Monday, September 24th 2018
Linux Community Hit by the Blight of Social Justice Warfare, A Great Purge is Coming
Through the 1990s, Microsoft had become a super-corporation threatening to monopolize all of computing. A band of talented developers got together with lawyers that could fish out loopholes in proprietary licenses, and with some generosity from big software, Linux grew from a scrappy Unix-like OS kernel to the preeminent operating system for enterprises at first, and handheld consumer electronics later. Today it's most popular operating system on the planet. Like every big organization, the Linux Foundation is hit by employee-activism.
Employee-activism is the new unionism. Whereas trade-unions of the old fought for tangible bread-and-butter issues affecting blue-collar folk of the early Industrial era, today's employee-activist is an intellectual predator seeking to maximize their organizational footprint on the backs of other people echoing their political ideas, often through blatant insubordination and disregard for the chain of command. Survival of the fittest has changed to "survival of the loudest." From forcing Linus Torvalds to apologize for speaking his mind in public, to coming up with a new Code of Conduct document, social-justice activism within the Linux Foundation threatens to devolve the culture of meritocracy to a toxic "safe space" prioritizing inclusion of identity rather than skill, as HardOCP comments. A major blow-back from the meritocrats is taking shape.
In a major revision to the license, software developers contributing to the Linux kernel source-code will soon be able to withdraw their contribution, if they are ever cornered by the rest of the community over perceived code-of-conduct violation (i.e. not pandering to identity politics or speaking their minds like Torvalds does). This is big, as many of the older generations of contributors who have made critical contributions without with Linux cannot function, now have a legal recourse, and could reduce the amount of political activism within the community.
Since 2015, identity politicians have been trying to force the Linux Foundation to join the Contributor Covenant, a special Code-of-Conduct agreement that seeks to change the "the predominantly white, straight, and male face of programming." On September 16, the Foundation agreed to implement CC Code of Conduct. Shortly following that, groups of pro-CC developers went on a character-assassination spree of top Linux developers by amplifying and often distorting, their political views (which are irrelevant to the task of programming).
Sources:
Lulz, HardOCP
Employee-activism is the new unionism. Whereas trade-unions of the old fought for tangible bread-and-butter issues affecting blue-collar folk of the early Industrial era, today's employee-activist is an intellectual predator seeking to maximize their organizational footprint on the backs of other people echoing their political ideas, often through blatant insubordination and disregard for the chain of command. Survival of the fittest has changed to "survival of the loudest." From forcing Linus Torvalds to apologize for speaking his mind in public, to coming up with a new Code of Conduct document, social-justice activism within the Linux Foundation threatens to devolve the culture of meritocracy to a toxic "safe space" prioritizing inclusion of identity rather than skill, as HardOCP comments. A major blow-back from the meritocrats is taking shape.
In a major revision to the license, software developers contributing to the Linux kernel source-code will soon be able to withdraw their contribution, if they are ever cornered by the rest of the community over perceived code-of-conduct violation (i.e. not pandering to identity politics or speaking their minds like Torvalds does). This is big, as many of the older generations of contributors who have made critical contributions without with Linux cannot function, now have a legal recourse, and could reduce the amount of political activism within the community.
Since 2015, identity politicians have been trying to force the Linux Foundation to join the Contributor Covenant, a special Code-of-Conduct agreement that seeks to change the "the predominantly white, straight, and male face of programming." On September 16, the Foundation agreed to implement CC Code of Conduct. Shortly following that, groups of pro-CC developers went on a character-assassination spree of top Linux developers by amplifying and often distorting, their political views (which are irrelevant to the task of programming).
653 Comments on Linux Community Hit by the Blight of Social Justice Warfare, A Great Purge is Coming
Not sure how CentOS works. Does it just connect to Red Hat?
What I've learned so far:
- Poor people deserve it.
- Socialism is like the flat earth movement.
- Sweden has ghettos.
- Women are genetically worse in tech than men, except for Lisa Su.
- Disagreement is cancerous (on both "sides").
