Hatred [Was: Re: Support for RMS and criticism of the bottom-up/social contract power grab attempt. - Why fewer contributors?]

2019-11-04 Thread Alexandre François Garreau
Le lundi 4 novembre 2019 13:30:09 CET, vous avez écrit : > Please refrain. It is not > nice to call people that way. It wasn’t strictly insulting, tho… was it? > I understand your feelings, but the discussion is not place for > animosity and hatred towards any group of people. Be it American, >

Re: Support for RMS and criticism of the bottom-up/social contract power grab attempt.

2019-11-04 Thread Alexandre François Garreau
Le lundi 4 novembre 2019 13:17:47 CET, vous avez écrit : > * Alexandre François Garreau [2019-11-04 12:28]: > > I think women (and more generally, contributors, and stable ones) are even > > too few to see any formal preference of anybody over anybody within GNU > >

Re: Why don't gnu.org and RMS sign mail? - FDE Crypto

2019-11-04 Thread Alexandre François Garreau
Le lundi 4 novembre 2019 15:09:56 CET, vous avez écrit : > * Alexandre François Garreau [2019-11-04 15:00]: > > Purism do not respect users’ freedom: > > https://libreboot.org/faq.html#will-the-purism-laptops-be-supported > > > > Actually they “disable” it, but sinc

Re: Why don't gnu.org and RMS sign mail? - FDE Crypto

2019-11-04 Thread Alexandre François Garreau
Le lundi 4 novembre 2019, 14:51:08 CET Jean Louis a écrit : > * gameonli...@redchan.it [2019-11-04 14:05]: > > Windows is required to disable the trusted computing locks in Most new > > laptops. Other than windows there are only a few signed operating systems > > that can be installed without

Re: Support for RMS and criticism of the bottom-up/social contract power grab attempt.

2019-11-04 Thread Alexandre François Garreau
Le lundi 4 novembre 2019 15:05:02 CET, vous avez écrit : > Myself I do not see any real problem in gender cap, as it is something > one cannot really control. It indicates that society's type and its > culture is generaly to blame for gendera gaps. Maybe there are > sucessful actions to learn from

Re: Turning GNU into a bottom-up organization

2019-11-01 Thread Alexandre François Garreau
Le dimanche 27 octobre 2019, 18:55:59 CET Alfred M. Szmidt a écrit : > that > "stubborn governance" is what is needed to keep things free. If > anything, we should have even more stubborn goverance -- and that can > only be done by a trusted group of people that are willing to uphold > the values

Youth [Was: Re: Women and GNU and RMS (was Re: something else)]

2019-11-01 Thread Alexandre François Garreau
Le vendredi 1 novembre 2019, 17:27:53 CET Sandra Loosemore a écrit : > On 11/1/19 3:32 AM, Andreas Enge wrote: > > Do you have ideas on how to change that, maybe on a per-package basis? > > For instance, did you experience things in GCC/Binutils or in other > > environments that you think might

Re: Support for RMS and criticism of the bottom-up/social contract power grab attempt.

2019-11-01 Thread Alexandre François Garreau
Le vendredi 1 novembre 2019, 20:32:42 CET Jean Louis a écrit : > * Alexandre François Garreau [2019-11-01 20:30]: > > Thank you for your answer, > > > > Le vendredi 1 novembre 2019, 18:37:54 CET Jean Louis a écrit : > > > That was a statement that was crea

Re: List posting rules

2019-11-01 Thread Alexandre François Garreau
Le vendredi 1 novembre 2019, 14:09:23 CET Dora Scilipoti a écrit : > On 11/01/2019 07:39 AM, Mark Wielaard wrote: > > Ruben is a prolific poster who has already made his case that all this > > is just falsehoods and defamation. We are just going to have to agree > > to disagree on that. > > Well,

Re: Women and GNU and RMS (was Re: something else)

2019-11-01 Thread Alexandre François Garreau
Le jeudi 31 octobre 2019, 02:36:03 CET Ruben Safir a écrit : > On 10/30/19 7:22 PM, Sandra Loosemore wrote: > > And then there were RMS's disgusting public comments defending sexual > > exploitation of minors, > > There was nothing disgusting about it and he absolutely 100% wasn't > defending

Re: Support for RMS and criticism of the bottom-up/social contract power grab attempt.

2019-11-01 Thread Alexandre François Garreau
Thank you for your answer, Le vendredi 1 novembre 2019, 18:37:54 CET Jean Louis a écrit : > That was a statement that was created, people from various parts of > the world cannot possibly make a joint statement in same time. There > was initator to that statement, and initator invited other

Re: List posting rules

2019-11-01 Thread Alexandre François Garreau
Le vendredi 1 novembre 2019, 16:23:28 CET Ruben Safir a écrit : > On Fri, Nov 01, 2019 at 09:25:17AM -0400, Carlos O'Donell wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 1, 2019 at 9:20 AM Dora Scilipoti wrote: > > > Please note that the message posted by a woman on Oct 30 contains a > > > repetition of what we all

Re: Women and GNU and RMS (was Re: something else)

