christopher cooper @cg505@ocf.berkeley.edu

Here it is! The grand finale of the 2nd Programming Language World Championships! #plwc2020

Should Python really be able to defend its title? Is C still the lingua franca of programming in 2020?

You decide!

Numbers are a myth brewed up by the liberal elite

“Teens shouldn't have to go to those lengths to socialize privately on Instagram, said Liz O'Sullivan, technology director at the Surveillance Technology Oversight Project.… ‘She shouldn't have to have these psyop [psychological operations] networks with multiple people…’”

https://www.cnet.com/news/teens-have-figured-out-how-to-mess-with-instagrams-tracking-algorithm/

@cwebber I could almost see a reasonable version of this email where rms wasn't being shitty. Literally just "Hey this is some volunteers deciding to do this and not a formal GNU program, you won't lose your maintainership status if you decide to reject the social contract" But that's just a yikes.

RMS splitbraining himself on "GNU is a political project meant from the start to fight the injustice in software" and "gnu totally isn't a political project" tho.

Nothing like a top-down dictation that only a top-down form of governance is allowed https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/gnu-misc-discuss/2020-02/msg00014.html

This was sent in response to https://wiki.gnu.tools/git/gnu-tools-wiki/tree/code/sc-email.txt which was made by a number of GNU maintainers. I'll say that I don't think that proposed social contract is even too radical, so that makes the response feel more extreme.

such coordination, I saw like 1 reply that wasn't "you did." this is Leftist Unity,

Three years after the W3C approved a DRM standard, it's no longer possible to make a functional indie browser https://boingboing.net/2020/01/08/rip-open-web-platform.html

Imagine running the opinion section of your newspaper in such a way that this fact would be so notable as to warrant a headline

What the fuck

I like how once a month the TL breaks down into gecposting for a day