chris_wot

How was I instigating constantly, Chris? Can you provide any evidence of that? Perhaps an ArbCom investigation?

You can't, because that never happened.

But hey, keep defending BrownHairedGirl. You seem to be fine with her constant abuse!

And why was that interaction ban enacted? It was immenseley unfair. It was pathetic in fact, given it was a one-way ban, and she had consistently denigrated me. Unless you think that's justice.

So no, not the pot calling the kettle black in any way. She had her coiterie of followers, and she was banned as a bully. They enabled her.

I commented on BrownHairedGirl’s RFA. The most toxic user ever on Wikipedia.

I can assure you, there are those on Wikipedia who committed far worse offenses and they remain.

Like I say - a cesspool that doesn’t respect article writers.

Good for you I guess.

Everything I ever added was kept, and I was permanently banned. I created [ciation needed], started the admins noticeboard, reworked the USA Patriot Act article, wrote numerous articles for WiR with extensive referencing, contributed to peer review and good article reviews, and a shitload more, but nope. Not good enough.

Why anyone would contribute to that cesspool is anyone’s guess.

To purchase a subscription, you need to value and trust the service. To trust the service the provider needs to show it can be trusted.

It’s Facebook. Why would anyone trust them?

Provide some evidence to back up you assertions. Don't tell someone else to do it for you.

The Panopticon was taken from prison design and he used to it expand the idea that it was coopted by government over the rest of society.

... because it makes some decent points?

I can not understand why Foucault is taken seriously. In fact, I cannot understand how Sociology is taken seriously. In my uni course, the textbook tried to claim that childhood development is a myth. When I pointed out the decades of child development psychological studies and research, I was told "we aren't studying psychology, we are studying sociology."

Great! And yet there is an entire field that claims the direct opposite of what is being espoused and this is the best argument they could give me.

Windows Explorer always freezes for me. Teams is constantly interrupting me with popovers to tell me about features I’ll never use. on startup, it takes some time for panels to load.

The file system still uses drive letters. Can’t they scrap the old file system folder layout to something… organized?

No more ask.com toolbars being installed without asking.

I'll be honest - I've never heard of this! Thanks for the info.

I keep saying this (and I keep getting voted to oblivion) but we really need an alternative to DNS.

Michel Foucault's Panopticon is alive and well I see.

I contacted TM Bank and they would't let me do this.

The same thing you did. What sort of question is that?

Can it handle modules?

Can someone elaborate on the limitations bit?

"Little Snitch for Linux is built for privacy, not security, and that distinction matters. The macOS version can make stronger guarantees because it can have more complexity. On Linux, the foundation is eBPF, which is powerful but bounded: it has strict limits on storage size and program complexity. Under heavy traffic, cache tables can overflow, which makes it impossible to reliably tie every network packet to a process or a DNS name. And reconstructing which hostname was originally looked up for a given IP address requires heuristics rather than certainty. The macOS version uses deep packet inspection to do this more reliably. That's not an option here."

Is this a limitation of the eBPF implementation? Pardon my ignorance, I'm genuinely curious about this.

I’m knee deep in refactoring LibreOffice code around text rendering. I can assure you, it’s complex but it doesn’t require a GPU!

What lawsuit?!?

Not just this, it the way the vote was announced seems very, very bad. Italo may have found legal issues, but one of the things he said was that legal action was being taken by Collabora. That… doesn’t seem to be the case.

Italo and co removed some very dedicated contributors from the TDF. What an absolute disaster.

This is so sad Michael. You gave me an opportunity at Collabora many years ago (I was definitely too inexperienced!) and I’ll never forget this. Collabora is a force for good, and it is sad things have cone to this.

Oh shit, I’m so sorry Noel. That’s awful!

That didn't prove anything. Modules get rewritten, but does that make it a full rewrite? That's Ship of Theseus material there...

It does occur to me that you can be both malicious and stupid at the same time.

None of those were full rewrites. Not sure what point you are trying to make.

If you knew of the video, then why didn't you mention it?

It’s all that survived.

No, most admins are incompetent, full stop. I've been on the receiving end.

lol this has been going on for years, even before the rise of GenAI.