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um what isn't this massive news, in the weird bubble reality of RMS at least like in reality who gives a poo poo (except janitorial and faculty staff at MIT, what a relief for them) I wouldn't be surprised if it turns out some chud or liberterian is hiring RMS for some dumb bullshit symbolism
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Gentle Autist posted:except janitorial and faculty staff at MIT, what a relief for them they're going to have a lil party where they fill that room with concrete
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quote:over a series of misunderstandings and mischaracterizations. I dunno, 'letting' him resign and give this as a reason kinda defeats the purpose. i mean yay, he's gone, but the behavior aint gonna stop
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Gentle Autist posted:isn't this massive news, in the weird bubble reality of RMS at least I'm happy, been fighting against this poo poo since I was a teenager in the 90s. A monster is down.
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so is RMS better than the MIT for resigning on his own or was he pressured into resigning to save face
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Hexyflexy posted:I’ve been waiting 20 years. hell yeah shes my favorite programmer from history
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2013 lurker rereg posted:I believe he curls and then emails himself webpages. toejam and curl
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wonder if rms will lose his spot at FSF as well
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influx. posted:I dunno, 'letting' him resign and give this as a reason kinda defeats the purpose. i have no idea what kind of position he had but tenured faculty and some other positions of that type require a vote to be fired. so him resigning may be in response to the provost or whoever saying “the board is meeting next Monday and you’ll be fired then”
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i wonder how many osha hazard violations theres's gonna be for the people who go in to detox his office
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also if a mod sees this can you change the name of the thread to "rms got canceled lol" tia
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NoneMoreNegative posted:toejam and curl
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pram posted:stallmans idiotic copyleft bullshit also made MIT/BSD licenses much more popular. which are actual Freedom Farmer Crack-rear end posted:wonder if rms will lose his spot at FSF as well https://blog.halon.org.uk/2019/09/gnome-foundation-relationship-gnu-fsf/ Symbolic non-binding saber rattling calling for this from an executive director of the Gnome project
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Coffee Jones posted:frictionless bubble reality assumes infinite resources for fights and occasional symbolic victories against set-top box developers. quote:This is an unfortunate move on the behalf of GNOME. normally i'd not source quotes but jfc the comments
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this is just a disinformation campaign to sew disunity among the FLOSSerati so that our adversaries can swoop in and https://www.csail.mit.edu/people?person%5B0%5D=role%3A295 - warning, slow site it looks like Visiting Scientist is a nice way of saying "Unofficial Capacity", like "Research Affiliate" everyone else around him is a grad student. RMS had an understanding with the faculty which could be revoked at any moment. So, it all amounts to a free office in some cinderblock building with a couch to crash on. That's about it. God, I miss college. \/ Coffee Jones fucked around with this message at 03:42 on Sep 17, 2019 |
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what did he resign from, exactly? MIT wasn't paying him, to my knowledge; they just gave him an office, which i understand was basically because he was sleeping on the floor of the computer lab or something.hobbesmaster posted:i have no idea what kind of position he had but tenured faculty and some other positions of that type require a vote to be fired. so him resigning may be in response to the provost or whoever saying “the board is meeting next Monday and you’ll be fired then” he's definitely not faculty and definitely does not have tenure. the closest thing to a job description that i can find on wikipedia is "unpaid visiting scientist," i.e. essentially a guest lecturer e: csail website also describes him as "visiting scientist"
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Stallman is a genius and lives a life like an ancient Greek philosopher or wandering prophet. Like many brilliant people who occupy that category, he has no sense of social graces. He writes down the things he thinks. He has virtually no theory of mind, no way to perceive how the people around him are going to react to what he says. In the past, that curse has granted us with great gifts as Stallman had the boldness and fool's spirit of being able to say and think things others would not. That granted us the entire ecosystem of free software, and who knows how decrepit the Internet would be without his contributions. At one point this guy had the entirety of gcc in his head. I can't even fathom the kind of brain that could do that. The other half of this condition is that he doesn't understand a lot of the world. He has no idea how people relate to one another, how they communicate with one another. He's affected by an extreme disability that puts his social abilities on par with many children of single digit ages. What the people are doing who just drove him out of one of the last corners of social prestige he had is bullying a disabled person. There's lots of other people that are affected by circumstances like these. Most of them are children, idly posting away on social media completely unaware that they destroy their futures. I know an autistic refugee that had academic grants cancelled because of something they said on Twitter years ago, when they were 16. Tanner Flake had a politically prominent father and said some off color things in video game communities when he was 9 and 10. Google will never forget it. This is all so perverse. The people doing this stuff are pure evil.
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- hacker news
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wish he’d fall off a cliff with a dog like a real fool
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Luigi Thirty posted:wish he’d fall off a cliff with a dog like a real fool Oi, dogs are cool. Wish he'd fall off a cliff with a duff device for a nose.
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Hexyflexy posted:Oi, dogs are cool. Wish he'd fall off a cliff with a duff device for a noose.
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I wish I knew how I did that.
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Hexyflexy posted:I wish I knew how I did that. undefined behavior
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ladies and gentlemen we got him
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wonder if the internet can get esr next not that he has anything to resign from
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Kazinsal posted:wonder if the internet can get esr next We knew esr was a bastard in 1998 when I was in college.
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oh my goodness they actually made a GNU/mastodon. or is it... mastodon/GNU?? https://gnu.io/social/
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Lutha Mahtin posted:oh my goodness they actually made a GNU/mastodon. or is it... mastodon/GNU?? Is it just me, or is there not a single thing on that page on how you actually chat to anyone.
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weird how those anti-sjw types or autist defender crusaders or whatever you want to call them are so ready to empathise with and defend confirmation-bias-affirming manchildren but don't even entertain doing the same thing for victims of abuse or exploitationa good movie posted:hackernews: You know what you look like to me, with your macbook pro and your oh-my-zsh config? You look like a rube. A well scrubbed, hustling rube with a little taste. Good nutrition's given you some length of bone, but you're not more than one generation from poor white trash, are you, SexualAbuseVictim #12? And that accent you've tried so desperately to shed: pure West Virginia. What is your father, dear? Is he a coal miner? Does he stink of the lamp? You know how quickly the boys found you... all those tedious sticky fumblings in the back seats of cars... while you could only dream of getting out... getting anywhere... getting all the way to the FSF. git apologist fucked around with this message at 04:34 on Sep 17, 2019 |
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Hexyflexy posted:Is it just me, or is there not a single thing on that page on how you actually chat to anyone. hahaha you're totally right, and here is their web page that's linked from gnu.io as "Join a GNU social instance" https://gnu.io/social/try/
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Lutha Mahtin posted:hahaha you're totally right, and here is their web page that's linked from gnu.io as "Join a GNU social instance" I too prefer social network websites without a living person on them.
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Last Chance posted:- hacker news had me in the first half, not gonna lie
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he should have taken time off to learn how to be social like linus. oh wait, he doesn’t have any companies paying him that could make him do that.
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klafbang posted:I too prefer social network websites without a living person on them. zombo.com
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animist posted:had me in the first half, not gonna lie I was up to "source you are" before wisely refreshing
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something about pedofilia and rape(???
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ppl trading RMS interactions on the tooter. I did not know about the plants.
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