psiox posted:

are these PMs you're getting or someone itt's post history? :o

off to see if i can register chudba.se , someone please spin up the wiki

rotor posted:

You should not write code at all.

Sagebrush posted:

the only true free software license is the WTFPL

code:

 
          DO WHAT THE gently caress YOU WANT TO PUBLIC LICENSE
                   Version 2, December 2004
 
Copyright (C) 2004 Sam Hocevar <sam@hocevar.net>

Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim or modified
copies of this license document, and changing it is allowed as long
as the name is changed.
 
           DO WHAT THE gently caress YOU WANT TO PUBLIC LICENSE
  TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR COPYING, DISTRIBUTION AND MODIFICATION

 0. You just DO WHAT THE gently caress YOU WANT TO.

Lain Iwakura posted:

Lutha Mahtin posted:

famous last words lol

Sagebrush posted:

why is it that the people who cite the first amendment the most frequently also always have the dumbest, most facile understanding of its function

you'd think they'd be experts in first amendment case theory considering how much they talk about it!!

like that professor i mentioned earlier who thinks it says "i can interrupt you whenever i like, and you aren't allowed to get angry or talk back over me and you have to listen to what i have to say"

BobHoward posted:

i missed this background to the Linus thing, got any pointers to more? i didn’t pay much attention, thought that maybe he finally noticed how toxic he was on his own

quote:

Stallman said “it is morally absurd to define ‘rape’ in a way that depends on minor details such as which country it was in or whether the victim was 18 years old or 17.”

The_Franz posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jskq3-lpQnE

Sagebrush posted:

a few times now i've related the anecdote my photojournalist friend told me about taking pictures of celebrities -- you keep the good ones, of course, but you also keep the bad ones where they look particularly angry or stupid or gruesome just in case there's a scandal and you need the article to have the right mood.

Sagebrush posted:

psiox posted:

are these PMs you're getting or someone itt's post history? :o

off to see if i can register chudba.se , someone please spin up the wiki

animist posted:

linus is definitely the type to identify as an edgy centrist who "hates everyone equally" but actually mostly hates [insert minority here]

Lutha Mahtin posted:

gently caress u for linking to the orange site

Shinku ABOOKEN posted:

while linus is abrasive sometimes i don't remember him being exclusionary or bigoted

Sagebrush posted:

a few times now i've related the anecdote my photojournalist friend told me about taking pictures of celebrities -- you keep the good ones, of course, but you also keep the bad ones where they look particularly angry or stupid or gruesome just in case there's a scandal and you need the article to have the right mood.

anyway, here's what the washington post is running

Tankakern posted:

but linus has been through an intervention on these issues, and the kernel has acquired a CoC because of it. you're just repeating a meme at this point

Tankakern posted:

but linus has been through an intervention on these issues, and the kernel has acquired a CoC because of it. you're just repeating a meme at this point

akadajet posted:

they should have gone with this classic

Father Jack posted:

stopping doing something lovely doesn't magically erase past actions, or the harm they did.

what meme am i repeating by suggesting that a pattern of abusive behaviour over many years by someone in a position of influence be called what it was, rather than minimised as 'abrasive'?

he habitually posted things to the lkml that would get you a probe here ffs.

Tankakern posted:

by that logic he shouldn't try to better himself, since idiots like you will harp on and on about the past forever

quote:

Its difficult to describe to a young person -- say, someone under 40 -- how social attitudes have shifted in recent decades. One of the more noticeable changes is the way that progressiveness and tolerance have been hijacked by reaction and intolerance and a mob mentality that's better suited to the Salem witch trials or a Streicher courtroom. I can see why someone like Stallman just doesn't want to play any more -- I'm similar in age and this kind of sophomoric mob mentality is just wearing in the extreme.

(I also think its a result of deliberate social policy. The generation that grew up in the 60s were very well educated and had extremely progressive ideas about equality and social justice. They presented a serious threat to the system so starting with Ricard Nixon changes were made to gradually corral thought back to a more conformist mindset. The screws were really put on during the Reagan administration; by that time education had been turned into a competitive rat race, one where only the essentials were taught,now it was going to become an expensive but must have commodity. (Similar changes were taking place in the UK.) The result has been generations of regimented, suppressed, scared and broke young adults entering the workforce, all knowing that a failure to conform will result in becoming an outcast. This culture has seeped into software.....but enough said (rambled?) about this for now.....)

Sagebrush posted:

https://twitter.com/hugelgupf/status/1174179093094588418

The Management posted:

what really happened is the companies that were paying [Linus's] salary told him that this is a pr problem for them and he needs to change his behavior.