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Seems creepy: https://github.com/sticks-stuff/highlight-RMS-supporters
> I hope that doesn't delegitimize [...]

It might be more comfortable for those folks that have gotten burned if there was a more endemic feeling of having any recourse. It being the case that there isn't, asking for people to feel empathy for another group of people that has actively persecuted them is a big ask. To my mind an unreasonably big ask.
Kudos on making an accessible notebook to play around with this. Currently have one running 'baby jumps over a house' on my machine. At iteration 50 and its starting to take shape, literally, will post here if it turns out to be decent.
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Sorry, I feel like I should have pointed out that this behavior comes from both sides. I touched up the comment to account for it.

Thanks for making me notice.
Some historic theatrics

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Midgely

Damn interestingly more context

https://www.damninteresting.com/the-ethyl-poisoned-earth/
Wow, in a list of astoundingly bad ideas, cutting a path for large container ships through a pristine freshwater lake will probably rank at the top.
These sound like extremely confused questions. My apologies.
It's a very, tired joke, and context matters. Like how jokingly saying "call over one of the nerds, they'll sort it out" regarding a difficult problem would be okay in a technology company, but on the risky side (as in, likely to cause a bad feeling) in high school.

Of course, high school kids haven't learned etiquette and don't care, but we want to hold higher standards in the workforce.
They were presumably testing the waters to see if they were noticed first.
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As an aside: this person's photography is really good. Looks like they could easily have a side business in commercial / editorial photography.

https://www.prettysimpleimages.com/
Even ignoring FSF projects, there's an awful lot of software with a license like "GPLv2 or any later version". That means whoever controls the FSF controls the future licensing of a lot of software, and software developers have invested a lot of trust in the FSF in the belief that the license will stay true to its original intent. An awful lot of people are hence compelled to follow the FSF and listen to them. I think creating a new foundation wouldn't solve many problems.
Of course, there's a vast ecosystem still running shopping carts, forums and whatnot. It's much more prevalent that you seem to think. Just because it's not cool anymore (or well ever) doesn't mean it's dead.
https://hackernewsletter.com/ is a weekly newsletter and pretty much gives all categories and covers the most interesting submissions.
really good read. thanks
The guideline argues "they" is gender neutral, so it does not conflict with anybody's gender identity. This misses the point.

"they" is indeed gender neutral. But when we talk about specific individuals, we almost always use gendered pronouns.

Hence, as I said, persistently using "they" for a binary trans person is a veiled insult. Again, it's like saying 'You're not a real man, but I am not allowed to call you she, so I will call you they'.
The paper even mentions the solution:

"When someone is priced out of a market, their choices are to simply remain out of the market, to wait for the market to become more affordable, to improve their own financial situation to the point where they can afford to buy, or, if possible, to consider a different market. For example, someone who was priced out of their neighborhood's real estate market could look at a different part of the city or even an entirely different city or state."

Where socialists go wrong is that they simply attribute price hikes to "greedy capitalists". The truth is that demand goes up, and hence the prices (because other people are willing to pay more).

Even historically it has been a problem, without gentrification, if people had kids. Like you are born on your parents little farm, and your parents have 10 children. If all children want to stay on the farm (and then their children and their children, and so on), it simply doesn't work out. The farm is not big enough to support so many people. So many children had to go elsewhere and "try their luck". That is rooted in nature, not capitalism.
The question of whether children are capable of consenting to sex with adults is something that's been widely debated in the time and space RMS grew up in. Several important people on the leftist/queer side came out in favor of it:

https://uncommongroundmedia.com/derrick-jensen-queer-theory-...

RMS may simply not have gotten the memo that this is a completely unacceptable opinion in the 2000s. Sensibilities change.

> Defends someone charged with ‘"sexual assault" on a "child"

This is just not true, it's the same misrepresentation that RMS attempted to defend Marvin Minsky against.

Marvin Minsky was never charged with anything, on account of being dead and unable to defend himself. Marvin Minsky also has never been accused of sexual assault by the victim herself. The victim accused Ghislaine Maxwell of directing her to have sex with Marvin Minsky.

There's a huge difference between "Marvin Minsky sexually assaulted a child" and "Marvin Minsky had sexual intercourse with a 17-year-old that was forced into prostitution by a third party". Not just in terms of labels, we're talking about years of prison time.

