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> I would link to the article but JWZ shows requests with referer "news.ycombinator.com" an image that you may not like if you're at work :)

IMO anyone who has not configured their browser not to send cross-domain Referer headers deserves whatever they get. There is no user benefit for this privacy leak and browsers should have trashed it decades ago.

> I think it's a little unfair of him to single out young developers

Yeah, though I think of “teenage” more as a mindset in this case.

Gregory Casamento needs to build a GNUStep PPA for Ubuntu based distros, it would work great on libre derivatives such as Trisquel. Parabola has badly maintained repos for it, lacking even Gorm and ProjectCenter.

We need a DE for legacy devices as XFCE's development is not a sure thing with further GTK+ releases tied to Gnome and Red Hat.

Sometimes it's easier to rewrite a module, given inputs and outputs and a good test suite, than to understand how it works. This is even more true if the original developer is no more available.

Rewriting a whole big library, not easy either way.

> edit: oh I just clicked the link someone posted (in a [Dead] comment), it seems he has removed the functionality I described

Your browser probably just doesn’t send the referer header to protect your privacy.

Still has the referrer troll.

Weirdly I am now seeing it again. I don't know what happened :-S