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| schestowitz | Re: literally gave "F" to Github: | Sep 27 00:47 |
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| schestowitz | > that they literally gave "F" to Github: | Sep 27 00:47 |
| schestowitz | > | Sep 27 00:47 |
| schestowitz | > https://www.gnu.org/software/repo-criteria-evaluation.en.html | Sep 27 00:47 |
| schestowitz | > | Sep 27 00:47 |
| schestowitz | > It seems to have "graduated" to a real solution regardless. They gave it | Sep 27 00:47 |
| schestowitz | > a rating and walked away. Do you think they'll ever discourage people | Sep 27 00:47 |
| schestowitz | > from using Github again, or talk about how many projects have drifted | Sep 27 00:47 |
| schestowitz | > there, or why that's a bigger problem than ever? | Sep 27 00:47 |
| schestowitz | > | Sep 27 00:47 |
| schestowitz | > That was 4 years ago. I mean you could just define the 4 freedoms and | Sep 27 00:47 |
| schestowitz | > walk away, as well. | Sep 27 00:47 |
| schestowitz | > | Sep 27 00:47 |
| schestowitz | > Let me know if you personally think they're actually handling this | Sep 27 00:47 |
| schestowitz | > matter, as though it matters at all, and I'll remove that item | Sep 27 00:47 |
| schestowitz | > immediately. My personal opinion is they no longer care about it. | Sep 27 00:47 |
| schestowitz | > | Sep 27 00:47 |
| schestowitz | > In 2016 rms wasn't cancelled yet, so it was a lot harder to say they | Sep 27 00:47 |
| schestowitz | > didn't care about free speech, but that's changed a lot. The pattern of | Sep 27 00:47 |
| schestowitz | > cancelling people is that PROBLEMS go from being important to being | Sep 27 00:47 |
| schestowitz | > ignored. I'd say that shoe fits here. | Sep 27 00:47 |
| schestowitz | >> I'm kind of surprised it has had such a low profile. Probably | Sep 27 00:48 |
| schestowitz | >> because it was not "Made in USA" | Sep 27 00:48 |
| schestowitz | > | Sep 27 00:48 |
| schestowitz | > | Sep 27 00:48 |
| schestowitz | > | Sep 27 00:48 |
| schestowitz | > i would say its more likely that even the fsf cant get away from fads | Sep 27 00:48 |
| schestowitz | > and popularity in languages entirely. ml seems less important (not | Sep 27 00:48 |
| schestowitz | > UNimportant) if they rely more often / for more things on perl and | Sep 27 00:48 |
| schestowitz | > python. i can assure you, they rely on those a lot. arguably more than | Sep 27 00:48 |
| schestowitz | > ml, though that is more of a guess. | Sep 27 00:48 |
| schestowitz | >> Is there a video for this? If you do an article, we can prepare a | Sep 27 00:49 |
| schestowitz | > video to go with it, or portion of a skit. To make a point. As WebM. | Sep 27 00:49 |
| schestowitz | > | Sep 27 00:49 |
| schestowitz | > Yeah, Izzard is a popular comedian though (likely past the height of his | Sep 27 00:49 |
| schestowitz | > fame, but still frequently quoted, like Carlin or Python) and you might | Sep 27 00:49 |
| schestowitz | > want to talk to a couple people (your people?) about Fair Dealing before | Sep 27 00:49 |
| schestowitz | > you try this. | Sep 27 00:49 |
| schestowitz | > | Sep 27 00:49 |
| schestowitz | > I think it's Fair Dealing where you are, but I'm no expert on that. IMO | Sep 27 00:49 |
| schestowitz | > it's risky copyright-wise-- the other clips you make are more directly | Sep 27 00:49 |
| schestowitz | > relevant and (at a guess) easier to justify. Fair use is a defence, not | Sep 27 00:49 |
| schestowitz | > a right, but Fair Dealing works differently in some ways. It's not | Sep 27 00:49 |
| schestowitz | > necessarily better, but I suppose that depends on what you need and how | Sep 27 00:49 |
| schestowitz | > it helps there. | Sep 27 00:50 |
| schestowitz | Typically depends on the length of portion one takes | Sep 27 00:50 |
| schestowitz | > The emphasis/has/ to be on a "portable" - read "forkable" kernel. | Sep 27 00:51 |
| schestowitz | > Hi, Roy | Sep 27 01:02 |
| schestowitz | Hi, nice to hear from you. | Sep 27 01:02 |
