Posts by jake

Re: It's elementary....for volunteer work?

"As a member of the Board"

Again, no. He was not.

"In fact, as a co-founder, he probably helped create their code of conduct, their culture, and their expectations of Directors."

Please do a little research before spouting off. He was co-founder of a little piece of FOSS code that is so small that it doesn't even have it's own Wiki page. He was in no way, shape or form a part of the ASF board, nor did he contribute to the CoC that was forced on all the little projects under the ASF.

Re: It's elementary

"He took a job with a code of conduct"

No, he did not. He co-created a piece of code that eventually found itself under the auspices of the ASF. Later, the ASF decided to force a code of conduct on all such FOSS projects under their wing. He did not agree to it, it was presented as fait accompli to him and everybody else under the auspices of the ASF.

Part of that code says (paraphrasing) "The ASF is allowed to police your every thought and word, even when you are not working on ASF stuff".

Personally, I'd tell the ASF to fuck off. I have, in fact. (I started contributing to NCSA HTTPd before Apache existed, and then continued contributing after Apache took over the codebase. I stopped contributing when they implemented the code of conduct. I refuse to work for thought police.)

Re: do they really like to police tweets?

"p.s. I wonder when we start mis-quoting:"

I did, in July of 2020. The context is almost the same.

I do not claim to have been the first.

Re: How refreshing!

I know what racism is, TYVM. Nowhere in its definition does it say that name-calling is a good idea, not even in response to name-callers.

Re: Wrong to kick him out

So you can't even bother to try to make yourself understood?

Fair enough. I'll ignore you now.

Re: Wrong to kick him out

That's a nice opinion piece, jtaylor.

Sadly for your opinion, however, Mr. Rodriguez was not a member of the ASF board. He is the co-founder of a bit of FOSS code that currently hangs out under the auspices of the ASF.

Re: It's elementary

"The allegedly should imply "innocent until proven guilty""

I agree. However, in our modern "enlightened" society, an allegation is enough to try, convict and sentence somebody in the court of public opinion. And it's getting worse.

Exactly. Who cares what the twits at twitter allow or disallow? We'll always have Usenet ...

Agree on a jerk's a jerk. But many people are jerks. Should they all get pulled from whatever project they are on?

And yes, the wws and the a-wws are two sides of the same coin. Neither would exist without the other. They really ought to get a room and get the inevitable over with.

But that's all meaningless to my question. Would you have run across his tweets and "peeked" at them had they not been mentioned here (or wherever the third-party mentioned them)? If you had not "peeked", would they have affected you in any way, shape, or form?

Re: Wrong to kick him out

No, implying that I may disagree with what you have to say, but I will fight for your right to say it. Just not necessarily in my livingroom.

Note that "the guy" you quoted isn't the main subject of TOA.

Also note that the other guy, who was that subject, didn't say those things in the ASF's livingroom.

Re: Wrong to kick him out

Why do people like you insist on putting words in other people's mouths? I made no such claim, and you know it.

Re: Hey, Apache Software Foundation ...

They've been selling Jeep Cherokees for almost 50 years ... Methinks it's a trifle late to bitch about it now. It'll be interesting to see what SCotUS has to say about it when it gets to that level ... and you know it will.

On the other hand, there are Adult ways of handling this kind of thing. See the Florida Seminoles, for a good example.

Note that mine was pointing out how petty and hypocritical the ASF is being.

Re: Obligatory XKCD

It even has a name ... Hospital Humo(u)r.

Sadly, a friend that works at the local hospital says it is now frowned upon. And the staff are feeling the effects of not having that release. Which is inevitably being transferred to the patients. Which does absolutely nothing for their over-all health.

One wonders how M*A*S*H would be received by today's television audience ... or even if it would have made it past today's network censors in the first place. Would the BBC allow Blackadder if it were pitched today? How about Are You Being Served?

Here's a good one ... Disney has started to stream Jim Henson's original "The Muppet Show" on Disney+. But these days it comes with an offensive content disclaimer. Really. You can't make this shit up.

Did you know that from his work on the project? Or did you run across some hearsay and go out of your way to see what the guy was doing in his free time? Doesn't that make you a stalker?

Re: Nazi jokes, rape jokes, not actually funny

No, I didn't read whatever it was he wrote. Because I don't want to. Simples.

But you did read it, presumably because you wanted to. So what are you bitching about? Afraid you Great Aunt in Duluth might read it? Perhaps you should let her decide that for herself. She's an adult, right?

And don't give me that bogus bullshit about "think about the children". It's the parent's job to think about their kids, not mine (unless I am specifically invited, in a specific situation).

Re: Obligatory XKCD

The fifth panel is a lie. It should read "It's just that the people presumed to be in charge don't like it when people don't march in thought-step with them". I invite you to fill in the sixth panel at your leisure (which is, in an of itself, an anathema to those presumed to be in charge ... ).

It's funny, left-wing-nuts used to invite the differently thinking into their ranks. Now thinking differently is considered evil, just like the right-wing-nuts. That's why I lump 'em all together and just call 'em what they are ... collectively, they are wingnuts, and all equally dangerous.

Even if he doesnlt care anymore ...

