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I was banned from the RubyGems project by simply saying "no satisfactory resolution from the development team".
Now woke people are walking away from RubyGems because Ruby Central wants to align with DHH. I say good riddance.
Software should be about technical merit, not ideological agendas.
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> The unstated reason for this change was that many of the existing Rubygems maintainers have recently quit (including their only full-time engineer) due to their continued relationship with DHH. Can someone expand on what this means? Is it a continued relationship between Ruby Central and DHH, or the maintainers and DHH? Why does the other party have a problem with that? EDIT: It seems the post was clarified since I…
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Question: do Palestinians deserve their own country?
Well they had a country until the US and UK stepped in...
Either way, it's weird that leftists will say every culture deserves their own land/country except Europeans...
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Is he? I use Ruby and Rails, but I don't pay much attention to DHH so this is news to me. Would you mind pointing me to a source for this?
He endorsed British far-right agitator “Tommy Robinson” (not his real name) - in the US context this would be like endorsing eg. Nick Fuentes.
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Do you not think that the article says that or do you not think that is white supremacy?
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A bit of useful context for DHH’s response: he’s had beef with at least one of these maintainers before, and tried to get him removed from stuff. As André Arko’s employer at his day job at the time, I was tangential to it, so I don’t know all the details, and my memory is imperfect. But as I understand it, DHH either organized or was part of a group of prominent rubyists who wrote a letter to the Board of Directors o…
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That said both the person this time and people before who allegedly signed onto DHH’s nonsense I’m incredibly disappointed in. Most of them I considered at the least collegial acquaintances and some of them friends. So I felt like I knew them at least well enough to say they were above his sort of divisive rhetoric. But people frequently disappoint.
Maybe I have it all wrong and André, REDACTED, and REDACTED* have done something awful or something…. but from what I know of their characters I seriously doubt it.
Of course, IDK what the DHH crowd is actually thinking, if any of this is true, since in that case they don’t exactly discuss this openly, purely dealing in backroom shenanigans that one could almost think verged on collusion and that leads some groups like RC to possibly violate contract and employment law (at the very least copyright if you check who actually has the copyright on some of the stuff they distribute…). That is if any of the things people are saying is true.
But hey, Rubyists are all “nice” right? Nobody says ethical or kind was a requirement.
* There’s at least two people that I kno- err that is that I strongly suspect, have been tarred by mere association with André. I have a theory it’s more than just them. Apparently he’s insidious about leaking liberal labor thoughts like people should get paid enough to support their families in expensive tech hubs, even if they are working on open source. But apparently “professional open source maintainer” is anathema to some people’s vision and they’d prefer everything to depend on volunteer labor only. Which is a position multi-millionaires who successfully monetized that volunteer labor could take, sure. But it’d make them hypocrites, in the worst of ways. Especially since their alleged actions are leading to some of said maintainers losing work doing so, but they supposedly seem okay with funding others. At that point it stops being a logical, if unethical platform, and more personal spite?
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Totally dodging the issue. You claimed "white supremacist" was an accurate title, cited Nazis who invaded other countries and eradicated the local culture/population/racial groups without assimilating (eerily similar to mass immigration), and then immediately moved the goalposts when it was illustrated how ignorant such a statement could be. > who isn't American? Is this a trick question? People who were not born in…
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There's nothing racist there.
Also, of course, the rally he talks up is named after someone who is literally proud to be a racist.
If none of that triggers your moral compass, you may need to have it recalibrated.
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He endorsed British far-right agitator “Tommy Robinson” (not his real name) - in the US context this would be like endorsing eg. Nick Fuentes.
So did Elon Musk. So did millions of Brits over the weekend. But I guess the further left the left goes, the further away the right becomes....