Ekaitz Zárraga 👹 @ekaitz_zarraga@mastodon.social

Look the sign says "No Shirt No Shoes No Service" there's nothing about donald ducking in line with my whole dick and balls swinging around. I will not be leaving this Starbucks without my pumpkin spice latte.

oh jings, it's me o.o

what if i changed my pronouns to be 🐰/🐇?

@celesteh @lain

but that's the thing: the CoC has nothing to do with it. you guys decided to take a more active community management role.

let me tell you -- when i changed my name and came out as transgender -- some of the most friction i've had contributing in projects lately have been ones with CoCs.

community management matters. it is the only thing that matters.

@celesteh @lain

so you think CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md files mean anything? that is extremely naive.

i've contributed to many projects with a CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md file wherein my contribution experience had far more friction than anything else i've contributed to.

@celesteh @lain

to be clear: i don't really wish to hear anyone's sales pitch on codes of conduct.

there are projects that have codes of conducts that are disasters, there are also projects that have successful community management that do not have them.

what you *actually* mean is that all projects need good community management.

and, codes of conduct do not equal community management, they are tools, nothing more. they can be an effective tool, but i don't see them as a necessity for positive community management.

A dangerous subway

good morning, I don’t know Spanish, what does this say

good morning comrades

i've been using this little (very lovely) tool for thinking for the past few days and it's amazing.

https://kinopio.club/

Speaking of bad opinions and toxic "thought leaders", I was curious when I saw https://useplaintext.email and went to go get Geary included in the list. However, after reading the "Why is plaintext better" section and scratching my head as the bad arguments, I realised who wrote it, and that it's just yet another attempt to shame everyone else into working in the way the author wants them to work. Screw that.

Richard Stallman left the FSF due the campaign against him for his own unlucky comments.

Please don't refuse all his work because this, maybe he is an asshole, but he brought us a great software legacy.

https://www.fsf.org/news/richard-m-stallman-resigns

@emacsen Being president-for-life is never a good thing. #RMS has so many merits that he could have easily retired and just continue to be an important voice as the elder statesman of Free software. Just as Mandela after he stepped down and unlike persons who missed the right moment and had to be forced from power, such as Mugabe.
But the way it happened now is incredibly sad. RMS to be remembered as a defender of Epstein? Why on earth did he do that?

@z428 In the case of that specific person however they have a history of being a toxic jerk, so I'm happy to call them out.

that's a sequence of strange events. First, rms speaking at Microsoft campus with a podium that has Microsoft printed on it. Now, resignation due to political attack. This is not normal behavior of rms. He is typically staunch. Also, about a year ago, Linus gave in to sjgang.

why would rms resign? he normally wouldn't give in to sjgang. i think money is involved.

The RMS resignation was inevitable and right, but at the same time very sad.

Things can be right and sad at the same time. We can feel empathy while knowing this was necessary.

For people celebrating, we understand why. For those feeling sad about it, it's okay to feel sad too, but we all knew it had to happen.

#RMS #Stallman #FSF

Do you blog? Take a look at some of your older posts. Maybe you already forgot that you wrote them? This is a post I wrote in the beginning of 2018 and I still like it: jlelse.blog/posts/why-you-should-invest-in-yourself/ (although I spend a lot more money on tech now 😅)

I was going to have my usual kale salad on this last day of eating at the cafeteria, but how could I pass up this ridiculous pun?