position of fear. Fear if you don't silence others by force your ideas and ideology will lose out to others. Weak minded fools who pollute society with this nonsense are incapable of understanding censorship always aggregates power and corrupts the state. We are already seeing "hate speech" laws throughout Europe leveraged for political suppression. The most free and righteous societies are driven by those who work to build consensus for what they believe - vigorously exercising the morsels of power they have at their disposal to improve society.
If you study history and research correlations between freedoms of individuals vs. belligerence of states towards things like human rights you will see the true enemy is censorship and intolerance. It isn't speech.
There's variation in those but eventually everyone has to reconcile on a standard or we will go to war over it. It's happened over and over and over. Slavery used to be acceptable. So did pedophilia.
Slavery is still very much alive and well and very much acceptable to everyone involved with it.
Modern day slavery is powered almost exclusively by illegitimate behavior of the state. Specifically most states in the world have declared whoring and drugs illegal expending great deal of resources to enforce laws too many (Roughly at least 20%) of its citizens are willing to break regardless of legality. Everyone who thinks drugs and whoring should be outlawed are actively supporting slavery by their advocacy.
Times change. Values change. Beliefs should change too. If beliefs didn't matter we wouldn't have a few millennia worth of various holy wars.
Holy wars? You mean that thing where people with "incorrect" beliefs were murdered? I'm sure that the "few millennia" had nothing to do with others telling people what they should believe or else thus reinforcing "the wrong beliefs (tm)".
Absolutely, we should make sure that people have nothing better to do than hang out with raging assholes. Then they'll have to work on an open source project in their free time.
Seriously, think. Why the fuck would I want to waste my precious off hours tolerating utter gobshites?
Absolutely, we should make sure that people have nothing better to do than hang out with Italians. Then they'll have to work on an open source project in their free time.
Seriously, think. Why the fuck would I want to waste my precious off hours tolerating Italians?
If society is not willing to tolerate "gobshites" or "Italians" then society gets what it deserves. Tolerance isn't about fun and games. It's not something that is supposed to be fun and enjoyable. It's something that is necessary for a free society.
Imagine those attitudes in a workplace. If the engineer believes that women should be shielded and kept at home, and has women on his team, will he shield those women more than he shields men from work challenges? will he give reviews or peer feedback that make them more likely to leave the workplace and stay at home, than he does men? will he cut short hallway chats with them because he doesn't believe they should be on his team?
There was no evidence or indication provided by parent to indicate any of this was the case. Only beliefs' were mentioned not actions.
"But that $25,000 to $30,000 will result in $50,000 to $60,000 in the ownerâ(TM)s reduced operating costs over the 25-year life of the homeâ(TM)s solar system, Herro said." So the proposed legislation will make homes more efficient, and cost less to own in the long term. Let's see how the fossil fuel lobby try to twist this.
50 to 60k is twice my 25 year total energy bill at current rates and we normally have several days around 0F during the winter up north east close to the 49th parallel. More than half of our total yearly costs go to heating in winter months.
Assume PG&E isn't full of total shit (which it is) then the average monthly bill for PG&E customers is $127.11.
That's 127.11 * 12 * 25 = $38133 for 25 years. How do you save 50k to 60k when the TOTAL household average energy expenditure is 23% to 36% less than 50k to 60k?
Also about $24 of that is mandatory minimum fees for Gas and Electric you pay regardless of your consumption. 24 * 12 * 25 = $7200 for 25 years just to be connected to the grid even if you don't pull a single electron or cubic millimeter of natural gas.
Are customers going to be raking in $11867 to $21867 over 25 years in profits from PG&E? Somehow this sounds like a rhetorical question undeserving of a serious answer.
You are putting words in his mouth and then attacking him for it. I don't know why you assume he would be ok with "white straight dudes under 30 only". From his statement (that you quoted), I would assume he would be opposed to that as sell.
You are confused. My message supports the premise of Rafael's that discriminatory clubs are ethical problems by offering an analogy pointing out how absurd discriminatory clubs are.