Even if we supposed that the latter was legally considered "sexual assault" (which it is not), it should be acceptable to argue that the name doesn't fit the crime.
So with your martial arts training you confronted your neighbour - and she called the police?

Well, maybe you should try talking calmly next time, then maybe others feel not threatened enough to call the police.

Otherwise you have the right to call the police if she insists on being a threat to the children around.
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Sorry but that is plain wrong. Freedom of speech in Italy is more or less the same of what you state to be "American freedom of speech", i.e. the right not to be persecuted for your ideas, with some eexceptions being hate speech or incitement to violence. This right includes other forms of communication such as writing and artistic expression.

If you have time to translate this, the Italian form is even a bit less strict in definition : https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libert%C3%A0_di_manifestazione...
What did he do in the past 15 years outside of starting petty feuds that nobody cares about (the Linux name debacle) and being a horrible public speaker (there's heaps of stories of him being a dickhead to convention organizers, other convention guests and in general not really keeping any check on what he's even getting hired for)?

Like, I recognize that what he did back in the 80s matters, but somewhere around the turn of the millenium, he seems to have done very little of actual note and in the past 3 years or so seems to have become an active liability since the main things that got him attention were:

- Using his rights as GNU lead to veto the removal of a bad, outdated, US-centric, abortion joke from the glibc manual. This is after all other project maintainers agreed to remove it.

- Made appalling comments about the Epstein case (yes the media spun the story badly, that doesn't change that what Stallman said was horrible).

Even outside of that, there's also literal years of the following:

- Many examples of Stallman being a creep to women and an insensitive dickhead in general is something that existed before but really came to a head.

- The FSF maintaining a very egocentric approach to FOSS (thinking it's the sole relevant authority on advancing thoughts and ideas behind FOSS, as well as getting very cranky when projects don't want to join the GNU), something which seems near universally pushed by Stallman since every case of this somehow ended up involving him.

- Consistently vetoing plugin framework support for GCC out of an ideological fear that seems to consistently be cited as the main cause for it being superseded by clang/llvm.

> Fortunately, we are all equipped with the capacity to change even long ingrained habits and patterns.

It does come at the prerequisite that the person in question actually wants to change. Stallman is notoriously stubborn and it took him literally getting fired from the FSF to even admit that the most outstanding problem with his views (his stance on pedophilia) was wrong and he's never even bothered to address any of the others.
Yep, I think he actually coined the term signifiers while pleading for the the same distinction I'm trying to make. James J Gibson coined the term affordances though as far as I know.
The FSF can issue new versions of the GPL, which will automatically apply to software licensed under the GPLv2 or GPLv3 with the "or any later version" clause (which is present in the standard boilerplate).

A completely non-representative grep through copyright information indicates that about two-thirds of the GPL-licensed packages on my Debian system have the "or any later version" clause.
It closes doors because there is no good way for them to proceed. We essentially have no good answers for how to get involved with a woman both professionally and romantically in some ethical, above board fashion.

So men who are attracted to me are damned if they do, damned if they don't.

And I can't trust their motives. Are they helping me because they think I'm smart and talented and a good fit for a project? Or are they helping me hoping it leads to sex?

In practice, they usually don't make any effort to help me professionally anyway. Once they decide I'm attractive, in their minds the relationship is strictly personal and not professional. Period.

My experience has been men consistently decide early whether this is a platonic/professional relationship or a potential romantic interest. If I'm a potential romantic interest, I'm basically dead to them professionally.

They also tend to only think about how this impacts their career, not mine.

When I had a corporate job, one senior programmer in the IT department asked me for a date. In five years working there, he was the only person I met who knew what GIS was without me having to explain it. (I have a certificate in GIS.)

He interpreted that as "We have things in common and she's hot." He did not wonder if I might be an asset to the IT department. He did not wonder if I wanted a job in the IT department.

I did, in fact, want a job in the IT department. Being asked out by him did nothing to hurt his career. He was doing nothing wrong.

I'm sure he stopped to consider that. I'm sure he stopped to check that asking me out was not a fire-able offense.

He likely did not wonder how it impacted my career at the company. It made it vastly less likely I would ever get a job in his department.

This was true whether I said "yes" or "no." Simply being asked for a date, regardless of how that went personally, made it vastly less likely I would ever get into the IT department.

I left the company a few weeks later. I likely would have left anyway and had been planning to do so for some time, but him asking me for a date was something of a final nail in the coffin, killing all hope that I had a shot at a real future at the company.

