microcolonel (u/microcolonel)

microcolonel commented on PayPal terminates account of Epik, home to Proud Boys domain and Gab mashable.com/article/epik... · Posted by u/aspenmayer

dang · 5 years ago

Ok, that's enough. We've re-banned this account.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24335263

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23253600

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21757546

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21366367

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20900462

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19937222

microcolonel · 5 years ago

That's enough of what, Dan? This comment was substantive, responsive to the parent comment, and cordial; it didn't provoke a flame war nor could it be expected to, it didn't include any quips or sick burns.

If you don't like moderating after all this time, and I wouldn't blame you, at least understand I can't help other people spamming the flag button because they disagree with people's good-faith interpretation of facts. If there's a technical solution to that I'd be glad to help.

microcolonel commented on PayPal terminates account of Epik, home to Proud Boys domain and Gab mashable.com/article/epik... · Posted by u/aspenmayer

jacquesm · 5 years ago

> The Proud Boys are not white supremacists.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proud_Boys

microcolonel · 5 years ago

If you're referring to the sentence containing “several members have been affiliated with white supremacy”, it kinda doesn't jive with the fact that their highest leadership position is filled by an afro-cuban man, and the fact that there is no official or de-facto-official Proud Boys public communication of anything regarding white supremacy other than condemnation of it, nor any official or sanctioned actions taken against visibly non-white groups or people.

I mean, if there were white supremacists in the Proud Boys, something that isn't even alleged in that article, surely they would not continue once the group was being led by a man who is like 25-75% black.

The only reason they are being framed so aggressively as white supremacists now, is that Joe Biden mentioned them on the debate stage. Rather than accounting for Joe Biden's ignorance or malice, the media preferred to alter public perception to justify his comments; and it looks like it sorta worked!

microcolonel commented on Thrust Vectoring at Model Scale bps.space/... · Posted by u/tosh

nyx_ · 5 years ago

You know the toys you're shopping for are the coolest when the webpage says their sale is restricted to US citizens and residents only. Is that an ITAR thing?

microcolonel · 5 years ago

The Trump Administration seems to have significantly loosened ITAR for almost everyone (IIRC primarily intended to make it less onerous for small arms researchers and manufacturers), including individuals, and specifically addresses removing some forms of software and designs from the USML. If it's firmware or designs as far as I'm aware there may be no problem with that now, even if it's rocketry or guidance software.

microcolonel commented on The X.Org Server Is Abandonware? phoronix.com/scan.php?pag... · Posted by u/caution

SweetestRug · 5 years ago

> Wayland is really slow

I have to wonder if this is distribution dependent? On Manjaro my experience with Wayland has been fantastic. I cannot perceive any speed differences vs X.org; Wayland just flies.

It would be interesting to poll users and see just what factors are contributing to speed issues. GPU? CPU? Distribution? Wlroots vs Gnome? etc. Learning more about what users experience could be helpful in making Wayland better. Has anyone done this?

microcolonel · 5 years ago

Yeah, I think there are a lot of distro bugs, and a lot of old or mismatched packages, outside of the Arch/Manjaro ecosystem. This hurts the impression of Mesa, the Kernel, and basically anything else like this where there's no good reason conventional distros shouldn't ship new feature releases at least a bit more frequently than they do.