[-] projectazar@beehaw.org 44 points 1 year ago

I have not sat through many depositions, but that deposing attorney is impressively calm.

[-] projectazar@beehaw.org 16 points 1 year ago

I mostly main last place, but I sometimes come in 10th.

[-] projectazar@beehaw.org 20 points 1 year ago

I agree. Of the 188 marks registered to "The Linux Foundation" with the USPTO, there does not appear to be a mark for "systemd", "fsck", or "segmentation fault." My guess is this is an imposter claim and the artist should counter notice this claim to Redbubble.

FWIW (and assuming the link works) here's the marks ever registered to the Linux Foundation.

https://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=toc&state=4808%3Azqagnv.27.1&p_search=searchstr&BackReference=&p_L=500&p_plural=yes&p_s_PARA1=Linux&p_tagrepl%7E%3A=PARA1%24ON&expr=PARA1+and+PARA2&p_s_PARA2=Foundation&p_tagrepl%7E%3A=PARA1%24ON&a_default=search&f=toc&state=4808%3Azqagnv.27.1&a_search=Submit+Query

[-] projectazar@beehaw.org 30 points 1 year ago

I just can't help but think that if I had made that sort of comment in that sort of meeting, every boss or office I've worked for would have immediately taken corrective action, either publicly calling me into a separate meeting or by advising how such comments aren't acceptable and noting how it violates policy.

The fact that it was just ignored is so much more indicative of the culture than I think just about anything else in the video.

[-] projectazar@beehaw.org 49 points 1 year ago

I think its more the implication that Linus looked like stripper on the table. But I appreciate that could be a stretch. I'm more concerned by a) instructing people to go directly to the person harassing them with no managerial oversight first, b) implying harassment complaints are drama, c) suggesting that its not their job to resolve harassment complaints by down playing them as "interpersonal problems" and d) intentionally or unintentionally suggesting that if you have a problem you are going against the fun environment, which instantly puts a harassment victim in an us vs them environment.

I'm coming at this from a lawyer perspective, as I am a lawyer (albeit not an employment or harassment lawyer) and I've witnessed first hand how harassment and discriminated employees are not respected by management. I've seen how that impacts people's mental health and how, especially for younger women, it creates a toxic cycle where it can be extremely difficult to leave because you've internalized the harassing and discriminatory experience to the point of thinking "well, who else will hire me? I can't just get another job."

I realize if you have not experienced that or witnessed that, its hard to understand how a toxic environment can lead to that mindset. So hearing someone joking around in an emergency all company meeting may not immediately seem problematic. But when the subject of the meeting is harassment, and a high ranking manager just jokes around like its not a big deal, and that joke is tacitly approved of by the executive level (where there isn't immediate correction), it all strikes me as a corporate culture that doesn't respect the seriousness of harassment.

I'm also biased as my office literally just had our annual harassment training yesterday.

[-] projectazar@beehaw.org 87 points 1 year ago

It is good they are taking public steps to change their corporate culture, but it is clear they had a top down culture of not taking harassment seriously. Hate to share a reddit link, but this video: https://www.reddit.com/r/LinusTechTips/comments/15t1mzn/mandatory_meeting_the_after_madisons_departure/ purports to be from when Madison left. The language here is not the language of a corporate culture that takes harassment seriously. Especially since James didn't get immediately corrected.

If they want to win back the viewers (and likely sponsors) they are losing or have lost because of all of this toxicity, they are going to have to continue to publicly show they are committed to improving not only their culture to move away from a harassment friendly, grindset focused content farm, to one worth our time (and sponsor dollars).

[-] projectazar@beehaw.org 23 points 1 year ago

This is the right outcome for this court case. There is no conceivable way to interpret the equal protection clause that supports a ban on gender affirming care, especially in light of analysis that targeting trans people is specifically gender discrimination. If the care is available for a person, but for their gender, it seems plainly obvious that the discrimination is based on gender and doesn't, in my view, even meet a rational basis analysis, let alone the slightly heightened analysis for gender discrimination.

[-] projectazar@beehaw.org 15 points 1 year ago

Hasn't this been going on for many years? I'd be curious to know what the author actually feels about the work. Like do they go back and read their earlier chapters and cringe or are they merely impressed that they have gotten better. Have they gotten better? Or has the work degenerated as any long running fiction usually does after a time. Are there particular arcs to read that are excellent and others to skip.

Most importantly: is there fanfic of this work?

[-] projectazar@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

I'd assume this is a product of space users being older and thus earning more, but that is wild speculation.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by projectazar@beehaw.org to c/technology@beehaw.org

A new video from Nick at The Linux Experiment. I'm also sharing the PeerTube version for the sake of trying to expand my use of PeerTube and try to expand my video platform use beyond just YouTube.

[-] projectazar@beehaw.org 120 points 1 year ago

This is going to be a learning process I think for a lot of people. Not just on federation, but on community building as well. You all seem to be trying to build something here, and I am willing to be patient and participate while it grows. If we get down the road and it just isn't working, I have faith that there will be open discussion on how to make this community grow while maintaining its ethos and we'll be here to figure out what is best for each of us individually.

Good on you for taking decisive action at these early stages while we figure out what we want, where we want to go, and how we want to get there on this relatively new platform.

[-] projectazar@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

My favorite patent law case is about two orange juice soda vending companies who both had fake juice displays fighting about whether the one fake juice display violated the patent of the other fake juice display company. The case name is quite literally the base case name in history: Juicy Whip vs Orange Bang. https://www.quimbee.com/cases/juicy-whip-inc-v-orange-bang-inc

[-] projectazar@beehaw.org 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

A lot of detective games are mostly point and click adventure games, which generally are older games or more indie style. That said there are a few I can think of:

The Gabriel Knight games have a lot of good detective elements, including some good puzzle solving. https://www.gog.com/en/game/gabriel_knight_sins_of_the_fathers

Chicken Police has a really neat interrogation mechanic and a fantastic noir setting. Its a bit silly all things considered, but the detective elements are fun. I've not beaten the game, but the time I've put into its fun. https://www.gog.com/en/game/chicken_police

In a similar vein, Backbone is a noir detective game set in an animal setting. The detective mechanics feel weaker, and the game seems to force you on to the critical path pretty hard, but its still been fun so far. https://www.gog.com/en/game/backbone

Finally, this is a horror game, but unraveling the mystery is fun and the game doesn't railroad you on the critical path too hard. Simulacra is a game about a guy who receives a mysterious cell phone and he is using all the tools available on the phone to uncover the identity of the owner. Short and engrossing. https://www.gog.com/en/game/simulacra

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As a once and sometimes avid Emacs user, I don't want to relate to this as hard as I do.

FWIW: I tried to set this posts language to elisp but it wasn't an option.

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