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I care that legal arguments aren't complete bullshit, actually. We need a justice system based in reason and in shared truths or we're just asking for society to collapse. No one wants to play Calvinball for very long.
The image at the top of the article is a video for me ... click on it and it plays.
There's not a chance that she could do that without every professional relationship she holds exploding in her face.
C+P of a compelling list from the gcc mailing list I read:

1. 'skeptical that voluntarily pedophilia harms children.’ stallman's own
archives 2006-mar-jun I note that children are incapable of consenting.
That’s what the age of consent means.

2. 'end censorship of “child pornography”’. Stallman's archives
2012-jul-oct.html Notice use of “quotes” to down play what is actually being
requested.

3. 'gentle expressions of attraction’ Stallman's archives 2012-jul-oct.html
Condoning a variant of the wolf-whistle. Unless one’s talking to one’s lover,
‘gentle invitations for sex’ by a stranger is grooming (be it child or of-age).

4. Defends someone charged with ‘"sexual assault" on a "child" after a
session with a sex worker of age 16.’ stallman's archives 2018-jul-oct Notice
the quoting here, implying the child is not a child. ‘The article refers to
the sex worker as a "child", but that is not so. Elsewhere it has been published
that she is 16 years old. That is late adolescence, not childhood.’ No, they are
a child, that’s what the ages of majority and consent mean.

5. The ‘St Ignatius’ ‘EMACS virgins’ non-joke. ‘The commenter writes about
seeing the routine when she was only 15, and how RMS singled her out several
times during that performance:
He actually pointed to me in the back and proclaimed, into the mic, "A
GIRL!" causing the audience to turn and look. Mortifying. Then he proceeded to
gesture toward me every time he referred to "EMACS Virgins." (I cannot believe
that he is still doing the same talk 10+ years later.)’
No wonder women want nothing to do with him.

6. A business card that is completely repelling image on oreilly

7. He knows those cards are inappropriate. He broke the code of conduct he
helped author. wiredferret's twitter feed.

8. I understand he’s tried to circumvent such codes of conduct by asking
women to meet him outside of the conference venue. _sagesharp_'s twitter feed.

9. He doesn’t acknowledge the few women he has worked with ‘I don’t have
any experience working with women in programming projects; I don’t think that
any volunteered to work on Emacs or GCC.’ Completely ignoring Sandra Loosemore,
who is a coauthor, with him, of the Glibc manual. Sandra was involved with LISP
standardization, so I would be surprised if he was unaware of her involvement
there. As you well know, she has worked significantly on GCC, GCC has several
other women contributors, but too few for complacency.

10. ‘My first interaction with RMS was at a hacker con at 19. He asked my
name, I gave it, whether I went to MIT (I had an MIT shirt on), and after
confirmation I did, asked me on a date. I said no. That was our entire
conversation.’ corbett's twitter feed. This is but one of many reports of
utterly inappropriate social interactions.
Is the quality of RMS's work so good that he is worth all of this effort?
"good woman to start family with" does not reflect general quality of person. 70 years old could be amazing person, but not great bride.
For now I'm only handling people for which I recognize the account or can confirm recent commits.
The problem is that a number of good movements have been infected by the "right to not be offended" crowd. Once that happens, you're no longer allowed to disagree or ctiticize lest the mob tear you to pieces.
Have you got interested in alternative music notations? I've dug around and it turns out people have thought about the problem. Have you ever tried any of them?
Surely this is not the case if the talented asshole has already contributed in a massively vast way to the team / society.
“It’s only bad if there’s a law against it.” We used to be able to buy LSD on sugar cubes at record stores, because there was no specific law against it. Most folks just became really annoying for a few hours, but a number ended up in hospitals for the remainder of their lives.

There’s a strong argument that all drugs should be legal, as it will allow natural selection to work, but tell that to the families of drug overdose victims; many of whom OD on their first go.

As a former manager, and as someone that holds a fairly senior position in an organization that has very little to do with what we talk about here, I can tell you that words have consequences. They can be tremendously good, or tremendously bad. They can manifest into true criminal behavior, and that’s one reason why cult leaders and other instigators are prosecuted; even though they, themselves, didn’t get their hands dirty. Anyone remember Charlie Manson? Some of the worst criminals, during the Rwandan genocide, were radio DJs, who whipped people into a frenzy, and reported on the locations of Tutsi families.

That said, I am also someone “on the spectrum,” as they say, nowadays, and have spent my entire life, being held to account for my blunt comments and lack of empathy. I learned to compensate, and am now in a position to do real damage, if I’m not careful about what I say.