2019-11-01 Thread Alexandre François Garreau
Le jeudi 31 octobre 2019 11:51:12 CET, vous avez écrit : > Did you see in that message calling people "old white men"? Based upon > your own standards of what is kind and what not, it is kind to call > "old white men" but it is not kind to respond to such allegations? Indeed not. Because “old

Re: Women and GNU and RMS (was Re: something else)

2019-11-01 Thread Alexandre François Garreau
He changed his mind since then. https://www.stallman.org/archives/2019-sep-dec.html#14_September_2019_(Sex_between_an_adult_and_a_child_is_wrong) Yet that looked as “excentrical” as his other uncommon views (about necrophilia, bestiality, etc. etc.), and was drown into these until now: too bad

Re: Women and GNU and RMS (was Re: something else)

2019-11-01 Thread Alexandre François Garreau
Le jeudi 31 octobre 2019, 04:04:37 CET wayne, steve a écrit : > Long time listener, first time caller. > > Ruben, for what it's worth your frothy-at-the-mouth email filled with > tropes of male nerd chauvinism probably isn't a great argument against > "this community is filled with reasons for

Re: A GNU “social contract”?

2019-11-03 Thread Alexandre François Garreau
Le samedi 2 novembre 2019, 10:57:54 CET Alfred M. Szmidt a écrit : > But that is the thing -- GNU maintainers don't agree to anything other > than technical aspects. The GNU project isn't about founding a > community, it is about creating a free operating system. That is even more important that

Re: A GNU “social contract”?

2019-11-03 Thread Alexandre François Garreau
Le samedi 2 novembre 2019, 14:43:45 CET Jan Nieuwenhuizen a écrit : > Alfred M. Szmidt writes: > > But that is the thing -- GNU maintainers don't agree to anything > > Could you please make it more clear in your messages when you speak for > yourself, i.e.: "I don't agree to ..." and refrain from

Re: List posting rules

2019-11-03 Thread Alexandre François Garreau
I have been censored too, just to stop thread continuing I think. If I was unkind or too prolific (that sometimes happen) I’d like being told so. I could also apologize and explain then, and I hope a corrected error, among other uncorrected errors, could have on mind a better overall effect

Re: List posting rules

2019-11-03 Thread Alexandre François Garreau
Le samedi 2 novembre 2019, 20:01:24 CET Carlos O'Donell a écrit : > I don't see why I should not be a moderator. Everyone has some kind of > bias. Moderation is a difficult task. To begin with, indeed everybody is to be biased, in the end… but what kind of bias? Someone not having signed might

Re: List posting rules

2019-11-03 Thread Alexandre François Garreau
Le samedi 2 novembre 2019, 01:28:32 CET Samuel Thibault a écrit : > Alexandre François Garreau, le ven. 01 nov. 2019 19:23:40 +0100, a ecrit: > > Would be better if, like other mailing-list softwares I saw, we could > > be resent back the previous mail by asking the mailing-list sof

Re: Why GNU/Linux is not accepted: an observation

2019-11-10 Thread Alexandre François Garreau
I was going to give the example of X Window System and TeX as official graphical interface and typesetter, yet less GNU and not managed by GNU ^^ They’re not GNU packages. The maintaining rules you quoted apply to maintainers as individual and per their opinions and thoughts. Yet, there is

Re: Why GNU/Linux is not accepted: an observation

2019-11-10 Thread Alexandre François Garreau
Indeed, yet I heard Gnome want since quite some time now distance itself from GNU, as an independent, not GNU-related project. Furthermore, the (not always implementd) will to go toward a “cloud” (SaaSS) approach, recalling me the dark times of the French Minitel, scared me and hinted me that

Re: Why "GNU/Linux" is not accepted: an observation

2019-11-08 Thread Alexandre François Garreau
Le vendredi 8 novembre 2019, 09:01:14 CET Kaz Kylheku (gnu-misc-discuss) a écrit : > A typical GNU/Linux distribution include more than just GNU userland > on top of Linux. It can be argued that the name GNU/Linux is incomplete > and excludes contributions from other sources, the same way that >

Re: A GNU “social contract”?

2019-11-08 Thread Alexandre François Garreau
Le vendredi 8 novembre 2019, 19:08:02 CET Thompson, David a écrit : > I read [last Brandon’s speculation] a few times, but I am unable to see how this qualifies as "kind communication." Interesting analysis. Could you further develop on why? I don’t see how.

Re: A GNU “social contract”?

2019-11-05 Thread Alexandre François Garreau
*Le mardi 5 novembre 2019, 21:58:42 CET Andreas Enge a écrit :* *> On Tue, Nov 05, 2019 at 11:49:03PM +0300, Dmitry Alexandrov wrote:* *> > Andreas Enge wrote:* *> > > For instance, I would not find it acceptable that a GNU maintainer goes* *> > > to FOSDEM to give a talk about their newest open

Re: list moderation

2019-11-05 Thread Alexandre François Garreau
Le mardi 5 novembre 2019, 22:17:07 CET Brandon Invergo a écrit : > We do have a problem with someone under moderation who is sending > messages off-list. It probably would have happened eventually anyway, > no matter who was moderating. Anyway, I do not know how to moderate > that. If you have

Re: A GNU “social contract”?

