I'm constantly amazed that so many people on Slashdot want to put the GNOME Foundations problems down to 'outreach programs' and 'SJWs' rather than the fact that GNOME is piece of shit and nobody wants to use it, hence nobody wants to support the foundation behind it.

Don't believe me? KDE has its own outreach program for women, yet you don't hear about them having the same problems. Why? Because KDE fucking works, it's perfectly usable (for now at least), so not even the most anti-SJW types give a shit because good software is good software!

This actually increasingly angers me because it pretends that if GNOME just killed their outreach program, all would be fine, when it obviously wouldn't. So if you just want to talk about the software itself, nobody's stopping you. But if your first criticism of GNOME is a bloody outreach program, then I'd say you're at least as bad as any SJW you criticise.

I don't see why this is considered a problem. Pass the bill anyway, make him veto it, get Trump to put himself on the wrong side of yet another issue. You either force him to do something he'd rather not or he sits back and lets it pass. What's the harm in trying?

I don't understand why this is modded down.

Because he's using the decline of the GNOME Project as an excuse to indulge his hate-boner for feminism. Seriously, what is the 2006 outreach to women post doing on that list? Can anyone give any good reason why that event lead to the next event and everything else on that list? Because I certainly can't think of any.

Gnash. It's perfectly happy to load locally-stored SWF files and if they're old enough to work on Flash Player 7 (which was released in 2003) then they'll probably work on Gnash.

I'd add that a quick look at the fansubs sites I follow shows a fair bit of fragmentation at the moment. AniDex and minglong seem the most popular choices right now, with (new) Nyaa a distant third and Nyaa Pantsu nobody's first choice so far. Anything could change, but that's what I'm seeing so far.

My first home computer was a 486 DX2/66 with 4MB RAM, a (surprisingly capable) Cirrus Logic SVGA graphics chip with 1MB VRAM, a Sound Blaster 16, a 503MB HDD, double-speed CD-ROM drive, high density 3.5 inch floppy disk drive, and a 14 inch CRT monitor with built-in speakers. Being that it was 1996 by the time I got it, this was not the most capable machine money could buy, but it did teach me a lot about computers and I enjoyed a fair bit of classic DOS gaming on it. I upgraded the RAM to 16MB later on before donating it to a school in 1999 and getting a brand-new Pentium III 450 with 128MB RAM and an Nvidia Riva TNT. I've since gone through an AMD Athlon XP 2100+ with ATI Radeon 8500LE, Core 2 Duo E6750 with Nvidia GeForce 8800GT, and I'm currently using a Core i7-6850K with Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060. I've also gone from MS-DOS 6.2 to Windows 95 to Windows 98 to Windows XP to Ubuntu Linux to Debian GNU/Linux. It's been a journey.

...viable alternatives like sinit, openrc , runit, s6 and shepherd. All are therefore included in Devuan.

Not to be a dick, but the answer is right there in the description. You could take just a few more seconds before rushing to reply.

A story about how gamers from the 90s turned out okay. At first things seems great, people talk about how obvious this was, how earlier predictions of 'moral decay' turned out to be nonsense, that we're all perfectly well-adjusted reasonable people. Then someone mentions Anita Sarkessian.

Oh dear. We were doing so well too...

I won't be buying their products either but that's got less to do with DRM and more to do with the pair of 'wet & dry' electric shavers I bought that died because water got into the electrics. Seriously, you're supposed to be able to use these things in the shower. After eighteen months of dry shaving and washing the head out with water (as the instruction manual tells you to) it died on me. Putting that down to just bad luck I bought an identical model to replace it. Six months of the same treatment killed that one too.

Now I'm sure there are many reasons such things could die, but I noticed something in retrospect that was quite telling. After washing the head out with water I would always dry my shavers thoroughly and leave it air out for 24 hours before using it again. Near the time they died I noticed something that should've been more worrying now I look back. As I said I took dry shaves but after a few minutes of shaving I would noticed my hand was wet. Now since my hands started out dry, the shaver itself was dry on the outside, and there were no other sources of water to be found, there was only one place that water could be coming from. Upon inspection of both shavers I found that a back panel that was flush with the front when they were new had bowed out to a significant degree. Doesn't take a genius to work that one out.

