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I’m a somewhat feminine man myself, and man I hear where you’re coming from. And truth be told, you’ve managed to accept yourself the way you are earlier than I did. It took me a while to accept myself.

I also get the impression, though, that you have a traumatic response to the whole situation due to your upbringing. And it seems to me that that is something that you’ve accepted on the surface, but deep down, you’re still fighting with it. Which, by the way, is OK and normal. This shit takes time and work. If you have access in any way to mental healthcare, use it. You need to work through what you’ve experienced and learn how to deal with it better.

And I’m not sure I quite understood the situation completely - but if you’re still living with your parents, pull out all the stops to move out. As soon as possible. Otherwise, it will only keep dragging you down. As you’ve alluded to, despite all the shit happening today, there’s still a brighter world out there than what you’re experiencing with your family. It will be worth it, I promise.

But that requires an glance down at the taskbar and looking for the icon. If I see the minimize animation, I can jump right to the next thing. And as an added bonus (at least until Windows 11 fucked it up), I immediately get a cue as to where in the taskbar the icon is located.

To be fair, I do find animations useful. On our work computers they’ve turned off animations by default, and I keep turning them on, because I just need that visual feedback - for instance, did I minimize the window or did the program just crash and the window closed - or I misclicked and closed instead? Just a small visual cue so I know what’s going on.

That being said, iPhone (or Apple in general) animations are horrendously slow.

IANAL, but I don’t think there’s a reasonable ground for a lawsuit (although there’s nothing prevent an attempt). It’s not claiming to be TikTok, that would be a clear trademark infringement. It’s just saying it’s similar to their service, and if you want to compare it (which is allowed), you have to refer to it somehow. Similar to when people say LibreOffice is an MS office alternative - Microsoft wouldn’t have the grounds to sue there, either.

Sync is not backup

Thank you. Now can you please explain this to my IT department that thinks force syncing everything on our computers to OneDrive is a solution to our lack of backups?

Berlin has even started making announcements about it: “Please mind others and keep your music, tiktoks and phone calls in your ear instead of playing them through your loudspeaker”.

The German version holds back a little less: “…music, tiktoks and calls belong in your ear and not played over your speaker”.

“All opinions other than mine are only supported by dopamine highs” - wow, what a great new way of being condescendingly dismissive!

OP actually left the consequences of climate change open. No, it probably won’t be a Mad Max inferno. Probably not. But we also don’t know where the tipping point of the oceans is, because they are storing a shit ton of carbon. Hit that tipping point, and that carbon may well suddenly be released into the air, and then the shit hits the fan.

But even if that scenario doesn’t happen, and the world is still theoretically perfectly livable, you mentioned one of the main problems: mass migration. We already see what that’s doing today. We’re not far away from World War 3 anymore. So yes, the question is perfectly legitimate.

(And before anyone thinks it: I’m not blaming the migrants, of course they’re not at fault, they have every right to look for a better life. The people at fault are entirely different, but it doesn’t change the fact there is a causational relationship)

A relationship should never be used as a means to have sex. That will only hurt people. And a relationship is so, so much more than just sex.

Honestly, to me it sounds like you don’t really want a (romantic) relationship in the first place. And that’s completely fine. Don’t try to force something on yourself that you don’t want. That will only hurt your partner and disappoint you. It’s completely fine to just want friends with benefits or one night stands (or both, as long as you’re careful). You do you.

When people have created a narrative that “white x y z men” are responsible for all the evil in the world (I’m exagerating, but you get my drift), it creates a very difficult situation when those people are facing some serious difficulties. The intellectually lazy thing to do in that case is to brush it off or minimize it, like in the ways you’ve described. And unfortunately, that’s the route those same people will take, since identity politics are intellectually lazy (and lacking compassion, but that’s another story).

The unfortunate part of it is that the right has taken advantage of that wide open flank, which is one main reasons we’re in this current clusterfuck.

It’s an announcement to stay as far away as possible from whoever said that. Might even call it negging.

I mean, we could say the same thing about Kent - when he’s getting pissy, it’s about ensuring the filesystem is bulletproof and no one loses data.

Thing is, we’re not talking about getting pissy. We’re talking about getting downright insulting and borderline abusive. Linus got suspended from his own goddamn Kernel for his behavior. Let that sink in for a moment.

And I honestly believe that’s where part of the problem comes from. Kent looks up to Linus in a way, and sees himself as entitled to mimicking Linus’s bad behavior, which turns into a clusterfuck. Linux is still a good kernel despite Linus’s behavior, and bcachefs seems to be pretty good from a technical standpoint despite Kent’s behavior (even the kernel maintainers Kent pissed off admit it). They both shouldn’t be behaving that way, period. But both are very talented from a technical standpoint, which makes policing their behavior that much harder.