Fun read.
As for fascist, his authoritarianism, blatant disregard for truth, violent us v. them rhetoric, general vilification of any and all who criticize him, outspoken desire to use the legal system for personal gain against political opponents, and glorification of violence against those who oppose him put him more than close enough to make that label fit.
And though I'm not an American, and thus don't really know how large that portion of the American left is, I don't think you're right in saying that it's a small group. Sanders supporters largely saw that (though to be fair, a lot of Sanders supporters refused to vote Hillary for obviously sexist reasons too). The current wave of progressive-left and socialist women candidates in various primaries and special elections doesn't really hew close to Clinton's example either, though she does deserve praise for opening the door for them.Have I? I've just pointed out the flawed logic behind your reasoning. Don't see how that constitutes me claiming to know you. Even if you don't call yourself conservative or libertarian, the point of view you presented is a central tenet of their ideologies.The repository system is a good idea (essentially it's Google Play/the App Store, just way better/more open/more flexible), but the problem arises once you want a piece of software that isn't in the default one. Having to add a new repository through the terminal is ... convoluted at best. Why not just be able to download an executable installer? The same goes for driver updates, whether they're open source or proprietary. I get that this is a security risk, but so is ... owning a computer, or connecting it to the Internet. Ubuntu seems to have kinda-sorta solved this with their .deb installer packaging (don't know if they originated this - might the extension mean it originated in Debian? I only sporadically touch Linux, so I really have no idea), which is a huge boon for usability. Even with this, there still hasn't been a single instance where I've installed a Linux distro somewhere and haven't felt limited in what I can do with it. I might be too dependent upon Windows-only software, and not really in the target market for Linux given that I don't do programming or anything to do with servers, but regardless of this it still has a way to go as an end-user OS.After Googling Hank Rearden I understand that this has something to do with Atlas Shrugged, though I still really have no idea what you're talking about beyond that. Given that this is a work of fiction that presents a set of ideals that don't work in the real world (for a whole host of reasons), I don't really see how this applies.
little endian: 00000000 10000000 = left are 0-255, right are 255-65535
big endian: 10000000 0000000 = left are 255-65535, right are 0-255
Said differently: little endian ends with the least significant digits (remember, the whole things is read from right to left by the processor) while big endian ends with the most significant digits.
Hex addresses are almost always displayed as big endian because it makes the most sense to humans (we predominantly read left to right).Disgraceful.
...and I'm not going to read the last five pages. :roll:
Falling pigs from the sky? We had first snow already yesterday :laugh:.
Meanwhile, in the real world here in flyover country, people great each other with friendly gestures every morning, people seem generally happy going about their business, and the crazy political leanings and SJW rhetoric all seam like a late night comedy. Out here, you just get your job done, get paid, and go hang out with your friends after work. Our politicians are far more moderate because I'm in a swing state, where they cant rely on a voting block to keep them there forever. Young people can afford to buy houses and raise families. Communities have their fairs, people know each-other, and there is a sense of community. Sure, there is occasionally some crazy guy from the middle of nowhere that shows up and ruins things, but how often do gangs get into shootings in the cities on the coast again, tagging everything that isnt tied down with their graffiti, ece? For the most part, out here, things are peaceful, not tied up in the machinations of the political elite on the coastlines. From here, one often wonders "why on earth would you want to live out there?"
All those crazy conservatives? yeah, I can talk politics with them over a beer, and while we have many disagreements, we are still friends. We can still talk about video games, cars, anything really, even though I'm more liberal and they are more conservative. The liberals in the city center, OTOH, start foaming at the mouth at the mere idea that trump isnt actually hitler. Anytime I feel that, no, the sky isnt about to turn nuclear, and say so, I'm told that I'm a troll, nazi, russian sympathizer, or some other meaningless slur. It seems like a miserable life to lead, constantly worrying about politicians and identity politics and equality and inclusion and russia and nazis and boogeymen, ece.
