Cyberpunk | Programmer | Ruby on Rails veteran | Nix user | Sysop | Mr. Fusion maintainer for the MiSTer projectmichaelsmith.be AntwerpJoined April 2024
The NixOS “Moderation Mass Resignation” story is fascinating.
It provides a clear case study in how political activists can infiltrate an organization (in this case, an Open Source project) and effect mass change (censorship, leadership, rules, and even contributor “purges”)…
The NixOS “Moderation Mass Resignation” story is fascinating.
It provides a clear case study in how political activists can infiltrate an organization (in this case, an Open Source project) and effect mass change (censorship, leadership, rules, and even contributor “purges”)… https://t.co/1XTGHeT69h
The majority of the NixOS Moderation Team (5 of 7 of them) has just mass resigned — and are threatening to leave the project entirely if their demands are not met.
This appears to be in response to the NixOS Steering Committee (the elected, governing body) attempting to make…
@dhh Nix, or something similar, is the future of software distribution. You get packages which are of independent of the host system and managed similarly to garbage collected run time.
It is a shame that such a unique and revolutionary paradigm shift was never given the environment…
I don't want to blame anyone who went along with my cancellation from the nix community.
I do want the community to thrive, and ask for people who still remain in the community to push back ongoing efforts to terraform the community. The nix majority has just been silenced, but…
I don't want to blame anyone who went along with my cancellation from the nix community.
I do want the community to thrive, and ask for people who still remain in the community to push back ongoing efforts to terraform the community. The nix majority has just been silenced, but…
No disrespect to Linus Torvalds, but this guy is the greatest geek alive 🫡
Created UNIX in 1971 when he was 28 years old.
Created Go in 2009 when he was 66 years old.
He also developed the B programming language (which led to C), created UTF-8 encoding (making international…
Hey @jetbrains, you don't have to do this nonsense any more. I fully understand why companies felt cowed into these humiliations, but the woke regime has fallen, so you can stop performing its rites.
Hey @jetbrains, you don't have to do this nonsense any more. I fully understand why companies felt cowed into these humiliations, but the woke regime has fallen, so you can stop performing its rites.
RubyCentral released a video statement. I think every sensible person should be ok with this. If if you work for them pro bono, there should be a contract if you have access to critical infra or data. Otherwise you might not even be identifiable.
youtube.com/watch?v=VyCiE3…
As a board member and a guy with lots of Ruby Friends I’ve been getting asked about the recent controversy quite a lot. We don’t have a PR or communications team so we are trying to figure out how to respond. I wrote up my perspective on my Substack. Hopefully it helps.
*Looks under the hood of performant python packages which makes it generally useful*
C/C++
Rust
Fortran
Python: if fisher-price made a programming language
*Looks under the hood of performant python packages which makes it generally useful*
C/C++
Rust
Fortran
Python: if fisher-price made a programming language
@urmombaboso@senbodev Afraid the rumors say it might be so. Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo predicts a touchscreen OLED MacBook Pro entering production in late 2026. Apple hasn't confirmed, though. Steve Jobs would be rolling in his grave!
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