So yeah, nuts to DRM. I spent the best part of £150 of those pieces of crap and they died before even making it to the two year mark where I was told to replace the shaving head. It may be worth noting also that the one that lasted eighteen months was labelled as being made in the Netherlands while the one that lasted just six months was made in China. So far from getting better I think Phillips is actually lowering their already inadequate build quality.

So now I'm struggling with wet shaves and working out what to do next. Buying Phillips is obviously right out, but it seems everyone is making wet & dry shavers and advocating the same washing out treatment that killed these things. I love the convenience (and lack of pain) that dry shaving brings but what the hell am I supposed to buy? I'm tempted to hope the high-end shavers will come with the high-end build quality to withstand a bit of water but then these were high-end too! I'm at a loss.

Well it can be, but it seems to me that this is a pretty poor case to try and apply this principle. The Church of England tried their luck, probably suspecting that they would get rejected, got rejected, uploaded their ad to YouTube instead, got their story in the newspapers, on television, and even on Slashdot now, and likely got a far larger audience than they would have had they not got rejected in the first place.

The principle of freedom of speech is certainly a good thing but it is not the only right in the mix. Companies controlling their platforms also have the right to not be compelled into carrying speech they disagree with. This is why it's important that there be numerous platforms, so anyone rejected from one can just go to another and find someone willing to broadcast what they want to say. That way both rights can be upheld and everyone should be happy. That's exactly what has happened in this case so I'm shedding no tears for anyone. The system is working, I see no reason for anyone to be complaining.

Regarding your contention of MRAs: So, what you're saying is that those sexists that are holding women back in careers, that are enforcing the wage gap and are keeping women out of tech and C-suites, and squashing them at the sprout level by calling them "bossy", are you saying they haven't got that so-called "MRA mindset"?

Well the term 'MRA' is quite ill-defined and I guess people have different definitions, but by mine I would say no. The MRA mindset is quite a specific one, there are many other types of sexism out there and I don't lump all of them together as MRAs.

Because to have it explained by anyone who shouts "MRA!" at even the vaguest criticism of women/women's initiatives, it seems as if both the sexists at the top and the neckbeards at the bottom don't like it when the wimminz get their hands on the boys' toys and would very much like to shove them back into the kitchen by any means necessary.

Well there are some pretty nasty misogynists at the top of the management ladder but as I said I consider that different to the ranting MRAs you see on the internet. The MRAs can be absolutely terrifying to those they target but have little power on society at large, the more influential misogynists that can be considered respectable do far more damage.

If someone is going to whinge on about MRA-type thinking and ignore the fact that the assertion of sexism in the workplace is driven by the same mentality (at least according to feminist theory), your line of thinking is either willfully ignorant or disingenuous.

There are commonalities, but as I said I don't consider them the same. You seemed to assume I would two paragraphs ago and have predicated the rest of your argument on that. My argument was essentially that society is a very complicated and sometimes counter-intuitive thing that resists attempts to simplify it. You want me to throw all sexism and misogyny into the 'MRA' box because that would be easy, but I'm not going to do that. The MRA mindset is a recent innovation that arose because of the internet allowing for the type of organization and echo-chambering that was necessary for it. But it's only a small part of a much larger problem and while some people overly fixate on the MRA part of that problem I'm not one of them. Go find one of those people if you want to shout at them.

Regarding your second claim: yes, that happens, but keep in mind that a campaign was started last year by very famous (and, ironically, very successful) women to ban the word "bossy" because it is apparently (as the campaign itself said) a "squasher". Emma Watson also in her initial He for She speech to the UN made it clear that women (herself included) were plagued by such things. Another recent incident involved Anita Sarkeesian going to the UN Women group and said that people telling her "You Suck" online is a campaign of "cyber violence", specifically against women.

Well I did talk about doxing and outright threats of violence earlier, I think we can agree that those are distinct from just calling women 'bossy'.

Hell, more than one poster here on Slashdot has jumped to my defense if an AC decides to post "tits or gtfo" at me, claiming Slashdot isn't "safe for women".

Well given what I've seen in this comment thread, they do seem to have something of a point. There's been a lot of talk about getting rid of traditional site-based comment threads recently and I have been a staunch opponent of such efforts. Looking at Slashdot today though, I ended up wondering what I'm trying to save.