He is not actively supporting anything. He simply stopped developing LLVM, he is not rioting, doing a hunger strike or even demanding any changes from anyone.
LLVM an organization Rafael was very much a part of was giving thousands of dollars to a group that is against Rafael's "ethical views". This is why he left. He stated this explicitly. He didn't want to be a party to it.
"funding tribalism" what on earth are you talking about?
Read Rafael's message to the list and follow the links he offers and you will find out.
So, basically, it sounds like he's taking issue with the fact that they expect him to treat dark skinned people and people with boobs as equals and with respect. We all know that's crazy talk and the work of the evil SJW conspiracy. (If you can't tell that I'm speaking sarcastically, you need help.)
Makes sense. Your fair thoughtful assumption is completely and totally consistent with Rafael in his own words:
"The last drop was llvm associating itself with an organization that openly discriminates based on sex and ancestry (1,2). This goes directly against my ethical views and I think I must leave the project to not be associated with this."
I have recently seen a high-profile community project where a key engineer believed (among other things) women should be shielded and kept at home. This engineer, obviously, had conflicts with people in the organization. Actually maybe about 30 people. Eventually, the membership walked off en mass and founded their own project. The new project has essentially the same code of conduct we're discussing here.
You need rules on paper for when stuff like this happens. It helps make slippery stuff like who offended who and whether such offense is out of scope for the project a lot easier to decide.
Fuck that. What needs to happen is people need to grow the fuck up and learn to tolerate those with different beliefs and values from their own. Including ones that insult you and piss you off.
What does beliefs about women have to do with engineering? Was the engineer designing home shields for women? Magnetic shoes to confine them to the house? Was the engineer doing something illegal?
I have to say, looking at the Community Code of Conduct he's objecting to, I'm finding it hard to figure out what exactly he doesn't like. This is the code of conduct:
It doesn't make sense because it's not what triggered his leaving.
Read what he actually posted to the mailing list not the intentionally misleading edit contained within TFA.
all of which seem reasonable. If he wants to violate what seems to be pretty bare-minimum standards of what should be considered acceptable behavior, I'd say that he should leave the community. And not join a different one.
Personally I would hope people would be grown up enough to tolerate those who are not friendly, patient, welcoming, considerate or respectful.
Maybe he will learn how countless others have felt with the unstated rules of discrimination in so many projects, companies, etc.... People should be accepted into communities based on skill. That's not how things are.
Worked more projects than I can count and nobody even knows let alone gives a shit what everyone else looks like or believes.
By trying to solve a problem that doesn't exist in the first place by introducing political doctrine you just open the door to unnecessary politics. Politics does not solve problems or implement functionality. It just pushes peoples buttons and wastes everyone's time.
You don't need a sign telling people to behave themselves anymore than you need a sign telling people not to stick their fingers into electrical sockets.
Don't like politics creeping in? GOP has been pushing identity politics since before Bush W with the whole marriage ban and sodomy laws
No quantity of political bullshit has ever contributed to production of even a single LOC.
So he's leaving because the "LLVM code of conduct" says incendiary things like "Be friendly and patient." and "Be careful in the words that you choose and be kind to others".
No. He says explicitly what made him leave. Unsurprisingly that information was intentionally excluded from TFA.
You have to read what he posted to the mailing list to find out.
The last drop was llvm associating itself with an organization that openly discriminates based on sex and ancestry (1,2). This goes directly against my ethical views and I think I must leave the project to not be associated with this.
What if the group was "white straight dudes under 30 only" would giving money to this group still be ok?
It's rather rich to preach tolerance of other tribes and at the same time actively promote and give money to clubs whose only requirement for belonging is tribal purity.
I don't see how it is possible to preach tolerance while actively supporting and funding tribalism while not becoming a hypocrite in the process.
If you want more diversity or whatever there are ways to get there that don't involve nurturing tribalism.
At what point would you hijack the DNS? A domain-validating certificate authority queries DNS through several Internet routes. How had you planned to hijack them all, especially if the domain's authoritative DNS servers are on different/16s?
Owning insecure wire between name server and Internet.
