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by florkbork 1y ago
I sincerely doubt this without a source
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by florkbork 1y ago
Notice how this was taking over a GitHub repository from an entire team of maintainers, through deceit ; and now we are all a few weeks in and you have seemingly accepted the narrative that this is now one bad apple justifies every action
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by florkbork 1y ago
Right? Why is there (seemingly) no public offer to former maintainers to rejoin, or acknowledgement of wrongdoing having been done as part of this? It's practically zero cost to do that; as the Ruby core team is (largely) not the party
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by florkbork 1y ago
No, no, no, this isn't the open source way at all! I can't believe you aren't getting it still! Because I once installed your project, I need to: - Take over all of the accounts/access you AND all of your friends/co
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by florkbork 1y ago
Do the former maintainers have full commit access? Remember, this is what was taken in the middle of a discussion about governance. https://github.com/rubygems/rfcs/pull/61
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by florkbork 1y ago
Imagine if you opened up your laptop to discover Microsoft windows has locked you out of a your entire machine, because you were writing a novel in RTF and it could be opened in Microsoft Word. Microsoft's executives started posting th
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by florkbork 1y ago
I hate to ask; but - Account created 14 hours ago. - Posts article crammed full of accusations - Has a strong well formed opinion about "it's a crime", but didn't? read the content where the subject of the accusations ha
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by florkbork 1y ago
You already suspect this, but your expectations are out of line with the actual game/meta game/propaganda model there. You as a person who uses reddit have a general agreement most likely with the concept of reddiquette, and perha
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by florkbork 1y ago
Ah yes, "slam in" to a situation is definitely the correct terminology for forking a project that was seized from you by a hostile party.
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by florkbork 1y ago
Read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.coop Think about all of the organisational structures you know of. Then ask yourself how is a cooperative fundamentally untrustworthy?
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by florkbork 1y ago
No. Imagine if someone came into your house and changed all of the locks on you/your family, because "security". You had built that house from your original designs but the other party claims they own it now because they happ
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by florkbork 1y ago
The examples are deliberately chosen as extremes, where they have an ethical standpoint. I suggest the examples work even better with the context you add - you do not have to agree with the ethics or like them! On the "funding terroris
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by florkbork 1y ago
Let's restate your points a bit, but using the words "ethics" rather than CoC. Is publishing an ethical standpoint a "trouble making"? Depends, doesn't it? What if you examine the most common top ethical viewpo
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by florkbork 1y ago
Yeah, nah. Watch how an open discussion here: https://github.com/nixos/rfcs/pull/98 ... devolves into a massive outcry because a bunch of folks not behaving in good faith didn't like "we don't
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by florkbork 1y ago
https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/search/display/display.... Literally right there in the bill, showing your papers and the company collecting is just as much of an offense as them doing nothing to stop ki
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by florkbork 1y ago
https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/search/display/display.... Read the bill. Gov ID collection is just as much a violation as failing to take any action
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by florkbork 1y ago
https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/search/display/display.... Read the legislation. Ask yourself if it's better for a country's government or a foreign set of social media companies to control wha
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by florkbork 1y ago
Pfft. https://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/search/display/display.... Read it. It is specifically targeting companies who currently run riot over young individual's digital identity, flog it off to marke
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by florkbork 1y ago
What if the point isn't to enforce at the user level, but at the company level? 30,000 penalty units for violations. 1 unit = $330 AUD at the moment.
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by florkbork 1y ago
I find I am broadly supportive of these laws (The Online Safety Amendment (Social Media Minimum Age) Bill 2024), even if this specific regulation is a bit of pearl clutching wowserism. Why? If you read the original legislation https:/