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Since when does the PDP-6 implement only dichotomous state?
I have never seen a PDP-6 in its natural habitat (only in zoos) so take this with a grain of salt, but I'm pretty sure the PDP-6 is not a rhetorical device.
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Parting of ways? Sure. In this case they are in charge of the package index but have removed most maintainers from their projects, implicitly taking charge there too. This is a problem.
How can they remove maintainers from their own projects? If my project is yawaramin/foobar, how can Ruby Central remove me as the mantainer from there?
> How can they remove maintainers from their own projects? If my project is yawaramin/foobar...
The official RubyGems projects in question were under a GitHub organizational account, not a single user's account. A subset of the maintainers had the "owner" flag on the org. One of those folks basically initiated the takeover. See [2] for a more detailed recounting.
[1]: Shopify, pulling strings at Ruby Central, forces Bundler and RubyGems takeover - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45348390 - September 2025 (107+ comments)
[2]: https://joel.drapper.me/p/rubygems-takeover/#the-takeover
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I think the missing piece here is that almost every person publicly involved with RubyGems’ development has left the project in recent weeks. I don’t have any special insight here, but from an outsider’s perspective it seems as through Ruby Central is trying to turn a former “host” relationship into a “control” relationship.
I think you're right, but I suspect the root here is one of legal liability - if rubycentral is operating as a nonprofit that hosts _a recurring attack vector on other companies_, they'll have legal obligations to secure that service against those attacks. I assume they are continuously deploying out of that repository, and took the simplest route to controlling the attack vectors? I'm not sure how anyone familiar wi…
Now I just have to hope the fallout from this includes a less centralized replacement for the tools I'm used to - I haven't found anything solid yet, but I imagine andre will be examining this problem space with rv now.
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How can they remove maintainers from their own projects? If my project is yawaramin/foobar, how can Ruby Central remove me as the mantainer from there?
This thread has probably run its course, and newer postings[1] have more information, but I'll respond anyway if it's helpful... > How can they remove maintainers from their own projects? If my project is yawaramin/foobar... The official RubyGems projects in question were under a GitHub organizational account, not a single user's account. A subset of the maintainers had the "owner" flag on the org. One of those folks…
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The article is on his blog[0], and is written in the first person. I assume we're agreeing that he wrote that? Are you saying that the blog did not say that he wants fewer non-white people in London? I picked out the specific parts in [1]. In addition there is this quote: > I thought I might move there one day. That was then. Now, I wouldn't dream of it. London is no longer the city I was infatuated with in the late…
He never said "I want fewer non-white people".
Every rational person knows what happens to a city when there's a massive influx of immigrants. So we all know what he is talking about, and it's not what you wrongly assumed.
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> He's literally saying that britain is now bad because there's too many non-white people living there. No, he didn't. That's something you are hallucinating he said.
> Now, I wouldn't dream of it. London is no longer the city I was infatuated with in the late '90s and early 2000s. Chiefly because it's no longer full of native Brits. Do elaborate on how exactly you tell if someone is a "native brit"? Who qualifies for such an honor?