wizardbeard

Holy crap he is just continuing to build the case against him. His own for-profit automattic's plugins have built in upsells and add additional data harvesting code that you can't opt out of while you use them.

He just keeps treating the non-profit .org stuff and his Automattic for-profit as interchangable.

It's time for the community to find a solution for distributed update servers that at most only rely on Mullenweg for hash checking to prevent tanpering. This is blatantly just a vendetta now.

Heads up, SD Maid is being rebuilt as SD Maid SE now with more/better features.

I'll quote what you just replied to

people working in high COL locations

SF Bay, Cupertino, Redmond, etc... the big "tech hub" cities are known reality warps.

No, you explicitly were saying that you had never heard anyone criticise a piece of media for including a minority.

Then you claimed that it was a strawman (further implying such people do not exist).

I pointed out that those people do exist, most obviously on 4chan, and that whether or not you think they matter has no bearing on whether or not they exist.

I never made any claims as to how important those opinions on 4chan were. I likewise did not say anything about them only existing there.

Pretending people with those opinions do not exist is provably wrong with minimal effort and intellectually dishonest. There's no argument I'm making here. Nothing but me pointing out fact that you have decided doesn't matter because some companies have used it as to excuse valid criticism.

We can all see your comment history in this chain man. Moving the goalposts like this is just sad.

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It was a lot more than a single disagreement.

Team members (both former and current) have made some very concerning comments over the years about Linus's private and public behavior, and have repeatedly raised concerns over the breakneck release schedule negatively impacting quality.

Whenever they get information wrong, or make clear mistakes on things that then effect how they review a product, they hide behind the tight release schedule of their videos, which is something entirely under their own control.

Linus himself has shown shockingly poor judgement and communication skills multiple times as he has publicly ran his mouth off and been overall an unprofessional jackass when people have pointed out his mistakes in the past.

They handle redactions and corrections incredibly inconsistently, if at all, and only when there has been significant backlash.

The whole "getting a hand made protoype waterblock for free, failing to do the bare minimum to ensure they installed it properly, blaming their botched install on the maker, choosing not to contact the maker to discuss anything, releasing a scathingly negative review to most likely tank the fledgling startup who sent it to them with install instructions they ignored, being intensely belligerent with everyone telling them they installed the thing wrong, claiming they lost the prototype when the maker requested it back, then selling the prototype as a reward for a charity auction"... that is only the biggest, most publicly called out fuck up recently, in an ever growing history of this sort of bullshit that goes back for years.

Beyond all that, if you have ever watched a single video of his about anything you already know about, it becomes immediately obvious just how much he's and his team are learning the bare minimum about things and then just skating by on production value and speaking as though they have authoritative knowledge.

None of this is inherently damning, except for just how much money his organization makes, and that they project an image of being trustworthy authoritative knowledge sources when they really aren't. Their entire business is based off the concept that they offer trustworthy and reliable information, but they explicitly don't often enough that it is an inescapable problem. When called out on it Linus very publicly loses his shit and blames it on everything but their own failure to do proper research and take enough time to ensure quality control.

This is a marked downward trend in their content and public behavior that has been going on for more than eight years.

Lastly, I never said he was a garbage person. That was the comment I replied to.

My man, "regular" programmers aren't making 120k a year plus enough for taxes to end up with 10k a month take home. Seniors, people working in high COL locations, working for FAANG or whatever the buzzword is now, sure maybe.

But that's not average pay.

Ugh, I hate that the actual ethical issues in games journalism got swallowed up by all the other hateful bullshit.

Like, sponsored articles weren't being disclosed, and some games journalists were being fired for refusing to give favorable reviews to games that were advertising on their site. There were private mailing lists where behind the scenes coordination was happening to push kinder reviews of one member of the list's friend's indie game. White jounalists were claiming themselves as mouthpieces for minority gamers who never asked for someone else to speak for them.

Which gave cover for explicit mysogyny and hate... then further got twisted by far-right idealogues like Milo Yannopolous and Breitbart.

The Microsoft plan to restart Three Mile Island is currently paused, as they want to somehow fund it off of taxpayer funds instead of paying for it themselves.

Man this one of the most slippery slopes I've seen in a while.

There's red hat linux being used by the government. When are we getting the red hat kill drones?

Also, military drones and robots already exist without apple markup and are being made with mostly consumer parts now, in case you haven't been keeping up with the Ukraine and Gaza conflicts. Best just get prepared because if the police want them it won't matter who sells it to them.

While true, that is absolutely not what you were saying.

People having fringe opinions are still people who exist. Your personal choices about how much they matter or don't doesn't materially effect their existence.

It really isn't. Companies absolutely love using it as an excuse for why their shit product sold like shit, but these people are absolutely out there.

Go spend 10 minutes on 4chan's /v/ideogames board or /b/ - Random board for the most obvious and quick demonstration.

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Pretty sure that's the technicality GoG is using when they keep saying all this sort of stuff. Their terms of service have effectively the same language about purchases only being a license that Steam does.