stupidthrottle's comments

To be fair these days you come far by just installing ’lsp-mode’.

> He seems out of touch even with modern emacs packages. He doesn't use any of them

And he believes the right thing for the core Emacs-developers to do is to spend their time trying get everyone in MELPA (a modern package repo, with a modern GUI, based on modern tools and workflows) to instead move their packages to ELPA, with all the change in tools, modernism’s and workflows that entails.

He seriously believes this is important because MELPA isn’t GNU, and that’s all he cares about. It’s not enough to be open-source and free. You must be GNU, or it doesn’t matter.

He may add things of value still, but I refuse to believe it’s not overshadowed by all the backwardisms he constantly tries to impose on the core developers actually doing the dirty work.

> which is the opposite of leadership and the opposite of an experienced person providing valuable guidance to the community.

Following the discussion on Emacs-devel it does seem quite the opposite: you often see people with progressive ideas moderating themselves to not get too out of line with RMS. People (unconsciously?) try beating around the bush, to avoid touching GNU dogma, rather than going straight to the point, communicating efficiently.

While I really appreciate what FSF and GNU has done for computing, I believe the limitations Emacs-developers are putting on themselves by religiously denying to integrate with anything non-GPL (another Stallmanism) is going to hurt Emacs long-term, rather than benefitting GPLed software.

I guess time will tell.

> It was here before most other editors and will outlive the majority.

While your first statement is true, taking the second one for granted is dangerous and may lead to the exact opposite.

Every long-term FOSS project needs to continuously ensure it maintains a healthy level of contributors, or it will die.

That link just tells me to go visit an AppStore.

I thought you said it was web-based?

> Since people are downvoting me ... let me make the point more explicit: no, Bob and Alice aren't literally going to have that conversation at work. I get that.

You were trying to use an outlier, an extremist situation (badly representing the opposing part) to frame a discussion about general principles for politics.

Of course you will get downvoted. It’s not a constructive contribution.

> Is referring to a trans woman as a man or as a woman inherently apolitical, as it does not reflect on one's belief on if trans people are the gender they identify as?

My personal view is that people should be free to be who they are, and as long as it doesn't negatively impact others, it should be their own bloody business, and should have no legal implications.

So you're gay? You're a queer? Good for you! And no legal implications, please.

So you're legally man, with XY chromesomes, and you somehow feel like a woman, and maybe even like to dress as one? Good for you! Have fun, be proud, defy conventions! I do not hate you, but you are still a man, so no legal implications please.

To me, that's a statement of facts, and there's nothing awfully political about it.

The people who oppose that simple rationalist approach, are the ones who are rallying for a political platform, while at the same time claiming that opposing viewpoints must absolutely be denied a voice.

Despite the popular notion that these people are "liberals", there's nothing liberal or moderate about such a view, quite the contrary.

> being LGBTQ is a political act

Clearly that’s not the case, unless you make it your mission to make it so.

> How does one avoid politics when calling someone 'he' or 'she' (either way) is a political act?

If you allow this to be a treated as a political act which can only 1. be applied by someone who wants to exercise power over others, and 2. Can be used by former group to claim discrimination universally...

> what does one do when a workplace bans politics

Clearly politics is not banned, only certain kinds of politics is. The other kind is being enforced hard.

Don’t accept the double-speak.

> can be fraudulently constructed for any timestamp value by someone who has the private key for the TSA

Sure. Which is why these are heavily secured and guarded. Just like the keys for any cert, and highly trusted root certs in particular.

Any private/public crypto system can be compromised if the private keys are leaked. Everyone knows that.

That however is in no way a good argument for not using timestamps.

> Someone that wasn't from the UX team was still there and told me they all moved to a private Slack channel.

So private channel and closed platform.

Excellent discoverability and excellent UX, eh?

The real tragedy is that even after having a new generation born and grown up entirely digitally and connected, we still can’t rethink copyright into something which actually makes sense based on the world we now live in.

No, because those are real things, based on actual classifiable actions and behaviour.

Micro-aggressions are just made up offenses in the mind of the receiver.

Android was associated with the GPL via Linux, forcing them to keep it partially open source.

Fuschia is the OS and kernel nobody asked for which is licensed so that Google and partners can make locked down, closed source phones.

Google is eradicating all GPL from their mobile offering.

Fuschia will let them release a fully closed down platform.

For people who don’t like AMP, avoiding it is really easy:

Don’t use Google search.

That’s all. That’s really all there is to it. You should give it a try!

This was widely reported back when the case was hot. It’s not exactly news.

https://www.rawstory.com/2010/12/assange-rape-accuser-cia-ti...

> If a network operator can change DNS

The network operator provides an IP through the DHCP response, which also includes proper DNS-settings for that network.

How is this malicious or replacing “your” DNS? The DNS belongs to the network.

> It would be nice if these apps could detect whether the system is using DoH and only fall back to their own DoH resolver in the case they're using "legacy" DNS.

In which case these applications are either broken or malware.

The application needs to fix that by using DNS supplied by the OS, as everyone should do.

As an end-user... why should I care if the bloat I download is CSS, or assets pulled via the CSS?

There’s literally no distinction.

> His main argument seems to be that the network operator should have control over DNS requests

And why is that an unreasonable position for a network operator to hold?