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by mith__ 5y ago
the primary argument here is one of trust the original creator of the channel gained trust by their userbase to not do untowards things with the feed, like filtering out certain things then they moved their project elsewhere and left a redi
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by mith__ 5y ago
It is impressive how little time it took for the abuses to kick in.
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by mith__ 5y ago
pretty much the opposite happened here sawyer had decided some time ago that the p5p mailing list wasn't receptive to his ideas and moved things into secret decision making with like 2-3 others in the know, culminating in his announcin
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by mith__ 5y ago
> > Depends on what you mean by cruft As the one who asked that: That wasn't even aimed at sawyer for one. For the other it was an honest question because Perl has a LOT of cruft both in the code, in the tooling, in the docs, in
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by mith__ 5y ago
not quite? the longer story is: last summer a plan was revealed (and hatched in secret) to change the default behavior of perl's interpreter. perl not being a language where binaries are distributed in a compiled manner, but code is an
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by mith__ 5y ago
i did so because i disagree that said, yes, i am involved. sorry, i forgot my github account doesn't use my usual username
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by mith__ 5y ago
which sock puppet, this account? i didn't have any other account to be able to use on hn, feel free to ask the mods
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by mith__ 5y ago
here is the full context of the event sawyer cites as the last incident of "harrassment" https://gist.github.com/wchristian/4e1bcdb761f20985b0a5c97a4...