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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 1 September 2024 (awful.systems)

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[–] flizzo@awful.systems 12 points 2 months ago (33 children)

So the orange site is having a normal one over Python BFDL trying to skirt CoC by talking about mod actions against some old dude who caught a suspension for being precisely the sort of edgelord poaster I'd expect out of a Python maintainer, which the orange site was also not happy about. I even read a bunch of his posts in the thread, like where he calls people standing up to NixOS leadership "true villains".

[–] blakestacey@awful.systems 13 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I prefer the Jimmy Wales version of authority. The project operates democratically, but Jimmy always retains the ultimate authority to act as a sovereign at the end of the day because he built it, has the reputation of the project to protect, and it's his legacy. The option to fork the project will always be there if the people want new leadership.

Setting aside the blithe just-fork-it-ism and the insult to the people who actually write the articles... Isn't Wales just one of a dozen people on the Wikimedia Foundation board of trustees now?

[–] o7___o7@awful.systems 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

also, isn't this congruent to how Iran works?

Ayatollah Jimmy has some zazz, admittedly

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