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I think they're referring to this?: https://twitter.com/kuschku/status/1156488420413362177

disclaimer: found on Google, unsure of context / if these people are core developers, just sharing for those who like me were also confused


Sounds like there's too much being read into it.

I use st, it's one of the best terminal emulators I've found, and I'm not going to stop using it just because some possibly-associated dev made a kinda-sorta-tasteless joke when they named some random server.


Wow okay.. Some people have too much time on their hands. Since I'm not giving them my money, I honestly don't really care what they do.


It's just a social event they did. Nothing to it. The conversation continued a bit with a discussion on what exactly what means with "cultural marxism", and it's not as bad as this snippet might make it appear. But can't add context lest people give the benefit of the doubt, ey?


I actually like suckless software and I'm a little (lot) annoyed by the overwhelming "sides" of politics, especially the left because a lot of US tech comes from a left wing belief and sometimes people online beat me over the head with it and make me annoyed.

But, to be clear, there are three things here:

1) They're doing a Tiki Torch walk, during a time when it was heavily politicised.

2) They're adapting Nazi slogans as hostnames

3) They're denigrating "Cultural Marxism".

Any one of these alone I would probably defend, but 3 is a pattern and not a good one.


> 1) They're doing a Tiki Torch walk, during a time when it was heavily politicised.

No it wasn't; just in the US. Not everyone in the world is obsessed with the latest drama in the US.

I've done many torchwalks with scouts. In fact, they're used to celebrate the end of the Nazi occupation in my home town every single year on Sept 18th. Should we stop doing this because some yahoos on the other side of the world used some torches in some far-right march? This is "Hitler has a moustache, you have a moustache, ergo you must be a Nazi"-kind of logic.

> 2) They're adapting Nazi slogans as hostnames

A private server belonging to a single person, not the project. I have asked him plainly and directly about that and he avoided the question. I am also not impressed by this, but that doesn't make him a Nazi, and it certainly doesn't make everyone involved in the project a Nazi.

> 3) They're denigrating "Cultural Marxism".

A single person is (same one as the hostname). And like I said, there is a lot more to that conversation than the screenshot makes it out to be as there was a lot of confusion about what's intended with "cultural marxism". I really recommend you read the entire conversation in full, and while I don't personally agree with their take, it's also really not that bad.


>No it wasn't; just in the US. Not everyone in the world is obsessed with the latest drama in the US

In Germany the association between fascism and torch marches is even stronger and absolute a political symbol, it's an unambigious symbol that nobody adopts accidentally, and it is a contemporary political issue. So called 'Fackelmärsche' by far-right fraternities and far-right groups have been an issue over recent years.(https://www.dw.com/en/germany-torch-wielding-neo-nazis-march...)

Where do you think American Neo-Nazis get their symbolism from? The US invents a lot of culture, but this one is sadly on us.


> Where do you think American Neo-Nazis get their symbolism from?

Considering the KKK were using torches before nazis existed the relationship goes the other way if anything: https://depts.washington.edu/civilr/kkk_rallies.htm

The torch has been used for thousands of years in many contexts (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torch#Symbolism), quite often as a form of intimidation but not always.

Is the Statue of Liberty a nazi symbol because she holds a torch?


So everyone walking with a torch in Germany is a Nazi...? You can find many images of people doing exactly that in Germany with a cursory internet search. The Nazis appropriated many existing symbols and customs, but that doesn't make the entire symbolism or custom automatically "Nazi". Neo-Nazis use Norse mythological symbols too. Other people just like Norse mythology. Context is everything, and the context here is most certainly not one of "a torch march protest". Not everyone who shaves their head is a Nazi skinhead either, nor is everyone who wears army boots.

I wasn't there. Maybe they were talking about the "final solution" for the Jews. I don't think they were, but there is no way for me to know for certain. But lacking any evidence of this, I find such a grave accusation based on such incredibly thin evidence – especially when stated like it's almost a certainty – deeply troubling.


Nazis wear trousers. My boss wears trousers. So my boss must be a Nazi.

Torch walks are not exclusively associated with or invented by the far right. They were adopted by the far right from pre-existing traditions in the regional cultures.


Iirc it’s moving the reference to answer, not the value.


Actually being able to find your photos, especially if you have friends and family who share photos with you and aren't willing to adapt to your organizational scheme. Google Photos really shines when you give up trying to organize your photos and let the AI take over. If I want to find a photo of my wife from 3 months ago -- I just tap on her face and it shows up, whether she took it or I did or her mom did, without needing to get everyone to collaborate on a photo organization scheme.

If I could get that from a self-hosted option, given Google's... track record... I'd definitely be interested, though it doesn't seem this is quite there yet.


You can takeout your photos and albums to store in a backup (locally or on another cloud provider)


The long-arm sewing machines to do the actual quilting (where the top gets sewed to the backing over the whole face of the quilt) are pretty expensive and not really the domain of typical hobbyist, though. You'd have to find someone in your area who's willing to quilt it for you for a fee, which can be hard if you're a newcomer and not in any classes or forums. Or, you could hand quilt it, but that takes forever, especially for a beginner.


Let me introduce you to the needle and thread. People have been making quilts for a lot longer than this long-arm sewing machine you speak of. I mean, I guess my grandmother's arms were long, and she could reach all the way to the other side of the table she quilted from. Don't think she'd take too kindly to being referred to as the sewing machine though.

T-shirts already have a front and back. You just need some long running stitches to join two shirts together. Shove them with the amount of batting you want, and then another running stitch to seal them up.


