It’s in the blocked word list because it’s misogynist. The fact that it’s used so commonly with no second thought is disturbing.
I don’t know if I agree with the blocked word list being enforced, but I definitely have a problem with rampant misogynist, ableist, and otherwise discriminatory language used with no thought.
You can thank Meta for that. They sued the registrar managing several ccTLDs, including .ml, .ga, .gq, .cf, and .tk. Meta even goes so far to fabricate a conspiracy theory about the registrar being part of a cybercriminal ring; they feign concern and wreak havoc.
What a weird take. You’re allowed to pay for whatever you’d like. Personally, I can’t afford to pay for any JetBrains product, even if I wanted to.
Not only are there alternatives which may be better overall or better suited to someone’s needs, that wasn’t even my point. My point was more that it is only temporarily free, and so the parent commenter’s comment of “it’s free” should be taken with a grain of salt if you’re considering the product.
Moreover, we’re in the Open Source community: Fleet is neither free nor open source, and pointing that out here is relevant.
Quoting JetBrains,
Fleet is free to use during the public preview
(emphasis mine)
So it is only temporarily free. Once it’s polished it will no longer be free. Better to not get tied in to something that will be taken away from you before long.
Correct.
Pi hole does not work for YouTube (or Twitch or many others). It doesn’t work for services who distribute ads from their own servers.
If you had Android instead of iOS you may have been able to use an ad-free youtube client and cast to TV, but if you’re streaming on the TV, or from iOS, I don’t know how you’d go about blocking ads.
Me too. The exact same app. I rarely open the play store with other app stores existing but good lord this is bad.
Ah I see they did say seal. I still read it as one of these stickers, but reading it as gasket seems sensible too.
I don’t think they’re referring to something like a “rubber seal”, I think they mean these things:
I don’t believe so. A battery standard would specify the interface, not the actual battery design from a technical standpoint. It would specify:
The rest is up to the battery manufacturer and is completely open to innovation. You want to put a Li-ion battery in there? Just make it the right shape and as long as it can provide the output required, it’s fine. Want some future-tech fusion battery? As long as it’s the right shape and puts out the required power!
If you listen to more than one podcast, either
Some podcasts I like to listen to the day they come out, or perhaps the next day if I don’t get to it, such as news podcasts.
Also, if you listen to even more than a few podcasts, you aren’t going to “a website” once a week, you’re going to a dozen websites once a week.
I just go to the website, download the show, throw it on my phone
That’s three steps, per podcast per episode. Not everyone has their phone set up where it’s zero-effort to copy files to the phone from their computer, so that may be a multi-step process itself.
Also, podcast apps offer some other features that to do manually either is more work, or more mental overhead:
Of course, a podcast app is not required to listen to podcasts by any means. But if you listen to a lot of podcasts and value time your time, there is undeniable benefit offered by podcast apps.
Also, there are plenty of FOSS and tracker-free podcast apps, so it’s not a situation where you must sacrifice privacy for convenience.
So you’re acknowledging that form over function, even to the point of making the end user’s experience worse with no upside except to Apple in the form of more potential future profits, is so important to Apple that they’d rather pull out of an entire massive market than respect their customer.
Just like you can’t get a “nicer looking” microwave that has a completely clear glass front rather than the mesh screen (becasue it’s bad for the consumer), and just like you wouldn’t accept someone marketing a cell phone that bricks itself after 45 outbound phone calls (because it’s bad for the consumer, and the environment), you shouldn’t accept Apple being anti-consumer and anti-environment by refusing to allow user serviceability.
Don’t allow Apple to externalize environmental costs on to the rest of humanity simply because it’d be ever so slightly less profitable if they can’t force consumers into a (needlessly) rapid replacement cycle.
Oh it’s absolutely understandable why a good camera (and subsequently a good screen to view pictures on) would matter to some.
It just doesn’t to me, at all, and so it’s not even the first thing that comes to mind when I think about a phone. I don’t like tablet-sized phones because I don’t use it all that much and when I do, there’s no added benefit of a larger screen over a middle-sized screen (or some higher-resolution display). I don’t use the camera at all, and so its quality doesn’t matter to me. I don’t use a stylus because I’d rather use a pen and notepad.
I’m not criticizing someone wanting those features, I just sometimes need to be told what features are important to other people.
So the fact that you didn’t answer that but just skirted it and decided the conversation is over is rather telling. How do you justify his behavior? How do you claim that he isn’t racist? How do you claim he doesn’t have a lack of self-control and anger restraint? I’m genuinely curious how you can see what he does and think that there’s a disconnect where repeated bad actions don’t reflect poorly on the person doing them.
better cameras, larger displays, better battery life
Gotcha, that’s exactly what I was asking. I can see how that could matter to some.
