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by meribold 6y ago
He stated at < https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26713636 > that it's users and not moderators that are flagging all posts related to RMS. He even said he'd be willing to disable flagging on a somewhat neut
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A Critique of the Open Letter Calling for the Removal of RMS(meribold.org)
234 points by meribold 6y ago|245 comments
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by meribold 6y ago
That steering committee has condemned RMS as well now.
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by meribold 6y ago
The fact that parent created a "risky_opinions" throwaway for sharing their rather moderate take on this controversy should tell all of us that something is going wrong.
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by meribold 6y ago
> I haven't yet made up my mind on whether they should bar him from being a board member. On second though, there's simply no reason for me to have an opinion on this at all, and the same probably goes for a lot of the people s
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by meribold 6y ago
I got carried away there, but at the very least they don't explain why [1] is transphobic and are generally setting the bar for transphobia quite low. There are even transgender persons that came out in support of Stallman. I find seve
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by meribold 6y ago
I agree with you that Stallman's proclivity toward making tactless and contentious statements at the worst possible times on topics that have nothing to do with Free Software make him a poor spokesperson for the FSF. I haven't yet
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by meribold 6y ago
I find the evidence presented by < https://rms-open-letter.github.io > for Stallman being transphobic absurd. They are citing this document [1]. Here's what it actually says: > Please think about how to treat other p
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by meribold 6y ago
Have you read the document [1] they cite as evidence that Stallman is transphobic? This is what it actually says: > Please think about how to treat other participants with respect, especially when you disagree with them. For instance, ca
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Based Cooking(based.cooking)
394 points by meribold 6y ago|446 comments
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by meribold 6y ago
I don't think Python releases following 3.6 introduced any changes that render any of the information in my article outdated.
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Virtual Environments Demystified(meribold.org)
93 points by meribold 6y ago|31 comments
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by meribold 6y ago
A second layer of encryption actually seems better since the key, unlike the horcrux, won't be leaked to all services.
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by meribold 6y ago
This seems no better than a password manager that stores encrypted passwords but not the decryption key.
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by meribold 6y ago
Can it cope with services that disallow certain characters? Can it cope with services that require e.g. at least one digit, symbol, and capital letter?
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by meribold 6y ago
Hah, good catch! I'll definitely treat that as a bug.
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Show HN: Pomodoro timer using figlet, cowsay, and optionally lolcat(github.com)
3 points by meribold 6y ago|2 comments
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Show HN: Pomodoro timer using figlet, cowsay, and optionally lolcat(github.com)
1 points by meribold 6y ago|0 comments
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by meribold 6y ago
I could probably find an address you don't want to just block once I know your firstandlast.com domain. Why not use @fastmail.com (or any of Fastmail's other domains) for throwaway aliases?
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by meribold 6y ago
Agree about Google and Dropbox, but rsync.net has read-only snapshots so you can call them and ask for old files.
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Email Workflow Demo (Neovim, NeoMutt, UltiSnips, Khard/Omnifunc Contact Compl..)(youtube.com)
1 points by meribold 7y ago|0 comments
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by meribold 7y ago
Mine is https://meribold.org/ .
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by meribold 7y ago
Maybe one drawback is deeper sleep which makes it easier for predators to sneak up.
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The One Year Anniversary of the Death of Terry Davis [video](youtube.com)
2 points by meribold 7y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: Pomodoro timer using figlet, cowsay, and optionally lolcat(github.com)
1 points by meribold 7y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: Pomodoro timer using figlet, cowsay, and optionally lolcat(github.com)
2 points by meribold 7y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: Pomodoro timer using figlet, cowsay, and optionally lolcat(github.com)
2 points by meribold 7y ago|0 comments
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by meribold 7y ago
On the flip side, it may become harder to convince people of the truth when there is such a convenient way to reject unwelcome video evidence. This could amplify echo chambers.
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by meribold 7y ago
I think you can actually start a Bash process and quite many bc processes in the time the CPython interpreter needs for startup.
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Why I Choose Free And Open Source Software(youtube.com)
1 points by meribold 7y ago|0 comments

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