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> and overthrew the nationalist, secular leader

Two things can be true at once:

1. The US invaded on false pretenses. We should never have been there.

2. Saddam Hussein and his family were brutal dictators who shouldn't be mourned. We didn't exactly topple the leadership of, say, Sweden.

Hussein was a secular leader in much the same way as Stalin was. Their horrific abuses weren't driven by religion, but that's little comfort to the lives they destroyed.


I agree. Like everything else open source, fork it if you’ve got a problem with it. Vote with your code.

The author shared the code with the world. No part of that gives the world a vote in how the author chooses to maintain it.


What’s the Nightmare deadline? I’m out of the loop on Microsoft news.

Microsoft mistreated a security researcher, the researcher publicly dumped a horde of Microsoft zero days, Microsoft was decidedly miffed, the researcher says they'll "shatter Microsoft's bones" on July 14.


No. The name only means it’s made by the OpenBSD team, nothing more. If they made their own Python port, it’d be called OpenPython, even though the original is FOSS.

So is OpenSUSE made by the BSD team? OpenOffice? OpenShift? OpenCV? OpenAI?

It is not reasonable to claim this prefix unambiguously refers to the OpenBSD team. I do not understand why so many in this thread are pretending this isn't a confusing choice.


Nobody ever claimed that “Open” is a prefix used unambiguously by only one group of people ever.

In fact, your insistence that “Open” can only be used by projects that are replacing proprietary software is itself very odd.

OpenBSD itself has had its name for thirty years, and is not named for being an “open source” implementation of a proprietary OS.


The person I replied to said the "open" prefix means it's made by the OpenBSD team and I am responding to that.

Do not invent arguments that I did not make. I have only said that naming it openrsync when rsync already exists and is "open" in the general sense is confusing.

I find the negative reactions to this observation very confusing, especially yours, but I see that you're an OpenBSD developer so that explains your bias.

Edit: and now these same people are backtracking to agree with me that "open" is ambiguous, this place never ceases to amaze


> The person I replied to said the "open" prefix means it's made by the OpenBSD team and I am responding to that.

What was said is that the OpenBSD operating system folks chose to use the Open— prefix for all their other projects ("They simply ran with the naming convention."). What was not said was that all Open— prefixed projects were from them.


You’re inventing an argument I didn’t make. OpenBSD doesn’t own “open”. Literally no one is saying that. What I did say is that openrsync is named that because the OpenBSD team names their projects that way. The “open” in this project means that it came from OpenBSD, not that that it’s in contrast to rsync being proprietary (which it isn’t).

That linkage never occurred to me, or, I suspect, them. Claude use to be a reasonably common name. I have an uncle Claude. Why do you believe they named it after Shannon in particular?

It seems to be a widely repeated "fact" which can't be traced to anything particularly authoritative:

https://archive.is/pt5fQ

https://britannica.com/topic/Claude-AI

Looks like the 2023 NYT article started it, and it uses this as reference:

> depending on which employee you ask, was either a nerdy tribute to the 20th-century mathematician Claude Shannon

Personally I always associated it with the silent protagonist from GTA3.

https://gta.fandom.com/wiki/Claude


Safari’s “Hide Distracting Items” feature is one big reason I never use Chrome.

Don't tell anybody, but Chrome engineers managed to sneak in reader mode via Gemini.

They didn’t fix that when they were removing “don’t be evil”? Interesting oversight.

They didn't remove don't be evil.

Ah, sorry. s/removing/demoting to the very end/.

“This is all because I gave a speech [and also committed a string of sneaky acts that wouldn’t rouse as much sympathy if I fessed up to them here]!”

No, you're not alone. MeshCore is very neat tech, but I love that you can show up to, say, a music fest with a few Meshtastic radios and voila, instant mesh. To me, it feels more in the spirit of the thing. That's purely subjective, but that's how I see it.

That was always fun! And a few times, coworkers told me they searched a question there and found that I'd answered it. That was kinda nice.

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