Certificates issued by Let's Encrypt expire after 90 days, and organizations may renew them at 60, 73, 85, or whatever day intervals. How long do you plan to keep up the DNS hijacking?
Why would I bother with LE when I can get a 3 year cert from a normal CA using exactly the same approach?
If a CA issues an certificate to a hijacker, the domain's rightful owner can check CT logs and find your certificate. The policy change described in the featured article encourages CAs to keep their CT logs complete.
I don't use chrome but I do some testing with it every once in a while.
All of these security bullshit droppings in chrome is going to cause error fatigue for problems that are either not problems at all or worthless to most users.
All kinds of shit get errors that only appear in chrome. Certs that have a CN but not SAN are flagged only in Chrome for no sane reason.
Well known sites like https://www.kernel.org/ are flagged as insecure. Again only in chrome.
All resources protected by internal/corporate CA's I assume will now be flagged because none of them participate in log transparency.
I don't have a problem with CT if deployed properly/w user controls and privacy to avoid CT being another excuse for data leakage with widespread coordination and agreement among all stakeholders. But that isn't what happened here. Specifically:
Only Google requiring it with not much in the way of industry buy in.
RFC6962 is an experimental RFC not a standards track document.
Chrome requiring Google CT servers is over the top abuse of power.
That's what certificate authority authorization (CAA) records are for. If a domain owner publishes a CAA record that doesn't include Let's Encrypt, Let's Encrypt will not issue a certificate for that domain.
How does that work exactly?
If I want a CA to mint me a cert for your domain and I have access to wires over which DNS flows what good is CAA?
Actual use case where CAA is helpful rather than a dangerous feel good checkbox designed to obscure reality is so small you need a microscope to notice it exists at all.
Speeds in excess of a few dozen megabits are worthless to most users so provisioning more is essentially free.
When customers call to cancel television service retention agent will say something like "Cost of Internet only at your current speed tier without TV is basically the same as what you have been paying for TV + Internet"
This does two things:
1. Makes customer re-consider ditching TV thinking they are already getting a "deal".
2. Makes customer more likely to retain higher megabit service they don't need.
My opinion speed hikes are exclusively a strategy to protect Comcast from revenue loss as rate of TV subscriber losses increases.
Giving Internet only users more bandwidth is the last thing on earth Comcast will ever do.
The problem with stack overflow is the same problem Wikipedia's users face as they are mercilessly terrorized by hoards of delete happy crusaders.
Everything is closed as "off-topic" and asking nuanced questions requiring any level of specialized experience gets the question closed because crusaders don't understand the question.
I think all of humanity should band together to develop effective measures for repelling terrorist crusaders.
I think you're missing the point. If there's something systemic that is preventing women from breaking into directing, that's potentially a huge pool of talent wasted.
Is there?
Who is to say there aren't women out there that could do a better job with a film than the male director that gets selected in part because of his sex?
Who is to say there aren't women out there that could summon fire breathing dragons from Mordor?
Making films isn't a cut and dried task â" talent matters. We got Frankenstein (the novel) in spite of systemic sexism. What all did we miss?
1. Raise TV rates to an absurd level 2. Wait for the vacuum to be filled by alternatives 3. Lose your TV customers 4. Raise Internet rates to an absurd level 5. Wait for the vacuum to be filled by alternatives 6. Lose your Internet customers 7. Go bankrupt
I don't see major privacy implications. You can easily put a throwaway email address and a fake mailing address in your contact info, especially if you pay for the domain with a prepaid debit card. No one really cares.
If you do this you can lose your domain. Some people don't want their information in whois records for multiple reasons including to protect themselves from physical violence.
Paying extra to keep your information out of whois is the same as paying extra to keep your name out of the white pages. This is extortion. It also actively encourages people to use bogus information to avoid having their information out there.
If everyone had a choice with no monetary repercussions whether or not to make their information private when managing their domains then at least registrars would have more useful information with which to contact domain owners when necessary vs. widespread practice of filling databases with nonsense.
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The way I see it as a European, it will mean that they where selling my data anyway, so that means they won't do that anymore. It also means they will not be able to do that for any of the other 350+MM Europeans.
