Notices by Alfred M. Szmidt (amszmidt@mastodon.social)

@stallmansupport Please do not tag me in the future.

@lxo There is this unhealthy even toxic inability to step back, and understand why things are better the way they are than having a AI moment.

The thing about this crowd reminds me always of junior, new hackers .. they see a problem, or something they dislike .. and their first reaction is "REWRITE EVERYTHING FROM SCRATCH" ...

When you've been around the woods .. you should have learnt something, sadly some people are incapable or must grind their axe.

@redstarfish @janneke @ark74

To the forrest tomorrow! #jakt #hunt

@janneke You've never tried to even argue why something would be better, only that it must, and that it must be by forcing everyone else.

That is not how to make lasting change.

@lxo @redstarfish @ark74

@janneke I don't need to look into random theories, when there is empirical evidence that I saw with my own eyes that proves that status quo works, you've not even tried in many years to convince why it does not ..

Could it be that you don't understand when democracy or other structures work well, and when they don't .. and as cope out .. you blame it on others?

@lxo @redstarfish @ark74

@janneke Some kind of new version of argument from authority, but by age?

The organizations we are talking about have not existed for 100 years, condescending tone withstanding.

And if you think it is so much better, setup your own foundation .. I think we should have more foundations that support Software freedom.

The one that FSF/GNU has works for them, it is not our place to argue, bully and threaten others into how someone else should run their ship.

@lxo @redstarfish @ark74

@larsbrinkhoff I used to.

Been listening to a human, instead of regurgitator. I am not less human.

@janneke (PS. in the few years ... this cabal has done nothing but damage, they have not tired to engaged, communicate, or otherwise reach out other than by force -- so from someone expunging democracy this is nothing by laughable)

@lxo@gnusocil.jp @redstarfish @ark74

ATC vs. Pilot comm .. is very interesting from a software engineer POV. #Kelsey

#Poland is the center of #Europe.

"MAGA should give you a hint about what they stand for" .... some such parallel discussion. /funny

@janneke If you have a topic of grievance .. you know where to discuss it as a community, and not as an enclave. The way you are goin about it, and where .. is not the way.

Happy hacking!

@lxo @redstarfish @ark74

@janneke Alas, I am not interested in exploring fantasy structures of governance. See Debian which renegaded at its goal (twice) due to such structure of doing a 100% free operating system.

@lxo @redstarfish @ark74

@janneke The anti-GNU assembly is entirely anti-GNU.

Just because you think it is not, does not mean it is. And your numbers are lottery tickets ...

Nobody is denying that there are problems, the issue is how one addresses them .. threatening people, harassing people, constantly attacking people .. which the anti-GNU assembly has been doing.

@lxo @redstarfish @ark74

@moira Does that include Trumpeldork and Suckerberg?

@janneke What is sad is that a minuscule minority of individuals, most who have nothing to do with the GNU project are bickering about how 400 people are supposed to conduct themselves.

If you want to change that, maybe ... I dunno -- engage in actual discussions on that topic which you've never actually done. *shurg*

@lxo @redstarfish @ark74

@janneke That a very tiny group of individuals disagree about the overall structure of the GNU project is natural, but for them to force their way through (threatening, doxxing .. their way to authority).. just shows that the way things are structured is the right way -- both for GNU and for the FSF.

@lxo @redstarfish @ark74

@janneke The anti-GNU assembly was about forcefully changing a structure (so much for democracy!), without any input of the current people involved, or the current maintainers.

The GNU project is one of the friendliest, and most inclusive projects that exist.

You claim, incorrectly, that change (I assume that is a typo) can't happen .. it has happened, we got a clear steering document based on the status quo.

@lxo @redstarfish @ark74

@amszmidt @suetanvil If I search for a gas manual, I find this page https://sourceware.org/binutils/docs/as/index.html

But if I search the table of contents for "macro", I find sections for `.macro`, `.altmacro`, and `.noaltmacro`. I find no high-level documentation (except under sections specific to dead platforms such as MIPS).

Are you aware of any "conceptual" documentation for either gas macros, contemporary x86_64 asm in gas, or ergonomic gas programming in general? Or should I just read the ".macro" page?