2019-11-05 Thread Alexandre François Garreau
Le mardi 5 novembre 2019, 21:31:09 CET Andreas Enge a écrit : > Hello, > > On Tue, Nov 05, 2019 at 12:46:42PM -0500, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote: > > In the GNU project everyone is welcome, even people who do not share > > the goals and philosophy of the GNU project. > > I do not think this makes

Re: Why fewer contributors to GNU? They have to reveal identity and assign copyright

2019-11-05 Thread Alexandre François Garreau
Le mardi 5 novembre 2019, 23:21:48 CET Jean Louis a écrit : > * Dmitry Alexandrov <321...@gmail.com> [2019-11-05 16:56]: > > > That is not quite so. In America country it is possible to use pen > > > names. > > > > Why is it specific to ‘America country’ (whatever it is)? > > I meant USA. > >

Re: A GNU “social contract”?

2019-11-05 Thread Alexandre François Garreau
Le mercredi 6 novembre 2019, 00:36:29 CET Jean Louis a écrit : > * John Wiegley [2019-11-05 23:26]: > > He’s correct, I do not share the GNU philosophy, even if I enjoy > > supporting the technical aspects of the software they produce. > > Yet you do allow as Emacs maintainer publishing of free

Re: Why fewer contributors to GNU? They have to reveal identity and assign copyright

2019-11-05 Thread Alexandre François Garreau
Le mercredi 6 novembre 2019 03:27:01 CET, vous avez écrit : > * Alexandre François Garreau [2019-11-06 03:14]: > > It’s natural to generalize, problem when generalization actually > > (linearly/ > > monodimensionally) hierarchize people and becomes part of division cult

Re: list moderation

2019-11-05 Thread Alexandre François Garreau
Le mardi 5 novembre 2019, 18:09:08 CET Samuel Thibault a écrit : > Wow, this is so welcoming a community... > > Samuel I don’t know if my MUA is failing… and understood you were talking about Ruben and not me only thanks to headers (now I’m even more strongly against single

“Moderation” / “Censorship” / “Filtering” [Was: Re: list moderation]

2019-11-05 Thread Alexandre François Garreau
Le mardi 5 novembre 2019 18:17:16 CET, vous avez écrit : > Samuel Thibault writes: > > Wow, this is so welcoming a community... > > > > Samuel > > Ruben has been placed under moderation and I rejected the message that > you are referring to. If you received it, it's because he sent it to > you

Re: Is negative publicity always harmful?

2019-11-05 Thread Alexandre François Garreau
Le mardi 5 novembre 2019, 19:48:36 CET Dmitry Alexandrov a écrit : > Brandon Invergo wrote: > > Dmitry Alexandrov writes: > >> Iʼm afraid, you conflated two points. Publicity that undermine the core > >> competency of an organization — yes, is perhaps is the most harmful > >> thing for it. > >>

Re: A GNU “social contract”?

2019-11-05 Thread Alexandre François Garreau
Le mardi 5 novembre 2019, 18:58:04 CET Samuel Thibault a écrit : > But you'd have to agree on the GNU goals if you are > to take responsibilities in the GNU project, such as being maintainer > of a package (as in: responsible for the package, and not only a > contributor). I disagree! Maintainer

Filtering indirection [Was: Re: list moderation]

2019-11-05 Thread Alexandre François Garreau
Le mardi 5 novembre 2019 18:17:16 CET, vous avez écrit : > Samuel Thibault writes: > > Wow, this is so welcoming a community... > > > > Samuel I initially thought that was in answer to a message of mine, because my MUA placed it under… > Ruben has been placed under moderation and I rejected

Re: Why "GNU/Linux" is not accepted: an observation

2019-11-09 Thread Alexandre François Garreau
Actually a lot of “high-level” user-end utilities are indeed not GNU… now even more so as Gnome is not anymore (and doesn’t want to be associated to) GNU. An unfortunate thing is that GNU project lacks indeed any full-featured server. There are some minimal servers in inetutils and mailutils,

Re: Enlightenment (Was: A GNU “social contract”?)

2019-11-07 Thread Alexandre François Garreau
Le jeudi 7 novembre 2019, 12:13:47 CET Andreas a écrit : > "We think it is now time for GNU maintainers to collectively decide > about the organization of the project *[because]* the GNU Project we > want to build is one that everyone can trust to defend their freedom." > > This implies the

Re: list moderation

2019-11-05 Thread Alexandre François Garreau
Le mardi 5 novembre 2019 17:30:18 CET, vous avez écrit : > Alexandre François Garreau writes: > > Aren’t these two statements contradictory (as governance is made of by > > people, and currently a single one)? as it was stated before (for > > instance by Dora) > Conside

Re: list moderation

2019-11-05 Thread Alexandre François Garreau
Le mardi 5 novembre 2019 18:11:25 CET, vous avez écrit : > On 11/5/19 12:11 PM, Alexandre François Garreau wrote: > > Stop that. Insults are even more meaningless now you’ve kept repeating > > them > > Hes an animal and your an idiot if you think you can reason with him.