LOL I went to the European unions own website.
https://europa.eu/
It can't even stop itself from calling home to Google. Even the website dedicated to explaining GDPR
https://www.eugdpr.org/
Connects to twitter, facebook, google.
But of course your right none of these companies actually "sell" your data. They just exploit it directly to enrich themselves.
This was also the intended reason for the law. It is as if Europe is saying "You are not allowed to take our data"
Yea right. Let me know when that actually happens in Europe.
So obviously, what happened 800,000 years ago when the average CO2 levels were presumably higher than they are now?
800k is just the end of easy continuous direct CO2 observation from ice cores in their dataset.
You would have to go back a couple million years or more.
What would happen if someone placed time crystals in a Ocarina and blew on it?
My current bill is about $2k/year but that has doubled in the last ten years, and we know nothing ever gets cheaper.
I cited a source offering data on average utility costs from largest power utility in CA.
You are offering antidotes about your situation and hand waving the future.
And that literally has nothing to do with the cost of the houses themselves but rather their scarce availability.
Why do you suppose that is? Is there not enough room for housing in California? What makes California so different from other states that housing is so expensive?
The reality is scarce availability is a direct result of out of control NIBYism implemented by those with power over the states regulatory regime. This solar thing is just one more drop in California's massive over-regulation bucket that is hurting real people in order to protect those with money/power by erecting even more barriers.
One need only look at the epidemic of "illegal" additions where single family dwellings are being converted into mini-apartments and the growing homelessness epidemic (Home to 1/4th of the countries homeless population) to see that California's legitimacy has been eroded by insane racist policies that disproportionately disadvantage the poor.
This is required for the basic habitability of our planet.
Since when has decentralized generation ever amounted to anything other than inefficient token gestures? Has always been the case much better results and higher efficiency are realized with large scale industrial production. Edison lost this fight a century ago.
It would be better policy and more environmentally sound simply to levy some kind of tax on power consumption to support large scale solar projects vs piecemeal rooftop installations operating at low efficiency power conversion that won't be professionally maintained or tracked. It isn't like there is no space in California for solar farms. Mojave desert by itself has more than enough land area to supply the energy needs of the entire country.
MMMMMM, the hypocrisy is juicy. A conservative telling someone to accept people as they are, when you can't.
I'm not a conservative. I'm an equal opportunity hater of both SJWs and gun toting rednecks.
I mean, would we even need these CoCs if it weren't for the fact that Mr Asshole can't stop calling people fags?
The politics are often not introduced based on organic need but rather someone installed into a role where their responsibility is generating bureaucratic policy.
llvm list archives are public. You could actually search them and point out all of the assholes calling others fags but you won't find it because it hasn't happened.
http://lists.llvm.org/mailman/...
I believe in genocide. I believe in female castration. I believe white people are superior to every one else. I believe trans people are just mentally damaged and should be lobotomized or simply killed.
I've worked with someone who openly advocated the murder hundreds million by means of turning the entire middle east into a "glass parking lot". They were dead serious about it. This was not hyperbole or idle joking.
Just because someone has apeshit beliefs about something so long as they are not infringing on rights of others by breaking laws it is still possible to work with and respect those you disagree with.
I don't actually believe those things but the idea that "people need to grow the fuck up and learn to tolerate those with different beliefs and values from their own" is fucking short sighted and moronic.
Tolerating doesn't mean agreeing or accepting. If someone is advocating for something you think is wrong nobody is suggesting you remain silent.
What you mean is as long as they aren't too far from your own or don't affect you. As a global community we decided on what are acceptable values and beliefs. There's variation in those but eventually everyone has to reconcile on a standard or we will go to war over it. It's happened over and over and over.
Both freedom and tyranny are self-reinforcing phenomena.
Tyranny withers in face of freedom of expression.
Freedom withers in the face of censorship.
Censorship is universally invoked from a position of fear. Fear if you don't silence others by force your ideas and ideology will lose out to others. Weak minded fools who pollute society with this nonsense are incapable of understanding censorship always aggregates power and corrupts the state. We are already seeing "hate speech" laws throughout Europe leveraged for political suppression. The most free and righteous societies are driven by those who work to build consensus for what they believe - vigorously exercising the morsels of power they have at their disposal to improve society.
