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> I’ve also had some issues in the past with the owner of Pinboard. I can’t recall the exact details of their political or other thoughts now, and don’t plan to

by vasco 2y ago

> I’ve also had some issues in the past with the owner of Pinboard. I can’t recall the exact details of their political or other thoughts now, and don’t plan to look for them, but the site fell into my mental bucket of “services to reluctantly not recommend” a while back. > Mental note: I need a bigger bucket. This section really makes the author come across as "a hater", specially the last sentence. Like those people you meet that have a problem with everything. I'm being just a hater myself I guess. I never thought I needed to know the politics of the guy who delivers my mail so I also don't really care who made a website. Am I just too careless?

onli 2y ago
If you spent money on a service you do not really need it matters, or at least it should be easy to see how it might matter. Continuing the payment and usage starts to be something of a social connection or a sign of support. More so if it is a one person enterprise. If it then becomes obvious that support might be misplaced separation is the logical step. Big organisations are a different thing. And you can't pick your mail guy, plus the mail service is faceless as a whole. But think Tesla, there similar mechanisms make buying a car from them quite unattractive now.
BoredPositron 2y ago
Over one you have agency over the other you don’t.
antithesis-nl 2y ago
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- Philpax 2y ago
  Seems unlikely that someone with this profile [0] would be an oligarch booster. It seems more likely that it's about Maciej's slow rightwards shift [1]. [0] https://www.gyford.com/phil/about/ https://www.gyford.com/phil/about/ [1] https://bsky.app/profile/anildash.com/post/3lhkkre2h422z https://bsky.app/profile/anildash.com/post/3lhkkre2h422z
  - hombre_fatal 2y ago
    Why not link to the boosted Singal post instead of to someone saying it’s super bad?
    - Philpax 2y ago
      I don't have a link to the post (I don't use X these days) and I assumed illustrating recent sentiment would be sufficient for my counterclaim about what ailed the author.
      - hombre_fatal 2y ago
        It’s a link to someone calling someone a -phobe on the internet. Worth less than zero.
        Philpax 2y ago
        Ok, here's a blog post that transcludes an example of Maciej's transphobia from last year: https://schwarztech.net/snippets/oh-look-misplaced-transphobia-from-a-man-in-tech https://schwarztech.net/snippets/oh-look-misplaced-transphob...
        wizzwizz4 2y ago
        Does it count as transphobia if your target is cis? On the one hand, such comments are motivated by a belief that trans people should be banned from a thing; on the other, we could just as easily view this through the lens of misogyny. Both lenses give the same explanation: a woman isn't stereotypically "womanly enough", therefore cruelty. Can we draw a hard line between transphobia and misogyny? (Or is that a wrong question?)
        jonstewart 2y ago
        Thanks, this shifts a bit how I think of Maciej. :-/ And to think of all the money I funneled into the great slate!
- aredox 2y ago
  Maciej is another "a little knowledge is a dangerous thing"-type pundit - a.k.a. "smart-ss". He is sometimes right (his analysis of website obesity), sometimes completely wrong (he argued at length during the COVID pandemic that Belarus was doing something right, when it was obvious from the beginning that it was just a dictatorship cooking numbers - confirmed by post-analysis that shows abnormal rounding and other aberrant distributions) and in both cases he will be insufferably confident and arrogant he got it right. The kind of guy who never stops to ask himself if he could be wrong, instead devoting all his brainpower finding all the reasons you are certainly wrong. (Which, unsurprisingly, applies when a pinboard user asks for support, too.)
  - celdon25 2y ago
    I think we could use more people like your description of him, frankly. There’s way too many zombies on the internet that have a societal need to be called out or corrected, Maciej style. It’s not like this guy is a VC funded hack that takes orders for virtually every corporate policy decision while being prohibited from being brutally honest, or even plainly honest. Let him cook, even if he is a Democrat.
    - aredox 2y ago
      "Competitive pisstake" is a big contributor of the current intellectual rot and widespread hypocrisy.
michaelt 2y ago
> This section really makes the author come across as "a hater", specially the last sentence. Like those people you meet that have a problem with everything. Personally, it's just extremely hard to get me to recommend anything. I use ubuntu+nvidia as my daily driver, at home and at work. But would I recommend it? Well....
chambers 2y ago
The author edited his post with a follow-up. [Update (2025-02-12): This post, which I thought of as a hasty update to the handful of people who followed my links, was posted to Hacker News for some reason. Yes, I should have provided evidence for the above judgment had I thought more people would read it. As ever, use your own judgment for these things.] It covers the author's pre-judgement; he admits he didn't put in the work and he tells us to use our judgement and not his. The part that's not addressed is "I want to reluctantly recommend even less services(/people?)." An eagerness to detract may not be hate but we're right to be wary of it.

