Blogs and News feeds

[johngrauvard]

Just make it a personal rule to never read blogs or the news.

 

[fernandel]

Did you actually read the articles? There's nothing political about them.

It is not important what I am reading but double criteria is IMO. There are think which nothing wit FreeBSD also with computers...but are tolerated. Personally, don't bother me.
BTW: Trihexagonal am I wrong?

 

[SirDice]

It is not important what I am reading but double criteria is IMO.

If you read the articles then you would have noticed they're technical, not political. If the articles aren't political then what is this double criteria you speak of? Your whole argument is based around those articles being political when they're not.

Personally, don't bother me.

Then why did you start this thread in the first place?

Everything in "Blogs and newsfeeds" is posted by a bot, an automated process that picks up a couple of RSS feeds. It's been doing that for the past 7 (or more) years.

 

[Deleted member 30996]

Hi!

I saw to messages about Afghanistan in "Blogs and Newsfeeds a. Are those two posts related to FreeBSD, please or are just political news?
Thank you.

BTW: Trihexagonal am I wrong?

You're not wrong in speaking up in concern about not seeing them as being relative to FreeBSD. They both have the Internet as a common theme, which is relative since we're using it. You saw Afganastan as the message without reading the story.

Assuming posts made by a bot that is sent out to spider the web looking for stories by keyword as "political views" is anthropomorphism. Attributing human characteristics of having a political view to a bot that is incapable of forming one by imposing one that could only come from you, fernandel..

That you saw it as posts reflective of a politics more reflective of your personal political viewpoint as being in strong opposition to seeing it there. and that went into forming your post.

There is no being right or wrong to it beyond what you attribute to it

 

[fernandel]

You're not wrong in speaking up in concern about not seeing them as being relative to FreeBSD. They both have the Internet as a common theme, which is relative since we're using it. You saw Afganastan as the message without reading the story.

Assuming posts made by a bot that is sent out to spider the web looking for stories by keyword as "political views" is anthropomorphism. Attributing human characteristics of having a political view to a bot that is incapable of forming one by imposing one that could only come from you, fernandel..

That you saw it as posts reflective of a politics more reflective of your personal political viewpoint as being in strong opposition to seeing it there. and that went into forming your post.

There is no being right or wrong to it beyond what you attribute to it

I saw the message as you wrote and I DID READ the story and IMO is political.
And I didn't change my opinion about doubled criterias.

 

[sidetone]

I don't see a big issue with it. Perhaps to be in the top 5, it has to say BSD or FreeBSD. Otherwise, it's about computers and the Internet.

It's not political in the sense most think of it, or at least it's not by most definitions. It's barely political, and technically so. It's not political in the fanatical sense either.

Why BSD created its own kernel to separate from UNIX is also political. The few different BSD distributions (FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, DragonflyBSD, MidnightBSD) is also political, even though they have many alignments in purpose. BSD license comparison to GPL is also technically political.

The articles are good, that they acknowledge current events in an Internet related way. Perhaps they could have to do more with using BSD/FreeBSD software for Internet checks.

 

[Cath O'Deray]

Those Netcraft RSS feeds have been a part of the "Blogs and newsfeeds" since 2014 (maybe even longer than that). Why do you suddenly have a problem with that?

Forget time.
They're not related to FreeBSD.

 

[Cath O'Deray]

Just make it a personal rule to never read blogs or the news.

Not as a rule, but whenever I glanced at what was in the category I genuinely used to think: "Why all the web hosting spam?".
Then I'd exit and seek real, on-topic FreeBSD news elsewhere.

 

[Deleted member 30996]

I saw the message as you wrote and I DID READ the story and IMO is political.

Let's stick with facts which are measurable, observable and do not change. Unlike opinions which can change in an instant and subject to emotional responses..

There are three three sentences at the top of the article about "Afghanistan’s internet infrastructure". The first two fill the reader in on recent events in historical fashion. They might not know anything went on last week.

The third sentence sets up the article topic, "Afghanistan’s internet infrastructure", and tells the reader what it's going to consist of, so they can make a quick decision whether or not they want to continue reading, couldn't care less or are deeply offended and want to act casually about voicing their complaints in caps.

Because I don't see it and must not know it for what it is when I do. I don't vote, couldn't if I wanted to,n so I can't tell if it's pushing a Republican or Democrat agenda like you can. Which is it?

Please, spell it out for me in with facts consisting of statements made in print that demonstrate what agenda they're pushing in that article. Should be dancing in the streets or fighting or them? And why?


There's so much I missed in that article it's embarrassing.

 

[johngrauvard]

"Although that website has gone, it seems perhaps more remarkable that Twitter permits the Taliban spokesman's account but has banned the previous US President from using the US-based social media platform."

- Last line in: Prankster acquires Taliban Government domain amidst gov.af limbo (from Blogs and Newsfeeds)​

Interesting? Sure. FreeBSD related? No. Political? Yes.

The other one about Afghanistan's internet is slightly geopolitical, mostly technical. Neither of them really bother me, and I personally don't care what gets posted there. You could post things from Alex Jones and John Oliver in that section and I wouldn't bat an eye, but I have to agree with grahamperrin and fernandel that articles like these don't have much to do with FreeBSD. Clicking through that section, though, there are plenty of other articles that do.

 

[scottro]

The Taliban is less of a threat to the US than the previous US president. And, now it's time to avoid this thread too. Sheesh if I want to get aggravated by the US's gradual descent into stupidity mixed with a healthy dose of Fascism, I can read the news.
Mods if you want to delete this feel free, as I'm decrying politics on this forum while contributing. I'm sure the TWGs (Terrified White Guys, easily identified by their panicked cries of SJW! SJW!) will be offended.

 

[johngrauvard]

The Taliban is less of a threat to the US than the previous US president. And, now it's time to avoid this thread too. Sheesh if I want to get aggravated by the US's gradual descent into stupidity mixed with a healthy dose of Fascism, I can read the news.
Mods if you want to delete this feel free, as I'm decrying politics on this forum while contributing. I'm sure the TWGs (Terrified White Guys, easily identified by their panicked cries of SJW! SJW!) will be offended.

I haven't seen anything about "SJWs" so far, but everything in this thread isn't that big of a deal. The admins can do whatever they want, regardless of whether any of us like it or not. Complaining about double standards in a forum that supposedly has one doesn't make much sense to me.

 

[SirDice]

Anyway, this has gone far enough. Thread closed.