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by userbinator 1445 days ago
I still remember when all we cared about were the technical contributions that people made. Now it seems like the ideologists from one extreme side of the political spectrum have infiltrated the technical communities and are destroying them in the same way as they are this country.

Stop with the culture wars identity politics shit: it's what's tearing this country apart.

Of all the days in the year to have to write a comment like this on...!
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yellowapple 1444 days ago
> I still remember when all we cared about were the technical contributions that people made.

Well yeah, but then Hans Reiser killed his wife and ruined it for everyone.

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userbinator 1444 days ago
That actually is a good example of what has changed because AFAIK there was no "cancel Reiser" movement or anything of that sort when it happened, just a lot of surprise and some long-running jokes ("MurderFS", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Comparison_of_fil... ).
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tux2bsd 1445 days ago
You're not wrong.

Unrelated but also not: That's why the left introduced the "Code of Conduct" everywhere, to enable useful idiots like that one.

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