Re: list moderation

2019-11-05 Thread Alexandre François Garreau
Le mardi 5 novembre 2019, 11:59:18 CET Ludovic Courtès a écrit : > silenced the rest of us. How’s that? Pre-moderation were off, afaiu. Also, what likely best silenced some people is likely the previous hours and timezones and the sleep that commonly occurs for them during them. > In [24

Re: list moderation

2019-11-05 Thread Alexandre François Garreau
Le mardi 5 novembre 2019 18:04:56 CET, vous avez écrit : > How about this. You are a [insults insults insults etc…] Stop that. Insults are even more meaningless now you’ve kept repeating them that much for the same irrational reasons (anyway insults are always irrational, as most of time it

Re: A GNU “social contract”?

2019-11-06 Thread Alexandre François Garreau
ee, software is an attack at human freedom, it is tool of subjugation. [0] §2 https://stallman.org/stallman-computing.html#learnprogramming > On Wed, Nov 06, 2019 at 04:04:03AM +0100, Alexandre François Garreau wrote: > > No you misunderstood the role, which is technical. So ambass

Re: list moderation

2019-11-03 Thread Alexandre François Garreau
Le dimanche 3 novembre 2019, 22:34:04 CET Ludovic Courtès a écrit : > Hi Brandon, > > Brandon Invergo skribis: > > For the past month or so, every message to the list has been subject to > > moderation, so-called "emergency moderation". It has become clear that > > the moderation was being used

Re: Women and GNU and RMS (was Re: something else)

2019-11-03 Thread Alexandre François Garreau
Hi, I like discussion. This so because I like language. And therefore, meaning. Le lundi 4 novembre 2019, 04:32:04 CET Ruben Safir a écrit : > Nobody believes this except for a few hysterical lunitics. I think you’re wrong about lunatism. I think though mob attacks can seem really lunatic,

Re: Women and GNU and RMS (was Re: something else)

2019-11-03 Thread Alexandre François Garreau
Le lundi 4 novembre 2019 06:41:29 CET, vous avez écrit : > On 11/4/19 12:30 AM, Alexandre François Garreau wrote: > > I don’t like the term “bigot”. It seems mainly used against > > individual, for individual purposes. Not a very social term. > > It is the corners

“Hysterical” [Was: Re: Women and GNU and RMS (was Re: something else)]

2019-11-03 Thread Alexandre François Garreau
Le lundi 4 novembre 2019 05:34:26 CET, vous avez écrit : > On Mon, Nov 04, 2019 at 05:25:52AM +0100, Alexandre François Garreau wrote: > > But now about “hysterical”, > French I have no idea about. I think it’s the same in both. > Regardless how many times it is said otherw

RMS and GNU

2019-11-03 Thread Alexandre François Garreau
Le lundi 4 novembre 2019 05:50:09 CET, vous avez écrit : > 1 : of, relating to, or marked by hysteria hysterical conditions > 2 : feeling or showing extreme and unrestrained emotion hysterical fans > … the paper did not hesitate to appeal to racial passions in hysterical > headlines and rabid

Re: Women and GNU and RMS (was Re: something else)

2019-11-03 Thread Alexandre François Garreau
Le lundi 4 novembre 2019 05:40:11 CET, vous avez écrit : > On Mon, Nov 04, 2019 at 05:25:52AM +0100, Alexandre François Garreau wrote: > > Hi, I like discussion. This so because I like language. And therefore, > > meaning. > > Try the term Loshen HaRah > > it is Heb

Re: Women and GNU and RMS (was Re: something else)

2019-11-03 Thread Alexandre François Garreau
Le lundi 4 novembre 2019 06:46:36 CET, vous avez écrit : > On 11/4/19 12:45 AM, Alexandre François Garreau wrote: > > Le lundi 4 novembre 2019 06:41:29 CET, vous avez écrit : > >> On 11/4/19 12:30 AM, Alexandre François Garreau wrote: > >>> I don’t li

Re: Women and GNU and RMS (was Re: something else)

2019-11-03 Thread Alexandre François Garreau
Le lundi 4 novembre 2019, 05:51:07 CET Mike Gerwitz a écrit : > Ruben: > > On Sun, Nov 03, 2019 at 22:32:04 -0500, Ruben Safir wrote: > > Nobody believes this except for a few hysterical lunitics. Your > > posting this as such is another form of disinformation and an attack on > > the

Re: A GNU “social contract”?

2019-11-06 Thread Alexandre François Garreau
Le mercredi 6 novembre 2019, 09:56:20 CET Andreas Enge a écrit : > On Wed, Nov 06, 2019 at 01:56:15AM +0300, Dmitry Alexandrov wrote: > > Instead of making GNU more welcoming place by lessening the burden of > > formalities, you in fact propose GNU to withdraw deeper into itself by > > inventing

Re: A GNU “social contract”?