A bricklayer can spout off a bunch of nonsense with few ramifications, but the owner of the construction company needs to be careful what they say.
It's the bit about singular "they". RMS for some reason doesn't like singular "they", despite the fact that it predates singular "you" in common English usage. Singular "they" also happens to be, by far, the preferred pronoun of nonbinary people. By telling people not to use singular "they", RMS is harming, offending, and driving away nonbinary people from participation in GNU projects.
That is sort of correct but way too short term thinking. Latest period between serious wars and economic disruptions such as fall of USSR was around 40 years ago.

Various banks failed three times in the meantime, besides that big event. Banking jobs have not recovered, they have been consolidated and automated away.

Talking anything about black swans in computer programming jobs is premature. They're too new to even hit one major upheaval, in the meantime having faced dotcom boom and bust...
What absurd nonsense. If you see a community supporting opinions you hold vile, you will simply go and join a less toxic community.

This attitude that FLOSS supporters should be dedicated to the cause no matter the cost is why the GCC and copyleft communities are dying.
I would give more detail but the exact project is a reasonably major but narrow piece of GNU with not many maintainers, which I should also add they nearly missed out on for other rms related reasons.
"extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence": can you please indicate the particular age when it was tolerated to speak your mind freely? Or at least more free than today.
We dont do anything about it, in the same sense second graders dont have to do anything about tenth grade problems.

Social Media, HN included, does a fine job of presenting tenth grade problems to second graders everyday.

As if that isnt misguided enough (no org or edu system ever does that and produces good outcomes), it creates a rallying point for all the second graders in world to show up and discuss the tenth grade problem on the board.

Its a waste of time. Thats all it is. There are second graders who understand that, and there are second graders who will get carried away by the numbers at the rallying point and go storm the capitol or whatever bullshit a second grade herd can come up with.

Any time anyone starts getting anxious over problems the internet happily plants in their head, thats a clear signal they are dealing with problems above their paygrade.

There is only one valid move to make, shrug it off and head back to the second grade classroom. There is no evidence social media or hn debates have ever contributed to solutions to anything extremely complex. And there is enough evidence they just increase the complexity of the problem.
Rush Limbaugh exist, as well as on the opposite of the media political spectrum

Rush is a commie? On all the spectrums?
Did these organisations ask their respective members if they agree with signing this letter? On the support letter* there are a number of GNOME contributors, so clearly there is not one single opinion within these organisations.

* https://rms-support-letter.github.io/
> We get to make choices.

I'm quite disillusioned at that point, I'm not sure that our choices can be good after all... There's lots of well-intentioned people doing horrible things, and at the same time I find myself systematically in the losing team when I try to take what it seems to be the correct stance.
There should be plenty of permissively license MIME databases considering it's basically a compilation of public knowledge and hardly even code?

For instance, Debian has a public domain[2] mime-support package[1] where /etc/mime.types comes from. Apache and nginx both ship their own mime.types.

[1] https://packages.debian.org/buster/mime-support

[2] https://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/changelogs//main/m/mi...
> What a trash take.

You can disagree without coming down to this.
Can't kill you in what timeframe? Did you even plan 40 years ahead? (Half a lifetime. Enough time for problems to show up.)

You can seriously estimate cash value of health care, disability care or of retirement money, much like assets. Same with basic wealth.

The advice to take on risks only actually works for really rich people with most existential risks covered; as a counterpoint read on how many immigrants took serious risks and actually came ahead...
I wonder if the signed features of GitHub would have helped here. Probably can't ask all the 3rd party contributors to setup signing commits, but it would help to spot commits not signed.
I think it's because of several points that can be interpreted as good or bad:

- "relatively new project" > code is fresh and certainly well-organized / maybe lacks stability

- "all by one person" > a single vision is a good thing / if that person gives up the project, it's dead

- "no other project mentions it" > [no good aspect in that] / no real-world usage

If you have any experience in the frontend field, those points are more often bad than good. You don't want to invest time and/or money in that kind of project that has a high chance of being dead within a year.

Now, that does not mean that it's a bad project (it looks pretty good actually), but it's just very young.

Edit: actually I like this framework very much (but I have a thing for underdogs). It might be ideal to quickly throw POCs or toy projects
Discussed 4 weeks ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26285780
This is probably the best Notorious B.I.G. song that has ever existed.
Zerodium[0], the magic string searched for in the fake user agent, is a zero-day acquisition platform, in case anyone else is wondering. The third parameter to `zend_eval_string` in the commit [1] is the "filename" [2] of the executed code, which is probably used for stack traces. Which is quite a strange choice, because seeing that in the logs would probably ring alarm bells immediately. Overall, this commit seems strange in its structure IMO - not in a "good" covert way, but in a "why does it not try to hide better" way.