I didn't. That simply was a non starter.

So it made it easier to pull the trigger on plans to leave.
> I don't understand the EMACS virgin joke?

The "joke" is that they are virgins and thus have to have said honour taken away from them. Bad taste aside, the issue is really that he specifically singles out women when reciting it. More detail: https://geekfeminism.wikia.org/wiki/EMACS_virgins_joke

> I don't think asking women on dates is automatically "inappropriate behavior".

There's a time and a place. Ultimately it's highly dependent on context, but if women are made uncomfortable by it in this case I don't think it's unreasonable to try and stop. Also just to spell it out, the implication here is that he was only talking to her to get into her pants.

FWIW I don't believe Stallman is a deeply rooted sexist, but rather than he has certain extremely unhelful patterns in his behaviour which he is wilfully blind to. When he says he believes women deserve free software too, I do believe him, but that isn't good enough i.e. sometimes words have no meaning.
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Just wait. I thought that was true too until a male colleague was dragged across the coals after a female colleague overheard something and took it out of context. It only takes one time.
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I was watching a Dog Whisperer episode where this couple had a violent pitbull. It turned out the two people (mostly the girl) just wanted out of the relationship and deferred the conflict onto the dog as the conduit of the problem.

This is not uncommon for men or woman to do, and more commonly expressed as ‘you are looking for things to point out’.

You can run your own little test. Convert the sigh to something similar like shrugging. Consider it debugging with console.logs until you find out the source of the bug.
Or just delete your Twitter account. Then it all magically goes away.
Sorry I don't have time to dig through his blog right now, but on Wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Stallman#Resignation_f...
>As a user of something open source you are not thereby entitled to anything at all.

If I don't have the right to fork off, then it wouldn't be open source at all. And that might seem like a small thing, but it is a lot more than I get from e.g MS. Otherwise I would still be running WinXP.
> we won’t fix it by giving into the fear of being labeled

Individuals will consider their jobs and thus their dependents' welfare more important than risking being publicly slaughtered to fix a mindset that's pretty ingrained now.
This.
And I think that we really should focus more on recyclable materials: like steel and aluminium instead of trying to use (unescessary) plastic everywhere.
Well explained! Thank you so much for this!
Ideally we would rebalance between those from poor families and those from rich and educated ones. Oppression exists in different forms and there are also poor squirrels.
That's why AGPL software can be divided into small ideologically motivated camp (won't use it, but I respect the choice) and "due diligence mine" as part of dual-licensing AGPL/proprietary setup where the point is to trip people into becoming paying clients.
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I agree with you, but it would behoove you to note that most career destructions haven't been the work of mobs - they have been the work of white elites and old boys' networks. Dozens of academics have had their careers ruined because they espoused views the elites found uncomfortable. For each public career destruction, you have chilling effects that are orders of magnitudes larger; academics have to choose between saying what they think and having a job and many choose the latter.

By all means, defend Stallman's right to say thoughtless and sexist things, but also spend some time defending those who have been fired for trying to unionize their workplace, those who can't get a job because they have publicly campaigned for a political party, and for victims of workplace sexual harassment who can't speak up about it because they would be effectively blacklisted.
Norway, where else! They seem to have an entirely different relation to tunneling than the rest of humanity:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drammen_Spiral
> If the person had a GitHub account before, it could be newly created by the attacker

Doesn't GitHub require e-mail validation before it associates commits with that e-mail address?

> Or they could have had different e-mails for php.net and GitHub, i.e. something like php@xy.com and github@xy.com.

Then require them to add their php.net mail address to their GitHub account.

> the likelihood of this creating additional problems is there.

That I agree with.
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> Your remarks kind of sound pretty dismissive of and attacking towards Anglo-Saxon culture and I think some people get tired of hearing about supposed "Dutch superiority." The Dutch don't have everything beautifully and perfectly sorted, though they do appear to have a better track record in certain respects than average.

This entire thread is a sea of doomsday tears of fatalism and how bad it is, and how the culture is on a collision course with death, and mine was the perspective that I'm skeptical that it's truly as bad as they claim.

I'm far less dismissive of their own culture than they are.

But indeed, what they're tired of is not dismissing Anglo-Saxon culture, but that an outsider does so and having to hear that it's not the entire world.

They're own dismissals are far greater than mine.

