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Why it's a good filter. It deters a large portion of those that attack someone based of silly jokes the authors may have made in the past or present and would j

by nyberg 6y ago

Why it's a good filter. It deters a large portion of those that attack someone based of silly jokes the authors may have made in the past or present and would judge without speaking to the person before hand to get a better view of who they actually are. Judge the code for technical merit and not the assumed character of the author. Denying work based on social correctness only curbs engineering and scientific progress in the long run over bikeshedding matters.

soco 6y ago
Facebook is a great piece of software. Facebook is also breaking any privacy rules they can get away with breaking. Which way should we judge them? Sorry, for some people it's both.
- hydragit 6y ago
  You probably don't use a lot of things, right? Did you do a background-check on the thousands of developers that contributed to all the software you use? Did you check the smartphone you use wasn't built in modern slavery facilities? Did you check in what conditions all the raw material needed for it was extracted, what countries and their political situations? Did you check the ethics for all the chain of the food you eat?
  - soco 6y ago
    The fact that I'm a bad person doesn't change the same argument even you are making - it's a murky world out there.
- nyberg 6y ago
  You're comparing a tool which you have source for and control over with a service which is out of your control. The comparison is of apples and oranges. Compare something like flow [1], reason [2], or prepack[3] as it's tools which serves you rather than the company behind it with access to the source which is the same as the case for weboob if you want to compare against facebook. I don't see an issue with using them though as they don't collect data on you. [1]: https://github.com/facebook/flow https://github.com/facebook/flow [2]: https://github.com/facebook/reason https://github.com/facebook/reason [3]: https://github.com/facebook/prepack https://github.com/facebook/prepack [4]: https://github.com/majestrate/XD https://github.com/majestrate/XD

by nyberg 6y ago

soco 6y ago

Facebook is a great piece of software. Facebook is also breaking any privacy rules they can get away with breaking. Which way should we judge them? Sorry, for some people it's both.

hydragit 6y ago
You probably don't use a lot of things, right? Did you do a background-check on the thousands of developers that contributed to all the software you use? Did you check the smartphone you use wasn't built in modern slavery facilities? Did you check in what conditions all the raw material needed for it was extracted, what countries and their political situations? Did you check the ethics for all the chain of the food you eat?
- soco 6y ago
  The fact that I'm a bad person doesn't change the same argument even you are making - it's a murky world out there.
nyberg 6y ago
You're comparing a tool which you have source for and control over with a service which is out of your control. The comparison is of apples and oranges. Compare something like flow [1], reason [2], or prepack[3] as it's tools which serves you rather than the company behind it with access to the source which is the same as the case for weboob if you want to compare against facebook. I don't see an issue with using them though as they don't collect data on you. [1]: https://github.com/facebook/flow https://github.com/facebook/flow [2]: https://github.com/facebook/reason https://github.com/facebook/reason [3]: https://github.com/facebook/prepack https://github.com/facebook/prepack [4]: https://github.com/majestrate/XD https://github.com/majestrate/XD