EDIT: According to zerodiums charts, this would have been a payout of up to 250k$. However, I'm not quite sure what the attackers plan on cashing out on that would have been, given that the exploit would have quite obviously referenced zerodium and therefore would make the submitter the primary suspect of being the author. Maybe some APT used this "simple" format to disguise the actual power? But then again, it would be in their interest for the exploit to actually go through.

[0] https://www.zerodium.com/

[1] https://github.com/php/php-src/commit/c730aa26bd52829a49f2ad...

[2] https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=78224 (only mention I found with a documented use of the parameter)

[3] https://zerodium.com/program.html
I think people should just create their own foundation and get on with things. It seems like the FSF is going to be doing things their way - there's no compulsion for anyone to follow them, listen to them or to agree with what they do. So why not just start your own Foundation?
Because i need to show faith in comunism? Praise marxxx
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This times 100. The open source alternatives are ridiculously good. Figma and Blender are the ones I use and we've made some extensions for specific jobs painlessly.

The free stack is even catching up where paid software used to excel - modern, usable UI. We're happy to drop a few hundred on donations.
> The applications can be any process which converts electricity into another usable form of energy.

You’re ignoring capital costs. Try to think of all the things you know what consume electricity and compare the price of that thing to the cost of the electricity it consumes.

Specifically, free electricity is only useful if the cost of electricity is a high percentage of the cost of the machine that consumes it. E.g. building a $10M machine that normally consumes $100k worth of electricity in its lifetime doesn’t make sense just because the electricity becomes free (or even priced at negative $100k). You’d still be spending 99% on the machine itself, thus saving — at most — 1% due to cheaper electricity.
Ditto to the other reply to your comment. RoR is extremely well recognized and widely praised. It's fallen out of fashion in the past few years, but I don't know anyone who doesn't recognize it as a great piece of technology.
It's the footnote. Call people by their pronouns, not some random one "per" you made up for them.
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At least in Europe the bar to became a journalist is very high. Apprentices for Top tier jobs even for TV stations known for low standards need to go through tests where they get asked for instance who is the boss of the IAEA. People generally underestimate how knowledgeable most journalists are. (I read news daily for an hour but I wouldn't pass such a test)
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> never be alone with a woman

This isn't exceptional or even new, it's been solid advice for anyone in a position of public visibility for at least the past thirty years. The same goes for being alone with teenagers: It doesn't take that much effort to have witnesses and keep the door open, especially considering what a volatile other party will do to your life if you don't.
Not having a board position isn’t anything close to being destroyed. I’m totally against heavily exaggerating everything RMS did wrong but can we not swing the other way around and equivocate a highly privileged position with life and livelihood?
> But as a woman with six year of college and yadda, when I meet accomplished men in positions to open doors for me, a lot of them find me attractive and this actively closes doors in my face. I'm not willing to sleep with a man to open doors, not because I have some kind of moral objection to that but because I don't believe it actually works.

I thought this was interesting. Do you mean "it closes doors because they are only prepared to help you if you sleep with them"? Or "it closes doors because they're scared to help you in case you misinterpret it"?
> Basically, the ship was far too large for that narrow canal. Everything worked OK under good circumstances, but failed in gusty wind. This accident was inevitable.

In any case, that sounds more like the canal authority's fault that Evergreen's. If the ship was too large and wasn't rated for using the canal then that would be different, but as it stands the canal said "ships up to that size can use the canal", and Evergreen built a ship up to that size and used the canal.
Linus was confronted with his toxic behavior by peers and apologized. That is the only reason why we didn't "lose" him, or rather, he was allowed to stay.

It's high time the open source community cleaned house and made itself unwelcome to assholes.
On the surface, 5 USD per month sounds cheap, but that is 60 USD per year. Way more expensive that most /average/ monthly news magazines. One of the ways that traditional magazines kept their subscription costs incredibly cheap was huge advertising revenue. Thus, I would like to see Substack introduce /limited/ and /focused/ advertising options for readers and writers alike. Example: Imagine if you enable some ads, then get a discount on the subscription. It could be a worthy experiment.

Example: Vogue magazine (US) is incredibly expensive to produce (photograph, report, layout, print, deliver), but the annual subscription price is only 40 USD. How is that possible? (The September issue is legendary each year and weighs just shy of a metric tonne!) Every major fashion brand has huge multiple page inserts in each issue. (I guess half of each issue is just fashion ads -- but artfully done!)
So should we eject all Austism Spectrum / Asperger's people from positions of leadership, or just this one guy?

