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Apache Software Foundation badly infected by wokeness; avoid them


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2021 Feb 23, 5:13pm   282 views  13 comments

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https://www.theregister.com/2021/02/23/apache_tinkerpop_speech/


The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) has removed Marko Rodriguez from the TinkerPop project he co-founded because his provocative Twitter posts were said to have violated the ASF Code of Conduct.

"I was removed from the project I started 11 years ago for 'publishing offensive humor that borders on hate speech,' " Rodriguez explained in an email to The Register. "However, now that Big Tech has secured the ASF board, it is a way to 'shut me up' about the monopolistic practices of Big Tech."

Rodriguez argues that "woke culture" is a creation of "Big Tech," and that it serves to protect the industry's economic monopoly "by monopolizing the ideology of the people." ...

The board's decision to thus oust Rodriguez, a veteran computer scientist and CEO of graph and stream computing consultancy RReduX, prompted ASF board member Niclas Hedhman, one of nine, to resign from the non-profit to protest what he characterized as "cancel culture."

"When the internet was new, we all knew that a written message is flawed and any perceived wrong-doing is likely because I am reading it wrongly," Hedhman lamented in an email to The Register. "Now, it is the opposite. All words/sentences are interpreted in the most absurd way possible, assigning malice when there clearly isn't any or the other way around. Newspeak is in full swing, and professional victimhood is elevated to religion, complete with hierarchy, clergy, constituents and scribes." ...

Asked to comment on the situation, a spokesperson for the ASF offered little in the way of detail. ...

Rodriguez provided The Register with a copy of an email he sent to the board, urging them not to be "another organization of fools that sway in the breeze of the mob’s zeitgeist." While he says he hasn't received a response, he did note that other ASF members have left the organization because they objected to having their views, rather than their code, reviewed.

Hedhman acknowledges that Rodriguez's posts have been controversial but he argues that's allowed in the United States.

"The tweets in question were obvious satire, 'bad/dark humor' and trolling for the sake of making people upset," said Hedhman. "It was the essence of why I am not on Twitter and think it is the worst plague that has been inflicted on humans in recent years. I didn't like Marko's tactics, but I can understand his angle."

Hedhman said the ASF board's response is proof that "exercising your US constitutional rights will put you in a lot of trouble."

"If speech is not allowed to be offensive, it would not need protection," he said.

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1   FortwayeAsFuckJoeBiden   2021 Feb 23, 5:22pm  

Someone created cancel culture to destroy economic and political competitors. Those people are assholes. This is nazi shit.
2   richwicks   2021 Feb 23, 6:04pm  

@Patrick

Again - what is the server that is running this site?

I've always used Apache, but it's bloated, a bitch to set up, huge, and a pain in the ass. NOW I'm willing to move to something else. As long as it doesn't suck.
3   Patrick   2021 Feb 23, 6:10pm  

The patrick.net webserver is nginx. https://nginx.org/en/

It's super-high performance and I think more widespread than Apache now. But configuration is not obvious, kind of a proprietary language to it.

@richwicks
4   richwicks   2021 Feb 23, 7:20pm  

Patrick says
The patrick.net webserver is nginx. https://nginx.org/en/

It's super-high performance and I think more widespread than Apache now. But configuration is not obvious, kind of a proprietary language to it.

@richwicks


@Patrick

Haha - Russian.

We rescued them 30 years ago, and now they are attempting to rescue us.

Configuration is not obvious under Apache either. I will document what I learn, I rather enjoy writing technical specs. When I hit it, show me how to setup a websocket.
5   FortwayeAsFuckJoeBiden   2021 Feb 23, 7:28pm  

Patrick says
The patrick.net webserver is nginx. https://nginx.org/en/

It's super-high performance and I think more widespread than Apache now. But configuration is not obvious, kind of a proprietary language to it.

@richwicks


Do you host from home?
6   EBGuy   2021 Feb 23, 8:04pm  

Fortwaynemobile says
Someone created cancel culture to destroy economic and political competitors.

What on earth would make you say that...
In total, the charging documents refer to 223 individuals in the Capitol Hill riot investigation. Of those documents, 73 reference Facebook. That’s far more references than other social networks. YouTube was the second most-referenced on 24. Instagram, a Facebook-owned company, was next on 20. Parler, the app that pledged protection for free speech rights and garnered a large far-right userbase, was mentioned in just eight.
7   Patrick   2021 Feb 23, 8:05pm  

Fortwaynemobile says
Patrick says
The patrick.net webserver is nginx. https://nginx.org/en/

It's super-high performance and I think more widespread than Apache now. But configuration is not obvious, kind of a proprietary language to it.

@richwicks


Do you host from home?


No, I have a virtual Linux machine at Digital Ocean.
8   Patrick   2021 Feb 23, 8:06pm  

richwicks says
Haha - Russian.


True, the writers of Nginx are Russians.

I'm pretty sure it's safe to use. You can compile it from source if you like, and you can watch outgoing requests with firewall software.
9   NuttBoxer   2021 Feb 24, 12:42pm  

All codes of conduct are just news-speak for creating intolerance. Thing is, you need more than an ideology to make SW that works. Apache is going the way of the dinosaur.
10   Karloff   2021 Feb 24, 1:14pm  

Salesforce has identified itself as an enemy of freedom, truth, and Western values as well, according to another Veritas expose.

https://www.projectveritas.com/news/leaked-insider-tape-reveals-salesforces-plan-to-deplatform-broader-range-of/
11   richwicks   2021 Feb 24, 1:42pm  

Patrick says
True, the writers of Nginx are Russians.

I'm pretty sure it's safe to use. You can compile it from source if you like, and you can watch outgoing requests with firewall software.


I trust Russians over US bidness at this point.
12   richwicks   2021 Feb 24, 1:43pm  

Fortwaynemobile says
Do you host from home?


I do.

Everybody should.
13   Patrick   2021 Feb 24, 10:43pm  

How much upstream bandwidth do you get? And what are latencies like?

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