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by Wxc2jjJmST9XWWL 5y ago
I see what you mean and there's of course some truth to it. He's stuck in a corner and no matter what he does now, some will write if off as insincere. I don't doubt that. But besides honing communication skills and maybe tun
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by Wxc2jjJmST9XWWL 5y ago
The lesson here is to ask people for advice before writing public statements (for one), and before threatening with lawsuits in private communication. 1) You apologize, but basically the other person did something wrong? 2) You invoke sympa
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by Wxc2jjJmST9XWWL 5y ago
This has meme potential! Talking about some major corp and hoops one has to jump through to do X, react with "say about the FSF what you will, but..." ; Made my day. What are you even talking about? How is this a meaningful compar
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by Wxc2jjJmST9XWWL 5y ago
I would say it sounds a lot like social studies. But with those there is at least some scientific rigor (I hope). Journalists often just spin speculation based on carefully selected theories into a narrative, put it into long form, sprinkle
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by Wxc2jjJmST9XWWL 5y ago
To people interested but not willing to watch a Huawei pr event live stream, maybe https://techxplore.com/news/2021-06-huawei-smartphones.html gives a satisfying quick glance what's up. Or wait until the event is
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by Wxc2jjJmST9XWWL 5y ago
My comment is not about giving the most nuanced picture of the US, but about the caricatures that seem to exist within, sometimes in stark contrast to one another. "USA USA USA" chants, american flag on the lawn, big pickup trucks
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by Wxc2jjJmST9XWWL 5y ago
Whenever I explain the "USA" to (Eastern) Europeans, I always simply state the notion: "diverse country of the extremes". Yes, widespread obesity, but health obsessions also run deep in that country, gym memberships, eli
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by Wxc2jjJmST9XWWL 5y ago
To anyone wondering, pretty sure "Linus talking about GPLv3" here refers to Linus at Debconf in 2014 https://youtu.be/5PmHRSeA2c8?t=2840 (from there to 56:51 it's about open source licenses)
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by Wxc2jjJmST9XWWL 5y ago
You're talking about a completely different thing here though than the article is about, and obviously we can only speculate. Linus' opinion always was: "I give you source code, you give me your changes back, we're even.
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by Wxc2jjJmST9XWWL 5y ago
I think it has to do with what I would call "social pressure". During daytime you have to be ready for a phone / doorbell to ring, a package to be delivered, a package by a neighbor who isn't there being brought to you,
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by Wxc2jjJmST9XWWL 5y ago
First of all, thank you for this response. Thought about it a bit. In the end it's a thin line. "Empowering", and "walking around their possible sensibilities". In the end no one way can be said to be completely rig
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by Wxc2jjJmST9XWWL 5y ago
Quite a lot of US culture can come off as phony to (Eastern) Europeans. Friend of mine went to the US for a business schooling event and said people were completely incapable of honest criticism. They would sugar coat criticism under 10 lay
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by Wxc2jjJmST9XWWL 5y ago
So what? How come it should be my concern to include everyone, as if everyone was entitled to use my service? A russian only IRC channel excludes everyone not speaking the language. A Playstation exclusive game title excludes Xbox owners. A
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by Wxc2jjJmST9XWWL 5y ago
I am not denying they can be useful, I am questioning how this should be achieved. You are connected, you receive the messages, you aren't, you don't. You don't want to miss anything, how about making sure you stay connected?
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by Wxc2jjJmST9XWWL 5y ago
To offer a different point of view: If I were to create my own chat protocol, I would actively try to make it next to impossible to implement it on mobile and consider this a feature. Nothing is gained by mobile users. From the features&#x2
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by Wxc2jjJmST9XWWL 5y ago
I was quite relaxed about the whole thing and was willing to give Lee a chance, but mass purging channels and forwarding them to ## namespace, and deleting their topics... #go-nuts had libera.chat mentioned in the topic... saying that they
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by Wxc2jjJmST9XWWL 5y ago
The official go channel (#go-nuts) on freenode had in the topic "we're also on libera.chat, if freenode dies" (or something very close to that, quoting from memory, I don't log IRC) and yet it was shut down due to "
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by Wxc2jjJmST9XWWL 5y ago
People are not wearing masks in the face of a pandemic when experts tell them to. How well would calming down the public work (by authorities and experts) after a seemingly nuclear/biochemical terror attack and false claims from a terr
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by Wxc2jjJmST9XWWL 5y ago
You need to put on quite a show to recreate 9/11. You need little to distribute biochemical or radioactive material, or fake distribute. Imagine a crop plane spraying some mass event. Let's even assume for the sake of argument it
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by Wxc2jjJmST9XWWL 5y ago
It's been many years since I've read it, but physics professor Richard A. Muller in his book https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physics_for_Future_Presidents argues that agricultural planes pose a great possibilit
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by Wxc2jjJmST9XWWL 5y ago
I'm not so sure. I think it's really questionable if the SCM used is a major factor in deciding what open source project one wants to contribute to? "I would want to contribute to OpenBSD, but they use CVS, so I won't&qu
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by Wxc2jjJmST9XWWL 5y ago
Yep, 12 hours later it certainly looks that way. One channel I know migrated to OFTC, others seem to have parallel channels on Libera or are thinking about it, and might make the switch. Am registered on Libera just in case, and connected.
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by Wxc2jjJmST9XWWL 5y ago
Sorry for a long answer to a one-liner. Whatever people's opinion about what they should use... CVS works for them, everyone of their users and developers is used to it, and they've been self hosting their code for ... 15 years at
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by Wxc2jjJmST9XWWL 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Lee_(entrepreneur) "In 2021, Lee took control of freenode, making some staff resign and move to Libera.chat." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libera.cha
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by Wxc2jjJmST9XWWL 5y ago
with UI I meant user interface, but also to some degree feature set. I know they want to have it modern, but the charm of IRC to me is that it's a simple stream of text messages. No 'answering' to specific messages, URL previ
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by Wxc2jjJmST9XWWL 5y ago
I think many are registering nicks and channels "just in case", I haven't seen true "migration" as of yet, meaning large public channels forcibly shutting down on Freenode. Let the storm calm down and then we will s
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by Wxc2jjJmST9XWWL 5y ago
Not sure about people pushing matrix as an alternative. I tried out Matrix several weeks ago and hated everything about it. From the account creation process, shiny modern UI, channel finding options, activity level (since you are basically
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by Wxc2jjJmST9XWWL 5y ago
I ditch every user name eventually, and have only a selected few who I will stay in contact with. Building an online long term identify in and of itself just seems dangerous and revealing. That's why when I created this account for exa
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by Wxc2jjJmST9XWWL 5y ago
It just seems to create a huge vulnerability. It can be such a reveal. Show me someone's HN, Reddit and some other stuff they've been using, and the profile I can assemble from these comments... you might as well just scream your
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Ask HN: Being comfortable using your “real life persona” online
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