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Niten commented on How a French judge was digitally cut off by the USA heise.de/en/news/How-a-Fr... · Posted by u/i-con

dpedu · a month ago

It's worth noting that the Gaza Health Ministry is a government agency and the de-facto government of Gaza is Hamas, and therefore the health ministry _is_ Hamas. Casualty numbers released by the ministry have already been statistically dubious, and seeing that Hamas would only benefit from inflating these numbers, it is likely they are not accurate numbers.

https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/how-gaza-he...

Niten · a month ago

Additionally, it's crucial to recognize how Hamas's health ministry numbers never distinguish between combatant and civilian deaths

Niten commented on Shopify, pulling strings at Ruby Central, forces Bundler and RubyGems takeover joel.drapper.me/p/rubygem... · Posted by u/bradgessler

jmcgough · 3 months ago

I really like that my job has me working with lots of different people from lots of walks of life, and we are too busy saving lives to think too much about politics.

However, if I found out that one of the physicians I work with doesn't think I should have a job, doesn't think I should have equal rights, and doesn't think I belong in public spaces, then politics would become unavoidable. I'm not going to work for a bigot who sees me as a second class citizen.

Likewise there are a number of long-term Ruby OS contributors who belong to minority groups DHH has been attacking. Would you attend Railsconf if DHH called your ethnicity gangs of rapists, like he recently has?

Niten · 3 months ago

This is dangerously unhinged hyperbole. What comment by DHH says that you, personally, don't "belong in public spaces"? Be specific.

Niten commented on Shopify, pulling strings at Ruby Central, forces Bundler and RubyGems takeover joel.drapper.me/p/rubygem... · Posted by u/bradgessler

dragonwriter · 3 months ago

I think more accurate is this:

One person who was a major funder of RubyCentral pulled funding because they were upset at RubyCentral platforming DHH. Neither that person, nor RubyCentral, had control over or ownership of the RubyGems software at that time, though RubyCentral operated the rubygems.org service, which uses the RubyGems software.

The corporation that is the other major funder of RubyCentral (Shopify) responded to this (taking advantage of the fact that this left them the sole significant funder of RubyCentral whom RubyCentral could not afford to alienate) to direct RubyCentral to, without any plausible claim of right, seize control of the RubyGems software repos, and kick out anyone who wasn’t a full-time RubyCentral employee from them.

It’s not about DHH except that that indirectly provided the opportunity, it’s about Shopify seeking to consolidate control of core Ruby infrastructure.

Niten · 3 months ago

> One person who was a major funder of RubyCentral pulled funding because they were upset at RubyCentral platforming DHH

Yes. To de-obfuscate, they sent a message that he should be cancelled. It backfired spectacularly, as it rightfully should have. Good.

Niten commented on You might want to stop running atop rachelbythebay.com/w/2025... · Posted by u/subract

rdtsc · 9 months ago

She is a known technology blogger https://rachelbythebay.com, active for more than a decade. Her posts often make it to front page.

I'd trust her enough to remove a non-essential component like atop basically.

Niten · 9 months ago

Why should one trust her? What's her full name and the reason for deferring to her expertise?

And yes I'm aware her posts have made it to the top of HN many times in the past. That I've seen, they've all been unhelpful vague-posts like this one.

Maybe she's actually a real expert I should be listening to! But layer upon layer of vague "if you know, you know" do not make that case.

Niten commented on Israel, Hamas reach ceasefire deal to end 15 months of war in Gaza reuters.com/world/middle-... · Posted by u/dnsbty

GordonS · a year ago

Hamas is not an "Islamist" organisation (I hate that word BTW, as it's an Israeli invention to demonise Muslims).

The article you linked to is pure propaganda - Hamas' charter changed a long, long time ago. OTOH, Israeli politicians literally say genocidal things on a near daily basis - it's a deeply sick society.

Niten · a year ago

> The article you linked to is pure propaganda - Hamas' charter changed a long, long time ago

No, it's not "propaganda". It's factual reporting that happens to be inconvenient to Hamas apologists.

It's also corroborated by the atrocities against innocent civilians that these monsters gleefully filmed themselves committing on October 7th, such as attacking children with grenades.

Niten commented on Israel, Hamas reach ceasefire deal to end 15 months of war in Gaza reuters.com/world/middle-... · Posted by u/dnsbty

zazazache · a year ago

What is different from Hamas right to exist compared to the IDF or Likud? Hamas certainly has less blood on their hands!

Niten · a year ago

Hamas is a terrorist, Islamist organization with the explicit goal of genocide against Israelis: https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2023/10/ha...

The blood of the Palestinian civilians that Hamas waged war from behind is absolutely on Hamas's hands.