The current grant structure has successfully led to the exit of most competent devs. Now, most “devs” are looking for quick grant money for vaporware, or want to cosplay software development with AI slop tools.

I don’t get why people strongly feel that they should share private communications for any reason. Especially people “exposing” others is really icky. You can do all of that, without sharing every single detail. Redaction and using your own words is not hard.

Data ownership is not something that exists. Privacy should be respected, but a false illusion of fully controlling what you share is as harmful as ignoring requests to delete. “Homeservers” don’t fix this as archive.is, archive.org, Trove and many others will happily keep permanent and trusted records of what you said, some of them even if you ask them to delete it.

Galileo fallacy (noun) A fallacy whereby it is implied that one is correct due to being widely criticized or persecuted.

Doxing is not cool, regardless of whatever “justification” you have. Instead of wasting time on these things, you can just reply saying no, and move on. There are much better things to do than this. I’ll go back to my cave to polish NFDB 3 now

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