Author: Nisse

Maybe Facebook is not so bad after all

Leaders from four of the organizations spearheading the #StopHateforProfit campaign sat down with Mark Zuckerberg, Sheryl Sandberg and Chief Product Officer Chris Cox today to discuss the demands of a large advertiser boycott that now includes hundreds of brands. According to Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt, the chat was an unequivocal disappointment. “Today we saw little and heard just about nothing,” said Greenblatt, adding that Facebook fails to apply “energy and urgency” to issues like hate and misinformation that it brings to scaling its massively successful online ad platform. TechCrunch reports:

Some fuckers wanted to tell Facebook what users can write on Facebook. Good that jew Mark ignored that. I dont use Facebook so i dont know much about what is going on there. I would probably get banned if i tried to posts there. Good to see that some companies can resist advertisers demands and think about what the users wants. It would be better if somebody demanded that Facebook stopped spying on people.

https://tech.slashdot.org/story/20/07/07/230252/facebook-boycott-leaders-disappointed-after-meeting-with-zuckerberg-sandberg

The piratebay used a swedish VPN provider

The Pirate Bay: VPN Provider OVPN Hit With Court Injunction, Vows to Fight

Undeterred by this setback, the movie companies and Rights Alliance returned to court last week demanding that OVPN, on pain of financial penalties, should hand over customer information relating to the IP address including name and address, how long the service had been used for, and how much was paid for it.

The Rights Alliance requested a penalty of 100,000 SEK if we did not provide the requested information, as well as a penalty of 100,000 SEK in case we delete any user information connected to who had the IP address at the specified time, i.e penalties connected to information that we don’t have.

This will be interesting. Do the VPN provider have the user information. If it deletes the information will that be illegal. Can you throw away information that could be useful for the courts.

The Linux kernel is going to use a more inclusive terminology

Prominent upstream Linux kernel developers are working on adding “inclusive terminology” guidelines to the Linux kernel coding style requirements.

The new inclusive terminology documentation applies to new code being contributed to the Linux kernel but ultimately in hopes of replacing existing code with words deemed not inclusive. The exception being granted though is where changing the terminology could potentially break the user-space ABI given the kernel’s longstanding guarantees on not breaking that interface.

These new guidelines for Linux kernel developers call for initially avoiding words including “slave” and “blacklist” to instead use words like subordinate, replica, follower, performer, blocklist, or denylist.

Liberal faggots. 😄 A few years ago this would look like a joke. I wonder what Linus thinks about it.

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-Inclusive-Terminology