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Selam G. was paraphrasing an anecdotal #metoo comment by an anonymous source that was backed up by zero evidence. If that's good enough evidence for EFF to call for someone's head, then they're worse than hypocrites. And the law schools that gave degrees to their lawyers should consider rescinding them, since they clearly don't seem to know a thing about law.
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No, the EFF is allowed to criticize RMS as much as they want. Criticizing RMS doesn't make them hypocritical. However, linking [1] and spreading slanderous lies (I'm talking about Selam G.'s hitpieces [2] from 2019) isn't very fitting for an organization that claims to defend Internet free speech.
RMS never defended Epstein -- not even once. His only crime was being a pedantic aspie. If the EFF considers that to be good enough reason to cancel him, then yes, I think that EFF are total hypocrites. FWIW, EFF's official blog post only linked Selam G.'s hitpiece that has been thoroughly debunked elsewhere [3].
[1] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/03/statement-re-election-...
[2] https://selamjie.medium.com/remove-richard-stallman-appendix...
Comment · 3 years ago
Lol. EFF are now a bunch of virtue signalling hacks pretending to care about Internet free speech. They outed themselves as total hypocrites when they joined the "RMS is an <X>ist" bandwagon and removed Gilmore from their board.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/03/statement-re-election-...
http://techrights.org/2021/11/05/not-the-frontier-anymore/
https://www.theregister.com/2021/10/25/john_gilmore_removed_...
Comment · 3 years ago
Yes, and Voevodsky is no longer alive.
Comment · 3 years ago
> You actually want to drop ballast as you descend, to make up for the added seawater.
The ballast is dropped during the ascension, not the descent. This makes the ascension-step impossible to fail and requires no electricity [1]. Incidentally, I first came to know about the bathyscaphe while reading Peter Watts's Rifters trilogy (which is an amazing hard SF series set in the deep sea).
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bathyscaphe#Mode_of_operation
Comment · 3 years ago
The first video lecture [1] is titled "Introduction to Linux", yet, ironically, the instructor conducts the entire lecture using macOS. I guess the main purpose of this course is to teach uninitiated kids a thing or two about the *nix CLI, but for some reason the instructor has decided to call it the "Linux CLI". He also teaches some terrible shell scripting practices [2] such as parsing the output of ls [3] and not quoting variables.
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTHAe-m56Vw
Comment · 3 years ago
> And that somehow makes Israel exempt here, or something
It doesn't. But it's irresponsible journalism to write an article of this sort without admitting that every single arms exporter sells to autocracies.
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I'm not questioning the validity of the article and I'm not defending Israel. But it's basic knowledge that (i) several first-world countries make a nice profit off of wars in the third world and (ii) almost all of these countries are liberal Western (or West-aligned) democracies. This is the reason why I don't understand why the author has singled out Israel here. Put it another way, could you name an arms exporter, which could be a company, country, etc., that doesn't sell to despotic regimes?
Comment · 3 years ago
> Maybe there are actual examples
See, it's fine to dislike RMS (for whatever reason). But the question was whether the EFF -- an organization that claims to support free speech on the Internet -- should've joined the dogpile on RMS based on ludicrous claims written by an outrage addict.