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> it doesn't mean he doesn't have bad ideas about other things (like consent)

But does he have bad ideas about things like consent?
This doesn't counter the point that political action beats private countermeasures.
It's hard to draw lessons from your own failures (DHH response to burning $10M)
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Documents filed by DoorDash in the New York State Supreme Court on Tuesday:

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> The GPL does put restriction on use. If you make modification to the code and do not share those modifications, you are constrained from using the code you modified.

This is is only true if you consider distribution as part of "use". You're fully entitled to privately run modified GPL code, even as a server or whatevs if it's not AGPL.
The difference is most people aren't providing their labour with a pricing model this dynamic.

If I look for Ubers and one is offering rides for 50p I'd take it, because the result should be the same as anyone else offering something more expensive and I have no relationship with my Uber driver.

If a gardener stats to offer gardening services for 50p an hour I wouldn't go with that, because I have a relationship with my existing gardener and I'm suspicious how quality someone can be for 50p an hour.

See the practical difference?
So one thing I'm noting here is that this letter has a heavy translation/international bent. Additionally, an extremely large portion of signers have Russian-language names, for example.

Anecdotally, nearly everyone I have ever talked to or worked with in FOSS software has signed the "opposes RMS" letter, and I can't find anyone I recall or have even heard of on this one. But of course, I mostly have worked with people in the English-speaking world.

Does this sort of suggest language or culture is where the divide on this issue might stand?
The letter is a bit hot headed and other commentors here are too. He expands on his reasoning in the letter. The problem with many of these organizations is the huge influence that big tech have on them. Remember, not too long ago a Microsoft exec literally said that Linux is a cancer. Now they're changing their tune, but everyone still has vivid memories of their Embrace and Extinguish campaigns. Many people, especially those that were around at the time, feel uncomfortable when organizations like "OSI, Linux Foundation, Gnome Foundation" are increasingly coming under the power of that same big tech. I agree with the sentiment that there's something perverse in big tech having that kind of influence. It's like Amazon staffing the warehouse workers union.
Distro managers lag and are fragmented. Guix looks good. Neither support windows though If you have that need. Trying to use conan in a blended c++/rust code base hasn't been that bad, but that is because we weren't using any crate outside stdlib.
Good point. That's a big problem. I could conceivably have a perfectly harmless tool where a prefix of the name is something dangerous.
Everything on the web can be commented on. Post the URL to Reddit, Twitter, wherever. Add your comments underneath. There you go, conversation started.

That doesn't mean that the publisher has to host your opinions on their site. It's their site, they choose what to put on it. They're under no obligation to amplify your opinions.
On the other hand, who's to say? Your own country and ideas about the "morally right thing to do", or the locals?
> "Our opponents wish to destroy Free Software"

Does not in any way imply that people not defending RMS wish to destroy Free Software.

> So, you're either forced to defend Richard Stallman and accept what's going on over there, or __YOU ARE THE ENEMY OF ALL OPEN SOURCE__.

This quote does, and is mischaracterising the position of the linked article.
That's a rather naive thing to say about the wealthiest corporation in the world. I can't deny the overwhelming influence of money on governments so easily.
Really enjoyed this, but I'm surprised by this line of code:

loop do
client = server.accept

An infinite loop to listen for incoming requests? Is that really the right way to do this? Wouldn't this cripple your server eventually?
A decent-quality MP3 is 96 kbps; that means that it would take a little over 30 terabytes to store an entire lifetime’s worth of audio, or under 4 terabytes to store a decade’s worth (assuming I got the math right). At today’s prices that’s less than $500 to store a lifetime’s worth of audio, less than $50 to store a decade’s.

Does anyone doubt that an unethical company could make well over $5/year from storing and analysing every second of audio spoken within earshot of its devices?
It would make the most sense to me to deprecate gendered pronouns from English. You could just remove "she"-rooted pronouns and redefine "he"-rooted pronouns to be genderless.

If that doesn't work, then use "dee" instead. He, she, dee. Then give people who use he/she a nasty look until we've forced them to use "dee".

I really dislike the singular "they" because it always sounds "female" to me. In my second language (Dutch) the singular form of "they" is the female pronoun ("zij"). German has the same thing.
Well I suppose that has a very simple solution - make the canal wider so that even if a ship runs into a side others can pass, but leave the entry points on both ends the same width.
Comparing Stallman to Eich is a bit weird, isn't it? Stallman hasn't actually done anything harmful; he's just terrible socially.
>I find it ridiculous that everyone is now expected to use they/them pronouns for non-binaries etc.

