I’d be curious to know what the proper context is for Kling saying that using gender neutral language in the documentation of a project he was maintaining is something he’s opposed to because it’s “ideologically motivated.”

White males are actively discriminated against in tech.

It’s an open secret of Silicon Valley.

One of the last meetings I attended before leaving Apple (in 2017) was management asking us to “keep the corporate diversity targets in mind” when interviewing potential new hires.

The phrasing was careful, but the implication was pretty clear.

I knew in my heart this wasn’t wholesome, but I was too scared to rock the boat at the time.

That’s Kling replying to @danheld, who “is ultimately responding to @shaunmmaguire’s tweet lying about being told he wouldn’t be promoted at Google for being white.”

What’s the proper context for that?

What’s the proper context for Kling calling someone getting dragged for boosting noted far-right conspiracy nut Bryan Lunduke “persecution” for “banal, mainstream positions”?

I mean, sure, being alt-right isn’t very alt nowadays so I guess it’s mainstream, I’ll grant you that.

Quotes and links from this blog post

Legit question.

I think we all know it isn’t

Americans not understanding other countries exist, an exhibit:

why don’t you tell us how you really feel

data can’t leave the EU without explicit consent

This is already more or less the norm for many services, because of the GDPR and the ePrivacy directive, especially if you’re handling special personal data categories, and/or the service is for a government entity. There’s some caveats to this, but on a general level that’s already how things are.

But as was pointed out, the problem isn’t getting folks to host things in the EU since it’s not like only European companies have data centers in the EU, but to use European cloud providers. Vendor lock-in is a real issue, however; no European provider can give you what AWS or GCP can, and migrating to something else might require a lot of work depending on which services you’ve been using.

The fact that so many people listen to these cunts is disheartening

Oh no maybe only 10x the population of Finland, this completely wrecks my argument.

Do you honestly seriously think that the ratio of bots to people on Reddit is so high that you’re more likely to see bot-generated (and not by just any bots but ones masquerading as humans) content than not?

I used to be a huge user of all the drama subs but they started getting formulaic

Which only tells us anything about drama subs.

Edit: Reddit has, what, >100k active subs and ~500 million active monthly users. Even if half of them were literal bots that’d leave you with ~250 million monthly meatbags using the site.

50–100 times the population of eg. Finland—“everybody on reddit is the same and they’re like chatbots, amirite?”

Revenge of the Edit: and before any of y’all get any bright ideas, I use em & en dashes because I’m a ginormous nerd who also uses interrobangs (“uses what‽”), fite me

outgroup bad, applause please

So mind telling us mere mortals what your point is, then?

Just asking why anyone would want to publicly host the repo for a closed source project isn’t a point – it’s just you not understanding the reasons for doing that, and just because you personally don’t understand something doesn’t mean there’s no valid reason to do it.

“Not like that!”

Ugh, goddamnit. But at least that’s 5 years old, so maybe they’ve changed? I can’t remember running into anything in the 2-3 years I’ve been a subscriber, although it’s definitely not like I’ve seen every single headline during that time.

So I guess that’s a “yes”, then

Yeah same. I’ve got a subscription but I’m going to yank that tout-de-fucking-suite if they’re TERF-friendly

Wouldn’t expect much more from a TERF paper.

Ah shit, has The Guardian platformed TERFs?

I think we might actually see a new age of nuclear proliferation; over 50% of the current nuclear-armed states are more or less authoritarian, and nuclear blackmail has gotten very common. More and more states are waking up to the fact that they need their own nuclear deterrent, and eg. the US “nuclear umbrella” isn’t reliable

Oh absolutely no disagreement there; even “fuckwits” would be a vast understatement

Maybe I’m being overly optimistic, but I think the lack of big AI acquisition could be a sign that Apple feels confident in its current progress.

I think they’re being overly optimistic about how informed Apple’s leadership actually is; it’s not like it’s uncommon for C-suites to be, well… to put it politely, uninformed about the actual status, usefulness etc. of some feature, because of the thermocline of truth (which isn’t just an IT problem, in my opinon)

Yeah that’s a great point.

I swear it feels like the rabidly anti-AI people are just as fucking stupid as the rabidly pro-AI ones

“Used up old slut” as incels mainstream conservatives would say