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Notices by Sorokin Alexei (xrevan86)
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@lnxw48a1 And people thought that Microsoft learnt their lesson and stopped shoving Microsoft Edge down their usees throats.
This second wave is more aggressive than the first one ever was.
The "new Microsoft" in action.
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I haven't made a fuss about the master-slave topology, however now things have become weird.
There's an ongoing effort to deprecated the master branch's name in Git, which I find to be a strange move as the master-slave topology doesn't even apply to git – all branches are independent by design.
Maybe I'm employing an overly rational approach, but shouldn't our actions make sense?
Is making an implication that the word "master", in any context, is a sign of a slave owner a good idea at all? What about headmasters, people with master's degree, master records?
A similiar thing can be said about the deprecation of terms whitelist/blacklist. They even predate the European colonisation of the Americas. I.e. they never had anything to do with skin pigmentation. And they never could, as skin pigmentation is observed with eyes, not lists.
One can argue that it's fair as here "white" is employed with a positive connotation and "black" – with a negative.
But the same can be said about the terms "blackmail", "black market", "black humour", etc.
Is it a half-measure or are they next? I cannot tell.
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@clacke It is somewhat disappointing when mundane suspicions that I've had about Google Fonts turn out to be well-founded.
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@lnxw48a1 There's just no current maintainer.
It's that Gecko vulnerability, it's been fixed in the mainline, of course.
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@lnxw48a1 The overtsar?
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@maiyannah So… https://s8.postimg.cc/rvemhkkjp/image.jpg
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@benediktg5 It doesn't *feel* like IPv4 is ending, so it *feels* like IPv6 has no purpose.
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And a follow-up: http://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2017/11/23/mastodon-is-oppressive
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Oh boy, @schestowitz has been erased/banned from mastodon.technology for unclear reasons: http://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2017/11/21/mastodon-free-speech
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@thor If one believes in the scientific method the same way people believe in religions, that belief is pretty worthless.