I wish I had mod points today. You've nailed it.

Nobody wants to watch TV/movie/music award shows anymore because they no longer focus on TV/movies/music. Instead it's a bunch of self-important celebrities whining that they don't like the President.

Using the term "hate" reflexively to refer to anything that doesn't align 100% with your totalitarian leftist worldview, makes you part of the problem. Go fuck yourself.

Linus was a competent and effective leader. One of the reasons he was such a great leader is because he did NOT waste his time dealing with primate politics. Now he's been bullied into capitulating to the "muh feelingz!" people, the project WILL suffer.

The social justice communists have declared an assumption that meritocracies produce environments where "some groups are underrepresented". In reality, if some groups are underrepresented, what you have isn't a meritocracy. Either that or, those groups simply aren't present in the pool of potential developers for the project -- and if that's the case, you can go and create mentoring programs if you want to. We do NOT want affirmative action programs to ruin open source the way it ruins everything else it touches.

So only code that's made in an unsafe space can be good? Only code that is made by someone full of hate is valid?

The fact that you use the word "hate" to describe any words or actions that do not agree with your totalitarian socialist worldview, indicates that you don't have anything useful to contribute and are part of the problem.

My code doesn't care about your feelings. Go make me a sandwich.

Go make me a sandwich.

This is the end of Linux as we know it. The "Code of Conduct" is teeming with words and phrases that indicate the project is now going to be policed by Social Justice Warriors who will micro-manage everything. It means that the Linux kernel is no longer a meritocracy.

The only "code of conduct" ought to be: "my code doesn't care about your feelings". You can't develop good code in a Safe Space.

LinkedIn used to be *the* network used by professionals. After Microsoft bought it, they turned it basically into a white-collar Facebook.

Winning by dying isn't winning, it's losing.

It's what is known as a "Phyrric victory".

Never had to install a special package to log into my bank. Never needed a special package to track a package.

Then you haven't been using computers for as long as some of us have. You will note that I have a four digit Slashdot ID and yours is six digits.

In the context of the conversation, "PC" refers to a *Windows* desktop. For nearly 20 years, Windows was the platform. Now the Web is the platform, just like Netscape and Sun wanted it to be. The revolution was a success. Windows is still around but it is no longer the single gatekeeper to all of computing.

Ok, so they both died in the process, but they won. Netscape with its "browser as a platform" strategy, and Sun with its "network computing" strategy, both failed to win their early battles against Microsoft, but in the end, the PC lost its place as "the" platform. Applications are now accessed over the Internet, and they can be accessed using any device. Applications locally installed on a Wintel machine are still around, but they're no longer the primary way we do most things with computers. Remember when you had to install a special Windows program to track a FedEx package? To log in to your bank? To do your taxes? That era is over. We're in the post-PC era now, and we've been there for quite some time now.

I used the Chrome browser for about seven years. It's a great browser -- fast, snappy, good looking, responsive. Unfortunately, it's controlled by Google, an organization that can no longer be trusted. This sent me back into the welcoming arms of Firefox (and yes, my search engine is DuckDuckGo).

Does Google Actually Make Us Dumber?

Yes.

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