The Importance of a Resilient Partner
Rianne and I have been married since 2012. She is running a very large GNU/Linux site and is happy to do so, even though she gets abused for doing this (I think envy is the cause of this abuse and have long believed so). Rianne not only uses GNU/Linux exclusively; she never uses proprietary software and she has fairly in-depth knowledge of GNU/Linux; without such knowledge, how would she discern old news, false news, and unimportant news from noteworthy or newsworthy developments? Or how would she be able to chain (or "cluster") related articles?
But the most amazing thing about Rianne isn't her knowledge of GNU/Linux (she has a University degree in Computer Science, awarded to her in 1999, around the the same time as the "dot-com" flop). It's her resilience.
Every person gets abused, some more than others (or more often than others, more frequently being more tribulations). In recent years the abuse against Rianne intensified greatly; rather than brush it off and carry on she decided to do something about it. And she did, indeed.
Rianne's mental strength is something I both admire and sometimes envy. Considering how many abusive people target Free software communities, Rianne is a perfect fit for what she does. You cannot put her down; you can try, and you will fail every time. █
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