2019-11-06 Thread Alexandre François Garreau
Le mercredi 6 novembre 2019 19:31:17 CET, vous avez écrit : > Hello, > > I will reply once more, but it may be the last time in this thread. Please, > Alexandre and others, if you wish to contribute, stop rambling and come to > the point, and actually try to stick to a point that is raised and

Re: list moderation

2019-11-06 Thread Alexandre François Garreau
Le mercredi 6 novembre 2019, 12:17:18 CET Marcel a écrit : > On 11/6/19 5:51 PM, Andy Wingo wrote: > >> Can you explain how “moderation was being used in a biased manner”, > >> giving specific examples? > > > > I am also interested in answers to this question. > > You can look at the arbitrary

Re: Is negative publicity always harmful?

2019-11-06 Thread Alexandre François Garreau
Le mercredi 6 novembre 2019, 17:01:50 CET Jean Louis a écrit : > * Thompson [2019-11-06 15:37]: > > They have engaged in behavior that ranges from annoying at best to > > hateful at worst on many GNU lists. > And I was > faced with Ludovic's promotion of public shaming on the Guix mailing >

Re: Is negative publicity always harmful?

2019-11-06 Thread Alexandre François Garreau
Le mercredi 6 novembre 2019, 14:00:33 CET Thompson, David a écrit : > Hello moderators, > > On Tue, Nov 5, 2019 at 9:56 PM Ruben Safir wrote: > > there has been NO problematic behavior by RMS. You would never have > > survived 30+ years in the spotlight like he has. He has been rock solid > >

Re: A GNU “social contract”?

2019-11-06 Thread Alexandre François Garreau
Le mercredi 6 novembre 2019, 22:11:03 CET Andreas a écrit : > On Wed, 2019-11-06 at 19:31 +0100, Andreas Enge wrote: > > > > > > Let me quote once more the paragraph that we are supposedly > > > > discussing: > > > * GNU welcomes contributions from all and everyone > > > We want to give everyone

Re: Support for RMS and criticism of the bottom-up/social contract power grab attempt. - Why fewer contributors?

2019-11-04 Thread Alexandre François Garreau
All this has nothing to do with “obeying women” or religion. Many here (including rms) are convinced atheists, and the whole gender thing is only to bring more people in (as it is very sad and a waste than half the brain of this world are underexploited), with more freedom (because freedom for

Re: list moderation

2019-11-05 Thread Alexandre François Garreau
Le mardi 5 novembre 2019, 13:45:57 CET Brandon Invergo a écrit : > This is not a place to discuss other people. > You are welcome to continue to discuss whatever "governance" issues you > would like here, Aren’t these two statements contradictory (as governance is made of by people, and

Re: Why "GNU/Linux" is not accepted: an observation

2019-11-10 Thread Alexandre François Garreau
Le dimanche 10 novembre 2019 18:40:20 CET, vous avez écrit : > * Alexandre François Garreau [2019-11-10 00:41]: > > Actually a lot of “high-level” user-end utilities are indeed not GNU… now > > even more so as Gnome is not anymore (and doesn’t want to be associated > > t

Re: A GNU “social contract”?

2019-10-27 Thread Alexandre François Garreau
Though before RMS has given feedback that can’t currently take any amount of legitimacy (and that could go through, as previously noted, further summarization, renaming of 4th section, to save his time), I’d like to note 5th section could link to the list of endorsed distros [0] and maybe

Re: Women and GNU and RMS (was Re: something else)

2019-11-04 Thread Alexandre François Garreau
Words carry connotation, emotional charge. For instance, look at these, that could very well be synonyms: unstable/versatile/flexible/dynamic, stable/rigid/ static. They could have some nuance, but in some contexts they will mean the same thing. Yet, often, some are meliorative, others

Re: Women and GNU and RMS (was Re: something else)

2019-11-04 Thread Alexandre François Garreau
Le lundi 4 novembre 2019 09:13:10 CET, vous avez écrit : > * Alexandre François Garreau [2019-11-04 05:26]: > > Hi, I like discussion. This so because I like language. And therefore, > > meaning. > > > > Le lundi 4 novembre 2019, 04:32:04 CET Ruben Safir a éc

Re: Support for RMS and criticism of the "bottom-up"/"social contract" power grab attempt.

2019-11-01 Thread Alexandre François Garreau
Le mercredi 30 octobre 2019, 15:00:16 CET Marcel a écrit : > Having read through the long "Turning GNU into a bottom-up organization" > thread, I have decided to join this mailing list and express support for > GNU (as it has evolved over the past 35 years) and its chief GNUisance, > RMS, as well

Re: Support for RMS and criticism of the bottom-up/social contract power grab attempt.

2019-11-04 Thread Alexandre François Garreau
Le lundi 4 novembre 2019 10:50:56 CET, vous avez écrit : > * Federico Leva [2019-11-04 09:02]: > > Alexandre François Garreau, 01/11/19 18:30: > > > Though women participate in GNU, > > > are any of them fortunately software package maintainer? Unfortunately, >

Re: Support for RMS and criticism of the bottom-up/social contract power grab attempt.