People just want to turn a bag full of old concert Tees into a nice wall hanging. Few are interested in picking up a new hobby to do it.

Hand sewing a quilt is a big effort. If you love doing it, it's awesome. If you don't, it's just massively frustrating and time consuming.


This place takes mailed-in orders. Currently $155 for 6'x6'.

https://www.missouriquiltco.com/shop/machinequilting


A tied quilt (in some vernaculars a comforter) is vastly less effort.

I say this as somebody who hates all parts of sewing except old machines.


rustdoc has the ability to embed usage examples in the doc comments, and automatically test them. also module-level documentation is doable via doc comments in the module main file. rust doesn't force you to write good documentation, but the tools are all there and I often see great documentation for rust crates that was generated with cargo doc. For example the Rocket docs are full of code examples on both the module and function level: https://api.rocket.rs

I think there's something to be said for javadoc, cargo doc, etc encouraging documentation to hew closely to the structure of the code as opposed to a free-form documentation system that can include multiple pages about tasks, getting started, etc. But the vast majority of projects don't bother to set that up, and the javadoc approach makes it very low friction to add docs to existing code that probably already has comments explaining how to use it.


That’s the barebones minimum, because in those contexts the examples are going to be relatively trivial. Often I find them to be no more helpful than the signature doc itself.


Even trivial examples that actually compile are better than none. because rust uses real code and markdown reading code and docs is the same thing in many cases, no need to even render to html, absolutely minimal markup noise. I love rust docs. Speaking from many years of using mostly poorly maintained javadocs and well maintained man pages.


Is it possible to use on a private repository? It says "Free for public repositories" but I can't find any information about a non-free option, the github page seems to only list the free tier. Is it not available yet?


We now support private repos :)


I'm working on private repo support. chat with me at django.doctor if you want to get in on the private beta


Is this signed? Is it possible the website got hacked and someone is trying to phish? Seems strange that this person would have all their coins in one wallet, or that the wallet would only be on a laptop and not backed up with a paper key... not saying it's impossible, but just seems like there's potential for something else here.

Edit: also no mention of this on the PF reddit account: https://www.reddit.com/user/PineappleFund


Or is it possible he just lost access to his encrypted hard disk with all his credentials on it?


Also, the original domain was pineapplefund.org, whereas this is pineapplefund.me


What is "it"? Things that are controversial? Where do we draw the line on that?

Most people would agree that talking about your flight "around" the world is OK, even if it takes a side in the somehow-controversial debate on the shape of the earth.

What about talking to your coworkers idly and you mention "Oh yeah I've been keeping my kids at home cause I'm worried about coronavirus". Controversial, some people think that's fake.

Talking about how you got married last month? If you're gay, that's suddenly controversial.

Talking to your manager about how you need to take time off because a family member died, they ask what happened, turns out they were shot by the police? Suddenly very controversial...

Politics isn't some weird abstract thing, it's life and the events that are happening around us every day. If we live in a world where literally the shape of the earth is a marker of political identity -- how do you expect people to avoid mentioning topics that people might find controversial? Or do you think it's possible to draw a stark dividing line somewhere between "shape of earth" and "police reform" that can be justified in an objective way?


I think the "don't be political" works both ways.

If someone, say, brought up their gay partner to a colleague who is very religious, I'd expect the religious colleague to treat them courteously. I wouldn't expect them to tell them that they will burn in hell for all eternity.

Maybe the line to be drawn is one of policy vs people. As a policy decision, you could be against gay marriage but on a personal level still be happy for a gay colleague that got married. Or happy that they are happy.


There’s a difference between talking about things with colleagues and being an activist. I don’t think anyone minds water cooler conversations about things. But using the company you work for as a base of activism is different. Actively creating a sub-culture within a company that polarizes or coerces employees is hostile.


I wrote a more detailed answer to GP: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24576616, but basically: yes that's totally natural, but in edited writing / speech sometimes should be avoided for clarity reasons. But I didn't blink twice at the comment myself.


I read it as "it" being the situation. e.g., "was it a child who painted this?"

it isn't bad grammar, though you could argue it's poor writing because it's confusing. it's using a feature of english called it-extraposition. some examples here: https://www1.icsi.berkeley.edu/~kay/bcg/extrap.html

basically, it-xp lets you delay a constituent in certain circumstances using "it". sometimes this is required to make a sentence grammatical.

    "(What to do next) is not clear"
    "It is not clear (what to do next)"

    *"Was (who painted this) a child?"
    "Was it a child (who painted this)?"
We can combine this feature with clefting the end of the sentence to make something that seems to refer to a person by "it", but actually refers to an elided constituent:

    Discourse: "I don't know the gender of the writer"

    R1: *"Was (who wrote this) a man?" (can't have wh-phrase here, needs it-xp)

    R2: "Was it a man (who wrote this)?" (OK, but the last part is redundant. Discourse already includes we are talking about a writer. Grice's maxims suggest we will usually drop it.)

    R3: "Was it a man?" (looks weird, but sounds perfectly normal in context)
I'm a linguist / syntactician by training, but also nonbinary and use they/them, so I have some skin in this game. I think the GP was being obtuse, maybe purposely, but not malicious.


Fair enough. It might have been the usage combined with the rest of that user's posts, which seemed to have an aggressive tone, that caused me to read it the way I did.

I will also say it is worth the tiny bit of extra effort to make pronoun use clear when dealing with members of the trans people. That community already faces so many challenges, accidentally offending them with our laziness is a mistake we shouldn't make.


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