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Rambler wrote

Donenfeld identified numerous problems with Macy's code, but rather than object to the port's release, Donenfeld decided to fix the issues. He collaborated with FreeBSD developer Kyle Evans and with Matt Dunwoodie, an OpenBSD developer who had worked on WireGuard for that operating system. The three replaced almost all of Macy's code in a mad week-long sprint.

A good response.

This went over very poorly with Netgate, which sponsored Macy's work. Netgate had already taken Macy's beta code from a FreeBSD 13 release candidate and placed it into production in pfSense's 2.5.0 release. The forklift upgrade performed by Donenfeld and collaborators—along with Donenfeld's sharp characterization of Macy's code—presented the company with a serious PR problem.

Not a great response.

This combative response from Netgate raised increased scrutiny from many sources, which uncovered surprising elements of Macy's own past. He and his wife Nicole had been arrested in 2008 after two years spent attempting to illegally evict tenants from a small San Francisco apartment building the pair had bought.

I don't really care about that, seems like 4Chan level bickering at that point. I care more about the poor code pushed out.

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zbviqi OP wrote (edited )

He should not be removed from FSF as far as law permits him. I want to see what he will/can do. Complete Hurd works please! :D

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Rambler OP wrote

It may be, I see no specific setting for it on my end. There are some config settings available to whitelist certain IPs, which I have to use so Tor Onion, I2P, Loki network users don't get rate limited since they share the same IP of the network connection they're using...

I can individually whitelist accounts which does: "Whitelisting will allow this user to bypass IP bans and some flood protections. Additionally, their IP addresses will no longer be stored." So I've gone ahead and done that for you, but no sort of global "X posts per 1 hour" type of rule to be set.

IPs are merged automatically on a cronjob schedule anyway for everyone so whitelisting really only prevents you from getting stopped by the spam filter that has no configurable settings anywhere.

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Wahaha wrote

On a technological level I might agree, but other than that it's just a different experience. Voat didn't limit me to three posts per subverse per hour, like Ramble does. And Voat had some privileges attached to the Internet points you could collect. Above 100 points or so, all restrictions were lifted and beyond that it didn't matter, anymore.

This was a measure against bots and shills. Not sure if it accomplished anything. But since the original Voat is now dead, everything will be better, so there's that.

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Wahaha wrote

Reply to comment by Rambler in CAN you? by onion

Huh.. I don't remember ever using the school toilet. Thinking back, I don't even know where the toilet would have been.

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Rambler wrote (edited )

Reply to CAN you? by onion

When I was a student, it seemed like teachers got great satisfaction out of that exchange.

"Can I go to the bathroom?"

-- "I don't know, can you?"

<sighs> "May I go to the bathroom?"

I had 8 classes each day and just pissed between them like a normal person but it seemed like that once per day I'd witness this exchange. It seemed to always give the teachers satisifaction to correct the student and it happened enough that I know when to use "may I" and "can I" in normal discussion for fear of activating some smug look on the other person's face.

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Rambler wrote

Asians are the only demographic shown where the victim and the offender aren't usually the same race.

Ex: White on white violence makes up 62% of violence with a white victim. Black on black violence being 70% of the cause of a black violence victim... Yet Asians, across the board, seemingly are the victim almost equally from the other races. (24% white offender, 27% black offender, 24% Asian offender, 7% Hispanic offender, 14% other.

Asians also have the lowest number of reported violent incidents but I'm not sure if that's due to their population size or not,.

Who are these people hating Asians? They work hard, the have good family values and push their children to be educated and productive members of society. They're good people. If they're in America it's because they left behind a shit hole for a better future and they almost always work hard and achieve the American dream. It's amazing what they're able to achieve in just two generations, from poverty to grandson going to med school and becoming a doctor.

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