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It's pretty obvious when one gets stonewalled for political reasons when attempting to contribute to a project. He doesn't need to provide specific examples or
by SolarNet 7y ago
It's pretty obvious when one gets stonewalled for political reasons when attempting to contribute to a project.
He doesn't need to provide specific examples or explanations, doing so just makes the issue worse. Often these issues involve specific people and specific intuitions that will be hard to interpret without lots of context. It will put the problem people on the defensive and likely cause some sort of outrage or personal attacks, or other unwanted drama.
Being polite yet firm on his own page is the best that can really be done in these situations. It allows the technical problem to be magnified while not focusing on drama.
- onlydeadheroes 7y agoPeople like that have no place in software or any form of engineering.
- onlydeadheroes 7y agoI consider Tor to be completely compromised. Consider this: 1) Political entryism by ideologues. These people stand against merit, and these are the same people who every few weeks post a lead-balloon of a thread against it in this very forum and others. 2) Recent purge of non-aligned team members on trumped up bullshit that only offends the now-dominant political ideas 3) Large, long redesign with obvious flaws 4) Unwillingness to address the reported flaws We are not talking about ICQ here, we are talking about Tor. If the Tor team is not concerned about this, then what are they concerned about? What else are they even doing? Why is it that in this age of total surveillance, when even Torvalds had to face the wall while they purged his team, nobody in power is bothered by Tor? Ain't that the fucking shit?
- dang 7y agoPlease don't post the same comment repeatedly to HN. That lowers the signal/noise ratio. If you want to refer to something you posted elsewhere, please use a link. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html