If you study history and research correlations between freedoms of individuals vs. belligerence of states towards things like human rights you will see the true enemy is censorship and intolerance. It isn't speech.
There's variation in those but eventually everyone has to reconcile on a standard or we will go to war over it. It's happened over and over and over. Slavery used to be acceptable. So did pedophilia.
Slavery is still very much alive and well and very much acceptable to everyone involved with it.
Modern day slavery is powered almost exclusively by illegitimate behavior of the state. Specifically most states in the world have declared whoring and drugs illegal expending great deal of resources to enforce laws too many (Roughly at least 20%) of its citizens are willing to break regardless of legality. Everyone who thinks drugs and whoring should be outlawed are actively supporting slavery by their advocacy.
Times change. Values change. Beliefs should change too. If beliefs didn't matter we wouldn't have a few millennia worth of various holy wars.
Holy wars? You mean that thing where people with "incorrect" beliefs were murdered? I'm sure that the "few millennia" had nothing to do with others telling people what they should believe or else thus reinforcing "the wrong beliefs (tm)".
Absolutely, we should make sure that people have nothing better to do than hang out with raging assholes. Then they'll have to work on an open source project in their free time.
Seriously, think. Why the fuck would I want to waste my precious off hours tolerating utter gobshites?
Absolutely, we should make sure that people have nothing better to do than hang out with Italians. Then they'll have to work on an open source project in their free time.
Seriously, think. Why the fuck would I want to waste my precious off hours tolerating Italians?
If society is not willing to tolerate "gobshites" or "Italians" then society gets what it deserves. Tolerance isn't about fun and games. It's not something that is supposed to be fun and enjoyable. It's something that is necessary for a free society.
Imagine those attitudes in a workplace. If the engineer believes that women should be shielded and kept at home, and has women on his team, will he shield those women more than he shields men from work challenges? will he give reviews or peer feedback that make them more likely to leave the workplace and stay at home, than he does men? will he cut short hallway chats with them because he doesn't believe they should be on his team?
There was no evidence or indication provided by parent to indicate any of this was the case. Only beliefs' were mentioned not actions.
"But that $25,000 to $30,000 will result in $50,000 to $60,000 in the ownerâ(TM)s reduced operating costs over the 25-year life of the homeâ(TM)s solar system, Herro said." So the proposed legislation will make homes more efficient, and cost less to own in the long term. Let's see how the fossil fuel lobby try to twist this.
My guess they would resort to basic math.
PG&E claims to have amongst the lowest energy bills in the nation.
http://www.pgecurrents.com/201...
50 to 60k is twice my 25 year total energy bill at current rates and we normally have several days around 0F during the winter up north east close to the 49th parallel. More than half of our total yearly costs go to heating in winter months.
Assume PG&E isn't full of total shit (which it is) then the average monthly bill for PG&E customers is $127.11.
That's 127.11 * 12 * 25 = $38133 for 25 years. How do you save 50k to 60k when the TOTAL household average energy expenditure is 23% to 36% less than 50k to 60k?
Also about $24 of that is mandatory minimum fees for Gas and Electric you pay regardless of your consumption. 24 * 12 * 25 = $7200 for 25 years just to be connected to the grid even if you don't pull a single electron or cubic millimeter of natural gas.
Are customers going to be raking in $11867 to $21867 over 25 years in profits from PG&E? Somehow this sounds like a rhetorical question undeserving of a serious answer.
You are putting words in his mouth and then attacking him for it. I don't know why you assume he would be ok with "white straight dudes under 30 only". From his statement (that you quoted), I would assume he would be opposed to that as sell.
You are confused. My message supports the premise of Rafael's that discriminatory clubs are ethical problems by offering an analogy pointing out how absurd discriminatory clubs are.
He is not actively supporting anything. He simply stopped developing LLVM, he is not rioting, doing a hunger strike or even demanding any changes from anyone.
