I saw this and said "Why the fuck is this on Hacker News?" out loud.

Then how about adjusting the cooldowns back to how they were? 4chan is still supposed to be a collection of imageboards, and the new cooldowns make image posting extremely time-consuming with large amounts of images (which can be very much on-topic and valued content). Shitposters are not suddenly going to stop shitposting just because they have to wait longer between posts, so ultimately this just seems to make life for legitimate posters worse.

Github maintained by someone with a troll username?

Comments like this:

> IMPORTANT: release two major sanctioned UIs, one for autists, one with inbuilt support for the previous list so that plebs can't get confused with setting it up and autists don't complain about it getting in their way. de geso > I would suggest a "Advanced options" where the autists can rejoice with all kinds of options (and it doesn't frighten the normalfags, since it's not shown by default). Also, 2 UIs would be chaos to maintain.

Talk about not needing to be an expert to use it, but then a "learn more" button sending people to github?

Not inspiring confidence so far.

It's nice to see they're using an existing crypto library. I'd be surprised if they haven't made errors implementing it.

Honestly, I don't see the concept being so unique and original that someone else couldn't have come up with it independently, and frankly the Tox logo has a much nicer balance (in the Tox logo, the person/keyhole works much better, whereas in yours it doesn't really work as a "keyhole" in my opinion) than the versions you linked.

EDIT: The logo was originally made in /gd/ (4chan's graphic design board), and since the board is archived I managed to track down the thread it was made in.

Here's a somewhat different version that people were playing around with at first (which also featured a lock, a speech bubble and a keyhole doubling as a person):

https://archive.foolz.us/gd/thread/86081/#86375

Then someone thought about moving the speech bubble to the keyring here:

https://archive.foolz.us/gd/thread/86081/#87186

And then after some iteration they got to the current version:

https://archive.foolz.us/gd/thread/86081/#87235

While his eccentricities mirror those of a mad scientist (or really just an institutionalized person, depending on whom you ask), you cannot deny that RMS is a genius. His work in free software has enabled much recursive work in the computer science fields that wouldn't be possible without his contributions. gcc is without a doubt still the most advanced compiler available today. The GNU coreutils are nowhere near the simplicity of the old UNIX and BSD userland utilities, but they improve upon them exponentially, and offer far more ease of use and efficiency bar perhaps the Plan 9 userland. While I don't use emacs (VIM junkie), I think emacs is still brilliant operating system, and the editor is actually finally good enough for daily usage.

While his strict insistence on accurate semantics, such as GNU+Linux versus Linux and "free software" vs "open source," seems annoying, pushy, and generally weird, he has valid reasons to back the insistence up.

What reasons do you have to back your criticism of him up?