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by fche 11y ago
"They have been solicited to pay to attend LF organized conferences." That appears to be a big part of the business model of LF.
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by fche 11y ago
"you just blamed the victim" That phrase has lost meaning. Listing things the victim could have done differently or better is nothing but exploration of the causal chain. Blame in any logical or legal sense accrues only to a pro
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by fche 11y ago
Sorry: I should not have implied that the CBC is the only one with a royal charter for political capital minting/disposal.
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by fche 11y ago
"We need to invest in growth sectors." Who exactly is this "we"? You personally can invest in whatever sectors you like, and so can your neighbours. How is that not enough?
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by fche 11y ago
"expending massive political capital" Luckily, political capital is a fiat currency and can be created or destroyed by the CBC in moments.
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by fche 11y ago
The PuffHo article is vapic & narcissistic the same way.
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by fche 11y ago
The original commenter claimed "He means it. Literally." I rather think my mind-reading is more plausible than his/hers.
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by fche 11y ago
"Someone in an organized community was being harassed" Note that one of the twists & turns in this sorry saga was that the same freebsd developer submitted a documented harassment complaint against Randi. The freebsd CoC wa
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by fche 11y ago
There is a thread on KiA where references to the original materials (transcripts of Randi's dispute with the freebsd developer) are available. The raw materials paint a rather less flattering portrait of who was attacking / haras
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by fche 11y ago
I'm not saying it's tasteful or appropriate. But it's not "literal".
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by fche 11y ago
Can you give some references to problems that existed in your organization before the CoC, and to what extent the CoC procedures have demonstrably helped?
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by fche 11y ago
Randi talked about several different guys. Her main beef seems to be with the unnamed FreeBSD committer. She refers to other people ("neo-nazi friends") with whom that person communicates on twitter / etc., one of whom is ro
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by fche 11y ago
Randi's accusation about actual gamergate participation in her recent freebsd ordeal consists entirely of: "GamerGate hopped onto all of this." No claims of gamergate people actually doing anything, just hopping.
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by fche 11y ago
"He means it. Literally." No, rooshv was dripping with sarcasm.
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by fche 11y ago
There should exist an option that is between those spectrum endpoints. One that runs a lot more free (inspectable, trustworthy) software than present cloud services. One that leaves some control with the owner of the data.
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by fche 11y ago
"GCC has been designed specifically NOT to be extended." Several extension mechanisms have been built out in the last few years, including plugins for intermediate passes of compilation, and a library to operate as a JIT.
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by fche 11y ago
In other news, AOL still exists.
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by fche 11y ago
OK, there were three bullets in the middle of the "protocol" that dealt with procedure. ("The organizers shall provide as secure ..." through "... privacy of all parties"). But it belabours trivia ("coll
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by fche 11y ago
"So the solution is to remove the incentives and opportunities for misbehavior, and raise the risks of exposure. Then, bad actors will adapt and self-select. Either they will behave, or they will go elsewhere." That sounds good, b
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by fche 11y ago
https://archive.org/details/BBS.The.Documentary
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by fche 11y ago
"Density requires a level of competence in governance ..." And density requires a populace willing to suffer the indignities of such density too ... unless you were proposing that government should impose it regardless ... or that
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by fche 11y ago
Might want to include overt taxpayer subsidies in the former, plus any allowance for access to a car in those cases where mass transit doesn't cut it. It's kind of like including the capital/expense cost of the necessary stan
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by fche 11y ago
"... when preventing scientists from sharing their research with the greater scientific community ..." There was no such prevention.
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by fche 11y ago
"how to push back against the perpetrators who are clearly acting in bad faith but stay on the legal side" But by definition of being on the legal side, such people are not even perpetrators. Perhaps "bad-faith-crimes" a
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by fche 11y ago
That may be so, but it sounded like you were making a much stronger claim two messages up - as though intent made activity more harmful to the victim (than if no intent were present). That worries me because that way lies thought policing.
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by fche 11y ago
"[intent-land are] the ones that are becoming the most harmful" Why do you think so? Or in other words, in what cases does the intent of a person make any action more harmful?
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by fche 11y ago
That sounds like true-scottish-canadian norms.
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by fche 11y ago
I liked that it was written by a scientist. But the text was bogged down by so much science exposition that the story - characters & drama - could barely breathe. There was a paragraph of [tech] on every page.
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by fche 11y ago
Funding cuts are off topic to "muzzling".
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by fche 11y ago
... and even that "muzzling" was limited to the capacity in which those scientists were to talk to mass media. They could and did publish any academic papers / attend conferences / etc. They just couldn't speak se

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