> The Dutch cultural tendency to be very blunt is probably not helping your case.

My case? is it not further evidence of my thesis that there are cultural differences at play here?

One may assume that is is only to be expected that in a blunter culture, one would be less inclined to use sexism as an excuse when one be criticized.

Indeed, the Anglo-Saxon's famed tendency for politeness might very well be a contributing factor, if again, it truly be the case that it is so common for sexism to be used as an excuse when criticism be leveled.

> I'm leaving this comment in hopes of being personally helpful to you as an individual and it's probably foolish for me to do so. It would probably be better for me to say nothing, but it's just kind of a pet peeve of mine so to speak, so I am doing it anyway.

You are free to do so, and I am free to disagree and point out the opposite.

From my perspective, it comes across as a petulant child who excessively and unreasonably talks about a culture that is failing, but lashes out defensively when an outsider chimes in and says “It might be bad, but I'm not sure it's as bad as you claim.”, for then it is an outsider who does so, and apparently that crosses the line, not the dismissal in and of itself.
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> People will take offense at your crass jokes and delete you for it, perhaps it's best to step away and not click "reply" afterall.

Or do click "reply", because there are billions of people out there and some may take offense, but who cares? Billions of people don't. You can delete them right back, and billions of people will keep not caring.

That textarea only gives you a tiny bit of power and it gives everyone else the same tiny bit of power, so why should you fear their power more than they should fear yours?
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> Signals slower than the speed of light (or even at the speed of light, e.g. radio signals in space) are ordinary and have no paradox, so there's nothing to debate.

Okay, but that's the thing: from one perspective (the signal's) the signal is indeed subluminal, but from another (an observer's, e.g. the sender or recipient) it's not. So which math applies?

> The answer is that light takes 104 years to travel from our solar system to the Illus system, so yes it very much is superluminal, there's no way around that.

Except there is a way around that, no? Specifically that from the signal's point of view it was not actually superluminal, and therefore not subject to the infinite energy requirements of locally-superluminal travel?

If A sends a message at tA=1, and it takes one second for the message to reach B (so, tB=2), then how does that result in tA > tB? No matter which frame of reference we're using (A's, B's, the signal's), I'm failing to see where causality would invert.

That is, going back to the start of this conversation:

> If you end up outside of your own light cone, no matter how, there's a causality paradox.

From which frame of reference is that light cone authoritative? If I'm B, and A sends me two copies of a message - one by some wormhole or warp pigeon or whatever, and one by radio - and the W message takes 1 second while the R message takes 10, then where does that leave room for the W message to reach me before it was sent?

The math behind a tachyonic antitelephone - as far as I can tell - only answers this for cases where the signal is itself traveling faster than c within its own frame of reference, but that wouldn't be the case in this situation.
>> Banning opinions for “things that are illegal” would ban everything from discussion about drug legalization to same sex marriage.

> This is a glaringly bad faith interpretation of my post. You know what I meant - an op-ed featuring say a pro-pedophilia stance should not be published in a national media.

I'm really curious how you're distinguishing pro-pedophilia op-eds from pro-same-sex-marriage op-eds. Is it just that one is bad and one is good? How do you know which is which?
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the US Department of State (DoS) during 2012/2013 in its robots.txt[1] excluded around 9577 documents which leaked into archive.org (already pre Snowden). The robots.txt file now is OK but not sure if content is still on archive.

[1] https://pastebin.com/raw/RE2tpyR3

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#!/bin/bash
snapshots="20120713050942 20121013154343 20121010165822 20120921054221 20130413152313 20130113162428"
# orig source http://state.gov/robots.txt but also on pastebin in case they delete it:
wget --output-document=robots.txt http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=RE2tpyR3
for x in `echo $snapshots`
do
for i in `cat ./robots.txt|cut -d ' ' -f2 | tr -d '\15\32'`
do
if [ -e `basename $i` ]; then
echo "$i already fetched"
else
wget https://web.archive.org/web/$x/http://www.state.gov/documents/$i;
fi
done
done
> 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.

Just in case anybody else picks up on this and wonders what's so wrong with asking a girl out on a date, based on when @corbett attended MIT, RMS would have been about 50 at the time. A ~50 year old man immediately asking out a 19 year old girl the first time he meets her, even if it were intended as a (bad) joke, registers as pretty damn creepy.

The other points, assuming true at face value, all seem well made.