"there is no moral difference taking money from Anduril or from Microsoft. Microsoft has had multi-billion dollar Pentagon and other agency contracts for many years now, and the things they produce are used wherever the U.S. Government wants to use them, including as tools for war and border control."
100% this. #nixos is so embedded in #github that it is hard to take any complaints about other partners or sponsors seriously.
#Nix / #NixOS flakes are so nice. Wishing I'd just dove straight into them at the start instead of spending a few years (very off and on, mind you) learning the “legacy" way of doing things.
The huge 'flakes: experimental!!!’ label once again scaring folks off when it oughtn’t 😩
@BrodieOnLinux@ck I've been using nix as my main OS for a few years now. I'm by no means an expert. I have submitted a package to the nix package repo.
Let us have a little chat about the person who accused @brysonbort of gaming RSA talk submissions by submitting a talk with me by "playing the diversity card" to get accepted. And all the people thinking it and simmering.
Thank you kindly for completely devaluing my expertise in my field, which I have worked in daily for over a decade and a half, served as a senior NCO in the military doing, teach, and speak on globally. Whether you consciously intended it or not, you implied I am a diversity token and not an expert in cybersecurity incident response.
It's actually good to purposefully share the stage with underrepresented voices in technology, because we still routinely have entire tech conferences that are 100% white and male speakers because of bad CFP boards and management. That was RSA keynotes, within my professional lifetime. It cost me and my colleagues a lot of goodwill calling them out at the time.
When I am "handed" a speaking slot explicitly because I am not a straight white man, it's usually on a droll topic I am totally unqualified to speak on, like "TeLL uS abOUT beINg a WomAN in TEch" that also devalues my expertise. Side note - this has turned out to be a huge red flag. Often done by people who go on to do Bad Stuff to women.
You, yes you are a prime reason women and nonbinary people don't want to submit to conferences.
I also think the issue needs to be addressed but not in this approach.
When you add quotas etc, there will always be the feeling that you were "playing the diversity card".
Here, the government will give grants to tech companies that hire people from my demographic. It is a real problem, there is very open discrimination. But, If I knew a company took money to hire me, or hired me to fill some quota, I would always feel like I wasn't hired cause of my skills.
What upsets me the most about #emacs is the usage of the least known English word for a given functionality, e.g. instead of "refresh buffer" it's "revert buffer" instead of copy and paste it's cut and yank...
It's like they having a secret guideline to not use words everybody knows and make sense, but to use some word that also means something similar in English but non native speakers are not aware of.
Seen in the wild on the Fedi: "There are lots of people supporting a two-state solution, who are not #Zionists."
Since #Zionism is support for a #Jewish state in the Jewish people's ancestral homeland, if you support a two-state solution (where #Israel is one of those states), you in fact support Zionism by definition. Welcome to the club!
@bp@benkap I'm well aware of the war, daily sirens remind me. I also I know G-d wants jews to live in E"Y, (that is why I live here). The nature of our religion is about being precise. It is also the nature of our religion to talk about things and ask questions. You have never had a kasha on a tosfos?
@bp@benkap I don't know what "blundstones" are. No one is being edgy.
There are lots of debates going on around the world right now. Hamas is awful, and I don't see any other solution rather than to destroy them.
I listened to the arguments for censoring the despicable person, Talib from congress. I'm glad the vote won. But at the same time lots of people.
I know what the religious Zionists mean, they mean a state that is run by halacha (eventually). But I don't know what the secular mean, and I for sure don't know what the Goyim mean.
If you don't want to engage in tough questions, that is your choice, you are welcome to mute me, but I would be sad.
FYI Here is a list of just some of the attacks on #Jewish communities in the land of #IsraelBEFORE WWII. Before Ben Gurion, Before your beloved Hertzel. Jewish history does not start with modern zionism.
Hebron and Safed massacres (1517)
Revival of Tiberias (1563)
Sack of Tiberias (1660)
Plunder of Safed (June 1834)
Hebron massacre (August 1834)
Safed attack (1838)
Don't be fooled into thinking that this has anything to do with how the modern state treats arabs in israel. The situation in gaza is just another excuse to attack Jews.