I feel like the people most concerned with identity politics, those that cant stop screaming or being offended at everything are in for a rude awakening as more people get sick of their tirade of insanity, and more of those people speak out openly against them instead of quietly avoiding the crazy person in the room.
I didn't vote for him btw and desperately wish to not look like I'm a "Trumper", but this is just not true. And guess what? He still got 30% of the Latino vote. lol. Are they all self-hating and brainwashed? Or is there more to it than that? And now both black unemployment and Latino unemployment are the lowest they've been in history. They're doing better, slowly, but surely. If he's a racist, he doesn't know how to do it correctly.
Managing to capture 30% of the Latino vote is probably due to a significant portion of them being solidly on the conservative end of the political spectrum, and thus choosing to accept what to them is the lesser of two evils (although this is of course pure speculation, there is at least significant data showing a lot of ideological conservativism among Latino US citizens).
Still, I'll have to look into those speeches again. Might be that what I've seen was taken out of context, I suppose.
How and why am I more successful now? I must have screwed someone. Or maybe I stopped worrying about buying stupid shit like new electronic gadgets constantly, cut out unnecessary things like cable, made better choices. But I probably just fucked over poor people......cause reasons.
Socialisim has never worked anywhere in it's pure form, people are corrupt. A mix of ideology containing socialisim is probably the best we will ever do at government anywhere, but it needs a foundation of free market, speech, ideas, and capitalism.
Sweden has an immigrant problem, and their success in keeping service workers, emergency workers, and others from working as they would elsewhere, be it from knife attacks, homemade explosives, rocks, or the threat of sexual assault. It's a ghetto compared to the other beautiful and peaceful areas. It's caused by a lack of integration, the US suffers the same fate with Mexican immigration, the people come here, good and some bad, and recreate what they fought to escape by not integrating.
Women are not men's equal, when they are clearly different and superior at so many other things than men. In the Nordic countries where equality is at it's highest men and women still choose vastly different jobs as groups. Sure some men become nurses, some women are firefighters, but the majority choose jobs they want and it happens to fall in line with cultural norms, almost like that normalicy was there due to something other than inequalities.
I stand for anyone's right to disagree, up to the point that it infringes upon the rights of another.
We are and should be free to do, say, think, what and how we like to the point it causes or calls for direct physical harm to another person, regardless of harm it may cause ourselves, every inch of law that overrides this is a crime against everyone.
Did you know he almost ran in 2000.. and dropped out because David Duke joined the Reform Party? He outright called him a racist and was disgusted. Now fast forward 20 years and suddenly the media says he's buddies with David Duke. lol
Even funnier is he wanted OPRAH to be his running mate. Now suddenly 20 years later and the Left is urging Oprah to run against him (she won't/not interested).
This is one of those things that will go under the radar, and later, everyone will wonder how it all turned to crap.
This whole thread and poll is designed to divide and it's shameful.
The original topic was political correctness seeping into coding. With respect, this started out as a discussion about the impact of cultured speech on coding. The topic was whether individuals without a filter do more damage by being combative, or whether the end product working is worth this. That topic is interesting, and is ripe enough for a discussion. There's always room to discuss the prices and rewards of free speech.
Then there's the other 7 pages of insanity. I get the SJW angle, and taking umbrage with this. I get the politics surrounding the issue being of great importance. What I don't get is how a discussion about coding has spiraled into ethnic integration, political bend, equality of outcome versus equality of opportunity, and memes.
Can we get back to the much less....inflamatory....discussion of the expression of free speech in coding? It's a worthwhile, and less massive, topic to discuss whether inclusion or outcome is valued more highly and how freely we should be allowed to express our opinions.
Please. Here, let me take the bullet. You're a dirty authoritarian, why yes I am. Godwin envoked, so this absolute mess can die. Maybe dissecting this mess can....never mind. I'm about to ask whether lessons were learned, but it never will be. Maybe....I don't know, maybe it'd time to stop reading here again. It seems like this is just devolving from fruitful discussion to irreparable fracturing.
For the record, Contributor Covenant is ran by a self-proclaimed social justice warrior.