LLVM an organization Rafael was very much a part of was giving thousands of dollars to a group that is against Rafael's "ethical views". This is why he left. He stated this explicitly. He didn't want to be a party to it.
"funding tribalism" what on earth are you talking about?
Read Rafael's message to the list and follow the links he offers and you will find out.
So, basically, it sounds like he's taking issue with the fact that they expect him to treat dark skinned people and people with boobs as equals and with respect. We all know that's crazy talk and the work of the evil SJW conspiracy. (If you can't tell that I'm speaking sarcastically, you need help.)
Makes sense. Your fair thoughtful assumption is completely and totally consistent with Rafael in his own words:
"The last drop was llvm associating itself with an organization that
openly discriminates based on sex and ancestry (1,2). This goes
directly against my ethical views and I think I must leave the project
to not be associated with this."
I have recently seen a high-profile community project where a key engineer believed (among other things) women should be shielded and kept at home. This engineer, obviously, had conflicts with people in the organization. Actually maybe about 30 people. Eventually, the membership walked off en mass and founded their own project. The new project has essentially the same code of conduct we're discussing here.
You need rules on paper for when stuff like this happens. It helps make slippery stuff like who offended who and whether such offense is out of scope for the project a lot easier to decide.
Fuck that. What needs to happen is people need to grow the fuck up and learn to tolerate those with different beliefs and values from their own. Including ones that insult you and piss you off.
What does beliefs about women have to do with engineering? Was the engineer designing home shields for women? Magnetic shoes to confine them to the house? Was the engineer doing something illegal?
Grow the fuck up.
I have to say, looking at the Community Code of Conduct he's objecting to, I'm finding it hard to figure out what exactly he doesn't like. This is the code of conduct:
It doesn't make sense because it's not what triggered his leaving.
Read what he actually posted to the mailing list not the intentionally misleading edit contained within TFA.
all of which seem reasonable. If he wants to violate what seems to be pretty bare-minimum standards of what should be considered acceptable behavior, I'd say that he should leave the community. And not join a different one.
Personally I would hope people would be grown up enough to tolerate those who are not friendly, patient, welcoming, considerate or respectful.
Maybe he will learn how countless others have felt with the unstated rules of discrimination in so many projects, companies, etc.... People should be accepted into communities based on skill. That's not how things are.
Worked more projects than I can count and nobody even knows let alone gives a shit what everyone else looks like or believes.
By trying to solve a problem that doesn't exist in the first place by introducing political doctrine you just open the door to unnecessary politics. Politics does not solve problems or implement functionality. It just pushes peoples buttons and wastes everyone's time.
You don't need a sign telling people to behave themselves anymore than you need a sign telling people not to stick their fingers into electrical sockets.
Don't like politics creeping in? GOP has been pushing identity politics since before Bush W with the whole marriage ban and sodomy laws
No quantity of political bullshit has ever contributed to production of even a single LOC.
So he's leaving because the "LLVM code of conduct" says incendiary things like "Be friendly and patient." and "Be careful in the words that you choose and be kind to others".
No. He says explicitly what made him leave. Unsurprisingly that information was intentionally excluded from TFA.
You have to read what he posted to the mailing list to find out.
The last drop was llvm associating itself with an organization that
openly discriminates based on sex and ancestry (1,2). This goes
directly against my ethical views and I think I must leave the project
to not be associated with this.
[1] http://lists.llvm.org/pipermai...
[2] https://www.outreachy.org/appl...
What if the group was "white straight dudes under 30 only" would giving money to this group still be ok?
It's rather rich to preach tolerance of other tribes and at the same time actively promote and give money to clubs whose only requirement for belonging is tribal purity.
I don't see how it is possible to preach tolerance while actively supporting and funding tribalism while not becoming a hypocrite in the process.
If you want more diversity or whatever there are ways to get there that don't involve nurturing tribalism.
At what point would you hijack the DNS? A domain-validating certificate authority queries DNS through several Internet routes. How had you planned to hijack them all, especially if the domain's authoritative DNS servers are on different /16s?