Why? Choosing not to use someone's prefered pronouns is just hurtful and disrespectful. You might choose to ignore the scientific evidence around transidentity being a thing, but willingly antagonizing people on this subject is another story.
You mean hundreds of anonymous GitHub accounts or absolutely nobodies are risking something, as opposed to people who have proven track record of actually doing real work in the world of free software? Just wow.
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> Might explain why the text is not funny.

Why is open anti-Christian hatred like this allowed on a forum concerned about hate speech?
Can confirm. He even replied to me when, as a noob kid, asked him whether I should choose vi or emacs as my editor.
> RMS did this to himself by being an abrasive asshole

This seems the actual main issue that got the anti-RMS petition going. (Even the article most in favour of him that I saw, called him by far the most disagreeable person they'd ever met!)

I don't seem to remember this was mentioned in the anti-RMS petition though. Rather, it consisted of a string of claims, which, when you looked into them, were untrue. Flinging mud instead of dealing with the actual problem. That seems unfortunate. As if because they liked the end, the means didn't matter–as if behaving ethically doesn't matter. Well, maybe the people who signed didn't look into those claims, just believed them in good faith. That faith seems unwarranted.
Your first and second sentence contradict one another. You assign 'very little value to anything that can't be commented on', yet you believe a 'solid piece of journalism does have value', even if it can't be commented on.

I would say the overwhelming majority of quality writing on the internet does not accommodate comments, from academic journals, to serious think-pieces and long-form essays.
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It's good to see that there are still some sensible people working in FOSS.
There was the Wuhan ophthalmologist[1] who pulled the alarm but got a visit by police and eventually succumbed to the disease.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li_Wenliang
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He or she, depending what the person looks like. I'm not going to use they/them, the same way I'm not going to force someone else to refer to me as "my lord".
Yes, very soon, as soon as we hit product market fit :) Our technology is compatible with Android, iOS, OSX and Windows. We are a small team and we want to iterate quickly and do not have capacity to develop android app at the moment.
> Am I the only one or has the world gone absolutely batshit insane, driven by purple haired Twitter trans-extremists?

One of the things I always thought really great about the Net is that I can be whoever I like. So I think it’s cool that people can redefine and choose whatever pronouns, titles, and names they think are most applicable to them.

I met a guy a con who went by “Hugme” and used that name everywhere. I also went to school with someone who went by the name “Taerthrum.” Neat.

Identity is personal and can be whatever I like as it doesn’t harm you. Taking this to an extreme, I expect that as we move closer to digital consciousnesses people will identity as more and more unique characteristics that frequently won’t line up with how they were born.
See my other comment above. The "organization" in question is (most likely) an illegal business which didn't pay taxes. This is almost certainly a "criminal matter" in most countries, police get involved all the time when it comes to illegal business practices, at the least the police is doing searches and arrests.

This isn't the old type of harmless "crackers and warez groups" scene, but first and foremost about making money.

PS: I wonder if commenters here think that Tencent is sending police after the people using those cheats? It's clearly about the organization producing and selling the cheats. The players will at most get a simple ban.
If you're introduced to one William Gates and he says "call me Bill", would you respect that?

I get that using "they/them" requires a bit more mental gymnastics, at least in languages with gendered pronouns. However it is still a grammatically correct use of the language, just one we're not used to.

I approach this from a perspective of compassion. If someone has made the (potentially difficult) decision to live with a non-gendered identity, knowing the snark and ostracism they are likely to face for doing so, they the least I can do is respect that decision by making this one trivial grammatical adjustment.
This argument is full of equivocation. The consequences of speech are exactly what is being debated. An exchange of ideas, then yes. Censorship by the mob (instead of government), then no.
Hilarious. You just know there'll be a lot of stickers.
They've been promising to synthesize the methane from scratch using green energy for quite awhile now, or in other words they agree.
Wikipedia is profitable. The foundation funds other projects from it.
Well, that's no fun.
That is interesting way of thinking, make sense, although it would be nice to have options, and then you choose on your own. Like you will go to dentist and they tell you:

- option 1 costs $$ and you need to wait 5 months and there is 2% danger of genetic mutation

- option 2 costs $ it is immediate but over time you need to come again and it will cost you $$ over 10 years, it does not look as nice and maybe there are side effects

- options 3 cost .c but has mercury that can over 30 years cause serious issue ...

Something along those lines
Where is the other manchild?
> ...just because it's a minority doesn't mean it's inherently wrong.

