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As somebody who used PHP through that transition, I have to say that the 5-7 (skipping 6) transition was especially well handled from my perspective. There was certainly breakage, …

> We're at 12 years of Wayland and counting and the thing still isn't really usable outside a very narrow use-case. Must be a wide narrow you're talking about. I've been using it a…

Good for them. Does this mean we're going to get a GNOME 4 as well? I'm quite curious to see what neat things the new version of GTK enables in practice.

Regardless of the bike-shedding over the exact syntax, this would be really cool to see. I have no clue how C/C++ made it into 2020 without this language feature - and yes, I know …

The goal of climate change denialists is to deny climate change by any excuse necessary. If the hot button topic wasn't the existence of different gender identities, they'd find so…

Sorry, but I think this is a poisonous, thought-terminating cliche. Python has had multiple ways of doing many things for a very long time, and the longer you program in any langua…

> You seem to lack empathy for people who's content is being removed from these platforms. I lack empathy not because I disagree with their politics, but because "getting booted ou…

> What that signals to me is that practically they should be considered a speech platform I'm not really sure what problem you're solving here. The social space is too big to moder…

> How can filtering infringe free speech? People can say whatever they want, but why should I have to hear them? Simple. There's people agitating for free speech on idealistic term…

> And yeah, we also need usable and effective filtering, so everyone can choose what to see. I'd be careful about mentioning filtering. I just remembered that there was a Reddit Ma…

> I am saying that the concession that we need to moderate "dirty" behavior is, in and of itself, the rhetoric that validates the mob behavior we're seeing. I think that's a stretc…

To be clear, are you saying that if I don't agree with preserving the abstract freedom of expression on private social spaces, I am pro angry mob destroying peoples lives?

> Exactly. Because once everything isn't protected, someone gets to choose. So what we need are systems where content can't be removed, and users can't be banned, by design. This i…

And? What did people expect would happen? You cannot trust large corporations with those kinds of discussions. The thing is, I don't think the solution is to force Reddit to host t…

Actually it does matter, if we want to be honest about why we're even having this conversation. Deplatforming and banning doesn't happen because of some abstract whim, so defending…

> Further exasperating the issue is the fact we deplatform people with opposing opinions. Now Reddit is even removing people who upvote stories or comments differ from their ideolo…

> A karma system Upvoting and downvoting can and have been gamed by users and groups of users. It's a fine distraction to drive engagement in a social media space, but you cannot d…

> highly engaged moderation This in particular. It took me a very long time to recognize how important this was, but looking back the very best social spaces I've ever been in have…

Free speech crowd wants another thread to try and convince onlookers that banning people from online communities for people expressing "free speech" is a bad idea.

> TS feels like something that was created to lure programmers who couldn’t wrap their heads around JS loose nature. Almost like it was created to convince Java and C# developers t…

> I was actually censored from a certain platform for defending stallman's right to express what he thinks regarding pedophilia. So? I've been booted from platforms over way less j…

> Trashing a person's reputation and character through a targeted internet campaign (hello Twitter mobs) is another matter. Isn't that also free speech? Or should free speech only …

So I've been sitting in this comment thread for a while and something has been bothering me. I'm noticing two things that are consistently brought up: 1. Free speech as some sort o…

> The problem is that even that perspective is your personal bias which you're using to justify censorship To clarify, are you asserting that hiding political advertisements - eith…

> The Internet has been "toxic and racist" since, oh, the first chat room... In any respectable community, those sorts of people tend to get unceremoniously ejected from the commun…