Why not? If the phone is physically still functional, and receives software updates, why does it matter if its 7 years old?
So what is he then? If he acts like those things, repeatedly, why is he not those things? Is he doing them for show?
TWiT only has any value because of the rest of the employees: the engineers, the co-hosts, and everyone else that puts it all together. Leo is not what makes the network have value (though of course he was at its founding). I think the network would be better off without him now. I too used to watch since the network started and was there for some of it live, and eventually it got to the point where I couldn’t watch any show with him in it (which sucks because I happened to like SN a lot, among others).
the characterization of some of these events is a bit misleading
If you mean the editorializing from that drama website, then I’d agree that it has a very clear bias. That doesn’t discount what I really wanted to stress though: the video clips and screenshots, which are primary evidence that themselves are not editorialising, very clearly show a pattern of problematic behavior. There is no excusing a lot of what I linked to in my previous comment.
I think he has his faults and they sometimes interfere with my enjoyment of the podcasts but if he was a truly horrible person, I don’t think many of the people I respect in the tech space would associate with him offline. “A man is known by the company he keeps” often rings true to me but it has also steered me wrong at times.
I’m curious who you have in mind here. But I’ll say that people have various reasons for associating with others, even if they’re not great people. Money, opportunities/connections/contacts, convenience, etc are all reasons that sometimes make people spend time with bad people.
All I really care about is good insightful content about the things that matter to me and (fortunately/unfortunately depending on your pov) twit is one of the few places to get the kind of long form discussion that I like.
The long-form discussion is not solely enabled by Leo; it would happen just as well without him. In fact, in many situations, it would probably happen better without him. I’m not saying for a moment the network doesn’t have value or produce some quality content. My point was, and is, that Leo is a rather nasty person and that if I were an advertiser I would not want to be associated with him.
He cheated on his wife with his producer, Lisa, who I think he later went on to marry after leaving his wife.
He showed sexually explicit texts between Lisa and himself on air, not just once, but twice. If that wasn’t enough, he also showed his penis on air in much the same way.
He’s made racist comments on air, including saying “they all look alike” in reference to black people, and saying blacks and hispanics are responsible for all crime.
He’s abusive to his employees, such as when he said “Fuck you you’re dead to me” and threatened to punch Brian Brushwood in the face, after (show hosts) Brian and Justin Robert Young were banned from TWiT with no public reason provided. They didn’t badmouth Leo or TWiT, not that that would excuse that behavior anyway. He seemingly can’t control his anger, even on air, and verbally attacks his engineers for any mistake they make. He also is no stranger to attacking his guests/co-hosts on air.
Sarah Lane, co-host of one of (if not the) biggest shows on the network at the time, spoke about workplace sexual harassment (it might be worse than it looks). His interview with Cali Lewis is rather uncomfortable to watch; there is a tasteful and appropriate way to have the conversation, and then there’s the creepiness with which he approached it. Not to mention how inappropriate it was in the context to really have the conversation at all.
Not that I’m generally a fan of this sort of website, but there’s a website devoted to documented Leo’s disgusting actions. If you can get past the editorializing, it is still useful to document things that actually happened. You can ignore the editorialising entirely and just watch the video clips they uploaded if that suits you.
Overall, my opinion of the man is:
Colloquial use of that word is not related to its technical use to describe a female dog in dog breeding. Colloquial use of the word is precisely driven by misogyny. Don’t try to play that game, it’s dishonest. Do you think the homophobic f-slur is acceptable because, after all, it is a technical term relating to bound wood fuel? If not, why is that not acceptable, but the one you’re using is? Historical linguistic justification for a word whose colloquial use has not been related to its historical meaning for a very long time is dishonest.
By “otherwise discriminatory” I meant discriminatory in ways other than the two (sexism, ableism) that I explicitly mentioned; can you not think of other ways to discriminate? “Otherwise discriminatory” can include words that are specificaly xenophobic or racist, or homophobic. I didn’t bother doing a full inventory when I was illustrating a point.
It’s not opaque. The entire block list regex is publicly visible for every single instance. In fact, it’s in the page source of every single page you load. You’re simply uninformed. Moreover, if you think there was no second thought to it’s impact, you’re yet again uninformed. There was (and has been) discussion about it amongst developers and (early) users, and discussion continues; in fact, there was a post about it with large engagement maybe three days ago.
I am not sure how I feel about enforcing a block list (and I said that in my previous comment), but one thing it does do, repeatedly, is illuminate how little people think about offensive things they say. Interestingly, more often than not, people would rather defend their use of misogynist language than consider using literally any other word in English or another language.