Ask HN: How do I delete my HN account?
Could @dang or someone else please help me with this? I've read that all one needs to do is send an email to [email protected] but my requests have been ignored up to this point. Thanks.
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Re:Private censorship is not the best way to fight hate or defend demo...
on Thursday September 30, 2021 @11:18AM (#28707356)
Most of the people I see making LGBT “political” are people outside of our community who feel the need to constantly tell trans people how they feel about us - our pronouns, what gendered bathroom we should use, who we should be able to compete against athletically, whether we were lying as kids, whether or not they would date us. Like ugh, stop. Then you have the daily /r/Cringetopia or /r/HolUp thread that makes it to the front page when the only point of the thread is for grown ass men to take the piss out of some random gay teen on TikTok or no-follower account talking about pronouns on Twitter. What do we have? Selfie threads on /r/lgbt? Threads about how to come out to your parents on /r/asktransgender? Are you serious right now?
The harassment doesn’t even stop when these trolls and communities are banned. They will literally mass create fake accounts with hateful usernames and follow trans users in an attempt to harass them via the notification feed [0]. It’s scary when this happens to you and I think it’s the reason why you mostly see activist types from the trans community on these platforms, because they’re the only people who are willing to put up with this.
[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/oi4cmn/tran...
Re:Stali is a static Linux distribution
on Sunday September 20, 2020 @01:06PM (#24535269)
There is no suckless "philosophy". The official page explaining it makes a few solid points about simplicity vs. complexity [0] but for the most part its just thinly-veiled programmer rage and elitism. This is reinforced by the community's purity tests which include enforcing arbitrary limits on the lines of code in a given project (about as dumb and wrong as dogmatically asserting that more lines of code in a commit is better - complexity is about abstraction). That's not even getting into the racial purity tests [1].
Aside from that, suckless software just sucks. Software is more than just source code; it's the user experience, it's the community, it's what comes out of that software. The Blender source code certainly wouldn't fulfill the suckless vision (in sofar as one even exists) and yet it's infinitely more important and useful than any piece of suckless software. Showing off your minimalist desktop on /r/unixporn or /g/ is fun and all but eventually you're going to want to do real work with your computer and realize how much time you've wasted recompiling C code to make basic configuration changes.