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by orra 6y ago
I’m not sure I'd draw a distinction. People used to say you should initialise your variables in C89 to NULL, so you'd get a crash if you forget to properly set the variable. But enough security bugs have been caused by null pointe
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by orra 6y ago
Notepad is indeed long established. But it's in active development. OK, that's an exaggeration, but it is occasionally developed, despite its appearance not changing much in 25 years. My favourite features it gained were support
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by orra 6y ago
Panicking (unwinding) across an FFI boundary is very much undefined behaviour. You'd get analogous cross language issues with C++ exceptions. Or mixing GCC ABI unwinding with MSVC ABI unwinding. Nonetheless, there is a working group, p
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by orra 6y ago
Rustls depends upon Ring. Ring itself has a lot of code from BoringSSL, an OpenSSL fork. Long term, is this OK? How do we ensure the assembly and C code in Ring is as safe as Rustls itself?
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by orra 6y ago
It took me a minute to work out who 'a better internet' aka ISRG are. It's the folk behind Let's Encrypt. That's cool. Anyway, this sounds great to me. I'm not a huge fan of memory unsafe languages, especially
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by orra 6y ago
> most of their projects failed. I think they need to rethink their management and strategy before everything goes to the ground. Lots of projects fail. It's the nature of R&D. You should see the number of products Google has sh
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by orra 6y ago
You misunderstand. It is a change in decision from the appeals court, not a change from the jury's decision.
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by orra 6y ago
I'm objecting to the term "experimental". Each of the Oxford-AstraZeneca, Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna, and Johnson & Johnson vaccines all have Conditional Marketing Authorisation in the EU. The EU contrasts this as being muc
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by orra 6y ago
The vaccines are new but they're not experimental. They have been through the standard trials and statistical analyses.
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by orra 6y ago
Your anti vax bullshit is wrong and misleading, on so many levels.
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by orra 6y ago
Interesting. I've taken to calling my partner "partner", to be gender neutral. But in the short term, people probably incorrectly infer I use the term because I am gay. Or, if they're presumptive but less presumptive, ga
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by orra 6y ago
The old version of the document was worse, and Stallman's personal website to this day rejects the use of singular they. That's the context. It's why there's little doubt to give the benefit of.
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by orra 6y ago
> Interpreting this footnote [...] No, the footnote itself is very clear that it's OK to call a trans man "they" and never "he", if you reject his identity and would prefer to call him "she". We cannot
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by orra 6y ago
> According to this standard, they would be being disrespectful whenever they meet someone with a strong preference about their pronoun, even if they had no knowledge of the preference. No, the point is to use somebody's preferred p
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by orra 6y ago
The guideline argues "they" is gender neutral, so it does not conflict with anybody's gender identity. This misses the point. "they" is indeed gender neutral. But when we talk about specific individuals, we almost a
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by orra 6y ago
> There are several ways to avoid that; one way is to use gender-neutral pronouns, since they don't conflict with any possible gender identity. I have explained elsewhere in this thread why it's problematic to call a he/hi
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by orra 6y ago
> My sister has Asperger's and is easily able to understand [...]. I don't see what Asperger's has to do with the issues RSM was/is ignorant about. Exactly. And regardless, his (willful) non-understanding makes him a
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by orra 6y ago
This is spot on, even though predictably and depressingly you've been downvoted to hell. Autism does not excuse sexual harassment. Pretending it does is a complete ableist trope. As you say, it's a disservice to everybody with dis
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by orra 6y ago
That policy has since been updated to allow singular they, despite Stallman's objection to singular they. But now the footnote of the policy would allow you to call a trans woman "they" and never "her". That'
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by orra 6y ago
The footnote of that policy allows you to persistently call a trans man "they", even if his preferred pronoun is he. That is, the policy endorses you misgendering. Calling a he/him person a "they" is a way of saying
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by orra 6y ago
That's not the issue here. FSFE have condemned the FSF, for example.
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by orra 6y ago
Additionally, an asshole can drive away multiple people. Even if an asshole is three times as productive as your typical contributor, they can easily drive away ten people. Not to mention the morality of pedestalling creeps.
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by orra 6y ago
You downplay the sexual harassment of handing out these 'pleasure cards'. But ultimately, real women are upset by it. The unprofessional behavior discourages women from being in tech. Just because you wouldn't mind receiving
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by orra 6y ago
> The second thing the appendix listed was a mattress in his office whose primary user were most likely RMS himself since he kind of had a reputation of living in the university. Living in an office doesn't excuse having topless peo
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by orra 6y ago
Again, mental health doesn't excuse domestic abuse.
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by orra 6y ago
> Sexual Harassment can mean anything to these usurpers. This is a complete strawman. Sexual harassment is well defined. It would be unwanted and, especially, persistent sexual attention.
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by orra 6y ago
> Being a bit of a weirdo - which is really the only allegation so far that has had any real merit, to my knowledge - is not sexual harassment. Well, sure: if you ignore all the evidence, then put up a straw man, you'll never be abl
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by orra 6y ago
Did you, uh, read the medium link that I and the appendix linked to? https://selamjie.medium.com/remove-richard-stallman-appendix... He threatened suicide if a woman wouldn't date him. That's abusive manipulation.
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by orra 6y ago
> Comments in this thread represent what’s wrong with the industry. It's incredibly troubling. It shows that a hell of a lot of men will excuse incredibly shitty behaviour, because they think 'they're next'. Not unles
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by orra 6y ago
You're downplaying it entirely. He has a track record of handing out sexualized 'pleasure cards' at professional conferences. Women at MIT were warned away from him, told to keep plants to ward him off. And one of the most tr

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