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_pfxa commented on Open source sustainment and the future of Gitea   blog.gitea.io/2022/10/ope... · Posted by u/TheBrokenRail
techknowlogick · 3 years ago
Hi everyone. I'm the author of the blog post above, and I am sorry that I caused so much confusion.

I have spent much of today trying to clear things up, and will be writing a follow up to the post.

I see some concern around the mention of a DAO, I tried to get across in the blog post that community is incredibly important, and so I mentioned it as a possible way to ensure community governance, not to create a cryptocurrency and sell that. I mentioned it to be entirely transparent that it was a way that we are possibly investigating to make sure community is still involved.

Thanks to our paying clients, the company has been able to hire some maintainers, and contribute back the changes we've made back to the project so everyone can benefit. We are also looking into establishing a fund to not only pay contributors, but also projects we rely on.

_pfxa · 3 years ago
You say in the blog post itself

> To preserve the community aspect of Gitea we are experimenting with creating a decentralized autonomous organization where contributors would receive benefits based on their participation such as from code, documentation, translations, and perhaps even assisting individual community members with support questions.

This is a DAO where you earn scrip through a gamified version of FOSS development. This has nothing to do with "community" (which is a word I'm pretty sick of hearing coming from the mouths of software devs and tech companies).

gkya commented on Open source sustainment and the future of Gitea   blog.gitea.io/2022/10/ope... · Posted by u/TheBrokenRail
tucnak · 3 years ago
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gkya · 3 years ago
literally shut the fuck up
gkya commented on Kazakhstan’s president: We’re moving full speed ahead toward reform   politico.eu/article/kazak... · Posted by u/acqbu
ftl64 · 3 years ago
It is sure easy to make political comments on countries that you know so little about, know no one from and have never been to. fyi, I am from Almaty and been in the city in January. Can you even imagine how it felt here, waking up from gunfire in the night, having no internet and mobile connection, no means of getting in touch with people you care about, wondering if tomorrow you will still have running water, electricity and heating? Exactly. This was no people's protest, but one of a small bunch of barbaric radicalists, a shock and a fever dream for all of the citizens of the country.

edit: in case someone is not yet convinced: https://www-rbc-ru.translate.goog/politics/06/01/2022/61d6b3...

gkya · 3 years ago
Yeah that's definitely what it was. I'm no westerner, so I know what this looks like and what local fascists interpret it as. Tell your stories to someone else.

Also, quoting your link:

"According to the Alma-Ata police, on the morning of January 6, dozens of rioters were killed during the storming of administrative buildings in the city and its environs."

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gkya commented on The hyperinflation gallery   lcamtuf.coredump.cx/hyper... · Posted by u/classichasclass
gkya · 3 years ago
"Our belief in the power of personalities and ideas may blind us to fundamental truths: after all, every year, another penniless revolutionary pens a new version of Das Kapital or a new version of Mein Kampf."

I won't bother with the bullshit of anybody who compares Das Kapital and Mein Kampf like this, grow a fucking brain. And conscience.

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gkya commented on Namecheap: Russia Service Termination    · Posted by u/exizt88
Ansil849 · 4 years ago
> We have people on the ground in Ukraine being bombarded now non stop. I cannot with good conscience continue to support the Russian regime in any way, shape or form.

What about the American regime currently bombing Somalia?

Or the Saudi regime currently bombing Yemen?

Or the Israeli regime currently bombing Syria?

Or the ... regime currently bombing ...? You get the point, surely.

Why the selective enforcement against just this one particular regime?

gkya · 4 years ago
The people you list aren't white enough for westerners to care. That's what it is, that's all there is to it.

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gkya commented on You click a link to a news site, to read an article that seems interesting   mastodon.technology/@rysi... · Posted by u/dredmorbius
dang · 4 years ago
Please don't take HN threads further into flamewar, regardless of how bad someone's idea is or you feel it is. This comment is a noticeable step downward into hell.

Also, please don't post supercilious putdowns of the rest of the community. You have no idea who you're talking to here (none of us does). That sort of rhetoric is not only flamebait, it's reliably a marker of extremely low comment quality. We want thoughtful, curious conversation here, not users acting like they're better than others.

Edit: you did it even worse here too - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29456018, and worse yet at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28688315. Would you please review the site guidelines and stick to them? They explicitly ask you not to post like this, and we ban accounts that keep doing it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

gkya · 4 years ago
Ban.
gkya commented on You click a link to a news site, to read an article that seems interesting   mastodon.technology/@rysi... · Posted by u/dredmorbius
eyelidlessness · 4 years ago
It’s not a great experience in a lot of ways, but it’s 10x better than every time I give in to curiosity and follow a Reddit link (all from here, this bastion of good web).
gkya · 4 years ago
I suggest you go to a non-techie relative or friend and ask them permission to use their facebook for a moment.

u/gkya

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