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Submission + - More than 1,600 scientists refute professor's talk on gender in science 3

AmiMoJo writes: More than 1,600 scientists have so far signed a statement condemning the remarks of the Italian researcher who stated that physics was "built by men". The statement at particlesforjustice.org says Prof Strumia's talk was "fundamentally unsound" and was "followed by open discrimination and personal attacks". The statement refutes the claims made in the talk point by point.

Submission + - "Limit Theory" game cancelled six years after its Kickstarter raised $190k (rockpapershotgun.com)

AmiMoJo writes: Sandbox space sim Limit Theory has been cancelled, six years after a successful crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter, because main developer Josh Parnell is simply exhausted from working on it for so long. He’s spent, he says: emotionally, mentally, physically, and financially. “Not in my darkest nightmares did I expect this day to ever come, but circumstances have reached a point that even my endless optimism can no longer rectify,” Parnell said on Friday. He plans to release the source code for folks to poke around but makes clear “it’s not a working game.”

Though Limit Theory blew past its $50,000 goal, drawing $187,865 in pledges (and remember Kickstarter takes a cut), development has gone on years longer than anticipated. Costs have burned through that initial cash and started eating into Parnell’s personal savings but, more than that, he’s just exhausted.

Submission + - Linux kernel developers contemplating revolt against SJW Code of Conduct (lulz.com) 11

IHTFISP writes: Apparently, the Linux kernel developer community may be preparing to stage a revolt against the SJW Code of Conduct disruptors who are threatening the core meritocracy of Linux code development. From LULZ:

Activists from the feminist and LGBTQIA+ communities have been trying to force the Linux project to join the Contributor Covenant [...] an agreement to implement a special Code of Conduct (frequently CoC from now on) aimed at changing the predominantly white, straight, and male face of programming. CC’s Code of Conduct is controversial particularly because it allows anyone to be banned from contributing code for any reason, usually with no mechanism for oversight or accountability.

On September 16 the pro-CoC side got their wish—Linux had officially committed to implementing and obeying the CC Code of Conduct—and they immediately set about using it to remove top Linux coders. Sage Sharp, who describes theyself as a “diversity & inclusion consultant, hufflepuff, non-binary agender trans masculine” and has 7k followers, cites GeekFeminismWiki and targets Google’s Theo Ts’o with accusations of being a rape apologist.

Opposition to CC’s Code of Conduct has generated thousands of posts on 4chan’s technology board alone.

This has prompted a growing discussion of rescinding GPL license grants from code contributions, in protest.

Specifically, in apparent retaliation, members of the Linux kernel developer community (by way of the Linux Kernel Mailing List) are now considering en masse rescinding of their grants of GPL licenses for their code contributions, in protest. Developers who have been banned as a result of the CoC are being encouraged to do the same.

This recent development may have been stimulated in part by founder Linus Torvalds' recent announcement that he will be stepping away from Linux kernel development, at least for the near term. Apparently, Linus was under increasing pressure from the CoC activists for his infamous impatience with—and boorish verbal abuse towards—submitters of code that does not meet his exacting standards for inclusion in the kernel.

In response, perennial Linux critic and agitator Richard Stallman (RMS) has stated he intends to decline comment on this internal Linux community controversy.

Comment Re:From decades ago?? Like they ever stopped! (Score 1) 193

Here is the diagnostics list for the telemetry with an explanation of what the fields are, also it is anonymized.

You mean there's what Microsoft says it is or does. Since the data transmitted encrypted, all those claims are unverifiable. I know it, you know it, Microsoft knows it. Give the past, I'd feel stupid trusting in that Microsoft accurately describes what they are doing there. Wonder what makes you so certain?

You realise that one line of text in the start menu you can just turn off right?

Pretty sure it's more than "one line of text", and the fact that you can go out of your way to turn it off until the next upgrade is worthless.

Comment Re:Wait what (Score 1) 90

You can't be serious.

Throughput is performance

No, throughput is a specific aspect of performance

Yes, dimwit, throughput is the specific aspect of performance that we're talking about. It's not wrong to say we're talking about performance when throughput is an aspect of it.

I can't believe you're maliciously nitpicking in this way while also saying

But from your use of discussion-sabotage techniques I see you do not want to actually discuss facts. That is fine, just do not expect to be taken seriously.

I recommend you take a piece of your own advice and fuck off.

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