Eh, Trump did say there would be extreme vetting.

It was a fully-functioning programming language with an overarching semantic message, just like Ruby, except Ruby's message is some hipster bullshit about being elegant. There was absolutely no basis for removing C+= except bigotry.

Also, free speech does not include obscene speech.

Obscene speech involves, for instance, porn depicting pissing, scat, torture, etc. Calling someone a retard, or any purely verbal/written expression, for that matter, has never been considered anywhere near obscene. You are outright lying here.

So, I accept it so I can continue to use their free services.

You are one among a very tiny and unrepresentative fringe. You do not speak for the masses. You most certainly do not speak for me. Those of us who demand that our universal human rights and dignity be respected will not accept this. We will fight back.

But you'll notice that c+= was a joke project,

False. It's actually a fully-functioning programming language, just one that happens to have a theme/message that goes along with it. In that regard, it's no different than a language like Ruby.

ToleranUX was a joke project,

False again. It, too, is a fully-functioning project with a message, like above.

webmconverter (popularly "webm for retards") is back (description is now "webm for bakas")

So it's been censored. How is that acceptable?

and yes banning GamerGateOP was dumb

"Ideological" and "libelous" are more accurate.

But they're not "locked in", necessarily.

With this Code of Conduct, they are. This will dictate the moderation of every project on their site, essentially the conduct of the company.

The Code of Conduct has to be disavowed by every major player that currently partners with it. There is no other win condition.

If the bullies that convinced them to get rid of their carpet can corrupt them, maybe through calm, rational action, we can fix them.

A boycott is exactly that.

https://xkcd.com/1150/

That would actually be illegal. It's not abandoned property if you know who owns it and they didn't explicitly tell you they disclaim ownership. You can't just sell somebody else's stuff.

Your "Github should allow anything as long as it doesn't receive a DMCA or the repo owner is convicted" is probably bad for Github's business.

False. The exact opposite is true. In fact, that's what we're working on right now, to make it bad for their business to do what they're currently doing.

I myself am a Marxist, and I disagree with what's being done here in Github's policy.

You probably subscribe to classical Marxism, which does not look kindly upon censorship. What GitHub (and the SJW movement, in general) is doing owes to cultural Marxism, a newer and fairly differentiated derivative of Marxism that was founded in the 1950s. I talk more about it here. (Trigger warning: reddit link)

Look. For the last time, the Code of Conduct enables the entryism of incompetent minorities by allowing them to harass, bully, abuse, and threaten competent straight white males. It also enables competent minorities to do the same thing, of course, but such minorities wouldn't need the racist and sexist features of this Code of Conduct to enter the tech sector, already being able to enter it via genuine merit, so they're not covered by the entryism clause. That I have to restate the obvious to presumably smart people so many times is disappointing.

They've already banned four projects in compliance with this Code of Conduct before this Code of Conduct was drafted.

This disclaimer is just damage control. They're locked in to SocJus ideology and they will come for you. It's just a matter of time.

Because people should have the right to, and it's none of GitHub's business.

My code. My decision.

If it's illegal, take it down after a DMCA notice or a conviction. Otherwise, hands off.

This sort of cultural Marxist bullshit is more hateful and more dangerous towards human rights and dignity than all other forms of bigotry combined, a thousand times over.

That may not be as power-efficient as you'd like.

Consult the gentlemen at /v/homelab to steer you towards a low-power, high-efficiency hardware platform.

You can read the Code of Conduct and see for yourself that I reported on it factually.

See:

https://github.com/todogroup/opencodeofconduct/blob/gh-pages/index.md

or

http://todogroup.org/opencodeofconduct/

It's the same document. The former is the Markdown source. The latter is the pretty HTML produced from it.

Specifically:

Our open source community prioritizes marginalized people’s safety over privileged people’s comfort. We will not act on complaints regarding:

• ‘Reverse’ -isms, including ‘reverse racism,’ ‘reverse sexism,’ and ‘cisphobia’
• Reasonable communication of boundaries, such as “leave me alone,” “go away,” or “I’m not discussing this with you”
• Refusal to explain or debate social justice concepts
• Communicating in a ‘tone’ you don’t find congenial
• Criticizing racist, sexist, cissexist, or otherwise oppressive behavior or assumptions

This section declares open season for harassment, abuse, threats, and other criminal behavior by minorities against straight white males without consequences.

I didn't claim that all minorities are incompetent, which is trivially demonstrable. Some of the best programmers in the world are East Asian, for instance.

I said the Code of Conduct is intended to enable the entryism of incompetent minorities, which it objectively does.

It means minorities can harass, abuse, threaten, and do worse to straight white men, and there will be absolutely no consequences for them. It's a license for racism and sexism. Meanwhile, straight white men can be censored and/or cut off from projects for the most imagined slights. It's basically an attempt to cut straight white men off of the developer community and recruit incompetent minorities.

This would have been true for one-on-one services, but it's less true for GitHub, which also has some social network features, so when you buy into it, you're also giving them the benefit of the network effects of a larger userbase. So I advise against your recommended solution.

To take advantage of its collaboration and versioning/rollback capabilities.

Such an extensive project cannot possibly be done by one man. It's the work of hundreds. And it receives tens of updates (pull requests) a day. Some are malicious. A CVS is needed to handle this challenge.

Thousands of repos use GitHub to store documentation/research/website contents only. It's officially allowed, and even presented as a viable use case in their tutorials.

I'm not familiar with the concept of opinionated languages, except in the case of parody languages like C+=. If you'd like to write or link to something about this, especially as it relates to Ruby, I'd like to learn more.

Please see:

https://voat.co/v/programming/comments/378664

Please see:

https://voat.co/v/programming/comments/378664

You can get into a programming language without getting involved with its community, but it's harder than it has to be, especially with recent languages that are constantly changing to keep up with constantly-changing web protocols, etc.

It's a repo of tutorials, ops, boycott/support lists, and happenings that enable GamerGate activism. It's the most important resource of the most successful resistance against the SJW hate movement in history. That's why SJWs are constantly trying to shut it down.

GitLab is simultaneously the name of an open source codebase and the free code versioning service that the company offers through it.

One can take the open source codebase and run it on their own hosting without being beholden to GitLab's moderation/censorship. This is what GitGud (as well as many other admins all over the web) are doing.

I do not recommend hosting non-GamerGate-focused projects on GitGud, though. Their resources are relatively limited and they should be allocated to their primary cause.

Good find. I'm the compiler of that list.

It's always being updated, so always refer to either the live version of the comment (rather than the archive) or this paste, which will be updated in parallel.

Thanks.