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> If a security vulnerability is reported by someone who is also violating the CoC, what do you do? Do you ignore it? Fix it silently?

Is this even a question? You triage and fix the vulnerability just like any other one. Are truths spoken by folks one dislikes — even for perfectly valid reasons — any less true?

The only way I can imagine this somehow applying is if someone has a habit of reporting vulnerabilities which do not exist, or of exaggerating their severity. Is crying wolf a CoC violation? If so, then I can imagine that particular sort of bad behaviour justifying some consideration before acting on a report.

… and regulation, too (as the article details).

> It was easier to have non-threatening debates because everyone felt more secure. When people are stressed and afraid, the debates aren’t just intellectual exercises but things that could mean the loss of real opportunities in their lives.

You’re right that people feel less secure, but that doesn’t mean that they are correct when they feel that.

By pretty much any measure, I believe that people in 2025 are far more secure than they were in 1975, 1985 or 1995.

> Mississippi, the poorest state in the United States, is close to surpassing Europe's largest economy Germany's GDP per capita.

Snopes in 2018 and Snopes in 2008 were sadly two very different things. They used to be such a great resource!

I think that this is correct. Also, we really shouldn’t forget that Markdown is meant to generate HTML, and that HTML blocks are valid Markdown: a system which does not permit it isn’t really using Markdown.

> If you run more than one monitor with different DPI, Wayland is the only choice.

I run multiple monitors with differing physical DPIs on X11. Yeah, that means they have differing resolutions. It doesn’t bother me, and I can do all the things that I want, unlike if I were using Wayland.

Maybe someday Wayland will be a replacement for X11, but that day is not today.

> Quoting is insane and hard to get right.

This really makes me wonder if you’ve used Tcl. Quoting in Tcl is so much simpler than in e.g. bash or cmake. It’s all about know when a string will be evaluated or not.

> Type errors are very common.

In my experience, no more so than in any other dynamic language, e.g. Python or Lua.

Again in my experience, if one wants a scripting language — i.e., one used to orchestrate a number of commands — then Tcl is exactly what the doctor ordered.

> The last notable ban was Paul Graham for simply sharing their Mastodon handle.

Paul Graham is a man, not a plural entity.