Robosexual?

Obligatory Dan Hentschel post

“far-left policies” and it’s just basic humanitarian ideals

Meaning well and blasting the rsync maintainer with absolutist anti-LLM messages are very different things.

…Which is why I specified those who only mean well. Obviously that doesn’t include the less pleasant crowd.

There’s always a 10th dentist

I’m just imagining someone saying this in response to OP’s joke at a party and this is the (natural) response

Fair, but a little empathy for rsync users who only mean well would go a long way. The everyone-for-themselves mentality doesn’t tend to be very helpful most of the time, if ever.

I agree with that too, though I think the self-righteous attitude like that of the person I’m replying to swings in the opposite direction a little too hard for my liking. There’s a happy balance, y’know?

People shouldn’t complain in a dev’s ear like they owe them something they never promised, and people trying to call that out shouldn’t counter it with a demeaningly confrontational demeanour. Obviously that’s a lot to ask for on the internet, but it’s a good thing to try for at least.

Well rsync is a pretty integral utility for a whole array of software at this point, and I guarantee you that not all of its userbase has the expertise required for direct contributions. I don’t think it’s fair to write off the complaints of people like that as irrelevant, especially if they have a stake in rsync working well for them without having to worry about AI hallucinations screwing them over.

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It’s not even just private equity, this is more or less the exact strategy Microsoft uses.

Sure, but let’s not play ignorant to the role WW1 played in setting the stage for fascism to arise. Things are always more complicated then just “liberalism leads to fascism”, especially since theory only exists abstractly as opposed to the smorgasbord of circumstances in reality. I’m in no way denying the existence of that pipeline though.

Okay so you’re just being disingenuous then. You think poor material conditions (particularly from wide-scale conflict independent of liberalism) have absolutely no influence on the path a country takes?

This is just silly and way too presumptuous. Fascism doesn’t arise from liberalism, it arises from desperation. Both Italy and Germany were in less than desirable positions after WW1, Italy being fractured and dissatisfied with the hand it was dealt after being on the winning side, and Germany being crippled with debt and teeming with government incompetency. Both Mussolini and Hitler were opportunists who would have in no way got as far as they did had either country been in a more stable condition with no need to find a solution. Liberalism really had nothing to do with it, like, at all.

This is a very sane and rational idea with no fascistic undertones whatsoever

It’s crazy how once these companies get big enough, they become a cancer that just slowly self-destructs. Everything that’s going wrong in their business can be blamed solely on them. Just all around gross incompetence in the most absurd, blatant way possible. I really hope that, in the near future, we see the main opinion of Microsoft finally coming around to understanding this redundant company’s pig-brained, slop-obsessed stupidity.

If it’s ageism then there shouldn’t be any minimum age for voting either, no? By your logic, since there’s no set age for lacking the mental cognition to vote, under-18s should be allowed to as well.

That’s not greed though. I’ll say it again but more explicitly: Greed is not an illness, it’s a kind of behaviour that anyone can exhibit through their actions. It doesn’t matter whether they’re an average person or someone with an anti-social disorder, that applies regardless.

I think one of the fundamental problems is that we treat mental disorders like they’re some sort of specialized set of adjectives. Being unfocused is “ADHD”. Being shy or fixated on a specific topic is “autistic”. Being emotionally charged in a stressful situation is “bipolar”. We do that and it undermines what it’s actually like to have and deal with those conditions every day, and makes people who actually have them seem “crazy” or “creepy” to people who are just ignorant. It really sets the general consensus back hard.

I honestly think the greed will (and should now) be considered a mental illness.

At that point it would just be excusing bad behaviour, would it not? I wouldn’t say putting it on the same level as mental illness is fair, either. People with mental illnesses don’t want to be mentally ill. On the other hand, greed is a trait that directly shows itself in a person’s decisions. You can choose to be greedy, you can’t choose to have, say, arachnophobia.