Ideally, yes, someone else would take over communication with Linus, but my hope isn’t particularly high at the moment. I wish Kent would calm down (further) and play by the rules more (even though he’s far from the only one who has broken those rules), and I wish Linus would learn to take it as much as he dishes it out.

And that makes it such a shame: bcachefs would be great to have in the kernel from a technical standpoint. It’s the personal conflicts that are really messing things up at the moment.

The point of these next gen file systems aren’t raw performance, they are reliability, performance for specific cases, and reduced data usage. For example:

• Copy on Write means it’s very performant to create snapshots

• incremental backups are much quicker

• checksumming means the filesystem directly and reliably detects data corruption

• built-in support for raid means a simplified setup and integration of scrubbing features into the filesystem, which can then take advantage of checksumming etc.

• deduplication can automatically recognize duplicated data and as such reduce data use

These are things that tend to reduce performance, not increase it. Which is why, when performance on these filesystems stays the same or even increases, that’s a major accomplishment.

It’s not quite as one sided as you put it, either. The most recent last minute feature was pushed for rc3, and wasn’t big filled. It was also a feature that enhanced stability, which is the reason Kent submitted it there. I’m not saying he’s right, but it’s important context here. And he’s far from the only one who has done this. Someone recently added new hardware support in rc7.

Also, he has improved somewhat. Arguably not as much as he should, but things aren’t as bad as they originally were.

And as to the attitude - he’s in good company, honestly. Especially in regard to Linus, them judging Kent is like a group of lepers judging a beauty contest. That’s the point this article makes very well.

None of this excuses his behaviour, but it is important to put it into context.

Yup.

Legal experts agree, a sale to The Onion is more likely now that Infowars’ fate has shifted to Texas state court.

Good to know… Although hitting enter twice or adding two spaces makes me feel like a boomer. Oh well

OK, weird, I had them in there, but I added a second newline per paragraph and it seems to look better now.

I might not have everything, but here’s the best summary I can put together:

This back and forth has been going on for a while now. The main complaints more recently have been the timing of his pull requests, and just generally his attitude and cooperation with others. The most recent spat was because he submitted a feature in the rc3 merge window, whereas you’re only supposed to submit Bugfixes in that time frame. The feature in question was a journal rewind function, which would essentially move the filesystem back in time, which could fix an issue that did crop up in the testing phase. As such, he saw it as a workaround to fix an issue that had arisen, and so despite it technically being a feature, he saw it in the category of Bugfixes. The caused major disagreements as well as the way he talked with others. And now his pull request for rc1 has been simply ignored by Linus.

The point where Kent is coming from is that he wants a rock solid file system, and he’s following a bit of a take no prisoners approach to reach that goal. He seems to get most of his income from his following on Patreon, and so his focus is squarely on the users. With that focus, he seems to lose sight of other things, especially the cooperation with others in the kernel team. In fact, a number of people he has sparred with have shown decent respect for his code recently, saying the problem is really the cooperative aspect. One of the main reasons for bcachefs is also the lack of a proper CoW-filesystem in the Linux kernel that doesn’t have the kinds of problems that btrfs has. And the fact that he states this and also talks about the lessons he’s learnt from btrfs’s shortcomings rubs a number of people the wrong way.

Now here’s some stuff I read into this personally: I have the impression that Kent looks up to Linus in a way. And they’re actually both kind of similar: they both are extremely talented engineers, they both saw something missing in the software landscape and said “fuck it, I’ll make it myself”, and they both can be pretty serious dicks. I mean Linus managed to get suspended from his own damn project for being a dick - now that’s an achievement. He’s older now and somewhat calmer, but even recently he had quite the outburst on the mailing list. And I get the impression I get is that Kent (probably subconsciously?) has an attitude of “if he can do it, so can I”. Which would be fair (even though it is poisonous), the only problem being Linus having the longer lever.

Then there’s the aspect of his mental health. He has said multiple times that his mental health has been suffering, which honestly doesn’t surprise me. And if you look at his responses in different places, there seems to be quite an up and down. In some cases, he’s very respectful to Linus, and in some cases he’s pretty nasty (yes, Linus level nasty, but still). As far as I can tell, he needs a break and therapy. The only problem being, bcachefs has quite the momentum currently, and it wouldn’t exactly be great for the project to lose that momentum, either. (Mind you, probably still better than being kicked from the kernel)

Well yeah, no shit, Sherlock. Abuse causes mental health problems. How is this news?