Seemant's Entries in Category: Poisons

I'll end this poison talk with this final entry. Pylon has been here for 4 years now. Like he said, he's one of the senior/older developers, so he's seen a lot of it, too. I want to clarify that just because infra does control the button does not mean that I think they're abusive about it. Far from it. The issue is this: trust. Infra's members have to trust each other. Implicitly. Non-infra developers have to trust infra. Implicitly. ...

I've been meaning to write this post for months, actually. Maybe years. I'm likely to get quite a bit of stabby glares from all sorts of circles because of this. That doesn't matter to me, because the truth has to be told. Yes, people, I'm about to declothe some emperors on this one. As I indicated in the prelude posting, Ciaran is only the latest in a series of jerks As up in arms as people get about him ...

I've been unmotivated to write any entries for the past couple of months, because I've spent a lot of energy on my personal/professional life, and that took a lot of time. In summary, I'm doing contract/consulting work for a while back at Brontes with my old office-mates. It's been 3 weeks doing that, and it has been real fun. It's felt like a homecoming, in a way. I'll blog more about it later. Let's first get to the poisonous ...

So let's catch up quickly. Daniel started Gentoo, he led it, Gentoo grew and attracted all sorts, including (and especially?) those who would rather see Daniel not in power. I have a theory: some of those people who lobbied for distributed power structures were actually after being in control for themselves. It was certainly true of Zach (he admitted as much). To be honest, it was sort of true with me, as well. There were times when I thought it ...

This post may piss off a lot of people. I'm publishing what I have seen, that is all. If I'm wrong, I'm happy to be corrected. Daniel started this whole Gentoo thing. And while it was small, he led it. As it happens, Gentoo grew. And it grew quick and fast and beyond all expectations. It grew in size faster than it did in maturity. Yes, I say "it" because I refer to the entity of Gentoo: the ...

So, apparently, the recent Gentoo/Seeds flare up and my own thoughts about it have sparked a little bit of speculation out there. There's been an inevitable (retrospectively) culture shift happening in Gentoo over the last few years. Gentoo has been steadily moving towards Debianisation. I know there are people out there who will read that and go "yeah? so what, Debian's great." And to you I say, "yes, Debian is great, but it's not Gentoo. Debian is great ...

The title really says it all. Gentoo has become so elephantine that like any large body, it takes more force to keep the momentum going. So, with all the odds, Gentoo is slowing and stagnating. Are there valid concerns about some of the newer ideas? YOU BET. ABSOLUTELY. I'd be a little creeped out if those ideas came out concern-less. But, these days, no matter what your new idea is, it'll get shot down. Josh's post pretty accurately sums ...

...the more of an asshole it becomes. Alternatively, the more things change, etc. What I will say is not intended as a remark against Daniel or anyone. It is merely observation. Mistakes were made, and they continue to be made. The sad thing is that they are the same mistakes. In the days of drobbins (no link, you can google it), there was once an incident where a problem developer was acting up. Well, this problem developer was not malicious ...

So, apparently, the banking industry has made new rules to dick customers out of their money. It's not enough that the bank holds all your money already. Now they want to keep some of it for good. So if you post-date a check by 2 days, your bank can still cash it and then charge you oodles and ooodles of money for "overdraft protection." The date is simply unimportant to the honouring the check part. No matter that you have ...