[Edit] I've worked under at one, perhaps two ASD people, both brilliant engineers, and you're probably using some of their infra software right now -- he's been poached a few times. The one certain guy did not have a diagnosis that I knew of but would come out with the most outrageous opinions regarding world issues. Logical and anti-social. The thing is you could reason him out of these opinions because he valued logic to such an extent that he 'beliefs' were secondary. The problem was he'd share these opinions before testing the waters. He was quite rightly kept away from leadership positions that required communication on anything other than technical topics because of this.

I've not seen RMS engaged on sharing his 'troubling' opinions. Show me that and I'll change my opinion (the hint being here that many HNers are somewhere on the spectrum, including me.)
>"It's a shame that there aren't more "pro-sumer" products like this out there"

Mikrotik is another company that has a good pro-sumer to pro ecosystem. Routers, APs, adapters, long-range point-to-point radio stuff. Most of their gear runs on variations of their RouterBOARD hardware and Linux-based RouterOS, and can be collectively managed through CAPsMAN, which can either run on one of their routers or on a desktop PC.

The configuration side is definitely less slick than what you get with Unifi, on the other hand you can configure everything in detail. You get an astounding amount of possibilities for your money, if you can accept the late-90s/early-2000s style web interface or just use the terminal interface instead.

The only thing I've found lacking is that they don't have any 4x4 or 802.11ax access points yet, but if you go modular (separate router, switch and AP), you can upgrade piecemeal when you need to.
Additionally, an asshole can drive away multiple people.

Even if an asshole is three times as productive as your typical contributor, they can easily drive away ten people.

Not to mention the morality of pedestalling creeps.
Not OP but they're not saying they want to use emacs keybindings, they're saying they want to use emacs keyboard macros [1], which I agree really are a very handy feature having no equivalent in JetBrains.

[1] https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Ke...
Is there evidence that this is really the case (the "going after" rather than the throwaways)? e.g. I think Stallman is driving free software into the ground regardless of how right he is about it's value, but I'm not going to chase anyone up - beyond thinking they're stupid
I really think this misses the mark. Grad students don't treat their prof as infallible - at least good labs. In most labs, the grad students are the ones actually doing the work and research. The prof is just the marketing man. And a good prof in CS will understand they're the clueless marketing man. It's not really feasible for them to keep up with writing code and the whole grant writing (and networking with companies like you...) game.

Also I'm surprised that you had academics shopping "products" to you. I've definitely shopped ideas to companies before, but always with the explicit understanding that I'm doing "research" - i.e. you're spending a bunch of money on something that may go nowhere, and you're not going to get a product out of it.

That misunderstanding often makes the conversations end right there.

As a counter, I've found that many engineers will shut down ideas before you can even get started working on them because "no that won't work". It can be very frustrating, as the technical arguments they offer are stiff as a board. And not always as technical as they think.

Granted I work with GPU hardware research, so it could just be a lack of products in this area. Maybe viz? ML especially probably? I get the impression ML profs are a load of shit tbh.
Maybe that first video was TOO good. Governments seem to see this stuff and take it as something that it would be great to have/control, just like they did with the 1984 book.
There are two listed, both former. But there is a difference contributing to GNOME projects and being part of the GNOME foundation.
"Stallman's ideology is why LLVM is now the academics favoured compiler to work on"

FTFY
I'm not sure we ever did - or, to the extent that "we" did, it came down very hard on queer people and others.
Not defending US Customary Units, but is it unreasonable for a product to use the dominant form of measurement of the country in which it is manufactured and primarily marketed towards?

https://www.orangescrew.com/pages/where-to-buy
Opposite to media spectrum? What is opposite to media?
That's not the issue here. FSFE have condemned the FSF, for example.
Because the FSF control FSF projects and thus - regardless of steering - could (Stallman has) deter contributors to projects that desperately need them now that the industry has moved (say) from GCC to LLVM
It does fix the max number of devices and bandwidth, but it introduces drawbacks too: a lot more infrastructure needed, shorter range (worse signal for your mobile), worse mobile battery life. In my opinion 5G is not the upgrade from 4G, it's a different technology that will co-exist with 4G and be used in very specific cases.
Energy-harvesting card treats 5G networks as wireless power grids
> This status quo is unlikely to remain, however, given that Decentralized Exchanges are likely to become cheap and efficient in the future.

Decentralized exchanges are not the solution to the given problem unless I'm missing something. AFAIK on a decentralized exchange I can trade my BTC for ETH but I can not trade my USD or EUR for ETH.

> I think when this happens most people will realize how important the current Proof Of Work concept is. It basically means this white/black listing becomes very hard vs. PoS where the big holders could be manipulated by some government.

Are you implying that miners, unlike POS holders, are not humans, or are a special breed of humans, and thus can not be manipulated by governments?
<outlandish conspiracy theory>

Google does this to make every tech worker not working for Google, and thus Google's competition, less productive.

</outlandish conspiracy theory>