| schestowitz | > Hope you and the family are doing well. | Sep 27 01:02 |
| schestowitz | Thankfully none of us contracted the nasty virus, afaik. | Sep 27 01:02 |
| schestowitz | > Would you please make some minor changes to the website? | Sep 27 01:02 |
| schestowitz | Sure. Done. | Sep 27 01:02 |
| schestowitz | See below. | Sep 27 01:02 |
| schestowitz | > Under the patient forms tab I would like to add a fifth form, “5. | Sep 27 01:02 |
| schestowitz | > Financial policy” and I would like to replace forms 1. and 2. with the | Sep 27 01:02 |
| schestowitz | > above revised versions. | Sep 27 01:02 |
| schestowitz | Kind request for clarity. The attachments are (5), (1), and (4), not (5), (1), and (2). | Sep 27 01:02 |
| schestowitz | Can you check it's OK as it is now? I integrated the newer forms, checked/tested in a hurry. | Sep 27 01:02 |
| schestowitz | > Thank you, I appreciate your help. | Sep 27 01:02 |
| schestowitz | No problem. Any time... | Sep 27 01:02 |
| schestowitz | Re: Eddie Izzard | Sep 27 02:56 |
| schestowitz | > I had a look for the part where he says "Where the fuck have you guys | Sep 27 02:56 |
| schestowitz | > been?" But some of it's blocked by NBC Universal. You might try "Eddie | Sep 27 02:56 |
| schestowitz | > Izzard World War 2" without quotes, maybe you'll have more luck. My | Sep 27 02:56 |
| schestowitz | > favourite stuff is when he talks about "do you have a flag?" But there | Sep 27 02:56 |
| schestowitz | > are lots of favourites. | Sep 27 02:56 |
| schestowitz | > | Sep 27 02:56 |
| schestowitz | > Some notes for the sake of accuracy-- Izzard formerly referred to | Sep 27 02:56 |
| schestowitz | > himself for years as "transvestite" and has done activism around that, | Sep 27 02:56 |
| schestowitz | > speaking out on behalf of transvestites-- I believe he still favours | Sep 27 02:56 |
| schestowitz | > women (most likely exclusively) which isn't exactly rare among | Sep 27 02:56 |
| schestowitz | > transvestites in the first place. | Sep 27 02:56 |
| schestowitz | > | Sep 27 02:56 |
| schestowitz | > He has since identified as "transsexual" but I'm not clear on what | Sep 27 02:56 |
| schestowitz | > exactly, he just favours the term. He has (maybe jokingly) used the term | Sep 27 02:56 |
| schestowitz | > "Male Lesbian" in the past, I don't know if he still does. But he still | Sep 27 02:56 |
| schestowitz | > goes by "he" to the best of my knowledge, so it's easy for people to | Sep 27 02:56 |
| schestowitz | > notice a dress and the word "transsexual" and start thinking he's MTF, | Sep 27 02:56 |
| schestowitz | > though I wouldn't assume. He still goes by Eddie Izzard as far as I | Sep 27 02:56 |
| schestowitz | > know. Here on Wikipedia it clarifies that he's genderfluid | Sep 27 02:57 |
| schestowitz | > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Izzard#Personal_life which doesn't | Sep 27 02:57 |
| -TechBytesBot/#techbytes-en.wikipedia.org | Eddie Izzard - Wikipedia | Sep 27 02:57 | |
| schestowitz | > seem like a real change from what he's always been; all that's changed | Sep 27 02:57 |
| schestowitz | > is the label he puts on it. He's always been genderfluid. | Sep 27 02:57 |
| schestowitz | > | Sep 27 02:57 |
| schestowitz | > If you're ever (for some reason) looking for a more dramatically | Sep 27 02:57 |
| schestowitz | > genderfluid artist I enjoy, I'm a fan of Азис (Vasil Troyanov Boyanov) | Sep 27 02:57 |
| schestowitz | > but he (also his proferred pronoun) makes Madonna seem pretty tame in | Sep 27 02:57 |
| schestowitz | > terms of her performances and public image... | Sep 27 02:57 |
| schestowitz | > | Sep 27 02:57 |
| schestowitz | > There's no real political intent here, just giving you some details | Sep 27 02:57 |
| schestowitz | > should you accidentally make (or more hopefully avoid) some faux pas-- | Sep 27 02:57 |
| schestowitz | > it's best to not live in fear of offending people, but it's also wise to | Sep 27 02:57 |
| schestowitz | > try to get these sorts of things right the first time if possible. In my | Sep 27 02:57 |