by vasco 2y ago

onli 2y ago

If you spent money on a service you do not really need it matters, or at least it should be easy to see how it might matter. Continuing the payment and usage starts to be something of a social connection or a sign of support. More so if it is a one person enterprise. If it then becomes obvious that support might be misplaced separation is the logical step. Big organisations are a different thing. And you can't pick your mail guy, plus the mail service is faceless as a whole. But think Tesla, there similar mechanisms make buying a car from them quite unattractive now.

BoredPositron 2y ago

Over one you have agency over the other you don’t.

antithesis-nl 2y ago

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Philpax 2y ago
Seems unlikely that someone with this profile [0] would be an oligarch booster. It seems more likely that it's about Maciej's slow rightwards shift [1]. [0] https://www.gyford.com/phil/about/ https://www.gyford.com/phil/about/ [1] https://bsky.app/profile/anildash.com/post/3lhkkre2h422z https://bsky.app/profile/anildash.com/post/3lhkkre2h422z
- hombre_fatal 2y ago
  Why not link to the boosted Singal post instead of to someone saying it’s super bad?
  - Philpax 2y ago
    I don't have a link to the post (I don't use X these days) and I assumed illustrating recent sentiment would be sufficient for my counterclaim about what ailed the author.
    - hombre_fatal 2y ago
      It’s a link to someone calling someone a -phobe on the internet. Worth less than zero.
      - Philpax 2y ago
        Ok, here's a blog post that transcludes an example of Maciej's transphobia from last year: https://schwarztech.net/snippets/oh-look-misplaced-transphobia-from-a-man-in-tech https://schwarztech.net/snippets/oh-look-misplaced-transphob...
        wizzwizz4 2y ago
        Does it count as transphobia if your target is cis? On the one hand, such comments are motivated by a belief that trans people should be banned from a thing; on the other, we could just as easily view this through the lens of misogyny. Both lenses give the same explanation: a woman isn't stereotypically "womanly enough", therefore cruelty. Can we draw a hard line between transphobia and misogyny? (Or is that a wrong question?)
        jonstewart 2y ago
        Thanks, this shifts a bit how I think of Maciej. :-/ And to think of all the money I funneled into the great slate!
aredox 2y ago
Maciej is another "a little knowledge is a dangerous thing"-type pundit - a.k.a. "smart-ss". He is sometimes right (his analysis of website obesity), sometimes completely wrong (he argued at length during the COVID pandemic that Belarus was doing something right, when it was obvious from the beginning that it was just a dictatorship cooking numbers - confirmed by post-analysis that shows abnormal rounding and other aberrant distributions) and in both cases he will be insufferably confident and arrogant he got it right. The kind of guy who never stops to ask himself if he could be wrong, instead devoting all his brainpower finding all the reasons you are certainly wrong. (Which, unsurprisingly, applies when a pinboard user asks for support, too.)
- celdon25 2y ago
  I think we could use more people like your description of him, frankly. There’s way too many zombies on the internet that have a societal need to be called out or corrected, Maciej style. It’s not like this guy is a VC funded hack that takes orders for virtually every corporate policy decision while being prohibited from being brutally honest, or even plainly honest. Let him cook, even if he is a Democrat.
  - aredox 2y ago
    "Competitive pisstake" is a big contributor of the current intellectual rot and widespread hypocrisy.

michaelt 2y ago

> This section really makes the author come across as "a hater", specially the last sentence. Like those people you meet that have a problem with everything. Personally, it's just extremely hard to get me to recommend anything. I use ubuntu+nvidia as my daily driver, at home and at work. But would I recommend it? Well....

chambers 2y ago

The author edited his post with a follow-up. [Update (2025-02-12): This post, which I thought of as a hasty update to the handful of people who followed my links, was posted to Hacker News for some reason. Yes, I should have provided evidence for the above judgment had I thought more people would read it. As ever, use your own judgment for these things.] It covers the author's pre-judgement; he admits he didn't put in the work and he tells us to use our judgement and not his. The part that's not addressed is "I want to reluctantly recommend even less services(/people?)." An eagerness to detract may not be hate but we're right to be wary of it.