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Comment Re:platforming Rails creator DHH at RailsConf 2025 (Score 1) 75

And there we are, pretending to be neutral, while in fact being a violent progressive who's all in on political violence. Really fascist of you.

I never pretended to be neutral

How is this situation in any way "political"?

You Keep Using That Word, I Do Not Think It Means What You Think It Means.

I even provided you a definition, since you are clearly too lazy to look it up yourself.

Let me provide you some options from the thesaurus, maybe this will help.

fascism
noun
authoritarianism, totalitarianism, dictatorship, despotism, autocracy, absolute rule, Nazism, rightism, militarism; nationalism, xenophobia, racism; neo-fascism, neo-Nazism; corporativism, corporatism; historical Hitlerism, Francoism, Falangism. ANTONYMS democracy; liberalism.

Comment Re:platforming Rails creator DHH at RailsConf 2025 (Score 2) 75

When it comes to "always been a dick" could you be a bit more specific. The example I see is a person expressing a view about the education of his own children which is something parents have a responsibility to do. His example, if true, comes within stuff that parents should have a right to express views about.

Is there any example of DHH actually harming Rails project contributors or acting bigoted towards them?

That statement is purely personal opinion and it dates back to 2012 or so. I honestly have not paid any attention to him since around that time so I don’t know what he has or hasn’t done to the project maintainers. I also agree that he should absolutely be concerned about things affecting his children.

Comment Re:platforming Rails creator DHH at RailsConf 2025 (Score 1, Insightful) 75

What does fascism mean? Many experts agree that fascism is a mass political movement that emphasizes extreme nationalism, militarism, and the supremacy of the nation over the individual. This model of government stands in contrast to liberal democracies that support individual rights, competitive elections, and political dissent.

source: https://education.cfr.org/lear...

Does that still make sense to you here?

I didn't know who Charlie Kirk was before he was assassinated, clearly you do.

I don't have a "political divide", I feel people should live their lives they way they want to, if they choose to be divisive, discriminatory, etc. then they should be prepared for the backlash.

As I stated in another response, I've always disliked DHH, so I don't pay any attention to him. My main concern here is it's going to fracture the Ruby ecosystem and it's going to end up like the NPM shitshow.

I don't have an interest in "punching a nazi", not that they don't deserve it. sounds like you are down for a shot to the face though.

Comment Re:platforming Rails creator DHH at RailsConf 2025 (Score 0) 75

It's people annoyed enough with DHH and his views to vote with their wallets. Sidekiq pulled a $250,000/year donation from Ruby Central.

The dude has always been a dick, so I don't pay any attention to him to see the things he posts online. Apparently people are fed up.

Comment It makes for a reasonable auto-complete (Score 3, Interesting) 143

I've been using it as a smarter than the LSP, for providing auto complete suggestions. The first time it spits out a chunk of code that's what you would have written, it's a little spooky. It would be a lot more useful if it had enough local context to adapt its suggestions to match the coding styles in the project.

Comment Re:Elderly? (Score 1) 153

What happened to 35-50?

We (mostly) use password managers ;-) I only know one password and it's to decrypt my local password datastore. When that gets corrupted I'll be resetting passwords for weeks. All of my passwords resemble 2r9aIx'DbFbKRU;v4u!LgRn so there's no way I'm remembering or typing any of them in.

Comment Re:To be fair... (Score 1) 402

b) You do actually have to push a button on the remote to turn it on. So it's not recording every word you say while the TV is turned on.

Note true in this case, these new TVs are always listening

New sophisticated Smart Interaction technology enables you to operate your TV without pushing a button. You can easily control functions such as turning on/off your TV, changing channels, accessing apps and navigating the web using simple voice commands.

http://www.samsung.com/ph/smar...

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