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[-] [email protected] 217 points 2 years ago

This is pretty much my stance.

A whole lot of what the right gets uppity about is none of falls strictly in the 'none of their fucking business' category

A common dog whistle for the right is individual rights and freedoms... Yet they get hung up on things like trans rights which are checks notes individual rights and freedoms

[-] [email protected] 31 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Yeah, but you forget about their individual right and freedom not to feel offended.

[-] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago

More like their right and freedom to feel superior to others by invalidating them.

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[-] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

*Their individual right and freedom to infringe upon other people's rights without consequences.

[-] [email protected] 101 points 2 years ago

Love to see it. Not shocked, though.

For an opposite example, the creator of a niche programming language that is the only one I'm interested in (it's really great, and I haven't seen anything that comes close to fitting the same place) said something at-very-least stupid which was the final straw that caused a core developer (nearly co-creator? created the package manager+installer, wrote a book) to quit. And it already had a low bus-factor.

[-] [email protected] 46 points 2 years ago

Can't say that without spilling the deets. What language?

[-] [email protected] 57 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Wouldn't have been difficult to sleuth using my profile here, but Nim-lang. Specifically because it's basically an all-in-one, being easy and fast+capable+flexible. Maybe not enough to go by (and I didn't finish/release it), but some code that I actually wrote (+what it's loading)

For further context on the statement by the creator, it was complaining about the "grammar" of singular they. Aside from that being an obvious culture-war BS dogwhistle, the person who quit knew them closely so I don't think it was an overreaction or misunderstanding.

@Serdan

[-] [email protected] 25 points 2 years ago

Oh, damn. Why do assholes gotta ruin everything?

I've seen Nim before. It looks interesting, and I like the promise of a no-nonsense, performant language. I'm comfortable over here in dotnet land though. 😄

[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

dotnet, go, and rust seem like the most promising languages at the moment.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

Singular they has been used for something like 7 centuries.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

Yes, that's why I said it was at-least stupid. It isn't even an uncommon thing in modern usage. We can accept it without it being a political thing, and it matters even less in an online community.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

Which language?

[-] [email protected] 91 points 2 years ago

I remember having a conversation with my conservative boss. He said something stupid about not understanding pronouns and the look on his face when I told him it didn't matter because the pronouns aren't for him. If he can't take a few minutes to understand why someone uses a specific pronoun, it's better that he just excuses himself from it. He just couldn't understand why I would exclude him in that way. Like fuck you dude, you bring it up, get upset when you can't understand and then think it's all about you. Fuck off.

[-] [email protected] 23 points 2 years ago

Would be better if you just started calling him she, they or it. You would probably be fired, but he would get the message. mostly wouldn't you never know with them people

[-] [email protected] 45 points 2 years ago

They'd be fired, and he wouldn't have got the message. I'm 100% confident on this one

[-] [email protected] 21 points 2 years ago

The boss doesn't need to get the message. How it works isn't complicated and I don't believe that anyone just can't understand it. That's not the issue and never has been.

They just hate trans people.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Bingo. The message isn't for the boss. It's for my coworkers who might be hiding their identity because of that boss to know they have someone in their corner.

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[-] [email protected] 56 points 2 years ago

I want to see Linus and Stallman fight

[-] [email protected] 21 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Who does that help?

Edit: Yes, I see.

Edit 2: Ah jeez.

[-] [email protected] 50 points 2 years ago

Stallman being punched help anyone

[-] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I'm out of the loop. I know he's seen as cantankerous but did he say or do something actually bad?

[-] [email protected] 22 points 2 years ago

I only know about this: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/09/richard-stallman-leaves-mit-after-controversial-remarks-on-rape/

Also check the comment about defensive plants used against Stallman.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

Ah hell. Yeah he should probably get decked.

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[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Did he ever say or do something that wasn’t? He is the biggest of dicks, misogynistic asshole who verbally advocated pedophilia.

[-] [email protected] 42 points 2 years ago

huh... i have no idea who that other person is but linus being this based is nice

[-] [email protected] 36 points 2 years ago

If you're wondering how to follow him: https://social.kernel.org/torvalds

[-] [email protected] 18 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

@[email protected]

[-] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago

this implies torvalds is a community on social.kernel.org.

person mentions have @ not ! (also you can't follow people on lemmy yet)

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[-] [email protected] 36 points 2 years ago

Best Linus.

[-] [email protected] 30 points 2 years ago

Torvalds isn't always right, but he's wrong much less often than not.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago

*in Dread Pirate Roberts voice*

You have a dizzying intellect.

[-] [email protected] 26 points 2 years ago

I knew there was a reason besides Linux that made me love Linus.

[-] [email protected] 26 points 2 years ago

What a fuckin legend

[-] [email protected] 22 points 2 years ago

Nicely done, very based indeed.

[-] [email protected] 22 points 2 years ago

Beautiful

[-] [email protected] 21 points 2 years ago

Bea-fucking-utifully said.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

I already had a huge respect for him for being really pragmatic, but after this post my respect for him climbed a level above I thought wasn't even possible.

And that's without considering the guy basically made software that runs >99% of modern internet.

[-] [email protected] 21 points 2 years ago

This is pure gold

[-] [email protected] 19 points 2 years ago

I need to be able to upvote more than once!

[-] [email protected] 20 points 2 years ago

Good thing that it gets reposted every now and then!

[-] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

The goodness of Linus must be made known!

[-] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago

Hey I was one of those boosts!

[-] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago

DAMN

[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

Isn't this the "woke communist" that runs his company in a shitty way? Overworks employees and stuff? I'm not familiar with the drama is just weird not seeing anything about that in the comments

[-] [email protected] 58 points 2 years ago

Different Linus. This Linus made Linux, he's not the one who does tech tips.

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[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

In another life, I delivered a package to Linus and he answered the door in a bathrobe at 1:30 in the afternoon, just got out of the shower. Nice guy.

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