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The author made an implicit assumption, and you're making the same one, that they're filled with wisdom received straight from al-Ghazali. Firstly, only wankers

The author made an implicit assumption, and you're making the same one, that they're filled with wisdom received straight from al-Ghazali. Firstly, only wankers act like they're wise and their audience isn't. Secondly, they said "haven't read al-Ghazali yet", implying that it's only a matter of time before everyone reads him. Lastly, it's fine to quote someone but you need to explain how it's relevant to the conversation. The author could have summarised al-Ghazali's idea about free will or whatever and it would have been fine. But he didn't even bother, as if the ideas so basic and well known that it's not even worth doing. I'm pretty comfortable with the way I've poked fun at the author's pompousness. If you need further explanation it's because you haven't read Chanakya yet.

bayindirh 1y ago
I'll read Chanakya, but I don't see how he's supposed to appease to your taste and style of writing. I don't think that you're pompous because you cited somebody I don't know that existed. I'm not a god. People show me things I don't know, I take note of them. Maybe I won't agree with the direction you show me, but at least I have a new direction to discover. This is the difference.
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        I don’t see a problem in someone deleting 1, 100 or 1000 repositories and moving on. Neither Open Source nor Free Software makes no promises of indefinite availability of the source code. Incidentally, HTTP has a status code for this. It’s 410 - Gone. Which is devised for exactly this purpose.
        olalonde 1y ago
        It used to be a "gentleman's agreement," but now npm enforces it - as a result of this guy's actions.
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        bayindirh 1y ago
        I mean, they have seen that NPM did ate their hats to bow to a company and they decided to not have it, and they removed their packages. Why the anger? Yes, they have asked NPM to remove all of their packages. It's on them. NPM didn't do it, but gave a tool to do it themselves. I deserted GitHub the day Copilot came online. I archived my repositories just because I didn't want broken links on comments and notes I have written god knows where. I stopped uploading photos to Instagram the day they started doing AI training with my images. I didn't delete them because my partner likes them. I can delete these repositories, photos, whatever I have online. I have no obligation to anyone. It's same for them. It's their code they developed by themselves. They can delete them, and just don't care what happens next. Why this freedom bothers you that much? P.S.: We don't do ad-hominem attacks here. Please refer to guidelines for more information. Thanks for your cooperation.
skrebbel 1y ago
Fwiw I don't completely agree with you but I appreciate your enthusiasm for the word "wanker" in this thread.

bayindirh 1y ago

I'll read Chanakya, but I don't see how he's supposed to appease to your taste and style of writing. I don't think that you're pompous because you cited somebody I don't know that existed. I'm not a god. People show me things I don't know, I take note of them. Maybe I won't agree with the direction you show me, but at least I have a new direction to discover. This is the difference.

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      I don’t see a problem in someone deleting 1, 100 or 1000 repositories and moving on. Neither Open Source nor Free Software makes no promises of indefinite availability of the source code. Incidentally, HTTP has a status code for this. It’s 410 - Gone. Which is devised for exactly this purpose.
      - olalonde 1y ago
        It used to be a "gentleman's agreement," but now npm enforces it - as a result of this guy's actions.
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        bayindirh 1y ago
        I mean, they have seen that NPM did ate their hats to bow to a company and they decided to not have it, and they removed their packages. Why the anger? Yes, they have asked NPM to remove all of their packages. It's on them. NPM didn't do it, but gave a tool to do it themselves. I deserted GitHub the day Copilot came online. I archived my repositories just because I didn't want broken links on comments and notes I have written god knows where. I stopped uploading photos to Instagram the day they started doing AI training with my images. I didn't delete them because my partner likes them. I can delete these repositories, photos, whatever I have online. I have no obligation to anyone. It's same for them. It's their code they developed by themselves. They can delete them, and just don't care what happens next. Why this freedom bothers you that much? P.S.: We don't do ad-hominem attacks here. Please refer to guidelines for more information. Thanks for your cooperation.

skrebbel 1y ago

Fwiw I don't completely agree with you but I appreciate your enthusiasm for the word "wanker" in this thread.