Like fuck it isn't. And anyone who claims otherwise has never been the victim of real, true violence.

That's a fantastic red herring.

So, are you going to assert that there isn't at least an idea being passed around that women get hurt by words and therefore we shouldn't use them?

There does seem to be a subtle shift here. Earlier you were talking about banning words, but here it's more about that we "shouldn't use" certain words, which moves your argument towards where I am. I'm certainly not in favour of using the law to mandate civility, but I still think we should be nice to each other. I also do think that words have the power to affect, maybe not as much as violence but that's orthogonal to the subject at hand.

(My belief is that it's one of those things a governing body is more than happy to expound upon as a means to ending privacy online..."end anonymity for the sake of women!")

I do find it rather hilarious that frequently the response to a governing body wanting to crack down on incivility is a tidal wave of incivility, giving that body exactly the evidence it was asking for that such a crack down is necessary. It doesn't make the crack down right of course, but the lack of self-awareness is quite amusing.

Point I was making is that these strawmen characterizations are often passed around, even here on Slashdot, to the point where people seem to not even mind so much that they make little sense, they're often contradictory, but yet we're more than happy to tar and feather people with them instead of judging individuals as individuals.

The top rated comments right now on this thread are talking about how SJWs are the 'real sexists', transwomen are just men in drag, and how women aren't in STEM because women are just different from men!

Somehow I think you were talking about different strawmen and different people being tarred and feathered, but hey, facts are stubborn things.

Thus my continual annoyance when people use "MRA" as an insult.

It is an insult. Honestly I think MRAs don't even like themselves.

either MRAs are losers that mommy didn't love enough but are powerful enough to be the invisible hand of society that holds women back

Who the hell ever said that? I don't think I've ever seen anyone portray those basement-dwellers are 'the invisible hand of society', that title goes to people with actual power. No the MRAs are losers but as it turns out doxing and death threats aren't the sort of thing that requires social power or even serious numbers, just a handful of determined losers can do a lot of damage to people if they band together, which the internet makes trivial.

or women are strong and capable until they're called "bossy", and then they get crushed back to non-existence

Strong and capable woman works at a corporation, and does a damn good job too. But her boss doesn't get on with her, sees her strength and capability as 'bossiness', and so passes her over for promotion time and and again. End of story. While we don't like thinking of life that way, ability often only gets you so far. If your boss decides you're not going any further, you're not going any further. You could protest of course, but then you have a reputation for being a bossy loudmouth already...

I actually saw a social experiment about racism a while back where blue-eyed people were arbitrarily chooses as the 'underclass' and all sorts of traits were made about them such as that they got angry easily, and weren't very intelligent. It's amazing how quickly protests against the propaganda was turned against them. "See how angry they are? They don't even understand!" It's an incredibly effective and versatile way of justifying discrimination. It's also amazing how well it still works, despite everyone thinking it doesn't any more. A lot of social progress up to this point has just been spot fixes, we haven't grown out of anything.

Specifically, Debian testing with unstable and/or experimental packages if I desire a specific feature and deem them stable enough. People who talk about leaving new versions to get early problems ironed out have too much faith in software developers in my opinion. I'm amazed at the stuff I've been told they didn't notice or considered a feature. In order to get such things fixed, you need to be engaged, and that means using new versions of stuff so you actually know what's going on. If you're only using old versions then you've only get yourself to blame when developers go down crazy street.

Well let's put it this way. Say a nation has no laws against kidnapping and forced imprisonment. Then they decide it's time to ban such things and announce a new law, kidnapping and forced imprisonment are now criminal offences carrying a three-to-ten year prison sentence if convicted.

So of course people come out with "What? That's your solution? Protect against imprisoning people by imprisoning people?". Yes, sometime in order to protect the freedom of some people we must restrict the freedom of other people. Careful balancing and oversight is required, but there is nothing fundamentally contradictory about this.

What is funny about that is if you take the 3 cities with the strongest anti Gun laws (Washington DC, New York City, and Chicago) and made them their own country, they would be #4 on the list and the rest of the US would drop down to something like #20 or lower on the list.

I don't know about these exact figures, but Mike Huckabee said something remarkably similar and PolitiFact took him to task for being full of it. So I for one would be interested to see the actual numbers behind your claims.