Owning insecure wire between name server and Internet.
Certificates issued by Let's Encrypt expire after 90 days, and organizations may renew them at 60, 73, 85, or whatever day intervals. How long do you plan to keep up the DNS hijacking?
Why would I bother with LE when I can get a 3 year cert from a normal CA using exactly the same approach?
If a CA issues an certificate to a hijacker, the domain's rightful owner can check CT logs and find your certificate. The policy change described in the featured article encourages CAs to keep their CT logs complete.
Safe bet they won't.
I don't use chrome but I do some testing with it every once in a while.
All of these security bullshit droppings in chrome is going to cause error fatigue for problems that are either not problems at all or worthless to most users.
All kinds of shit get errors that only appear in chrome. Certs that have a CN but not SAN are flagged only in Chrome for no sane reason.
Well known sites like https://www.kernel.org/ are flagged as insecure. Again only in chrome.
All resources protected by internal/corporate CA's I assume will now be flagged because none of them participate in log transparency.
I don't have a problem with CT if deployed properly /w user controls and privacy to avoid CT being another excuse for data leakage with widespread coordination and agreement among all stakeholders. But that isn't what happened here. Specifically:
Only Google requiring it with not much in the way of industry buy in.
RFC6962 is an experimental RFC not a standards track document.
Chrome requiring Google CT servers is over the top abuse of power.
That's what certificate authority authorization (CAA) records are for. If a domain owner publishes a CAA record that doesn't include Let's Encrypt, Let's Encrypt will not issue a certificate for that domain.
How does that work exactly?
If I want a CA to mint me a cert for your domain and I have access to wires over which DNS flows what good is CAA?
Actual use case where CAA is helpful rather than a dangerous feel good checkbox designed to obscure reality is so small you need a microscope to notice it exists at all.
Speeds in excess of a few dozen megabits are worthless to most users so provisioning more is essentially free.
When customers call to cancel television service retention agent will say something like "Cost of Internet only at your current speed tier without TV is basically the same as what you have been paying for TV + Internet"
This does two things:
1. Makes customer re-consider ditching TV thinking they are already getting a "deal".
2. Makes customer more likely to retain higher megabit service they don't need.
My opinion speed hikes are exclusively a strategy to protect Comcast from revenue loss as rate of TV subscriber losses increases.
Giving Internet only users more bandwidth is the last thing on earth Comcast will ever do.
The problem with stack overflow is the same problem Wikipedia's users face as they are mercilessly terrorized by hoards of delete happy crusaders.
Everything is closed as "off-topic" and asking nuanced questions requiring any level of specialized experience gets the question closed because crusaders don't understand the question.
I think all of humanity should band together to develop effective measures for repelling terrorist crusaders.
I think you're missing the point. If there's something systemic that is preventing women from breaking into directing, that's potentially a huge pool of talent wasted.
Is there?
Who is to say there aren't women out there that could do a better job with a film than the male director that gets selected in part because of his sex?
Who is to say there aren't women out there that could summon fire breathing dragons from Mordor?
Making films isn't a cut and dried task â" talent matters. We got Frankenstein (the novel) in spite of systemic sexism. What all did we miss?
Objective evidence?
1. Raise TV rates to an absurd level
2. Wait for the vacuum to be filled by alternatives
3. Lose your TV customers
4. Raise Internet rates to an absurd level
5. Wait for the vacuum to be filled by alternatives
6. Lose your Internet customers
7. Go bankrupt
I don't see major privacy implications. You can easily put a throwaway email address and a fake mailing address in your contact info, especially if you pay for the domain with a prepaid debit card. No one really cares.
If you do this you can lose your domain. Some people don't want their information in whois records for multiple reasons including to protect themselves from physical violence.
Paying extra to keep your information out of whois is the same as paying extra to keep your name out of the white pages. This is extortion. It also actively encourages people to use bogus information to avoid having their information out there.
If everyone had a choice with no monetary repercussions whether or not to make their information private when managing their domains then at least registrars would have more useful information with which to contact domain owners when necessary vs. widespread practice of filling databases with nonsense.