2019-11-04 Thread Alexandre François Garreau
Le lundi 4 novembre 2019 12:11:40 CET, vous avez écrit : > * Alexandre François Garreau [2019-11-04 11:52]: > > Le lundi 4 novembre 2019 10:50:56 CET, vous avez écrit : > > > * Federico Leva [2019-11-04 09:02]: > > > > Alexandre François Garreau, 01/11/19

Re: Why the "social contract" should not be endorsed

2020-02-25 Thread Alexandre François Garreau
Le mardi 25 février 2020, 19:25:13 CET Kaz Kylheku (gnu-misc-discuss) a écrit : > On 2020-02-24 19:36, Alexandre François Garreau wrote: > > Le samedi 22 février 2020, 20:48:43 CET Andreas Enge a écrit : > >> If anything, this message shows how much a code of conduct is needed.

Re: ru...@mrbrklyn.com: Please remove me from your hang...@nylxs.com or vill...@mrbrklyn.com mailing lists

2020-02-25 Thread Alexandre François Garreau
Le lundi 24 février 2020, 23:00:22 CET Taylan Kammer a écrit : > You're right, he seems to have changed the strategy or something. I'm > getting mails again now. You need to filter by the “list-id” header. It is always “hangout.nylxs.com”. That doesn’t change and it’s nice it doesn’t.

Re: ru...@mrbrklyn.com: Please remove me from your hang...@nylxs.com or vill...@mrbrklyn.com mailing lists

2020-02-25 Thread Alexandre François Garreau
Le mardi 25 février 2020, 20:16:03 CET Taylan Kammer a écrit : > On 25.02.2020 19:59, Alexandre François Garreau wrote: > > Le lundi 24 février 2020, 23:00:22 CET Taylan Kammer a écrit : > >> Not sure how to best filter these. Gmail doesn't seem to have > >> anyth

Re: State of the GNUnion 2020

2020-02-25 Thread Alexandre François Garreau
Le mardi 25 février 2020, 15:22:52 CET Andreas Enge a écrit : > On Tue, Feb 25, 2020 at 08:56:24AM -0500, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote: > > The text circulated is not a text by or for the GNU project, so this > > is indeed not the best place for discussion of it > > Quite on the contrary, it is a text

Re: ru...@mrbrklyn.com: Please remove me from your hang...@nylxs.com or vill...@mrbrklyn.com mailing lists

2020-02-25 Thread Alexandre François Garreau
Le lundi 24 février 2020, 18:40:38 CET Marcel a écrit : > You may be able to add filters through your email provider's interface, > based on the unique identifiers in those messages. I have successfully > removed all of his spam in this way; the emails never make it to my > inboxes. Thankfully

Re: praising our moderators

2020-02-25 Thread Alexandre François Garreau
Le mardi 25 février 2020, 05:37:56 CET Mark Galassi a écrit : > It should be possible to watch this without proprietary s/w on your own > computer: > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDAl7lGGtSo afaik no. Do you know a software that does it? because youtube changed so that the only software

Re: ru...@mrbrklyn.com: Please remove me from your hang...@nylxs.com or vill...@mrbrklyn.com mailing lists

2020-02-25 Thread Alexandre François Garreau
Le mardi 25 février 2020, 02:34:07 CET J.B. Nicholson a écrit : > Alexandre François Garreau wrote: > > It was, and it is not “tolerated”, this is bad faith: it is simply > > impossible to do anything about that. > > gnu-misc-discuss@gnu.org list owners could remove ru..

Re: ru...@mrbrklyn.com: Please remove me from your hang...@nylxs.com or vill...@mrbrklyn.com mailing lists

2020-02-25 Thread Alexandre François Garreau
Le lundi 24 février 2020, 21:07:27 CET J.B. Nicholson a écrit : > Alfred M. Szmidt wrote: > > It isn't tolerated, but it is also something that those administrating > > gnu-misc-discuss@ (or any GNU list) can do little about. You've been > > forcefully subscribed to another list, the GNU project

Re: [Hangout - NYLXS] ru...@mrbrklyn.com: Please remove me from your hang...@nylxs.com or vill...@mrbrklyn.com mailing lists

2020-02-25 Thread Alexandre François Garreau
Le mardi 25 février 2020, 13:26:45 CET Ruben Safir a écrit : > because moderators have suppressed > opposition to the rebelion by Andy and company, I have chosen in this > case to NOT allow you to censor me. This is wrong. There is still opposition from initiatives by Andy on this list. And

Re: Why the "social contract" should not be endorsed

2020-02-25 Thread Alexandre François Garreau
Le mardi 25 février 2020, 22:23:19 CET Alexandre François Garreau a écrit : > Le mardi 25 février 2020, 20:30:35 CET Taylan Kammer a écrit : > > I fear that with the direction these guys want to take GNU, it will > > become a project aimed primarily at white middle class mostly-ma

Re: Why the "social contract" should not be endorsed

2020-02-25 Thread Alexandre François Garreau
Le mardi 25 février 2020, 20:30:35 CET Taylan Kammer a écrit : > On 25.02.2020 19:45, Alexandre François Garreau wrote: > > Also I was commenting on the fact supporters of CoC don’t even abide > > by > > them. So it is likely they’re subjective enough not to realize they &g