In this case, at least one of the main points is inherently wrong, because it's based on a lie repeated in some media outlets that Stallman was defending Epstein. But when you actually read his email, you realize it was the opposite.
Thanks for posting this--I'm getting back into studying the formal semantics of programming languages. Questions for those working in this area:

According to Pierce's Types and Programming Languages, axiomatic semantics of the type that Hoare pioneered are not found as useful today as operational semantics. Is that (still) true?

Are the major approaches (operational, denotational, axiomatic) pretty much solidified now, or are there significant new efforts at finding better overall formalizing frameworks?
He has never not responded to anything I've sent him, anecdotally.
I first saw 'single serving friend' in Fight Club [0], do you think the idea was lifted from there?

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1iQp8g9SQo
I've often wondered whether penalties should target reputation more than they do, which would affect all classes of criminal including upper class. For example, as part of the sentence for violent crimes, the government could mail official press releases about the crime to all households in the area periodically for a certain amount of time after the conviction, or put up signs, at the criminal's expense (with a government cost-sharing for poorer criminals beyond whatever cost society would view appropriate to fine them - but mail and signage aren't that expensive). And companies convicted of a crime might have to fund government notifications of their crime to their customers and store/office visitors.

Details might need tweaking, but a version of this could really work.
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> keys expire

Only if you want them to expire. They don't have to.
That's definitely the plan! One of the SaaS providers we use recently did an "upgrade" and now our team is struggling with everything being much slower and worse than it was before. It was a good instructive point to tell everyone in our all-hands Quarterly meeting yesterday that we are that SaaS for many others, and we have a responsibility to keep providing them a good service.
> to save a tiny bit of startup performance

That is absolutely not the reason for systemd to exist, it is an additional benefit. How was early-boot logging, error handling, dependency handling between services implemented before? At best only in some ad-hoc way, different on each distro.
The domain has an inherent complexity to it, init systems are not easy, there is no saving that. But I think systemd exposing the configurable parts in a declarative way is a net win over the previous solutions.
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This is a war and the public is losing. On hand is the technocracy + the established politicians and the other hand are the citizens. They want (and sadly they are being successful) to transform Internet and the software industry in general in a walled-garden, corporate-friendly,sanitized, heavily controlled world, where the things allowed to be discussed are those deemed inconsequential for the people in power and anything challenging the status-quo or even just plain marginal or weird (in any fashion that the people in power do not like) will be at best totally marginalized and at worst outright censored.Our "free world" will be a bland, we-are-all-the-same,walking-on-eggshells, boring,unoriginal dystopia.
Indeed. The point of communication is, well, to communicate.

If someone has communicated ambiguously and one asks for clarification, that's just regular communication protocol. If what is meant is that they communicated unambiguously and they shouldn't need to repeat themselves, then, well, the receiver's interpretation of what was said stands as what was intended to be said.
I'm casually learning about this stuff, so please forgive my noob questions. My end-goal is to enable laypersons like me to verify the authenticity and provenance of digital communication.

I see that Ryabitsev also announced a git transparency log for the kernel:

https://people.kernel.org/monsieuricon/introducing-the-kerne...

This is very cool.

You wrote:

> ...it is valid at most until the key is valid

I don't follow. Do you mean while the key is valid?

I think the scenario you're describing is:

a) I'm issued a cert.
b) I create (and register) my PGP key.
c) I sign a commit with my key.
d) My cert is revoked.
e) Somehow my key is expired.
f) Somehow my commits are now flagged.

Would your concern be addressed by having transparency logs for both the certs and keys?
So... pretty much vindicating the article posted a few days ago pointing out that FSF has descended into absurd paranoia where the criticism of one man's behaviour is an attack on the essence of freedom itself.
>What ? The Linux Foundation ? It opposes Free Software ? Did I misunderstand this sentence ?

Please show me any announcement from The Linux Foundation where they push for free software. They call it "open source" instead, which misses the point: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.....
Oh, wow. Maybe if you actually skimmed through the list of supporters you'd find that they're real people with real jobs strongly interested in FOSS from all around the world? Or are you, perhaps, a jingoistic xenophobe for whom only American opinions matter?
Car holder information is public data. Just send a text message (by mail or phone) to a endpoint an receive the holder information. (Source: https://asa.ch/strassenverkehrsaemter/halterabfragen/)
The things about SaaS is that it is as easy to do for others as it is for us. So if we think that something was sort of easy to build and get loads of money for, then competition is inevitable. There are a few ways to survive the competition:

1) Do something that you have special experience or skills in so that not so many people could copy it if they wanted to. Maybe you know lots about the financial markets or aerospace.