| schestowitz | > experience we hear more from MTF transsexuals than genderfluid or FTM, | Sep 27 02:57 |
| schestowitz | > though all exist in the Free Software community, Izzard and Азис are | Sep 27 02:57 |
| schestowitz | > both genderfluid and use male pronouns, and the friend that introduced | Sep 27 02:57 |
| schestowitz | > me to him was FTM. He was comfortable talking about it but obviously we | Sep 27 02:57 |
| schestowitz | > never dead-named him, I never met him prior to transitioning. The | Sep 27 02:57 |
| schestowitz | > significance of the variety here is of course like I said-- it's unwise | Sep 27 02:57 |
| schestowitz | > to assume. It's usually easier to just look these things up. | Sep 27 02:57 |
| schestowitz | > | Sep 27 02:57 |
| schestowitz | > Transcript at least-- from "Dress to Kill"-- | Sep 27 02:59 |
| schestowitz | > | Sep 27 02:59 |
| schestowitz | > Queen Victoria became Empress of lndia. She never even went there. She | Sep 27 02:59 |
| schestowitz | > was one of our more frumpy queens. They’re all frumpy, aren’t they? | Sep 27 02:59 |
| schestowitz | > Because it’s a bad idea when cousins marry. Bottom of the gene pool, | Sep 27 02:59 |
| schestowitz | > you’re scraping the barrel. “I haven’t got enough for any more of you | Sep 27 02:59 |
| schestowitz | > royals, sorry.” | Sep 27 02:59 |
| schestowitz | > | Sep 27 02:59 |
| schestowitz | > First rule of genetics, spread the genes apart. But the royals are | Sep 27 02:59 |
| schestowitz | > obsessed. “Are you royal? “Then you can marry me and our lQs will go | Sep 27 02:59 |
| schestowitz | > down the toilet.” Fantastic. That’s why there’s no crazy royals. “Hello, | Sep 27 02:59 |
| schestowitz | > what do you do? You’re a plumber? What on earth is that?” | Sep 27 02:59 |
| schestowitz | > | Sep 27 02:59 |
| schestowitz | > So, yeah. After the Second World War, that’s when the empires dissolved. | Sep 27 02:59 |
| schestowitz | > We came first in the war but we were financially fucked by the end. Cos | Sep 27 02:59 |
| schestowitz | > for a time it was just us and the Nazis. They’d been making weapons for | Sep 27 02:59 |
| schestowitz | > ages. We were going, “Get the tanks out!” “We haven’t got any.” “Get | Sep 27 02:59 |
| schestowitz | > that ice cream van out, then.” “Kill!” “All right, oh, fuck it. “Fuck | Sep 27 02:59 |
| schestowitz | > off.” “Everything! Just throw everything at them! “Orange Fruities and | Sep 27 02:59 |
| schestowitz | > Zooms, throw the Zooms! “Fuck off, you bastard! “Pots and pans! Throw | Sep 27 02:59 |
| schestowitz | > the pots and pans at them!” | Sep 27 02:59 |
| schestowitz | > | Sep 27 02:59 |
| schestowitz | > By the time America came in – you were watching a US cavalry film. The | Sep 27 02:59 |
| schestowitz | > US cavalry always comes in towards the end of the film. “OK, let’s go, | Sep 27 02:59 |
| schestowitz | > America.” (Sings fanfare) “I love the smell of Europe in the morning. | Sep 27 02:59 |
| schestowitz | > How are you?” | Sep 27 02:59 |
| schestowitz | > | Sep 27 02:59 |
| schestowitz | > We were going, “Fucking hell, where’ve you been?” “Having breakfast. | Sep 27 02:59 |
| schestowitz | > “So, what’s going on?” America did well. Russia did well, and deservedly | Sep 27 02:59 |
| schestowitz | > so. Half a million American and British soldiers died and about 26 | Sep 27 02:59 |
| schestowitz | > million Russian soldiers and civilians died. That’s 50 times as many. | Sep 27 02:59 |
| schestowitz | > It’s unbelievable. And no one mentions this. These are figures I | Sep 27 02:59 |
| schestowitz | > discovered. Napoleon had been steaming in 100 years before – “I’m gonna | Sep 27 02:59 |
| schestowitz | > kill them! “Ooh, it’s a bit cold! “Right. OK, bad idea.” And then Hitler | Sep 27 02:59 |
| schestowitz | > – “I’ve got a better idea! “Oh, it’s the same idea.” No wonder they set | Sep 27 02:59 |
| schestowitz | > up the Eastern bloc, for a buffer zone. So that’s where they’re coming | Sep 27 02:59 |
| schestowitz | > from. | Sep 27 03:00 |
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