... it would be fun to see him fork it and see who follows him. I'd find it absolutely hysterical if he took the bulk of the existing developers with him, and then (if he truly has no interest in the project anymore) quietly passed the reins and dropped out, point made.

Re: How refreshing!

So, Naich, you and your chosen few are allowed to call people names, but people you don't like are evil when they do the same? Do you know what the word hypocrite means?

Re: Wrong to kick him out

Actually, it is related to this article. We have a business entity telling someone what they can an cannot say in their spare time, away from that entity.

ASF is attempting to stifle free speech, with the penalty of ostracism for those who refuse to march in lock-step even in their private time. This is one of the most evil things humans do to each other.

Re: What free speech?

Don't do the crime if you can't do the time.

Society has rules and regs. Break them, go to jail. Dont like the rules and regs? Get enough people together who agree with you and change them. In this country, it is not only possible, it happens.

::shrugs::

Re: Wrong to kick him out

" am so bored of Americans thinking they have a perfect system, all the while quoting Amendments to the system..."

You are only bored because you haven't bothered trying to understand how it works. Nobody important ever said it was perfect. The amendment process was built into the system. Seems the Founders realized that society is not static.

Re: How even dare you to question identity politics and woke culture?

The change is happening. Look where the thumbs are pointing in these comments.

Re: I don't know why there is such a fuss over this.

Today's kids would do well to listen to, and understand, Tom Robinson's song "Power in the Darkness" from 1978.

The slope is very slippery. Which side of the line are you on?

Re: Hey, Apache Software Foundation ...

"Their symbol can be a ball of multicolored/broken wires with a few sticking out."

That would infringe on Airspeeder's image in the public eye, wouldn't it?

Re: GO

To make it truly sustainable, shouldn't that be a central group of housing, surrounded by 8 fields growing most or all of the village's food?

Re: In 'Woven City' ...

It's worse ... the automation in each householdpod will be identical because customizing it for each and every occupant will be incredibly costly. This means no individuality in furniture placement ... or where food is placed in refrigerators. Or the location, quantity, and type of spices in the cupboard. Over the top, or out from under? No longer your choice, prole. Same for every other little touch that makes a house a home.

Moving the humans out would indeed be the logical conclusion.

Re: In 'Woven City' ...

"Heck, you can't even trust governments with that!"

FTFY

Re: assisted living facilities

Thanks to Covid, we have that already. The neighbor of a friend of mine in town seems to live on delivered fast food (3X/day!) and cheap beer. Lots of cheap beer. He hasn't been off his property in almost a year.

Re: I bet the way citizens will greet each other will be ...

In the early/mid 1980s my much hacked Heath HERO1 would push the kitchen trash can over to the back door to remind me that it was trash day. After about a month I stopped it. Was cute, but useless ... and once, when the trash was top-heavy, it spread garbage all over the ground floor.

Re: What are the points of these RC models?

You answered it for yourself. They exist as a "Wow!" factor to hopefully help put a crap-ton[0] of investor money into the direct, personal control of the officers of the company, with little to no oversight as to how those funds are to be distributed. In other words, advertising from the marketing department. (Don't look at that man behind the curtain!)

Exciting investment opportunity or scam? You decide with your pocketbook.

Caveat emptor, quia ignorare non debuit quod jus alienum emit

[0] If you're into the Metricals, that would be a crap-tonne. The conversion factor is 1:1

Re: A breadboard

"The Mojave is a very big place with not a whole lot going on in it."

That's intentional. There are quite a few rules and regs that attempt to keep it that way (unless you have a valid mining claim, of course, which is a rant for another day).

People who see the desert as a whole lot of nothing can't see the forest for trees.

Re: Ignisecond, n.:

There is a reason I refuse to do work for anyone who insists on being referred to as "PhD", along with all doctors, lawyers and politicians.

Life's too short to do work for someone who knows how to do it better than I do.

Re: Shortest known period of time

If you wait anything like a minute to move away from a green light in NYC you are likely to have a bus or taxi traveling up your exhaust pipe. It's the only town I've ever driven in where you are expected to hit the gas BEFORE the light turns green, in order to have your front bumper past the cross-walk just as the light turns ... Even California's capitol city (Sacramento), with drug dealers brandishing guns indiscriminately, is safer to drive in for out-of-towners.

Ignisecond, n.:

The overlapping moment of time when the hand is locking the car door even as the brain is saying, "my keys are in there!" —Rich Hall, "Sniglets"

Re: At least they handled it well

DEC are doing Micro Vax? Still? And here I thought DEC was functionally defunct as a company these last thirty-odd years.

Re: If you'd said "no"

How about "I'll tell you when I get there, as I close my account due to your corporation's abjectly stupid rules."

"I'm trying to see the IT angle"

Go back to TFA. See the very first word, in the upper left hand corner?

Hopefully this helps your understanding.

Re: STD: Smart Telephone Dog

That's learned behavio(u)r.

Here at the Ranch, if we wear our outdoor shoes/boots anywhere indoors but in the mud room, the Collie frowns at us until we remove the offending articles. If we ignore her, she'll nose-nose-nose us, and occasionally bark, until we comply. Then she very carefully puts the footwear where it belongs ... Full story here.