Re: The General Public Licence (GPL) as the basic governance tool

2020-02-24 Thread Alexandre François Garreau
Le lundi 24 février 2020, 11:12:09 CET Dmitry Gutov a écrit : > On 23.02.2020 23:34, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > > I do see that some people do not judge the document for what it > > actually says, and I think it’s a pity. > > > > Over the last decade I have, again, not been silent about a desire to

Re: ru...@mrbrklyn.com: Please remove me from your hang...@nylxs.com or vill...@mrbrklyn.com mailing lists

2020-02-24 Thread Alexandre François Garreau
Le lundi 24 février 2020, 06:28:07 CET J.B. Nicholson a écrit : > Taylan Kammer wrote: > > I've had the same problem. No idea what he's trying to achieve... > > What I see is indistinguishable from spam but with more annoying > intention (I get into this in detail below) amounting to harassment.

Re: State of the GNUnion 2020

2020-02-24 Thread Alexandre François Garreau
> Regarding punishing repeat offenders anyway, as we've seen just > recently, you can't censor a determined individual on a public mailing > list anyway. Limit their audience, sure, but banning them outright seems > impossible. And I can hardly see the whole GNU project migrating off > mailing

Re: [Hangout - NYLXS] Harrassment on this list

2020-02-24 Thread Alexandre François Garreau
Le lundi 24 février 2020, 15:57:39 CET Ludovic Courtès a écrit : > Ian Lance Taylor skribis: > > nipponm...@firemail.cc writes: > >> I'm not on this list to see a do-nothing guy foment all day and night > >> filling up my inbox. Ruben: If you want to sue, sue. You're a Jew, > >> you > >> know

Re: State of the GNUnion 2020

2020-02-24 Thread Alexandre François Garreau
Le mardi 25 février 2020, 00:55:09 CET Samuel Thibault a écrit : > As I mentioned in another mail, I am not talking about the software > running the platform, but the community around the platform. It's the > contact they get from the community living on a given platform, which > makes the

Re: [Hangout - NYLXS] Don't add the NYLXS list to your To: or Cc: fields

2020-02-26 Thread Alexandre François Garreau
Le mardi 25 février 2020, 19:51:35 CET Taylan Kammer a écrit : > Just a heads up: > > Since the easiest way to filter out Ruben's spam is to send everything > associated with that mailing list to /dev/null, having that ML in the > To: or Cc: headers of your email might cause people not to see it,

youtube-dl and youtube through free software [Was: Fwd: Re: praising our moderators]

2020-02-26 Thread Alexandre François Garreau
this is automatically generated, and has no capabilities (other than hiding information), doesn’t it have “no meaning” as a program? doesn’t this sort of sub-“evaluation” is something akin to “decrypting”?--- Begin Message --- Alexandre François Garreau writes: > Le mardi 25 février 2020, 05:37

Re: [Hangout - NYLXS] * Scraping email addresses from a public list" * : What about using bcc to prevent "scraping" email addresses ?

2020-02-26 Thread Alexandre François Garreau
Le mercredi 26 février 2020, 03:58:40 CET Mike Gerwitz a écrit : > On Tue, Feb 25, 2020 at 14:07:42 +, Mancini, Sabin (DFS) wrote: > > Mike, > > What about using bcc to prevent "scraping" email addresses ? > > All mail sent to the list would have to be hidden behind fake addresses > generated

Re: Don't add the NYLXS list to your To: or Cc: fields

2020-02-26 Thread Alexandre François Garreau
Le mardi 25 février 2020, 19:51:35 CET Taylan Kammer a écrit : > Just a heads up: > > Since the easiest way to filter out Ruben's spam is to send everything > associated with that mailing list to /dev/null, having that ML in the > To: or Cc: headers of your email might cause people not to see it,

Re: Shannon Dosemagen and the FSF

2020-03-03 Thread Alexandre François Garreau
Le lundi 2 mars 2020, 20:06:25 CET Leo Famulari a écrit : > John Darrington wrote: > > Over the last few years many people have noticed a shift towards > > extremist support of idealogy which is orthogonal to the Free > > Software cause. > Issues like privacy online, software patents, DRM, open

Re: Why the "social contract" should not be endorsed

2020-02-24 Thread Alexandre François Garreau
Le samedi 22 février 2020, 20:48:43 CET Andreas Enge a écrit : > If anything, this message shows how much a code of conduct is needed. I’ve just read https://wiki.gnu.tools/wiki:code-of-conduct Beside the usage of the binary *-free english phrasing which is unfortunate when applied to human

Re: [Hangout - NYLXS] feeling intimidated for endorsing the GNU social contract

2020-02-24 Thread Alexandre François Garreau
Le lundi 24 février 2020, 12:31:45 CET Ruben Safir a écrit : > On Sun, Feb 23, 2020 at 10:58:28PM -0500, Mike Gerwitz wrote: > > Firstly: I'm sorry that you are receiving those messages. People > > should not feel harassed in that way when communicating on GNU lists. > > WRONG > > When people

