The daily standup is not the right forum, for example. The pub after work? maybe.
The previous part of the community statement gets the "we're going to be nice, and not discriminate, and focus on the language itself" point across just fine.
Signaling that you want to inject politics into an inappropriate context signals that you may be the type of project that will do unpredictable things when the political mood strikes and makes it less viable to depend on you.
I couldn't agree more. Injecting personal political advocacy into a professional context is itself unprofessional and raises large numbers of questions about fly.io and the Gleam project's ability to operate in solely professional context.
It's this "turn everything into activism" bullshit that people across the the political spectrum engage in on social media that got me to cancel all my social media accounts some years ago (present company excluded).
The other problem with these statements is they can never get rid of them, because the people that like them will freak out if they do that. It's like the land acknowledgements we have in Canada that keep getting longer and longer and will never go away unless the pendulum eventually swings
The moment someone raises a ticket that says "hey, maybe we should put 'no nazis' in the FAQ", you, as the FAQ maintainer, have to make a choice. Whatever you choose is a political choice, even ignoring the ticket. Fencesitting is a political choice too. It's just unavoidable.
If you came into my FAQ and wanted me to put medical advice in it we would not see my refusing to engage with the concept with it as medical advice in itself. (I would not be seen as either for or against the medical advice, in fact people would wonder why the heck you were suggesting I put medical advice in my software FAQ!)
"this isn't the place for that" used to be a very well understood concept, and everyone was able to respect that, whether it was in the workplace or over Thanksgiving dinner. We just stopped enforcing that and started treating "not here, not now" as though it were taking a side.
Have you read The Analytical Language of John Wilkins by Borges? It crops up here occasionally. If not, I'd totally recommend it.
When you draw up rules for an FAQ you're delimiting a box and saying "the stuff inside the box is part of my model, and the stuff outside it is not". The person suggesting you put advice about raising suckling pigs in your Emacs FAQ (picking the most extreme example I can think of) is suggesting you redraw the box - change the model. I'd still say the decision to redraw the model or not is a political decision. I'd also say that saying "no" is obviously the right decision. But still political.
I admit my definition of political (any action or decision that affects how people relate to each other or how resources and opportunities are allocated) is maximalist. We could, at root, be talking about different things.
I haven't read it, but I'll add it to my reading list!
I suppose I have to agree with you that the statement itself is political, given your definition. In which case I'd simply re-phrase my argument. We used to have political neutral zones, where we agreed that we'd try to avoid overt political discussion, and we'd politely ignore those little statements that are "still political". In your example we would all be able to agree that "no" is obviously the right decision regarding the FAQ additions, and we'll all politely ignore the fact that we have differing opinions about the politics of raising suckling pigs. Neutral territory where we can put aside our differences and focus on something bigger.
We've lost a lot of those spaces, which is sad because those neutral zones are critical for the functioning of any ideologically diverse group of people. We have a word for a space where everyone must agree, and must all say all the correct phrases: cult.
We need to build communities, not cults. And to do that we need to be able to agree to disagree about things.
(Back when I was doing a lot of Ruby "Matz is nice and so we are nice" seemed to me to be about the best community code of conduct you could hope for!)
Foucault wrote: "This book first arose out of a passage in Borges, out of the laughter that shattered, as I read the passage, all the familiar landmarks of my thought [...] breaking up all the ordered surfaces and all the planes with which we are accustomed to tame the wild profusion of existing things, and continuing long afterwards to disturb and threaten with collapse our age-old distinction between the Same and the Other."
Well sure, if weirdo runs up to me and starts asking me what I think of Nazis, anything I say or don't say could definitely be looked at with a political lens. Doesn't mean I'm being anywhere as political as the weirdo.
Suggesting to mention Nazis in the FAQ is extremely political. Closing, ignoring or fencing the ticket is much less political.
It's up to everyone whether you want to raise or lower the levels, keeping in mind what you actually want to accomplish.
The status quo is the progressive theology. If billionaires fund your advocates, you have most of the elected representation, and the state-sanctioned press amplifies your views, then you're not challenging anything.
SharpApp appears to be his older app serving a similar purpose.
> Script files provided for Privatezilla or my older app SharpApp are fully compatible with Bloatbox. You will find some on my site here
Source: https://github.com/builtbybel/bloatbox
I normally use a combination of ShutUp10 and a personal debloat script, but I will check this out.
I resent that I need to use Windows. If it wasn't for gaming sigh.
In VBS environments, the normal NT kernel runs in a virtualized environment called VTL0, while the secure kernel runs in a more secure and isolated environment called VTL1.
My manager does this. My managers' boss does it to him. One of the very few complaints I have about my management or my job.
I've sort of become inoculated to it though. Was tough at first though, especially since I have some (undiagnosed) manner of anxiety disorder. So the joke would happen and I would think about it for the rest of the day, if not longer.
Some people dislike that term. Many people in the dota community prefer ARTS over MOBA. Though yes, technically it’s a MOBA; many other games could be MOBAs because it’s fairly vague.
