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by cucumberferity 8y ago
Gotcha.
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by cucumberferity 8y ago
It also adds language about debias. So it doesn't simply remove meritocracy to appease the far-left activists. It specifically inserts language to appear them, reaffirm their world view. Is it really necessary to create a safe space fo
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by cucumberferity 8y ago
They are proposing removing meritocracy based on their political view that certain classes of people will never be able to participate on a level playing field. They are the ones advancing a narrative of exclusion, telling individuals in wh
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by cucumberferity 8y ago
The evidence cited for meritocracy being an inappropriate word, a study on GitHub pull requests, has been widely debunked. Meritocracy is only an inappropriate word if you believe that certain groups of people will never be able to particip
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by cucumberferity 8y ago
No. Eliminating meritocracy as a value doesn't discriminate against cis white males. Nor does meritocracy as a value discriminate against non-cis non-white people. This effort is a power-grab by a small group of people based on their r
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by cucumberferity 8y ago
> Instead of abandoning a meritocracy because it has implementation issues, why don’t they just fix the problems? Because the small group of people pushing these changes don't want meritocracy, they want power and influence merely f
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by cucumberferity 8y ago
This is about changing the very nature of how open source projects work for people with radical political views to 'feel included', specifically to have their political views validated. It is not about improving actual diversity,
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by cucumberferity 8y ago
It's strange this has so many points and comments but almost instantly disappeared from the front page of HN.
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by cucumberferity 8y ago
The people pushing this radical view on diversity and equality tend to paint all people they see as marginalized as unable to compete on a level playing field.
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by cucumberferity 8y ago
> an acknowledgement that “this person is valuable insofar as they are like me.” Yeah, when evaluating PRs I rarely even look at the person making the contribution, I look at the code.
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by cucumberferity 8y ago
> The project also seeks to debias this system of distributing authority Because this is not about the governance documents of an open source software project, it is about affirming the radical worldview of a small but loud fringe group
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by cucumberferity 8y ago
The radical group pushing these language changes are explicitly opposed to meritocracy. They don't think they should have to justify their positions or their influence, they get it by having the 'right' politics. They are com
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by cucumberferity 8y ago
> At the community development level, your intentional and forced choices around language, schedule, pronouns, and even technical terminology can make contributors from varying backgrounds feel welcome or unwelcome. The proposal is not t
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by cucumberferity 8y ago
These people thing changing the code of our institutions works, specifically by giving them more power, that we can rid our institutions of the worst aspects of human nature: racism, sexism, xenophobia. We can and should combat those aspect
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by cucumberferity 8y ago
The problems in FreeBSD CoC were widely discussed. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16406946 When people approached some of the FreeBSD Core Team with their concerns about vague language that could be subject to abuse,
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by cucumberferity 8y ago
They are already attempting to control use of language and the foundational view of how open source works, based on their world view that equality is an illusion and only through use of selective discrimination against unpopular groups, as
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by cucumberferity 8y ago
The governance documents of a open source software project are not being used to shut down debates about sexism and racism. The Mozilla and Rust communities are by far the most inclusive communities on the web and more inclusive all the tim
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by cucumberferity 8y ago
What about it is fake? A senior-level employee and strategist for Mozilla made this proposal to the governance listserv. It's up for serious discussion.
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by cucumberferity 8y ago
Patrick Finch is a high-level strategist for Mozilla, has been there 8 years.
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by cucumberferity 8y ago
Words are important. Diversity is important. Changing words like "meritocracy" does not improve diversity. It is the illusion of diversity, a feel-good opportunity for well-intentioned bystanders. The true intent is for a small gr
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Mozilla to remove “meritocracy” from governance docs because it's “problematic”(groups.google.com)
91 points by cucumberferity 8y ago|143 comments
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by cucumberferity 8y ago
Is something that happened in 1864 or 1964 going to prevent you from identifying a good engineer in front of you?
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by cucumberferity 8y ago
You could always buy a subscription to RHEL Workstation.
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by cucumberferity 8y ago
Haiku is not abandoned, it has relatively up to date ports of all the common compilers and libraries, but it just needs some polish. You could pick some rough edge and clean it up.
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by cucumberferity 9y ago
Those patches benefit the whole community
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by cucumberferity 9y ago
Apple is still pretty awesome, let’s see if they respond to the criticism.
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by cucumberferity 9y ago
It’s only just starting to. HP is trying to make up for it with PhoneWise. Some phone companies make SMS apps in the MS Store.
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by cucumberferity 9y ago
Pop!_OS from System76 looks even better than elementaryOS.
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by cucumberferity 9y ago
That's frustrating.
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by cucumberferity 9y ago
Not in it's current state. It's just a kernel. It's missing key components of the software stack to even make it terminal-only, let alone a GUI. There have been attempts through the years to create a full OS from the bits of

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