How is he the exploiter if he contributes so much to the project?

What, because he prioritizes his hobbies like race matches? Or because he elects not to spend an entire day at an event?

Does an OSS maintainer not allowed to have a life?

I read a lot of hostility in your questions. And you’ve put a lot of words into my mouth that I never said.

It’s upsetting because I’m trying to advocate for treating open source contributors and maintainers well, and either you’re not understanding that deliberately or I’ve not spoken well enough.

What I would love right now is for you go find out who Rafael Mendonça França is. I want you to find out about him and the wonderful things he’s done for the community.

I want you to find some thread online one day where his name comes up and I want you to defend him or any of the other contributors who have given so much and asked for so little.

Do it with the passion you’ve go here. Can you do that? Will you try?

At one point in my career, I've been a CTO of a startup company. I worked 12-14 hours a day, including weekends. My relationship with the CEO was bad, and he actively added "senior tech leads" to the company to compete with me.

One day, I arrived to the office, and stood in the hallway across our office door. I froze. I couldn't physically move. I stood there, unable to move, for 2.5 hours until someone passed by and saw me.

I'm sharing this story so that readers may have an idea of what severe burnout may look like. It's not that I didn't want to move - I couldn't, my brain didn't let me. I lost my ability to control my body at that point.

I don't think that'd still classify as burnout, honestly.

That's more like a stress response from getting into the range of an abuser. I'm sure it was extremely traumatic for you, I just don't think anyone could classify such a response as burnout

Stress causes burnout.

What they described would still be burnout. You’d need other features to get to abusive and a trauma response.

Noted, I never delved deeper into the definitions - it was hard enough as it happened.

If that's not burnout, then I don't know what is a burnout, apparently. I never even considered that.

The Replit CEO has proven himself time and time again to be.. this.

I hope that every potential customer will consider the culture he cultivates. We don't need this in tech.

Universities everywhere become corrupt, as performance doesn't matter for the staff to be paid.

The only thing that matters is political power, both for the hosting country subsidies as well as outside donations (Qatar massive donation that made Harvard president claim that a call to murder all Jews is ok is a great example).

I have no idea how to fix this at this point.

I just know that trust in academic institutions is very, very low. And justifiably so.

> performance doesn't matter for the staff to be paid.

That's not the case for the people who are in the key phase of establishing themselves as academics and who are generally not on permanent contracts. And for tenured staff, performance decides access to resources that may be as mundane as one's own research time. Conversely, the problem is a mix of extremely shallow performance metrics and a paper-pusher system in which most people get bogged down by bureaucracy by the time they get tenure (or even earlier). This means that very few people have the peace of mind that allows them to focus on high-risk fundamental research. In European AI and CS, I would claim that the ones who manage to maintain focus essentially do this in their free time and get little reward for this; the alternative, i.e., building a strong franchise, is more rewarding in terms of performance metrics.

By definition - if you want to immigrate to the US (legally) you must be successful.

For example, L1 Visa, will require your company to employ at least 15 people in the US by the end of it. So you either start a company successful enough to hire at least 15 people, or you go home.

If you aspire to live in the US at the end of it, it's a hell of a motivator.

I'll just add - this beneficial system is largely being closed down due to illegal immigration in the US, which "fills" the caps in many places. It may be hurtful to the US long term.

If one views what is happening in Gaza as a genocide, then one has to admit that the Palestinians attempted (and succeeded) at genociding Jews multiple times previous to the creation of the state of Israel as well. Most notably the destruction of the Hebron Jewish community in 1929.

The common thread running through Palestinian nationalism from its inceptions is the desire for genocide (though we didn't have the term then) of Jews.

If anything, Google should be more aggressive with getting any politics out.

Politics essentially botched their Gemini AI release. The politics are beyond harming the company.

Thinking politics can be removed from any company is wishful thinking.

The "best" they can do is mirror status quo and avoid confrontation.

This is sometimes wrongly referred to as "neutrality".

Folks saying politics should get removed are effectively saying they're fine with the status quo. Its intellectually dishonest for people to not recognize this in themselves with that opinion. Everything we do is inherently political as we are operating in this political landscape.

LGBTQ+ being welcomed in tech in the earlier days is partially what's responsible for the LGBTQ+ being somewhat welcomed in society in general today.

Status quo for companies back then would've been to never support anything LGBT related until 2015. That's something that a lot of people right now would say would be absurd.

IBM has been rightfully criticized in its role in the Genocide of Nazi Germany. "Never again" means understanding what circumstances in society led to the decisions being made back then. "Never again" can't be actuated if speaking against authority is discouraged.

> Its intellectually dishonest for people to not recognize this in themselves with that opinion. Everything we do is inherently political as we are operating in this political landscape.

This is how fundamentalists think, whether religious or political. Everything is somehow tied to their ideology and they want to push it everywhere.

I wonder if they know how insufferable they are.

> Everything is somehow tied to their ideology and they want to push it everywhere.

That's not what I said. I said everything we do is fundamentally political.

That is what makes you a fundamentalist. If everything was political then the word political had no meaning.

What does a fundamentalist even mean?

All of our actions are happening in the context of the politics we operate in. Do you have an example where this isn’t the case?

That's a lie.

Israel always allowed as much aid as needed. Hamas kept stealing it to create the crisis and have useful idiots say it's genocide.

Except for when they are bombing the shit out of the aid workers. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-04-04/gaza-aid-convoy-air-s...

That is simply not true. There is no evidence of Hamas systematically stealing aid from the rest of the population. On the contrary there is plenty of evidence showing Israeli citizens preventing aid from entering Gaza and the Israeli military doing nothing about it.

We have evidence of aid reaching Gaza being distributed orderly by the Gaza police (a Hamas organization) and then the police officers orchestrating the distribution being targeted and killed by an Israeli missile. The optics here is that Israel is trying to prevent aid from reaching Gaza, and what little aid gets in, they try to create chaos such that this aid is not distributed to those in need.

Demonstrably false

The lie of "genocide" again.

Genocide is what the Palestinians attempted - killing civilians, burning babies, and raping teenage girls.

Losing a war you started isn't genocide.

An authority on the matter, the international court, concluded it is credible that genocide taking place by accepting the case. We don't have to argue on this anymore. It is not a lie, it is a credible allegation.

No, it did not. You made that up. Read their decision again.

This is too much of a burden to ask. All reputable media announced that they accepted the case and this is a widely known and accepted fact. That they accepted the case is my only claim. It you found something interesting from the court documentation it is on you to bring it forward, not mearly to claim something is a large body of work may be favorable to your argument. You are just muddying the water. This is the tactic of those on the loosing side of an argument.

I expected the third step to be "shortage of FBI agents lead to deteriorated quality of service".

But what you described is far more scary.

And this is obviously true for all jobs that hold power. Combine it with bribery that can come from actors like Russia, Qatar, or China - this is an issue that must be fixed now.