Re: State of the GNUnion 2020

2020-02-25 Thread Alexandre François Garreau
Le mardi 25 février 2020, 09:49:02 CET Dmitry Gutov a écrit : > On 25.02.2020 3:58, Alexandre François Garreau wrote: > >> Regarding punishing repeat offenders anyway, as we've seen just > >> recently, you can't censor a determined individual on a public > >> m

Re: [Hangout - NYLXS] feeling intimidated for endorsing the GNU social contract

2020-02-27 Thread Alexandre François Garreau
Le jeudi 27 février 2020, 16:27:57 CET Ruben Safir a écrit : > Frankly, this entire email is a lie. No you can’t say that. > It is very subtle, Yes it is. For that subtle fact: this mail doesn’t contain anything factually false. So it’s not a lie, and doesn’t even necessarily contains

Re: [Hangout - NYLXS] Why the "social contract" should not be endorsed

2020-02-27 Thread Alexandre François Garreau
Le jeudi 27 février 2020, 15:36:16 CET Ruben Safir a écrit : > If the maintainers don't like the GNU leadership, they should either > conform to GNU requirments or leave. GNU announced they require people to comply, not agree. This is important for free software, to be able to survive even when

Re: [Hangout - NYLXS] GNU Social Contract version 1.0

2020-02-16 Thread Alexandre François Garreau
Le samedi 15 février 2020, 19:12:09 CET Dmitry Gutov a écrit : > On 15.02.2020 20:02, Andreas Enge wrote: > > It is an agreement between those who endorse it, evidently. I am not > > presuming anything else. It is you who write "all GNU contributors", > > not me. > Saying "us, GNU contributors" is

Re: [Hangout - NYLXS] duplicated messages and NYLXS cross-posting

2020-02-16 Thread Alexandre François Garreau
Le dimanche 16 février 2020, 12:20:07 CET Daniel Pocock a écrit : > On 16/02/2020 09:43, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote: > >Can there be a more efficient way to achieve this? > > > > Since the GNU project isn't in control of the ghost list, we can't do > > much to address that. :-( Do you have any

Re: [Hangout - NYLXS] Endorsing version 1.0 of the GNU Social Contract

2020-02-16 Thread Alexandre François Garreau
Le samedi 15 février 2020, 02:33:35 CET Mark Wielaard a écrit : > This initiative is not supported by Richard Stallman. You may as well say “by the GNU Project in its current govermental state”. But as you seem to be willing to ignore anything said to you about what is GNU currently, as if

Re: [Hangout - NYLXS] GNU Social Contract version 1.0

2020-02-16 Thread Alexandre François Garreau
Le dimanche 16 février 2020, 02:37:33 CET Ruben Safir a écrit : > On Sat, Feb 15, 2020 at 08:12:09PM +0200, Dmitry Gutov wrote: > > On 15.02.2020 20:02, Andreas Enge wrote: > > > It is an agreement between those who endorse it, evidently. I am not > > > presuming anything else. It is you who write

Re: [Hangout - NYLXS] Endorsing version 1.0 of the GNU Social Contract

2020-02-16 Thread Alexandre François Garreau
Le samedi 15 février 2020, 11:52:08 CET Alfred M. Szmidt a écrit : >This initiative is not supported by Richard Stallman. > > That is quite false, you're free to do any kind of initiatives you > wish, so it is quite the opposite. What the GNU project won't do is > to require volunteers

GNU Social Contract version 1.0

2020-02-16 Thread Alexandre François Garreau
Le samedi 15 février 2020, 19:25:56 CET Andreas Enge a écrit : > I agree with your analysis that trying to form a stronger GNU community > should (and probaby will) be an open-ended process, requiring ongoing > efforts with all interested people. And maybe people who are not > interested in the

Re: [Hangout - NYLXS] Moderation

2020-02-16 Thread Alexandre François Garreau
Le dimanche 16 février 2020, 09:38:52 CET Kim Lee a écrit : > u wnt it both ways! under the 1 hand u want moderation. at the same > time u want not to be. > i think u want other people moderated but not u. > > u r just arrogent! Worse: > Gesendet: Samstag, 15. Februar 2020 um 01:23 Uhr >

Re: [Hangout - NYLXS] GNU Social Contract version 1.0

2020-02-16 Thread Alexandre François Garreau
Le dimanche 16 février 2020, 02:27:22 CET Ruben Safir a écrit : > On Sat, Feb 15, 2020 at 11:52:10AM +0100, Andreas Enge wrote: > > On Sat, Feb 15, 2020 at 05:27:17AM -0500, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote: > > > Since you are not the head of the GNU project, it is not in your > > > capacity to decide what

Re: [Hangout - NYLXS] about the GNU promise

2020-02-14 Thread Alexandre François Garreau
Le mercredi 5 février 2020, 07:45:48 CET Kaz Kylheku (gnu-misc-discuss) a écrit : > On 2020-02-03 07:28, Benno Schulenberg wrote: > > the GNU System". Oof... Who are those "companion free software > > projects"? > > This is basically just taking a mile-wide detour around saying "Linux". > >

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