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Look: I'm a big fan of freedom-of-speech, but that doesn't mean that I, or anyone else, has any obligation to provide a venue for you to say what you want to sa
by gecko 12y ago
Look: I'm a big fan of freedom-of-speech, but that doesn't mean that I, or anyone else, has any obligation to provide a venue for you to say what you want to say. As it happens, TempleOS manages to be sufficiently offensive and annoying that I don't think we should provide a pulpit for him to rant; I think his normal comments detract far more than the occasional insightful comment adds.
But don't take my word for it; let's look at his four most recent comments. In response to a recent post exploring the details of a Rails vulnerability, he posted
TempleOS is God's temple. God always gets His way.
On an excellent article about cycle-accurate 6502 emulation, he wrote
To me abstraction above the hardware is like condoms. Some people say "Use three condoms, its better".
I don't want a literal C64 -- just the complete open simple access... but 64-bit and 3Ghz and multicored.
I don't want it to run on a 386, just x86_64.
which is also off-topic, albeit slightly less so, I suppose. In response to the TrueCrypt vulnerability, he wrote
http://www.templeos.org/Wb/Kernel/Compress.html
which, to save you the time, has no encryption code in it. Finally, in response to a rational article about (natch) rational ways to respond to the shooting in Santa Barbara, he wrote
God exists. CIA waging war on me. Stupid fucks.
Note that I'm not cherry-picking these comments. Those are just his four most recent comments. (The fifth and the pile after that are roughly similar; I just don't feel like pasting them here.)
These all simply clutter up the comment stream and provide nothing to move the conversation forward. There may be the occasional bit of insight, but I hardly think that they balance out the random off-topic spamminess of the above.
- TazeTSchnitzel 12y agoHe's also posted humongous comments which cover more than a page in the browser, spam in its original sense. Like this[0], this[1] or this[2]. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6089186 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6089186 [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6047961 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6047961 [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6002791 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6002791
- jacquesm 12y agoBut it is cherry picking. You stopped just short of including this one: "I thought mind reading and clarvoyance, I donno. It just works. I use VMware. I wrote all 130,000 lines inside the operating system. It has all tools -- editor, profiler, grep, merge, compiler, assembler, unassembler, shitty partial debugger, graphic sprite creator. BMP-movie-maker. BMP support. Boot loader. ISO9660 ISO file creator. My BMP movie creator is kinda banned. I want no multimedia, but I use it personally. I'm not serious on a ban -- orther prolly want to make movies, but it's a step down the road to hell. I generate my website natively. I have a html creator. That's kinda just for me and doesn't belong. What if other want to do it? I'm chagrinned -- I'm not thinking of any uses. Oh! I normally do hymns, but VMware killed music. Hymns are a legitimate thing I do. Video animations with music melodies and bouncy ball words." and this one: " TempleOS 4 days ago | link | parent [dead] | on: CSVjs: Basic CSV parsing and encoding in JavaScrip... http://www.templeos.org/Wb/Demo/SortFileExample/F64FileSort... http://www.templeos.org/Wb/Demo/SortFileExample/F64FileSort..... At the time of the Commodore 64, it was not used for COBOL applications. There were mainframes that banks and businesses used. This is not what my operating system is for. I made 100 applications and demos that show what it is for. Does yours have sprites in source code? The RedSea filesystem will do only whole-file reads and writes of contiguous block chunks (or just let you do raw block access). I demand that Linux and Microsoft and VMWare support RedSea on hard drive and CDROM, so I can remove support for ISO9660 and FAT32. God's temple must be perfect. http://www.templeos.org/Wb/Doc/RedSea.html http://www.templeos.org/Wb/Doc/RedSea.html With whole-file access, only I can do compression." If self-promotion is a sin we might as well ban half of the frequent posters here (quite possibly including me).
- TazeTSchnitzel 12y agoHis self-promotion is usually completely irrelevant, though. People here do self-promote a lot, but typically relevant products they happen to have made.
- gecko 12y agoSo first, to pick a knit, if I'd gone to the next comment, I'd have included God exists. That pretty-much reverses bad and good. The FBI is evil against God. I am good with God. Simple as that. which is responding to Monsegur helping shut down Anonymous. But you're right, after that, we have the two comments you posted above. Maybe I should've included them. But then we go at least twelve more comments that are inane, at which point I quit clicking "page next." Are there more insightful ones after that? I know the answer is yes, because TempleOS does occasionally post insightful material, but I don't honestly want to read through all the muck just to get to it.
- jacquesm 12y agoFair enough. Have an upvote.
- WaxProlix 12y agoPeople are pointing out that his signal-noise ratio is bad, but that's why there's a vote system in place. It seems like the n-word argument might be stronger than the 'poor content of posts' argument to me.