Notices by Emmanuele Bassi (ebassi@mastodon.social), page 2

@q3k @redford @mrtick I bet the managers and engineers were all proud of this stuff

Were I the GNOME almost-benevolent dictator for life, I'd provide a decoy public issue tracker, like Apple does

I guess I'll have to live without an answer from a 15 years old kid who doesn't understand how to interact with other people.

@Cwiiis I grew up on Usenet, and have spent 25 years of my life on public forums; I also don’t have a pathological need of people “liking me”, and I don’t derive any sense of self-worth from the approval or disapproval of people I don’t know…

That, of course, doesn’t prevent me from thinking a bunch of these people should discover how chemical fires work directly up close, but other than that, I stopped caring long ago. It’s the cost of doing open source software

@kaia Oh, I'm perfectly comfortable with the perma-virgin incels of /g/ to get their hate boner on me. They are a useless waste of air anyway.

This is what you get when you ask Linux users three times to explain what they want to achieve:

Closed source software had it right: never allow direct public access to a project's issue tracker

@JCWasmx86 You say that as if it were a bad thing? What have bug reports done for us?

This is utterly horrific holy fuck

Unity fucks up the ToS of their product in a fit of greed: "RMS was right! Stop depending on closed source software!"

Fedora considers dropping legacy windowing system: "You can't ignore nVidia users with their closed source drivers!"

Imagine the Linux community bringing water to the well of a closed source GPU driver as a way to block the completion of the Wayland migration in a bleeding edge Linux distribution that has already switched to Wayland by default nearly 7 years ago.

Linux users: "People should vote with their wallets and not buy hardware with closed source drivers"
Also Linux users: "But what about gamers"

The other fun thing in the Linux community:

@wingo Same thing for the NHS here in the UK; the official docs are very much: "this is not reversible, and even if you decide to save up for IVF there's no guarantee it'll work, so no take-baksies, mmkay"

@brennen Conversely, knowing the people that made the software in question, I have plenty of trust in their work—especially because it's all in the open.

@brennen But, in the generic case: polls are strictly worse than any form of telemetry, because at least you can make telemetry work. Polls are statistically biased, and not any better at privacy.

"I don't want telemetry! If you want to know how people use your software, you should ask them!"

Mastodon has its problems—some fairly big—but one thing it got right is the ability to add a note to somebody's profile. This way I don't have to remember why I had to block every fuckwit I encountered on social media, meaning I waste zero energy caring about them

@abcdw @civodul @khinsen No, you can't do that. You need to have an account on the Discourse instance.

Depending on the configuration of the instance, you may also need to actually browse it and interact with it a bit to raise your user level, before you can open topics just by sending an email.

@abcdw @civodul @khinsen That's not our experience. Though, of course, if you start contributing a lot to GNOME, you can ask to get an LDAP account, and then you get single-sign-on for all GNOME services.

If you're referring to being able to send patches via email, that's just false economy: you have a steep set up cost (git send-email is not a simple thing), and then you get stuck with patches over email, which is a fate worse than death.