wizardbeard

Holy crap he is just continuing to build the case against him. His own for-profit automattic's plugins have built in upsells and add additional data harvesting code that you can't opt out of while you use them.

He just keeps treating the non-profit .org stuff and his Automattic for-profit as interchangable.

It's time for the community to find a solution for distributed update servers that at most only rely on Mullenweg for hash checking to prevent tanpering. This is blatantly just a vendetta now.

Heads up, SD Maid is being rebuilt as SD Maid SE now with more/better features.

I'll quote what you just replied to

people working in high COL locations

SF Bay, Cupertino, Redmond, etc... the big "tech hub" cities are known reality warps.

No, you explicitly were saying that you had never heard anyone criticise a piece of media for including a minority.

Then you claimed that it was a strawman (further implying such people do not exist).

I pointed out that those people do exist, most obviously on 4chan, and that whether or not you think they matter has no bearing on whether or not they exist.

I never made any claims as to how important those opinions on 4chan were. I likewise did not say anything about them only existing there.

Pretending people with those opinions do not exist is provably wrong with minimal effort and intellectually dishonest. There's no argument I'm making here. Nothing but me pointing out fact that you have decided doesn't matter because some companies have used it as to excuse valid criticism.

We can all see your comment history in this chain man. Moving the goalposts like this is just sad.

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It was a lot more than a single disagreement.

Team members (both former and current) have made some very concerning comments over the years about Linus's private and public behavior, and have repeatedly raised concerns over the breakneck release schedule negatively impacting quality.

Whenever they get information wrong, or make clear mistakes on things that then effect how they review a product, they hide behind the tight release schedule of their videos, which is something entirely under their own control.

Linus himself has shown shockingly poor judgement and communication skills multiple times as he has publicly ran his mouth off and been overall an unprofessional jackass when people have pointed out his mistakes in the past.

They handle redactions and corrections incredibly inconsistently, if at all, and only when there has been significant backlash.

The whole "getting a hand made protoype waterblock for free, failing to do the bare minimum to ensure they installed it properly, blaming their botched install on the maker, choosing not to contact the maker to discuss anything, releasing a scathingly negative review to most likely tank the fledgling startup who sent it to them with install instructions they ignored, being intensely belligerent with everyone telling them they installed the thing wrong, claiming they lost the prototype when the maker requested it back, then selling the prototype as a reward for a charity auction"... that is only the biggest, most publicly called out fuck up recently, in an ever growing history of this sort of bullshit that goes back for years.

Beyond all that, if you have ever watched a single video of his about anything you already know about, it becomes immediately obvious just how much he's and his team are learning the bare minimum about things and then just skating by on production value and speaking as though they have authoritative knowledge.

None of this is inherently damning, except for just how much money his organization makes, and that they project an image of being trustworthy authoritative knowledge sources when they really aren't. Their entire business is based off the concept that they offer trustworthy and reliable information, but they explicitly don't often enough that it is an inescapable problem. When called out on it Linus very publicly loses his shit and blames it on everything but their own failure to do proper research and take enough time to ensure quality control.

This is a marked downward trend in their content and public behavior that has been going on for more than eight years.

Lastly, I never said he was a garbage person. That was the comment I replied to.

No disagreement here.

I believe most of the medicinal/health stuff would is assumed to be chromosome based, but I don't think there's been a ton of research into whether it's truly something genetics based from the chromosomes or from the long term effects of different hormone balances on someone's body over the course of their life.

Given how relatively new a lot of these dysphoria treatments are, I think we'll probably be learning a lot about where the differences actually come from in a generation or two as we see this stuff become more common.

For the record, check the usernames, lol. That wasn't me.

Didn't say it was reasonable to give up and not try. Just was commenting on the complexity of the problem, as there are a lot of people that act like there's some quick "pull off the bandaid" solution that everyone is too stupid to just do.

There are a lot of steps forward we should be doing that don't require a lot of creativity either.

Laws on what is banned and isn't need to be based on quantifiable statistics of the gun's capabilities rather than... whatever the fuck you want to call the current rules. There are firearms with wooden stocks that are 100% legal for civilian ownership that are far more deadly (in terms of shots per minute) than "scarier looking" firearms with black plastic/polycarbonate furniture that are banned from civilian ownership. Can't remember the specific models but they both fire the same caliber rounds.

Close the obvious loopholes. Ensure enough funding to regulatory orgs that guns being passed on when a family member dies or goes into elder care are actually tracked. I know my brother in law didn't fuck around when it came to my father in law's guns, but it's not like anyone was checking.

My man, "regular" programmers aren't making 120k a year plus enough for taxes to end up with 10k a month take home. Seniors, people working in high COL locations, working for FAANG or whatever the buzzword is now, sure maybe.

But that's not average pay.

Same thing happens every time Windows has a major revision update. The amount of unpatched XP boxes around years into the lifecycle of Windows 7 was hilarious and terrifying.

Ugh, I hate that the actual ethical issues in games journalism got swallowed up by all the other hateful bullshit.

Like, sponsored articles weren't being disclosed, and some games journalists were being fired for refusing to give favorable reviews to games that were advertising on their site. There were private mailing lists where behind the scenes coordination was happening to push kinder reviews of one member of the list's friend's indie game. White jounalists were claiming themselves as mouthpieces for minority gamers who never asked for someone else to speak for them.

Which gave cover for explicit mysogyny and hate... then further got twisted by far-right idealogues like Milo Yannopolous and Breitbart.

The Microsoft plan to restart Three Mile Island is currently paused, as they want to somehow fund it off of taxpayer funds instead of paying for it themselves.