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901.
by akerl_ 2y ago
> I have endured a sustained campaign of abuse from members of the VOGONS forum, been labelled a "clout-chaser", had threats sent to my personal email address, code been used in other projects without proper accreditation, my 3
902.
by akerl_ 2y ago
I think there's tons of content that warrants criticism, but no content that warrants harassment.
903.
by akerl_ 2y ago
> Assuming the content isn't of a nature that deserves a lot of criticism though that's in the eye of the beholder of course The fact that people think there are kinds of content that warrant harassment is kinda the root of thi
904.
by akerl_ 2y ago
That’s a wild argument, up there with “if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear.” People should be able to produce and publish content without being harassed.
905.
by akerl_ 2y ago
Becoming popular isn’t generally something an open source developer chooses to do or not do.
906.
by akerl_ 2y ago
The only techniques I’ve seen that appear to be long term effective are: 1. Be a gruff asshole who just doesn’t engage with the community or give a shit what they say or want or think 2. Don’t publish your code, or publish it anonymously an
907.
by akerl_ 2y ago
There's also a feature to let specific contacts bypass DND. My immediate family's calls are not affected by DND, and Pagerduty's calls come in as a critical notification.
908.
by akerl_ 2y ago
Is somebody using the brand on something that isn't OBS? https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~mozillateam/firefox/firefox.ja... is the config for what becomes Ubuntu's firefox package https://gitlab.
909.
by akerl_ 2y ago
I think it is possible that OBS could make that nuanced argument in court: that what Fedora is doing here confuses consumers specifically because of how they stack multiple default repos and override the 1st party package. But it would hing
910.
by akerl_ 2y ago
Can you cite one of those cases?
911.
by akerl_ 2y ago
> But modifying the build, is modifying the code. Is it? Across Ubuntu, RHEL, and Archlinux, basically every package is being built against different versions of its underlying dependencies, and is being patched as needed to work with th
912.
by akerl_ 2y ago
I think you're misunderstanding trademarks. As an example: if I buy a 12 pack of Coke, I can set up a table and sell them one can at a time. Trademarks require that I don't present that I'm sponsored by Coke, or label my non-
913.
by akerl_ 2y ago
I mean, I think the right fix is just for Fedora to stop packaging their own version. But I think that's about being good people; I don't think there's a strong legal argument here for forcing Fedora to do that.
914.
by akerl_ 2y ago
Is there legal precedent for that claim?
915.
by akerl_ 2y ago
That's sort of the difference, isn't it? Debian forked Firefox and changed the code, so they had to rename it. But this doesn't look like changing the code, it's building it with different versions of its dependencies &#
916.
by akerl_ 2y ago
Given that OBS is GPL licensed, any legal action would have to be trademark-based, right? It feels like they'd have a hard time making that case, since package repositories are pretty clearly not representing themselves as the owners o
917.
by akerl_ 2y ago
> If there are supply chain issues, used prices can go up and over the list price. The comment you're replying to isn't referring to list price, they're referring to the price of a new item. Supply chain issues, as we saw
918.
by akerl_ 2y ago
The most common way I've seen this come up is for GPG signing of git commits. The flow is roughly: sign your first commit of the day -> you get a PIN popup, fill it in, and tap the Yubikey. Later in the day, you commit again -> y
919.
by akerl_ 2y ago
The site automatically displays in dark mode if the browser says it’s using dark mode. So this isn’t something the user is doing to manipulate the style and layout: their browser is saying “hey, fyi, this user’s local system biases to dark
920.
by akerl_ 2y ago
Eh. Posting your guess about how an unreleased product you're working on will stack against competitors in the market seems like a bad move.
921.
by akerl_ 2y ago
A reminder that a major factor in USPS's budget concerns is the unique requirements they've been obligated to meet with regard to their pension funding: https://apwu.org/usps-fairness-act They were effectively man
922.
by akerl_ 2y ago
dang has commented about this before, and IIRC the gist is that he has access to a ton of data about user activity on the site, and that in the vast majority of cases where it feels like a story/comment/opinion is being brigaded o
923.
by akerl_ 2y ago
This is the 9th time in the last 2 days that this has been posted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42992019 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42991799 https://news.ycombinator.com/it
924.
by akerl_ 2y ago
Maybe the solution to the community repeatedly flagging a submission isn't to continuously post the same content over and over.
925.
by akerl_ 2y ago
I think the things you're calling out are accurate. There are more people, and especially more prominent/influential people, who are willing to press the seams of the justice system to use it for personal grievances or vendettas.
926.
by akerl_ 2y ago
I wish you'd take the extra couple minutes to type out your thoughts before submitting, rather than rapidly sending a 2 line reply and then immediately going back to flesh it out into a full thought. I think we generally agree more tha
927.
by akerl_ 2y ago
If what you need is filed stored encrypted on disk... why is "use sodium" not a viable option for you?
928.
by akerl_ 2y ago
Seemingly, enough of the community. Things are flagged and vouched for by humans who use this site.
929.
by akerl_ 2y ago
We have never been on a level playing field. The entire reason that many legislators have implemented anti-SLAPP laws are to provide avenues for this kind of legal action that attempts to use the courts to punish entities for expressive act
930.
by akerl_ 2y ago
The fact that some people are abusing the justice system for their own purposes doesn't suggest to me that everybody should start doing it.

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