The General Technology Thread

[actaeon277]

Cross-posting from the SJW thread---------


Linus Torvalds (the Linux guy) has adopted the "Contributor Covenant"... a code of conduct full of SJW language and Big Brother nonsense.

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linu.../?id=8a104f8b5867c682d994ffa7a74093c54469c11f

One particular line: Maintainers have the right and responsibility to remove, edit, or reject comments, commits, code, wiki edits, issues, and other contributions that are not aligned to this Code of Conduct, or to ban temporarily or permanently any contributor for other behaviors that they deem inappropriate, threatening, offensive, or harmful.

Just an incoherent smorgasbord of free reign to remove any content.

TL;DR - Code that runs virtually every device on the planet is now directly subject to the whims of unelected comissars from San Francisco.

Also, his reasoning below:

Great.
He "can't read people"... but he should be in charge of reading people.
Yup, I can't see how that would go wrong.

 

[ArcadiaGP]

SpaceX to Unveil 1st Passenger for Private BFR Rocket Moon Trip Tonight

 

[ArcadiaGP]

SpaceX reveals mystery moon passenger and he's a billionaire - "Elon Musk's SpaceX has inked Japanese entrepreneur Yusaku Maezawa as its first moon tourist for the BFR spaceship."

 

[JettaKnight]

SpaceX reveals mystery moon passenger and he's a billionaire - "Elon Musk's SpaceX has inked Japanese entrepreneur Yusaku Maezawa as its first moon tourist for the BFR spaceship."

 

[actaeon277]

Of course he has money. Duh.
Look at cell phones. Only the rich had them. Crappy service, but expensive.
Then over time, costs started to come down. Service started to get better.
It's the way it works.

 

[ArcadiaGP]

 

[JettaKnight]

Maybe 1% get that joke.

(I am one.)

 

[ArcadiaGP]

Musk says the moon launch will be livestreamed in VR...

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1042117285568073728

I.. might have to check that out.

Moon mission will be livestreamed in high def VR, so it’ll feel like you’re there in real-time minus a few seconds for speed of light

 

[jamil]

 

[ArcadiaGP]

Going back to the Linux CoC news.... Python, too, is eliminating “master” and “slave” terminology, despite it being purely technical in nature. Because..feelings.

 

[Cameramonkey]

Going back to the Linux CoC news.... Python, too, is eliminating “master” and “slave” terminology, despite it being purely technical in nature. Because..feelings.

Somebody should suggest they change them to Male and female just to see their collective heads explode.

 

[actaeon277]

Somebody should suggest they change them to Male and female just to see their collective heads explode.

 

[ArcadiaGP]

Heads-up, Newegg has been breached.

Change those passwords, yo.

 

[ArcadiaGP]

I was told this was going on a long time ago by someone connected to someone very high up in Ticketmaster.

Ticketmaster partners with scalpers to rip you off, two undercover reporters say. The company is reportedly helping ticket resellers violate its own terms of use.

 

[ArcadiaGP]

Cool!

Walmart will train every single one of their employees with VR. One small step for a company. One huge leap for VR.

 

[ArcadiaGP]

Japan's Two Hopping Rovers Successfully Land on Asteroid Ryugu

 

[actaeon277]

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/actor-locked-twitter-over-tweet-202648585.html
Actor James Woods bashes Twitter after getting locked out


"The irony is, Twitter accused me of affecting the political process, when in fact, their banning of me is the truly egregious interference," Woods said. "Because now, having your voice smothered is much more disturbing than having your vocal chords slit. If you want to kill my free speech, man up and slit my throat with a knife, don't smother me with a pillow."

 

[jamil]

[video=youtube_share;v5VvJiNUCIA]http://youtu.be/v5VvJiNUCIA[/video]

 

[jkaetz]

[video=youtube_share;v5VvJiNUCIA]http://youtu.be/v5VvJiNUCIA[/video]

Though I completely agree with him that social issues don't belong anywhere in a code base, I can't take him seriously with the number of times he said "I don't know" and "Because Linux is free". Should a group of people leave the project and truly manage to cause an issue you can bet that another group will step in to fill the gap. Companies will adapt to whatever changes are needed and no internet doomsday will occur.

 

[jamil]

Though I completely agree with him that social issues don't belong anywhere in a code base, I can't take him seriously with the number of times he said "I don't know" and "Because Linux is free". Should a group of people leave the project and truly manage to cause an issue you can bet that another group will step in to fill the gap. Companies will adapt to whatever changes are needed and no internet doomsday will occur.

Seemed to me he's mostly reporting it, of course along with a little commentary. If this ends up being a "purge" of the non-SJW's, which it seems that it is so far, I don't blame them for claiming their intellectual property. If they really care about keeping politics out of the community, I don't see any other choice. A developer's views on social justice really have nothing to do with open source community.