2) Go into a specific market that the General Practioners (especially the Unicorns) are less likely to target. For example, UK Healthcare or German Finance, which could be super-targetted at the niche and provide a lot of value for money, even over a relatively small number of customers. Some finance software houses only have double-digit customer numbers but very high markups.

3) In some cases, solve a problem in a novel way that once people get hooked into it, they cannot directly compare you to the competition. If it looks just like a t-card task system, it is easy to compare. If you give the entities different names and have a workflow that solves the problem in a roundabout way, maybe people won't know that they could swap to Asana.

4) Add lots of integrations and make it really sticky with people's other systems. Many customers today will literally choose a supplier based on whether they offer a Salesforce integration or not (even if it doesn't make logical sense for your product!)

5) If you really want to go big, you have to go early, well and fast! AOL and Yahoo might have gone early but not necessarily well or fast. AirBnB went early, fairly well and fast. It sounds like Flow did not necessarily go very early, went fairly well but could not go fast enough.
> It’s not RMS’ duty to educate you, me and others or to reword things for our benefit.

Sorry, but it is. He's the front figure of the FSF. He appears in conferences and speaks about and for the Free Software Foundation and the more broad FLOSS community. Making things clear is pretty much his only job.
It doesn't appear to be evidence in either direction, honestly. They stick with the bat > human jump theory in the article, but it's more of an offhand remark than anything else.
No, forcing you to comply is actually mostly unnecessary and confusing. Let's say I start a religion (similar to Flying Spaghetti Monster) and I require everyone to use the "it" pronoun. I'm not a he, I'm an it! And if you ever forget, I'll come down with my army of Twitter followers and cancel you.
Not an attack. Point of interest. About oddly selective... did you read TFA?
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A) Wikipedia is a non-profit.

B) Wikipedia makes money. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Fundraising_statisti...
The more we learn the more it points to a lab leak, but Chinese commenters will deny it, claim racism, many on the left will say it’s simply not true, and yet here we are. Something caused it and it came from China. With a government that 100% cannot be trusted to tell the truth let alone defend human life, it’s more likely than not this was an accidental leak.
I've seen no evidence either way. How are you so sure one way or the other?
The "virus lab leak" hypothesis is primarily based on proximity. If the first human infection occurred a long time before the first recorded case, the virus could have travelled a long distance in the meantime, which makes proximity less of a factor. I.e. this is evidence against a leak, not in favor.
A very sad day for me. Should I expect a refund on my crowdfunded support? With interest would be a small consolation. #justSayin
Presumably accept blocks, so your application would effectively pause at that point until a request needs to be handled. The loop brings the application back to waiting once the previous request is handled.
We're in a competitive SAAS market, raised no money, don't do marketing, work exclusively on the product, and offer good customer support. Our competitors raised > 100 million dollars, and daily we get customers from them. And we are not named Jason or DHH; our blog posts usually get 100 views...

We just reached $1M in ARR.

Yes, it is all possible; their problem is they tried to compete directly on the same terms, you can't outspend a VC-backed business.
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Like those ternary people? Jerks.

Like we get it. There were a couple of experimental machines during the Cold War, but two-state logic circuits have clearly won.
Carrier support vary, but you could use VoWiFi.
In Greg Egan’s novel Distress [0] he described a whole system of pronouns for different genders that existed in his world. While “they” is harder for me to comprehend because it requires context, if that’s someone’s preference I work on it because I don’t think we’re likely to adopt the non-gendered singular like ve/ver/vis.

[0] https://nb-in-sf.tumblr.com/post/186129553898/distress-by-gr...
Was with you until this "many on the left" nonsense. Been "left" all my life and I don't recognize myself in your comment nor do many others.

It's not team sports, it's world issues.
That's the thing, I have no problems with lifestyles, sexual orientations, but what is happening here is that a certain convention is being forced on us, whether we like it or not.
Have you read the open letter? The points you list above are a lot more milquetoast than the "evidence" against RMS that was posted on the open letter - it performs such disingenuous actions as quoting statements that RMS has since retracted or changed, refusing to admit the fact that he has changed; mischaracterising his suggestion of alternative pronouns as a transphobic attack when in fact RMS has stated that he himself will respect people's personal pronouns; underplaying the vicious media attack that was launched against him.

While the claims you make in your comment might not be slander, the open letter is much less nuanced, and strays a lot closer to that line.
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