teddyh

35 ms·

781.
by teddyh 2y ago
That sounds complicated and too much work. I’d prefer < https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rctzi66kCX4 >
782.
by teddyh 2y ago
It certainly is the most clickbaity title I have ever seen on an actual paper.
783.
by teddyh 2y ago
Fair point. However, officially announcing the end of the project is not too much to ask.
784.
by teddyh 2y ago
See also: < https://varlink.org/ >
785.
by teddyh 2y ago
> This is a list of software and ideas developed or maintained by the OpenBSD project (Emphasis mine.)
786.
by teddyh 2y ago
I have no problem discussing the actual topic, but this comment of yours seem to be only about your accusations against me , and does not contain any substantial on-topic arguments.
787.
by teddyh 2y ago
> a maintainer is entirely in their rights [but] it's unprofessional It is entirely reasonable for users to expect maintainers to behave respectably. Users may not have any legal rights to be treated professionally, but it
788.
by teddyh 2y ago
> Who do you suppose he should hand it off to? Like I said, anyone would be better than nobody .
789.
by teddyh 2y ago
> I completely disagree. Your hypothetical situation sounds absolutely like entitlement to me. Do you mean to say that you think that it would be completely socially acceptable for a maintainer to act as in my hypothetical exaggerated
790.
by teddyh 2y ago
> respond to the entirety of others' comments You are mischaracterizing what I wrote. I did not say the entirety of others’s comments; I explicitly wrote only “make reasonable attempts”. > Using someone's free software i
791.
by teddyh 2y ago
A.k.a. Mystery meat navigation : < https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mystery_meat_navi... >
792.
by teddyh 2y ago
> How do you retire without it sounding like an insult to the ecosystem and the people who helped you make the product good? I would think it’s fairly simple. Announce your retirement from the project, and assign the project leadershi
793.
by teddyh 2y ago
Exactly, yes. Thank you. I have explicitly, every time I mentioned the word, been referring to a social obligation, i.e. specifically not a legal one. > But perhaps we can aim for a happy medium Unfortunately, there is a vicious cy
794.
by teddyh 2y ago
By other maintainers, yes, but for the benefit of users . Also, if these minimal levels of decency (which I suggest) are in fact so onerous to surely drive all maintainers to burnout (as frequently claimed, even in this thread), why, then
795.
by teddyh 2y ago
Exactly . A modicum of respect is all I expect.
796.
by teddyh 2y ago
> I don't "keep" doing anything Fair; I have edited. > this social obligation on the part of open source maintainers you seem the believe in is not a thing. Many people do think it’s a thing, though. See my links t
797.
by teddyh 2y ago
I only mentioned two options to simplify. I agree that there are many levels, as I have written about previously: < https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19538256 >
798.
by teddyh 2y ago
They are covered in a legal sense . But that was not what we were discussing.
799.
by teddyh 2y ago
People “have the option” to say whatever they want – it’s called Free Speech, and it’s an important legal right. But that does not mean that I think that everything people do say is right and proper. I can, and will, criticize people fo
800.
by teddyh 2y ago
Comparing mainainers being socially obligated to respond to questions to actual slavery , is unseemly. If people don’t want the social burden of being a public person or even the relatively small burden of having a public project, they hav
801.
by teddyh 2y ago
That’s the legal warranty disclaimer. It has nothing to do with support, security fixes, or future development, and certainly does not speak about simply being reasonably responsive when being contacted by users. Also, and this might be har
802.
by teddyh 2y ago
Also the tag “man_made=torii” on overpass turbo: < http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/1Ze7 >
803.
by teddyh 2y ago
> Creators / maintainers owe us nothing I would argue that they do, in fact, owe us something . All people who make public announcements are in effect holding a conversation with the public, until such time as they publicly annou
804.
by teddyh 2y ago
It seems that what he actually objects to are the now-ubiquitous surveillance, centralization, and black-box algorithm curation aspects of social networks – not the actually social parts.
805.
by teddyh 2y ago
I often link to these articles. Especially the second one is exactly what you are talking about: • 5 Things Nobody Tells You About Being Poor, May 27, 2011: < https://www.cracked.com/blog/5-things-nobody-tells-you-abo
806.
by teddyh 2y ago
Or this video, by Quintin Smith (People Make Games): < https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gXlauRB1EQ > (with follow-up: < https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTMF6xEiAaY >)
807.
by teddyh 2y ago
Your "use case" should be, there's a 22 year old college student living in the dorms. How will this software get him laid? — Jamie Zawinski < https://www.jwz.org/doc/groupware.html >
808.
by teddyh 2y ago
Review by “Yahtzee” Croshaw: < https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krq6-1ht_kk >
809.
by teddyh 2y ago
> Did you try skimming some of the references on the linked page? I honestly missed them. So, it seems to be TikTok and Facebook (including Instagram) removing abortion-related things (not very precisely defined) after the overturn of
810.
by teddyh 2y ago
Relevant xkcd: < https://xkcd.com/931/ >

More ›